Bella Italia Thetford IP24 3TR

"I used to really enjoy Bella Italia at Center Parcs, even though I dislike chain restaurants that serve mass produced pinged stuff, Bella Italia was always just about acceptable as there was always a decent pasta dish or 2 on the menu (wouldn't touch the pizzas with a barge pole though). Our latest visit though has changed my mind. The portions are now TINY and the prices have risen considerably. The value for money is laughably non existant. My sons pizza was as big as a saucer and looked like something you see in the freezer section of a supermarket in a box of 8 marketed as microwave snacks. No starters, no deserts, £115 for 2 adults & 2 kids lol. Also, CP supplement staff wages by automatically adding a 7.5% service charge to your eye-watering bills throughout the park now which you're not tight enough to ask to be removed, which CP know full well! Fully expect the service charge to be 15% next year, clearly they're just warming us up for it! Shout out to our lovely waitress Paula though, if there wasn't an enforced 7.5% service charge/across the board salary supplement on the bill, we wouldve left Paula at least 10% for her great service and general warmth."

"The atmosphere is good, there is a children's section that is around the tables so there is occasionally a lot of noise generated from that, the food is good but not exactly traditionally Italian and it somewhat lacks flavor. The service was really great. Very highly priced but a good food experience for elvden."

"We had such a great meal this Saturday! The food is incredible, I loved the caramelised onion garlic bread. There’s a really nice vibe with the music and lighting. Special shout-out to Morgan and Jade who really looked after us and made my sister in laws birthday super special. Absolutely recommend!"

"Service was great, food wasn't as good as some other Bella Italias we've been to, some lights flickering (more than what you'd normally expect, quite distracting) which seemed a shame, such an easy fix but obvs been ignored for a while. Starters were alright, I got bruschetta which was beyond 'crunchy'. My wife got prawns which still had the shells (fine, but say that on the menu) Kids got 'warm cookie dough with Ice cream' that was in fact just a cookie, asked not a very nice one unfortunately. Feel a bit let down, service and presentation of food etc was good, but food itself not amazing unfortunately."

"I am staying at Center Parcs Elveden Forest and ordered pizza for collections. I ordered the Formaggio Funghi and Rosemary Fries. This was hugely disappointing. The pizza (£11.49) was tiny (see picture to compare to my hand) and the base was absolutely shocking. The base looked and tasted like it was cooked in a home oven (again see pictures for no brown spots on the base). It was also full of semolina which tasted horrible. The positives of this meal was that the Formaggio Funghi topping was tasty and the Rosemary Fries were good too. However, I am shocked at the sub par quality of this so called Italian pizza. The other option was to stay home and have beans on toast with scrambled eggs. I made a huge mistake."