It's been 20+ years since my last visit to Paradise Park and it's changed so much. The heart of the wildlife experience is enhanced and the additional features are fabulous - especially the animatronic dinosaurs!<br><br>A great place to take children of all ages and a lovely day out for all.

The Dino world is must see for the children... . Best around

So, our family are 2 ever tired parents, a dinosaur mad 3 year old and an 11month old.

The day started AMAZINGLY! The dinosaur trail is absolutely brilliant for kids. As near as you are going to get to Jurassic Park! My son asked on more than one occasion if the dinosaurs were real or not. The animatronics were very, VERY good.

Another good thing here is the kids playground. A pirate ship, a fire engine, a train a mini tree house and numerous things to climb and play in. Can’t fault this at all. You could quite easily spend a couple of hours there.

Now... here are the gripes.

1) The smallest, but still annoying was paying £2 each for a smallish train ride inside the park. We paid £50 for us all to get in..! SURELY this should cover that?! Face painting £5 each! Both of these are free at our local zoo. Just smacks a bit of a rip off for me.
2) Some areas, including the soft play area has seen better days. The laminate flooring as you walk into the soft play has absolutely had it, the carpet and furniture felt grubby and there isn’t really an area for early pre schoolers to do anything. I’m not usually a big one for moaning about grubbiness (just mutter under breath and forget about it usually) but it really wasn’t inviting. Despite this our eldest seemed to have fun in there.
3) Most importantly for me.. It is a wildlife park. We have been to Whipsnade, which isn’t too far away and we loved it. There seemed like there was so much room for the animals to run around and enjoy. In my opinion, the enclosures at Paradise Wildlife Park are WAY too small for too many of the animals. It actually made me feel very uncomfortable to see the Big Cats cooped up in such small areas. They advertise that you can get up close to the Lions, Tigers and Cheetahs, but I’d rather them be a few more metres away and have better enclosures to live in. I’m not an animal rights activist by any stretch of the imagination, but I felt so bad about this that I wouldn’t go back. If I’m paying for a wildlife park, I want to know those animals have the very best conditions possible. Again - and this is my opinion - some of animals I saw today definitely didn’t and that’s not something I am willing to witness again, no matter how good the dinosaur trail is.

Great place with tons of stuff for the kids to do.

Fun filled day with the family. So much to see and do loads of entertainment. Great staff

Really good experience, great Dinosaur Park, and fantastic big cats, and great variety of animals. Not super cheap, but average now.

Loved it

Was a great day out for all the family. Bus picked up from station and return when travelling be train

It was amazing my daughter loved it!!**

Whoww the kids love this zoo. A great size to walk round as not vast but packed with things to do and see. Take a picnic as food on the expensive side but loads of picnic spots to stop and enjoy. Kids favourites were the animals, dinosaur Park amazing! train and splash park which is loverly to cool off on a hot day so take swim wear for the kids. Adults can roll trousers up and paddle. Possible our best day out this summer.

Took my kid down here and he loved it!

Plenty of stuff to blow kids minds dinosaurs included!

The white tiger was great and was very easy to see during feeding time.

good time

Great place to bring children or anyone who likes bug cats

Today was the 2nd time we visited, first time was a Breakfast with the Tigers Experience and today we fed the Red Pandas, thoroughly recommend both these. The park is very good value and plenty to see and do.

Great day out. So much for the kids to do!!

My kids and I always enjoy a trip here, seems to get better every time

Loads to do for children of all ages!!

Great day, maybe two days out!

Loved it here, I like zoo’s anyway, have never been here before. Short drive from home. Loved all the animals and managed to catch a few feeding times too. Lots of stuff for younger children to do, lots of activities and parks etc. Never seen so much for the kids to do, they’ve took the time to make sure everyone is catered for. Animals are well kept (although never enough room for them) but would definitely recommend. Enough eateries and not too expensive either and they even cater for gluten free diet (my hubby has coeliacs) so was a bonus. Spent around 4 hrs here, took lots of pictures. Would’ve like to have seen an aquarium, there’s only piranhas in one tank. And couldn’t really see the tarantulas either, but overall a good day. The dinosaur park was brilliantly done too.

2 adults and 3 children aged 8,6 and 5. The children loved the dinosaurs. Realistic movements and noises plus enough information for children. Owe thought the train ride through the dinosaurs was expensive at £2 for 3 minutes! Revisited this section on the way out.
The animals looked happy although their cages are small.
The water snake was sooo big!
Alternated between play park and animals.
The lagoon is a paddling area and suited to smaller children.
We all had a great day.

Fantastic dinosaur area . Lovely zoo and park ti visit well worth the money. All staff very helpful and friendly. Going again asap.

Real value for money 5star

Great place for a family day out x highly recommend . Great facilities

Didn’t see a lot of the animals during my visit, wasn’t as good as I’d hoped and price was a bit much for what u see!! Did like the 2 play area tho but again thought there would be more!!

Great place to keep the kids and adults amused.