Anglesey Showground Gwalchmai reviews by real event-goers

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

I have been trying to contact someone in regards to a refund for last nights absolute shambles.
After Queuing for an hour (we were “lucky”) to get in, we paid £150 for a table and to have table service - table service was non existent!!! Staff were none existent to that matter, when we finally found a waitress she said table service wasn’t available!! - what the hell had we paid for! We had no option but to start queuing For a beer, barring in mind we had already been standing outside for an hour! 2 hours later we finally made it to the bar to be told there were no Steins left and had to drink our beer from two plastic cups! By this point it was 8pm! The bar still had a 2 hour wait so we were forced to leave!
We paid £150 to stand in a queuing for 3/4 hrs! Absolute joke! WE WANT OUT MONEY BACK!

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

The queue to get in was over an hour with no toilets until late on. People were throwing rubbish (empty cans and bottles mainly) as there were no bins for the queue. Not an Oktoberfest, more like a nightclub. I didn't hear any oompah type music, there was no-one to show us to our table (which was taken by some others though it did get sorted when I went to a steward), there was no-one serving table that I could see (which we were led to believe would happen), The queue to the bar and to whatever food there was were long and slow moving. Overall not an enjoyable experience and would be telling anyone that asks to avoid this event. After a 2 hour journey to get there we left embarrassed for our German friends that came with us.

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

Waited ages for food and drink, waited in line to get in over 2 hours. No shelter or cover. Absolutely freezing. Had nothing but problems

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

Terrible evening. Not enough staff, left after an hour

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

Huge disappointment. Long queues for entry, bar and food. Short staffed, no table service as advertised in the price of table.

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

Where to start………I hope everyone will get a refund because it was a disaster!! You knew how many people were going to be there but it was badly organised! Could not get a drink unless you waited 2 hours! Such a shame as it was a fantastic venue and a good turn out but people were leaving straight after arraiving! Said there was table service but there was no table service!

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

Terrible organisation would not recommend

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

Completely disappointed and disgusted with the organisation of this event and most definitely will be involving trading standards and requesting a refund.

Arrived at the venue at 4pm as stated on the tickets to see a massive queue nearly outside of the venue parking lot. Absolutely freezing stood outside in a queue with no sheltered areas.

An absolute disgrace that no toilets were out in the queue when most people were stood for over an hour and a half. Completely disregarding females dignity having to urinate in a field in front of thousands.

To be told after queuing from 4pm until 6.30pm by people leaving the site that once you were inside it was at least an hour-2 hours wait to get a drink. The event was a beer festival in which most could not even get a drink!

I paid nearly 200 pounds for a seated table of 6 with waitress service to be told by people leaving there is no waitress service at all! And what is more frustrating is that we had to book 3 hotel rooms in the area at a substantial cost to attend the event and had to stand outside queuing the whole night.


The organisers of this event should not be allowed to hold another event and an apology should be given to the individuals who felt embarrassed and stripped of their own dignity having to urinate in front of thousands.

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

I'm sorry but the queuing for beer was ridiculous and I think there will be many asking for refunds

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

Queue management was appalling - spent total of two hours queuing to get in/ drink. Just not acceptable really. Other than that it was a really good event.

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

Loved atmosphere and the music but needed longer beer tent, more staff and a more organised entry queue

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

Absolute shambles of an event, major let down.
1 hour to queue outside before getting in. Paid for 2 tables with table service advertised, got told that they stopped table service after the first hour of the event starting. 2 queues to the bar which I would estimated about 300 people in each one which took about an hour and a half to finally get served. Once you reached the bar they didn’t even have any steins left in a German beer festival. Most people left straight away after seeing the queues inside for a drink. I will be requesting a refund.

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

The organisers of this event should hold their heads in shame. They used the event to milk money from the customers. They sold the tickets so they should have had an idea of how many people would be there.

I estimate that there were twice as many people there than what was catered for. At one point at least 2/3 of the people there were queuing for drinks. Queues were taking 2 hours to get drinks and a lot of unhappy people walked out - I really hope they got refunded.

The table service was stopped as I believe the staff walked out. The security staff were putting in one way door systems for no reason at all and generally causing confusion.

They ran out of steins and were selling beer in plastic pint pots.

All in all, what should have been an amazing event was ruined by lack of beer facilities for the number of tickets sold. Poor poor effort from the organisers, still they got their money though so I suspect they will be happy and the customers complaints will all be hidden away.

Would not recommend attending an event by the same company.

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

Absolute failure of an event. Queue took 1.5 hours for us to get through and we were nowhere near the last people to queue up.

Queue for the bar, when we had paid extra for waitress service was around another hour. We only managed to have 2 drinks all night and it was a beer festival!

£5 deposit on plastic steins and then we couldn’t get our deposit back thanks to the never ending queues.

The “music” when the live bands were in wasn’t too bad, but the DJ playing songs I could have heard in any pub on the island for free was not welcome. It’s supposed to be a GERMAN event!

Food was good but that was only thanks to using local trusted traders.

There was hardly any atmosphere by about 8pm as so many people had left and most came in and just went straight back out after seeing the queues for the toilets and bar.

Absolutely unorganised mess!

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

Overpriced entry unfortunately heavily under staffed waiting 1 hr to get drinks and 1 he to get in even waiting 30 mins to use toilet. Very disappointed with how it turned out it had the potential to be a good night.

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

Absolute shambles... Queued 1.5hrs to get in, expected to be shown to our table for table service drinks as described in the sales. Staff didnt know where our table was and then we were told there would be no table service, queue for the bar was 1.5hrs. Lots of people left because this appeared to be the theme for the evening, big shame for the island and the people of all sorts of ages (including elderly) who travelled from various distances.

I'm sure this is a good event at one of the established areas but the planning and execution for this organised event was non-existent. Contacted for a refund.

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

Shambles. Queuefest it should be called. An hour and a half to get in, two hours for a drink, an hour for food, 45 for the toilet. No waitress service. Awful!

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

An absolute shambles. Paid for a table for the table service which we did not receive, so decided to queue for drinks after 3 and a half hours of waiting from entrance to bar we all decided to give up and left after not having one refreshment.
Our table was also double booked.
Will be seeking a refund.

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

Such a waste of opportunity for fun event. All time spent in queues instead of having fun. No table service as promised and paid for. We had no drinks,no food, our table was stolen by other people, security wouldn't help. We expected some waiting but not hours. We left and 80% people which atended left after 30 minutes of beeing there. We felt sorry for the staff which had to explain this disaster to everyone. We will be asking for refund. Very badly organised. O

Review of Oktoberfest Cymru 2022: Anglesey

The ques to get in were ridiculous. And the que to get drinks was an hour and a half at one point. So it could have been organised a lot better. Also not enough toilets. It was good fun, but there were a lot of people pissed off because of this.