Penguin Feeding Experience for One at Drusillas Park
Overview
Do you fancy feeding some fish to one of your favourite feathered friends? Get up close to Drusillas' playful penguins in this unique and exciting Close Encounter experience.
In this unforgettable one-to-one experience, you'll get to meet the waddle of penguins and come face to face with these friendly animals. Drusillas penguins are bursting with personality, and they’ll happily show off their diving skills whilst you fling them some of their favourite fish.
Enjoy one-on-one time with your dedicated Zookeeper who can answer all your penguin questions, as well as getting the chance snap some p-p-perfect photos of the penguins from inside their enclosure. The perfect day for any animal lover.
- SKU
- PDRUSP
- Locations
- 1 in the UK
- People
- For 1
- Validity
- 12 Months
- Rating
- 5.0 (11)
What's Included
- Behind the scenes tour
- Health and safety briefing
- 30-40 minutes inside the Penguin enclosure
- Experience gift pack including personalised voucher and message card
What happens on the day?
Please make your way to Drusillas Visitor Services Office five to ten minutes before the start of your encounter. You will be met by an animal keeper who will give you a behind the scenes tour first and then a health and safety briefing. You will then be taken to meet and feed the penguins.
At the end of your experience there will be plenty of time to take some close-up photographs, so don’t forget to bring your camera. Participants are welcome to arrive early and stay until the park closes to enjoy other attractions and animals.
Participant guidelines
- Minimum age: 6 (under 16s must be accompanied by an adult with a valid day ticket)
- To be able to take part in this experience, participants must have an up to date tetanus vaccination
- Please note that this experience is for one participant. Spectators will not be able to accompany the voucher holder during their experience
- Entry to Drusillas Park is included for the Close Encounter participant/s. Additional (non-participating) guests will require a valid day ticket
- The experience content, equipment used and restrictions may vary
Availability
This experience is run daily except Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
It is recommended that you book at least four to six weeks in advance to ensure that dates are available. All bookings are subject to availability.
Your experience will last approximately 30 to 40 minutes, however you are welcome to spend all day at the park.
What about insurance?
The centres contracted with us hold public liability insurance. We also hold contingency liability cover. You will not be liable for accidental damage to equipment, except where damage has been caused as a result of recklessness or wilful negligence.
Please ensure you are familiar with the terms and conditions of the experience.
How it works
Customer Reviews
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Anastacia
21/12/2020
Great day
It was a great day at the park and the person this was gifted it loved it ! However make sure you take photos of the penguins up close before you feed them because they tend to stay in the water after , I wasn’t told this so I didn’t get any up close photos sadly. I ask wished I was able to pick which feeding time I wanted as 11:30 would’ve better as me and my partner were just waiting around the zoo until 4.
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Suzy
09/03/2020
Penguin feeding!
Fabulous! Loved it ! It was a present from my two sons .and they all came to watch ! Great afternoon ..and very informative thankyou.x
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5
Tracie
08/09/2019
Fantasy experience
Brilliant - staff were lovely Everything was perfect
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Tanya
17/08/2019
Drusillas - feed the penguins 🐧
Brilliant day at Drusillas. So much to see and do. Best zoo I have been to by far! Special birthday treat for my 7 year old son who experienced feeding the penguins. Behind the scenes tour with 2 lovely zoo keepers and a good half an hour throwing fish to the penguins!
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Ryan
28/08/2018
Great day out and event
The keeper was excellent, value for money was good, great attractions in the park as included in the package, great day out for kids not so much for adults but that is due to location as such - we were at Drusilla's. may not recommend for those that wouldn't want to stand in front of a crowd, although easy not to think about that whilst feeding the penguins.
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Kerry
03/06/2018
So much fun
I had so much fun, the keeper was really friendly and had lots of interesting facts for me, the experience is one on one so you literally get to feed the penguins their whole meal, would love to do it again and also had a really fun day at the park with my family as you get to take someone along with you.
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5
Ann West
22/04/2018
Very enjoyable experience.
Was given a warm welcome at reception on booking in. Keeper Claire arrived and introduced herself along with Jess. They showed me a behind the scenes view of what keepers do and how they prepare the animals food. We then proceeded to the penguin enclosure where I was introduced to the Penguins, especially one Rockhopper who is very old. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and would recommend it to anyone that has a love of penguins.
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Brenda
07/06/2017
Fantastic experience
Drusillas Park is a brilliant place to visit and feeding the Penguins was a fun experience.
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Eileen Rye
28/04/2017
Fantastic
The day was fab .staff brilliant and my whole family enjoyed the day as much as me
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Vanessa
19/02/2017
Penguin feeding
I got this as a Christmas present. The keeper was very nice and showed me around including the food store this was interesting. Then I got to feed the fish to the Penguins. Whilst the keeper did the talk to the spectators. Afterwards we wNt around the back and fed a really old penguin who was very cute. . I saw the different eggs and how they identify each penguin.
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Sarah
13/08/2016
Penguin feeding
I loved it
Locations
Locations shown shouldn't be used for route planning
South East
- Alfriston, East Sussex