Families with small children will be more than delighted.
The development of Zoo Budapest is going on for years on the area of the former Amusement Park, and now the project has come to a milestone. Once-upon-a-time Castle, the Zoo's new playground opened its doors. Children can meet fabulous animals, animal tales and toys on the one and a half acres area.
The new scene behind the carousel is primarily designed for present domestic animals, but there are also many of them that can be familiar to children from the tales. Alpacas, camels, fallow deers, domestic animals like Hungarian beef cattle, Gyimes Racka sheep or mangalica pigs get new home, while guinea pigs got their own small town. In the new area there is also place to revive the horseman's traditions of the Zoo: an indoor riding school and linked stables also take place as part of the Once-upon-a-time Castle.
The new area has new playing opportunities as well. In the middle of the Once-upon-a-time Castle, there is a “Behind the Beyond Palace”, a 4-storey, 2700-square-meter playhouse, where children can meet the classic figures of the Hungarian animal tales. Get to know Vuk (the baby fox) and Süsü (the funny dragon), pop by the surgery of Dr. Bubó (the best owl country GP), play with Pom-Pom (the furball), be an assistant to Mekk Elek (the unlucky DIY goat), watch the fish with Nagy Ho-ho-ho Horgász (the greatest angler) and enjoy the water-world of Brekk Berek (Frog marsh)!
The Zoo has preserved the atmosphere of the old, classis Amusement Park from 100 years ago. Not only they restored the beautiful carousel, but also the original shooting gallery, and the old dinkey line that operates from now on.
The new area can be visited with the Zoo ticket, but a special ticket can be bought too, only for the new Once-upon-a-time Castle, which costs 1000 HUF.