Dobbies Garden Centre

Visited Dobbies for some Christmas shopping and lunch. Plenty of parking, spacious isles between produce and tables in the cafe and suitable toilets.

Great garden centre. Everything for the garden plus lots of gift ideas and furniture. Lots of outlet shops including Lakeland and Fishkeepers. All on one level. Good access to outside garden centre area and seating area. Small play area for children. Birds of Prey area (entrance charge). Two good disabled toilets. Very large car park with plenty of disabled spaces but these are in high demand. Good cafe with plenty of seating but quite difficult to get a wheelchair through it. Can get a Dobbies card that gives you 2 free teas/coffees every month.

Surprisingly nice! I got given a voucher for afternoon tea as a present. To be honest I wasn't expecting a lot - it's predominantly a garden centre but it was really nice. I booked online and there wasn't an option to say I was a wheelchair user, they had set up the table in area that had steps up to it. The lady offered to move it all down to another table, luckily I can walk so we left it where it was. Nice we sign on the table with my name on. The food arrived on a lovely three tiered stand, finger sandwiches on the bottom (not 100% what some of them were, but they tasted nice), wholemeal scones with butter, jam & clotted cream in the middle and some sweet treats on the top. Pots of tea quickly followed (about enough for a cup & 1/2). Didn't take long for dad and I to demolish all the food, and ask for a tea top up. Sadly they just added hot water to the existing tea bag so it was bit weak. Would I go again? Yeah probably it wasn't very expensive and a nice way to maybe catch up with a friend.