Longleat - The English African Safari

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

...for the background on such a place as a safari park, a review on Longleat would not be the same without a brief background as the park itself holds so much history which is one huge aspect which makes the park so successful. I wish that I could cover everything, though half the fun of visiting this wonderful place is learning about the history for yourself, so allow me to give you a very brief background to Longleat. Longleat Safari Part is set within a huge 900 acres of beautiful landscaped countryside with the amazing Longleat manor at the focal point, with its Elizabethan architecture and astounding views. Longleat Manor, itself, was built in 1580 and homed the present Marquess of Bath's father, the 6th Marquess. It was he who first decided that this wonderful house and grounds were too amazing to keep to himself, that he had a vision of allowing...

elfbwillow 21.09.2007 (07.11.2009) · 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...

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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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Review of Center Parcs Longleat Forest, Costwolds

  **You Can't Beat Longleat!**

Advantages: A good day out
Disadvantages: Lazy animals!

...Longleat House, the animal keepers and Lord Bath himself. Longleat house was built in 1580 and is considered one of the best examples of Elizabethan architecture. The house, gardens and safari park have been open to the public since 1966. Longleat was the first Safari park to be opened outside of Africa. With 8,000 acres of lakes and woodland no wonder it was voted "Family attraction of the year 2002". On arriving at Longleat we decided to drive around the Safari park before going into the house and grounds which holds many of the other tourist attractions there. I will tell you a bit about each of the attractions: The Safari Park Drive through! ------------------------------------- On entering the Safari park you are able to purchase your entry into the Safari alone or a "passport ticket" as it is called which gives you...

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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

...a wonderful view of the grounds, pets corner where again you can feed some of the animals, the maze which is huge and has been featured on record breakers, and a favourite for the children is the adventure castle. in the summer if you just fancy a day otu or somewhere to take the kids then you can and pay the entry to get into the grounds of longleat but just go in the adventure castle i did this last year with my kids and we took a picnic and stayed the whole day in the adventure castle but take swimming cossies coz there is a great water feature that shoots up random spirts of water, great fun if you have a cossie for them. all in all a great day out but get there early to be able to see what you want to the park is open from the end of march until the beginning of november although the house is open pretty much all year round the house...

lisac1971 22.07.2007 · Read review
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* The Bunny House *

Advantages: Funny , Plot
Disadvantages: May Send Out Wrong Message To Young Girls!

...Recently I have been swapping DVDs with my friend ; I've been borrowing her 'up-to-date' movies and she's been watching my 'rom-coms'. One of the DVDs which I borrowed from my friend was a film called ' The House Bunny'. The House Bunny is an American romantic comedy film released in the United Kingdom on 10th October 2008. This film stars Anna Faris , (who's previous films include , Just Friends and My Super Ex Girlfriend). Running time of the movie is ninety seven minutes (seven minutes over one hour and a half). Shelley (Faris) is a playboy playmate living a luxury life in the playboy mansion. Soon after her twenty seventh birthday , she is told that she is now too old to be a playboy bunny and so it 'thrown out' of the playboy house. Feeling upset and lonely , she tries hard to fit in with other girl groups , although soon...

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house rules

Advantages: great
Disadvantages: have to wait for next seriwes

...House is a fantastic series and I missed the first one but got in to watching this in the second series, so I rushed out to buy the first series box set and I could not stop watching it, it is so addictive. If you love medical dramas then this is one for you as it's not all your normal diagnosis, each episode goes through a new medical dilemma they have to try and solve and they are not your usual colds and virus's. House is a medical programme with a diagnosis to be made, so each episode has you playing doctor trying to figure what has caused the patient's medical condition. House is an American drama and is about Dr Gregory House played by Hugh Laurie he is a fantastic doctor, unfortunately he does not seem to have the patience for patients, and Dr House is a Doctor who says what he wants and does what he wants regardless of other...

jo_field26 27.08.2008 · Read review
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A Wooden Album by Crowded House?

Advantages: 'Woodface' includes some of the most sublime love songs ever written
Disadvantages: It's all a bit much and much the same; the tracks that do dare to be different, don't fit

...Although I will always consider Crowded House to be one of my ?Dad?s bands? I have to say that I?ve developed strong feelings for many of the groups songs over the years. Teenagers are funny like that; we?ll go off on our own tour of music, claiming that Eminem and Dr. Dre are ?da bomb? before realising it was The Beatles and folky bands like Fleetwood Mac and Crowded House that vied for our earphones all along. On a couple of occasions, my Dad has bundled my Brother and I ? along with my Mum ? into the car and driven about two hours away to Nottingham in a vague attempt to educate us in terms of music. By doing so, he was making us watch the Finn Brothers, a song writing duo that have had a fairly rocky past. Neil Finn ? the lead singer and metaphorical leader of Crowded House ? and Tim Finn were once in a band called Split Enz who...

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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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Review of Center Parcs Longleat Forest, Costwolds

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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