Giamarese Farm & Orchards Reviews Summary

Category: Farm

Address: 155 Fresh Ponds Rd, East Brunswick, NJ 08816, USA

Phone: +17328219494

Rating: 3.7
based on 108 reviews.

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "Very pleasant and helpful staff."
  • "Friendly staff (EXTREMELY vigilant about enforcing the orchard rules though)."
  • "The staff are so friendly, and this year we even got to meet Santa Claus!!"
  • "The staff were amazing & so welcoming!"
  • "Very friendly staff to assist cutting them down and trimming them to your specifications."
  • "Always have a good time, friendly staff, always answers any questions that I may have."
  • "The staff is friendly and helpful."

Cons:

  • "We were met with horrible, indifferent customer service."
  • "Staff are rude."
  • "Terrible service!"
  • "They did not seem to care, not that we wanted to take a tree from another family but they could of at least offered some sort of reconciliation, a sorry, or even an acknowledgment of the oopsie."
  • "Very rude staff, racist, they don't like Latin people at all."
  • "Rude staff, some old hag yelling at everyone and their kids right at the front desk."
  • "You would think that the people who work there would be more friendly but they are all so rude!"

Pricing

Pros:

  • "The pricing is one of the best. I’ve been to too many farms that are overpriced."
  • "I think everything was reasonable priced since I've been to a farm that costs a bit more for activities that I had no interest in."
  • "This place is very nice had a great time with our young boys and the price was not bad considering everything is going up those days."
  • "Entry is $7 but you get $5 in farmers market or orchard picking credit."
  • "They charged just $2 per person."

Cons:

  • "They charge $6 a head just to walk through the door before you pick and pay for the strawberries at $4.75/lbs."
  • "Used to be nice place but they got commercial and are now extremely expensive."
  • "Even with not buying pumpkins this farm is extremely expensive."
  • "You have to pay per person for entry and then we bought a bag of apples that we picked and it was $56.00."
  • "Both pumpkins we got were spoiled and rotted out in a out a week."
  • "Closed 2 hours before time, no picking allowed we paid entry fee for nothing."
  • "They want to charge 4 dollars a person just to get into the pumpkin patch!"

Facilities & Activities

Pros:

  • "It was a lot of fun, there was plenty to do with pumpkins and apples with vendors for food in the fall, and strawberries in the late spring early summer."
  • "This place is great for families with young children."
  • "Strawberries were sweet and delicious also."
  • "We got to see a pair of swans and horses."
  • "The hayride, and walk though the corn and sunflower maze was so much fun in my opinion."
  • "Enjoy... Pumpkin patch, Sunflower field, Corn maze, Pony rides, Petting zoo, Apple picking (VAST orchard with multiple apple species!)"
  • "Awesome hayride with a farm educator narrating the tour and teaching about the farm's history, agriculture, crops, and the animals."

Cons:

  • "There's no real bathroom or sanitation in the one they do have had no bathroom tissue."
  • "What I didn't like was they didn't care for social distancing."
  • "nowhere to sit and rest."
  • "closed off most of the apple trees barely anything to pick and the apples are not that tasty."
  • "Most of the visitors were not having face mask."
  • "Most areas had red flags where you couldn't pick apples."
  • "The sugar pumpkin field was completely picked with the pumpkins placed inside shipping boxes. That’s not pumpkin picking."

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