The largest exotic animal, award winning attraction on the Isle of Wight. This is mostly indoors so a perfect gesture for rainy days, just like today! We were hoping for a beautiful day as it being my only day off this week to enjoy with my daughter during school holidays! Well it was horrid at 8am and still is! We picked Madeline's friend up and headed straight over to Arreton (between Newport and Sandown) Its easy for myself to find being an Islander but I'm not sure for tourists. It is well sign posted and of course most of us have sat navigations now. We arrived at 11am to be greeted by a very friendly member of staff that filled us with ...  Read the complete review

Amazon World, on the Isle of Wight is located in Arreton, not too far from Newport. It is an indoor zoo, which focuses on South American animals found in Rain forests. It is open all year round, even in between Christmas and new year - which was good, as you practically get the place to yourself, so can really take your time looking at all of the animals. There is a also a large car park outside, which is free! Or you can get there by bus, which stops literally at the entrance of the Zoo. I have visited Amazon World twice in the last couple of years, and we have always had a good day out. Outside is a large climbing frame for the kids to use in the ...  Read the complete review

"The largest exotic animal attraction on the Isle of Wight" Firstly, I would like to say that I agree completely with what was said by cmh4135 in her previous review of the same attraction. Amazon World is an indoor wildlife park based on the Isle of Wight. The venue has a fairly good selection of animals, but the presentation of the place isn't up to much. Glass on fish / reptile tanks is often dirty, making viewing the animals quite difficult, and some of the information around enclosures is missing. In some cases, what information there is often consists of scruffy bits of paper stuck to the walls. Also, in bits like the terrapin pond, ...  Read the complete review

I don't normally have a problem with zoos provided, of course, that the animals appear well cared for. I do, however, have an issue with what I describe as "tourist animal traps" which seem to serve no purpose other than to cause discomfort to the animals and leave the tourist feeling fleeced. In truth, before I visited, I wasn't sure which camp Amazon World would fall into. I suspected the latter, after all there's nothing Amazonian about the Isle of Wight, but hoped for the former. Amazon World is situated on the Isle of Wight between Newport (in the middle of the Island) and Sandown (on the East coast). Like most places on the Isle of Wight ...  Read the complete review