parking at woburn safari park

Go on an exotic adventure at Woburn Safari Park

Woburn, bedfordshire.

Explore the habitats of lions, zebras, giraffes and much more at this family-friendly, conservation-focused safari park.

Featuring both a road safari and a foot safari, Woburn Safari Park is both a family-friendly attraction and a vital animal conservation resource. Most of the animals found within the park are classified as endangered species, making Woburn an essential part of their continued survival.

Get up close and personal with African lions and zebras from the safety of your own car in the road safari, before parking up and exploring penguin habitats and insect biomes. Kids will also enjoy the various leisure attractions on site, including indoor and outdoor play areas and a boating lake.

Woburn Safari Park is open all year round and discounts are available on family tickets. Both the road and foot safari sections are included in the cost of one ticket - be sure to book in advance!

The Road Safari will be reopening from 15 June - check the website below for ticket information and details.

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Woburn Safari Park - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (2024)

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Woburn Safari Park

Woburn Safari Park is a drive through wildlife park nestled in over 300 acres of beautiful Bedfordshire parkland. 

Start planning your safari drive visit to Woburn Safari Park!

From the safari park's  opening times  to information on  booking safari day tickets , how to  find Woburn Safari Park , and details on what to see during your day visit, check out the options below to plan your next safari adventure!

Have you still got questions about visiting Woburn Safari Park?  Check out our FAQ

Disabled Concessionary Admission

Tickets are available for one disabled individual plus one carer and are only available to buy online in advance.  Proof of disability is required in the form of a DLA, DWP or PIP letter, blue badge, or an original letter from a registered care home, nursing home or hospice. If a second carer is required (your documentation should support this) an additional ticket can be purchased at the gate.

For all ticket prices please  click here .

Please do not ask staff to make a judgement by any other means, this is unfair to staff and they will politely refuse to make any discrimination or judgement without official documentation. 

If you wish to discuss your upcoming trip or your form of identification, please contact us on 01525 290407. Special requests can not always be met, when made on the same day of your visit.

Woburn Safari Park has done everything possible to ensure we offer a fully accessible park to people with disabilities and wheelchair users. We look forward to making your day as enjoyable as possible.

Road Safari

Transport around the animal reserves is in your own car/minibus/coach. All vehicles take the same route and the drive takes approximately one hour. You can repeat the Road Safari route through the reserves as many times as you like during your visit.

Click here  for more information can be found on Central Bedfordshire Council's website.

Click here  for more information about vehicle accessibility at Woburn Safari Park. 

Disabled Parking

There are 19 parking bays for blue badge holders in the main Leisure Area car park.

Disabled Toilets

These are located at the main entrance to the park, in the Safari Restaurant, and in the courtyard block by Junglies gift shop.

A radar key system is in place for the disabled toilets in the courtyard, please ask a member of staff in Junglies Gift Shop for the key, there will be a returnable £5 desposit for use. Or please feel free to use your own radar key, should you have one.

Changing facilities for larger children and adults are available in the first aid room, please ask staff in Junglies Gift Shop for a key and state your requirements. Unfortunately, there is no hoist equipment available for use.

Click here  for more information about this area of the park on Access Able - Central Bedfordshire Council's website.

Please approach any member of Woburn staff who will immediately contact one of the qualified first aiders on site.

Hearing Loops

Hearing loops are fitted at till points throughout the Safari Park.

Assistance Dogs

No pets or dogs are permitted into the Safari Park and kennel facilities are not provided. Assistance dogs are only allowed to enter very limited areas of the Safari Park and may not enter the Road Safari or any animal enclosures in the Foot Safari. 

Please read the below Assistance Dogs policy in full to plan your visit accordingly.  Click here  for more details of the Assistance Dogs policy. 

If you have any questions regarding accessibility in relation to an upcoming trip you're planning, please contact us on 01525 290407. 

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Woburn Safari Park

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WOBURN SAFARI PARK: All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go (with Photos)

Woburn Village

Woburn sands library, frosts garden centre, south lodge, milton keynes coachway park and ride, elstow park & ride, parking in ampthill.

