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Reviews — 8

Aaron Tanzer
at 2025 Jan 12
Aaron Tanzer
at 2025 Jan 12
The worst zoo / animal encounter I've ever been to. You'd see more animals in a pet shop. Long walk from car park to them feels like 2 ks. Once you get there some negative old ladies run the place where bitching about a staff member outside taking to long while they sat on there ass. Poorly laid out with no clear path or track that tells a story. Kinda open but nothing in it and small. Literally only had 2 ducks, a kangaroo and 7 thousand koralas. Should reduce the koralas space by 80% and get some other animals. Food looked not inviting. A lady opened a fence on a horse as a show and we walked out. I was negative driving to it because there websites got nothing to show you they got because they don't have anything. Needs way more variates of animals. Arrows on ground to show you how to see the whole park. I come from a hobby farm and wasn't impressed. Get some capybaras. Do not go. Don't waste your day time or money. Worst hour of my life. I think it's just an add on to the sea world pass to chardge more and cash grab with no thought or effort or passion. Needs a good million or 5 spend on it to make it the best in Australia but it's the worst. If the parent company dosent want to invest in It or make it exciting just shut it down. Could make it way more flashy. Why not make the world's biggest sign on the hill behind the parks showing it off so it's got a wow factor like sea world movie world dream world has etc.

You want to probly move the walk in building 1k up the road to car park and fill that area in with some excitement. There could be potential but to me the place is on life support. The entire experience needs to be overhauled. Driving in. Everything and leaving. Nearly everywhere could use improvement.
Dimitrie Vicol
at 2025 Jan 12
Dimitrie Vicol
at 2025 Jan 12
Great buffet dinner on Friday night. Really good spot for kids, plenty of room and easy seating at large tables. Fantastic value.
Michael Palombieri
at 2025 Jan 04
Michael Palombieri
at 2025 Jan 04
Absolute cracker of a joint for the kids, great camping out back, staff out in the park are wonderful, animals are super friendly and there's plenty to do for the kids

Only negative, staff on duty during breakfast need to cheer up, super short and rude in the way they deal with people, hot topic around the camp ground, clearly not morning people. Wasn't a once off, every morning was the same,
Brett
at 2025 Jan 02
Brett
at 2025 Jan 02
I highly recommend a visit to this venue. It's wonderful to interact with and pet the kangaroos. The shows were enjoyable for the children, and they also offered a delightful tractor ride around the farm.
Owen McDonald
at 2025 Jan 01
Owen McDonald
at 2025 Jan 01
This place is a tourist trap. Save your money.

Long walk from the car park to the entrance

An eye-watering $54 entry fee for adults

Many attractions, gift shops, and cafes that aren't free and placed strategically to ensure maximum pester-power from children

Cheap tie-in with Shaun the Sheep from Wallace and Grommit

Overall the park is quite small for what you're getting. There are much cheaper places to visit where you can see Australian animals.

I feel like it's set up to wring every last possible cent from gullible international visitors
Tegan
at 2024 Dec 19
Tegan
at 2024 Dec 19
A shady drive to the back of Movie World/Wet and Wild, poor parking facilities with uneven gravel and rope dividers, and then a small hike to arrive at Paradise Country. The farm animal nursery was good our son loved the goats, chickens, and water play area but that was kind of it. The tractor carriage ride was very underwhelming, less than 2 minutes round trip. You have to pay extra to do gold mining, opal mining, and ride a pony. No dingos or marmosets at this time. There was also only a few kangaroos to pat as most were in the resting area so everyone was competing for them which meant you didn't get long to see them, and it was not very busy. The Shaun the Sheep show was good but only ran for around 10 minutes, didn't get an opportunity to catch other shows today. Koalas are koalas, meerkats are always energetic and entertaining for the kids, a few sad cows, sheep, horse and donkey to be seen from a distance. Aside from that, zero else to do. We would be super disappointed if we had just paid for a day visit here. Plenty of potential.. must be time for improvements.
Jenny Iannetta
at 2024 Oct 27
Jenny Iannetta
at 2024 Oct 27
1st time there today & we all had a Fantastic time. Restaurant had delicious food at very reasonable prices for the size of the meals. Animals were so cute.

Especially enjoyed the free shuttle bus between paradise country & movie world wanted to share a pic of driver and bus but can't seem to be able to add a pic.
Daniel Scott
at 2024 Aug 18
Daniel Scott
at 2024 Aug 18
The experience we had here was fantastic, the animals are amazing and the shows are engaging and fun. Children are clearly the focus of this place, and adults are well catered for as well. We will definitely be returning and staying a couple of nights with friends. Thanks to the team of amazing people who run this place.