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Port Lympne Hotel & Reserve is regularly celebrated by news outlets and blogs around the world for our great value days out, award-winning short break accommodations and our conservation work in partnership with The Aspinall Foundation.

We experience the King of the Afternoon Tea Jungle

Afternoon tea in a dazzling mansion, which has welcomed everybody from Winston Churchill to Charlie Chaplin, with wall and ceiling murals of lions and giraffes - and the real things outside - plus sea views? Count us in.

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The Park in Kent Where Animals Roam Free

This beautiful pocket of rural Kent is an animal lover’s dream and for our money, could be the most exciting wildlife experience in the UK.

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Port Lympne Giraffe Encounter is the Height of Excitement

We're barely 90 minutes from London, and yet we're surrounded by a tower of giraffes in a scene plucked straight from Kenya - at least, it would be if their numbers hadn't been decimated.

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Kent Safari Park First in Europe Where Visitors Can Meet Three Species of Rhino

A Kent safari park is the first in Europe where visitors can meet and even feed three species of rhino in one visit.

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Port Lympne Launches Glass Wigwam Accommodation Where Your Neighbours are a Pair of Rare Leopards

Damian Aspinall’s beloved safari park is known for its close encounters, with suites overlooking lions and tigers, but these new properties promise even more glamour and luxury.

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Kent Wildlife Park Welcomes Brown Bear Cub

Port Lympne Reserve in Kent has welcomed a European brown bear cub to the park. The bear, named Boki, was born in January but was rejected by his mother shortly after birth, weighing less than 9kg.

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The best hotels for Christmas in the UK

A stay at this Kentish nature reserve is the UK's answer to taking off on safari for a Christmas getaway – the 600 acres here are home to lions, tigers, bears and giraffes at which to gaze during a bracing tour.

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Europe Travel With Kids: 8 Top Zoos To Visit In 2022

Port Lympne houses a number of rare and endangered species such as Siberian tigers and has Britain’s largest breeding herd of black rhinoceros.

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Port Lympne Reserve Near Hythe Welcomed an Indian Rhino, to its Collection

A Kent safari park is the first in Europe where visitors can meet and even feed three species of rhino in one visit.

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Happy Accident for Keepers at Port Lympne Zoo

After rescuing a family of European brown bears from Andorra in Spain, Boki's mother was already pregnant on arrival, but she rejected him after 10 weeks.

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Best UK Hotels 2022: Where to Stay for Luxury, Design and Value for Money

Best for families: Who said you had to leave the UK to go on safari? Certainly not the folks at this 600-acre Kentish ‘savannah’, that’s dedicated to conservation and helps to re-populate endangered wildlife.

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Adventure on a Stay-at-Home Safari at Port Lympne in Kent

FORGET a walk on the wild side and take a nap there instead. Port Lympne Hotel & Reserve, in the rolling hills of the Kent countryside, recently opened its new Leopard Creek.

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Indulge Your Wild Side With a Safari in Deepest Kent

As I ambled down the track in the twilight, making my way to the treehouse where I was to spend the night, I could hear the howling of wolves and the shrieking of primates...

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Sleeping With Big Cats in Kent Taught me More Than Tiger King

Netflix's Tiger King is changing attitudes towards zoos, but attractions like Kent's Port Lympne Safari Park can be a force for good.

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Animals at Port Lympne and Howletts Keeping Cool With Ice Lollies and Mud Baths

Staff at two of Kent's most popular animal parks have been busy making ice lollies to keep the animals cool during the heatwave.

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Inside Coronation Street Star Jack P Shepherd’s £1,200-a-Night Luxury Birthday Trip to Kent

Coronation Street star Jack P Shepherd showed fans inside his luxury birthday trip to a hotel in a safari park.

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Port Lympne Welcomes Four New Lion Cubs

Four lion cubs have been introduced to the world at Port Lympne in Kent as they gain strength ready for their debut outside.

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Two Endangered Lemurs Born at Port Lympne Reserve

Two baby lemurs have been born at Port Lympne Reserve in Kent. The white-belted ruffed lemurs, one male and one female, were born on July 10.

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