Hotels with Zoos/Animal Collections

Eublepharis said:
Agreed! The enclosures were stark barren, literally not even at least like a branch in the hoofstock enclosures. I saw a picture on the internet somewhere of the place and there was a boa constrictor and a ball python crammed in the same tank. The place has potential but it needs a LOT of improvements. The aoudads probably have the best of it since they have a rocky mountain but that's really about it. I heard apparently an eland escaped a while back and they rotate animals there like crazy.
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Oh no!! That is terrible. All we can do is hope for improvements!
 
  • Over the years I have come across small zoos attached to hotels in Asia, usually pretty poor facilities though. Can't recall any particulars as a long way back.
  • The Hamilton Island resort on the Great Barrier Reef includes an Australian wildlife park as one of it's attractions. They used to have a dolphin in an all too small pool as well.
  • It is not unusual to find aviaries in the beer gardens of Australian pubs.
 
Atlantis resorts on the other hand, is phenomenal with animals, majority being fish, along with dolphins in the cay and all.
 
I went to a nice motel in Cheviot while on a fossil hunting holiday in Kaikoura once. Peafowls, fish, horses, turkeys, typical farm animals but still nice.

I also found that The Reservation animal park in Gore is now a hotel instead of a zoo, but still has some animals. I have no idea when this happened but my best guess is circa 2010, when the park was still apparently open but a fire killed a lot of animals.
 
The first captive cetaceans that I saw were bottle-nosed dolphins at the Margate Dolphinarium on the Kent coast, back in 1970.

The dolphinarium was inside the Queen’s Hotel, Cliftonville, Margate and the dolphins were housed in what was originally the hotel swimming pool!
 
several years ago my wife and I took an ecocruise on Rio Negro out of Manaus, Brazil. We visited the city including the Hotel Tropical which has a small adequate zoo displaying native species. Also we visited the primary zoo which was managed by the Brazil army. It contained native species in adequate spacious enclosures. Unfortunately, we did not visit INPA and its native species exhibits. All three facilities can be visited online.
 
Kalahari Resort has rented Tiger Cubs, Ring-Tailed Lemurs, and Red Kangaroos from the nearby Timbavati Wildlife Park.
 
I stayed in a hotel once where you could pay extra to have a room with an aquarium. I didn't though, so I have no idea what kind of fish are in it.
 
TheMightyOrca said:
The Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas has animals, including big cats and bottlenose dolphins. I'm sure some other hotels in Vegas have animals as well.
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The Flamingo has
The Wildlife Habitat - Flamingo Hotel & Casino Las Vegas

The Mandalay Bay has the Shark Reef (AZA aquarium)

The Golden Nugget has sharks that you can slide through a tube to see

The Silverado as a pretty large aquarium as does The Mirage

The Tropicana used to have a variety of birds, but I don't think they do any longer
 
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