Healesville Sanctuary: Your Breathtaking Aussie Wildlife Journey

The flight expo was amazing 🤩 highly recommend this place - the trainers the birds of flight so good!

What set this place apart was the caliber of the staff throughout the sanctuary. Without exception, they were highly knowledgeable and helpful. So much value was added to our visit from their work in explaining what we were seeing, to helping us spot things that were hidden, and so on.

Amazing place to visit to see and learn more of Australian wildlife, with a strong focus on education and preservation. Well done to the team! Variety to see were much greater than expected, and lots of places to take a rest and let kids blow off steam

we wanted to see native Australian animals whilst visiting Australia. Plenty to see. Saw koalas and kangaroo and more.

The sanctuary grounds and animals were amazing. However with 2 small children requiring the toilet, the overflowing sanitary bins, faeces and urine flowing on the ground caused my 4 year old to vomit. It was absolutely disgusting, never have I experienced such appalling facilities. For the cost of tickets surely cleaners can maintain the facilities even to a reasonable standard.

While a pleasant stroll for a couple of hours, there isnt alot there. It hasnt changed much since the 1980’s and it was once good back in the day, but times of changed and it hasnt kept up with modern standards. In todays world it is very average and poor is some respects There is virtually no reptiles at all. A little metal shed with 4 windows, that takes 20 seconds to walk through . A bird Avery thats more like a large cage with 4 or 5 parrots. No fresh water marine life section at all, other than a platypus . Food - terrible. a couple of take away spots with chips and pizza which were in competition with a nest of wasps that were both in the kitchen on the food and in the seating area. Staff - putting aside its definitely far left woke world, not that its in your face and you have engage in it, but more importantly the lack of knowledge was surprising. The staff in the bird cage that only had 4-5 parrots didnt know what family of birds parrots relate too. Saying “i dont know alot about them” is never a good look. Overall, its typical sleepy very average experience. You wouldnt go out of your way to drive to it unless you were passing by. Ultimately it needs tens of millions of dollars in investment, a shift away from its 1980’s origins and a large number of animals and reptiles brought in. At the moments its not worth a visit

My second visit to the park- partners first visit. Both times have been a great experience. Lots of knowledge volunteers and keepers to supplement our learning. One of the best things to see (other than the spirit of the sky) is the zoo hospital. We were lucky enough to see a koala being treated and under anaesthetic.

Very disappointing trip. It cost $80 to get in (we have considered it a donation), but we saw mainly birds and not all of them were even there. The flight bird show was wonderful but there were only about 5 kangaroos to see and a couple of wallabies and koalas. We saw 1 platypus. A whole lot of the animals were in hiding, no dingoes or raptors. A lot of the pens were empty. There was an open type aviary and it only had one bird in it! A lot of the animals advertised were not there! I would go if you want to see some birds but it is very costly. Save your money and go for a bush walk where you will see more birds out in the wild. Very disappointing! Never go back there. The aboriginal culture and belief system is forced upon you all through the entire sanctuary. Especially at the bird show. I don't believe in any of it and is the only public place I know that forces you to listen to a belief system or religion per say.

The ticket was not the original but that was not a problem, they took a photo of my ticket and let me in. The spirits of the sky was a little bit disappointing, you couldn't enjoy the show with the amount of wasps that were there. Anyways, I recomend this place if you want to see animals more lively with more space for them, not like other zoos where the place is very small.

We LOVED seeing so many endemic animals up-close! It was easy to find our way around. Employees were friendly, informative and helpful. We were there in time to see Spirits of the Sky which was an excellent program! We appreciated being able to purchase products that would help in conservation and protection programs. Would recommend!!!