Hardwick Hall Hotel Sedgefield, Durham reviews by real event-goers

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

The event wasn't as advertised and it was extremely overcrowded. People were walking in and leaving immediately

Review of Hardwick Hall Hotel Autumn Market

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

Extremely long wait to get into venue took 1hr and 45min sat in a queue. Only one tarot card reader with a very long queue for reading and we didn’t see any mediums. Such a shame we were looking forward to it.

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

Should have stayed as a tick*t event only far too busy couldn't view any stalls. The lighting was terrible had to use mobile phone to look at the stalls the ones we could get near because it was so busy.

Review of Hardwick Hall Hotel Autumn Market

perfect afternoon out in stunning location. so much choice. the only issue was with having to sort tick*ts online then we didnt have to use them.wasnt clear on the facebook ad wether you needed tick*ts.

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

There was no organisation- we could not even make it to the event due to the disorganisation of the number of people accepted into the event. There was an insane amount of traffic in all directions towards the event. We waited for 40 minutes in traffic and heard people were being turned away.

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

Unable to rate as the traffic to get into the event was backed up in every direction. As it was only a three hour event there would not have been much time to see the stalls / music etc by the time we would have got in and parked. It was pouring with rain so we turned around rather than wait in the queues of traffic. Sorry as we were looking forward to it and had chosen to get tick*ts rather than just turn up on the day.

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

Unfortunately it was just too busy. It took around 15 mins just to get parked, then once in it was pretty much impossible to move around/ see any stalls. No tick*ts were checked, so it was massively overcrowded due to walk ins.

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

The organisation was so bad that after an hour we were still not parked. So we went home. Very poor

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

It was lovely, could have been better lighting, sellers were having to use their phones for us to see some items. I would not advertise Tarot card readers and Mediums. Hard to find and ques for them held up shoppers.
The venue was beautiful, stalls plentiful, fabulous atmosphere and lovely friendly sellers. Well done xarpark staff. It worked lovely.
Didn't see point of having tickets. Never needed them at all.
Can't wait for next one.

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

This was a really good event and had a good atmosphere with a variety of stalls. The only negative was the queueing to get into the event which took a very long time.

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

I mainly went because I was hoping to buy , silver earrings and a ring .. only one stall selling small amount of silver jewellery... other jewellery stalls ( can count on one hand ) only stainless steal.

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

Too dark everyone using torches to see products. Nearly all stalls were either earrings off temu or amazon or candle melts boring

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

Great idea, poorly executed. Offer a ticket based system, then tell people they can just turn up, for them to sit in a 2 mile queue to get in, only to be turned away

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

Can't answer any of the above as we didn't even make it in. Traffic was horrendous and people getting turned away after sitting in traffic for nearly an hour

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

Couldn't get in as they had oversold the event! Took 1.5 hours in traffic & still couldn't get in. Car park too small.

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

Pretty shocking evening, is a very good idea just poorly executed.

Our evening started by queuing for 30 minutes to get into the car park, where there were no parking attendants and people just abandoned their vehicles.

The marquee itself was terribly lit, and rammed packed full of people, with their torches on. One stall holder had to stand like a lamp with a torch to ensure her stall was lit up enough.

Makers market? Although there were a few stands who had obviously spent time making their crafts, the majority was bought in rubbish sold for inflated prices. One stand was selling scotch eggs and foreign cleaning products, all on one stand.

Luckily we ate before we came because the prices were ridiculous and the queues were insane, as were the queues to the loos.

We had gone in hopes of speaking to a medium as advertised that there would be lots there, there was one woman sat in the corner in the dark with a line a mile long. We stopped for 30 minutes before deciding we'd rather spend our evening watching tv.

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

We attended last night, just after 6 pm. Parking was atrocious and no disabled parking left. Staff were trying to direct traffic as best they could. There were a couple of cake stalls, one selling pasties and pies,other than that no other food. The queue for the bar was out of the door. The lighting was so poor that several of the stall holders were holding their phones as flashlights so the customers could see their products when they could get near to the stalls as it was so overcrowded. ( The sellers must've been so disappointed) There were some lovely items and reasonable prices. There were no mediums in attendance and 2 tarot card readers. At one point the queue was so long for one of them that it blocked most of the aisle and the other stalls . No one checked our tickets and there were no free raffle tickets. We were so disappointed and would have loved to spend more time looking, and buying, but we could not get near to the stalls for overcrowding. We could not wait to get out! Sorely disappointed at the organisation of the event.

Review of Moonlit Makers Market Hardwick Hall

Can't review as didn't get in. Queued in traffic for over an hour only to be turned away and told they had closed it, even though I had booked tickets. From reading other people's experiences that made it in, it doesn't look like we actually missed anything.