When we first heard about the San Diego zoo, we we...

When we first heard about the San Diego zoo, we were told to plan for a full day, we should have taken that suggestion to heart, because you could spend countless hours walking through the awesome exhibits of this park. The efforts that go into creating and maintaining all of the exhibits and the cleanliness of this park are Disney-esc. There was never a point in time where I saw trash, or dropped food on the ground. There is never a time where I saw gum sticking to the sidewalks, or unclean exhibits. There are people working at the zoo around the clock to maintain a standard of cleanliness and professional appearance. There are so many exhibits that we spent seven hours in the park and we almost missed half of the zoo. That s just a small sample of how big this place actually is. If you re planning on going here make sure you bring comfortable walking shoes because you will be on your feet walking up and down hills all day long. But it s well worth it. The staff are friendly and incredibly knowledgeable.
And the food is actually very good! If there are some negative marks for this zoo that would be for the cleanliness of the bathrooms, and a constant push to sell green screen photos at the tour bus location and at the panda exhibit. These are just minor annoyances. The last thing that was disappointing was the size of the exhibit areas for a number of the cats, especially for the Lions. I understand this is a very old zoo, but I hope these exhibits continue to expand and grow, to be better accommodating to the animals with in them.