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3 May 2011

BBC’s Watchdog Slams UK Attractions for Unfair Parking Fees

BBC's Watchdog programme's "grumpy man in residence" Rick Wakeman last week criticised the practices of some of the UK's best known leisure attractions, for demanding extra fees from customers to park their car.

Parking at Woburn Safari Park

Most customers will travel a fair distance by car, having paid rising fuel costs, to arrive on site and with only one choice of parking location; a captive audience that, as Watchdog rightly points out, is being taken advantage of.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2011/04/free_rant.html

45% of Woburn Safari Park customers drive for more than an hour to travel to the park, and are obliged to bring their car for the drive through safari. Once the drive through safari is completed, Woburn Safari Park offers guests free parking as well as plenty of other attractions FREE of charge.

Woburn Safari Park is proud NOT to impose any additional charges on visitors and were delighted NOT to appear on the Watchdog hitlist. We’d like to remind our valued guests of the WILD VALUE for money that your admission ticket includes:

Animal Encounters - visit penguins, lemurs, squirrel monkeys, lynx, marmoset, red river hogs, wallabies and many more in the award winning walk-through safari
Fascinating Talks and Demonstrations - learn about the animals and the keepers who look after them
Tiny Tots Safari Trail
Mammoth Play Ark - an indoor adventure play area for children and toddlers
Swan Boats - peddle powered boats
Bobcat Run - a giant astro slide
The Great Woburn Railway