Paignton Zoo
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Paignton Zoo Environmental Park Totnes Road Paignton Devon TQ4 7EU
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01803 697500 |
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How to find us
Getting to the Zoo by car
Paignton Zoo is located on the A3022 Totnes Road, 1 mile from Paignton town centre. Once in Paignton follow the brown tourist signs, marked with an elephant and Zoological Gardens. The Zoo is situated near to Morrisons supermarket.
The Zoo has a free car park for 1,110 cars on site and an overflow car park a short walk away
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Paignton Zoo is open daily (except Christmas day) from 10.00 a.m. Closing times vary throughout the season, so please check before each visit.
The Zoo is currently open until 6.00 p.m. with last entry at 5.00 p.m. |
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Check with the zoo site (see below for link) |
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Click here for a Link to the Zoo's own Web Pages
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This critique last updated:
Apr 2009
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Official Description Paignton Zoo Environmental Park is an education and scientific charity dedicated to conserving our global wildlife heritage and inspiring in its many visitors a life long respect for animals and the environment.
Visitor Reviews Review by K Smith March 2008 I visited Paignton Zoo with my family in August 2007 during a weeks holiday in Devon and I have to say it was the best day of the holiday for all of us. We are very familiar with brilliant Chester Zoo and did not have particularly high hopes but were very pleasantly surprised. When we first arrived and saw the busy carpark and long queues we were rather concerned that we wouldn't see a thing. But our worries were ill founded for, like with many zoos, Chester included, they are so big that you can quickly escape the masses and feel like you have the place to yourselves. Paignton felt at first like a smallish zoo,and we began our walk on a forest path, peering through the greenery at various large birds before suddenly finding tigers through the clearing. As we continued around the zoo we realised that it was a ctually a pretty big zoo and we were quite lost! Perhaps a few more signs would be helpful as we were desparate to see the gorillas. Having a 'King Kong' mad son we found these incredible animals fascinating and could have stayed all day watching them alone. The centre of the zoo provided us with good sandwiches, icecreams and coffee and a welcome rest before we set out discovering the rest of the zoo.There were huge elephants, camels and lovely monkeys which caused lots of entertainment. I would highly recommend this lovely zoo. We had a memorable day out and would definately go back again.
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