There is so much to see at Paradise Park, that allowing yourself a full day is a good idea.
The animals are clearly looked after very well, and they seem happy.
It's a great place for children too. Not only the experience of meeting the animals, but there's plenty of kiddie amusements too.
Large restaurant, which is always busy. But the food is good, as is the service.
Fantastic day out.

We had a fantastic day at Paradise Wildlife park, we went as we had a gift voucher for brunch with the tigers.

The brunch with the tigers experience means that you sit in a cafe which is part of the enclosure whilst served breakfast. The tigers are on the platform opposite it which are really close to you.
The zoo keep gives a talk about the the tigers.

We then when on a tour of the big cats at the zoo with the zoo keeper and she explained the history of the park, the animals and where the big cats came from.
We even got to peak inside the sleeping quarters of the snow leopards as they wasn't in the main area and the zoo keeper was worried we would miss them. This was really special for us.

The zoo is clean, accessible and set out well and the staff are friendly.

Top Tips:

If you're going on the brunch with tigers you will be a group of about 20 people, when you're walking to the cafe as a group, try to be at the front so you can get the tables that's closest to the window of the tiger enclosure.

Take a packed lunch

There is buses that go to and from the park, we didn't know this and got a taxi instead which is about £5.00 from the train station, one way.

I have visited this Park on and off for over 30 years and still never get fed up of it. As well as myself, my children have grown up visiting this park. Now I get the chance to take my Grandson.
Would recommend this to everyone.
Prices seem at first as a little expensive but get the weather and there is no better value around.
Also bearin mind where the admittance fees go.... the upkeep of the park, animal research and conservation.
The Park is constantly upgrading and improving and long may it continue..... I will definately be visiting a gain soon.

Started our day Meeting the Meerkats what a fantastic experience :-) the Meerkats were great fun and the knowledge of Ricky our one to one Zookeeper was great...he took lots of photos for us too! An experience would recommend :-) After we went around the other animals in the Park and this was fantastic too...the Park is small but the compounds have been made excellent and the viewing areas outstanding.Highly recommended i will be telling everyone :-)

We went here cause my work were doing a day out here (ocado fest) what a brill day we had my partner loved it and my son had a wicked day there is loads to do at the park from animals to play areas and even a speedway museum witch was brill. The facilites were were brill to really nice shop and very clean toilets. Never had food there but smelt nice and looked good. Lots of animals to see and they all looked happy and well looked after. Would recomend this place to anyone and if in area would go again.

Always love it here, admission price is reasonable, plenty of animals, educational and fun. I'd recommend to anyone with children best place in and around its area by far.

I took my twin girls here for their second birthday, along with my three nieces. The weather was forecast to be a little rainy on the day so I was quite worried about the whole experience, nevertheless it was great fun. The good thing about this place is that there is a wide range of things to do whether it be outdoor or indoors. An adult ticket does cost £18 and a child costs £15, however we managed to get a deal online which was £10 for every £23 spent which worked out great, I would therefore advise that you scout for voucher codes for this place as there are loads on the internet.
On arrival there is a huge car park which is fabulous and when you go into the park everything is laid out great, everything is included in the fee except for food and the train within the park (which we never had time to go on) which costs £1 each. The animals at the park are fantastic, our highlight was the lions and tigers. There are huge fencing around them, however the park has great viewing spots from high above, where you climb stairs to be able to watch the animals and take great photos without the fencing at the front. You end up taking some really close up pictures as if you were right next to them. These high viewing spots are also suitable for those with prams and wheelchair, so its brilliant. There are plenty of animals, including tigers, jaguars, monkeys, pigs, sheep, ponies, parrots, owls, camels, penguins, zebra’s, however I did hear many spectators say that London Zoo has larger animals and Colchester Zoo being even better. Nevertheless, with huge activities including bird shows, hourly theatre shows, bouncy castles, pirate area consisting of swings and slides, indoor soft play area, outdoor paddling pool …..you really can’t complain. There are so much activities that the whole day won’t be enough to do everything.
The food is a little disappointing, not many restaurants on offer so I do advise to bring your own packed lunch which is permitted. We ended up eating at a diner restaurant and a kids meal of four nuggets and fries including a bottle of fizzy drink cost £5.60. It tasted okay, but compared to other theme parks it was not great. I think this is a fantastic day out suited for all children, lots of space for them to run around and enjoy it. My twins are aged two and thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it, my biggest highlight of the day was the lions, when they roared the whole place trembled, it was such an experience and then watching them being fed was even more of an extraordinary experience to watch. With the discount code vouchers, I say this is a cheap, worthwhile day out and I would love to go back there again to see the rest of the park I missed.

better then London Zoo for big cats, a little dated in places but mostly in good condition and kept clean.
if you choose to eat here the food is better then expected.
£1 per way from Broxbourne Station and ample parking if you drive

for my 29th birthday i "fed the red pandas" they are amazing and the staff were very nice and even let my girlfriend come with us to prepare the food. unfortunately they did not let me take one home!

