London Pleasure Gardens

Aside from a small area of plastic garden chairs there was nowhere to sit. Even the most up-for-it club is going to have chill areas. Considering it was being advertised as family friendly pleasure gardens, it was just a failure. Even for free.

Because visitors to London read TimeOut I'm leaving a comment. DONT GO HERE. Go anywhere else. London has so much to offer. But this is horrible. Although I went with quite high expectations, none of the rest of us did. But we were all universally disappointed. And I was actually ashamed to have pushed us all into going. It is the worst London 'cultural' (hah!) experience I've had.

I failed to find any "pleasure" in the London Pleasure Gardens. If your in the idea I suggest you go on the Emirates Air•Line (cable cars) and take in the amazing views. I don't live very far so I can sit in the comfort of my garden and enjoy the live music. I won't be in a hurry to return. A dispicable waste of funds!

If only there was grass! You couldn't relax there, hence no pleasure at all. All I wanted was to sit on some grass, with a cider near a music stage, get some food later on and enjoy the day and festival spirit. Due to the stony dusty ground this was far from a garden filled with pleasures. Remove everything, plant some grass, spread it out a little further if possible and it would have the potential to be wonderful.

Family Opening Event at the London Pleasure Gardens. Only 2 words I can use. Absolutely appalling!!! Dangerous site with all the dust, stones and broken glass, definitely not family friendly. Also very concerned to see how poorly organised it was from everything including the late opening, traffic guidance, anti social behaviour, drunk revellers, entrance on a very busy main road, and lack of co-ordination of people arriving on DLR and by foot. The entertainment didn't really cater for children from what I saw and as there was no where to sit within the site people were going outside and causing a nusience around the local residents and the local park. I would avoid this at all costs and even if you paid me to attend I wouldn't go back!

I saw a Mafia Wedding - it was mad genius, yes it was dusty but to see this site become a festival location was great yesterday, it's good to have new things and yes it wasn't perfect but they're here for a while I hope it'll become something special, I'll be going back to find out more, that's for sure! Hope the people behind it stick with it

It was shambolic. Total waste of a journey.

Shocking waste of public money £8 million ? built on lies... this has nothing to do with Lost Vagueness. It never has. They claimed that to win the bid. Some of the people involved did work there, then tried to imitate it to do Shangri la... clearly they failed. Where is the remaining £7,999,999 ?

Unfortunately the pleasure gardens as described above do not bear any resemblance to the site.. The whole area is currently dusty and stony and as it was windy, there was more pain than pleasure!, There are lots of places to eat at, serving festival type food but not much else. There is a sort of a token fairground with a helter skelter and carousel but it looks very tacky. We walked round it and then walked out - no where to sit and have a beer. Couldn't see any of the cafés, beach, floating lounge etc. The entrance is through a sort of fin de siècle style gateway but the many skeletons and death heads give it a slightly scary and occultic appearance. Overall it would have to get an awful lot better to get me to go back.