London Zoo

My mum is a bit young at heart, as we probably all are deep down. For Christmas last year my step dad bought her a voucher that allowed her to be a zookeeper for the day at London Zoo...I was suitably jealous of course. Its not great to do that kind of thing with no one to share it with however so I decided to go along and see if I could take some pictures of her doing animal stuff during her day out. As it happened a lot of her activities were behind the scenes and they were in a group so they took most of her photos and I just got a day out at London Zoo with my friend. London Zoo is located about 15 minutes walk from Camden Town tube station ...

The admission prices are already expensive at £13 per adult, £10 per child, but then the ticket sellers force you to pay an extra £1.50 'optional donation'. It's hard to stand up to them to avoid this 'donation'. Car parking is expensive at £9. (Note that the prices at £9 adults, £7 children shown at the top of the London Zoo review page are way out of date.) Visiting the zoo was frustrating because the zoo had so few exhibits and few interesting animals. - The aquarium had pictures of fish instead of the fish, and many of the tanks were empty. - The birds area was mostly empty, with lots of closed exhibits, some labelled as ...

As a child, living in London, my Boyfriend was taken to London Zoo – the memory has stuck with him forever. As a result, I sweetly agreed to go with him for his birthday. I expected to be bored by listless or non-appearing animals as he wallowed in nostalgia but this couldn’t have been further from the truth. We had a fantastic day, London Zoo turning out to be an oasis of calm on a Friday in central London. The tranquil atmosphere combined with some very close up views of the animals was really achieving the impossible in what should be a very busy attraction. I was amazed how tame the animals were and how relaxed the whole experience ...