The actual park itself is not great. Your stuck in a car travelling 3mph, waiting for everyone ahead of you to move forward. The other stuff, such as the sea lion show and the reptile area makes up for the lack of animals and traffic jams
We were last at West Midland Safari park a couple of years ago, and in that time there has been some noticeable work done on some of the grounds. The park is very pleasant, and nicely laid out, with areas where you have to have your windows closed spilt apart by areas where you can open your windows. If your car has good air conditioning, this is not overly important. But if your car lacks this feature, or perhaps your compressor has blown and so you can not make use of this wonder of science and technology... It is very welcome.
The beginning of the park takes you past some amazing rhinos that, even though they tend to keep their distance from the cars, are quite imposing. Make sure you have your camera ready! There is quite a severe hill climb during this section, and every time we have visited there has been the unmistakable scent of burning clutch in the air.
A highlight of the lion enclosure is the off-road section. Certainly not ideal for all cars, but it isn't "4x4 Off-Roader" level, just a loose surface which takes a slightly different route to the main road. On our most recent visit, it was incredibly hot, and so the lion has all retreated to the boundary fence to enjoy the shade it offers them. The off-road section takes you much closer to this fence, and so on this particular day it meant being able to see the lions which were barely visible to people on the road road.
You do have to be careful with feeding the animals, particularly with younger children. But the animals are generally very friendly and in some cases demonstrate a great deal of patience. Although the giraffes didn't always want to wait for the food to be outside of the cars before they were eating it.
There is a quite impressive entertainment park with a number of rides and stands. The parking area is large, with a lot of hard-standing parking, and plenty of overflow parking on the grass areas. There are food stalls, and an eating area. There are also quite good toilet facilities, including changing facilities. When we arrived, a couple of the toilet stalls were decidedly not fit for use. We walked across to the information and first-aid centre to report this issue, and by the time we had been round the park and needed to use the toilets again they were sparkling. The take away from this is that the toilet facilities are checked regularly (like many places they display a time check sheet for cleaners to sign), but if there is a problem, you just need to let them know.
West Midland Safari Park is a good day out for the family, and whilst other parks (Woburn comes to mind) might be more developed, West Midland is under constant development and expansion. So it is definitely worth going back periodically to see what has changed. Plus when you have paid for entry to the park, you get a ticket for free re-entry during the same season (the season ends early in November), on any day the park is open, except Bank Holidays, and not for the Fireworks Festival.
Bit on the expensive side, especially since you don't know what you'll see up close. There's no monkeys, elephants are visible only with binoculars, consider yourself lucky if you catch a glimpse of a lion and seeing a tiger is like finding a unicorn!
Really good to take the kids here feeding the animals and touching them... the children will love it
Really nice Safari Park. Enjoyed it a lot. As you start the safari people tend to stay in single queue as they are excited to see the animals and feed them or because the animals are on their side of the road. I did the same... After a while you'll realize that its better to utilize the two lanes and you'll get the opportunity to feed the same animals again anyway when you finish the first part of the safari. Disposable golves would handy to keep in the car and sanitisers as well. Start with feeding the small deers if you are scared and then grauduate to the bigger ones!
Wonderful time at safari park.Took a man who we care for which made his Christmas very special .Staff were so helpful and friendly.Would definitely recommend safari park at Christmas time .
Fun day out with combined safari park and theme park
Great place to see but need to have plenty of time for to see everything
Was here working but the dedication of the keepers was brilliant
Loved it,making memoires with my family, lots to see and do,loved the safari, my oldest granddaughter loved getting me soaked on the log flume ride brilliant day all around.
It was a lovely day out. It's more for children. Well the staff are helpful an friendly. The food beautifully served. Oo I had a beef burger an fries yum yum dribble dribble. There plenty to do. Make sure you're pockets full. Merchandise expensive. I suppose you get what you pay for.
Ok but needs something doing to it but expensive I thought
Wonderful in everyway, great value for money. Plenty of animals too see. A great day out
We visited with the school for a visit with santa. The kids really enjoyed it. We got a bit lost looking for the lemur area as you have to go past the closed rides area, it could do with some better signage for the winter time. They loved visiting Santa and choosing a good quality gift .
Love love love this place! We have been with our son since he was about 6 months old and it just keeps getting better!!
