The Eden Project is a total failure (Eden Project (Cornwall))

Member Name: turbotechdog

Product:	Eden Project (Cornwall)
Date:	08/11/09 (45 review reads)
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Advantages: Just look at all the power points, lifts and buses

Disadvantages: Absolute waste of money, misguided, boring

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 is a cool room full of air conditioning units! At the point i became really angry the whole site seems to be zapping power. What is with all the lifts? There is no need or reason for them. It was just bizarre, after reading all about global warming in the exhibition centre you are encouraged to get in a lift and then walk over a completely pointless bridge.

The whole project is so misguided with absolutely no direction. Most of of the sculptures and models had moving parts powered by electricity! Why!? They were not even good, and there was no reason for them to be moving.

And now for the creme de la creme, the one thing that annoyed me the most! Lights on indoors during the day time. In all the cafes and the exhibition centres the lights were blazing away. Did any though go into this project? Would it have been to difficult to design buildings that let natural light in?

Whats with the ice skating rink? The amount of power needed for freeze and maintain ice is massive and on a 10 degree day all of the doors and sides were open. So what powers Eden? You would expect something really quite good wouldn't you?! Well theres a small wind turbine on the edge of the site but thats it, very dissapointing. Oh and another thing, open fronted fridges in the cafe's. Is there any effort or though put into this project?

So the plants. Yes there is an amazing variety of plants from all around the world but there is not really anything worth writing home about. It was quite nice to see a cashew tree, that was the peak of my excitement. Garden centres have some pretty exotic plants and the Eden project is not really doing much that garden centres dont.

Im not actually an angry person! The major dissapointment of this attraction has lead me to ask questions. Why does it cost so much to get in? Why is it such a failure? Why is there nothing there of any interest! (like just a small amount of history about the area) Why are they preaching such an environmental message when they have completely failed themselves.

It could have been so good. We all could have learnt something from visiting the site and it could have made the world a better place but the Eden Project has completely missed the point.

Summary: Has no one else ever though this?