From 1 December – 24 December, the grotto will be available to book on selected days to book in 10-minute time slots from 10:20am – 3:30pm.
**Please note the grotto does not include entry into Edinburgh Zoo**.
Admission tickets must be purchased alongside your Santa’s grotto tickets. We’d recommend booking your favoured grotto slot, and then booking your zoo tickets afterwards!
For further information please contact events@rzss.org.uk
Mr and Mrs Claus will also be joining us on several evenings throughout the festive period.
Where possible we will update our listings to notify of cancelled, postponed and rescheduled events, however we STRONGLY ADVISE that you check with the venue/organiser in the first instance for updates.
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