Phuket Safari ECO+
Phuket Safari ECO+
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Dominyka P
4 contributions
Jan 2020 • Couples
This is honestly the most horrible place to go see wild animals. We visited today without looking into and it saddened us so much to see these poor animals perform all this non-sense trained stuff. Poor monkeys chained and caged up, elephants look poorly and move away from keepers whenever they can. Elephant riders stop halfway and try to pressure you into buying stuff and when you don’t want none of it they just give you the biggest attitude (ours banged the box on my ankle and started shouting something in Thai) then got off the elephant - clear heath and safety issue and tried saying he will take a pic with my phone for a 100 baht. NO THANSK
Heartbreaking after seeing these animals in the wild on other islands.
AVOID AT ALL COSTS
Heartbreaking after seeing these animals in the wild on other islands.
AVOID AT ALL COSTS
Written 17 January 2020
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Flesh81
Coffs Harbour, Australia179 contributions
Jun 2016 • Family
This is probably the worst of this type of attraction there is in Thailand.
Let's forget that you are rushed through and don't get the time you pay for (eg: your 30min "elephant trek" is barely 20mins, yes us tourist can tell the time guys) let's forget that the "mini zoo" consists of two Civets, a rabbit, two chickens and a bunch of monkeys.
These places are about getting your money while exploiting the animals. I have been to a few and until now not seen elephants bleeding as I did here. One elephant had multiple small holes/wounds on its head where it had been hit with the spiked stick.
I could go on about this place but it's just not worth it.
If you want to go to this type of attraction then choose another and do yourself a favor.
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Let's forget that you are rushed through and don't get the time you pay for (eg: your 30min "elephant trek" is barely 20mins, yes us tourist can tell the time guys) let's forget that the "mini zoo" consists of two Civets, a rabbit, two chickens and a bunch of monkeys.
These places are about getting your money while exploiting the animals. I have been to a few and until now not seen elephants bleeding as I did here. One elephant had multiple small holes/wounds on its head where it had been hit with the spiked stick.
I could go on about this place but it's just not worth it.
If you want to go to this type of attraction then choose another and do yourself a favor.
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Written 30 June 2016
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superjassy16
Phuket, Thailand16 contributions
Apr 2017 • Friends
This was the first itinerary in our city tour. When we got off the bus, the place look good but not a happy place. The monkey show was nice but it seems like the monkeys are not happy, they are in chains during the show. Our elephant ride at first it was good but after 5 mins I want to get down, I feel sad for the elephant and the guide when we are in the middle of the mountain trekking, they are selling bracelets for 300 thb each. I refuse to buy because it was too expensive after that he get angry with Valentine the elephant and starting to shout to finish the ride quickly. It was not good! I will never do elephant ride again. I enjoyed the elephant show it was cute and talented.
Animals here are not well taken care of!
Animals here are not well taken care of!
Written 23 April 2017
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jacquelineht93
Devon, UK111 contributions
Jan 2017
My friends and I recently went to Phuket, Thailand where we visited an “attraction” called Eco Elephant Trekking. We were first shown a leaflet of the excursion and was told it was situated in the National Park and the images fitted this description perfectly, however when we arrived it was quite the opposite.
They had 3 shows – snake, money and baby elephant of which all animals were treated disgustingly. All the monkeys has chains around their necks and the staff members were yanking on them if they didn’t do the trick they were supposed to do – we found this unbearable to watch.
We decided not to do the elephant trekking and not to watch any of the shows after seeing this, the elephants were all shackled up with a meter long chain so had no room to move around. We then saw 2 members of staff spitting beer all over the baby elephant and then saw them pour a bottle of beer in its mouth!!!!!!!!!!
All of my friends and I could not believe what we had experienced and felt extremely upset over it all. It is a complete and utter disgrace and I am scarred for life by what I have seen.
They had 3 shows – snake, money and baby elephant of which all animals were treated disgustingly. All the monkeys has chains around their necks and the staff members were yanking on them if they didn’t do the trick they were supposed to do – we found this unbearable to watch.
We decided not to do the elephant trekking and not to watch any of the shows after seeing this, the elephants were all shackled up with a meter long chain so had no room to move around. We then saw 2 members of staff spitting beer all over the baby elephant and then saw them pour a bottle of beer in its mouth!!!!!!!!!!
All of my friends and I could not believe what we had experienced and felt extremely upset over it all. It is a complete and utter disgrace and I am scarred for life by what I have seen.
Written 25 January 2017
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Gavin D
Chesterfield, UK140 contributions
Nov 2017 • Couples
Avoid at all costs. Disgusting treatment of animals , dirty horrible place that literally makes you want to vomit. All the animals are chained or stuffed into pens far too small for a single animal, couldn’t get out of the place fast enough. If there was a rating lower than no stars this hell hole would get it .
