The Enchanted Forest, Pitlochry — Attraction in Scotland

I've never been before so wasn't sure what to expect. Really enjoyed whole enchanted forest from start to finish. The staff helped direct us to the limited blue badge car park. Which was close to start of enchanted forest walk. Had food vans dotted along trails. Prices high for what we got, but not a surprise either.

As to the forest, was brilliant seeing work done during first walk through as it was still light enough to see the setup of light devices in amongst trees etc.. Creating such vivid colours and shows as well, with music, talking parts and overall a brilliant experience to go do. The weather was perfect, we had storm a week ago. The show was cancelled due to weather. So coming here a week later and having just best weather you could ask for made all the difference to me and everyone else on Friday night. Paths were open and dry, so no muddy trails. Same with trees, the forest. Hardly a drop of wind, was such a calm evening. So we could all enjoy the Enchanted Forest and not be either wet and cold or watching where you walked if paths were wet. No it was perfect evening for adults and children. There was lots of families on first walk through. Would be less scary at opening time, 6pm to onwards to walk through forest whilst it was light enough. Understandably so, once it got dark, it could be scary for a small child. Hopefully not, I'm sure parents did plenty reassuring as music played and enchanted forest did it's magic from start to finish of enchanted forest walk.

Also a big shout out to Rick and rest of staff, who did a fantastic job. They were brilliant at giving directions to disabled parking. I've never been to enchanted forest before, so they were great at explaining where to go and why. As they had very limited car park spaces for enchanted forest visitors. They also have buses running from Pitlochry to the forest. Also have a bus suited for disabled visitors as well.

Thankfully when we went on Friday. We'd managed to book in plenty time, enabling us to get a parking pass. So if you want to drive as close as possible to the Enchanted Forest. Book earliest as possible and before going take screenshots of email receipts (and pass) They'll scan your mobile device your using. Save in your moby gallery, then you'll have access no matter phone signal. Or print paperwork for enchanted forest (and car park) If don't have a mobile phone or access to forest...

As their site has quite an emphasis on warm clothes, I checked that they allow shorts. They do, there were a fair number wearing them, and it throws me logically how those folks knew without checking, that they would not get turned away. Yet if As their site has quite an emphasis on warm clothes, I checked that they allow shorts. They do, there were a fair number wearing them, and it throws me logically how those folks knew without checking, that they would not get turned away. Yet if they all checked, by consumer leverage there would be an answer onsite. Certainly they have to allow shorts to be autism friendly, as the 5:30 bus is listed as being. The trail's shape, mostly around a loch shore, enables them to surround the shore area with colour, reaching deep enough into the trees for effect. It is such a transformation of environment it really works as an immersive experience, more so for 2025's theme of mind/nature bonding. Of course what it's really celebrating is tamed nature made safe for us. As we need nature to be. The comfort of being there comes from civilisation being in charge of the space, as you know you would not be there at night otherwise, and the event paths' bubble in contrast to the fotest beyond reminds you so. Even more, you remember it's only safe thanks to our forbears making wolves extinct in Scotland, so would be taken away by the jerks who want to bring them back. The event's nature actually shows logically why we should not romanticise raw untamed nature. Pizza/burger/churro stores too expensive, but atmosphere sitting around them nice even when not buying. Popularity ensured continuous flow of buses back. The journey back passed homes and their residents obviously should be allowed to get off at their homes not forced back to...

Never again.

Paid £50 for two tickets to stand in a bus queue for 45 minutes just to get to the 'event'. Once there we shuffled around behind the rest of humanity and edged past the countless selfie-takers. Was asked by several jolly stewards whether I was enjoying myself but was too angry/disappointed to pop their bubble with a flinty reply. The burger/hotdog vans dotted around the "attraction" did a roaring trade.

The whole thing had all the allure of a Manchester lads' stag-do outing to Blackpool Illuminations. And just to complete the picture of the atmosphere, someone threw up next to us in the initial bus queue. This was a Tuesday night, 11th October 2022.

Making a mini-bonfire of ten £5 notes would have been more entertaining. And better value.

The whole thing is totally over-hyped, over-sold, under-resourced (the buses - there should be twice as many to cope with the number of visitors) and massively over-priced for what you get. Reading older reviews it seems that this event started off as a novel and quite cool experience. But the organisers appeared to have economised on the light show and generally under resourced the entire event in order to milk bigger profits. Our experience was that it's extremely poor value for money and quite lame.

Oh, and the queuing, the epic queueing....only the British would put up with a 400m queue in the light rain or drizzle. Decided not to wait for the buses to take us back to Pitlochry from the Disenchanting Forest, so walked the mile and a half back...