We have taken our kids, grandkids anf great-grandkids for 11 years in a row to Busch Gardens Tampa and over the past 2 years we have seen it go downhill. We always go the 2nd weekend of Dec. and this year was terrible, hardly any Christmas decorations around the park, Food and Beverage prices have doubled over the past 2 years, ride closures - this year - No Shrieka, No Falcon Fury, No Pheonix,,loads of food and beverage places were closed up. The number of animals has decreased substantially. When you are buying passes for 20+ people and this is what you get it is certainly not worth the money,,looks like we will be looking for a different family venue next year for Christmas.

Only average - beginning to show its age. They have invested so much in a few mega rides but forgotten about the rest. The floors need a pressure wash, the food outlets need smartening up and a lot of the buildings are looking tacky. However it is a still a nice way to spend the day, and good to see animals in large enclosures and walk amongst the birds etc.

Visited when it first opened and enjoyed it....then. Now it is another over priced amusement park where 40% of the attravtions are closed. The "zok" part is a big padture where a few animals graze and a couple too small enclosures for animals who dezerve better. The gardens and topiaries were the only savong factor. All in not worth near the ticket price.

Beautiful day, clean park, fun coasters. The Christmas lights were nice. It was extremely crowded - wait times were all over an hour or two. The quick queue was well worth it. But I made the mistake of not paying more for one ride on gwazi because it seemed ridiculous. Everything was sooo expensive already! We figured we could wait in one line. It was over 2 hours all day and when we finally got in, it closed for an hour for fireworks. We waited soooooo long! Another issue is that they do not have enough places to eat. All hour plus waits for just okay or not great food was a big time waster and frustration. If they could work on the food issue, it would really improve guests experience!

Most of water rides closed. Terrible music at the Stanleyville theater. Areas closed off and rerouted. Food prices are very high. The signage is terrible, should be bigger and more of them. Not all trains working. If you are charging full price than you should get full value everything open. The gift shops are a rip off; if they charged realistic prices they would probably sell a lot more. Don’t ask me to round off the price I pay for goods for the park. Admission is expensive enough. The poor gorilla was eating a card board box. Parking markers are not well marked, specially for the handicapped.

For being the down season it’s extremely busy due to the mid winter break for most places around the country. Seems management has failed to take this into consideration. Most of the stands and shops are closed and the food lines are unacceptable. The prices are very high and not reflecting this “ seasonal” change. Poor customer service everywhere for paying a huge price for parking all the way up to the day passes. Had several employees tell us to complain about all of it 😂🤣. Pretty sure nothing would be done. Stay far away from this place and this side of the state of Florida in general.

March 25th 2023 Food Was terrible and the few items that tasted ok were gone by 6pm. Spirits advertising is misleading all you get as a spirit is a juice sugary fruit mix. Vendors seemed disorganized and not enough places to sit. Not a good experience.

Went into the experience with no expectations- we are not “Disney”/theme park people, but with a bunch of tweens on spring break in Tampa, we felt like we could take a chance and spend a day here. Arrived on a Tuesday right when the park opened and it was very clean and basically empty. We paid for advance Fast Pass jr. tix and did not need them (wonder if we could have gotten a refund??) the rides were all functional with the exception of the sky tram thing. It was pretty hot so a lot of animals were sleeping/hiding, however we did get some great interactions with the elephants, birds, and penguins (funny & cute!). We splurged in the Serengeti tour where we fed the giraffes. That truly was fabulous and sooooooo fun. Yes, the souvenirs and food was crazy expensive, but we only had lunch at the park and brought our water bottles. All in all a very nice visit and not as commercialized as I thought it would be. Visit with reasonable expectations and you might even have fun! :-)

Visited 5th April 2023. Waiting times were a joke, two hours for cheetah hunt, 2 hours for the log flume even though it said 30 mins, one hour wait for iron gwazi. What a waste of money! Not enough staff on and they all moved like sloths. Even lunch was a joke. Stood for easily 45 mins - 1 hr at Zambia grill, the only positive was that our food was free with the ticket! Very disappointed, not good value for money. On the plus side I was eventually able to ride iron gwazi!

We went to Busch Gardens on March 31. We thought it would be super busy given in was March Break but we took our chances. Lucky we did as the park was almost empty. That was the only good thing about the day. We purchased tickets from the hotel we were staying at and we also got fast passes for $129 each (ridiculous price). We did not need the fast pass, no one was in line. The only ride we waited on was the Congo Rapids and that was only 15 minutes. So we paid for the admission and fast pass (then use of a locker on site) which was a lot of money for the value we got. So many things were closed...IN MARCH! Lots of games, kiosks, rides and shows. We tried to end our day on the Montu Ride but low and behold, it broke while we were sitting on it so we had to get off. Way too many rides closed which is concerning. It was a lot of walking to go from one closed ride to the other.I think we saw most of the animals. Kangaroos looked druged. It was 2 in the afternoon and they were all sleeping (not nocturnal) and if they wanted to jump out of their enclosure, they could have. Girl at gate said "if you can reach one, you can touch one". One elephant was doing the dance of distress and it was sad to watch. The animals we saw by train were good, that was the only enjoyable part of the park as there were lots of animals to see. I would not waste your money here, there is no value for your buck and the ownership does not seem to care.