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Postcard from London: a Christmas sleepover at the zoo

Staying overnight in the zoo’s wooden cabins, visitors can enjoy less hurried encounters with the animals — and wake to the sound of a lion’s growl

In the 2006 film Night at the Museum, Ben Stiller takes a job as a museum security guard, only to discover that the exhibits come to life once the visitors have disappeared. Would a night at the zoo prove similarly revelatory?

Since 2016, London Zoo has been offering visitors the chance to stay over. For Christmas, it is putting a festive wrapping on the experience: a cup of mulled wine, toasted marshmallows, piped-in Christmas tunes, et cetera.

Personally, I associate the zoo with crowds of impatient children, not least because I used to be one of them. Staying overnight is a chance to see the place near-empty.

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