If you don't go to this place, you will miss out on a once in a life time experience...I'm not too sure you would ever get this close to animals on any Safari in Africa, but even if you did, you can just go to Camp Verde for much less money!!! [This was worth every penny, even if I didn't get a military discount which I appreciated very much]
You get sooooo close to animals--- within 10 feet of big bears, lions, tigers, pumas'mountain lions, hyenas, and zebras. (On Predator Feed--- which only happens Wed, Fri, and maybe 1 other day, you get about 7 to 8 feet away) On the Safari tour ride, 2 giraffes stuck their head and couple feet of their necks inside the vehicle to feed from ALL passengers who were given free leaves to feed, their were 3 huge animals like a long horned steers bathing in a natural pool and the driver got us with 15 feet of them. Every single docent were very well informing to funny, from the creature feature Skunk show, Safari tour, and Giant Anaconda repitle touch, ( you get 5 minutes to touch), Even the docent driving the shuttle was hilarious and get us within bout 45 feet of a huge Rhino. The Tiger Splash show and Predator Feed is worth all the hype.
Again, I'll repeat, this was one of the experiences in my life easily.
And for a place like this, I was expecting bare minimum bathroom like an outhouse porta potty, but they were unbelievably clean, better than our hotel. Every waiting station has very nice amount of cool misting fans as it was hot about 105 or so. I was surprised too at their high quality avocado chicken wrap as thought it just would be overpriced n basic but better than some upper scale fast food restaurants with carrots and red peppers which had made for higher quality wrap healthwise and flavor wise. In closing--'EVERY experience I mentioned was all included in basic admission price too!!!
( not sure but I think its a fair bit more pricier than typical zoos, but you would have to pay wayyyy more than this to even have just 1 intimate personal encounter, when here every single encounter was intimate