DAYTRIPPERS can climb aboard a new free bus service to Chester Zoo.
During the summer holidays, the zoo will trial a service that will see visitors picked up from Chester Station and brought to the alternative entrance on Caughall Road.
The service will run every hour and provides a round trip for rail ticket holders.
The 16-seater bus – which has been provided by Chester-based Busybus – is decorated with animal prints. It is envisaged that around 300 people every day will make the six mile round trip on the bus, which has been dubbed Tiger.
The service will run at least once an hour from 9.30am – 6.30pm daily until Sunday, August 30. The bus, which will pick up from the bottom of City Road, Chester, also has wheelchair access.
Simon Mann, Chester Zoo’s development director, said: “The summer period is traditionally one of the busiest for the zoo with thousands of people visiting every day.
“With further developments such as the Natural Vision project planned, we want to look at alternative ways of enabling our visitors to reach us from all over the country
Peter Rosenfeld, managing director of Busybus, the company supplying the bus, said: “We are thrilled to not only be working so closely with Chester Zoo and the sponsors of this service, but also for the visitors to our region who can now travel from almost anywhere in Britain viaŠChester Station to the zoo.”
