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Willen Lake
4.5
#3 of 15 Tours & Activities in Milton Keynes
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12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
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12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Tuesday
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Wednesday
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Thursday
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Friday
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Saturday
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Sunday
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
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Willen Lake is Milton Keynes’ most popular park. Over one million visitors a year take part in watersports activities, go cycling, enjoy the playground, try the high ropes course or simply picnic along Willen’s shores. It’s a great place to entertain all ages of family and friends, whether it’s a visit to the café or restaurant, a stroll, trying a beginners’ course in sailing or hiring a pedalo or bike. The park is open year round and there is no admission fee, other than during special events when some areas may be unavailable to the general public, or a fee may be charged. (Note that car parking charges apply.) Leisure activities at Willen Lake are managed by Whitecap Leisure Ltd, a trading subsidiary of The Parks Trust.
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England
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United Kingdom12 contributions
The delightful swans at Willen Lake
Oct 2023 • Family
Beautiful Lake. Heard from our neighbours that Willen lake is a must see place. One fine weekend we decided to visit it and found it pleasant. Perfect picnic spot if not anything else. There’s a giant wheel operating there.
The whole area gives pier vibes.
There are many water sports opportunities although I visited in evening so did not see those with my own eyes.
There are restaurants around and a pub & grill.
Highlight during my visit were swans.
Loved the floating, gliding swans that gathered in an area for food. They were a delight to watch especially a lot of them. Obviously sometimes these birds are out on the lake side grounds so you ll find bird poop around but you ll be fine as long as you are watching your steps.
I will visit during the day sometimes to see water sports activities.

There are many car parks around willen lake so won’t be a problem finding one.
Written 17 November 2023
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Tom
Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review. We're glad to hear you enjoyed your visit, and particularly meeting the swans! We hope to welcome you back to Willen Lake again soon.
Written 27 November 2023
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PipsDodo
10 contributions
Fantastic after-dark treetop session!
Oct 2023 • Family
We visited Treetop Extreme at Willen for their after-dark special Halloween session and it was fabulous. We all found it challenging but such great fun and it was a great experience in the dark with glowsticks!
The staff were fantastic - really friendly, all helpful, offering encouragement and tips when needed to complete the more difficult parts of the course. They were patient with anyone struggling and we were given plenty of time, with no rush. All finished off with 2 leaps off the fan-jump and went home feeling exhilerated (but exhausted; it's much more physically demanding than we expected!)
Written 2 November 2023
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Tom
Thanks for taking the time to leave us a five star review! We're glad to hear you enjoyed our after dark session this year, we will be sure to pass the great feedback to the team. We hope to welcome you back to Willen Lake again soon!
Written 6 November 2023
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susan brand
Luton, UK4 contributions
Kids did rope climbing then went on big wheel then fun fair. Really good fun 😄
Oct 2023 • Family
Treetop climbing and enjoyed watching them build in confidence as activity when on. Really good to build self belief. And no screen involved
Written 30 October 2023
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Tom
Thanks for leaving us a review. We're glad to hear you enjoyed your day out with us, especially your comments relating to confidence building! We hope we can welcome you back to Willen Lake again soon!
Written 6 November 2023
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GrahamGeorge
Northampton, England19 contributions
Treetop Extreme Challenging Experience.
Oct 2023 • Family
Treated our Grandchildren tp the Treetop Extreme experience and they absolutely loved it. Well organised and challenging.
Written 28 October 2023
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Tom
Thanks for taking the time to leave us a five star review! We're glad to hear your grandchildren loved Treetop Extreme. We hope we can welcome you back to Willen Lake again soon!
Written 30 October 2023
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Omololu A
Huntingdon, UK1 contribution
Recommended Experience
Oct 2023 • Friends
I participated in the treetop experience with some of my friends. We had so much fun and the instructors were there to guide and support throughout. I will absolutely recommend it...
Written 10 October 2023
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Tom
Thanks for leaving us a five star review! We're glad to hear you'd recommend Treetop Extreme and that our team were supportive. We hope to welcome you back to Willen Lake again soon!
Written 16 October 2023
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Tosin S
2 contributions
Awesome experience
Oct 2023 • Friends
Awesome treetop experience. Very detailed and experienced supervisors. Will recommend at least once in a lifetime. Lol
Written 9 October 2023
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Tom
Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review. We're glad to hear you had an awesome time at Treetop Extreme. We hope we can welcome you back to Willen Lake again soon!
Written 16 October 2023
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Kevin V
7 contributions
An extremely expensive day out. Be warned.
Aug 2023 • Family
What should have been an enjoyable day out on bank holiday Monday turned sour 5 weeks later when I received a Parking Charge Notice for insufficient payment for the time at the car park. Paid for 3 hrs.

