Educational Trip Prices
Please note, due to planned work, we shall not be open for educational visitors from Tuesday 26th - Thursday 28th January 2026
04 Sept - 24 Oct 2025 | 03 Nov 2025 - 27 Feb 2026 | 02 March - 22 May 2026 | 13 April -22 May 2026 | 01 June -17 July 2026 | |
Term time only. Excludes: 20 Dec '25-04 Jan '26 & 14-22 Feb '26 | Term time only. Excludes: 28 March -12 April & 04 May | ||||
Primary Age Students
| £8 | £7 | £8 | £8 | £9.50 |
Secondary Age Students
| £8 | £7 | £8 | £8 | £9.50 |
Post-16 Students (A Level & FE / Level 3) | £9 | £8 | £9 | £9 | £10.50 |
Higher Education Students (Level 4 or above) | £14.25 | £14.25 | £14.25 | £14.25 | £14.75 |
Additional Adults (above supervising ratio) | £14.25 | £14.25 | £14.25 | £14.25 | £14.75 |
Prices are per person for entrance only. Additional booked activities may be subject to additional fees. Tickets are subject to availability and eligibility. All visits must be confirmed and paid for at least two weeks before your planned visit date.
Educational tickets are available Monday - Friday during the dates set out above. Educational rates are not available at weekends, bank holidays or during school holidays. The last eligible date for education rates in the 25/26 Academic Year is Friday 17th July 2026. Due to planned work, we shall not be open for educational visitors from Tuesday 27th - Thursday 29th January 2026
Eligibility for education tickets
To qualify for education rate tickets, a group must:
- Be visiting on a weekday within the term-time dates stated above.
- Be part of a school/college/university with a registered DfE Number or be educated at home full-time
- Be in full-time education
- Be visiting the zoo for an educational trip to enhance learning
If you’re not sure if you meet the above, please check our full Eligibility criteria in our Terms and Conditions.
Post-16 rates are for students studying towards a Level 3 qualification full time. Higher education rates are for students studying at Level 4 or above full time
Free supervising adults
The health and safety of our visitors is one of our main priorities. To help ensure this, all students must be supervised whilst in the Zoo.
Those visiting on primary or secondary age student tickets must always be with a designated adult from your school whilst in the zoo, as part of our supervision policy. To support this, we offer one free supervising adult for every 3 paying EYFS children and one free supervising adult for every 5 paying students in KS1-4.
Students visiting on Post-16 or Higher Education tickets do not need to be with an adult at all times, but school staff must be in the zoo and contactable during the trip. To support this, Post-16 and Higher Education groups are entitled to one free supervising teacher for every 10 paying students. These supervising adults must stay on-site whilst students are in the zoo, as part of our supervision policy.
As a minimum, all education trips must include no less than one supervising adult for every 12 students visiting with primary-age or secondary-age student tickets and at least one supervising staff member for educational groups with Post-16 or Higher Education students. We will not accept bookings for groups who intend to bring fewer adults than this and you will be refused entry to the zoo on the day of your visit if you do not fulfil these requirements.
All students with a diagnosed learning need or disability are entitled to bring an additional 1:1 adult at no extra cost, which is not included in the ratio’s described above.
Paying for your trip
All education rate tickets, and other paid-for services such as workshops, must be confirmed and paid for at least two weeks before the date of the trip/activity via one of the following ways:
- BACS payment: You must include your Order Number as reference with the payment in order for us to match the payment to your trip. Failure to do so may result in us being unable to identify your trip as paid-for and may result in delays to your visit.
- Debit or credit card: Please call 0344 225 1826 to make payment in this way, and quote your booking Order Number
We do not accept cash or cheque payments, nor can payment be made on the day.
If a school have not paid for their trip by the date of their visit, the debt owed will be passed on to our finance team who will generate a new invoice which will be sent to the school. This will include an additional £25 administration fee. ZSL reserves the right to cancel or refuse entry to any group who have not paid in advance of their trip nor made prior arrangement with ZSL to pay after the visit/activity.
