Longleat - The English African Safari

Advantages: Everything!
Disadvantages: Limited disabled access to certain attractions

...Longleat Safari Park If you are under the impression that Longleat Safari Park is for the enjoyment of children only, then let me start by saying that this is one huge misconception. Even those who have closed hearts and minds will be softened and astounded by the vast and immense grounds and gratifying atmosphere this park holds. I had been to many zoo's and safari parks in the past, though when I began to watch 'Animal Park' on the television, a real life program following the staff, ground, Lord Bath and animals at Longleat, I knew that there was one other safari park I just had to visit, and the great aspect about it was that we were due to go on holiday soon after a few short miles away from the park. It was like the animals were pulling me in! ******Background of Longleat****** Although a lot of people do not care much...

elfbwillow 21.09.2007 (07.11.2009) · Read review
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Center Parcs - Longleat

Advantages: Great for families
Disadvantages: Not so great if you don't like kids

...Center Parcs - Longleat Taking a young family on holiday is a tricky business with a completely different set of requirements than when going away as a couple. Not least among these is the amount of baby paraphernalia that you need to take. When our youngest was about ten months we took her to New England and managed to get everything into a couple of suitcases and carry on luggage plus a pushchair but now we have two the amount of extra baggage seems to have more than just doubled and unless the destination is particularly child friendly the need for travel cots, gates etc makes the holiday load a bit much for airline travel. For this reason recent holidays have been UK based. The last couple of years have been spent in Cornwall at a friend's apartment but we thought that this year we would have a change. Having heard favourable...

brereton66 09.11.2007 · Read review
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Fantastic Day Out (Longleat Safari Park)

Advantages: A great day out, its well worth a vist, we all had a fantastic time
Disadvantages: Gets really busy and cost a lot for a large family

...Myself my partner and a few friends decided that we would have a day out to Longleat Safari Park on the Bank holiday Monday, I had been to Longleat before but when I was a child, it was a great day out back then and I was hoping it would be even better all these years later. As it was a bank holiday that we where planning on going on we knew it would be busy so we set of at 8.30am to get there for when it opened which was 10am and I'm so glad we did that because as we predicted it got incredibly busy later on. Longleat Safari Park has two parts to it, firstly you have the Safari Park itself and then you have the house and gardens which also has various rides and attractions around it. The Safari Park: The safari park was opened in1966 and it was the first place outside of Africa to open a drive through safari. The safari park consists...

soutram 04.09.2009 · Read review
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  **You Can't Beat Longleat!**

Advantages: A good day out
Disadvantages: Lazy animals!

...I am nearing the end of a two week holiday off work. We didn't really have much planned, just to relax. But after a few days we decided we had relaxed enough and decided to take a day out at Longleat Safari Park. It's not just as simple in jumping in the car as we live on the Isle of Wight. We had to book a ferry and try to get it at a cheap price. The cheapest we could get was £30 for a day return from Yarmouth to Limington. The Ferry takes half and hour to cross the Solent and from Limington it is a fairly straight forward drive getting up to Longleat. We headed towards Salisbury as we have been there several times and know that Longleat is just outside and very well signposted from Salisbury. Background on Longleat. ------------------------------- Some people might recognise the name from the TV show all about...

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longleat safrai park

Advantages: lots to see and do, different activites for all ages
Disadvantages: can be expensive need to get there early to get it all done

...Longleat is more than just a safari park it has many other things to do there as well, and i feel that just spending one day there is a bit of rush to get everything done particularly if you have bought a passport ticket, incidentlyally if you have bought a passport ticket and dont live too far away anything that you havent done can be done on another day providing you keep your passport ticket. can be quite expensive if you pay for each attraction individually so if you are planning on spending the whole day there i would definately go for the passport ticket as you save loads on it. some of the attractions include old joes mine where you can see bats flying around, the safari boats where for a small additional charge you can buy a smallpot of fish to feed the sea lions with, miniture railway which goes all along the lake and gives...

lisac1971 22.07.2007 · Read review
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Center Parcs-Longleat

Advantages: Relaxing, scenic, plenty to do for adults and children alike
Disadvantages: Activities are expensive, restaurants overrated