Upon entering the car park, it was just chaos. No parking attendants and the car park was full (no signs at entrance informing visitors of this). Cars were driving around in the hope that they would be lucky enough to encounter someone leaving.

It took about 30-40 mins before finding a parking space and then paying. This meant that the ANPR cameras picked me up entering 30-40 mins before I actually parked up. I was over the 3 hours by 20 mins.

I shall not be visiting again.
Written 5 October 2023
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Tom
We're sorry to hear about your experience. We have two main car parks available at Willen Lake, each with their own overflows, which are managed by staff on busy days. The car parks are operated using ANPR, so you are required to pay from the time of entry to the time of exit to avoid receiving a parking charge notice.
Written 9 October 2023
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Deborah G
Tingewick, UK3 contributions
Faulty parking App - or is it a parking scam?! Do not park at Willan Lake.
Aug 2023 • Family
DO NOT park here - faulty parking App (or scam)?

Shame really because Willan Lake very good.

Paid on App, and have received parking fine. Although Willan Lake will say they are an approved parking provider, which makes all the difference when you have a parking fine.

Smart parking obviously have ways of earning money, and it's to scam you into thinking you've paid for parking.

£50 fine to follow (or is it)? States 'PARKING CHARGE NOTICE (PCN) - DO NOT IGNORE - Amount Outstanding - IF PAID WITHIN 14 DAYS OF THE DATE THIS NOTICE WAS ISSUED THE PARKING CHARGE NOTICE WILL BE DISCOUNTED TO £25'. So why say that the fine is £50, then £25, which is it? Go out of their way to confuse!

We have paid £25, hoping that we hear no more.

Willan Lake, your parking company are losing you customers and revenue - you are responsible for ensuring your assigned parking provider's service is working efficiently, and having looked at the car park reviews for Willan Lake, they are clearly not, I think you need to make this a priority. Even worse when you think you've paid, and then you're told you have not. Smart Parking, not that smart is it?! Yours Law Abiding Citizen.
Written 22 September 2023
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Tom
We're sorry to hear about your experience. We'd like to understand more about the issue you've reported with the app, if you can email the team: enquiries@willenlake.org.uk, we can take a look for you.
Written 27 September 2023
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Val Z
1 contribution
Long queues
Sep 2023 • Family
Lovely park. Kids had fun. The disappointment was because they cancelled the session prior to ours and allowed people to join our session, which made it crowded and the queue to get in was ridiculously long. We spent 5-7 minutes of our session waiting to get in. The session is only 45 minutes so wasting time in queue not nice.

Because it was overcrowded and they only have a few changing facilities then there was also a queue to get changed afterwards.
Written 12 September 2023
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Tom
We're sorry to hear about your experience. We always recommend arriving 15-20 minutes before your session, particularly on busy days, to ensure that you can get checked in and splash ready before your session starts. We provide a small number of changing rooms for those that would like to use them, but otherwise we encourage 'beach-style changing'.
Written 13 September 2023
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Robert F
1 contribution
High & Amazing
Sep 2023 • Family
We've been on the xtreme height for the first time, its been very challenging for my 12 years old daughter and myself as well but we took the time but made it, the crew were professional and gave us a hand. Its way more than just a climbing a wall, get ready for a proper workout but its worth it. The medium height its more accessible I guess. I recommend.
Written 11 September 2023
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Tom
Thanks for taking the time to leave us a five star review. We're glad to hear you had a good first time experience at Treetop Extreme. We hope we can welcome you back to Willen Lake again soon!
Written 13 September 2023
This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
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