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London Zoo / Whipsnade Zoo Universal Credit Tickets - £3 children / £5 adults @ ZSL London Zoo
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This offer is back. Reduced price tickets to London Zoo/ Whipsnade Zoo for £3 child and £5 adults. This is
available for those receiving Universal Credit, Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support or Jobseeker’s Allowance. Booking availability over the summer period from June until 3rd September.
Please note there are separate sites for London Zoo and Whipsnade zoo, so book at the site you want tickets for, links below
London Zoo tickets
Whipsnade Zoo tickets
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Tickets from as little as £3 per person
available for those receiving Universal Credit, Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support or Jobseeker’s Allowance. Booking availability over the summer period from June until 3rd September.
Please note there are separate sites for London Zoo and Whipsnade zoo, so book at the site you want tickets for, links below
London Zoo tickets
Whipsnade Zoo tickets
Credit to for the heads up
Tickets from as little as £3 per person
- Universal Credit tickets - We know how hard things are for many families on low incomes right now, and we want to do what we can to help.
- We have made reduced price tickets to London Zoo available for those receiving Universal Credit, Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support or Jobseeker’s Allowance.
- These tickets are only available to purchase online in advance, for up to six people per household (under 3’s go free and do not need to book – but must be accompanied by an adult with a booked ticket).
- These tickets must be booked online in advance of your visit, as only full price tickets are available to buy at the gate.
- If you can afford to spend a little bit more on your ticket, please consider adding a voluntary donation of £1 on tickets. These donations are crucial to our vital conservation work around the world protecting wildlife.
- We allocate tickets flexibly based on how many overall visitors we expect. Keeping the zoo safe and fun for everyone is our priority, along with the welfare of our animals.
- We may release additional Universal Credit tickets for sold-out dates closer to the day, so keep checking back.
- If reduced price Universal Credit are unavailable for the date you select, please try another date. Only full price tickets are available to buy at the gate, so please do not travel to the zoo without a ticket even if you are eligible for reduced price entry.
- What you need to bring For your group, you will need to bring one proof of benefit letter or with you to the zoo when you present your tickets(s) to our friendly staff at the admissions gate (this can be an electronic copy, for example logging in to your Universal Credit App to show us on arrival). You may alsobe asked to show Photographic ID.
- Unfortunately, we won’t be able to accept reduced price tickets unless you are also able to show one of the above documents (per household) as proof of eligibility.
- The Universal Credit tickets offer has proved very popular, so please be prepared to queue to enter the Zoo, especially at peak times like weekends and during school holidays. To minimise waiting time we recommend arriving later in the day, or choosing to visit at off-peak times
More details at Community Updates
Edited by Chanchi32, 13 June 2023
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sorted byOh and they also have animals roaming free, like wallabies and deer!
On the one hand I think the zoo is actually exploiting people on universal credit
And rinsing them of any little money they may have..
the cost that will bear onto the parents at the extortionate restaurant (yes you can take lunch yourself)
but kids want drinks and then maybe an ice cream etc etc…
And once you have exited through the overpriced gift shop they will have rinsed you of every single farthing !
I have no doubt the zoo is not doing this out of just pure kindness..
It will get it’s money back for those reduced tickets some way somehow..
Let’s hope the animals benefit from some of that cash too🤞 (edited)
Bearing in mind it's cheaper then one hour in a swimming pool I think it's a great offer if you can afford it.
There's poetic irony in the clamour for cheap party tickets to see caged, helpless animals, not all living a natural lifestyle but to someone else's beat. Bet the monkeys hate the elephants.
Parks are free, loads of nature, loads of beaches in the hot weather - time is the most important 'spend' with your kids.
Contrary to belief, the wild is a brutal brutal place. Where animals starve to death, eat their children, suffer slow and painful deaths. Prey animals get eaten alive.
Do you as a human long for a life in the wild hunting for your food? We are also predatory animals, that is our "natutal habitat" too. Because other animals are of a lower intelligence level, we think that the wild is their happy place when it certainly isn't ours!
If I were a lion and someone gave me the option of fighting everyday to ensure survival, never know where your next meal is coming, waiting for a Competitor to overthrow me and kill my children and to die at half my life expectancy or live in a controlled habitat with those things protected. Which would you choose?
Having said all of that, there are conditions where animals should just not be kept. Too small, not enough stimulation, and i get this argument. Circus animals are disgusting and some zoos horrific. But london zoo is alright. (edited)
The amount of people in these comments who have no clue about personal circumstances making judgements, and also seemingly unable to understand that many, many, working people are benefit recipients. 🤦🏻♂️ (edited)
I care for my mother who is Terminaly ill. I care without a wage 365 days a year. To put my mother in care would cost about £40k per year and after experiencing that world in the past I would never put a loved one on that situation.
I can't earn a wage as a carer and I save the taxpayer tens of thousands each year as do millions of other unpaid carers in a similar situation to me.
Those who call us "lazy and money grabbing" need a reality check. Let's hope their family members never have to go through the long and heart aching emotions of seeing a loved one slowly die in front you.
I'm also Autistic, OCD and Agoraphobic. I've gone to the zoo a couple of times now and it is essential in my mental development to regain some sort of normality after three years of seclusion.
I've paid into the system all my life as did all my family. Military and hero Firefighter family.
Worth it for the offer price if you have a car, & take your own packed lunch. Take good walking footwear as there's a load of walking to do, however we saw loads of cars driving & parking inside (may cost extra) so worth checking out doing that if you're not a fan of walking.
40% of claimants work whilst claiming UC
London Zoo suffered a lot during covid. Hopefully, people can afford an extra £1 per ticket for donation.
"For your group, you will need to bring one proof with you to the zoo when you present your tickets"
"Unfortunately, we won’t be able to accept reduced price tickets unless you are also able to show one of the above documents (per household) as proof of eligibility."
Take something which shows you're both living at the same address and you might be okay?
Easiest thing would be to ring the zoo and ask. (edited)
Highly recommend if you can go