...My husband and I recently took our 12 month old son to Center Parcs, Longleat for a 3 day break. Center Parcs had been recommended to us by friends as an excellent holiday destination for families with children. They were right, it certainly is that. Everything about Center Parcs is geared up to appeal to the younger guest, although adults are certainly not neglected either! Eating out at Center Parcs was quite expensive and, with the exception of the meal we had at Cafe Rouge, we found the food to be rather bland. Children were very well catered for in the restaurants, including being given toys/crayons to occupy them and some restaurants even had complimentary Baby food and microwaves to heat the food up in. We were a little disappointed that there weren't more soft-play areas for little ones, like our 12 month old. The few...

victoriash 17.02.2008 · Read review
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Longleat a fantastic wildlife adventure!

Advantages: something for all the family
Disadvantages: sometimes has parts of it shut

...I have been to Longleat twice and found it very enjoyable on both occasions. There is a fantastic safari park section where you can travel in your car or if on foot then by Longleat bus and enjoy scenes of incredible wildlife. There is a tape or cd that they give you as you enter the safari park zones which talks you through the animals you are looking at and provides some information about the natural habitat of the animals which is very helpful. You can also turn off the tape and so you can travel at your own speed. They have families of lions, giraffes, llama's, hundreds of monkeys (which are rather friendly with your cars!), pelicans and many more treats along the way. I would say that the Safari Park is the main attraction, however I would allow a long day to spend at Longleat as there is also a manor house (which costs a little...

jenlaw 30.12.2004 · Read review
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Longleat - best British tourist attraction???

Advantages: So much to do in a day
Disadvantages: watch out for the monkeys!!!

...Just over a year ago, my boyfriend and I took a trip down to Bath and I'd read in all the tourist guides that we should pay a visit to Longleat Safari Park. The park was easy to get to from the A36 or the A361 and was well signposted. The entrance cost was £16 to visit the all attractions within the grounds however you are not obliged to visit everything on the same day, you can return at any time during the season to visit your remaining attractions. (You can just purchase a Safari ticket for £9 but the chances are you?ll want to visit some of the smaller attractions that feature afterwards & buying separate tickets can cost up to £41) We decided to do the safari tour first; you can either take a bus or your car. At this point my boyfriend had only had his brand new car for 3 months so we decided to take the bus however we...

emmajwalters 19.09.2004 · Read review
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  Maybe I am just a big kid?????

Advantages: Educational as well as great fun, with something to interest all ages.
Disadvantages: The long queues at peak times but they are worth it!

...I am afraid this is going to be a very long review. There is just so much to cover and I am sure I will have more I wanted to say on top of it all! I am going to go through all the different attractions there are packed into this fantastic place one by one and try and make it so that if there is one part you are more interested in than the others then you can then just read that section (BUT PLEASE READ ABOUT THE PASSPORT TICKET DO NOT JUST LOOK AT THE INDIVIDUAL PRICES, A PASSPORT WORKS OUT A LOT CHEAPER!). Longleat has been a huge attraction in the southwest of England since the house was opened to the public in 1949, a lot has changed there since, with the addition of a safari park and other attractions. The park still gets added to all the time and really does have something to interest everyone, young and old alike. I...

nursie_nursie 01.04.2007 (02.04.2007) · Read review
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A Lions Share of History

Advantages: A fun filled day for the family
Disadvantages: Can only go around the safari once.

...LONGLEAT SAFARI PARK Every year around my youngest birthday in July it has been a family tradition for her dad to take her and her sister out for the day, last year I joined them as it was my daughters 21st birthday; this year I went along again and this time we visited Longleat Safari Park. It is not a problem going along with my ex husband as we have always remained friends since our divorce. Before our visit we checked on their website for the prices and contact no. so we could ring them up to book a wheelchair for me. Booking the wheelchair was very simple over the phone, they just took my name and advised me on where to collect it when we get to the park, and they also advised us on what we would need to leave as security when we claimed the chair. ~~Our Visit~~ We live in Shropshire so we set off really early at 0730...

arnoldhenryrufus 05.08.2008 (27.08.2008) · Read review
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