Visitors' Comments

Have you visited Shaftesbury or our website recently? 

Do you have something to say?  

Your comments are very important to us, we really appreciate the time and effort you take when visiting our town.

Please email your comments to tourism@shaftesburydorset.com

Visitor's Questionnaire - If you are a visitor to Shaftesbury, we would really appreciate it if you could spare a couple of minutes to complete our Visitor's Survey Questionnaire.

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Here are some recent comments:

Thank you for a wonderful website and for all the town folks who do to make tourists, such as myself, feel very at home.

Phyllis
Wakefield, Ma USA

Congratulations on a well thought-out website which makes my life considerably easier when I am booking in your area.  Others would benefit from planning sites on your format.

Jane, Isle of Wight

Thank you for the booking information and helping with the accommodation.

Natalie, email

Have downloaded information about Shaftesbury.   Congratulations on your web site and thanks for your helpful suggestions.

Robin, email

Just received my ticket for the concert, thank you so much for a fantastic service.  I still miss living near-by.

Sally, email

Thank you very much for your help with our filming in Dorset.  The accommodations was really lovely and the food was fabulous.  Also the cafe was a perfect place for our Dorset apple cake and the filming we did with the local artist was just beautiful.  Many thanks once again for all your help with making our programme.

Julann, talkbackthames tv

Thanks very much.  What a brilliantly designed, easy to use site - unlike some! fantastic.

S Taylor, email 

A very unique and original town, set close enough to main transport links to make it easy to get to without being too touristy.

Family, Germany

Wonderful to see a town centre full of small vibrant local shops, and one that seems to have been unvisited by the town planners.  Very friendly atmosphere, very welcoming to my autistic son.

R.J., Suffolk, UK

I just visited your city one month before and as I liked it very much, I want to thank you!  I lived in East Orchard, but I spent much time in Shaftesbury and enjoyed it really.  Your shopping opportunities have been very good although being a cute, small city!  Thanks a lot and I hope to see your city another time.

M.K., USA

A delightful day spent wondering around Shaftesbury.

Mr & Mrs P, Taunton, UK

First visit to Shaftesbury – lovely stay, lovely views and the café at the top of Gold Hill was a real find, also the gallery at the top of the hill.  Staying on a peaceful farm caravan site near Ansty – excellent.

J.A, Hull, UK

Thank you  for all the help – we have travelled the South and not had much help at all until Shaftesbury – we were offered onward bookings and many brochures – Exceptional!

A.B. Johannesburg, South Africa