Written 30 November 2017
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AzzaUK
London, UK25 contributions
Apr 2017 • Solo
I knew this was going to be the stop I'd like least on the pre-packaged tour I was on, but it's hard to describe the anger I feel having visited this attraction that is so different from it's advertising material: It is everything that is bad about tourism at the cost of animal welfare thrown into one jungle clearing.
I can only presume 'Eco' has been tagged on to the end of its name to make it more marketable than it actually is, and fool visitors into coming. It's a lot of extremely unhappy animals chained up (often by their necks) or in cages.
There was a snake show with the pythons and cobras were provoked into attacks, and a monkey show that was straight out of the 1970s circus sideshow era - which is somewhere it certainly should have stopped. A monkey horror show of neck-chained and traumatised animals trained to do stupid things while the commentator anthropomorphised them like a ghoulish Walt Disney.
While watching it, there wasn't a second I didn't want the monkeys to rise up, break their chains and turn on their human captors like 'the planet of the apes'. It was utterly horrific and this was certainly the most unsavoury and upsetting bit of Thailand tourism I've seen over several trips, with 'trainers' dragging monkeys around by pulling their necks chains.
Awful, horrible, just avoid this place, avoid it.
Finally here there was an elephant ride, and though the elephants looked much happier than the other residents there were still chains, and hooks used. Given all of the other animals seen so far it was always in the back of the mind that the elephants probably weren't exactly living at Elephant Disneyland.
I can't stress enough, avoid this place and any tour operator that includes it on their itinerary.
I can only presume 'Eco' has been tagged on to the end of its name to make it more marketable than it actually is, and fool visitors into coming. It's a lot of extremely unhappy animals chained up (often by their necks) or in cages.
There was a snake show with the pythons and cobras were provoked into attacks, and a monkey show that was straight out of the 1970s circus sideshow era - which is somewhere it certainly should have stopped. A monkey horror show of neck-chained and traumatised animals trained to do stupid things while the commentator anthropomorphised them like a ghoulish Walt Disney.
While watching it, there wasn't a second I didn't want the monkeys to rise up, break their chains and turn on their human captors like 'the planet of the apes'. It was utterly horrific and this was certainly the most unsavoury and upsetting bit of Thailand tourism I've seen over several trips, with 'trainers' dragging monkeys around by pulling their necks chains.
Awful, horrible, just avoid this place, avoid it.
Finally here there was an elephant ride, and though the elephants looked much happier than the other residents there were still chains, and hooks used. Given all of the other animals seen so far it was always in the back of the mind that the elephants probably weren't exactly living at Elephant Disneyland.
I can't stress enough, avoid this place and any tour operator that includes it on their itinerary.
Written 29 April 2017
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Ahmad M
Cairo, Egypt124 contributions
Aug 2016 • Couples
This place should be shutdown!! Terrible animal cruelty, and tourtre. Almost all of the animals are in chains. If you are going on a trip through your hotel, make sure you're not going to this place. The look on the poor animals faces was heartbreaking.
Written 12 August 2016
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Immune2it
Brisbane, Australia153 contributions
Jul 2016 • Family
Don't visit here or any other place that has monkeys snakes or elephants , the monkeys are chained 24/7 around the neck with less than 2 foot of chain and spend the time in what seems like self harm. The monkeys performed a show that looked awful. The actually ask for tips to help feed the animals!! We should have known better
Written 3 July 2016
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TonyBighit
Cape Town Central, South Africa54 contributions
May 2016 • Couples
Do not visit this attraction unless you like to see animals in chains! Elephants are chained up outside, monkeys are chained up. When the one monkey handler does his show, he uses force to direct the monkey and yanks the chains. The elephant trekker tour guide stopped his tour mid way to down a beer while we were on the elephant. A little further up the way, he tried to sell us a souvenir while we were on the elephant - a stupid little bracelet for 300 Baht. Please do not visit this attraction at all and always think twice when something is advertised as a "Monkey show".
Written 10 May 2016
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Carrie B
6 contributions
Feb 2019 • Solo
The animals are kept in appalling conditions, how this place can operate in 2019 is beyond me.
Utterly saddening and heart-breaking.
Utterly saddening and heart-breaking.
Written 11 March 2019
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Depends on the package and what you want to do. They can discount full package to around 500 THB which says it all really... if you care about animals at all I wouldn’t go.
We paid for 30mins trek and got around 15 min walk on an elephant that didn’t want to walk but was getting whacked to walk, they stop you half way through and try to sell you a souvenir which is overpriced and if you don’t buy they take attitude with you. The animals are kept in disgusting conditions!!
Written 11 October 2019
How can you improve conditions and treatment of the animals in your care? What do you need to accomplish this?
Written 18 April 2018
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