The facilities are great, staff are helpful and knowledgeable, the shows are brilliant and the range of animals is good. The experience of having a giraffe walk within a foot past your car and to see your child's face is just immense!
The cost is reasonable for the experience. The special events that get put on ie Santa safari and the Halloween event were also brilliant and really well planned/organised!
I will definitely be visiting the park again soon!
Fantastic day out. It was busy but staff coped well. Would recommend it.
Always love going here with the family, just an awesome day out.
Great day out, the safari is OK, although the lions and tigers can be difficult to see, but that's not the parks fault.
There is a nice theme park and also some other attractions for after the safari ride.
My kids love it there and we go a couple of times a year
Awesome day out with my daughter, great value for money
Really good place to visit. Lots of animals to drive and others in exhibit areas. Lots of riders for all ages
Small resterant but good curry saff exserlent help with menu so you know what you getting
This was my first experience of a safari park and I was certainly not disappointed. I came here with my girlfriend, her friend and her boyfriend and we went in the one car. The journey around the park in a car takes roughly one hour give or take 10-15 minutes, depending on how active the animals are and how long you spend looking at/patting each animal. Please bare in mind that some of the animals will want to stick their heads in your car and slobber all over you if you feed them. Some of the larger animals will even create a blockade if you're not careful. My personal favourites were the zebras and camels as they seem quite happy taking food from your hand. After the drive round we went for a walk through the other animal areas such as the meerkats, rainbow lorikeets etc. The sea lion show was rather cute and definitely worth a visit. If you've not been here before make sure you add it to your list as it's well worth it.
Nice family day out with plenty of things to see and do. Lots of nice places to sit and have a picnic however the cost of food and snacks are reasonably priced. Driving through the safari itself was interesting and is a different way to view these animals but I wonder if it actually good for them. I witnessed cars revving their engines at the animals to try and make them do things, a man drove past a camel wound down his window and pulled the animals tail before driving off and another individual who thought it would be funny to throw feed deliberately into a deers face. I hope the instances I whitnessed are not the norm but maybe due to being a busy day in the summer holidays. I only hope there were more staff around to escort these individuals off the park because the animals should not be subjected to this.
Way overcrowded, it took us 3 hours to drive around in effectively peek hour traffic. The animals we did see though we're beautiful. Should really reduce the maximum amount of concurrent visitors as too not spook animals and to make individual experiences better. The walk around park was pretty good, we especially liked the Tanooki friendly animal presentation!
Great day out and a fun fair at extra cost. The queues in the safari were badly organised and the staff move the animals by driving into them!
Great day out! A huge collection of animals in the park which the kids loved. Added bonus of a small theme park / fairground rides and other attractions. I'd avoid on bank holidays but would definitely return at a quieter time.
Don't go early morning will take hours to get round the safari
It was brilliant going through the Jurassic world seeing the massive dinosaurs. Saw the lovely Meerkats and penguins.
Fantastic experience. Went on the guided tour which could go off road and so we missed any traffic jams and holdups caused by the animals.
Very safe, sanitizer before each ride. Distancing in place. Enjoyable day out
One of my favourite places for a day out in the UK. So many things to do.
Fantastic place, loads to see. Nice theme park too. I went in the extreme heatwave summer 2018 so struggled but loved it. Been to many other safaris in the UK. Families would love these places. I would strongly recommend to take loads of home made food and fruits and drinks to save tons of money. Enjoy
Can't find any good food in the whole park, but everything else is just amazing.
Because of the time if year obviously not everything open so that's why 4 stars, but it was a brilliant day, loads of animals to see, had the safari tour, which was excellent, very knowledgable also. Are going to go again when the weather is better,
A beautiful beautiful beautiful Safari experience. This place was on our list for my two year old niece. But it was so lovely that we enjoyed it more than the toddler. Lovely experience of feeding the giraffes, Zebras, watching white Tigers, and a bunch of white Lions was a rare site. From Rhino's to elephants to camels to types of deers to a lovely sea lion show. Plus a nice set-up of adventure rides this place has it all. A lovely place to visit with your family n kids. I won't miss on the opportunity if I get another chance to visit this place.
Great place for seeing animals plus good theme park as well
We visited during the week so thankfully it wasn't too busy, though only one entry booth was open so even on a quiet day we had to queue for some time.The Safari is excellent fun, you can get up close to quite a few of the animals, though thankfuly the Lions etc were a bit further away!!
