My family came here for a fun day. The exhibits ar...

My family came here for a fun day. The exhibits are way better than the San Francisco Zoo and the animals are more active. Parking was a nightmare. I don't know if it was because it was Zoo Lights that evening or not but the website also said it was open until 8 because of this event. It didn't mention that you had to pay to stay at the park past the regular 5pm closing time. So we were told by 1 staff member that the zoo was indeed open until 8 but it was never said that they would lick is out at 5 and then make us re-enter. So we rode the gondola first and only stayed for an hour before being escorted out because the zoo was closing. So instead of seeing animals we spent the whole time waiting in line to be kicked out because the zoo was closing at an earlier time than the wedding and staff portrayed. We were only able to see 5 animals for to their negligence to give the correct closing time information. And the line to the the gondola back down was crazy because they ask how many are in your group and then separate the line based on that and let single people out before the family with small children that were on line before the others just to get more people out of the park earlier. Then complain about the children crying when those children would've already been gone if they never let about 100 other people cut the line. We waited about an extra 20 minutes due to then cutting the line like this. But if we were able to see the rest of the zoo it would've been great if the active animals we did see were any indication of how the rest of the park would've been.