London Pleasure Gardens

The fact that all the reviews here are either one star or five star tells you that one of those groups is not being altogether truthful. I went to the place and it was a dusty, tedious badly managed disgrace.

this space will get better..... unfortunately circumstances an situations made everything promised not possible to start with..... bare with them, it will get better..... give them a chance.

Ok so not perfect for an opening weekend but did have a pretty good time alabama 3 were great and opposed to other review's i had a rather nice meal. and yes much much improvement is needed but i feel this space is a fluid space and will change and shape to people's needs as time goes on and in the coming months this place will become the cultural qaurter it boasts to be .

Am I allowed to swear on this review site about how dire this event is? I went with high expectations only to be the most disappointed I have been by an event....badly organised and managed (amateurish is to good a word for it), dangerous (how this has ever got through health and safety I don't know) and a huge sham/con given the websites marketing spin. How it can be ever described as a family event is laughable. It is clearly aimed at the 20 something chemical affected generation. God knows what the £5,000,000 plus was spent on....

It doesnt matter how FREE something is if it is awful. And those who are interested to see how it will progress probably have an interest to do so (just a thought). Totally mis sold event and more like a building site. Embarrassing for the organisers.

So there might well have been some teething problems with the launch, but I have a feeling it will only get better. I mean Bloc festival is being held there next weekend... that's going to be amazing surely? London needs places like this to balance all the poncy bars and clubs and "exclusive" nights - if I was a visitor I'd love to see something a bit more edgy and genuine like this. I'm gonna give it another couple of tries starting with Bloc this weekend - can't wait.

I went there with my children with high expectations given £5,000,000 plus budget and the marketing spin....dust, dust, dust, bad toilets, bad organisation, expensive warm bear, expensive poor quality bear, little or nothing for my children, no gardens, abysmal organisatiopn and staffing, etc., etc., etc........Iv'e been to dark and dangerous squat parties with better organisation and facilities....avoid at all costs...

Not what it is advertised as! No wow factor, no comfort. Expensive warm drinks. Very average food. No vibe. So dusty and windy had to keep sunglasses on even when dark...had to keep mouth closed so didn't fill up with dust. No paradise, minimal pleasure and no gardens. Meant to be family friendly.....definitely not. shame...as it seems like a good idea on the website ...but in reality its just a few marquees on a dusty carpark.

What a pile of shambolic badly organised rubbish. I will not be going there again even if I was paid.....

What an awful experience. To sum it up: get covered in dust as if you were in the sahara, in a wasteland full of hippies, z-series bands performing, and crappy festival food for treehuggers (yes, there's even an 'exotic tagine' stand and a 'vegan & vegetarian' one). Also advertised as a 'family friendly' venue: good thing I haven't got children as I wouldn't have felt comfortable to stroll a pram on that rocky desert full of people off their tits stumbling to reggae and smoking weed. Oh and Bloc, they kinda lead you to think it'd be in the Millennium Mill building looking at the promo videos, so I thought it'd have been a cool London version of Berghaim (Berlin). Nope, it's only 'set against the background of Millennium Mills', it actually happens in the blue tent.