Longleat Safari - will my car be destroyed?
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Cant you take the bus if it still runs?
When I went about 8 years ago you could leave your car and go round the safari on a bus
I actually prefered it , you could enjoy the animals and not worry about your car, or the endless boring stop start driving, I had a convertible at time and didnt fancy the roof ruined
Kids prefer busses anyway (at least mine did)
Just looked they seem to charge a fiver now and use a traditional bus (we had a old skool yellow one) https://www.longleat.co.uk/safari/safari-bus
When I went about 8 years ago you could leave your car and go round the safari on a bus
I actually prefered it , you could enjoy the animals and not worry about your car, or the endless boring stop start driving, I had a convertible at time and didnt fancy the roof ruined
Kids prefer busses anyway (at least mine did)
Just looked they seem to charge a fiver now and use a traditional bus (we had a old skool yellow one) https://www.longleat.co.uk/safari/safari-bus
Forget the monkeys, its the deer you need to worry about.
Mrs rossub thought it'd be a good idea to buy the deer nibbles that they offer....although there was no physical damage, there was a fair bit of deer spit and half eaten nibbles to clean up afterwards
Best to have the windows right down too, or an overenthusiastic deer may shatter the window on its way in!
Mrs rossub thought it'd be a good idea to buy the deer nibbles that they offer....although there was no physical damage, there was a fair bit of deer spit and half eaten nibbles to clean up afterwards
Best to have the windows right down too, or an overenthusiastic deer may shatter the window on its way in!
Don't go with something tall and you'll be fine. I went in my 200SX, in front was a 4x4 and behind was a people carrier, both much taller than my car, they looked at my car and realised it wouldn't be much fun as it was quite low so ended up sitting nice and high tearing all the rubber off the 4x4 in front and windscreen wipers off the people carrier behind
We went through about 20 years ago in a hired Maestro Van (only thing available at short notice on a bank holiday) and the monkeys were fine, but you may want to look on Youtube for videos and for the lion biting sinking his teeth into a rear bumper.
A school bus had run out of fuel in the lion enclosure. They were all sat there eating sandwiches with the windows and rear doors open. There was a lot of action from the keepers when I stopped to tell them. They were aware that they were there but not that they were doing what they were doing. Silly fools!
A school bus had run out of fuel in the lion enclosure. They were all sat there eating sandwiches with the windows and rear doors open. There was a lot of action from the keepers when I stopped to tell them. They were aware that they were there but not that they were doing what they were doing. Silly fools!
Went again last year after many years, took my OH's 15yr old Focus through & like other posters, enjoyed watching the monkeys ripping bits off peoples cars!
If they land on your car you normally hear them & you can drive off quite sharply, they shoot off the back but I've never seen one harmed.
It's the rhinos I'd be really concerned about lol!
If they land on your car you normally hear them & you can drive off quite sharply, they shoot off the back but I've never seen one harmed.
It's the rhinos I'd be really concerned about lol!
Also. No convertibles. Unsurprisingly not lion proof.
Funnily enough though, Serengeti open jeep tours don't seem so hot on this.....
I've had my car damaged twice. Once by monkeys and once by a myopic old git in a hire car who hit me in the lion enclosure (my wife calls it that......fnarr), and actually opened his door to have a look at the damage.
Funnily enough though, Serengeti open jeep tours don't seem so hot on this.....
I've had my car damaged twice. Once by monkeys and once by a myopic old git in a hire car who hit me in the lion enclosure (my wife calls it that......fnarr), and actually opened his door to have a look at the damage.
Edited by TimmyMallett on Friday 28th April 13:25
hornetrider said:
This.
I've been a few times and have emerged relatively unscathed. However before entering the park I do remove the wipers and put them in the boot. (Provided it's not raining)
That's a very bad idea, as my uncle once found out. One of the monkeys pulled his wiper arm up, which was now without its wiper. A second took umbrage and batted the wiper arm out of his co-monkeys hand. I've been a few times and have emerged relatively unscathed. However before entering the park I do remove the wipers and put them in the boot. (Provided it's not raining)
Spring loaded arm - wiper + monkey letting it go = cracked windscreen.
Looking back at it, it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen, though at the time my uncle was f
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