In Reply to: has anyone stayed at the Elephant Park posted by bigsis on Monday, 14. November 2011 at 05:37 Bali Time:
visited Taro elephant park.
Safari park rooms overlook the savanna exhibit so you can see rhino zebra and other african animals from your rooms. From memory the elephant exhibit was behind this, my kids did the elephant ride and there was a baby elephant and her mum that you could feed in the same area. The benefit of the safari park is that you can have up close experiences with organutan and wild cats as well as the elephants.
Taro we did the elephant ride then had a good half hour feeding, patting and having photos with the elephants. This was in the early days before the safari park or the other elephant park were built. it was awesome, my mum described it as "priceless".
I think if you want a real elephant experience I would go Taro, if you want animal experience I would go Safari park.
On our last recent visit to the bali zoo they had a number system at set times after you had been around the zoo and you could hold a cat/bear thingy, a crocodile and a baby tiger.....