@table4onesocially starts her reel with a woman wrapped in a blanket on a white bed, with a tiger walking along a wall just outside the glass behind her. The on screen text reads “My Solo trip to a place where you can sleep with Tigers and Lions.” Her caption asks “Would you stay here?” and names the place as The Haven of the Wild, which she tags in the post.
The caption gives an address, 1875 New Boston Rd in Chittenango, New York, and says it is “a once in a lifetime experience.” She adds: “No need for a passport it’s in New York a few hours from NYC.” Text over the entrance gate, a stone arch with the word Haven on it, says the place is “only a few hours away from NYC and NJ.” The reel runs about 26 seconds.
The middle of the reel is the room. A tiger stands at a window beside a kitchen counter with black bar stools, and the text names the location as The Haven of the Wild in Chittenango. Another frame shows an orange and white tiger walking along a gray concrete wall just outside a floor to ceiling window, over the words “one of the most unique resorts around” and “with intimate views of the Tigers.” The bathroom is white marble with a lit mirror and a framed tiger photo, and the text says “luxury accommodations.”
Then comes the line that gives the reel its joke. A black tiger rests a paw on a window, and the text says “You may even get a surprise visitor in the shower.” The next frame shows a white tiger looking through a small square window set into the shower wall, above a row of soap bottles. In every shot of a tiger, the animal is on the other side of glass from the person filming.
The reel then widens the stay. The text says “it’s not just for adults,” over a shot of a woman sitting on the floor of the room by the window as a white tiger sits outside. A stone patio with Adirondack chairs and a fire pit sits in front of the arch, labeled “and you also get your own outside patio.” The last third shows what she calls add ons: “animal encounters.” She feeds a capybara from a small spoon, pets a second capybara lying on the grass, and sits among otters, one of them standing on a white tray. The closing text reads “Add this to your bucket list” and “Go solo,” over a selfie with a tiger sitting behind the glass.
The venue’s own accommodations page describes two kinds of stays, Big Cat Bungalows and Luxury Safari Tents. For the bungalows, the page says guests wake to lion roars and can come “face to face with lions or tigers.” The tents, per the same page, overlook an open savanna with giraffes, zebras and wildebeest beyond a private deck.
The tigers also raise a legal point that a reader booking something like this may want to know. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the Big Cat Public Safety Act, enacted December 20, 2022, was written to “prohibit exhibitors from allowing public contact with big cats, including cubs.” The same agency lists tigers and lions among the covered species and says that since the law took effect, no one may allow direct contact between the public and any big cat. The agency’s page also names exemptions for USDA licensed exhibitors in good standing, qualifying sanctuaries and certain other holders. The reel does not say which category The Haven falls under, and it shows the tigers only through glass. Before booking, a guest can ask the venue which encounters are hands on and which license covers each one.
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