Eden Project (Cornwall)

I though that the Eden Project was going to be a shining example of how we should all be living in harmony with the planet. How wrong was I! Firstly the 2 parking attendants herd you into the car park. Then you jump on a bus (engine running) and it takes half a dozen people a very short distance to the entrance. Now the admission fee! £16 for an adult! This is so over the top for an attraction which struggles to occupy you for 3 hours max. Was I wrong in expecting the biomes to work like a greenhouse? Massive heaters sit around the perimiter of both biomes! How good for the environment is this? Even worse, when you get half way around the tropical biome there ...  Read the complete review

Cornwall can be a long way to go. Unless you live in Cornwall. But I suspect people who live in Cornwall regard it as treachery to travel to the next village - so it could be something of a journey for them too. Once you're in Cornwall head for the bit that's been most ravaged by man and there you'll find the Eden Project. Enter the Eden Project: simple isn't it? No it's not. First park the car; then get on a shuttle bus; get off shuttle bus; wait on the end of a seemingly endless queue that wends and winds through a wasteland for what seems like miles in the blazing sun. I did indulge in some serious moaning at this point but in fact the queue went ...  Read the complete review

The UK's eco gem as they would have you think. An example of conservation, of making something out of what was desolate and would have been left, and making it into an example for the future. The Eden Project is a charity, was funded by the lottery and Millenium Collection. Eden is easily accessible, by a connecting bus service from St Austell train station or by car signposted from the A30. They have lots of car parking available in several car parks, with interconnecting buses from the outer car parks. If you come by bike you can save £4 off the adult fare. That brings you to the admission prices, £16 for adults, £11 for seniors, £5 for children, £8 for ...  Read the complete review

The Eden Project is probably the most famous man-made attraction in Cornwall. I heard quite a lot about it in recent years and I was very eager to see it for myself this summer, even though I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I knew it was going to be rather expensive, but I was still shocked to discover that standard tickets cost £16 per adult. Luckily, we came across a deal on the Internet, which offered a reduced entry fee of "just" £10 and free entry for children after 3 pm until 8 pm during extended opening hours on certain days in the summer. This seemed like a good deal, especially that we would do anything to avoid big crowds. When we ...  Read the complete review

The eden project is the climax of the eco-friendly-ness. Built in an unused quarry site, houses two bioshperes that create two habitats, one of a dry desert, and the other a tropical rainforest. The rest of the site is used partly as a sort of garden, there is a cafe, and other parts are for sculptures depicting how to stay green etc. The idea behind it is to teach people how to be as friendly as possible to the environment, by showing them what they could be losing, and how they could be losing it. The two biomes are very impressive. On the right, the dry one, there are lots of dry habitated(?) plants. There are also numerous scultures throughout, ...  Read the complete review