If you don't know your way around Ampthill parking your car can be difficult. Shoppers can park at Waitrose but only stay for two hours, which many residents say is not enough time to get into town and look around any shops other than the supermarket. Town Centre Shoppers Car Park (by Waitrose) Maximum stay: 2 hours

Car park spaces marked M: 4 hours maximum stay Mon - Wed. Market vendors only on Thursday in lower part of the car park directly off Church Street. Parking is unrestricted outside Waitrose store opening hours. Free long stay parking is available in The Sands car park off Woburn Street and the parking bays along Woburn Street and Bedford Street. Free Parking Facilities Additional FREE Car Parking Facilities - available every Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday. Visitors and shoppers to the town can park in the car park behind the Aragon Housing Association building each weekend and bank holiday. From Dunstable Street (opposite the Old Sun PH) turn into Chandos Road then turn first right and first right again. You can reach the town centre from the car park by walking down the side of the Housing Association building taking you back into Dunstable Street. This facility is provided courtesy of the Aragon Housing Association.

sources: http://www.ampthilltowncouncil.org.uk/council-services/council-notices.html http://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/community-and-living/Crime/comm_safety/ampthill-community-safety-forum.aspx http://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/bed-news/Lack-of-parking-hurting-Ampthill39s.4068739.jp

Attractions

• Woburn Safari Park
• Woburn Abbey
• Woburn Heritage Centre
• White Horse
• Rose & Crown

Restaurants

• Restaurant at Paris House
• Nicholl's
• Birch at Woburn, The
• Greenhouse Restaurant, The
• The Bell Hotel & Inn
• Best Western Moore Place Hotel

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Drinking in a public park in Moscow? Your name could end up on a ‘board of shame.’

MOSCOW — If officials from President Vladimir Putin’s party get their way, a Soviet-style practice of naming and shaming citizens for bad behavior may soon be instituted in the Russian capital.

Oleg Smolkin, the United Russia party’s executive head in Moscow, told state-owned news network Moscow 24 this week that there are plans to set up “boards of shame” online and along the entrances of apartment buildings to out residents who commit such petty atrocities as smoking in the wrong place, drinking alcohol on kids' playgrounds, parking their cars on lawns or letting their dogs poop in the wrong section of courtyards.

It’s all part of a project called Safe Capital that is scheduled for a full roll-out in June. Other features of the program include United Russia-organized citizen patrol teams, which will monitor Moscow’s neighborhoods to crack down on petty crime, according to a report this month in the newspaper Kommersant.

Those who are caught — and, as Smolkin told Moscow 24, they are already starting to collect information about suspected offenders in preparation for what the publication referred to as “raids” — will see their pictures go up on a board of shame, both online and in the entryways of buildings in their neighborhoods.

“The photo shows a concrete fact. It will be photographic reportage, not a portrait of a person,” Smolkin told Moscow 24, explaining that the pictures would show the person caught red-handed in the act of smoking/drinking/letting their dog poop. The organizers would not post the accused perpetrator’s personal information alongside the photo, but “townspeople will know who of their neighbors are upsetting” the public order.

The venture isn't the first step that Russia has taken under Putin to clean up its streets. Since Putin returned to the presidency, Russia has adopted a series of laws aimed at improving the health of citizens and better maintaining public order. It is no longer legal to buy alcohol at public kiosks, for example, and drinking on the streets is a no-no now. Smoking in restaurants and cafes also has been banned.

But the idea of public naming and shaming has a darker history, going back to the Soviet era. In the heyday of the Soviet Union, when bosses used red “boards of honor” and black “boards of shame” — also known as “black boards” — to highlight those workers who had been performing well and point out those who drank, dawdled or otherwise shirked their duty.

The practice of using “boards of shame” was particularly widespread in the years of collectivization, during the 1920s and 1930s. In those days, not producing enough grain could land a person or even an entire district on the black board. Being so designated usually carried harsh penalties and fines.

The boards of shame, Smolkin stressed to Moscow 24, won’t go up in buildings unless the owners agree to host them, and there are some safeguards to prevent trolling — such as the apparent requirement that only those who have been charged by police will risk seeing their mugs posted online and in doorways.

Patrol squads have already started to collect information about violations of the law; the raids start in June and are expected to take place on Fridays.