Elephant Retirement Park Phuket - Private VIP Experience
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- We did the VIP Tour of the Elephant Retirement Park in Phuket, Thailand. We experienced the joy of playing with, feeding, and bathing our baby elephant Pinky.
Many of these elephants were rescued from trekking/riding parks and were brought to the safety of the Elephant Retirement Park, where they treat the animals with honor and respect. We booked the VIP/honeymoon experience which means we got a private tour, our own guide and elephant, a mini-cooking class, private lunch, and nearly 300 photos taken by our own personal photographer.
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This video is absolutely amazing! It is definitely something to add on a bucket list! Thanks One Chance Travel! We had referenced your article on stravell.com
Stravell Blog thanks! It really was an amazing experience!
Wow this is amazing!!!
Faith in humanity restored!!
It’s an awesome place!
Nice Video. Welcome to Thailand.
Attha AtthaBhum thank you 🙏
U can visit lek chailert too .it's worth a visit ❤️
Will definitely do this when I go to thailand. Thank you for sharing
You’re very welcome. Have fun!
Visit Lek instead @ Elephant News.
I am supposed to be going with my sister to Thailand in October, but right now it is all up in the air. I hope we get to go. I love that you went to a place that is a sanctuary for elephants. I made a whole video rant about why people shouldn't be supporting 'ride an elephant' establishments.
Thanks! We did a lot of research to ensure we were supporting a rescue and not an elephant riding place. If you go to Thailand, check out Koh Lanta. It’s a little island that’s just stunning with super nice people and amazing street food.
Thanks for watching and thank you for not supporting the riding places! They are such beautiful animals and I hope you get to experience Thailand! Safe travels 🙂
wow such a cool experience
Concerned about the well-being of elephants since 2015, The number of tourists who help to nourish the elephant life at the Elephant Retirement Park in Thailand has been decreased.
Why is this? Can you please elaborate as we are going to Phuket and are thinking of going to the Sanctuary.
@@CowboyJojosAdventures :
Past statistics indicated that those who visit elephants in Thailand Most of them are tourists from Europe and America. Which may be due to the poor global economic situation, Causing such tourists to decrease too.
If you have a travel plan to visit the elephant treatment facility in Phuket in the near future We, the Thai people, as the host would have a warm welcome. Which is currently open for service, We and these elephants are always waiting for you.
Whether tourists Will visit any elephant therapy facility in Thailand Is considered to help raise elephants that have been selected from hard work To relax in their last moments Under the embrace of our love
Apologize for not being fluent in English (translation is done through Google's program).
B W your English is good. Thank you. We are considering doing the VIP Experience, but are not sure how much they charge.
@Cowboy Jojo’s Adventures :
You can receive information or contact from the organization's website directly according to the link.
www.phuketlandtour.com/en/tour-view.php?tour_id=39
www.phuketelephantsanctuary.org/en/
Your welcome always.
Lek @ Elephant News on TH-cam is buying many from mahouts. Thank God!
Going here next week 😃
The Roar Within you’ll love it! If Nicky is still there tell him we said hello!
Hello, I loved your video. The website says they have 3 parks in Phuket, which did you visit?
Thanks! Yea there's a couple with really similar names, the address was 392/5 Thanon Bandon-Cherngtalay. Here's the website of the one we went to: elephantretirementparkphuket.com/
can you please provide us the information where i can get this VIP tour reserved for my family we are planning to go Thailand in mid july 2019
Arishi Rizvi check out the elephant retirement park website in Phuket, Thailand. This is the VIP experience version of the tour which is offered a few times a week.
www.elephantretirementpark.com/ is their site
OMG I literally thought the elephant at 00:57 haha
FashioNica they’re so much fun!
Great place :) and great Video - we've ben in similar place :)
They are such wonderful animals!
I know they are lovely 🤩 we’ve had a feeling like inside their is human - it was such a magical experience🇹🇭🙏
Tu I Tam we totally agree!
What an awesome experience. Can you please tell me the cost per person or for a couple for the VIP pass? A great video. Thank you for sharing.
I think it was around $150 usd per person, well worth it. Check out our website for the link to the park website and even more info. Many parks have similar names.
How much
Jess Mags it’s around $200 a person for the VIP experience and it’s super worth it!
To me it is not a sanctuary - the elephants have ropes around their necks and why are they still kept in an enclosure at times, why do they not roam freely?
Aimee here. I spent probably 3-4 hours researching ethical elephant parks before we went to Thailand to ensure we were not supporting animal abuse.
The ropes are to help their handlers guide them, since they are still giant animals they have to have something to lead them around the park. Also let’s be real - if the elephant wants to run away a thin rope is not going to stop them. It’s mostly to guide them, like a bridle on a horse. Some of them do roam freely but most of them are in pens for their own protection.
As we drove around Thailand we saw elephants literally chained up in what looks like a jail cell on the side of the road. Those places are the ones to avoid. You can Google to see the differences but be ready for the graphic images.
Just a tip - anywhere that offers an elephant “safari” or “trekking” is generally elephant riding which is extremely harmful to the elephants but still very common.
I hope this helps. Many of these elephants were rescued from trekking places and are living the rest of their lives at the sanctuary. If you go to one of these, please do your research on TripAdvisor to read real people’s reviews first.
You can see in the photos these animals are also in enclosures at the park you mentioned, so it seems very similar. They do that to ensure they eat (since they eat a lot) and get medicine.
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