Auckland Zoo Reviews

Love this place. Loads to do and the staff are so helpful. The kids loved the animal meets! Particularly the elephants and cheetahs!

Animals look well-looked after, enclosures are great, staff helpful and knowledgeable. Keepers are great with their talks! Always love trying to spot the Servals.

Full of animals and information happy friendly staff to help and teach during allotted time during the day, will not add photos, go and Experience it yourself!!!

Animals all hidden away from the sun! Ice cream shop shut 1&1/2 hours before closing. Elephants in locked enclosure before 5pm and couldnt find the Tarantulas. Photos tooo expensive. Cost so much for a family of 5 to see so little in the summer holidays.

Cleanest toilets ive seen and a great all round atmosphere :)

A fabulous day out for the whole family. Great fun seeing all the animals. It is great the zoo is constantly changing to improve and evolve with the needs of the animals.

Whenever you know a new city, worth going to the zoo is a walk and at the same time you have notion of the care you have with animals.
Many works in progress, I believe will please visitors.

A quaint and lovely place to go for a walk and visit the animals :)

Very large collection of animals to see and things to do. Staff are friendly and give great introductions to the animals. There is a playground for kids with a big slide and a Dragon for kids to climb. This is one of the great places in Auckland for family with children. Highly recommended.

Very fun and engaging day out, the zoo offers show and tells with the animals to give not only a visual experience but also one where you feel engaged and informed. Perfect for that Sunday arvo with the kids or family

NZs biggest zoo. It underwent some upgrades since I last went there. It's looking very fresh and new. It's a really cool experience.

This is a good zoo, though not very big, but can be around for a long time. But when we go to the park and garden in decorating a gorilla, saw pictures of their future, are looking forward to it. In the zoo there are many volunteers, they help us introduce animals, this is a very good behavior, can help us better understand the zoo.

I really enjoyed our outing to the zoo. A lot hasn't changed in the last 20 years but then again a lot has changed so it's good to see the modernisation of the zoo with some of the original nostalgic feel of the place. My daughter was a bit too young for the zoo at the time to really comprehend what the experience was but now shes older she loves the animals.

I saw a baboon putting there finger up another baboons bum

One of the best zoos we visited! They have amazing animal collection living in decent conditions.

A good day out. Handout very helpful.
Spot on for grandchildren.

As regular Auckland Zoo visitors we were disappointed in our visit on Jan 20. We paid $62 for 2 seniors + 8 yr old grandchild. We knew there were no hippos, and no orang-utans, but there appeared to be no sealions. The cheetah enclosure was empty, (and we later saw one one in the tiger enclosure). The old tiger enclosure appeared to be empty. There appeared to be only 2 female lions, and we caught a glimpse of 1 rhino somewhere in the far corner of it's enclosure. It generally felt a bit run-down compared to previous times.

We've been to bigger zoos across the world, this one packs a mighty punch in a relatively small area... The way they have themed each area, really bringing in parts of Africa into the enclosed areas and the walkways makes it a great adventure for all. Highly recommended!

Great experience and pleased to see lots of redevelopment and planting taking place. It could do with more cold food options available though as it was so hot didn't want hot chips and burgers for lunch!

Wonderful staff and very helpful. A lovely place to visit and experience animals you may never have seen before, live

Nice place to visit, new areas under construction but still plenty to see.

Very nice zoo, large and nice enclosures though parking is a nightmare go early to get a park

Excellent. Took the family here for a wee getaway. Picked the kid up form school as a little surprise for his 6th birthday. The experience was amazing, and I highly recommend it to anyway. However, we had an issue with the rhinoceros cage. My son was obviously getting bored of the zoo, which I do not blame him you cant appreciate birds at such a young age. So me and the wife decided to throw him in for a little bit of a rush. The zookeeper was SCREAMING at us it was so funny :) Then he slammed an alarm resulting in the ENTIRE people at the zoo to go CRAZY!!!!! there were people running EVERYWHERE and some little torublemakers opened up the cages for all the dangerous animals!!! Unfortunately, my son did die so its a 2 star from me

The new additions to the Southeast Asia section is brilliant

great place with kids.
lots of work going on so next time we go will be alot different

We buy an annual Friends of the Zoo pass (normally on special) and always have a great time. Can t wait until the new piece of the zoo is open! The kids LOVE this place and it never gets old.

Love taking the family here. Relaxed environment and many volunteers and staff who are willing to chat and explain. The restaurant / cafe is a bit on the expensive side but I hope that the extra money benefits the zoo. We get to see (or maybe just notice) more every time we go.

