Rotterdam Zoo Diergaarde Blijdorp: Experience Animal Enclosures and Botanical Gardens in City Center
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197 Ratings
Rotterdam

Explore Rotterdam Zoo Diergaarde Blijdorp, a 160-year-old modern zoo in the heart of the city. Discover its stunning animal enclosures, botanical gardens, and impressive indoor exhibits.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Rotterdam Zoo - Rotterdam Zoo is one of Europe’s most beautiful zoos. You wander through different parts of the world and meet fascinating animals. The zoo has the largest aquarium in the Netherlands, a beautiful indoor butterfly Paradise, a tropical rainforest and outdoor and indoor playgrounds for children.
What's Included
  • Guaranteed entry with no additional reservation required
  • Zoo admission ticket included
What's Not Included
  • parking is not included in the entrance ticket
Additional Information

Rotterdam Zoo, a 160-year-old modern zoo situated in the heart of Rotterdam, stands out with its 21 monuments and designation as a botanical garden. Renowned for its spacious enclosures and natural habitats, the zoo features the Oceanium, the largest indoor aquarium of its kind in the Netherlands. Visiting Blijdorp supports numerous conservation initiatives led by the zoo.

  • Weelchair rental
  • Stroller rental
Location
Rotterdam Zoo
Blijdorplaan 8,
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Jerinav2016
Jun 9, 2025
Day out in Blijdorp - Very nice day out. Nice large park with many different animals. Our children especially enjoyed the oceanium. In addition, a was a good parking. Nice staff who tell fun facts about the animals. Nice that the children could also be face-painted.
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326rachellew
May 22, 2025
A must visit for nature lovers - This was by far the biggest Zoo I have ever seen. I would highly recomment this we where in total 8 persons including two persoons in a weelchair and one child. The facility is proper for all ages. Many atractions as well as souveniers shops, resraurants, bathrooms.
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Janeteastbourne
Mar 25, 2025
Great day out - Very good value for money. Huge with lots of interesting facts. Also breeding programme for some endangered species. Environmentally friendly. Just a few stops from the port and in total 10-15 minutes walk. Got water taxi back for €5 good fun but not for those of you with a bad back.
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Clodetti
Jul 28, 2025
Great day spent - We were traveling with 2 children (9 years) at the zoo. The zoo is beautifully landscaped with different routes to walk. We were DA a whole day. ES also has the Oceaneum, where ES had much to discover. Sometimes the paths are very ENGINE. Unfortunately, we haven't seen gorillas. We can recommend the zoo, if you book earlier the tickets are cheaper. Parking costs 12.50 € per day.
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Gphillipsmbe
Jun 21, 2025
Family zoo for all to visit. - This is a must visit for all the family. Nice. Variety of animals. Spacious zoo. Nice to see polar bears but they were separate and looked far to hot exhibiting boredom symptoms as the large one kept walking the same path and looking to see the other one for company but sadly they were kept apart. There are not enough signs to find your way around and at least one large cafe was not opened.
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Anke2
Aug 2, 2025
Beautiful park with few active animals - Lately I have noticed more and more that DE animal EN in Blijdorp are so little active and often invisible to DE visitors. Maybe organize more activities to activate DE animals. DE tickets are expensive enough and as a visitor you can expect a bit more of that. Furthermore, the park is clean EN good signage. Hospitality EN sanitary facilities are in order. DE newest way to make money is to no longer provide a map for free, now 1 euro.
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Rokamakaes
Jun 10, 2025
'My' trusted Blijdorp - After 10 years of not being there, I visited 'my' familiar zoo where I took many steps as a child. Besides a zoo, you might as well call it a botanical garden, because those gardens are just as beautiful! Compliments! Also most of the country houses are neat and well cared for, the indoor houses scared me a bit, I could use a little more attention... I also thought it was a huge hassle with the deposit, seniors really don't get around to this. At the very least, give people the option to arrange this at the cash register after consuming. I was fiddling with a deposit-tick-tick while there were 4 ladies at the register doing nothing. Especially in a place where many (grand)parents come, I find this all but customer-friendly.
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U7152xsastridh
Jun 9, 2025
Large zoo with too little space for some animals - We are real zoo fans and have visited several zoos, including some zoos in the Netherlands. The zoo in Rotterdam is relatively large, but we still cannot recommend it, as many animals have relatively small enclosures, The polar bears and also the raccoon were clearly not doing well, but other animals such as the lions and gorillas also had enclosures that were too small.
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Thierry
May 2, 2025
superb zoo but the capybaras are gone - I came with my family to see the capybaras. I had seen videos on youtube that showed the capybaras of Rotterdam Zoo. But on the spot we discovered that the Amazon section is closed. So no capybaras. Staff told us that this Amazon section is permanently closed because it cost too much to maintain. Then we used the app, but it's not easy: you can't search for the animal you want to see, you have to choose from an incomplete list, and it's long, impractical.
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Pascaljessiev
Apr 1, 2025
Dirty toilet - Normally I’m not such a whiner, but this went a bit too far... okay that there can be some pests here and there is understandable with all the animals and the food, but there were just rats walking through the walkways during the day. I spotted 5 of them in the 3 hours we were there. Then we wanted to have a drink somewhere in the park and use the toilet, what I found there I really hated, trash cans that were so full that people started throwing it next to it. Then I opened the first best toilet that was free, there was a lot of faeces with paper on the floor... it didn't seem like the toilets there were cleaned every day. Furthermore, it is a really beautiful park, super nice! I hope the staff pick it up
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