EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW - HIPPO KEEPER
Step behind the scenes for a VIP encounter with our majestic hippopotamuses. Meet these incredible river giants face-to-face, discover their fascinating behaviours, and help with their daily care, including feeding and essential husbandry. This is your chance to experience life as a Hippo Keeper!
Price: £185pp (aged 16+ years)
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Use the buttons below to choose your date and VIP Experience or buy an open-dated voucher to use within 12 months.
If you're looking for a specific date and your desired VIP experience isn't showing as available, please use the phone number/email below to contact our team, who will try their best to accommodate your booking.
Phone: 01299 406461
Email: experiences@wmsp.co.uk
- Meeting, feeding and looking after our pod of hippos
- Admission to the Safari Park
- A keeper certificate
- Lunch voucher
- Ride wristbands to use in the Adventure Theme Park
- Guidebook
- Pictures from your day on a memory stick, taken by your guide
- Arrive at WMSP, turn right at the island on the drive and enter through the black gates.
- Follow the signs for the Safari drive-through and then Park in the tarmac bays near the Main Reception. Your VIP Guide will meet you here.
- First stop is the Hippo House. This is the time of day that the hippos are still in their house so you will be able to meet the hippos and help with morning routines, feeds, and training sessions.
- A photo opportunity with the hippos will take place. You will be able to get up very close and feed the hippos.
- Time for the hippos to go into their paddock. You will help prepare the paddocks, put out the feed and release the hippos, all under the guidance of the Keepers.
- Now it is time to clean out the Hippo House, remove the muck, and turn the bark – so we hope you are prepared for hard work!
- You will go through the Safari with the VIP guide to see some of the other animals on safari in the VIP vehicle.
- The rest of the day is yours to explore as you wish at your leisure. You can use your lunch voucher in one of our restaurants and use your ride wristband for unlimited rides in the Adventure Theme Park!
- Don’t forget to call in at Reception to pick up your memory stick.
- Minimum age for participants is 16 years.
- Maximum 2 participants.
- VIP Experiences can either be booked for a specific date or on an open-dated basis valid for the season. Whilst we will always try to accommodate changes in date, this is subject to availability and cannot always be guaranteed.
- Once an experience has been purchased refunds will not be considered.