A Tiger Tea Experience voucher brought us to the park - but there was so much more to experience. We arrived a few hours before our experience to fully enjoy the park and were pleasantly surprised in every way.
There are so many different animals! Around every corner we discovered something new - from sloths to noisy gibbons to otters! The meerkats were my absolute favourite.
My husband had great fun feeding the farmyard animals with a bag of food (especially the friendly pig and the sweet little black lamb).
The best thing about this park is how very close you can get to all the animals - this is so unusual at such parks. At the end of the day you feel you have really seen and experienced so many different creatures - and learnt so much about them from the information boards.
As for the Tiger Tea, this was a fantastic experience - the keeper was so passionate and knowledgeable - we admired his dedication to the cause. We saw and learnt so much about all the different big cats. It was so nice that there was so much time for us - it was not a quick tour round.
A real conservation gem with committed staff who are doing great things.
The only disappointing point was that we had to leave at the end of the day - but we will be back very soon!!

Expensive entry but on reflection, well worth it. The animals seem well cared for and content. The park is cleverly laid out creating a sense of space. There are lots of talks and feeding times to wander between. The bird show is the best in my opinion. The presenter could slow down her speech speed a little and consider the foreign tourists a bit. Otherwise, very professional.
A good day out and plenty for the kids to do so they don't get bored and annoy the adults!

My boyfriend and I went to Paradise Wildlife Park as we got given a Tiger Tea experience for Christmas. It was such a great day out that we both really enjoyed! There is so much to do and see within the park, we particularly enjoyed feeding some of the animals.

The Tiger Tea experience was also great, really thought provoking and great to hear about the animals in greater detail. Our tour guide Ian was excellent, really passionate and inspiring!

I would highly recommend to anyone!

Returned to Paradise Park for the first time in a about 3 years and was left somewhat disillusioned with the experience, mostly to do with the enclosures of some of the animals. Although clearly there had been some development in recent times some of the animal enclosures were simply too small and some of the animals seem very bored and just paced up and down the same the same beaten path.

The 4 white lions had an enclosure which seemed much too small and devoid of any stimulus and a female reindeer with it's calf just paced around in circles on concrete in a compact compound. A leopard which had been rescued was in a very small side enclosure and although a sign explained it had been rescued in 2010 and was being rehabilitated that was some 4 years ago!! It didn't seem to have any problems lunging at the glass wall of its cage at the children who kept tapping annoyingly on the glass despite having 'problems with its legs.'

Entry prices are very high, on a par with Colchester Zoo which is obviously much larger. The children's play side to the park is presumably factored into the pricing, fine if you have younger children but expensive if you have young teenagers not making use of these facilities making the £16 fee very costly. £19 for adults, much too high for the size of the zoo. Why no family rate entry?

There is a lot to enjoy at the park and the keepers clearly are close to their animals. The Bird Show was great and the Big Cats in the larger enclosures magnificent. Would think twice about going back though and recommending the park because of the enclosures and expense.

I wouldn't call this a wildlife park, more of a childrens amusement park with a small collection of animals. I felt some of the animals looked distressed as they paced up and down and felt the need to leave. Certainly not worth the entrance fee.

Visited Paradise Wildlife Park yesterday, 4 adults and my 2.5 yr old daughter, and we all had a really good day. We got there at 10.30 and left about 5 so it was a full on day! The actual animal bit isn't massive but is good, but there's loads of things for the kids.. Adventure playgrounds, bouncy castles etc. great for the younger kids who get a bit bored of the animals after a while! There was a paddling pool too which was great for my daughter to play in at the end of the day to cool off before we headed home.
Didn't eat here as had a picnic, lots of picnic areas.
One of our group had been bought a feed the big cats experience as a birthday gift and he fed the white tiger. He really enjoyed it and we enjoyed watching. Was a great gift.
Well worth a visit, will be going back, it's pretty expensive to get in but it is a full day out so worth the treat now and then!

Just took my girlfriend here for the meerkat experience. She absolutely loved it, stroking and cuddling them as well as feeding them. Very knowledgeable and friendly keeper helped make the experience.

The park itself was small and family/child friendly but had a wide range of animals. Overall a nice day out.

WE went here after seeing an ad , glad we did.
Its quite a small place, almost half of it dedicated to children`s attractions/play areas , but once inside the animal enclosures its a different world !
The animals were very well cared for , all enclosures very clean & all appeared to be very content.
The highlight was watching a keeper feeding a leopard , he stood for at least 5 mins just watching the animal enjoy his food , with a truly happy smile ( this wasn`t a "showfeed! , just a keeper on his own )
We also saw another keeper hand feed 2 snow leopards , he was also obviously enjoying the experience.
Lunch was a sandwich & cuppa at the treetop cafe , looking over the tiger enclosure - perfect !
Altoghter a very nice few hours well spent .

