Dalian Forest Zoo
Dalian Forest Zoo
4.5
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Monday
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Wednesday
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Thursday
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Friday
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Saturday
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Sunday
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
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Kukuruzzo
Russia185 contributions
Aug 2024 • Family
A vast area and a completely rambling organization of enclosures. Some, especially birds, are frustratingly small, which would be understandable given the modest size of the area, but there's plenty of room...
Don't get on the locomotives, you'll pass the enclosures and you won't really see anything.
The zoo has some nice attractions. Until 16:00 they can only be accessed by buying a ticket to the zoo, after 16:00 passage is free. There are no lines on weekdays in August.
Don't get on the locomotives, you'll pass the enclosures and you won't really see anything.
The zoo has some nice attractions. Until 16:00 they can only be accessed by buying a ticket to the zoo, after 16:00 passage is free. There are no lines on weekdays in August.
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Written August 21, 2024
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BundaK
Dalian, China16 contributions
May 2012
The zoo has two entrance gate and it is connecting by cable car. The South Part (Safari Park) is more clean and has more animals than the East Part ( Stable Breeding Park). The entrance fee is 120 yuan, children under 120 cm is free. Inside the zoo there is an electric car for 20yuan/person. If you have enough time and energy, I thinks it's better to walk and enjoy your time. We can feed the animal by giving the food that we can buy inside the zoo. It is not allowed to give animal food that we bring, but many people did that :( Opening hours in summer is 08.30-17.00
Written May 18, 2012
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kruzinom
Greenville, NH22 contributions
Jul 2018
There are so many different animals and their enclosures are awesome! Of course the Panda exhibit is always very crowded. Bring good walking shoes. This day I walked over 10 miles just in the zoo alone and I'm not sure I saw everything. Plan for a full day. This is not a quick excursion. You want to see it all because it's awesome.
Written January 15, 2019
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Happy c
1 contribution
Jun 2024 • Family
Were here 05.07.24. The zoo is really big, but everything interesting is at the beginning. If you don't like to walk a lot, or came with kids, then you can walk to the tigers and walk back, especially if it's not your first time in a good zoo. At the very beginning of the park are pandas, raccoons, then you will reach the stop of the tram and bicycles. We took the tram and realized that it was better to walk this part of the way, that you pass it, because the biggest and most interesting animals are just at the beginning of the journey. If you want to go around the entire park, pay for a bicycle at the beginning, so you can drive it freely around the park. Bibicar is by the way a mini bus driven by a man, not you. He follows the route with stops, got off in one, walked, got on the other, let's go back. It costs both him and the tram 20 per person. At the end of the park is a cable car, we didn't go to it because there was a big queue and a long wait. Costs 60.
The park is open from 9 to 16. For three, myself and children 12 and 7 years old gave 180 for admission (paid at the checkout counter, in cash, if you come with your children, be prepared to be asked to see the document, I took photos of passports, someone prints out). Since we lived at the Holiday Inn we were able to get to the park by bus 702, which stops in the Plaza shopping mall area, this is its first stop and the final stop is just the zoo. The fare is 1st.
Of the major drawbacks for us, the prices of food in the park and for nearby attractions. I suggest you take a snack so you don't overpay there.
The park is open from 9 to 16. For three, myself and children 12 and 7 years old gave 180 for admission (paid at the checkout counter, in cash, if you come with your children, be prepared to be asked to see the document, I took photos of passports, someone prints out). Since we lived at the Holiday Inn we were able to get to the park by bus 702, which stops in the Plaza shopping mall area, this is its first stop and the final stop is just the zoo. The fare is 1st.
Of the major drawbacks for us, the prices of food in the park and for nearby attractions. I suggest you take a snack so you don't overpay there.
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Written July 10, 2024
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Ольга
Vladivostok, Russia59 contributions
Aug 2023 • Family
Post-Covid times have arrived, only everything is shaking, half of the territory is still empty, there are few animals compared to 2003. Now we did not feed the tigers, we fed the giraffes from below, previously on the upper platform. Only 2 pandas. It’s a bit empty and the zoo is in dire need of reconstruction. I really liked the llamas, you can cuddle, feed and play. The best time to visit is in autumn and spring; now in August it is very hot not only for us, but also for the animals themselves, they are less active. I think in a year and a half, everything will be like before.
Written August 16, 2023
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Keegz M
Dalian, China9 contributions
Oct 2020 • Solo
Outrageous! Do not pay for this as it is clearly not being spent on the upkeep of this place. This place is a disgrace to all the beautiful wildlife they have there. The living conditions are the worst I've ever seen. I left after 30 minutes. Please see photos.
Written October 1, 2020
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Martyn K
London, UK16 contributions
If you like animals do not go. The saddest place I have ever visited.
Animals in empty glass fronted boxes.
Pandas banging their heads against the wall out of bordem / frustration.
Animals clearly in a bad mental state.
A section of the zoo where the animals are more free to roam was better, admittedly, but it didn't make up for the terrible conditions of the main area
Animals in empty glass fronted boxes.
Pandas banging their heads against the wall out of bordem / frustration.
Animals clearly in a bad mental state.
