Cwmcarn's new visitor centre

[GHW]

There are posters by the main road this morning proclaiming that the new Forest Drive visitor centre is now open - was anyone there this weekend to take a look?

[Moose.]

I was there a couple of weeks ago and it was open (just).

It's very nice with a small cafe serving reasonable hot/cold food and drinks. Nice clean toilets too although no showers that I could see. It's also got a nice balcony that over looks the last part of the downhill which is quite cool. Bike wash was still in the same place at the bottom of the car park.

All in all, much nicer than the porta-cabins that were there before

[dzm]

No 'proper' coffee, uninspired fried-this-and-that menu, fabric covered seats (how long will they last?), and no direct bridge to the car park and trails so you have to ride out of the car park and up the drive 100m to get to it. Apart from that, it's great.

[atom111]

Does that mean the Portakabin cafe has just been moved to a new building, surely they could have got a nice ground coffee machine Look forward to seeing it though when I am next there.

[Gingerbread Man]

I'll be here on the 3rd Jan if anyone else happens to be. Maybe trying out the xmas gear?

David

[RLK500]

Why oh why oh why can't we get proper bl**dy coffee in this country......we have some of the best Chefs/Reataurants in the western world and yet people are still happy to put up with that freeze dried pond water.......Any cafe in Europe just wouldn't get any customers at all if they served crap coffee. It's not exactly difficult to make is it, a dozen cafetiere's some good ground coffe and a kettle/water, you don't even need a sodding great/expensive machine. I despair.....sorry a bit OT but I had to say something.........

[Gingerbread Man]

RLK500 said:

Why oh why oh why can't we get proper bl**dy coffee in this country......we have some of the best Chefs/Reataurants in the western world and yet people are still happy to put up with that freeze dried pond water.......Any cafe in Europe just wouldn't get any customers at all if they served crap coffee. It's not exactly difficult to make is it, a dozen cafetiere's some good ground coffe and a kettle/water, you don't even need a sodding great/expensive machine. I despair.....sorry a bit OT but I had to say something.........

Wet and warm?