An animal park featuring King Kong and dinosaurs to open doors this Thursday
Here’s a great piece of news to all the parents with kids that love animals!
An Animal Park featuring 15 animals, including animatronic dinosaurs, mammoth and King Kong, will open on Thursday besides the Qatar Sport Club in West Bay.
The Peninsula reports that with the gigantic animals moving and creating sounds, the edutainment park is brought to Doha by CAC Events, in collaboration with AJ Entertainment company and Qatar Tourism Authority.
“The concept of the park is to entertain and educate children because every animal in the park will get a banner containing all details in Arabic and English,” said Christon Thomas, Managing Director, CAC Events.
He said the park was inspired by characters from films and created after the success of the Dinosaur Village in Muscat last year.
The Dinosaur Village is in Salalah in Oman and will come to Doha soon, he added. “We brought 15 animatronic dinosaurs to Muscat which witnessed 1.2 million footfalls in 31 days,” he said.
Tickets cost QR15 for children and QR25 for adults while babies will have free entry.
There is also a kids’ arena which features entertainment and rides priced costing QR10 per ride for two to five minutes.
The park will be open daily from Thursday until April 2 from 4pm to 11pm and on Saturday from 10am to 11pm. After Doha, it will travel to Bahrain, Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon and the UAE.
(Cover image courtesy: Ray Toh)
We planned to go. But after seeing Tarshan and Shail comments, now we have to rethink. Why can't organizer clarify these comments. Normally in Doha, authorities give permission to charge for the events if it is reasonable one. Did anyone else visited, please post your opinion. It will be useful for several persons like me.
We planned to go. But after seeing Tarshan and Shail comments, now we have to rethink. Why can't organizer clarify these comments. Normally in Doha, authorities give permission to charge for the events if it is reasonable one. Did anyone else visited, please post your opinion. It will be useful for several persons like me.
Dear A.tarshan,
Good comments, unfortunately I didn't read it before and waste my money also on last Friday with other friends....
They have just put some 10-15 statues here and there with some noise and that's all. Even, our children didn't enjoyed the scene. The charge is too much for even children and additional fee for ride.
Hope there will be some action and control for such event organizers who cheat the people on the name of their children
Hi there
The reason why I'm writing this comment is that to advice people not to go to what so called Animal Park located near QTF, Al Dafna.
I went there under the impression that I'll see something joyful for kids, bought tickets and stepped into a temporary fence which turned to be the only fence. Just by the first sight I decided to go back, literally, nothing is there... Just 300m of an open non-paved land that has 4 or 5 silly robotic animals not even moving. In a addition, if you want to use the kids playing area inside (which is actually just a ski ballon) but it's the only thing that kids can do, you have to pay to a different company operating this area!
However, I went back to the tickets kiosk asking for refund, precisely I spent less than 5 minutes. When I was trying to convince them that the word-of-mouth is much more valuable than my tickets value. They rejected to refund and dealt with impolite, improper way to the extent that made me yelling on them. I went outside and starting telling the people who were intended to go inside (Don't go, there is nothing to do, they are cheating). Tried to call the police when they became so rude to me, but there was no response. I went to Qatar Tourism website and dropped a complaint, because I strongly believe they will never give a license to such a place which is really not ready to receive visitors yet. I'm hardly calling it a (place)... Come on it's just a temporary fence surrounding a piece of land...that's it.
Hi there
The reason why I'm writing this comment is that to advice people not to go to what so called Animal Park located near QTF, Al Dafna.
I went there under the impression that I'll see something joyful for kids, bought tickets and stepped into a temporary fence which turned to be the only fence. Just by the first sight I decided to go back, literally, nothing is there... Just 300m of an open non-paved land that has 4 or 5 silly robotic animals not even moving. In a addition, if you want to use the kids playing area inside (which is actually just a ski ballon) but it's the only thing that kids can do, you have to pay to a different company operating this area!
However, I went back to the tickets kiosk asking for refund, precisely I spent less than 5 minutes. When I was trying to convince them that the word-of-mouth is much more valuable than my tickets value. They rejected to refund and dealt with impolite, improper way to the extent that made me yelling on them. I went outside and starting telling the people who were intended to go inside (Don't go, there is nothing to do, they are cheating). Tried to call the police when they became so rude to me, but there was no response. I went to Qatar Tourism website and dropped a complaint, because I strongly believe they will never give a license to such a place which is really not ready to receive visitors yet. I'm hardly calling it a (place)... Come on it's just a temporary fence surrounding a piece of land...that's it.
Ofcourse it is business.. I just love the gobbledygook PR stuff they use .....
“The concept of the park is to entertain and educate children because every animal in the park will get a banner containing all details in Arabic and English,”
Educate with fictitious object? get real Thomas, we all know it's only for business :(
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I wonder if they count in the "foot falls"
"babies will have free entry." I'm just wondering how babies can enter without their parents? If I were a baby I would insist on the free entrance, but how could I get in?
“We brought 15 animatronic dinosaurs to Muscat which witnessed 1.2 million footfalls in 31 days,” .....
Why must they always use PR speak.. Just say it in plain English...
How many visitors did you get