I have visited this park on many occasions over the years, but hadn't been back for the last 3 or 4. I was surprised at the rise in entrance fees - it worked out very expensive. I was also a bit annoyed that there were no operational toilets within the actual wildlife park itself! There were the big ones at the entrance and some over by the 2 cafes, but nothing in the park, they were closed for refurbishment.
Surely, knowing that they were about to refurbish, they could have porta-loo's in or something. Imagine what it's like getting half way round the park with kids and then having to keep finding your way back to the entrance again - really not happy about that.
The park itself seems to somehow have a lot less animals in it. Only one camel and that was way back behind massive stones - you used to be able to stroke the camels.
Unfortunately it was the same for quite a few other animals and, as others have stated, there seemed to be a lot more things you have to pay extra for - panning for gold, mini car things, a pound here and a pound there would really add up to quite an expensive day out, especially with the price of the entrance fee.
I really used to love coming here, but with the awful weather we had that particular day - we were not overly impressed and probably won't come back for a while.
We only went in the first place as we had 2 for 1 tickets from Tesco and it was still expensive for not a lot of animal experience.

I spent a day here with my children and grandchildren, I was astounded at he entrance cost of this attraction, £18 for adults and £15 for children, having paid this cost I was very disappointed to find that on entering the park every other attraction within in had to be paid for.
The train ride, the animal feed, the face painting etc etc etc .
I also felt the enclosures for the animals were far to small and rather shabby, the otters had little more than a paddling pool to swim in, it seemed as if as many animals as possible we're packed in with little regard for there state of health or well being.
The only part of the attraction the grand children really liked we're the bouncy castles and play grounds which we could have found for free.
We did eat in the cafe and had a lovely salad at a fairly reasonable price so not too bad there .

We went as a family of four as the children had Junior keeper experiences which also included full entry for us all to the wildlife park.
The Zoo Keeper Experience was really exciting and informative. We spent the rest of the day in the Wildlife Park and it was a brilliant day by all. Highly recommend

I was worried before I went here as it is a long way from home and I had my two small grandchildren on my own. I shouldn't have done, there was so much to do and see that they were reluctant to come home after the entire day spent on their feet in awe of the well cared for animals, birds etc, most of which they had seen other than in books before! It was a sheer delight to be with them experiencing all of this yet there was still other things to do, playparks, train rides, bouncy castles, helter skelters and mostly free too. Prices for food etc didn't seem extortionate although we did take a picnic and there was plenty of areas to sit and eat. I thoroughly recommend the attraction. My nearly-7 year old granddaughter recommends it as being better than a day at school (she was on an INSET day), praise indeed as she loves her school too. 100% recommended for all ages, wheelchair/disabled friendly too.

Named 'Wildlife Park' implies that the animals have large, open enclosure where they would be exhibiting natural behaviours in they natural habitats. Paradise can only be described as a zoo. All the animals are in smaller than expected cages and although they have clearly tried to enrich their environments they are still caged. In this day and age with attractions such as Longleat and Woburn this style of zoo is outdated and unattractive to me. The keepers who ran the talks were very informative, clearly knowledgable and care deeply for the animals but the site is just too small to offer the animals any quality of life or natural environments. There are lots of play attractions for children, however. More than I have ever seen anywhere; unfortunately on this trip we did not have our children with us (Luckily for us, as the entrance fees are high - £15 for a 2 year old!) The £18 fee for adults was ok if you were spending all day there but we had seen everything in about 2 hours and that included a drinks stop.

The has plenty of attractions for children but unless the entrance charge is reduced by means of Groupon or Tesco one for one it seems expensive at £19 for adults and 317 for children.
The main park toilets are currently under going renovation and there are no replacement portaloos in the main park and you have to go back to the restaurant or car park. This seems very inconvenient for young children and babies and the management make no mention of this on the web site.

We went as a couple on a Groupon deal. First impressions were not great, a bit like a Butlins type amusement park for kids that you have to walk through to get to the animals, but our opinions soon changed.
Yes the animal pens are too small for the big animals as thy are in any zoo. However the emphasis is letting the children get up close, there is a big focus on education and the animals all looked well cared for.
The facilities for families with children are excellent with a lot of free activities including a water pool, various play and picnic areas so you don't have to eat in the outlets. If you have a young family you could easily spend a whole day there for the price.
Very clean with lots of young staff around we saw giving educational talks, entertaining and cleaning.
We had a great time feeding the animals including reindeer (a particular highlight for me!)
All in all very well thought out

Small amount of animals compared to the bigger zoos but felt really up close to the animals....so in some way a better experience!! We used clubcard vouchers to get in as i don't think its worth £19 per adult.
Played crazy golf which was good fun and cheap too!!
Definitely recommend a visit...kids would really enjoy it!

11of us. 4 adults and 5 children and 2 babies. We had the wowcher codes so payed less. Read the reviews and it had a mixed reviews on the place. First it seemed abit boring through the dinosaur walk and that didnt have much to see. Neither the wolf walk. But as the day went on and we croosed over to the animal park. It was fantastic. Evwn tho there arnt as many as the big zoo's it was good enough. Spent a total 6 hours there. In the indoor play area was fun. Had a bit of trouble with some other people who werent very nice. The older staff there was amazing and even got us complimenty tickets for all 11 of us as an apology. I deffo recommend those who have kids to take them here.