Before you set off…
The entrance for the Yorkshire Wildlife Park is at The Yorkshire Hive, Hurst Lane, Doncaster, DN9 3HQ. There is LOADS of parking available.
NEW Pangea Discovery of dinosaurs area
Seeing the animals
We’ve been many times, but never seem to be able to get around the whole thing in one go!
There is a new area since our last visit ‘Experience Ethiopia’ with new Hyena’s which the Mini Mumblers were very keen to see after watching The Lion King. So we headed there next, going past Wallaby Walkabout.
It’s really exciting to see the development of the Yorkshire Wildlife Park taking place as you walk across the Land of the Tiger walkway, which is the route to the Ethiopia area.
The Hyena’s weren’t coming out to play unfortunately, but we loved the Gelada Monkey’s. They were very cheeky and playful and there was loads of space to see them.
Walking back towards the Giraffes (my personal favourites) we had a coffee at the Masai Coffee House…I’ll detail all of the places to eat below..
There are lots of playgrounds to enjoy at Yorkshire Wildlife Park.
After seeing the camels, we headed back around to see the leopard (the viewing platform is closed currently, but we were able to catch a glimpse from the ground).
The One-Way system was in place as we walked up past the Rhino’s and by this point the amount of people in the park had reduced again.
We watched the Lemurs through the fence as this area was closed off.
Accessibility
There is a LOT of walking to do at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, that’s for sure, it is huge and getting bigger. So if you’ve little one’s you probably want to bring the pushchair.
Their wheelchair rental service is now reopen and the Wildlife park is accessible.
Facilities: Toilets and Baby Change at Yorkshire Wildlife Park
There is a separate Baby Change there and separate disabled toilet, both of which had no queues.
We walked on to the toilets near iCaramba! where there are 2 disabled toilets with baby changing, male toilets and female toilets (I noticed there was another baby change table in there also). E
Worth noting that the disabled toilets don’t require a radar key for entry and their is a Changing Place in the Safari Cafe, which looked to be open.
For all public toilets see the Yorkshire Wildlife Website here .
Eating at Yorkshire Wildlife Park
We noticed lots of places for take away food and drink available and LOTS of outdoor seating spread around the park (a huge area with picnic benches near Wallaby Walkabout)
We had a drink in the Masai Coffee House – so nice to have a coffee made for me after lockdown! I noticed that there was a good selection of things available – there were kids lunch boxes etc, which are always popular with my Mini Mumblers.
Play Areas
I hope this is useful if you’re planning a trip to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park in the next few weeks and days.
Reviewed July 2020
Disclosure: Mumbler was not paid for this review, although we were lucky enough to receive our tickets for free. All views and opinions are our own and are open and honest.
