Residence Inn Mini Zoo — Attraction in Tagaytay

DON'T GO TO THIS ZOO!!!!

Surprised when we arrived, we went weekdays so animals were inside their cages (they say most activities like camel riding, horse riding etc are held every weekend, so we couldn't try those.) I believe only 2 group visitors including us were only there.

The animals like lions, tigers, camels, monkeys and other animals look depressed. The cages are too small for their sizes and poorly maintained, animals look dehydrated, it was even sunny in the afternoon esp. lions/tigers are skinny, feces are all over and stank like heck. It even seemed like the animals could eat more if visitors buy their feed.

Meanwhile, you wouldn't be able to see aquariums and their containers from being blurry and dirty. They don't seem to have a scheduled cleaning :(

Instead of enjoying our trip, we were disappointed and saddened from what we saw :( poor animals.

Also the photo picture would cost you about 1k for 3 photos which were overly priced haha.

Hope this zoo closes down and needs to stop operating. Please don't go to this zoo, and if you can make a review, pls rate them 1 so ppl be discouraged going :( and we can help...

Lets start with the Price. If you ask me its expensive. General entrance is 249 pesos, and i was a bit expecting some good things to see there. Unfortunately, its not. The place is small for a zoo. You can roam around the area in 30 minutes . You have the usual aquariums, the monkeys, the tigers, the horses, the birds, the ostrich, the goats and the Lions. They have some Korean restaurants inside, And thats about it. They could have at least tried to make the cages of the tigers clean. Its dark and it is not clean. We also went bird feeding. Funny thing is even if you have bird feeds, the birds wont come down. Unlike the bird feeding experience we had in Manila Ocean Park where the birds are active, the birds in Residence Inn seems to be afraid. Anyways, to summarize our experience, its not what we expected. We only had fun with the lion cub picture taking (50 pesos) and Spiderman (gave him 50 pesos for the effort). Will we go back? No i guess. But i do wish the animals will have better cages...

The place is small but we enjoyed how near the animals. I can almost touch the lion but dared not to (lol). I don't know why there are lot of bad reviews in tripadvisor about this place but I find it otherwise. My kids enjoyed feeding some animals. The smell is not good because of the animal poop but it's the normal smell of the zoo but some reviews were OA. Good thing I ignored those reviews and still visit this place. It's not dirty imo. There are no bears, elephants, hippos, coz the place is small but the animals we saw there satisfied our expectations. This zoo is better than Paradizoo because you only see farm animals there. Anyways, I'm sure your children will enjoy here and I'm not going to spoil the attractions. It's for you to find out if you are a first timer. I gave 4 stars because the receptionist told us there was an 11 o'clock show but we wasted our 30mins waiting but...