Amazing experience. - What a great experience. Tour was a great tour guide. What a great thing all these people are doing in rescuing these elephants giving them a nice life for their golden years.

Must go and only to this place! - Only place in Phuket you should be interacting with elephants, this ethical elephant sanctuary is incredible!!! I volunteered for 3 days and let me tell you I did not want to leave. I spent three days making food, cleaning their rooms, walking with the elephants in the forest, bamboo and banana leaf picking and spending so much time with each of the elephants (especially Fah Mui :)) I went on the usual tour everyone goes on and it was great but I encourage everyone to volunteer, you get to give back to these amazing animals after they’ve been abused for years in the tourism industry and the employees do an incredible job to let you interact with the elephants and get a feel for what its really like. Because I did 3 days they put me on in a beautiful home stay connected to an amazing cafe and gave me breakfast/lunch/dinner each day. This place truly changed my life, I can’t thank them enough for the hard work they put into giving these beautiful creatures the life they deserve.

Wonderful Experience at Phuket Elephant Sanctuary - I had a great time spending the day at Phuket Elephant Sanctuary. I booked the full day tour, and in the morning was paired with a group on half day tour. After a great lunch, the afternoon was a bit slower, so I was by myself with some of the guides and volunteers, and got a much more personal experience. I learned so much and was just absolutely in awe of seeing the elephants up close. Transportation was easy to and from the hotel. Kati was fantastic and an excellent host.

The best in the island - This sanctuary embodies the ethical way on how to rehabilitate elephants and then natural habitat, and also learning as to why it is dangerous to have these animals working and abused in the entertainment industry. I had an up close encounter with the elephants and it was a great time ! We are habitat.

Highly recommend! - The sanctuary is beautiful and peaceful with happy and well loved elephants who were rescued. It was a great time feeding the elephants, making their meals, and also very educational. The elephants don’t look stressed and are happy souls there. The meals they provided were excellent! It really is a humane sanctuary for elephants!

Memorable day spent with gentle giants - The sanctuary was hot, sticky and magnificent. The elephants—old and disabled—are well cared for. There is a carer for every animal and these regal beasts are free to roam the sanctuary with their best friend. Visitors are numerous but the sanctuary is big enough to accommodate the tourists. The guides are friendly and knowledgeable. It was an honour to spend a day at the sanctuary—gathering fresh bamboo shoots, making dietary supplements, feeding the elephants, and observing these magnificent animals. Add this day to your Phuket stay. It's worth every bahrt.

A new core memory. - My husband and I were absolutely blown away by Phuket Elephant Sanctuary, our full day experience will be a core memory of mine for the rest of our life. The sanctuary itself is beautiful and well looked after and all staff members and volunteers are joyful to be around. I was incredibly happy to purchase this experience and help fund the sanctuary into buying more elephants out of the mainstream abusive tourism trade which is throughout Phuket. If you are in Phuket, this is a must do experience!

A real sanctuary for elephants! - 100% what they say they are! No riding, no bathing and happy elephants doing what they choose to do! We had a whole day there and found it great value for the price. Our guide was knowledgeable and very enthusiastic and the whole staff were very friendly. The food was very good! I can't recommend it highly enough!

A bitter-sweet but heart warming experience. - A memorable day which was bitter-sweet. The organisation from the pick-up at my hotel to the sanctuary was very organised. My day was a bit 'stretched out', I felt I spent time sitting & waiting. The introduction informative video was very emotional, I couldn't watch it but I could hear the commentary 😢 💔 😞 Learning about each elephant throughout the day was very heart-warming, my guide Rita, certainly knows her role & clearly loves the elephants. The sanctuary is a wonderful place for these special animals who deserve all the love, care & attention they fully deserve.

A place where love and rescue injured elephants 🐘 - This place and all the team are amazing. Our experience was outstanding. Every elephant was rescued for exploitation (spectacles, rides, construction) and they live in freedom and they do what the elephants do, enjoy eating, taking a mud bath alone, walking around. We did one day option: we fed some of them, we prepared special rice-banana-pumpkin balls for older elephants with special needs, we cut some bamboo for them. We learn a lot about their stories, how they communicate each other, their behavior, etc We will come back for sure, all was perfect. If you really love elephants come to see them here, being elephants and having the life they deserve. Thank you for this wonderful experience. We recommend 100% Phuket Elephant Sanctuary 🐘💫