Altina Wildlife Park — Attraction in Darlington Point

Altina Wildlife Park is definitely worth a visit! This is without a doubt the closest and most personal zoo tour I think you'd be able to get! For about $140 for two adults and two children we had a horse drawn tour of the park. We arrived at 8.45am for the 9am tour and spent half an hour in the park's "cuddly zoo" where we saw monkeys, meercats, wallabies, red pandas etc before our cart departed. You also get to walk through their taxidermy museum which is wonderful. Jordan was our guide and Lawson our trusty steed. The horse tour walks through the park with the guide discussing the animals and another keeper offers the animals a snack if they come over and see the visitors. They have trained the animals to let them check them over when they do this which is very impressive and makes the tour even more personal! They have lions, hyenas, zebra, African wild dogs, rhinos which unfortunately weren't out, camels, caybara, heaps of deer, bison and much more. The horse cart is more expensive than the motorised cart but likely more personal without as many people. If youre visiting in Summer the 9am timeslot is advisable because of the heat. Sit on the left if you'd like to be in the shade. Bookings as essential as you cannot wander the park. Highly recommended! Great for kids. Thanks...

Would have given 5 Stars, except…. This is our second visit to Altina. The first visit some years ago was much slower, relaxed, informative. And we were taken by horse around the park. This visit was still informative, but it seemed like the tour was rushed so they could get onto the next group. But the 1 star are complements to old mate, who would not let us take our little kids back into the small zoo area to see the couple of animals we missed before the tour. We were not told that you cannot reenter that area, and if we had of known we would have been a bit quicker to look at everything. But I don’t see what the big deal was anyway? We had 6 kids, 4 of them under 10 who don’t understand your petty attitude mate. And it left our group, especially the kids who we were there for with a great amount of disappointment, undoing all Kate’s hard work on the tour. And yes we did explain that we had paid, been on the tour and just wanted to see one enclosure because we missed them, but that didn’t stop you telling us...

Honestly one of the best wildlife parks my partner and I have visited, and we have been to quiet a few, you book in advance online or can call up to see if there are availabilities. We had booked 3 of the animal encounters and they were able to organise a fourth for us when requested, all the staff we very helpful, nice, and knowledgeable about their animals. The animals were well cared for and well socialised, with lots of room to roam. The monkey's and meerkats we interactive and happy to take food and climb all over you if you were quiet and respectful towards them. The rhinos we're happy to come in for some treats and let you have a scratch. The lion encounter were our highlight, feeding them was an amazing experience, just keep you fingers to yourself because they are wild animals. Our tour guide, I believe her name was Sonya, was lovely, she made sure to point out the different animals and gave us plenty of time with each encounter. 10/10, we will be...