Loro Parque

I have just returned from a holiday in Tenerife and whilst there visited the Loro Park at Puerto De La Cruz. This is a wildlife park for endangered animals. It started by giving homes to endangered species' of parrots and has grown to include gorillas, jaguars, tigers, penguins, giant tortoises, marmosets, alligators, flamingos, chimps, sealions, dolphins and killer whales. I was very impressed with this park which obviously has the welfare of animals as its main aim. The animal enclosures are some of the best I have seen either in the UK or abroad. They are spacious, clean and have been made to be as authentic for the animals as is possible, with ...  Read the complete review

I've heard it said that when people are lucky enought to reach a great age, any feelings of regret they experience about their lives predominantly concern the things they didn't - rather than the things that they did - do. If I ever reach such a state, in my case some of my regrets about things I didn't do will probably concern a visit I made to Loro Park in 2003. The greatest of them being that I didn't put my foot down strongly enough and flat-out refuse to go - simply because our travel party included a brain-dead moron who wished to 'see the parrots' and wanted us to come with her, and upon whose good-will the continuing career of my other half at that ...  Read the complete review

Recently I went away to Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife for the third time for nearly two weeks which would explain my absence from reviewing. Now I am back and you are probably going to see a few Tenerife reviews! I have been to the Loro Parque all three times I have been in Tenerife and think it is a brilliant tourist attraction and that if you are visiting you must go and visit it! Loro Parque is a cross between a massive fancy zoo, a conservation place and basically a brilliant tourist attraction (and it is advertised everywhere on the island!) My favourite part of the park was the Orca show and this is the best animal show I have ever seen ...  Read the complete review

I am not really a Zoo person, but was pursuded by my family to visit Loro Parque in Porta de la cruz, which is on the north west coast of he island often reffered to as the "Green Coast" as this side of the island gets a great deal more rain. We drove ourselves to Loro Parque, although i understand there were many organised coach trips fro the south of the island. The car parking isn't as we would expect in the UK as it is quiet limited. We brought a twin site tick that enabled us to go to Siam Park in the south of the Island which cost Approx 175 Euros. The Animals on dispaly looked well looked after and content, my faviote is the Penguins they are in ...  Read the complete review

Well since I dissapeared from here recently for almost two weeks forgive me for giving you an explaination before I continue this review, my OH was home on leave for the two weeks so we headed out to my Mums apartment in Tenerife. After a week of eating, drinking and arguing we decided to sober up and hire a car. Our intention was to drive to the peak to Teide but with a 1.1 C2 we decided that the car may not have been up to the challenge of the mountain roads so instead headed up the TF1 and TF5 motorways to Puerto de la Cruz and Loro Parque. The journey from the Village took just over and hour and a half, so from Las Americas or Los Christianos the drive ...  Read the complete review