I like this place. It has no pretensions of being Disney or similar. Having said that, I was genuinely impressed with what was on offer.

The wave slide is very good for older children and adults

The dinosaur slides are fantastic (vertical)

The splash pool is small but great for under 8s

The quad pillar ride? Don’t bother.

Indoor soft play - very decent.

The owl sanctuary - interesting and pleasant respite from the sun.

It’s all easy and manageable and we had a great 4 hours there (usually I’m itching to leave after 2 hours!)

One issue is that there is simply not enough staff around the place. You don’t ever see staff other than at their rose station.

We've been aware of Knockhatch for some time but only just got round to visiting . We should have been sooner and will definitely will be going again.

Took advantage of the 20% discount by booking online the day before. Very reasonable pricing.

Lots to do so that our 6 year old granddaughter (who was given complete freedom of choice) could not get round to see everything in one day. The paddling/splash pool took up a lot of time! We were pleasantly surprised at the number of rides that are included in the ticket price. OK, so we did have to fork our for the Bungee Trampoline, but the staff were very attentive and made the experience special.

We took our own food, so cannot comment on the food for sale, but drinks were not expensive.

We were surprised at the lack of queues, despite going on the first day of the school holidays with brilliant weather. There were several indoor things, but the good weather certainly helped make for a fantastic day out.

This place is great for young kids and young kids at heart. We had a fantastic day out celebrating my friends daughters birthday and we had fun as adults. From riding in tractors seeing the animals and best part jumping on the big air trampolines. A must for a good picnic and family day.

Great place for Adults and Children. So much to do for a day out. A great mixture of animals and adventure activities with boating lake. The owl demonstrations were brilliant. Had a meerkat experience for two. Also got bonus to feed skunk and coatis. We travelled a long way but it was worth every minute. Great thanks to Ben and Owen, two of the keepers, so knowledgeable, friendly and made our day very special. Thanks

We really enjoyed our visit here today. A highlight was being able to meet and feed the enchanting wallabies. All the animals seem very well cared for, the owls were being taken out individually for a fly around by an obviously dedicated keeper.
The new dinosaur attraction is very well themed and enticing for older children. In fact, there is lots to do for visitors of all ages. A charming member of staff (Andre) helped us on and off the rowing boats, indeed all the staff were excellent. Finally, the shop was very well stocked with gifts for all ages at all price points. This is something attractions often get wrong. We will definitely be back!

We took our 3.5 year old granddaughter there with our son and his wife. The 'activities' included a number for older children, but there is plenty for the very young, even if accompanied by a bold adult (e.g. water slide, boating on the lake).

I'm glad the weather was fine and warm, as almost everything was in the great outdoors.

For us the most interesting were the indoor and outdoor owl displays. The 'handlers' were both knowledgeable and patient with the owls nd it was very interesting to watch and hear about the different types they have there.

The main downside was the poor quality of the food, which was very limited and contained too many unhealthy and unappetising 'dishes' (e.g. cheesy chips - potato chips with melted cheese poured over the top). Several eating places that, according to the website, should have been open on that day were closed. Where we did eat (Picnic Barn ??) there was only one member of staff on duty to deal with the food and the till.

This is strictly a place for the young which many seemed to be enjoying.

It is advisable to book online. That way you a) get (slightly) cheaper rates and b) avoid the queues to get in.

Gauge my age by saying that we used to bring my daughter here 15years ago! So here we are once more with my nieces 5 years and 3. Some things are the same, lots of new things. Booked tickets online, easy. On a busy day went through swiftly. Indoor play area a hit. Saw domestic and unusual animals. Umpteen things to do. Some activities have to be prebooked. Boat rides on lake, trampolines, slides, birds of prey, go karts. Food in house very reasonable. Lots of staff, all friendly and helpful. New area sand and water so if hot take swimwear. Lovely day out.

We took a group of 8/9year olds for their end of term school trip. Everyone had a super time. There is so much for the children to do and see and they especially enjoyed the new indoor Dino world with the slides. There’s plenty to do inside to keep children entertained if you get a rain shower like we did.
Highly recommended.

The best thing about knockhatch is that they keep investing each year and it just keeps getting bigger and better. The new dinosaur world is an awesome treat for any child and we spent plenty of time watching the smiles of our little one as she came speeding down the array of slides.

Plenty to do for the whole day and with our 1066 card we got 25% off.

A big thank you knockhatch for your kindness towards a local fundraising event. Very much appreciated, thank you!

