Battersea Park Children’s Zoo

Small but good, enjoyed the meerkats I could of watched them ok, price is fine for the place and you can walk around it in 2 hours, ideal for 5 years plus

The multiple play ground areas by far outshone the animals at the zoo, but still a great way to spend the afternoon. The sand/​waterplay area is awesome! I recommend bringing a picnic to keep everyone’s energy up.

I’m a big fan of Battersea Park Zoo in concept, it’s great. Lots of interesting animals to look at up close, including monkeys, the kune kune pigs (Piggle and Wiggle), and meerkats whose enclosure has a tunnel into the centre with a plexiglass viewing dome so your little scamps can safely be at eye level with the capering little mob. There is also a number of other enclosures where you and yours can have a nose to nose chat with various sorts of creature, including goats and a miniature Shetland pony. This last looks not unlike an overgrown My Little Pony. No big cats or other large beasties here; this is central London, not a safari park, after all. There is also a pretty cool array of play areas, including a big fire engine, and some remote control pirate ships to play with. This seems to be a big draw for many parents in the area; a safe and interesting play area, with the possibility of the sprogs possibly learning something. It’s also possible to have children’s parties here; a good venue if you want the little darlings to be unable to escape, but still able to get up to all sorts. If I was to have one gripe, it would be the price (and the fact that you exit through the gift shop); £6.95 for adults until 1^st March, and £7.95 thereafter (£5.50 and £6.50 respectively for children over 2), and £22 (rising to £26) for a family ticket (for four, including a maximum two adults). I gather it’s possible to buy an annual season ticket, however, which goes some way to keeping the costs down if you’re a regular visitor (but will still cost you some hundreds of pounds for the family version).

The zoo wasn’t too bad but there aren’t many animals and have a very large play area. Not somewhere you can spensd the day but £25 family ticket isn’t too bad.

This zoo was average and not expensive £25 family ticket. Not many animals but play area made up for this. Great place to waste a few hrs

GREAT place to visit as part of Battersea Park. Bigger than it looks, it has some farm-​type animals that you can pet (and the biggest rabbit I’ve ever seen!) as well as plenty of birds and monkeys and great exotic things that I didn’t expect from such a low-​profile zoo. I had a great time and I prefer it to London Zoo any day!
Lovely place.

This is such a great little zoo situated inside Battersea Park. Battersea Park is such a gorgeous place to go anyways but this little children’s zoo is such a nice extra.
Being a children’s zoo, there’s, of course, not many animals and not many bigger animals at that. There’s a «petting» area where kids and parents can take their kids to safely pet farm animals such as lambs, kids and other baby farm animals…
There are monkeys here too, smaller ones, equally cute. They’re pretty active and if you poke a stick inside their cages they’ll usually interact with you, throw it around, give it back etc…
I think this place is great for children or if you’re fed up sitting drinking Pimm’s in Battersea Park, it’s nice to take a little detour to the children’s zoo!

Battersea Park Zoo is a treat for children but, as it’s very small, you won’t want to spend all day there. When we visit we go to the main park first, explore the Pagoda, hire bikes (there are different types for different ages,) play in the big playground, see if there is anything on in the Pump House or hire a boat/​pedaloe — and then we go to the zoo. It is not cheap but we think it is worth the money if only for the ‘patability’ of some of the smaller animals. There’s a café, a playground, pony rides and — to catch you on the way out as you have to walk through it — a souvenir shop!
There are no big animals but plenty of other types — and a mouse house. Crawl through the tunnel until you come out into a glass ‘room’ in the middle of the meerkat enclosure, you can see them, they can’t see you!
Don’t expect anything remotely like London Zoo but it’s fun and safe for the kids to run around alone, we always enjoy it.

We (me, my husband, 2 year old son and mother-​in-​law) were really disappointed by Battersea Park Zoo.
We knew the zoo was small and weren’t expecting lions and elephants but we’d «done» it all in just over an hour and frankly it was not much better than our local free city farm. For the price (£6.50 for adults and almost £5 for children over 2 years old) we felt it was a real let-​down.
The zoo does have a lovely setting in Battersea Park and you could combine a visit with other activities there such as the boating lake and children’s playground but we certainly won’t be making a special trip again.