Thank you for your feedback, Corrina. We are sorry that you were dissatisfied with your recent visit to Marwell. We frequently receive positive feedback regarding the friendliness of our staff, so we are very disappointed to hear that you did not receive this same welcoming experience.
We have hundreds of animals to see across our 140 acres of parkland and we recommend that guests take time to walk around the zoo slowly, with a patient and watchful eye, imagining that they are trying to see our animals in the wild. We give our animals the choice to be where they would like throughout the day, whether this is indoors or out in their paddock and it is for this reason that an animal may not be immediately visible. Most of our enclosures do also have indoor viewing windows, allowing guests to see an animal wherever they may be.
Interactivity around the park has increased and so far, we have an Explorers trail, which allows you to collect stamps around the park, as well as interactive areas in most of our exhibits. There are new interactive screens also in the Tropical House which allow you to find out more about the animals as well as our large touch screen which shows the maps, daily talks and other information for your day. We also have a free Marwell Zoo app which allows you to learn about our amazing animals, either through an audio tour or simply on screen as you visit the animals.
We’re sorry to hear you were disappointed with the price of food in our catering outlets. Our catering team takes pride in preparing quality, fresh food which is locally-sourced and we hope this reflects in the cost. All surplus goes towards the care of our resident animals as well as the important conservation projects we support in the UK and overseas as we are an action-oriented conservation charity. Guests are always more than welcome to bring their own picnic to the zoo, and you are able to stop wherever you'd like to set up for lunch or we have two indoor picnic huts in the park.
Thanks again for your feedback; we hope that you will visit us again in the future.