The Friendly Spider Programme is currently fully booked.
This experience is wheelchair accessible.
Thank you to our supporters who expressed interest in our 2025 Friendly Spider Programme sessions. Tickets are now sold out.
Do you have a spider phobia?
Millions of perfectly rational people are terrified of spiders. No matter how much they try to calm themselves, the response remains the same: sweating, nausea, panic, rapid heartbeat and worse. But spiders are harmless and extremely beneficial invertebrates whose survival depends on avoiding such large, lumbering threats as ourselves. Join us for a session with a hynotherapist and zookeeper, and let us help you overcome your fears.
Curing spider phobia: what's involved
- An afternoon course designed to ease or eliminate the condition of arachnophobia.
- The course is a combination of cognitive behavioural therapy and hypnotherapy.
- Opportunity to speak to our spider expert and an expert hypnotherapist.
The course takes place in our meeting rooms. No animals, photographs or illustrations are used until the end part of the course.
Download our guest pack for full details:
Future Dates
The 2025 dates for the Friendly Spider Programme are fully booked.
Due to overwhelming demand, we have temporarily closed the waitlist for our Friendly Spider Programme. We appreciate your enthusiasm and encourage you to check back here for updates. Thank you for your understanding!
If you are already registered on our wait-list, we will contact you in early 2026 when our next set of dates go on-sale.
Price and dates
- £195 per person.
- A 30% concession rate is available for senior citizens, registered students, persons on income support and under 16s.
- 3 pm on selected Saturdays from April to September.
- If you wish to visit the Zoo during the day, admission tickets must be purchased separately here.
Know Before You Book
- Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult. Adult guardians must sign the consent form included in the guest pack. Accompanying adults do not need to pay for a place.
- One non-participating support person allowed free entry.
- General admission to London Zoo, if you wish to visit before the Programme commences, is not included and must be purchased seperately
- We recommend wearing loose comfortable clothing
- Please arrive on time, we advise guests to arrive at least 15 minutes before the programme begins
- Please see our full terms and conditions for more information
Friendly spider programme availability
To manage an existing booking, please click on the link below and complete the form with your booking details. Our Supporter Contact team will then respond directly to you.