Monkey Forest (Trentham)

I visited the monkey forest in Trentham for the second time this weekend and loved it as much as the first. I don't have any kids this was purely for myself and my wife! The monkey forest is 60 acres of woodland and contains 140 Barbary Macaques. The monkeys are left to roam freely as they would do in their natural habitat which provides you with a great opportunity to get up close with your monkey friends! You follow a 3/4 mile forest path around the site and the monkeys often walk across your path, not bothered in the slightest that you're standing there right next to them! This obviously provides you with some great photo opportunities! Even ...  Read the complete review

Back in August, whilst on holiday in Derbyshire, my family found themselves trying to fill a dull and drizzly day. Then somebody spotted a leaflet for Monkey Forest in our holiday cottage and off we headed. ~~~ What is it? ~~~ Monkey Forest is a 60 acre site where you can walk amongst 140 or so Barbary macaque monkeys as they roam free in the forest. The leaflet and website for this attraction show visitors sitting in very close proximity to the monkeys, only a metre or so away from them. I was a bit disdainful when I saw this assuming, that the shot had been set up for the photograph. However, I was wrong - on our visit we were able to get ...  Read the complete review

It has been decided that I need to behave more like a Brit in Mexico when I am a Brit in Manchester. And by that, I don't mean eating ice cream every day (though I may) or filling any pauses with a 'Que más?', I mean actually getting out there and seeing places I always forget to bother with when I'm home. Touristy places. I live just off the A34 in Manchester. Monkey Forest is located on the A34 near Stoke, about 35 miles away. I don't even need driving directions (though we take them anyway, and they get us lost, tsk), so off we go. The park is signed but not as early as I thought it would be, hence a small panic over whether we have gone wrong. Coming from the north ...  Read the complete review

With two kids and a mother in law to entertain this week we decided to take our little monkeys out for a trip in the forest. Trentham Monkey Forest in Staffordshire is within half an hour's drive of my home town, so it's a place that we've visited on several occasions now. The concept is apparantly unique within the UK as the forest is home to over 140 Barbary Macaque monkeys who are free to roam as they please, within the grounds of a 60 acre enclosure. On previous visits, we've just walked straight through to the kiosk and purchased our tickets but this time (mid-August, so at the peak of children's summer holidays) we found two lengthy queues at the ...  Read the complete review

Now I'm a little bit biased with this review because I LOVE monkeys. I totally adore them. We live in Manchester and it wasn't very far, about a 50 minute drive away to get to. When we got closer to the Forest it was signposted which helped so much because the sat nav didn't take us to the entrance of the Forest. The car park is very close to the entrance which is good compared to some places where you have to trek just to get to the attraction. When you first go through there are trampolines (strictly for children, I asked for a go and was refused :-( ) and apparently they have now added 2 new playgrounds which look amazing although these were ...  Read the complete review