点评:My wife and I recently very much enjoyed our 'Meerkat Experience Encounter' at Millets Wildside. The joining instructions were clear and helpful and we were met promptly at 10.00 by Alissa who introduced herself as Head Mammal Keeper - she was incredibly knowledgeable, able to answer all our questions and clearly passionate about the animals in her care. The 'encounter' was exactly as promised - we spent about 20 minutes with the meerkats, who were completely unphased by our presence and quite happy to climb all over us in return for being hand fed (actually tongs fed) with mealworms. After this there was plenty of time to visit the rest of the Wildside residents and watch the birds of prey flight demonstration and otter feeding time. As we visited on a weekday during term time, it was very quite so we were able to take our time in admiring everything.
Millets Wildside is part of Millets Farm Centre - we visited the restaurant for lunch and were really impressed - the whole place is very attractive with seating divided into a number of separate areas some obviously aimed more at those with children and others at those without. We found the food to be of excellent quality (much of it - including the hot dishes and some very tempting cakes - is made on site) and reasonably priced and the staff were really helpful and effective in keeping everything clean, neat and tidy. There is also a farm shop with lots of very tempting displays of foodstuffs, though not somewhere to do the weekly shop if you're on a budget!
Overall we had a really excellent day and couldn't identify anything that could have been done better.
翻译:我和妻子最近非常享受在Millets Wildside动物园的“狐獴体验邂逅”。入园指南清晰易懂,实用性强。10点,Alissa准时迎接了我们。她介绍自己是首席哺乳动物饲养员——她知识渊博,能够解答我们所有的问题,而且显然对她照顾的动物充满热情。这次“邂逅”正如承诺的那样——我们与狐獴相处了大约20分钟,它们对我们的出现毫不在意,很高兴地爬到我们身上,以换取我们亲手(实际上是用钳子)喂食的黄粉虫。之后,我们有充足的时间去拜访Wildside动物园的其他居民,观看猛禽飞行表演和水獭喂食时间。由于我们是在学期期间的工作日参观的,所以环境非常安静,我们可以慢慢欣赏一切。
Millets Wildside 是 Millets 农场中心的一部分——我们去餐厅吃了午餐,印象非常深刻——整个地方非常吸引人,座位被分成几个不同的区域,有些明显是针对带孩子的,有些则针对不带孩子的。我们发现这里的食物品质极佳(很多菜品——包括热菜和一些非常诱人的蛋糕——都是现场制作的),价格合理,工作人员非常乐于助人,高效地保持着一切干净整洁。餐厅里还有一家农场商店,里面摆放着许多非常诱人的食品,不过如果你预算有限,这里不适合每周采购!
总而言之,我们度过了非常愉快的一天,找不到任何可以改进的地方。