Tiger Safari Zoological Park

This place is awesome. Staff was very nice, informative and helpful. We stayed in hut 1 & it is highly recommended. The view was beautiful from the deck. We did the Mega VIP package and the animal encounter part was incredible. We held 8-10 animals and it wasn’t rushed. Feeding the tigers was a lot of fun and all of the animas were out when we visited. Will definitely be back.

My mom and I took my two year old daughter here, and we had the best time. The staff is super knowledgeable and compassionate about the animals. There are an array of different animals here. Definitely recommend coming with family and friends!

Grandkids school trip from Shawnee. I expected 3 tigers and 10,000 screaming kids and once the crowd was gone.. or more like... I left the crowd and decided to go walk about while they got educated.... it was pretty awesome.

I know 1st hand what it's like keeping up buildings, pens, ground, ponds bridges, animals for public display etc..

Great folks, and learning my" brother" firefighter runs the place was a pleasant surprise.

Hopefully I'll return on a less stressful day.

Some parents need a kick in the groin... letting thier kids bang on the glass agitating the tiger who was trying to eat them through the acrylic panel.

After I thought this is how these places make the world news... the grandpa in me yelled at all of them.. including the parents laughing taking the videos.

Otherwise... great time and surprising place.

Entire experience started out a little rough as our reservation wasn’t in their system (we called to make the reservation), but we had paid in advance to stay in a cabin on property - staff seemed super surprised about our arrival and was not super stoked, which makes sense! Aside from this initial interaction, the whole place was incredible.

We went on a weekday and were the ONLY people in the entire park! Which sounds crazy, but we went in their off season when folks were working or at school. It was actually really cool to experience it that way without a bunch of people crowding you! We could take our time with each animal and exhibit. We ended up getting a VIP Encounter with our reservation by staying on property, which entailed getting to meet at LEAST 10 different animals up close and personally. Our guide for this was Amy, who was so so so kind and friendly and answered all of our crazy questions.

After this, we got to feed monkeys and kangaroos. What a cool experience!!!! Again, still the only people in the entire place. At this point it was dusk and more animals were out than when we initially walked through the park- all cats were very well fed and had enough room to move around in- their pens were HUGE! Loved seeing that and that they were well cared for.

In terms of where we stayed, it was in one of the lodges at the back of the property where you’re next to the zebras! The place was so well worth the money with great amenities, very clean, and quiet (except for the animals you can hear at night which is so cool lol). 10/10 experience, can’t wait to come back. If you’re thinking about making the trip here, DO IT! This place deserves your money and your time! Don’t skip it!

It was the hottest day of the year and it was still worth it.
We went on the early morning, mega-VIP tour. It included a guided tour and feeding opportunity, a “free time” wander, and an indoor encounter.
They had donuts, coffee, juice, and other pastries for us when we arrived. We saw or fed every single thing the website said we would. It was a small group so everyone got a turn at everything. They gave us plenty of food/treats for feeding during the tour and after when we had our free time to wander.
Emily was very knowledgeable about every animal we encountered and offered facts about the animals and included personality quirks. Emily also explained which animals weren’t people friendly and couldn’t be safely handled by the public.
There was only one animal we didn’t see and she warned us about that- panther wasn’t interested in coming out when it was already 90+ by 8:00am- can’t blame it.
For the indoor animal petting portion, they had several handlers with different animals so we didn’t really need to wait to pet or hold anything. We liked that they directed people on how to touch each animal to ensure the animals were safe.
I was skeptical because I read about the location ahead of time, including every negative review. And like everyone else, I watched the infamous Netflix show about that other guy. There were some things I didn’t like, such as the big cats not having play water or the hyena not having a companion, but they had water to drink and Emily did talk about them visiting the hyena throughout the day and that they are looking for a companion (I’m sure finding a hyena is not easy).
We have left other encounters for seeing concerning treatment of animals, and we didn’t see anything like that.
We recommend going.