3 Best Places To Visit in Leicester, UK

I've visited this place a few times over the years, but my recent trip with my niece and family inspired me to write a review. Despite its small size, it’s perfect for a half-day outing. You get to see a wide variety of birds, and the best part is holding them at the end. They're eager to interact, especially if you buy the bird food available at the entrance. There is a cafe and toilets too.

Lovely place to visit. Been many times before. Nice to be able to feed the birds and hold them although they do bite, I'm sure not always but we was maybe just unlucky with a curious bird! Thankfully the staff are close by to help when needed. Lovely variety of birds and clearly well looked after. Playground is nice but more for younger children. Cafe and plenty of picnic benches to eat and a small gift shop to visit before leaving.

I went for the first time last week and loved the place. A lot of interaction with the parrots meant that kids and adults alike were entertained. It is a small park, but we still managed to spend a good few hours there, mainly because of the parrot walk-through, where you can hold and feed parrots of all sizes. Once a parrot chooses to let you hold them, you just don't want to put them back down. I would definitely return for a second visit if I were in the area again.

Absolutely fabulous! Me and my girlfriend went as it opened at 11 and there was no wait to get in! It is completely free as well which is amazing. We didn’t spend long in the animal place as we wanted to see the art gallery. This had lots of beautiful paintings which we spend a long time admiring. We also loved the Picasso ceramics. My personal favourite part however was the dinosaur place, featuring an enormous skeleton which was 40% complete of a real dinosaur!!! It also had other smaller skeletons which were very interesting to look at. At the end we had a look in the gift shop which was very cute and we got some Grow your own cress dinosaurs!!! Overall we spend about an hour in there and we 100% recommend it!

The staff were very helpful and I found it very interesting to learn about some of the city’s history as well as view the amazing art pieces. Free admission and a little cafe for a light bite or a coffee. Would highly recommend especially if you’re visiting Leicester for the first time! Also, the Revolution bar is less than a 5 minute walk away, amazing place to go for a bite to eat!

Totally blown away to discover the Umbrellas by Renoir was being shown at the Leicester museum and Art Gallery. The information was so clear and I learnt loads just about that particular painting and artist. What a magnificent piece of work. And then to see bronze sculptures by Rodin and Ceramics by Picasso! I was on a cloud of bliss.