Monkey Forest

I’ve been coming here since it opened, they do excellent work reintroducing the monkeys back in to North Africa so that makes the cost even more reasonable.
The monkeys are starting to give birth at this time of year, so you get to see some super cute babies too.
I find on sure cafés in places like this rather uninspiring or overpriced, but this one is good considering, and there is a lovely picnic area which I’m always a far bigger fan of!
The staff are lovely, and it’s great for groups, families or couples, and it’s all wheelchair accessible.
East trip across to trentham gardens, the shopping village, garden centre and barefoot walk too. Always did find it odd though that they have an aerial extreme rather than a go ape though!

Pretty good. Not too expensive, £7.50 for the day. Staff are very friendly, very keen to talk to you.
The toilets were clean and the restaurant seemed to have a good range of stuff. Gift shop didn’t seem too expensive either.
You couldn’t necessarily spend ages there though, probably only a couple of hours.

Very unique and enjoyable day. I liked that monkeys were introduced back into the wild. Lots of information available on site to learn about them.
I blogged about my day here:

If a few hours in the company of our closest relatives is your thing, then this is the place to come! The monkeys are friendly, playful, funny and just the most cute things you would ever want to see!
Few issues on customer service — queuing, number of tills etc — especially in the gift shop. Café and toilet facilities are okay though.
You will most definitely want to come back! A place for children of all ages! :)

What’s not love? Well if you love animals of the monkey variety, which I sure do. this is just such a great facility. You can roam around the forest as do the monkeys although the pictures are a bit misleading, a monkey never came up to me once! I would love to have a one on one but we are told to stay a meter away for both out safety.
The monkeys are amazingly well behaved and if they want to cross the path in front of you they will but cautious that they are off ‘their home ground.‘
Hugely entertaining, our cheeky friends are always playing and if they’re not doing that, they are grooming each other. Constantly.
They clearly get fed well and you can watch the staff doing this if you time it right. At the same time they’ll give a little talk (the staff, not the monkeys) and answer questions.
It’s amazing how ‘house trained’ they are in that they don’t mind us humans roaming around on their territory.
If I lived closer, I would love go to back each season. Spring is when they are having babies and we were lucky to witness 4 tiny things clinging on to their mums. In the Summer they will travel on their Mum’s backs and I’d love to see that.
Well worth the ticket price of around £7 and there is a café for lunch and refreshments so you can spend a good half day here.
Beware of the lines in the tiny gift shop. We also had a line to get in even though we got there at the 10am opening but that was due to a fault with their credit card machine. So they lose a star on the facilities but it’s 5 stars for the monkeys!

Nice day out, good value for money though you can easily walk round in a hour or two, though with trentham gardens next to it this makes a good full day out for all the family see my full review

A beautiful place for the animals there. Got some lovely close-​up ‘photos of the monkeys (actually I thought they were apes — no tails).
The café was large and clean, although a bit expensive. The gift shop was a bit small and had a limited selection of things to buy. A great place for children. Very nice.