Glasgow Botanic Gardens

Worst waste of money ever spent , £80 for a family of 5 to walk around a park with some lights totally over priced. Food stalls where terrible £6 for a hot chocolate and £8.5 for a slice of pizza. We are in a cost of living crisis with many families like mine that can now only afford one outing per month. Don't waste your money there is so many better things for families to do this walk around a park with thousands of people disappointed.

Around £15 a ticket to have to park several streets down, get an uber to the botanical gardens, queue in the cold with people who don't care about social distancing, then shuffle around some ok looking lights towards an expensive food village and then basically you are done, ok for very small children and families but as an adult looking for something cute to do, don't bother, I felt out of place there as a couple and we got out as quickly as we could really. Either way you look at it, it's unfortunately a rip off, I can imagine it's very expensive for families too! However the alien space ship light show was kind of cool. Not for £30 plus uber's and petrol though. Better off going for a walk in the park, in the dark. 👎

A calm and beautiful oasis in the centre of Glasgow. We visited early in the morning when the glasshouses had just opened The morning winter sun shining through the steamy windows was beautiful. There are a wide range of different plants to view and a lot of information available to read about them. Considering it is free to visit I don’t see why you wouldn’t go! We spoke to a gardener briefly who was watering the plants and he was very friendly too.

Lovely gardens with a variety of plants. The greenhouses are definitely worth going to as they are simply stunning. The main one has many statues in it as well as the succulents, ferns and venomous plants. It is really well laid out with gorgeous displays. The other greenhouses are wonderful to one containing a banana tree and a cola tree. Unfortunately some walkways are blocked off due to covid although there is still lots open. The rose garden is bare this time of year however so if you wanted to see the roses I'd suggest going earlier in the season. Overall the place has a relaxing atmosphere and is great for a walk. Definitely would recommend to anyone visiting Glasgow.

The last time I visited the Botanic Gardens was more than 20 years ago when I went there with my brand new husband to have our wedding photographs taken, so our recent visit had a lot to live up to. It did. :0)

It is a beautiful open space with lots of interesting planting.
It's a lovely natural place to explore.
The park is full of benches for a place to sit, relax, watch the world and get chatting to a stranger (an obligatory pastime in friendly Glasgow).

Well worth a visit.

Lovely gardens, well kept and always a pleasure to visit. However, as the toilets appear to be permanently shut, and there are no hand washing facilities which is so important to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. It makes so sense for these facilities to be closed as they could be easily set up and managed even if the public has to pay a small charge to use toilet facilities. Although quite frankly we pay enough taxes to accommodate this.

We visited the gardens in the morning but found car parking difficult. we ended up parking a mile away on the main road which will soon be chargeable. Yes we visited early march but there was not much colour. Unfortunately the 2 glass houses did not open until 12:00 and half the gardens were cut off as there was a film crew. I personally found the gardens no better than our parks in Leeds.

There is certainly plenty of varied plant life, many of which you are unlikely to see in the average garden. It is certainly worth a visit but it is not the sort of place that your average person is likely to spend more than 30 minutes looking around the indoor greenhouses. It would probably be best to combine a visit here with some other activity, with the popular Byres Road being only a couple of minutes away.

Thoroughly lovely little scenic & quiet hideaway spot. Plenty of open space for the kiddies to run round & seating for adults to relax.

Only special note I would add is the tea room located in the grounds. What they sell is certainly very nice but by no means worthy of the London price tags affixed to them.
Far better suggestion is when you require refreshments is to venture just outside the grounds & partake of a much larger & more sensibly priced selection of outlets.

Would none the less be more than happy to visit again

Glasglow 2022 - is an absolute waste of money.

(The park when Glasglow is NOT on is definitely worth a visit though)

This was our fourth and final visit to Glasglow! I've never been so disappointed :(

Overpriced for what was on offer this year. They've drastically reduced the attraction compared to The Video Game year and Glasglopolis last year. We actually thought we'd missed bits but nope, we hadn't.
There's a few things to walk through and a few dinosaurs at the end. The churros was the highlight and worth the additional £6.50 each. The cold "hot" chocolate was not.

Couldn't get into park on time as the queue was huge and we had to join it regardless of ticket time even though it stated not to arrive more than 15 mins early.

This year is really a poor show!

3 adults and a teenager all felt the same way and it's something we all usually love going to.

What happened this year itison?