We live fairly nearby but have never been before. We now know we’ve been missing out! We spent a very busy 6 hours at Knockhatch. There are so many different areas and different activities. Our party includes children from 3-8 and adults and we all had a great time.
The adults loved the drop slide into the ball pit and the go carts while the younger ones loved the tractor play area, quadpillar and owls. The slightly older children had a great time on the climbing wall, jumping pillows and bungee trampolines.
We found everywhere to be very clean and surprisingly quiet.
Tip: search online for a discount voucher and buy in advance via the website. We used a voucher code on visiteastbourne which made the day extremely good value for money.
We didn’t do everything in our first visit and are looking forwards to returning.

Food onsite is what you expect for an adventure park but is varied and something there for everyone. Family all enjoy spending the day here without lugging a picnic around so we tend to buy something. Staff can be a bit young and lack confidence but other than that they do a great job.

We last came here several years ago - a lot has changed and been improved since then. We had trouble trying to pre-book on line, so took our chances and went along anyway. There’s plenty for little ones, families and older children. We were disappointed there wasn’t more choice in eateries though - the one we would have liked (wraps, salads and potatoes) was shut down. Highlights were the go karts, the water waves and crazy golf. Good value for money.

Knockhatch is a fantastic place to take the kids (we took a 5, 12 and 13 year old) and they all had a fun filled day. The animals are well kept with plenty of wash stations for you to wash your hands and you can buy a cup of feed for your kids at 50p a cup.
There are plenty of play areas across a large area meaning that even on really busy days you don't feel cramped in. There are quiet green day's and busier orange days and only some of the park is open on the quieter days so double check their online calendar if you want to visit at a time when the whole park is open.
The owl display was great and the keepers very knowledgeable too, definitely one to watch.

good place to visit, loads of things to do and see for all ages.
these include owls, eagles animals. there is a water slide, trampolines, arcaids . places to eat or take a packed lunch.

Interesting in places, it was ok but food took a long time in the play barn so was cold for everyone

Lovely place to visit, lots to see and do. Nice animal and play areas, especially the boating lake. food reasonably priced too. Great values do lots of space!

A group of us went here for the first time last week. Our children range from 15 - 6 and there was plenty for all of them today. My only bit of advise would be not to book the rock climbing as an extra if your children don't like queuing for too long. Only 3 out of the 8 tickets purchased were used as they had to wait over an hour to get on. The younger ones got bored waiting so went off and played in the park. Great value for money.

The farm it itself is excellent with fantastic rides, lots of happy animals and experiences. What let us down was we started out badly, we had to queue for nearly an hour just to get in as not all the tills were open! We probably should have left at this point but we had driven for nearly an hour to get there. The problem is the queuing to get on anything, the farm was over occupied and all the rides had at least a half hour wait, not ideal for children and an expensive day if your just paying to queue. Such a shame it's not better managed. Other European attractions give you a ticket with an allocated time of the rides so no queues. We paid for rock climbing and again queued for 40 min!! Other farms allocate a time for a paid service. Good picnicking facilities and food reasonably priced. More staff needed for the attractions. Over all I would recommend but I would only return on an inset day so you could actually get on things as kids left disappointed. Better value for money than drusillas.

We took our family here on Bank Holiday Monday and it was fantastic. I had driven past this a few times when my children were smaller and since moving to Sussex recently I'd visited Drusillas, Paradise Park and various farms. However, Knockhatch is just brilliant! The kids had a ball! We had great weather, which always helps, but the facilities and attractions here are wonderful. There is a good balance of indoor and outdoor stuff to do and for a range of ages. The farm animals were the first thing we saw and the fact that you can feed them and pet them made my daughter's day. Then there was the animal encounters experience where they got to stroke an owl and hold a snake! The whole park was clean and the toilets seemed new and well maintained. The lost world indoor slide area was magnificent, with life size dinosaurs and rope walkways. The different slides entertained my kids for almost an hour. They also loved the Pirate cove paddling pool and the water chute slide, which my son braved! The playgrounds were all very different and for an extra £3 each the kids got to do the bungee trampolining. The time they had on these was generous and the staff on it really looked after the kids and only set the bungee for what they were comfortable with. We ran out of time to do the soft play areas! Areas for picnic were clean and had shade and there was plenty of grassy areas too. It didn't feel too busy, even though it was a peak day. Ice creams and food were reasonably priced if you didn't have a picnic. We paid £1.80 for a big feast, far less than we spent at a festival recently. The rides were all free and apart from having to buy some socks for the slide area, we spent little else. A wonderful day out and the kids have demanded we come back again. Better value, cleaner and more to do than Godstone farm and other competitors. I recommend this place to everyone with kids between 0 and 12 years.

My girlfriends and I, 5 adults and 7 children decided to spend the day at Knockhatch on Bank Holiday Monday, we left armed with packed lunch and plenty of cash to enjoy our day. We had all booked online so our admission was fine and we were enjoying our day. The animal areas are small, with some empty areas and a lot of waiting for some parts to be open but enables me the children to get closer and the children were happy.

