A bit on the expensive side (ca £18 for an adult), but one of my favourite places to nip into. Love watching the chimpansees and the lemures!
Animation parc with zoo, nice view and Tivoli. Price are correct. You can have a direct contact with many animals. You pay a entrance price and after you pay as you want different animations. Nice place to have a pique-nique and some beautiful view! Easy access and lot of parking place.Great moment in a very nice place in Sweden !
Furuviksparken has specialized in monkeys, so if you are interested in them there is a lot to see. What we appreciate the most is the family friendly design of the park. Apart from animals and the amuzement part, there is also an "adventure track" along with a really good pool area. Be aware however, that the water is usually quite cold. One tip is to bring your own picknick food. The usual zoo-type restaurants are available, but it is much nicer to bring your food out to the cliffs at the sea side.
I went there with two boys aged 8 and 10 with an overnight package, staying in the old Orient Express train wagons located inside the park by the waterland. When we arrived, we started by the pool before doing anything else (had been driving for a couple of hours in the morning). Then most of the first day was spend at the tivoli, we only had time to see a few of the animals that day. The kids LOVED the old fortress out on an island in the end of the park, that was very exciting for them. The night in the train-wagon was cramped and hot, but we had a floor-fan (necessary!) to help out a little. Still an adventure for the kids! Next day we focused on the zoo-part of the park and then went back to the tivoli. Before leaving, we did the pool again. A nice and convienent park for families!
The posstive things, beatiful huge park with nice habitat besides the sea and some animals to see and some rollercasters and lottery for fun to spend your time and money on.Now to the negative sides:Parking is very expensive by car and so is the entrance and all activities inside, aful expensive in my point of view but if you rich never mind.They removed all cool animals like lions, tigers, bears and so on, Only left is some racoons, monkeys, horses, fishand goats, perhaps some Chamels and Lamas as well.For Reptile lovers it´s a tradegy to see the park mix different snake species in same housing, I´m very supprised how it can be allowed by Swedish animal protection agency.Further more I can tell you I´m from Gavle city and grow up here and the park was match better with more cool animals and mmore activities to do for much lower prices when it use to be own by the goverment, sence it become private it all goes in the way to only make money to as low cost as possible and never mind animals or activities as long as we can sacm all visitors for money. For me and my family I stopped visit the park cause it is to expensive and no cool animals to see and I don't want to contribute with my money for the poor reptiles that do not have a own habitat and risking being in bad health because of the abuse and mixing them, and you wonder how do I now this as a fact? I tell you, I just 2weeks ago met a person that resine for the Reptiles department cause it felt wrong to see the reptiles be mixed like this so my source is former employee of the park.Visit and judge for your self but comparing in money the Stockholm Grönalund park is bigger and almost same price so we prefere to go there and now animals suffers on Skansken in Stockholm.Hope you got som use of this.RegardsJimmy
Here you can come close to the animals, have a nice stroll, go on a rollercoaster or listen to openair concerts.In December you can visit Santa Claus and enjoy the Christmas atomosphere.
We spent a day here with our 2 year old son and we all had a great time! Unfortunately, it was a bit hectic in the morning, the lines were very long to get tickets and enter, and then it was quite crowded in the animal areas (particular the monkeys), but once we got past that area, the crowd dispersed a little and then it was fine for the rest of the day. A lot of the animals are out in the open and you walk right past them with no barrier, such as monkeys, snakes, and turtles. We really enjoyed the Amazon boat ride, a nice respite after the busy morning. The picnic areas by the water seemed really nice for relaxing, as well as the adventure island. We had lunch in the tivoli area and had a great time going on a number of rides, not having to wait more than 10 minutes for any ride. I bought a wrist band getting access to all the rides, but my son was able to go for free with me, so we were able to ride his favorites over and over again! After a long hot day of walking around and going on rides, we really enjoyed the water park area, it was very refreshing, even if we were in the kiddie pool most of the time. They could definitely add more pools to this area, it was quite popular and the pool was crowded. We thoroughly enjoyed our day there, but one piece of feedback I would give the park is to increase the number of restrooms they have available. The restrooms were few and far between, and each one only had 2-3 stalls, so you can imagine the queues on a busy July day. And many times the stall was out of paper as well.
Furuviksparken is situated by the sea and offers everything a family could ask for. Beautiful surroundings, lots of animals, especially monkeys and gorillas, a fun fair, entertainment and helpful staff. And a very good restaurant by the sea, Furuviks Brygga.
Good mix including rides, animals/reptiles waterfun (for youngsters) and food. Not as cheap as it used to be, but worth a visit.
Amusement park with rides (not super impressive) and a zoo. Zoo is famous for their monkeys, especially chimpanses. All set in nice surroundings!