Pickwick Gardens

This place is old and in need of a makeover. Cough up some money and do a complete remodel. The grassy area is nice, but not particularly well-​maintained. The parking lot and the whole area was difficult to navigate and the it is such a tacky set up. There was a fountain that didn’t have water turned on and looked old and dusty. We went there for a wedding and while the ceremony itself was very nice and the décor was good, the overall ambience lacked elegance and finesse. Could be improved with some TLC and money spent.

When you book an event at Pickwick Gardens, you are not only getting a beautiful location with good food. You are also getting an amazing support staff who will bend over backwards to accommodate their client’s needs. My clients have been ecstatic with their experience at Pickwick and I have as well. They make the process easy & fun. And their event staff is professional and goes above & beyond to make each guest feel special. Leilani is a true gem as are Kristen and Diana!

I’ve both attended a wedding at Pickwick Gardens and I’ve been a vendor there many times to film weddings. As a guest, I had an amazing experience. My best friend got married there in the outdoor garden and then had the reception indoors. We had a great time; the food was awesome and the staff was really nice.
As a videographer I got to experience the venue in a different way. Kinda behind the scenes. The staff there are very helpful and professional. They make everyone’s job so much easier because they are well organized and they make the clients happy. And those happy face look great on video and in pictures. No matter what room you have your party in, you have a great view of the gardens. You’ll get great footage and pictures if you have your event there. Take a look at this wedding we shot here. It’s so beautiful.

First day of the year great time with friendsThanks Jenifer for the great customer service

Can’t speak to the bowling or ice skating. I went for a show put on by a friend’s band in the Riverside Room. Can’t fully recommend the experience. The room was good for the Southern Rock show with good acoustics, but…
…The bar, bartender and food service all sucked to avoid beating around the bush.
It was a night where the management had run dry on specialty mixers and thus figuratively redacted the entire bottom half of the drink menu. I’m a beer guy so I had very little problem here.
The bartender moved at the speed of Slowpoke Gonzalez (Speedy’s cousin). He didn’t come off as terribly friendly and seemed incapable of keeping up with the minor rush created by the rock show and a typical Friday night at the bowling alley. Again, keeping my action to beer helped slightly.
However, I was also hungry and ordered a cheeseburger and waited about forty-​five minutes for a decent but still average burger. I got to watch as the rush got worse and the service went into the toilet with it. Other patrons got annoyed as even their simple drink orders were progressively delayed. I missed the whole opening band.
I went out to my car and got my water bottles because I was at the point where I wished I’d known so I could’ve gone to the supermarket and marched in a twelve-​pack. I was basically done supporting this Mickey Mouse operation desperately in need of a visit from Gordon Ramsay in his full on loudest and most yelling-​est glory.
Next time, I will slip my friend’s starving musician jar $ 10 and actually sneak in my beer and a sandwich under my hoodie.

So, this review is LONG, long overdue. I threw a surprise 60^th birthday party for my mom back in August and Diana V., my event coordinator, was freaking awesome! She helped me every step of the way and had answers to any and every question I had. Mind you, I was planning this event on my own, it was a surprise AND I was expecting 100 guests. I let Diana know my budget and she did her best to make sure I stayed within my price range. I was able to meet with the head chef and had a taste testing and all that jazz. He let me tweak the menu to my liking and all my guests could not stop talking about how tasty the food was! The day of the party I had a lot of last minute requests such as a projector and microphone (horrible planning on my end, I know) and Diana + team met all my needs. Only downside I’d have to say is you can’t bring in your own liquor, but that’s pretty much the norm wherever you go. Thank you for everything, Diana! I would totally hold another event at Pickwick Gardens (maybe my mom’s surprise 80^th bday, eh?)

They give you a choice of hockey or figure skates for rentals, Nice! Prices are comparable to other places. They have classes, hockey, and events that you can participate in or watch. It’s great to get out of the heat. They don’t have a lot of skate nights for adults but it’s in a great location and I can go bowling before or after which is awesome. You can also go across the street to the Mexican restaurant for a bite after you skate off your previous meal. Fun!

— Skating at night is only 2 days a week
— Skating night hours are very short!
— Needs renovation!
— Bathrooms are filthy
— Bowling area needs renovation
— Some of the bowling staff are tough to deal with and not friendly at all!
— Closes early
— Doesn’t have fixed rate unlimited games option

This is a really beautiful garden, and unexpected! The food and service were great too!

Attended the tax seminar held at the Pickwick Gardens today. I have attended seminar there many times. Being to another location for the tax seminar years ago, I had to say that Pickwick Gardens serves the best quality/​quantity of breakfasts, morning and afternoon snacks. In addition to the continental breakfast, they served hard boiled eggs, ham, string cheese and cottage cheese. We had fruits and nutrition bars for morning snacks, popcorns, candies, pretzels and peanuts for afternoon snacks. All locations serve chicken for lunch, the one that they serve at the Pickwick Gardens was always moist and cooked just right. The service was fast too. The salads, water and ice tea were on the tables when we entered the dining area. As soon as we were done with the salads, the waitress would show up to take away the dirty dishes and serves us the entrée. We could enjoy a great meal and walk out of the dining area within half an hour. It gave us time to make phone calls, checks emails before heading back to the seminar. The temperature of the rooms was comfortable. The parking is great. This is certainly a great venue for seminars and big events.

