Tiger Park Pattaya, Chonburi Province, Thailand

4Todd R 5:00 PM Feb 3, 2023

Tiger Park Pattaya - Inexpensive and Great Way to Spend a Short Amount of Time - Great Experience -
This place provides a great experience, but you should understand what it is prior to going there. This of it as a zoo with cages and some small open areas, all filled with tigers. You can explore the whole place it under 30 minutes. It is not big. It is beautiful seeing these big, majestic animals so close. I am not sure if they move the tigers around so that sometimes they are in the cages and then sometimes they are in the bigger areas. If they do not, I would be hesitant about saying this place is ethical. If they do, I would be more comfortable with the place. The biggest highlight here is that for an additional fee you can take pictures with the tigers. You get to choose the size of the tiger you take pictures with. I think they had four sizes, baby, juvenile, small, and large. I chose the baby tigers as I know they are safe for me and that they are not sedated. They were only a few weeks old, and it was amazing. I saw people taking pictures with the biggest tigers and I am not sure if these animals were sedated or very tame. Either way I was not comfortable as I do not believe in sedating them and if they were just tame, I was not comfortable that something may go wrong, and I will be their lunch. In the additional information about the location I included that you need 1-2 hours. It is approximately 30 minutes to walk around and 30 minutes for the photos. You may have to wait to take the photos. Overall, it was a great way to spend under an hour of time. I had a free morning to see things around Pattaya and chose this and the Million Years Stone Park & Pattaya Crocodile Farm (see review pasted on Trip Advisor) - Both of these places led to an excellent morning.

3ArenJo 5:00 PM Jun 5, 2020

Love the tigers, but not the employees
I showed up with a pre-purchased packaged. I was made to wait for a group that showed up afterward while the employee tried to sell them a package, even though at that point I had already engaged in conversation with the employee. When I eventually was helped, I was sent from one desk to another while they tried to get the company I bought the tickets through to send them the official tickets to their own phone, even though I had the tickets on my phone. All of this took so long, that although I was originally planning to go to a water park after, I spent way too much time here and cancelled the rest of my plans for the day. Then although the tigers were beautiful and I got great pictures, the employees were quite mean to the tigers. The babies are taken away from the moms early and the employee was hitting the babies and acting like they annoyed her. I have that behavior on video. When I got into the cages with the medium sized tigers, they were forcing them to wake up even though I was fine with the tigers catching some ZZZzzz while I was there. In the large cages, the "rules" weren't clear and the employees kept getting annoyed with me and rolling their eyes whenever I did something they didn't like, like getting too close to the tiger's face right after they'd tell me it was OK to cuddle with them, not to be scared. Honestly, this place should be shut down with the way they treat the tigers. The tigers were clearly not happy.