Michael Watson

Review of Australia Zoo

A good zoo, but not spectacular. Pretty sure the o...

A good zoo, but not spectacular. Pretty sure the only reason why people come here is because of Steve Irwin - most other zoos in Australia outshine this in terms of general appeal, number of animals, and value for money. The zoo was poorly structured, needing to walk significantly far from one side of the park to the other, with no animals in between. The number and variety of animals was very lacking, and even odd in some regards - like there were 2 Asian otters there - its the only Asian animals in the Zoo, and there are only 2 of them - kinda seems weird. There were lots of personal up-close animal encounters to go on, but don't expect them to be outgoing If you want the photos - we did 2 encounters and wanted photos from each of them, bit they wouldn't even knock $5 off to get all of them from both sessions - sorry guys, no money for you, you actually lost $150 from us because of your greediness. The staff at the animal encounters were nice and enthusiastic, but we were very disappointed when we booked the tiger cubs encounter, where all the photos on the website show cute baby tigers on someone's lap, but they are actually quite huge now - very falsely advertised, and my wife was very disappointed. On the positive side, the zoo was well maintained and filled most of the day. There was a lot of good food options available, and they were generally reasonably priced too. Most of the staff in all areas of the zoo were friendly, funny, and enjoyable. Overall, the zoo was fine, and worth the visit if you're in Brisbane already, otherwise just avoid it, go see another zoo and you'll get a lot more out of it.