The Safari takes about 75 mins, make you buy some animal food, the Giraffe's are very friendly.Driving through the park feels an unhurried experience, if you want to pull over for some better photo opertunities you can do so.
After driving through the Safari you park up at one of the many car-parks where you can visit the Leisure Park which as well as the oligatory pay-as-you-go rides has a respetable variety of animals on show, Penguins, Hippos, a small but 'well stocked' Reptile zone with some frightening looking Snakes and Crocs, as well as goats, Meer Cats, Lemurs etc.
Overall a very pleasant afternoon out.
Came here for farthers day and I loved it, such a good experience with the once you love, and seeing these beautiful animals being looked after well. Keep up the good work West Midlands safari Park.
It was WOW. We were in safari with Dale, an excellent guide and driver.
We had a wonderful time here. It is a perfect dayout spot for the kids .
Amazing. Book the tour for the safari early in the day then go around in your own car after throughout the day. The tour is superb it's great to hear the stories of the individual animals and feed giraffes straight from the bus. The drivers know so much it really makes a huge difference to see it with them first.
Great (after lockdown) day out. More tigers needed. Why are the giraffes not free to walk around like before
Very nice place to go with family but try to go on a off pick day otherwise u will be in a traffic jam all the way through.
Very good day out, you can feed lots of animals then a good choice of rides for all the family.
Love living so close and hearing the big cats roaring
Top place for under 6s. Kids loved the safari animals and amusement Park was a as good for their age groups.
Great value for money. Between the Safari and the non-Safari activities you'll want a whole day to spend here. The staff doing the talks were informative and entertaining. Great range of activities for all ages.
More impressed with the dinosaur park than the wildlife area. Big cats caged away from the road and nigh impossible to see. Go to a zoo and see more.
Can't praise it enough excellent visit well worth the money children had tons of rides not much queueing and saw all the animals as did the safari at 6 o'clock so no waiting there either open till 9 highly recommended
Great day out for all the family, with great service and has really friendly stuff menbers through out the park.
A great place for young children and teenagers very clean with friendly staff
Even in the winter it was good to visit.Dinosaurs and wild animals with Santa thrown in.
Great Atmosphere, never tire of this place. Free return anytime in 12 months makes this a very affordable and great value day out.
West Midland Safari and Leisure Park is a popular tourist destination located in Bewdley, Worcestershire, England. The park is spread over an area of 200 acres and offers visitors a unique opportunity to experience the beauty of nature up close. The park is home to some of the world's most beautiful and endangered animal species, making it an ideal place for animal lovers.
One of the main attractions at West Midland Safari and Leisure Park is the safari drive-through. Visitors can take their own cars or ride on one of the park's guided tours through different habitats such as African Plains, Wild Asia, and Elephant Valley. During this thrilling experience, visitors can see animals like lions, tigers, elephants, rhinos, giraffes and many more roaming freely in their natural habitat.
Apart from the safari drive-through experience, West Midland Safari Park also has a theme park with over 30 rides for all ages. From thrilling roller coasters to gentle rides for children there are plenty of options available to keep everyone entertained throughout their visit.
The theme park also features several attractions such as Land of the Living Dinosaurs where visitors can see life-sized animatronic dinosaurs in action; Boj's Giggly Playground which is perfect for younger children; Adventure Theme Area which includes rides like Venom Tower Drop; Discovery Trail where visitors can learn about different animals through interactive exhibits; African Village where you can get up close with meerkats & lemurs.
In addition to these attractions West Midland Safari Park also offers various animal encounters that allow visitors to get even closer to some amazing creatures. These include feeding experiences with giraffes or penguins as well as behind-the-scenes tours that give guests an insight into how animals are cared for at the park.
West Midland Safari Park has been committed towards conservation efforts since its inception in 1973 when it was opened by John Bishop who had a vision to create a wildlife sanctuary that would help protect endangered species from around the world while providing education about them too! Today they continue this mission by supporting various conservation projects around the globe including those focused on protecting rhinos & tigers from poaching activities.
Overall West Midland Safari and Leisure Park provides an unforgettable day out for families looking for adventure or anyone interested in learning more about wildlife conservation efforts worldwide! With so much on offer here it’s no wonder why this attraction continues attracting thousands upon thousands each year!
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