Sydney has Cat Cafes popping up left, right, and centre. For an experience you could once only hope to find overseas, Sydney now has a decent amount of Cat Cafés .
Continuing our journey on finding out which Cat Café in Sydney is the best, we head on in to Yumiao Cat Café.
Yumiao Cat Café
Sitting on a busy road in the town of Waterloo just outside of Sydney, you'll find Yumiao Cat Café. It's a small shop centred between other local shops.
Yumiao claim to be "Sydney's Biggest Cat Café", whether that means how many cats they have, or how many visitors they get, I'm not too sure.
The Cats
Stepping into Yumiao you are greeted at the door by the manager, Garlic. She's a sweet girl who makes sure the shop front is in order. Hearing that they boast a massive 19 cat roster, I was excited to interact with so many cats. Unfortunately, most of the cats were asleep when we went. It feels odd to complain about sleeping cats, with 3 of my own I definitely know how much they sleep, but surely with that many cats you'd have a lot more interaction. The cats that were awake were skittish, and there was one altercation between another cat and Jojo, who is a bit of a menace in the club.
The cats were your usual domestic breeds, with a couple of Persians being their most unique breeds.
The Café
This was a "drinks only" Café, with a nice menu of drinks. One free drink is included in the entry price. Our drinks were delivered to us in the play area and we were able to sit down to enjoy our drinks.
The entry area has limited seating so you can grab a drink, and watch the cats through the window.
During our hour here I saw one guest come and grab a drink from the café, so I wouldn't say that this is the local spot that people grab their coffees from.
So... Is It Worth Visiting Yumiao Cat Cafe
Ehhh.
This wouldn't be the cat café that I would recommend.
The layout of the play area is an L shape, which made it quite hard to get past people. They also had seating in the play area, but underneath the seats would be water bowls and Feliway plugged in, so although there is seating, it was very awkward to sit comfortably.
Garlic was my favourite part about my visit, and she sits out the front; so after greeting her that was the last interaction we had with her.
Know Before You Go
Yumiao Cat Café is located in Waterloo, just outside of Sydney
Street parking is available, mostly available within a 5 minute walk to the café
Getting here via Public Transport is very easy, you can plan your route here
Yumiao offer a large variety of entry passes, as well as some pretty interesting services like bringing in your own cat to visit.
For more information and to book online visit their website here
This has been my own personal experience, to truly know if it is right for you, that is for yourself to experience.
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