Auchingarrich Wildlife Park

Liked: Amazing location with plenty outdoor activities for children. Great interactions with domestic and wild animals. Beautiful surrounding with mountains and forest, much to explore.

Toilet facilities available 24/7 walkable distance. Nice cafe on site with lunch options.
Very friendly and responsive staff.

Wild camping , one should be prepared to be comfortable.

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Liked: Camping was great, felt like was sleeping in with the animals because the campsite was close to the wildlife park! Loved hearing all the animal noises at night and in the morning. Was different from camping in a proper campsite! Staff were great and helpful! The wildlife park was great, loved seeing all the animals and some I hadn’t seen before. Will defo be back camping or just for a visit to the park 🙂

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Liked: Everything about this place is totally brilliant! The staff are very helpful & friendly & the overall experience was wonderful!

It being my daughter’s (and wife’s) first camping trip this was a great place to choose! Had everything needed but also a wee bit wild style camping was great! 100% recommend

Disliked: Not much if anything

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Liked: We really enjoyed our stay here! The owners were incredibly kind and accommodating, and the park itself was lovely! Animals to see and interact with at the organised times, and a lovely shop and cafe on site. We imagined it would be an incredible place to visit with children as there is lots to keep them entertained. Thank you!

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Liked: Great place , staff brillant enjoyed that you could look at the animals at night , my child loved and wants to go back again , highly reccomend

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Liked: Fantastic weekend at Auchingarrich wildlife and adventure park. We all had a blast. Beautiful scenery, fantastic food and an incredible setting for families. We loved the after hours walks around the site seeing the animals especially great as its quieter for our sensory sensitive daughter. The staff couldn't be friendlier and were so welcoming. Everything about this place is perfection!! From the petting zoo, layout, food, staff, gift shop, dog friendly, campsite, firepits, playpark, indoor play barns. I really can't find a single negative! We are already planning our next trip and we have only been home an hour.

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Liked: Great park/location for a short stay and a unique experience waking up to flamingos and lemur's saying hello. Camp site was okay and the options for extra although a tad pricey was great service as they bring it too you (Fire extras etc).
I loved the addition of the play areas for kids lots of options and is great for a break up between animal watching for little kids.

Disliked: Overall it was a tad pricey for what it was - food was expensive at the restaurant, the extras for camping were expensive we paid for firelighters a firepit and wood and it came out at nearly £20 for about 2/3 hours of fuel.
A Map would have been nice for the park in our welcome pack.

A few other issues that were admittedly outwith the staffs control but I feel could have been "handled" better....
The camp site needs some ground rules because unfortunately people don't respect shared spaces. The toilet was overflowing by the morning and people had starting pooing/weeing on or around the lid and outside the toilet it was disgusting. So maybe a secondary toilet and make it male and female or some rules for how to use the toilet. I also felt the toilet itself was extremely basic and could be updated easily (wood around the toilet was stained from urine and uncomfortable at best to sit on especially for females), holes through the shack people could see through and totally bug/midges infected which is fine for adults but I heard more than one child freaking out. I almost felt like the toilet was a false sense of security and would be better if we had none or brought our own solutions. We used the toilet once and then never again.
Noise/alcohol issues - it was extremely disappointing considering the sheer number of familys around to see people smoking, drinking and one family/tent decided to play club music on a speaker at full volume for approx 8 hours straight until 12am. Then they proceeded to shout laugh and talk after that for another couple hours. I understand this isn't the parks fault or responsibility but I feel more rules or reminders could be placed for no alcohol or smoking and no loud music etc. Me nor my family got a very good sleep and I felt like my experience was marred by inconsideration of others.

Lastly the electric broke while we were there in the cafe which meant breakfast wasn't available. Again I appreciate this was out of there control, however I feel like they should have shut the park down or tried a bit harder to fix it because we were relying on the cafe for breakfast in order to bring less with us and we had to leave the park much earlier than planned which felt like a waste. The issues happened the day before on the Saturday too which delayed our lunch so I feel there were potentially more options available sooner before the electrics went completely capoot.

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Liked: Very friendly helpful staff, the animals are amazing, great cafe and playpark,

Disliked: No place to wash/shower but believe it's something that is being considered

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Liked: Animals & camping

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Liked: Natural camping experience.
Wildlife Park.

Disliked: Nothing - everything was perfect.

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