ZOOM Erlebniswelt Gelsenkirchen — Attraction in Gelsenkirchen

Cool place! Lots to see as far a diverse animals. It’s got an Asian animal second and an African animal section. Oddly enough they have a North American section referred to as the “Alaska” area that features mostly Canadian animals such as a common raccoon (we find these in our trash), brown bears and even wolves that are found primarily in Ontario, as well as moose (we have moose crossing signs everywhere as they are super dangerous in Canada). I found it funny that most of the animals in the Alaska section were more Canadian and even from there, like the beaver and porcupine. There’s polar bears where 80% of the polar bear population in the world lives in Canada. So minus 1 star for misrepresentation. Should be called the North...

Fantastic zoo. The enclosures are amazing, plenty of spaces to stand and see. The animals seemed well cared for. One of my favorites were the snow owl, one of the owls is quite funny turning his head in a shocked way on repeat. However NOT alot of food choices. At the africa part you can sit nicely and there they have the most choice of food. But it is mostly hot dogs and fries. They do have oatmilk coffee and fresh waffles in the center of the park. DO NOT BRING YOUR WHITE/BEST SHOES! The africa mud will color them RED! The zoo is VERY child friendly, and I mean VERY! Alot of play areas for childeren. This also means 95% of visitors have 2-4 childeren with them, which means watch out for running childeren infront...

We ame from far to vizit this wonderful Zoo. All was amasing, but from 7 hours that we stayed there, 3 hours we've spent in waiting to buy a very bad and cold coffee. And its not because there were a lot of people, it was because the worker ( only 1) was working very slow!!! Tge drinks that cost 4€ had a very bad quality, the tea was cold, the sausages were burned. We've spent around 60€ for some drinks and food and we throw all to garbage. The workeds are very slow, the person that is taking your order, after is cooking it. This is a very slow process! Its not nice at all! Definitely we will come back, but only with the food and drinks that we will...