Woburn Safari Park

We have been to woburn a few times now. We have learnt not trawl around the car part at the entrance, but stick to the left side and sail round at a decent speed. You then get a decent parking space, and can go and see the enclosures before too busy.

If you get to the play ark when it opens at 11, it is very quiet and the kids can enjoy a huge run around before lunch.

The sandwiches and cakes are slightly overpriced (normal in places like this) but the actual main meals are quite large sized and tend to be quite tasty.

The shows are worth watching, and the swans are alot more work than they look!

Once you have exhausted everything by foot, get hot drinks to take away and go around the driving part again. It is empty! you can drive round with no queing and get realy close to the animals, kids are more intersted as they are happy to sit after doing all the walking/ running around.

Went with high hopes after reading reviews on here, but found the whole experience rather dull. First hour spent in the car in the rain looking at tail lights of a traffic queue stretching across a muddy field as allegedly an ostrich had decided to stop cars entering the main section of the park. Sat there wondering what the hell I had paid north of £30 for while the kids played with their DSs in the back seats. Finally as we drove round after an hour in the traffic queue we saw very few animals, as it was raining and they had the good sense to stay at home out of the weather (clearly unlike us). In the main area of the park a lot of enclosures were being rebuilt or closed, or seemed run down. The remaining ones were uninspiring, even the ones that claimed to have won awards. Cafe was overpriced, grubby, long queue, ambience of a swimming pool and grumpy staff - in fact most staff in the park were grumpy, especially in the gift shop. Utterly mystified as to why people like this place so much.

we have been to woburn a number of times, lots to do. our favorite attractions were the walk through monkeys and wallabys.

Excellent day out and value for money.

Drive through safari is fantastic, and you can get even closer to the animals is the various walkabout areas.

Great indoor and outdoor area.

Food not the greatest value for money, (aren't they all when they have a captive audience), but take a picnic as picnic areas are provided

This is a spectacular day out for the whole family. You drive around through the animal pens with the money jumping on the car, it's great.

This is the best and most family friendly safari park we have been to. Excellent drive through bit with fantastic animals. The walk round bit is amazing with swan boats, bouncy castle, more animals including marmosets that roam free!!!!

We have been to Woburn Abbey safari park 3 times and it is the best safari park we have visited in the UK. Highlights are the walk-through areas, where you can see wallabys and monkeys, a great day out, highly recommended.

Book online for 10% discount and much quicker entry - we queued for 20 minutes behind 6 cars, 3 of whom were paying on the day which took ages!

We arrived as it opened and drove around the safari park first. We were impressed by the layout and ease of seeing the animals tho we were too early for the elephants. You can drive the loop as many times as you like and there are several places where you can choose to go straight to the carpark. The loop took us about 50 minutes but we went very slowly - you can easily overtake if someone is taking longer than you are happy to!

The 'Walking Safari' was much smaller and may not be suitable for people who don't like zoos.

All the staff were extremely helpful and friendly.
There were about 15 coaches - most of which had school groups - yet it didn't feel busy at all.
We took a picnic and there were plenty of places to eat it. There are 2 cafes which seemed to offer a fairly good variety of food at reasonable prices (£7-£8 for an adult main course; £4.50 for children and they had a few baby foods too)

When you book online, there is an option to pre-order a guide book; I wouldn't bother as you get a map and a 'Spotter's Guide' (that lists all the animals with a bit of info about each one) when you arrive.

Definitely check out the Rainbow Landing for tropical birds - not well advertised but worth going as you can buy small cups of nectar (2 for £1) and the birds will sit on your hand to eat it!

We didn't go into 'Go Ape' but the school groups certainly seemed to be enjoying it! There is also a large indoor soft play area which we didn't venture into but looked popular with the older children.

The shop was well stocked and not ridiculously expensive - lots of cuddly toys were available at better prices if you buy 2 (for example: 1 for £7.50 or 2 for £10) Child's branded t-shirts were £9.95 each. Postcards 50p. Brollies £6.75.