Knowsley safari park

My ds's like this place and I enjoy sitting in the car rather than traipsing around a zoo. Very good for colder or drizzly days. Take care in the monkey enclosure - there are 2 options. One outside the enclosure and one inside. If you go inside you will get up close with the monkeys but are very likely to lose you windscreen wipers!

Wonderful day out. Used vouchers that are easy enough to source online or even in the kids schools if you live in the North West.

The animals have so much space. The rhino enclosure alone is larger than the whole of Chester Zoo so it seems like a far more humane way to keep animals.

That said I don't know what to feel about the sea lion show. I really don't like performing animals but the sea lions didn't seem unhappy and the kids loved watching them.

In addition to the safari there is a funfair which you pay extra for (quite a lot extra, £10 per wristband) and a ropeworks climbing frame thingy (again extra).

The food is standard theme park fast food stuff but the restaurants were very clean, as were the toilets. Dog kennels are free, you just pay a £5 deposit for a padlock. Our dog would not let himself be stolen but if I had a fluffy friendly thing I would think twice about leaving him there unsupervised.