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Hello,
I visited you again,yesterday(Friday),and once again had a thoroughly enjoyable day.I have been lots of times over the years,bringing my son when he was a child,he is now 27!!!
There is something for old and young,I brought a friend along who is nearly 80,and he had a lovely day.
Your keepers are amazing,will answer any question with full confidence.A special mention to the guy who was feeding the meerkats.I am sure I kept him well beyond his time slot with my questions,but he answered with patience,as though I was the only visitor there.They are a credit to you.
The cafe food looked amazing,I didn't indulge,but my friend had apple pie which he said was delicious.
I don't know whether you know,but we found a ladies handbag on the seat next to us in the cafe,and we handed it in.There appeared to be a purse inside.Do you know if anyone claimed it,I hope so.
Once again,thanks for a lovely day,special kiss for 'Dippy'.
Kind regards,Cherry.

LETTERS OF THE WEEK

My husband and I, along with my daughter and her partner, paid a visit to you on Wednesday of this week. Whilst we were with you my daughter and her partner had an encounter with the penguins, shortly followed by my husband and I who met your meerkats. I felt I had to write to say how impressed we were with our whole day. Jake, if I remember his name correctly, the keeper who looked after us on our encounters, was extremely knowlegable and took some fantastic photo's of us all and we were delighted with the discs that we were given to take home so please pass our grateful thanks onto him. My daughter, who has two parrots of her own, fell in love with all your birds, especially the cockatoos, macaws and the greys. Your grounds are beautiful and all the birds looked very happy and I'm sure we will pay another visit to you on any future visits to the Island.
Christine, Neale, Emily and Spike

Hi Lorraine
Just to say a massive thank you for making our honeymoon brilliant is was really interesting and for Michelle was the thing she had waiting to do since she was 3 years old
so thank you again for letting us do the penguin enclosure it really made our honeymoon and we have walked away with some amazing memories
Glen & Michelle Clougher

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I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say thank you very much for the Meerkat encounter that my daughter, Lauren Hornby, went on last week – she had an absolutely fantastic time and we now have two other little girls who are desperate to do the same thing once they are old enough.
I also wanted to say a special thank you to Becky who really made Lauren feel at ease and helped her to enjoy a fantastic experience.
Thanks very much, and I am sure we will be seeing you again soon!
Kind regards,
Andy.

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Dear everyone at Seaview,

We visited the park on Weds 16^th May for a Penguin encounter. Just wanted to thank you very very much for a brilliant day! The encounter for the two of us was a Christmas present so we had been counting down the days to our visit for some time!
We both thoroughly enjoyed our day meeting Dippy and his friends. Please also pass a special thank you to Jules and Fern for looking after us so well. We learnt so much about the penguins and had a superb time feeding and interacting with them all. We were able to relive our day all over again when we returned home at the weekend & got to look through the brilliant CD of photos of our time.
We were also really impressed with the rest of the park and had a lot of fun meeting all the other animals you look after. We will definitely be recommending a visit to all our friends and family.
We were both very sad to read about the passing of Humphrey last week. However we feel honoured to have had the privilege to meet and feed him when we visited & we could see how well loved and looked after he was by keepers and visitors alike

Thank you again for a brilliant day out

Louise and Laura

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Dear Seaview Wildlife Encounter,

I wasnt sure who to email about this, but i would like to say i had a wonderful day at your zoo. I had a brilliant one to one session with the penguins and everyone was really helpful and friendly. I also like how we were able to interact with the animals around the zoo, from the ducks to the wallabies. It was lovely - so much so, that it has made me realise how much i do love animals, and i have now decided to enrol on an animal management course! - something i've been meaning to do for a while.
Thank you once again,
Rebecca Ellis

Letter of the week

10th September, 2010

Subject: GOOD NEWS - You are a finalist in the Beautiful South Awards for Excellence 2010

Dear Ms Brittan,

I am delighted to inform you that your entry has been shortlisted for The Beautiful South Awards for Excellence 2010 in the 'Best Tourism Experience' category. Congratulations!

You will shortly receive a congratulatory letter from our Chief Executive Mike Bedingfield and your personal invite to an evening of celebration on the 21 October, 2010. I hope that you and your colleagues will be able to attend.

A series of press releases, announcing the shortlist will be dispatched on Tuesday 14 September.

