Agreed. I don't want to slander any place, and I'm pretty sure some of the keepers love and care for the animals, but the resort itself should really spend some of its revenue on improving animal welfare standards there.
Over the years I have come across small zoos attached to hotels in Asia, usually pretty poor facilities though. Can't recall any particulars as a long way back. The Hamilton Island resort on the Great Barrier Reef includes an Australian wildlife park as one of it's attractions. They used to have a dolphin in an all too small pool as well. It is not unusual to find aviaries in the beer gardens of Australian pubs.
Atlantis resorts on the other hand, is phenomenal with animals, majority being fish, along with dolphins in the cay and all.
I went to a nice motel in Cheviot while on a fossil hunting holiday in Kaikoura once. Peafowls, fish, horses, turkeys, typical farm animals but still nice. I also found that The Reservation animal park in Gore is now a hotel instead of a zoo, but still has some animals. I have no idea when this happened but my best guess is circa 2010, when the park was still apparently open but a fire killed a lot of animals.
The first captive cetaceans that I saw were bottle-nosed dolphins at the Margate Dolphinarium on the Kent coast, back in 1970. The dolphinarium was inside the Queen’s Hotel, Cliftonville, Margate and the dolphins were housed in what was originally the hotel swimming pool!
several years ago my wife and I took an ecocruise on Rio Negro out of Manaus, Brazil. We visited the city including the Hotel Tropical which has a small adequate zoo displaying native species. Also we visited the primary zoo which was managed by the Brazil army. It contained native species in adequate spacious enclosures. Unfortunately, we did not visit INPA and its native species exhibits. All three facilities can be visited online.
Kalahari Resort has rented Tiger Cubs, Ring-Tailed Lemurs, and Red Kangaroos from the nearby Timbavati Wildlife Park.
I stayed in a hotel once where you could pay extra to have a room with an aquarium. I didn't though, so I have no idea what kind of fish are in it.
i think the paragrape resort and spa has a small zoo and a big aquvarim this in geogria(5) Most Affordable 7 Star Hotel - YouTube they olnly mesion the zoo ones
The Flamingo has The Wildlife Habitat - Flamingo Hotel & Casino Las Vegas The Mandalay Bay has the Shark Reef (AZA aquarium) The Golden Nugget has sharks that you can slide through a tube to see The Silverado as a pretty large aquarium as does The Mirage The Tropicana used to have a variety of birds, but I don't think they do any longer