We had aa great dinning experience on the deck of the new restaurant SAFARI AND VINE overlooking…read morethe zoo. The weather was perfect and doing happy hour drinking with awesome appetizers, hearing the sounds of the zoo animals, and watching monkeys play was a very pleasant experience. The meals were equally high quality and very tasty. Happy hour stops at 5:30 so come early and enjoy the ambience of being in nature enjoying life with friends.

The best thing about this zoo is the Safari and Vine restaurant. This zoo needs a major overhaul…read more There was a lot of over grown grass and overall just unkempt. The lions were the best part. I do not recommend unless it's free. Highly disappointed.

Not a big place, but absolutely ideal for youngsters and those who love barnyard animals. You get…read moreto play/feed with a ton of smaller goats, as well as sheep, an alpaca, small cow, a duck, tortoises, etc. Animals will mob you if you buy a cup of carrots for them ($3). Admission priced reasonably (I think it was $9/person for adults), and staff was very nice/willing to educate you. Animals were absolutely adorable - you could even hold baby goats. Absolutely would recommend this place to anyone traveling w/people that love barnyard animals. Only caveat is that they were only open on weekends, 10-4, during the time we visited in early May 2021.

This was a fun little and I do stress little petting zoo. Great for little kids and just to pass…read moretime. Very very cheap adventure. You can also feed and hold some of the animals. The bearded dragon and the baby Joey (kangaroo) was also a nice addition it. You can also hold them.

New year's re-zoo-lution? More family time at the Gulf Breeze Zoo!…read more The zoo is impressively clean. The animals & their habitats are all very well-cared for. My 1 and 2 year old toddlers enjoyed the train ride (about 15-minutes long), the "feeding zone" (they fed the camels, giraffes, goats, and pigs). I was also thankful for the two playgrounds within the zoo. One playground is for the younger toddlers while the other is much taller for the older kiddos. The zoo also offers animal encounters for the giraffes, indian rhinos, hippo, sloth, alligator, and galapagos tortoise. I'm hoping to try the sloth encounter during our next visit. We had such a great time at the Gulf Breeze Zoo & look forward to returning!

Went with family, my husband's adult children while we were visiting family. We enjoyed the zoo and…read moreanimals, particularly the Hollar Monkeys (which I don't have photos of) and the train ride, also feeding lettuce to the giraffes.

Such a fun thing to do with the kids! We all learned something, everyone was so friendly and it was…read morejust a great time! Oh, and the gift shop had really cool things at reasonable prices! #DauphinIsland @disealab #buzzybooth

To echo another reviewer, for 'what it is' - i.e. the location, size of the aquarium, and price of…read moreadmission - it's a good experience, especially if you have small children with short attention spans, which was my exact situation. You could throughly see everything in an hour, 90 minutes tops. Many of the exhibits are focused on the wildlife of local ecosystems and waterways; a few of the exhibits are sparse and/or in need of updating. The experiential components are great, including the outdoor ray/shark touch tank and indoor horse crab/snail touch tank, shells, and other marine life specimens. Bottom line: If you're already on the island, definitely worth a visit, but don't make a special trip. If you have older kids or have visited more robust aquariums, this might be a skip.

This place is great for families to visit! They rescue animals as well as teach the public about…read moreour wildlife.

From the owner: ECWR is a local wildlife refuge, where citizens are able to bring injured, orphaned, or ill native…read moreFlorida wildlife. However, we also operate a small Education Center, where visitors are able to meet our Animal Ambassadors, or wildlife species that are no longer able to be released into the wild. Our Animal Ambassadors are inside their own private enclosures, and we can not guarantee they will be visible at all times. We also do not currently have the staffing to ensure full-length tours for each visitor, but we try our best to accommodate! Otherwise, the tours can be self-guided and we are an easy going, small nature center that you can go at your own pace, but general visits are less than 35 minutes.

One of the BEST experiences we have had in the Gulf Coast! Our family visited this weekend and had…read morea blast petting all of the animals and feeding the reindeer. The staff was very sweet and made us feel right at home! I can't believe word hasn't gotten out about this gem... I'll be telling EVERYONE about this place

My friend and I brought our 6 children here. There were a lot of little activities for them to do,…read morebut we were hoping for a pumpkin patch. There was no patch. There was only a table full of small pumpkins. It's fine. There were a lot of other good things about the place. The deer, the goats, the big pig that walked around, the zip line, etc. Well we went up to pay our way in and the lady at the concession was So Super nice! The price was $10 each. 2 and under are free. My friend paid for her and her two children. I pod for myself and 3 of my 4 children because my youngest was 2. I asked again about the and under being free. She said yes. So I asked what about the pumpkins? Because usually the pumpkins are included in the price. She said "Oh the pumpkins are free! Take as many as you want. We have more than we know what to do with!" Ok great! We spent close to 2 hours doing all the activities. Then we when we were ready to leave, we went to the pumpkin table to get our pumpkins. My daughter had a hard time choosing so we were showing her options then putting them back until she found the one she wanted. Great! We go to leave and we're taking pictures of the kids carrying their pumpkins. 1 for each of us. I was carrying mine and my daughter's. When I was almost to the parking area, a woman stopped me and said we got too many pumpkins. I was confused and told her we paid 7 fees and my youngest was free. And she said "I don't know. They just told me y'all had too many pumpkins and I have to get them." So I explain that we had the right amount. She wasn't having it. She said the pumpkins were only free for the kids. So I don't really know what my friend and I paid fees for because it's not like we got on the zip line or anything. Whatever! So I give her the two I have in my arms back and walk away. My friend goes back and at least gets my daughter's pumpkin back from the lady because I was done with the confrontation. She was hearing it. All in all, my children enjoyed it. Every other employee other than this lady was so super nice! But it was not the pumpkin patch experience we or they were hoping for and the lady at the end of it ruined my whole view of the place. We will not go back. We'll drive a few minutes down the road to Holland Farms!

Great small experience zoo, this isn't your big zoo where they really push spending on you and…read moreeating places. 1/4 of it is designed for you to feed all sorts of animals and have an alpaca cut all the other animals off when feeding them lol. The giraffe feeding was fun and they have a great small display of all sorts of animals. If you want a quick 2 hours zoo and have some kind people to talk to where your time is yours alone. This place is perfect and local.

Every time we go on vacation, we have to find a zoo. The Emerald Coast zoo did not disappoint. You…read morecan tell the animals are well cared for and the zoo grounds are extremely clean and well kept. This does not seem to be the norm with many small family run zoos in the US There is a large variety of animals some of which we've never seen in enlarged shoes and this is one of the few zoos we've been to where the animals are active and almost interact with visitors. While we were there, the lions that are penned together or playful and seemed interested in the humans on the other side of the fence. We fed the giraffes which include a young one who is very adorable. We also had a nice interaction with one of the zoo staff who was cleaning out the porcupine pen. She was very informative and was willing to answer questions about the porcupines and gave us some information about other animals that we would encounter in the zoo. Overall, it was a good experience and we would highly recommend the zoo to people who enjoy learning about animals or just want something different to do. On a fun note we appreciated that the signage told us the names of some of the animals like two emus named Karen and water buffaloes named fast and slow, if you're a fan of Veggietales, you'll get that last reference.