Pairi Daiza

April 22, 2024April 7, 2024 Kirsten

Pairi Daiza, Belgium 2022

I’ve already posted about seeing the pandas and sleeping in the resort at Pairi Daiza in 2022, but time for the rest of the park pictures! We spent 1 night and 2 full days here and I think we really made the most of it (despite primarily being there for the pandas), although another day would have been perfect to revisit some of our favourite animals. At the time of our visit, the new entrance was still being constructed – this is now open and there have been some changes in the past 1.5 years so some things may look a little different and there may be different animals in some areas now. I have also posted previously about my first visit to Pairi Daiza back in 2017 – seriously, where did the time go?!

April 15, 2024March 13, 2024 Kirsten

Sleep with the Polar Bears at Pairi Daiza

Pairi Daiza in Belgium has had hotels open in the heart of the zoo for several years now – it started with The Paddling Bear hotel, and has now extended to rooms in both the Last Frontier and Land of the Cold areas. You can lie in bed or lounge on the sofa overlooking tigers, walruses, penguins, bears and more! We opted to choose a polar bear room – here there are 3 levels of options, an ‘eye-to-eye’ view which has water around 2/3rds of the way up the window so you get great views when the bears are swimming, a ‘from above’ view which is just about in the eyeline of the polar bears on the ground, and a ‘birds eye’ view another floor up giving you a great sweeping view across the whole habitat. I was very happy with our ‘from above’ view over the lovely polar bears!

July 10, 2023December 27, 2023 Kirsten

P A N D A S @ P A I R I D A I Z A 2022

Better late than never – in October 2022 I finally got my next trip to Pairi Daiza to see the pandas! This trip was my postponed June 2020 trip so while I’m sad that I didn’t get to see the twins as super playful 1-year olds, at least I was able to get there eventually. I took my mum on this trip and we stayed in the Pairi Daiza Resort, more on that in a future post about the rest of Pairi Daiza, meaning 2 days spent with the 5 Belgian pandas. October was a great time of year to visit, it wasn’t too busy and the pandas enjoyed the cooler weather by spending time outside which was great for getting pictures!

July 29, 2020December 25, 2023 Kirsten

P A N D A S (+more) @ P A I R I D A I Z A 2017

Pairi Daiza in Belgium is one of the most beautiful zoos I’ve been to – it really can’t even be described as just a zoo, it’s very much more a park with beautiful gardens and scenery to also enjoy. It’s definitely an experience! Pairi Daiza is fairly new, having first opened 1993, but you would never guess being there. Everything about the place is amazing, and for sure my pictures don’t highlight that enough, nor do they cover the whole park – one day is really not enough to cover everything thoroughly, and as a panda fan this was the focus of my visit in the Summer of 2017. I also visited Pairi Daiza at the start of January 2020, however the weather wasn’t so good for taking pictures; I was also due to visit in June a couple of weeks ago, but we’re working on re-scheduling, hopefully we’ll make it by the end of the Summer months!