Once again, many congratulations and I look forward to welcoming you to what I am sure will be a memorable evening of celebration at Mercedes-Benz World on Thursday 21 October, 2010.

Kind regards,

Andrew Gostelow,
Head of Communications, Membership & Visitor Services,
Tourism South East.

Letters of the week at Seaview Wildlife

" Cleanest Wildlife animal attraction we have visited - lovely design, layout for us and the animals" Les, Jodie & Emily Harris, Cheltenham

"Truly Magical" Rob & Sam, South Yorkshire

" A lovely place to bring my grand daughter. She had a wonderful time along with the rest of us" Lynn, Neil, Greg & Kiera, Bucks

" Really great day out - animals so friendly - Took lots of photos! One of the best places on the Island!" Karen Dance, Cambs

" 4th trip in 4 years and getting better each year" St. Mary's Primary School, Ryde

" Peaceful, excellent food & service. Could not fault it. Definately would come back" Andrew & Mary Wallington

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This letter was kindly sent in from Marina & Stan Phipps from Longwell Green, Bristol. Each department received a copy of this letter - how wonderful that visitors take the time to sit down and write a positive letter of praise - letters like these really boosts staff moral and makes all the hard work worthwhile. Thank you Mr. & Mrs. Phipps for your positive up lifting letter.

" Dear Sirs,

Just got back from our usual holiday this time on the Isle Of Wight. As I am now elderly and need a walker to assist me, we were wondering where to go suitable. The waitress suggested Flamingo Park. Oh - Flamingos, ducks, once seen - not keen. However, she said very pleasant to walk around & plenty of seats. Hey-ho, somewhere to go.

But my golly we were delighted, Wow factor straight away on entering. So pleasant - the layout, the ducks, birds & animals, everything so interesting. Pleasant helpful staff. 1st class Cafe - everything.

Outstanding hygiene and love and care for the animals and visitors alike. We stayed hours and hours and will visit again at a later date. Truly 5 star on every level. A credit and great asset to the Isle Of Wight.

On relating such to other guests they visited and agreed. AMAZING."

Thank you,

Marina & Stan Phipps

Letter of the week

Dear Sir/Madam,

I'm writing to you basically to say how much me, me wife, the me children (9) and (5) ended our weeks holiday all for the good especially enjoyed feeding the animals including the penguins, wallabies and the parrots.

We go there quite often every time we come to the Isle of Wight and make it top of the list. Me boyz especially thought Jake was very nice and very helpful which also makes the visit more enjoyable special thanks to him.

Hope to see you all again, keep up the good work, take care, yours sincerely P.M. Day

Letter of the Week - from Marion Wade

Image: Pink-Backed Pelican - M.E. Wade - 2009

Marion and Tony Wade have been returning visitors to Seaview Wildlife Encounter over a number of years. Marion regularly enters our 'wildlife photographer of the year' competition and has proven herself to be a talent to be reckoned with! We recently entered some of Marion's photographs taken during her trip to the Park last year onto our website - http://www.seaviewwildlife.com/ (Photo Gallery) - our doing this may have sparked Marion into writing the really warm letter that we've selected as our 'letter of the week' - below. Thank you Marion - we hope to see you and Tony back again really soon and hope you may consider submitting some new photographs in this year's competition.

"Dear Jules,

It was lovely to meet you at the “Wightlife Photography Exhibition” last December. We had a wonderful time, and of course I loved seeing my pictures displayed.

I have just spent a brilliant evening imagining myself back on the Isle of Wight, while looking at your updated web site, which I loved. Then to my surprise I find my pictures in your gallery! So I decided to contact you and say how thrilled I was to see you using them. I also enjoyed reading through all the “Blog” pages, and in doing so I came across your picture of the Pelican, taken as you described, “in the soft morning light, in that unusual pose”, which was really lovely.

We are hoping to visit the island later this year but it will depend on Tony's health. The operation he had in February was successful, so if he continues to make good progress we just may be able to come. If we do, we will definitely be visiting you, as it gives us the opportunity to indulge in our two passions, wildlife and photography. Plus I have never seen Harvest Mice, so I was excited to read you will be having them at your park, and I would love to get a good photo of them. In the meantime, all the best for your new season.

Kindest Wishes,

Marian Wade.
Shropshire"