Howletts Wild Animal Park, London > Reviews

Advantages: Good exercise
Disadvantages: Smelly and not much to see

...for money off trips to Howletts or Port Lympne. I had previously checked out the prices and route on the website which can be found at: www.howletts.net The website is informative and has webcams in some of the cages. Unfortunately when I visited the site the webcam had been struck by lightening and couldn't be accessed. Once in we encountered a slight hitch - my son wanted the toilet after 2 and a half hours in the car. The first set of toilets ... Read review

Advantages: A good sized all day attraction
Disadvantages: Its sister park, Port Lympne, is better

...get busy it's normally because Howletts and Port Lympne ask every visitor for there postcode, house number and bring up your details from the electoral roll. The whole point of this is to register your admission as Gift Aid so that they can reclaim 28% extra from Mr Taxman. It's a novel idea for a charitable institution, but I can see other less enlightened visitors getting heated over issues of privacy and feeling that they have to comply. (You don't ... Read review

Advantages: Good day out
Disadvantages: Read op

We went to Howletts wild animal park a couple of years ago and had a pretty good day out. Howletts is a wild animal park situated in Bekesbourne, near Canterbury in Kent. It has a sister park also in Port Lympne, also in Kent. It is a seventy acre parkland, full of wild walks, animal enclosures, picnic areas, gift shop and a restaurant. It also has a few children's play areas. They have a good mixture of wild animals like African Elephants, ... Read review