Awful experience. We were sold by the phrase "turtle island", expecting a beautiful white sand beach with no civilisation and a safe haven for turtles (the place you would see with Attenborough narrating), this could not be further from it. I became suspect of the place when our driver told us there was a cafe. You arrive by your "glass bottomed boat" (small window in the bottom) and lead to the turtle sancturay by your boat driver and meet one of the guides. You start off by getting to feed the large adult green turtles who are kept in a small pond they are covered in what looks like scabs and small scrapes. You will be encouraged to feed them and get your photo taken. You are reminded about how the guides are voluteers and do not make money from this place, I do not belive this is the case. You are then shown all the turtles kept in small tanks and constantly reminded how this is all for the turtle and that you will get you adopt and release one if you wish. It is explained like they will only release these turtles if they get adopted and so not for the good of the turtles, surely if it was for conservation they would be released, if healthy, regardless of adoption. You are allowed to hold one, they pretty much shove it in your hands I refused as I was already traumatised by the experience and wanted to leave as soon as I walked up to the place. They had young babies floating around some of which looked to be dead, and others in the tanks were either stuck in the corner or were swimming into the corners out of distress. They have small reptiles, birds and a young lewak locked up in cages. There were iguana of which the guide said are not native but gave no explanation as to why they then had one in a cage. You will be asked to purchase a picture of you feeding the turtles or holding one, again I refused, I wanted no memories of this place. The guide then apologised to the photographer when we refused to buy, which feels like it supports the claim that money made here is not for the welfare of the turtles but for personal gain. They do have a shop with small figurines, knowing I was not going to be "adopting" any at the end some guilt mean we did purchase a small shell turtle. They will sit you down and show you the book with all the people that have "adopted". He had said to my boyfriend "happy wife, happy life" which was probably his mistake as I'm better at saying "no" to something that sounds like a scam. We did not adopt any in the end as I did not believe anything done here was for the good of the turtle, and the boat ride was not worth the journey or cost.

DO. NOT. GO We were scammed by the price (agreed to amount and then charged US dollars and not AU) ..the ride over was short..and very expensive..and had to pay donations and asked to pay for photos and tips which we declined as we did not like how the animals were being "cared for" on this island. Everyone sounded like a made up story to sell to tourists.. all lies.

We just visited the so called Turtle Island yesterday. What a great disappointment. We paid like 100$ for a short boat ride to the so called turtle island. We were so sure it was an island where turtles were in their natural environment and free. On reaching there we found it is just a small ill kept farm. The turtles were in the tank for you to see and touch. Too many turtles in a small place. The staff will bring out some sea weed to be fed by us. Not sure if this was the only meal the turtles were getting fed by visitors. They all seemed extremely hungry. In small cages of their own, they also had like one Iguana , bats , poorly fed birds, and also a snake . These will be brought out to take pictures if you please. The staff that were showing us around were telling us they were volunteers and don’t get paid . Not sure how much of it is true .

Just don’t go here, going here will keep places like this going. Apart from sea turtles in dirty small bassins they keep some other animals like a bat, snake and monkey. Tourists can touch and tease them, and some of them happily did. Left the place within 5 mins after arriving. Ashamed we even went here. Trip was arranged by blue dolphin, which is also an overpriced scam.

This facility tries the rehabilitate injured turtles and birds. I know there are poor reviews. I feel bad for the keepers and the animals. The government cut off their funding. They went from 40 paid employees to 17 volunteers. They are just barely hanging on. We had a personal guide that was well informed which helped a lot.

Earlier we visited Turtle Island with guests from India. Before leaving, we bought tickets at Tanjung Benoa. After that, we immediately took a small boat to the island. When we got there, the view was very beautiful and we were greeted by friendly guards. We were taken on a tour to see the animals on the island. That's what was interesting for us when we took a photo with the mother turtle 😁 (we were very impressed with the big turtle, he could sit on it and his binoculars were very strong enough to hold our weight, while drinking young coconut water

I would not recommend this place, we felt so sorry for the turtles they are in small tanks with nothing in them. They said it was a conservation centre that's why we went. It was expensive small and the guide spent the whole time trying to get money out of us for "conservation" to look after the turtles.

Mortified, I was booked for a show and was offered a package deal to also go see Turtle island where they told us in was a conservation site. I have been to Turtle conservations before but this is nothing but the opposite. Teenage Turtles in shallow dirty tanks tanks the size of big sinks that allowed tourists to touch them, then the nightmare only got worse.... They took us towards the back where there were easily 20 plus full sized turtles in shallow cramped dirty conditions. They were obviously starving as they were struggling on top of each other so they can be fed this tiny bit of seaweed. I asked the guide will these turtles be released he said no, I asked how they got there in the first place (were any of them injured and being nursed back), he replied ' no I caught them and brought them here'. Then I asked how long have some of these turtles been here, he said some have been there for 20 years. My heart broke. Please do not go here, we have to fight and get this place shut down.

AVOID. I thought we were going out to see turtles in the wild. Instead we were taken to a place with nearly enough water for the turtles to swim in. It was absolutely depressing and the turtles were not thriving. There were other animals there too and they looked distressed especially the Luwak’s which are nocturnal and had nowhere to go to get out of the light. The bat that was also awake in the daylight. It was just awful and the massive snake was docile and obviously drugged. If you truly care about animals you would avoid this place.

Our boys (aged 12 and 14) love turtles so this was a must visit on our trip to Bali. We ended up here by mistake (by car) and reading the reviews we were worried that the boys would get a bad experience – but it turned out to be a good experience for the kids after all. Our guide seemed knowledgeable about the turtles, explained and answered all our questions. She said that all staff was volunteering and lived by the tips - not sure if this is the true - but left her with a decent tip anyways. There were different kind of turtles, that were here to recuperate after incidences e.g. that they were caught in fishing nets or have been too close to a boat propeller. Some of them you can feed seaweed - I hope that they get enough - they all seemed extremely hungry. The baby turtles were absolutely adorable! There was an option to “adopt" a turtle to set it free - and you would get a certificate with your name on it. There are other animals like iguanas, a cockatoo, an owl, a monkey, toucans, a bat, and a luwak - all in small enclosures with a very limited moving space and no animal enrichment available – some of the birds were chained to a tree or a pole. This is surely not the best animal welfare conditions I’ve seen - but not the worst either! We also visited the “Turtle Conservation and Education Centre” which is the governance owned and driven centre - for me it didn’t seem that the welfare of the turtles was taken more seriously at either places.