Zoos - Small
Animal related activities
De Aarde
Website: https://www.deaardebreda.nl/nl/home
Location: Aardenhoek 26 a 4817 NE Breda (5km from Breda Central)
Parking: Parking in the street, can be difficult to park
General info: Small reptile park but very well kept and they let the kids hold the snakes and you can feed the turtles.
Has a few tables and they offer coffee tea and snacks.
Oliemeulen
Website: https://oliemeulen.nl/
Location: Reitse Hoevenstraat 30 5042 EH Tilburg (31km from Breda Central)
Parking: Parking on the street, can normally find a spot close to the entrance
General info: Small zoo focused on reptiles and birds. Good snake show, they also have a bird show and it started 15 minutes late the two times we have visited.
Has an inside and outside area. Small play area outside.
Large seating area in a covered area outside. They offer coffee and snacks.
Zoo Veldhoven
Website: http://www.zooveldhoven.nl/
Location: Wintelresedijk 51 5507 PP Veldhoven (64km from Breda Central)
Parking: Very large parking lot, quiet a long walk to the entrance
General info: Small zoo, larger than Oliemeulen, with lots of birds. It is possible to feed all the parrots, when you enter you can buy seeds and they give a stick with which to feed to birds.
Lots of owls and eagles.
Nice inside area with a restaurant and an atrium.
Large playgrounds.
Closed during winter.
Tropical Zoo
Website: https://tropicalzoo.nl/
Location: Langeweegje 10-A, 4434 NE Kwadendamme (80km from Breda Central)
Parking: Small parking lot at the front, more parking a little bit away
General info: Small zoo focusing on reptiles and birds. Has some dinosaurs.
Nice indoor river area and outside playground.
During summer holidays it gets very busy, there can be queues to get in around midday.
It is heated indoors.
Zoos - Large
Animal related activities
Blijdorp
Website: https://www.diergaardeblijdorp.nl/en/
Location: Blijdorplaan 8 3041 JG Rotterdam (55km from Breda Central)
Parking: Parking lot at the zoo, gets very full on weekends.
General info: Very large zoo. Has a very nice aquarium.
Large zoo, there is a train that goes from one side to the other.
Can get very busy on public holidays and weekends.
Ouwehand
Website: https://www.ouwehand.nl/
Location: Ouwehands Zoo, Grebbeweg 111, 3911 AV Rhenen (88km from Breda Central)
Parking: Large parking lot. Have not visited on a weekend.
General info: Only zoo on NL that has pandas. Panda enclosure is large, but very popular.
The rest of the zoo is nice but its not really worth the distance other than to specifically see the pandas (There are closer zoos with similar animals)
Burger's Zoo
Website: https://www.burgerszoo.nl/
Location: Burgers' Zoo, Antoon van Hooffplein 1, 6816 SH Arnhem (120km from Breda Central)
Parking: Very large parking lot, can get full quickly on weekends
General info: Large zoo. Really lovely aquarium and large indoor mangrove with manatees.
Very long drive.
Beekse Bergen
Website: https://www.beeksebergen.nl/op-safari
Location: Beekse Bergen 1 5081 NJ Hilvarenbeek (36km from Breda Central)
Parking: Large parking lot, can be a long walk to the entrance
General info: Safari themed zoo. Has a drive through safari, this can get very busy on weekends.
Has African elephants and hippos. Lots of play grounds.
Dierenpark Amersfoort
Website: https://www.amersfoort-zoo.nl/
Location: Barchman Wuytierslaan 224, 3819 AC Amersfoort (90km from Breda Central)
Parking: Big parking lot
General info: Large zoo, it also has a dinosaur park.
Nice jungle gyms and slides incorporated into the enclosures.
ARTIS Amsterdam
Website: https://www.artis.nl/en/
Location: Plantage Kerklaan 38-40, 1018 CZ Amsterdam (106km from Breda Central)
Parking: In the center of Amsterdam, it is best to go with public transport
General info: Zoo with aquarium and planetarium.