The Donkey Sanctuary

Free to enter and free to park, with a lovely restaurant and countryside. Informative and relaxing with knowledgeable and helpful staff, plus a lot of fluffy sweet donkeys. There’s a play area for kids, a maze and activity trails to follow. There’s also a great walk down to the beach, although would be challenging on the way back for small children I think.

The sanctuary is beautiful – really well kept and a lovely place for the donkeys. There is a play area and maze as well as a cafe which serves good food and cake. A walk of a mile takes you down to a secluded beach from the sanctuary. Worth taking some durable shoes – we walked it with a buggy not realising and it was a bit tricky with the fences/steps down to the beach but thankfully had many hands. Lovely to do though and back to the cafe after for cake. There is a nice gift shop and as it is free to get in either buying sponsorship of a donkey or some bits in the gift shop for the kids is easy and helps them keep going. Very impressed and would return.

The Donkey Sanctuary might be the epitome of good animal care. I visited with family whilst on holiday, finding the sanctuary to be very lovely, the animals were well cared for, and the scenery was beautiful. Despite the hot weather, we have a great day out, and not enough praise can be heaped on the staff and volunteers for the amount of care they give to the donkeys and the facilities. One volunteer gave us the low-down on the type of care they give, the donkeys they take in, and the sanctuary’s lengthy history. The sanctuary also had a good restaurant with great food. By far, the highest praise has to be to the customer service, who provided a mobility scooter to one of my relatives, making the experience much more easier and enjoyable for him. In a slight con — the hedge maze was near-inescapable!

An amazing place that cares for donkeys, fun and free day out – donations to be made at visitors discretion. Good fun for all the family, really good facilities, it is such a large place! Lovely donkeys and staff. Would recommend, please sponsor a donkey!