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Tortoise Hotel

Boarding & Health Care 

  • Indoors overnight & in poor-weather

  • Outdoors all day

  • Enriched with basking ramps & pools

  • Varied healthy diet

  • Any special needs cared for

  • Worming advice & faeces testing

  • Tropical & African species enclosures

  • All under the care of vet Dr Emily

15 minutes off M20 -en route to the continent

TORTOISE SANCTUARY 
Rehabilitation * Education * Conservation

Holidays - Mediterranean species

Short Stay (under 10 days) £60 Summer / £75 Winter 

Medium Stay (up to 3 weeks) £100 Summer / £120 Winter

Long Stay (up to 3 months) £185 Summer / £260 Winter

Super Stay (6 months) £260 Summer / £345 Winter

50% rate for a second enclosure

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Your tortoise will have a lovely holiday here on the farm! They'll have an indoor enclosure for overnight and bad weather and then an outdoor run for sunbathing & grazing.

We'll feed them their usual diet at home, plus some of our homegrown tortoise plants & salads.

Cost is per enclosure, at least 3-4 adults will fit in one run. If they need to be separate, extra enclosures are 50% discount.

  • 10% UVB lamps & Temperature controlled basking lamps

  • Daily baths & outdoor pools

  • Optimum nutrition - 100% organic home grown leaves, weeds and flowers

  • We will happily feed their normal diet if they are used to treats

  • Health check & worming whilst here £21.50

  • Microchipping whilst here £18.50

Holidays -
Tropical Species

Short Stay (under 10 days) £60 Summer / £75 Winter 

Medium Stay (up to 3 weeks) £100 Summer / £120 Winter

Long Stay (up to 3 months) £185 Summer / £260 Winter

Super Stay (6 months) £260 Summer / £345 Winter

50% rate for a second enclosure

Non-European species welcome: 

  • Sulcatas: we have a super warm large indoor run, ideal for up to 15 kg. Bigger than that, we would struggle in the winter months but during the summer we have a large secure paddock.

  • Leopards & Stars: we have big indoor runs, with extra night heat ideal for these guys

  • Redfoots: we have a 'Forest Floor' enclosure with deeper soil and lots of leaves to create their preferred higher humidity, and can feed their preferred diet inc mushrooms

  • all our tropical species will also have an outdoor run with a heat lamp zone for summer days

Hospitalisation

£6.50 / day

Hospital-Pod isolated for biosecurity:

12% UVB & Temperature controlled

Daily baths & quality diet

All required treatments administered:

  • Tube feeding

  • SC / IM / IV Injections

  • Intra-nasal or nebulized medications

  • Oesophagostomy Tube Maintenance

  • Wound care & dressing changes

  • Regular updates sent to your vet 

Post Hibernation Boost: book your Tort in for a 14 day post-hibernation boost - supportive feeding, reptoboost baths, and high UVB lighting £85.00

Health Checks & Worming

£45, £15 extra Torts

Ideal pre-hibernation and for beak rasping :

  • Clinical examination

  • Weight check

  • Faeces microscopy

  • Worming if required

  • Beak or nail filing if required

  • Microschip scanned

Vet Emily can do this as a day-trip - she'll need your tortoise for a whole day to give time for the faecal analysis.

Boarding Services
Health Checks
Tropical Species

Tortoises for Re-Homing

All our tortoises have homes at the moment - any for rehoming will be added as soon as they are ready.

Follow us on facebook to see any new arrivals

Orlestone Tortoise Sanctuary

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