Pannington Hall Lane, Wherstead, Ipswich, IP9 2AP.
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When looking to visit Jimmy's Farm and Wildlife Park, tickets can be purchased both on the door and online. There is a 50p per person saving when pre-booking online.
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Ticket prices (these were correct as of the 24/07/2024, these are pre-booked prices):
Under 2 - Free
Child (2-16) - £17
Adult - £20
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Dogs are welcome if they are kept on a lead.
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Jimmy's Farm and Wildlife Park is open to the public 7 days a week. Throughout the summer season they are open 10am-5pm and during the winter season they are open 10am-4pm.
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We spent 5 hours there. This did include a small picnic. We could have stayed longer and let the boys play in the play areas, but ended up leaving when we did due to the boys becoming tired.
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At Jimmy's Farm and Wildlife Park, there were animals such as an european brown bear, arctic foxes and polar bears to see, play areas including bouncing pillows (one for smaller children and one for bigger children), a woodland walk which had a walking through time statues area which included a sabre tooth cat and a small dinosaur, a gift shop, a butterfly house, a reptile house, a toy and sweet shop, restaurant and garden centre.
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Our favourite part was the polar bear enclosure. They had 5 acres of land which included 2 large water areas, a smaller water area, grassland and foresty to explore. When we were there we saw all four polar bears, two of which seemed to be inseperable and loved to play with each other by jumping into the water.
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Animal feed could also be purchased for £1.50, however there was a warning on the packaging stating the food may contain nuts.
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There was plenty of parking available. Parking spaces were on grass with some available closer to the entrance on a gravel floor. Disabled spaces were available.
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While at Jimmy's Farm and Wildlife Park, there were two restaurant areas (one was before the entrance) and food stands dotted around where drink and food could be purchased. When walking past one of the food stands a can of drink was £2, a kids hot chocolate was £3, a bottle of water was £1.75, a packet of crisps was £1.30 and a small tub of icecream was £3. There were also plenty of picnic benches around to enjoy a picnic.
When we visited, our eldest was 3 years old and our youngest was 21 months old. We found this to be a fun family trip and felt there was something for every age.
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We found several sets of toilets around, which some included disabled toilets and baby changing facilities.
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The paths were gravel which meant the pushchair struggled at times, however our main pushchair issues was in the woodland walk section. The reason why we struggled in this section was because there were a lot of tree roots which went across the paths and the slopes were quite steep.
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Overall, we would visit again if we were in the area. We loved being able to see animals that aren't typically seen at a wildlife park and found sign language signs for the animals in the rare breeds farm. We were also impressed by the amount of land each animal had to roam around. The staff were friendly and helpful, and we found everything to be well spaced out which meant places didn't become overcrowded easily. However, the park by the picnic area wasn't suitable for children under 6 which we typically would find okay if this was signposted so we could have avoided this area (in the climbing frame the ladder steps had a larger gap than normal and had rock climbing sections that were needed to be climbed to be able to get to the slides which our 3 year old was not able to do by himself and the space inside the climbing frame was difficult for an adult to fit), we found several pieces of glass in the gravel in the rare breeds farm area and we struggled to see the arctic foxes due to how far away the paths were situated, so have rated this day out 4 stars out of 5.
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Date of Visit: July 2024
