Wonderful Experience at Port Lympne Hotel & Reserve
A truly wonderful experience overall. Lovely clean and comfy Pinewood cabin to spend the night, adjacent clean and functional showers and toilets. Wonderful animal collection with a skew towards re-population in the wild, so its not over-filled by any means. This place is not a zoo, it is not crammed full, they actively send "new" animals to their native habitats to aid repopulation. Great fun too being able to explore the site exclusively out of day visiting hours. Excellent on-site gardens and restaurants, with friendly staff and tasty food.
Only thing that could be improved on-site really is signage, but that is a very small gripe overall... Signs are lacking in some places with regard to directions, and would be beneficial additionally on enclosures that currently have no occupants - purely to save you gazing on like a lemon trying to spot something that isn't at home.
Also, on the day we had our safari drive about, there was a technical problem with the PA system on the truck we had (D4?) so from the very friendly and clearly knowledgeable female host we had, unfortunately we only caught maybe every 15th word from what she was saying along the journey as the tannoy speaker kept cutting out… A shame, but an easy fix for next time.
My partner and I will definitely be heading back again soon though, looking forward to it already.







