I’m thinking ahead to my summer vacation. Has anyone been to, or have any information about
this place?
Nobody even heard of it? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Never been to their facility, but they bring some of the animals up for a show at the Boston Renaissance Faire that I get to most years. Neat show there, good enough that I’d probably try and drop by if I happened to be in the area.
Driven past it many times, seems fairly small. Never been inside, but some friends of mine went, they said it was pretty standard stuff. They think the tiger cub they took a picture with was drugged or very sleepy.
If your expectations are suitably tuned to Myrtle Beach frequency, it will probably not be disappointing. Bear in mind that it is every bit as much a tourist trap as the mini golf and go cart places.
Also, from an animal welfare/conservation perspective, places like this are of dubious value, if that sort of thing concerns you. If you really want to see animals, in appropriate conditions, there are many fine zoos out there and they wll almost certainly cost less money.
Of course, if you are looking for something touristy and kind of silly that you couldn’t see at home, you could do much worse.
It is a glass enclosure about the size of a mall store with about 5 large tigers in it. Behind the glass enclosure they have a small store and a place to take pictures. There are TVs with a loop about the place in the country where the tigers live when not in the enclosure and an appearance by a liger and trainer on the Tonight show. You can take pictures with one of the adult tigers, a monkey, or one of about 10 tiger cubs that are in a smaller enclosure. It is amazing to see the tigers that close, but most of the time they are sleeping. The tiger cubs are very cute and there is usually a group of people around the enclosure.
I’ve never been there, but I HAVE been to Myrtle Beach a time or three. Honestly, if the Smithsonian, DisneyLand, SeaWorld and the World’s Largest Ball o’ Twine were located in Myrtle Beach I’d still find a vacation spot elsewhere. What a shithole of a town…
That having been said, I must suggest that anyone vacationing in Myrtle should drive down to Murrell’s Inlet and have dinner at Flo’s Place. You won’t regret it. A day trip down to Charleston is also nice.
'Gotta agree about Murrell’s Inlet; wonderful place straight out of a Jimmy Buffett song. Charleston…ehhhh, not bad as long as you never leave the peninsula.
Good call on Charleston and Murrell’s. Not that anybody asked, but if you are in the Myrtle Beach area, and you want to see a real beach, you know, the kind with a wide enough sandy part to put out a towel, definitely check out the beaches of Brunswick and New Hanover Counties, in **North **Carolina. About an hour north. Better fishing too.
Well, thanks, all. This is the information I needed. Not going there. I’ll spend more time in the Outer Banks instead.
outer banks? don’t plan around late aug. early sept. the high point of hurricane season.
No, it’ll probably be earlier. I have spent vacations several times on Ocracoke, Pauley’s Island and/or Chincoteague. I know all about the weather there. The first time I went to Ocracoke it was a week after a hurricane. Everything was fine, I was just in time for the hatching of the post-hurricane mosquitos.
Garden City & Surfside Beaches are pretty nice, too.
And from someone who LIVES in Murrells Inlet - I wouldn’t set foot in Flos Place if you PAID me.
Missed the relevant post. Sorry.