Lovely zoo - saw the kiwis, red pandas and 2 diggers (with a 2 year old)....

One of the best zoos in the world. Under-appreciated by locals

The Auckland Zoo is always a fantastic place to visit There is a lot under construction at the moment, so we're looking forward to seeing the new enclosures when they're complete Both of my boys said they had a brilliant day We were there on a school trip & the extra information we got from Zoo staff & our mini tours was a real bonus! Thank you Auckland Zoo

Always good, but a lot if the animals weren't around

Great fun for all ages, plenty of pram access and facilities scattered around the zoo. Even with the current building work the experience for families is well organised. Well worth the annual pass for entertaining my toddler throughout the year.

Carpark needs a bin and a rework. Zoo is amasing tho.

They haven't finished the renovations, but still a great place to bring your kids

A huge zoo so make sure you get there early. Lot's of animals on show, lovely food & very helpful staff.

The New development looks promising. Not as many animals as there was in previous years. Mirror the zoo in Malaysia or Australia Zoo. Still worth a visit.

great ZOO, perfect for a day out during a sunny day. lots of interesting animals that looked well taken care of. some of them were sleepy and did not get the chance to see them - maybe next time :)
there could be more signs as i got lost even though i had a map.

They need to upgrade the zoo. I found it sad. Also needs more sun shelter for people walking around.

Great experience. Only hiccup is that more signs for exit etc are needed while large building site (zoo extension )is in the middle of the park.

Fun experience for the whole family. My kids enjoyed their time here. Would definitely come back!

Lots to see and do. Need more shade areas for patrons. Great visiting with children

Loved seeing all the animals. Thanks to the staff. From Australian Contingent Scouts

A lot of construction going on at the moment. Can't wait until it's all completed.

It was a great experience watching all the different species

Beautiful Zoo. Affordable price to go in. Simply amazing!

Auckland zoo is awesome for a good day out. Sometimes it can be better when it's drizzling as well ... different animals come out

1 particular lady at the ticketing counter was extremely rude and condescending. Besides her everyone else was extremely friendly.

Amazing experience, went while the bug lab was on and it definitely was worth it! Unfortunately there is only index tiger and no hippos currently, how've the new lion are so cool and especially the cheetahs. Our tour guide Sarah was also very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about everything she talked about. Would highly recommend the zoo as everything is being maintained and worked on, definitely worth going to!

Good but we saw very few animals. Posable pram rental

Despite remodeling happening at the time of my visit I still had a great time. Remodeling in recent years has really brought some flair to what was already a nice zoo

Really nice zoo with a lot of animals I hadn't seen in other zoos! Good layout as well. Also lots of informative zoo staff around the exhibits!

One of the best Zoo's you can visit! Awesome enclosures, with good animal interaction. Constantly changing and evolving. New enclosures and upgrades always are world class! Great staff and lots of passionate volunteers!

Family or flexi passes are the way to go. Makes it well worth your money

Fantastic, but currently a lot of it is under construction.

I always go to this Zoo once in 2 years. Friendly staff.

Well maintained and helpful staff. Good care taken of the animals and visitors.

They care about conservation and enclosures are fit to look like their natural habitats.

Very good customer service from most of the team. Found the elephant resturaunt was abit pricey for what you get. And the hot chips looked and tasted double fried??? That old and soft texture and dark brown like its been cooked in old oil or left out for 20+ minutes? not the best. However we had a good time. My favourite part of the zoo was the dark starry room where the kiwis are.

Great place for photography and loads of renovations which are happening cannot wait for it to be done!!!

My family and I bought annual passes here at the beginning of the year, extremely good value. We have visited now so far in excess of ten times. Everytime we visit we spot more and more, my daughter loves coming here. Looking forward to the new area opening up, lots of fun to be had in a nice safe clean environment. Friendly and helpful staff are very knowledgeable with regards to the animals.

Auckland zoo is currently undertaking a large redevelopment but there s still heaps to see and the food is really good. I especially recommend the classic American hotdog.

Amazing place. Wonderful animals and excited staff. Excited to go back.

I purchased a annual family pass for $165. There is a lot of construction going on at the moment and some of the larger animals have been farmed out to other zoos but it's still a great place to take the kids. You see something different every time. With an annual pass you can go for 30mins and leave and it doesn't matter. Been about 20 times in the last 6 months. Highly recommended.

Great day at the Zoo, a lot of spacious and cool enclosures with creatures from NZ and around the world.

various types of animals. Not a big zoo, but the kids will definitely love it.

We had a great time, my kids wanted to go back later in the day. So we did.

Seems to of gone down since last here three years ago