Vibes Bar & Kitchen

I was initially horrified when I first saw the reviews for this place. With us staying at Thorpe Park for two nights, I knew it was really the only place to eat breakfast and dinner at the resort and I definitely didn't want to be wasting my money on an awful premesis.

I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by the end of our stay, as both of the breakfast experiences we had here were fantastic. The staff couldn't have been more helpful, and there was a well cooked, large selection for a full English buffet. You can help yourself to unlimited bacon, sausage (normal and vegetarian) scrambled egg, black pudding, hash browns, beans, tomato and mushrooms.

They provide Oat/Almond/Soy milk which I didn't expect, and also a selection of lovely pastries, breads, jams, nutella etc. There are two coffee machines providing most hot drinks all the way up to a mocha, and most importantly I found everything to be very clean, including the dining space where we sat each time.

With regards to the evening meals, there was a quite pricey all you can eat buffet for £20 per head available, although we decided we didn't want to stuff ourselves silly and spend £80 for our group of four in the process - so the bar staff told us we could order from Ubereats and eat it on the tables just outside the restaurant. I do think a small even side menu would be great for this restaurant in the evening, as you can't even order a bowl of chips if you want to, it's either the buffet or nothing.

The price of drinks was a bit much at £6 for a pint of Stella/dark fruit but I understand its by London and this is how it is.

Overall I'd say the vibes bar and kitchen has taken on board it's negative reviews and has definitely made a substantial effort to turn things around.

Don't bother, come on thorpe park you can do a lot better than this.

Truly horrible meal at not a cheap price £20.00 for all you can eat buffet.

Most things fried in horrid tasting oil, all meals left and waitress wasn't surprised infact don't think she could be bothered to even talk.

Young lady behind your bar a credit though. She was extremely helpful and went out of the way to help me oarticuarly as 3 hungry mouths to feed who didn't want to eat the food.

You have a captive audience; where let's face it we can't really eat anywhere else at least serve something decent. Last year was better. We have now decided we won't come back to hotel as really your restaurant and evening facilities let you down.

Just paid £80 for 4 plates of awful food. Happy to pay this for something edible but when you can't even get mash or rice right then give up! All you can eat is more like a bush tucker trial. Avoid at all costs

Had to give one star but in reality it would be a definite -5
Only eat here if you are constipated and need clearing out! It was included in our stay unfortunately!
We all fell ill, Thorpe Park have been made aware!

Their was a selection of packaged mini cereal boxes and pots of yogurts and mini Danish pastries with jam/Nutella etc

Hot food included slices of toast with a choice of beans scrambled eggs and sausages including veg sausage and hash browns.

Drinks included coffee from a machine which I passed on as I don’t like the taste of those and concentrated orange and apple juice.

I personally wasn’t feeling 100% So I avoided the beans and eggs and stuck to plain toast with a veg sausage and pastries, yogurt and fruit with apple juice and was personally satisfied

Rated 1 star because it's not possible to leave 0 stars. This place deserves 0 stars.

We were supposed to get breakfast included in the hotel stay. We pre-booked breakfast as advised at reception but were met with a very hostile reaction when we turned up at the restaurant. Apparently they were "closed" and the hotel reception and restaurant app were both "wrong" for telling us that breakfast was available between 10 - 11.

We refused to accept this and demanded to receive the breakfast that we had paid for.

The whole restaurant was a neglected dump. The fruit juice machine hadn't been refilled and just gave out water, everything around the drinks machine was strewn with rubbish with a pool of water on the floor, and no attempt was made by staff to rectify anything.

Clearly the staff seem to hate working here and have decided they are on strike.

What an absolute disgrace this restaurant is to the British leisure and tourism industry. Thorpe Park, hang your heads in shame. We've stayed at theme parks all over the world and have never come across anything remotely as bad as this before.

This is the only option for food if you are staying overnight. They take full advantage of this by charging £22 for a buffet of the most disgusting food you have ever seen in your life. Staff were either rude or disinterested. Avoid this place and do not stay at Thorpe Park overnight.

Overall an unpleasant experience and a waste of money.

I was staying in the shark cabins so I had both dinner and breakfast here.

In the morning we woke up a bit late and missed our 8:30 breakfast time by almost half an hour and we were told that after 15 minutes late our reservation was cancelled automatically. I can understand how this would be annoying and we were told that the restaurant was full and the only option was eating at 10, or having a "Costa grab and go" which isn't what I expected for the extortionate price that the hotel costed. We went back to the Shark cabins reception and they managed to get us a table shortly after, so thank you to them and to Oliver at the restaurant for being accommodating. Simply put, the restaurant wasn't full. While we were leaving at 9:45, there were at least 5 empty tables that we saw.

The breakfast was quite enjoyable. My best friend and I ordered three portions between the two of us and we split the extra one as we were particularly hungry.

The dinner on the other hand was a daylight robbery. I ordered the ribs and my friend the mac and cheese. He gave his dish a 4/10. The ribs on the other hand were quite flavorful, but the cut of meat was not very tender and had a lot of fat on it. It was asleep extremely small, especially for the £15 price tag. The chips were decent, corn was a bit dry but the coleslaw was so bland they I literally had to spit it out. It seems like the chefs are more focused on making the food look good instead of tasting good.

As someone else mentioned, if you are staying at the Shark cabins, then go out for dinner. Or, as we did for dessert, order Uber eats.