We went here last Sunday.
I had only found out about it the week before.
Since we're on a motorbike and it's about 1h20 drive, we only booked the tickets in the morning before we left, as needed to make sure it wasn't going to rain. I don't mind being somewhere when it rains, but I don't want to be on the bike when raining the entire drive.
Anyway, it was open from 10am-5pm and we arrived around 10.30 and stayed for the entire day!
We really enjoyed this place so much.
Staff very friendly, the signage & infoboards I thought was really great and was such a nice touch to have all the animals names on it and where most came from/bit of history about them.
We ended up seeing all the animals, accept for the Zorilla, who we did see move about in it's box as the hay was moving, but it didn't came out all the times we passed by it, and the Coati, we did (barely) see them sleeping inside the shelter.
A few animals I had never seen before, Civet and Genet.
I spend lots of time looking at Asha, their black Jungle Cat. There's something about black cats, I just love, their expressions/looks to me are so different, and I thought it was "odd" that with her, for being a much bigger cat then a regular pet, it was the same way.
You "need" to download the app, so you can use the interactive map, which we thought was a really good idea.
You could check which animals you hadn't seen yet, and it would show you from the point where you are, the route to where the next animals you hadn't seen yet was.
Making sure you really wouldn't miss out! Even though it's not that big, I always feel with most places we miss out on things that are more located in the middle.
All animals were quite active, the Rusty Spotted Cats, we've finally managed to really get to see some running around and playing, so much cuteness!
By the end of the day, the 3 Bobcats who are next to the Jungle Cats were out playing with each other and running around.
The only odd thing I'd say was, when you reach where the Serval is, you can see the Lynx enclosure in the distance, another Serval enclosure and some Bobcat enclosures, but it was fenced off, so had to go all the way around through the Wallabywalk/forest to get to the Lynx. Not a massive pain or anything, just thought it was a bit odd, but probably for good reasons
And it was like walking through a forest, it looked so nice. I think you could do a much bigger walk around, but we didn't do that, as wanted to make sure since it was our first time there, we saw everything we wanted to see.
I don't really care for the dinosaur bits that many zoo's have put in now, but this one I think was one of the nicest we've seen so far.
(love Jurassic Park & Land before time, but not really interested seeing it at the zoo).
Food wise, quite some options, and not really that expensive.
Boyfriend had some chips and pulled pork, it was a lot of food he got.
When we arrived, I was immidiately greeted by one of their "zoo cats" lol.
Upon leaving, that same one thought the seat of the bike was a great spot to lay down, and even when gently pushing it off, it wasn't going anywhere. I took it up, put him on the ground, and he jumped straight back onto the seat
We will definately be back next year when the weather starts to get a bit warmer again.
If I had a way of getting there by public transport, I'd get a season pass, but it's not an easy commute sadly.
