Property News · August 21, 2016

We went to Longleat, but even paying £83 could not make the lions appear


An ongoing £1.5m refurbishment at the safari park meant the kings of the jungle were out of sightI bought three tickets (total cost £83.55) for my family, including my 10-year-old grand-daughter, to see the lions of Longleat in July. The website promised a drive-through safari tour “wilder, furrier and growlier than you ever dared imagine”. Her father drove slowly but they saw nothing beyond a couple of monkeys that jumped on the car. There were no lions walking free when they went through and the only sighting was the very top of three lions’ heads quite a distance away. I contacted Longleat to ask for a refund and received a short email saying that animals follow their natural instincts and might have been lying down and/or asleep.But when I said £83.55 was a high price to see nothing, I was directed to its website which said it was redeveloping its carnivore section, “that may result in animals being off show or in their smaller paddocks”. So not so much a natural instinct as a redevelopment. Longleat sells itself on its lions, and visitors should be clearly warned that they might not see any. PMcD, Winchester, Hampshire Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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