My son loves his Fiona the Hippo book so I looked ...

My son loves his Fiona the Hippo book so I looked online and saw that the best hours to visit were between 3-5pm because that is when the hippos are most active. So we bought tickets for 3:00-3:30. By the time we got across the street an into the zoo it was like 3:30. We visited all the animals along the way and saw Fiona and her mom, Bibi! That was great. But basically, not long after it was closing time at 5:00. I thought I read somewhere to plan 1-2 hours for the trip and this definitely wasn't enough, especially with small children. We should have come much earlier and taken a long lunch break and gone to the hippos after that. It was a nice zoo, a little more expensive than I wanted hut apparently if you buy tickets out farther they are cheaper. We bought ours a few days in advance because we were watching covid stats and didn't want them to go to waste if we couldn't go. We will definitely go back if we are in the area. Also, a lot of enclosures were empty because it was too cold for the animals in October and then some of the indoor enclosures were closed due to covid and not being able to space out enough. So, take that into consideration because when I emailed asking what enclosures were open or closed they didn't mention the ones that were closed due to the temperature.