Battersea Park Children's Zoo Reviews Summary

Category: Zoo London

Address: Battersea Park, London, SW11 4NJ, United Kingdom

Phone: +442079245826

Rating: 4.3
based on 282 reviews.

Price

Pros:

  • "With prices topping out at only £9.50, there’s no reason not to visit."
  • "Much cheaper than another nearby zoo, great for the bank balance and will keep kids and adults both entertained for a few hours!"
  • "It is reasonably priced and therefore a more affordable alternative to London Zoo."
  • "It was fairly cheap for us all and the kids had a great time."
  • "With a cost of £6.50 for children its very well priced."
  • "Really good price, nice staff, good for a quick 60 minute visit as well as a full morning."
  • "Definitely value for money ...highly recommended."

Cons:

  • "It’s a very small place with less animals for the price you pay."
  • "Not great, especially considering the price."
  • "Very overpriced for what is in the zoo just feels like it's being run with minimal effort."
  • "One can actually cover most of the grounds with a child within about 1:15m. Taking that into consideration, it’s really not worth paying £10+ for an adult and a child ticket is not much less."
  • "The ticket is quite expensive."
  • "The price to enter the zoo is expensive especially for a 2-year-old, hardly any animals? very small zoo."
  • "A bit cheeky how much they charge adults as it is a children's zoo."

Play Areas

Pros:

  • "There are loads of play areas including playgrounds, sand pits, a helicopter and a fire engine!"
  • "Heaps of cool playgrounds, petting zoo, feed the animals, lovely big water play area."
  • "The play equipment here is second to none - a real fire engine and helicopter, and a brilliant sand/water play area."
  • "The playgrounds are great and my kids loved the sand areas so we did end up staying for over 2 hours, but mainly because of the play areas."
  • "Also has an awesome amount of play equipment that you could spend longer on than seeing the animals - a big castle climbing frame, fire engine, helicopter, sand diggers, a huge sand and water pit."
  • "The playground is one of the best we have been to and the kids will play for hours!"
  • "The play areas are particularly imaginative and they spent ages there."

Cons:

  • "The play area the fire engine and helicopter could be better if there was more to do in them."
  • "Hardly any animals and the play area is good but could be very good if more climbing wooden things were put in."
  • "Needs a bit more, the playground is the only thing kids are interested in."
  • "Unfortunately due to the one way system this is the first thing kids see when you go on so there was a bit of a battle to move on to the animals."
  • "The small children's playground was in poor condition, showing significant wear and tear."
  • "Helicopter looks great but kids can't access the cockpit area or the controls which although understandable can be boring for them."
  • "There are not too many animals but small kids prefer playing with sands and trucks."

Animal Enclosures

Pros:

  • "The zoo itself is small but brilliant, with a really nice selection of animals."
  • "Lots of different animals."
  • "The actual zoo part is fairly small as it indicates, but there's still a good range of animals including a tunnel with space for kids to view the meerkats inside their enclosure."
  • "You can see the animals are loved and taken care of, the cages are clean, they look happy, well fed, and most importantly, LOVED!"
  • "The animals have plenty of space."
  • "Animals looked healthy and happy, the environment was calm and peaceful."
  • "The animals here all look healthy, well fed and, on the whole, have decent sized enclosures."

Cons:

  • "I could not notice the lack of space in the cages a lot of the animals are kept in."
  • "Too many birds in far too small cages."
  • "Duck pond was dried out, so was otters enclosure- they barely had any water to swim in."
  • "Wasn’t impressed with the animal conditions at the zoo."
  • "Very few animals worth seeing and the whole place is looking a little run down."
  • "Unhappy & unhealthy looking animals, tired & lacklustre in everyway."
  • "It’s a cute little zoo but unfortunately the animals are held in way too small cages and are clearly unhappy…"

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