Chester Zoo

As an adult visiting a zoo has never been on my wish list. I only vaguely remember going as a child. However since having my son, a fun day out at the zoo seemed like a good idea. He's approaching 2 and is developing an interest in animals (mainly cats). Chester Zoo is the nearest to us (we're South Manchester) but we decided to wait until early September, once the schools have gone back before going. The Zoo opens at 10am, so we arrived shortly after that. Already the queues were forming and we had to wait about 15mins to get in. It cost us £15 each, but son being under 3 got in for free. Included in this price was a donation to the Zoo which ...  Read the complete review

Last month I realised that I hadn't had more than a couple of days off since last Christmas, and so I decided to take some time off work to spend with the boyfriend. We've both been through a lot over the past few months - he got hit by a car and broke his leg, failed his exams because of it, and ended up spending the summer working full time about a hundred miles away whilst trying to revise. I had been stuck in a stressful job for almost a year far away from everyone I knew and really hated it, and had to look after Joe as well. So I think we deserved some time off! I originally wanted to go to Portugal, but time restraints meant we had to holiday in the ...  Read the complete review

I lived down south when I was a child but moved up to the North West when I was 16 so never experienced Chester Zoo till I was a fully grown adult and it is the best zoo I have ever been too. *** THE LOCATION*** Chester Zoo is located in the North West and is accessible all over the country from coach to train to car, if you are travelling by car the Sat Nav post code is CH2 1EU. Upon arriving at Chester Zoo which is easy to find with clear sign posting, you drive up too a big car park where normally a steward will tell you where to park in busy seasons. The Car park is huge and its FREE PARKING, ***About the ...  Read the complete review

I had some rare time off and my boyfriend was visiting so we decided to go to Chester Zoo! We took my younger cousin (12) with us. The ticket prices were quite expensive, around £15 for adults, it being more if you paid the Gift Aid price. However we did have a free child ticket with two paying adults so this cut things down. We arrived for just after the park opened - it being a weekend in Easter holidays we expected it to be busy. There were slight queues but they moved pretty quickly. As we entered the zoo there were sign posts for the different animals but the one thing that disappointed me was that there wasn't a sign with the feeding times of the ...  Read the complete review

I took a couple of days off from work to make the most of the last bank holiday of the year, and made it into a 5 day weekend. My girlfriend is leaving for university at the end of the month so whilst I was off I thought we would make the most of it and spend a couple of days in Chester. On route to our hotel we stopped at Chester Zoo for the afternoon, I hadn't been for years so was quite looking forward to it! So we parked up, the zoo offer a huge car park with several over flow car parks, all of which are free for as long as you are there which I thought was good as they could charge whatever they want as there isn't anywhere else nearby to park for free! So after a ...  Read the complete review