Tiger Experience — Attraction in Campolongo Maggiore

What an absolutely amazing experience!! We thought it was just for locals but we decided to try and visit this place anyway. We reserved a spot in advance for the two hour tour and were informed that it was only available in Italian. Honestly we didn’t mind. We were completely content with just watching the relationship between the caretakers and the animals here. But after arriving, Roberto quickly noticed that we didn’t understand a word in Italian. 😅 Immediately after that he explained to us in English the basics of the tour and gave us a list with the highlights. He stayed close to us and kept giving us a heads up on what was being discussed. After the start, he even found us a staff member that stayed with us till the end giving us a word per word translation of the tour. We were extremely excited to see how the cats interact with the caretakers and the bond between them is something we’ve only seen in movies or in video clips. We never imagined we could experience this in real life. It’s something that can only be believed when you see how the tigers, lions, leopards and pumas constantly follow the staff members along the fence and keep trying to nuzzle them. If we would’ve only gotten to see that, it would be worth the money but we were completely shocked how above and beyond Roberto and the other staff members went to make us feel welcome even though we didn’t speak Italian. We basically got the entire tour in English and could ask whatever our hearts desired so we got so much more that we ever could have imagined from this experience. They even gave all the visitors a little surprise in the end. Three absolutely adorable lion cubs in the hands of the staff members. It was so amazing.

This is an experience like no other! The animals are absolutely beautiful and so well taken care of. It really shows how much time and effort is put into caring for these big cats. We’re definitely coming back here some day for the Ranger for a day experience. Thank you so much for the warm welcome and the English tour. It takes so much knowledge, experience, hard work, dedication and heart to create such a wholesome place for these animals.

After the tour we also visited Venice and in our honest opinion - you can skip Venice and just come see the Tiger experience. 🐯🦁 It is so much more special.

Best wishes...

We have been at this beautiful place last weekend! They explained in a funny but interesting way the life of the tigers, lions, jaguars & pumas which you can all see there. At the beginning we were sceptic if we should really support this kind of animal treatment, but after you see the relationship between the animals and the fantastic stuff you understand that those animals have a really good life here. They didn’t even want to go out of there safe zone to escape, they seemed very comfortable and happy! The staff is unbelievable friendly and the whole experience is super interesting! I can only recommend to visit this place, learn and understand about those beautiful animals and support this place! I hope we come back in a few years to see all the young ones bigger! The highlight was for sure the interaction with the small tigers and the dog Nuuk who has kind of a mother role for the young - few months old - tigers.

All the best and thanks a lot again for the...

Esperienza da non ripetere. Il proprietario ha esordito dicendo che questo non è uno zoo ma un'esperienza diversa, il discorso iniziale era anche interessante (sulla cattività) e l'esperienza poteva anche partire bene se non mi avesse richiamato in modo piccato e maleducato dopo avermi visto sorridere ad una persona accanto a me (forse pensava stessi ridendo di lui), questa cosa mi ha totalmente ammazzato l'entusiasmo e fatto capire a cosa stavo andando incontro. Una volta entrati è iniziato un discorso autocelebrativo di 2 ore in cui il proprietario non ha fatto altro che inveire contro animalisti, social network e svariate categorie, vegani compresi (con addirittura stampe plastificate di post facebook contro cui scagliarsi). Gli argomenti alla base delle sue invettive potevano anche essere condivisibili ma dopo ben 2 ore eravamo stremati dalla sua arroganza e dal suo ego. Quando un ragazzino mi ha avvicinato per chiedermi informazioni di fotografia sono stato nuovamente ripreso da una delle guardie, la quale mi ha intimato di stare zitto e ascoltare, dato che il proprietario, cito: "è un tipo molto irascibile". In questa "esperienza" è vietato fare qualsiasi cosa che non sia ascoltare le invettive aggressive del proprietario nei confronti di tutto ciò che non sia sé stesso.

Siamo venuti per passare una domenica diversa e imparare qualcosa sulla vita di questi animali, argomento che è stato appena toccato per lasciare spazio alle polemiche che dopo solo mezz'ora avevano completamente sfrangiato le scatole. La persona che ha organizzato la gita ci aveva detto di essere venuta anni fa e di aver fatto il tour con un altro addetto, a suo dire simpatico e coinvolgente, più estraneo alle polemiche. La cosa migliore che si possa fare per questa associazione è mettere come guida un'altra persona e lasciare che il proprietario faccia solo il proprietario\allevatore, mestiere che a quanto sembra (anche perché se lo è detto da solo per due ore) gli riesce bene.

Unica nota positiva: gli animali sembrano in salute e ben voluti. I visitatori...