Pairi Daiza: everything you need to know about the Brugelette zoo in Belgium, prices, hours and hotels

Pairi Daiza is an 80-hectare zoological and botanical park in Brugelette, in Belgium’s Hainaut province, between Mons and Ath. An adult ticket costs €43 to 52 online, depending on the day, the park opens every day at 10am and you can sleep facing polar bears or tigers. Here is all the practical information, checked on the official website on 18 October 2026, along with the best hotels to extend your visit.

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1. Ticket prices 2026: €43 to 52 online
2. Edenya at €7, Membership Card from €122
3. Opening hours: 10am to 6pm, 10pm at Halloween
4. Halloween, Christmas and €25 Heart Days
5. By car from Paris, Lille or Brussels
6. By train: Cambron-Casteau station, 1.2 km away
7. Ten worlds, 7,500 animals, from pandas to bears
8. Where to eat: more than 10 restaurants
9. When to go and how long to stay?
10. Accessibility: wheelchairs on loan and scooters
11. Sleeping in the park: from €162.50 per person
12. Five upmarket hotels less than an hour away
13. Every Pairi Daiza price in one table

Ticket prices 2026: €43 to 52 online

Pairi Daiza uses variable pricing: the same ticket costs more at weekends and during school holidays. Online, adults aged 12 to 64 pay €43 to 52, children aged 3 to 11 €37 to 46 and seniors aged 65 and over €41 to 50.

Children under 3 get in free, on presentation of an official document. At the ticket office, every ticket carries a €5 surcharge: buy yours on the official website, where it is dated and valid for the day you choose.

Visitors with reduced mobility get a lower rate, €38 to 47 for an adult. The official calendar shows the price for each day: €43 on weekdays outside school holidays, €49 on some weekends and €52 during Halloween and the festive season.

Edenya at €7, Membership Card from €122

Edenya, opened in 2026, is billed by the park as the world’s largest covered tropical garden: a glasshouse measuring 206 by 192 metres and 24 metres high. Entry costs an extra €7 (€5 for members) and requires booking a time slot, with limited numbers.

Inside you will come across jaguars, manatees, sharks, tapirs and butterflies, at the foot of a 17-metre waterfall. Once you are in at your booked time, there is no time limit on your visit.

The Membership Card gives access to the park for 365 days: €132 for an adult, €122 for a child, €128 for a senior. It pays for itself in three visits at weekend or holiday prices, and adds a 10% discount in the restaurants and on Resort stays; an annual parking card costs €39.

Opening hours: 10am to 6pm, 10pm at Halloween

The 2026 season runs from 7 February 2026 to 31 January 2027, and the park is open every day throughout. Gates open at 10am; in October, November and December, closing time is 6pm, or 7pm on some October weekends.

From 17 October to 8 November 2026, Pairi Daiza stays open every day until 10pm for Halloween. Daily opening hours are listed in the official calendar, together with the matching adult price.

Halloween, Christmas and €25 Heart Days

For Halloween 2026, the park promises 246 performers, more than 1,000 pumpkins and chrysanthemums, a Ghost Train and a show of images projected onto a 50-metre water screen in the middle of the lake. It remains a family celebration: no haunted house or gory scenes, and frightening costumes are turned away at the entrance.

In December, the park showcases its festive illuminations; the public Christmas 2026 programme had not yet been published as of 18 October. For a few more shivers elsewhere, see our haunted luxury hotels in Europe.

The best deals in the calendar are the Heart Days (Journées du Cœur), when entry costs €25 for everyone, online only and without Edenya: Saturday 21 November, Friday 27 to Sunday 29 November, Wednesday 2 December and Friday 11 December 2026, then Saturday 16 January 2027.

By car from Paris, Lille or Brussels

Pairi Daiza lies 265 km from Paris, around 3 hours by road, 75 km from Lille and 62 km from the Grand-Place in Brussels, about an hour in both cases. The park recommends entering “Le Domaine 1, 7940 Brugelette” into your GPS.

As you get close, follow the road signs rather than your navigation app: that is the park’s advice on busy days. Parking costs €13 a day, payable at the ticket office, at the exit machines or online for the same price.

Electric cars will find 40 charging points rated at 11 kW in car park 2, at €0.67 per kWh, using your own cable. Motorhomes can stay overnight in the car park, without water or electricity, on the same €13 ticket.

By train: Cambron-Casteau station, 1.2 km away

Cambron-Casteau SNCB station, on the Mons-Ath line, is 1.2 km from the entrance, a 20-minute walk along a signposted path; there is no shuttle. From Brussels or France, travel to Mons or Ath, then take this local train.

Once you have bought a ticket online, the park sends a code giving 40% off a return train journey from any Belgian station. All the options are listed on the Plan your visit page.

Ten worlds, 7,500 animals, from pandas to bears

The park has ten worlds, from China to the Arctic, and more than 7,500 animals according to its 2026 press kit. It welcomed 2,866,576 visitors in 2025, making it Belgium’s number one tourist destination.