A section of the zoo where the animals are more free to roam was better, admittedly, but it didn't make up for the terrible conditions of the main area
Written March 11, 2015
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Takmat
Shenzhen, China2 contributions
Apr 2015 • Solo
Visited April 14th, 2015. Very few people at the ticket counter... should have been a hint. Most exhibits are closed, with rusted padlocks on the rundown buildings. No shows. Heartbreaking to see the conditions in which the tigers are kept. Same for most felines, the poor polar bear and his Asian siblings, most birds... Dead pelican floating in the tiny pond available for his still (but for how long) breathing friends. Huge areas under construction, but even larger ones are in desperate need of proper renovation (everything else). North gate is a ghost town... no road access back to the city either. Cable car not working. Food courts were closed down, same for the few gifts shops I walked by. Not that I wanted to get anything from there anyway, but really... this place should be closed! Yet, they still happily take your 120 RMB entrance fee. The newest looking building is the Panda exhibit. I didn't go in as I had planned to keep it last. By then I was so disappointed and heartbroken for the animals that I did not even want to go in anymore... but who knows, that could actually be OK...
Don't feel like sharing all the rundown building pictures, the dead pelican, the sad polar bear... but I'll post one. The wolf in that cage was running around in circles like a crazy animal... and the sign posted on his living space was quite... misleading compared to my experience there... I would not have written it quite this way...
Don't feel like sharing all the rundown building pictures, the dead pelican, the sad polar bear... but I'll post one. The wolf in that cage was running around in circles like a crazy animal... and the sign posted on his living space was quite... misleading compared to my experience there... I would not have written it quite this way...
Written April 14, 2015
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Paula P
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May 2017 • Business
China's Dalian Forest Zoo is an absolute disgrace. We expected so much better since this zoo houses the revered Chinese Pandas. The Panda enclosure was spacious and they appeared to be well cared for. However, the entire zoo beyond that was a disgrace. Both large and small animals were overcrowded and housed in small concrete cages. People had the ability to throw things at the animals, with no zoo workers overseeing this. Animals looked skinny and their coats were dirty and matted. I can understand the ignorance of the general public but not of the zookeepers. My heart breaks for these animals. I could not bring myself to take any pictures.
Written May 29, 2017
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Anna B
Frontenhausen, Germany68 contributions
Jun 2015 • Couples
We went there because we wanted to see the number one in Dalian. Because we used Google maps we arrived on the side entrance and not on the main. There we paid 120rmb. For the car you need to pay 20rmb that you can get to the entrance. We've got some strange map which is not very good made. We went first to the Pinguins. First surprise, it was so dirty and the second thing is, there were no Pinguins! It was empty. So next room.. it was the polar beer.. how everyone knows from the movie... total white and beautiful. No! He is sitting in a very small cage and try get to out all the time... after he pushed himself few times against the door he gave up and sit. He put all the time his tangle out and we could see that it was completely blue because he is licking all the time the walls... which a sad sad pictures!!! Then we went to the next place where we found wild cats and wolf's. Both are sitting in tiny cages and the fear of them looks destroyed. I could not see it too long. As next we went to the show of the elephants.. that was OK but I don't really want to know how much they hit them that they make all this moves... you should never forget that this animals are living not for entertaining people.. no they would like to have a normal life and because the zoo bought them for money the animals are the personal slaves which have to do what the " owner " want to.
We liked to see the giraffes and also the zebras, that's OK and it seems that they have a more luxury life than the polar bear...
After this trip We definitely know that we will probably not go to any Zoo anymore ( especially in China!!!!...who stayed longer in China know what I mean!).. it is very painful to see which kind of life the animals have, just because we people want to be entertained.
We liked to see the giraffes and also the zebras, that's OK and it seems that they have a more luxury life than the polar bear...
After this trip We definitely know that we will probably not go to any Zoo anymore ( especially in China!!!!...who stayed longer in China know what I mean!).. it is very painful to see which kind of life the animals have, just because we people want to be entertained.
Written June 13, 2015
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I don't remember exactly but it was only like 30.00 US. It was a very good price. The zoo is HUGE so wear good walking shoes!
Written July 12, 2019
aatteezzii
Karaj, Iran
Me again 😁😁
They let the visitors to hug and taking photos baby tigers?! Even the big ones maybe.. 🙄😁
Written August 26, 2018
I did not hug or touch any baby tigers. There is a place where you can get your picture taken with an elephant with it's trunk wrapped around you.
Written July 12, 2019
aatteezzii
Karaj, Iran
Me again 😁😁
They let the visitors to hug and taking photos baby tigers?! Even the big ones maybe.. 🙄😁
Written August 26, 2018
aatteezzii
Karaj, Iran
Maybe it's a rare or weird question,, but can we touch and hug baby tigers and take photos with them?! What about pandas?
Written July 23, 2018
Yes loads. Go to this zoo if you have chance.
Written July 22, 2018
パンダは高いガラスに囲まれた丸いゾーンに居ましたが、中央部分が壁と寝床舎で遮られていて全体が見渡せません。見物する側はゾーンを一周するに従い階段を下りて行くようになっていて、上と下に一匹ずつ二匹居ましたが三頭目は寝床に居たのでしょうか見られませんでした。しかしあれだけ活発に遊んでるパンダが見られるのは久しく、此処へ来た甲斐がありました。
Written June 25, 2018
How close is this to Binhai Lu (Road)? We want to see the sunset on Binhai Lu and possibly Xinghaiwan Bridge
Written June 20, 2017
The entrance is on Binhai. There's a second, smalle, northern entrance, but most people use the Binhai entrance.
Written June 25, 2017
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