I have not visited Knockhatch for some years and it has vastly improved but this makes it all the more busy and keeping an eye on the children difficult at times. On the whole, it has improved but the water area is disgusting. Under no circumstances would I let my children play in this vicinity, it is dirty, the area surrounding is in a disgusting state and the water green and unhygenic. I would avoid this at all costs. Drusillas has a wonderful water area which enables the children to cool down without water collecting into dirty pools and causing a hygiene risk.

My main gripe however was the Froggies indoor play area. The area in itself is good with interactive play for small children but the staff in this locality are rude, and downright bullies. My friends and I, decided to sit and enjoy a coffee feeding our 3 year old their own food whilst my husband ordered food in excess of £15. The young male staff member (Dalton) approached both my friend and I ordering us to remove our child's sandwich immediately else and said it was not allowed. I told him that my husband had ordered food and that my 3 year old would not eat junk food from the counter. I told him that they were not causing any disturbance we were sitting near the back and that the soft play had barely any tables attended at lunchtime less than half full. He then said he would have to get his manager to come out. A beastly woman by the name of Carolyn, attended and demanded that we sit outside. I again pointed out that my husband was ordering a vast quantify of food and drink from the food counter that I would not give to my youngest. She pointedly told me that we were not to provide our youngest son (3!) with food. My son was sitting quietly eating grapes and that he would have to sit outside if we wanted him to eat his own food. It was 26 degree heat!

Both my friend and I sat agog at the rude impertinence of this woman as she stood over us in a bullying manner and said she would not leave the table until we removed our food from the table and left. My husband returned with 3 plates of junk food and coffees in excess of £15! She said that my son could sit outside and eat but not in froggies under no circumstances regardless of whether we had spent a fortune on food. When I removed my sons grapes from him and explained that this woman was not allowing him to eat them, he began to cry... I had to sit and eat in front of my children and refuse to allow them his own food in his own boxes. What a wonderful level of customer service.. Any child with Aspergers or Autistism would have been extremely traumatised!

When my friend said to her son (who was eating a small triangular sandwich that he was being a good boy and eating his sandwich and that we would leave when he had finished, Carolyn pointedly remarked that my friends son was not being a good boy he was being a naughty boy!. He is a 3 year old little boy.. You can only imagine how this made him feel.. Encouraging and welcoming children as a MANAGER to use this area was clearly not within her remit.

My friend indicated to Carolyn that she found her behaviour bullying and rude and that she had also paid for goods from Froggies. Carolyn said that if my friend did not stop her son from eating his small sandwich, she would have her removed from the park.

When I asked for Carolyn to write down their names so that I could make a complaint she refused and said she would not. I can only describe the behaviour of this place as despicable towards children, unwelcoming, unfriendly and downright rude and unprofessional.

Any level of Customer Focus, Customer Service, Customer centred care has clearly been removed or their staff have had a frontal lobotomy when it comes to common sense and practical care towards their customers and the needs of their small children.

Whilst Knockhatch is ok and there are some good areas for children to play and use, having spent an awful lot of money on what I can only describe as mediocre at best to be treated in the discourteous, bullish, impudent, impertinent manner is unforgiveable.

I would not be using Knockhatch again in a hurry!

Had a lovely day here, we were staying at knockhatch camp site and got BOGOF on entry, so it was very cheap for us to go in. Staff were friendly and even let us go back and have lunch and then return later in afternoon with our hand stamps. Hadn’t been there for awhile and it’s really improved since last visit. We had a group of 19 year old and they really enjoyed their day!

We went on a roasting hot bank holiday and even though it was a busy day numbers wise, everything was so spread out you hardly knew it was busy.

This was our second visit and my only grumble is that there is just so much to do. In our 2 visits we have still not seen it all. We look forward to trying to get around it all some time.

It's excellent value for money.

Driven past this place countless times en route to Eastbourne but decided to visit. Booked online and paid £45 for a family of 5 plus paid for some extra activities for our 7 year old son. The activities are so varied and there is something for all ages. We stopped for ice cream and I was pleased to see that for once, it wasn't overpriced like most places. My 3 year old twin girls had a lovely time on the jumping pillows, stroking wallabies, at the indoor soft play and in the dinosaur bit. We took our own food and ate in the designated picnic area. 5 hours spent and we didn't see all of it. We'll be back!!

What a great venue tucked over half a mile away from the main road and in the middle of the countryside. Once through the main entrance there is so many activities for children of all ages to have fun on and the vast majority of them are totally free and included in the admission price. We even took our own packed lunch and again there were plenty of places both under cover and outside to sit and eat the lunch. The day we went the new dinosaur barn had just opened which has some amazing slides and high level walkways for both children and adults to have fun on. Overall a good day and good value for money compared with other similar locations in the area.