Knebworth House — Attraction in North Hertfordshire

Sorry, it will be long... I've been in the area with my partner and had some time to spare so I've checked online what is near us to see, which is a part of the memberships we have. I don't want to put full names as this is what got me in the mess in the first place. Let me explain. Someone in the review mentioned Engl. Herit. ( I hope you know what I mean), so Google showed me this House as a part of this membership, which isn't true. When we were approaching, the lovely lady by the first car park showed us to continue right, even though the road led straight, same did the man on the next one, he clearly pointed right. We're driving a van, it sometimes happens that we can't enter the main carpark as the van is too high, and there are these bars on a certain height at the entry, When we came to the fork we turned right as we were directed by both of the people. We were surprised when we entered the car park near the playground and away from the House, but we were sure that it was because the other car park was full, or our van was too high. On the entry we've given our membership cards only to find out that they are not valid for this place. We decided that, since anyway we came here, we'll go to see. We were asked if we wanted to visit the gardens as well and we said that we want to see everything. We were charged £26 for two tickets. We left the van and went towards the House. We have approached the car park by the House and noticed that there are plenty of spaces and no height restrictions. It was too far to go back to bring the Van over so we continued, but we have both already been irritated at this point. We went first to see the gardens and from there to the House. Another surprise. We didn't actually have tickets to enter the House. Again, we didn't go back, since we came all the way here, we paid the additional £12 pounds and entered the House. We were irritated, disappointed and we couldn't enjoy it even one bit. The house itself was ok, but we've seen better, much better. After reading the reviews about their customer service, I'm not going to contact them, I do hope they'll read it and they'll train their...

The decision to go ahead with the Great British Food Festival at Knebworth—despite severe weather forecasts and waterlogged conditions—was not only irresponsible but showed a complete disregard for visitor safety and comfort. Knebworth being exempt from the “wet weather guarantee” feels like a convenient loophole, and frankly, it came across as an act of pure greed rather than genuine concern for the well-being of your guests and vendors.

The event was in no fit state to proceed. The field was becoming dangerously muddy and slippery in places, and while the food vendors had some cover, there was little to no shelter for attendees, especially those with young children. I attended with my 6-month-old baby, who was drenched despite being in a raincoat. My family and I were equally soaked. Expecting families to stand around eating food in those conditions is unrealistic and unsafe.

What’s worse, the baby changing facilities were unacceptable—just a single pull-down station in the middle of the women’s toilets, with no privacy and no room for a buggy or even a changing bag. For an event that claims to be family-friendly, this was appalling.

To add insult to injury, we spoke to multiple vendors who told us they felt they had no choice but to attend, as Knebworth’s refusal to cancel affected their insurance coverage. That speaks volumes about where your priorities lie.

We travelled two hours each way for what should have been a special celebration for my mother’s 60th birthday. Instead, we left after barely an hour, cold, wet, and angry that we had spent money on tickets for what turned out to be an entirely inappropriate and ill-prepared event.

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First time visiting Knebworth House and Gardens but it won't be my last. Situated literally just off J7 of A1(m), the drive just into the park and to the ticket booth felt like something from Bridgeton.

First, there's a ticket booth where you show your digital barcode - at time of my visit it's a £1 cheaper buying tickets online - and you drive further into the park. There wasn't any wait but I imagine during peak summer holidays there may be.

Then you see the amazing Fort Knebworth. With a very large range of children's outdoor apparatus - slides, climbing frames, zip lines, rope climb etc and loads of space, picnic tables and clean loos, if you live close enough I would recommend a season ticket if you have kids just for the play area so they can blow off steam.

There's a drinks hut selling tea, coffee, snacks and some very tasty ice cream but you are free to bring your own food in with plenty of grassing parking available.

We drove around the rolling grounds to the main buildings after finishing in the Fort, parked up on a hard standing car park and enjoyed three hours exploring the Gardens with the sweet pet cemetery, beautiful rose walk, the well kept maze, the woodland walk with breathtaking redwood trees, sculpture work, saw dinosaurs, the most amazing kitchen garden and more.

There wasn't time to fit the House in with viewing the Gardens for the first time and I look forward to our return for this.

We arrived around 11am and Fort Knebworth was empty for the first hour. The gift shop is reasonably priced for trinkets, souvenirs and kids' toys. I particularly liked being able to buy plants from the Knebworth nursery garden that I had seen in place on my...