Amazon World Zoo Park (Isle of Wight)

"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