The Middle Kingdom, a Chinese garden whose temples are lit up at night, is home to the giant pandas, golden monkeys and red pandas. The Land of the Cold brings together polar bears, walruses, penguins and Siberian tigers around the great lake.

The Kingdom of Ganesha houses Europe’s largest herd of elephants, according to the park, and the Land of Origins the gorillas, giraffes, hippos and rhinos. The site was born in 1994, as Paradisio, on the ruins of the Cistercian abbey of Cambron.

Where to eat: more than 10 restaurants

The park has more than 10 restaurants and around twenty takeaway points, and picnics are allowed, with plenty of tables. Alcoholic drinks and glass bottles, however, are not permitted through the entrance.

The most astonishing address is The Abyss, inside Edenya: an underwater restaurant with table service, surrounded by sharks, fish and manatees. Le Temple des Délices offers an all-you-can-eat Asian buffet and La Brasserie serves Belgian dishes beneath a reconstructed timber frame from 1775; the full list is on the dining page.

When to go and how long to stay?

Allow a full day, from opening to closing, to explore the 80 hectares without rushing, and book your Edenya slot when you buy your ticket. Download the park’s app: it shows the times of the shows and which restaurants are open that day.

The price calendar is a good guide to crowds: the €43 days, on weekdays outside school holidays, are the quietest. Arrive before 10am at weekends and during Halloween, and pack rainwear, as most of the visit is outdoors.

Dogs are not allowed, except assistance dogs notified 48 hours in advance, and there is no left-luggage facility. Pushchairs and hand carts can be hired for €8 a day at the entrance.

Accessibility: wheelchairs on loan and scooters

The Mobility Aid point at the entrance lends wheelchairs free of charge, if booked at least three days before your visit. Mobility scooters can be hired for €35 a day, with a €200 deposit.

Most restaurants and buildings are accessible, with lifts at the Nautilus and near the penguin cave. A few routes are still not recommended, such as the suspension bridge in the Middle Kingdom: details are on the dedicated page.

Sleeping in the park: from €162.50 per person

The Pairi Daiza Resort has 209 lodgings, all facing an animal enclosure, and reported a 95% occupancy rate in 2024. Guests fall asleep facing polar bears, wolves, walruses or sharks, behind a picture window that is sometimes underwater.

The stay includes park access from arrival day to departure day, from 9am, an hour before the public, breakfast, a three-course dinner excluding drinks, parking and free entry to Edenya. Several worlds remain open to resort guests after closing time.

Official prices are per person, for two days and one night half board, in low season: from €162.50 at the Paddling Bear Hotel, facing the Steller sea lions, and €189 in a double room with a panoramic view. Expect to pay from €196 at the White Bear House, €208 at the Tiger House and €237 in the underwater rooms of the Walrus House.

Inside Edenya, the seven new types of lodging opened in 2026, such as Manatee Cove and Shark Cove, start at €244 per person. The Full Moon Lodge, 90 m² with a fireplace and sauna facing brown bears and wolves, starts at €281, and the highest listed rate reaches €292.

Bookings are made on the Resort website with a 30% deposit. Without cancellation insurance, the deposit is lost if you cancel more than 45 days before arrival, and the full cost of the stay within that period.

Five upmarket hotels less than an hour away

For a night outside the park, Mons, 25 minutes away, offers the best compromise. Valenciennes, Lille and Brussels suit those combining the visit with a city weekend; see also our favourite boutique hotels in Brussels.

Van der Valk Hotel Mons: the package with tickets

21 km from the park, this 145-room hotel has a 1,000 m² spa with swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna and hammam. Its Pairi Daiza package cost €243 for two adults on the night of 1 to 2 November 2026 (plus €9.44 in tax), with breakfast, park tickets and hotel parking, at a non-refundable rate.

Martin’s Dream, a neo-Gothic chapel in Mons

This 62-room four-star hotel occupies a 19th-century neo-Gothic building, a former refuge for nuns that became a chapel, and some rooms keep their stained-glass windows. It has a spa with hammam, sauna and jacuzzi; its romantic package started at €180 a night in a double room with breakfast, on the Martin’s Dream website.

Royal Hainaut, an 18th-century hospital in Valenciennes

On the French side, 49 km away, this four-star hotel-museum occupies the former 18th-century General Hospital. Its 79 rooms and suites come with a spa featuring a large heated pool beneath bluestone vaults; rates on the official website.

L’Hermitage Gantois, a 1462 hospice in Lille

An hour from the park, this former hospice founded in 1462 and listed as a historic monument has become an Autograph Collection hotel, set around inner gardens. Ideal for combining Pairi Daiza with a weekend in Lille; rates on the official website.

Hotel Amigo, a stone’s throw from the Grand-Place

62 km away, Rocco Forte’s Brussels palace hotel stands 50 metres from the Grand-Place. Our guide to the Hotel Amigo details its 154 rooms and suites; the capital makes a fine stop before or after the park (rates on the official website). More addresses feature in our hotel openings in Belgium.

Every Pairi Daiza price in one table