Paradise Wildlife Park

On a very hot summer day, we decided to head to our nearest wildlife park, Paradise Wildlife Park in Broxborne.  It was a train ride and then a minibus picked us up from a London train station to the park itself. The number to call the minibus was at the station itself and all it took us was therefore a phone call. We had to wait a while for the minibus though.

As soon as we arrived, we headed to the small pool for kids only. It  wasn't as busy as I'd expected for a hot day but it was a tad crowded. There were no dressing rooms to change so had to hide the kids behind huge towels or benches. There was a slide in the pool and the water wasn't deep. The kids had a great time running and splashing around for about an hour!

We primarily decided to visit the wildlife park because of the dinosaur area. As you know, Mahi is a future palaeontologist (and artist!) so his obsession are dinosaurs! The World of Dinosaur was the biggest dinosaur park we've seen. It had animatronic dinosaurs and some cheeky ones unexpectedly spraying us with water, a tiny train ride through the dinosaur park, a play area, facepainting and meet and greet with a friendly dinosaur! Mahi was in dinosaur heaven! He loved it so much, we had to visit the park again, before we left, to say goodbye to all the dinosaurs.

Next, we went to the wildlife part of the park. It was separated into different themes/world.  We especially liked the Egyptian world as it felt like it. We saw some never seen before animals such as the white tiger. There was a huge aviary with so many colourful birds that I cannot tell you how many different species there was. It wasn't as big as I thought so didn't take us long to finish that part of the park before the kids run off to play in the play areas. They were a few play area and adventure playgrounds so the kids made full use of those playgrounds.

It was reasonably priced (you get a discount if booked online)  and took a good 7 hours for us to thoroughly enjoy the whole  park without having to rush anywhere! There were a few cafes but as we brought our own lunches and snacks, we didn't buy anything from any of the eateries.

It was a fun filled day with lot of different things to do so go and enjoy it!