Howletts Wild Animal Park (Kent) Reviews
Newest Review: ... school education that didn't turn out too successful, being thrown out of one school due to a low concentration span and failing to sit his final exams at Oxford due to the fact he loved horseracing and gambling more. In his adult years he became a bookie but was only allowed to take legal bets on horse racing. This didn't stop him from gambling illegally and often set up gambling parties for the 'toffs' in rented houses while his mother bribed the local police officers. The one time she forgot to pay off the police was when he was hosting a party at Howlett's where he was then living and this ended in the party being raided and broken u... more
Customer Howletts Wild Animal Park (Kent) Reviews (4)
by - written on 27/12/10, updated on 28/12/10 (Very useful, 335 readings)
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Last Christmas we wanted to do something different for our son as a present and as he has always loved gorillas since he was a small boy we decided, through the help of the Aspinall Foundation, to adopt a Western Lowland gorilla for him. His adopted gorilla's name was Djumbah and from his gorilla profile he seemed a bit of a character. For one thing, he didn't like bananas which is very unusual. About May of last year we received an e-mail from the foundation to say that Djumbah had been transported to a zoo in Budapest for breeding purposes. At first we were a bit sad because this meant that Djumbah would no longer be the responsibility of the zoo in Kent and perhaps we Read the complete review
by - written on 28/05/09 (Somewhat useful, 100 readings)
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I go to howletts wild animal park at least once a year. I do live near it (within half an hour) but I would even go if I had to travel further. Howletts is set in a large area of land, which allows you to walk around the spread out grounds at your leisure. Howletts is based around a house (well a mansion) built in the middle which started the park. The house is not open to the public however. Surrounding the house are large enclosures with a wide variety of animals to look at. There are two tiger enclosures, two elephant paddocks, rhinos and many many more. The highlight for most, and howletts speciality are the monkeys. They are two main monkey areas in the zoo both ... Read the complete review
by - written on 16/10/08, updated on 16/10/08 (Very useful, 131 readings)
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This is a wildlife park situated in the northern parts of Canterbury in Kent covering an area just short of 100 acres of lush greenery. We took our 2.5 year old for a day trip as we live only 30 minutes driving distance from there and she has had an absolute fun day watching all the animals she had only known existed as cartoons on the telly. There were about 5 tigers in two enclosures, African rhinos, great varieties of monkies and gorillas ,two pythons, loads of elephants , pangolins, hedgehogs, varieties of deer , leopards, tapirs, , macaques and the likes. All kept in well spaced and clean enclosures and with plenty of food and play ... Read the complete review
by - written on 25/08/00, updated on 25/08/00 (Very useful, 955 readings)
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This is one of the two animal parks owned by the late John Aspinall. John was a great man with two pasisons.....gambling and wild animals. He used his gambling to pay for his love of animals and what a fantastic result. John's aim has always been to breed endangered animals and release them back into the wild which he has achieved which great success. His great passions were the gorrillas and the tigers. A vast majority of the park is taken up with different breeds of monkies and gorillas. There are also tigers, elephants, lions, wolves and many more rare and endangered animals. The most unusual thing about howletts though has to be the fact that the ... Read the complete review
