Date visited: Saturday 22nd May 2010
Location: Marwell Wildlife, Thompsons Lane, Colden Common, Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 1JH
Marwell is in the heart of the beautiful Hampshire countryside, just eight miles from Winchester, five from Eastleigh and twelve from Southampton. The park is within easy reach of two main motorways and rail stations. Open everyday except Christmas day and Boxing day.
My review: We went to Marwell Wildlife for a family day out with some friends, I’d never been before and I was impressed with Marwell. It’s beautifully set out and has plenty of ‘animal exhibits’ that seem well cared for and happy. Only a few things were ‘not available’ due to maintenance. On the whole, the park is beautiful, there wasn’t a lot of drinks areas and some of the vending machines were out of order, we took a picnic with us, so that wasn’t such a problem.
If you’re a keen photographer then I do recommend you take your longer lens, I didn’t and I regretted it, luckily out video camera has 12x optical zoom, so we got some good pictures with that. Some of the animals that need ‘area’ were usually further away so you need more zoom to get a half decent picture.
We were lucky to have a beautiful day, only slightly too hot, even the animals looked dazed by the sunny hot weather in England, they must be acclimatized to the British weather already!! With plenty of trees and a few exhibit buildings there’s not many areas were you can’t find a bit of shade.
All in all it was a very enjoyable day out that the whole family enjoyed, I would highly recommend a visit and would definately visit Marwell again myself.
The website for Marwell wildlife can be found here.
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
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