We did the necker excursion in February. We loved it. Our son is 10yo and loves animals so seeing the "three cans" ( we followed their blog for years) the lemurs and flamingos were the main reason we were motivated to go.

We found the physical plant part of the island tour very interesting. We saw the solar farm and got lots of info about how a private island is run. The geek in us found that very interesting.

The tortoises were an unexpected delight. We loved seeing the hatchlings and feeding the huge ones. It's a private zoo where you are encouraged to get up close.

We took a nice hike over the hill and spent time at the flamingo pond and then got to go to the main house. There are house tortoises! Security guards as gumption called them.

The lemurs were fantastic. (We are animal people). It was like someone combined the best parts of kittens and baby monkeys and made a lemur. They were delightful. Again, we have a 10 yo who has watched penguins of Madagascar about a thousand times so to play with and feed real lemurs was about as good as it gets for him. His father and I loved it as well.

As I told gumption, we had been to Disney over thanksgiving and did the VIP private Animal Kingdom tour. His tour is 100x better at a fraction of the cost. At Disney we saw animals from 50 yards away as we were rushed on to the next exhibit. On necker we could talk to their caretakers, learn about the species, feed them and observe them up close. The caretakers obviously love their jobs and care deeply about. The welfare of their animals.

Gumption is an enterprising up young man and we thoroughly enjoyed the excursion. We will contact him again next trip for a snorkelling or another Necker tour.

It obvious we loved seeing The animals. The necker tour is completely different than an anegada trip, which we also loved but for different reasons.