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11 Reviews For Derbyshire Speedwell Cavern

  • Guest 14th Nov 2009

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    We visited Speedwell Cavern after doing Poole's Cavern, but even if we hadn't been to another cave site beforehand, Speedwell should be closed. It is a disgrace and unbelievable that it is considered a tourist attraction AND that you are charged so much. You get in a boat and some interesting tales are told. You get to the end and climb out into a 3mx3m wide area - this is it, your whole experience! On the way back, the guide has the cheek to ask you to show your appreciation for the guide in the white bucket!!! Completely dire expensive experience, please don't waste your money or support these greedy people. My rating is a -1, avoid at all costs.

  • Guest 31st Aug 2009

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    We choose to visit the Speedwell Cavern, we waited in a queue for 2 hrs not knowing how long the wait was for, there was no seating for vistor's until got to the so called turn style, here you are expected to pay £7.75. The journey was happy one and the young guide was very informative. Over all we found the visit to be over priced, lack of information regarding waiting times but the scenery was lovely.

  • Guest 3rd May 2009

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    The Derbyshire Speedwell Cavern was a completely disappointing experience. Overpriced - £1 would be pushing value for money. A boring trip down a completely dark tunnel with nothing to see then you are abandoned for 15 minutes at the far end while the boat returns to pick up more unfortunate visitors. As for the website's claim of a huge subterranean lake, a more appropriate description would be a small dark distant puddle.

  • Guest 12th Apr 2009

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    Visited Derbyshire Speedwell Cavern today , very dissapointed, nothing much inside to offer compaired to others, very overpriced, made my comments to management but they did not seem to care and offered no refund , very over priced for what it had to offer , very poor value for money

  • waylandsmithy 29th Mar 2009

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    I found Derbyshire Speedwell Cavern expensive and disappointing, and really not suitable for either small children or the elderly. It's not a cave as such: just a 1/2 mile tunnel that was dug with dynamite, in a vain search for lead. And it ends at a largish chamber, that really isn't all that exciting to look at. It's a bit of a novelty I suppose, riding in a boat underground. The steps are terrible: you have to stoop under a very low roof, while walking down an extremely steep set of steps. ...

  • Guest 28th Oct 2008

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    The whole thing is overpriced (even car parking is expensive). I would recommend the Treak Cliff cavern instead, much more interesting and free parking!

  • Guest 22nd Oct 2008

    Reviewer rating: 3.5 stars


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    I really liked Derbyshire Speedwell Cavern, it's really different compared to other places I've been to. I went a few weeks back, I was one of the few that really enjoyed it, others were just complaining that it's cold and there's to many steps to climb up. Well if you want to do a travel and tourism course you have to do thing's like that. I would definitely go back again, and also look at the other caverns, but I would probably prefer to go with different people as they didn't appreciate it as ...

  • Guest 14th Oct 2008

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    The first time we tried to visit Speedwell Caverns, we found out that we had missed the last tour (4pm) - after having paid £3 parking (although we did get £1 back). So, we tried again a few months later and wish we'd saved our time and money. I imagined it to be a boat ride tour through the caverns with interesting and spectacular points along the way. I also expected there to be CERTAIN times when it felt quite claustrophobic. In reality, there was a 15 minute claustrophobic boat r ...

  • mangate 31st Aug 2008

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    Speedwell Cavern is an old lead mine so it's a long tunnel which would be hell if you were claustrophobic. The guide does give you some interesting info but I was so disappointed when I got to the cave. It's just a hole with some flimsy fencing to stop you falling into a bigger hole. No wonderful rock formations and no walk onto other caves. An anticlimax.

  • Guest 27th Aug 2008

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    We chose to visit Speedwell Cavern as that had a boat ride and the other caves did not. Our group of four thought our visit was a waste of time and money. We had to queue for 1 1/2 hours outside (luckily it wasn't raining). Whilst the boat ride was quite exciting for the first few minutes it's very dark with low tunnels and you have to wear a hard hat - definitely not for claustrophobics - and there's not much to see. You alight into a small cave where you have 10 minutes to amuse yourself. Ther ...

  • paradise Rank: Major 27th Aug 2006

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    I found Speedwell Cavern fascinating. You walk down some 105 steps to join your tour guide who'll take you on a journey by boat into the inner world of the underground cave system in the heart of the Peak District National Park. You absorb the atmosphere as a watery silence echoes all around you and will be told some fascinating stories of what it must have been like to carve out these tunnels using the most primitive tools. Your guide recounts the story of the mine which opens into a network of ...