I really didn't want to write a bad review about a leisure business clearly struggling with the Covid pandemic. But after writing directly to them and having my first email ignored (supposedly went into their spam folder) and then their subsequent response was less than impressive it made me feel I needed some recourse for what was quite literally one of the poorest examples of a family experience you could imagine. And it certainly wasn't poor circumstance. There were no extenuating circumstances that you could use to justify the day - it was just a total lack of effort to make the 'Halloween Special' just that, special. it was not even mediocre. We paid £40 for a family ticket to experience what amounted to a 5-minute walk around the same low-grade farm experience and to carve up a couple of rotting pumpkins. Nothing spooky in the slightest. Nothing was dressed with cobwebs or Halloween paraphernalia. The staff wore their regular clothes. The only 'extra' activities were 1) The 'potion' tent - which was just the chance to mix three pots of slime into one cup of slime. No chemical reaction as in previous years. No event. No interaction. Go in, squeeze a syringe of slime into a cup and walk out with your hands covered in gloop. And 2) the pumpkin carving - which you can do at home for a few £. But at Wroxham barns you can choose from rotten pumpkin no.1 or rotten pumpkin no.2 . That's your lot...£40 gone. Bang.... And their response to my email was to explain that their feedback had been overwhelmingly positive - so they're surprised.

Did I make it up then?

So, unfortunately, it means I end up writing this - and maybe a few people will read it and now think twice before spending their hard earned money on the very, very poor excuse of a tourist attraction.

My recommendation - go somewhere else. Go anywhere else...or just go to the shops, buy a pumpkin and have fun at home for £2.

Having now read their incredibly disingenuous response below which makes out like I was blackmailing them I am adding an extra few comments to say my first email stated quite clearly that I wanted to give them the right to respond to my complaints in the first instance and made absolutely no mention of review sites. I've added a copy below which proves they're lying 🤥.

They didn't respond, so my second email asked if they had any plans to respond before I put something in writing on review sites.

But, yeah, as you can see below they're trying to twist that to make out like I was threatening them. Make of that what you will....