Sunsets & Skylines

Review of Cheetah Outreach Spier

Although the experience of getting up close to a c...

Although the experience of getting up close to a cheetahs was unforgettable and the range of animals extensive and unexpected there was a strange atmosphere and something about the place that made almost everyone in the large group I went with feel quite uncomfortable. The experience started of badly as one of the members of staff asked to hold my friend's phone whilst she went up and stroked the cheetah and promptly dropped the phone on to the concrete beneath her, chipping the edge. She didn't apologize simply picking it back up and waiting for my friend to finish stoking the cheetah. The time you could stroke the cheetah for was also unclear, one person in my group went up and was allowed 2 minutes another only 30 seconds. Overall some of the staff were hard to communicate with. There were also what sounded exactly like air raid sirens that went of halfway through and the staff simply said "don't worry there just testing bombs" pointing to the desert landscape in the distance behind the electric fences. We were concerned and eventually left 20 minutes before our tour was supposed to finish, the sizes of the cages were too small and the atmosphere wasn't quite right on the day we went, wouldn't go again.
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