On a beautiful Sunday afternoon in January with ou...

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon in January with our family with young children we visited the DierenPark Amersfoort. Parking was busy and a moderate parking area which was poorly marked. A few employees for directions had been in place. Entering went smoothly with the tickets purchased in advance. No park map. You can either walk the entire route or use the app. It works well in itself, but I prefer a paper map. You enter the older part with many animals and some play areas. Behind this is a larger newer section and the dinosaur forest. It is a relatively small zoo and our young children enjoyed the train and the dinobos very much. The animals are great. Not special. The best thing I found was the inside of the elephants. It was impossible to do the hospitality by lunchtime (also moderate later in the day). I do not know if they had misjudged the crowds (it was not really busy in my opinion) or that it is always so but you had to wait a very long time. The quality was very poor and the price way too high. The open kitchen of the restaurant, the outdoor area, is a good example of how it should not be, because while waiting you could quietly look into this open kitchen and watch how everything that fell to the ground was still used. Toilets were dirty and far too limited available at this restaurant. The employees were unable to answer simple questions about other restaurants. Zoo was ok, hospitality industry dramatic, parking way too expensive. And all those dogs that the visitors take don't need me either. There were quite a few who were not really brought up. All in all a big fail.