Our ceremony was here and it was beautiful. Diana was very helpful in helping us plan and come up with a good order. Flowers provided were beautiful as well and our guests loved the gardens. I would definitely recommend for a special event at this location. everything was well organized and easy. Also the pianist was wonderful. Thank you again for making that part of our day so special and memorable!

Our ceremony was held at Pickwick Gardens on 10÷12÷14 & it was absolutely the best! Kristen was really great to work with throughout the whole process. We had been looking into a lot of different outdoor venues for our ceremony & Pickwick gave us the most for our money. There were others that charged twice as much & only provided you with the ceremony chairs. With what we paid for at Pickwick it included a coordinator, keyboardists, aisle runner, 2 floral arrangements for the alter, water for guests, & so much more! We also stayed after the ceremony to take all of our photos there. I highly recommend Pickwick Gardens if you’re looking for an outdoor ceremony location!

Fun place. You can bowl, eat, ice skate, and play games all in one place. And it’s not super crowded. Yay! Fun!

First time there today with hubby and brother. Really liked the layout and the fact you can go from the gardens to the ice rink and bowling alley. Think it would get 5 stars if it revamped a little to look less dated.

Devonshire confiture and strawberry tart infusion at bridal showers. Royal Crest conference center (8k square feet) accommodates 1000.

We had our Wedding Reception here.
Robbie and Kristen were incredibly helpful and accommodating.
For the money spent, and quality of food, we were both very pleased.
They made our reception one that everyone would remember and will definitely cherish.

We just had a Wedding reception at the Pickwick garden. It was a great, successful and joyful wedding. Robbie, who is a Coordinator of the garden, was helpful. Only one bad thing we’d experienced was that the power was out for like 20 minuites during our reception. Other than that, we are happy with the services provided by the Robbie and her crew.
Thanks.
Eric

Who would have known by driving by this place that this would be a great place for a wedding??? Seriously, bowling alley and ice skating rink???
Haha no, but they do have a fairly large garden area and large reception rooms.
My sister had her wedding ceremony here last weekend. (They had their reception at another venue). Robbie is the wedding coordinator and she was pretty organized.
They have a large tented area outside with a stage at the front. There’s also a water feature behind the stage.
My aunt added some extra decorations to the area where the stage is and added bows to the white chairs.
Just a note — the bridal room is fairly small. There were 4 bridesmaids plus the bride, my mom and my aunt! There was NO WAY that we could all get ready in there. There would have been 11 people trying to cram into that little room (we had our hair & makeup people). So we ended up getting ready at my house instead and my sister only used that room to change into her dress. It was also REALLY hot when we first walked into that room.
The only thing that annoyed me was that there was another event in a room close to the bridal room and they were playing music really loud. We could barely hear each other.
Other than that, the outdoor garden is a great place to hold a wedding ceremony and there was tons of space to take photos.

After a failed attempt to bowl since it was full for the evening, we decided let’s try Ice Skating and since we where hyped from watching the L.A. Kings win, bring on the foil…
I was iffy about going in since there was a group of guys outside smoking and blocking our entrance to the entrance so that thew me off…
Well we decided to go in regardless since my friend had brought his skates to get them sharpened, so in we went and the skating shop was closed because the person called out sick — yes the entire store remains closed because 1 employee is sick!
After that failed attempt, where here lets at least look at the ice ring. so in we went and it was decent and had a good amount of people on the ice. It was 9:30ish and public skating that night was only till 10 then it’s for the men, well it was for the men blocking the entrance with their smoking.
Apparently at that time they suit up and play hockey; So there was no way I was going to get a «lesson» that night but I told my friend go hit the ice since we where here.
He went to ask how much it was and since it was less then a ½ an hour they just said go ahead, so he laced up and off to the ice he went (a little rusty from his Hockey days)
Overall it was a nice experience to watch couples practicing, kids pretending to play out their favorite hockey player and actually seeing a real lesson being taught.
I myself was just waiting to see my friend hit the ice face first, apparently having your blades sharpen is an important factor to ice skating.
They also had a snack shop in the ring as well and of course Air Hockey.
We intend to return to get his blades sharpen and for me to attempt ice skating. it’s a good thing I got a booty because I have a feeling I’m going to need the cushion.

Being on ice-​skating hiatus for almost 20 years, I decided to bust out my very old figure skating boots and have high expectations of being the next Kristi Yamaguchi.
The ice and my balance didn’t feel the same as it did back then, but Pickwick Ice looked exactly the same. This place is in dire need of a face lift… Truly archaic looking. But don’t judge a book by it’s cover. This ice rink is NHL size rink. Several times available for public skating, but the ice gets so beaten up its impossible to skate properly.
If you plan to skate more than a few times, cough up the money and get yourself a pair of skates and go to the freestyle sessions. You end up paying a lot less in the long run and have better ice to skate on.
There is bowling adjacent to the ice rink and they also have a garden area for events and wedding. Free parking too.