Local tourist attraction Folly Farm has announced that it has temporarily closed following the latest government guidelines in response to Covid-19.

A statement from the farm said that they will be closed until Saturday, April 18, and will be reviewing the re-opening date in accordance with government advice at the time.

“We’d like to reassure you our dedicated team will be here to continue to care for and feed our animals,” said a spokesperson for Folly Farm.

“We’d like to thank you for your continued support over the last few weeks and indeed the last 32 years. We feel very privileged to have such loyal visitors and to play our small part in the wonderfully supportive Pembrokeshire tourism community. We’d also like to thank our hard working team who have coped admirably these last few weeks in increasingly challenging circumstances.

“Stay safe and we promise to keep bringing you animal updates to lift your spirits!” they added.

Further information for Folly Farm users has also been issued:

E-tickets – If you have a valid e-ticket we will extend this for an additional three months from the expiry date. This will be reviewed again if needed.

Annual passes – If you have an annual pass we will extend your expiry date for the length of the period we are closed.

Free return visit offer – If you have a free return visit offer dated between March 14 and March 20 we will still honour this within seven days from the date we-reopen.

Animal experiences – If you have booked an animal experience during our closed period we will contact you to rearrange this. Please bear with us as we work through all our bookings.

Tesco Clubcard vouchers – We’re sorry but we can’t accept expired Tesco Clubcard vouchers you’ve exchanged for vouchers for Folly Farm. You’ll need to contact Tesco themselves who we’re sure will re-issue if you tell them we’re closed due to Covid-19. Please bear in mind we don’t have a fixed date for re-opening though.

Touring park – if you have booked to stay at our touring park from its opening date on June 19, 2020 then we respectfully ask you to wait until closer the to the time to make a decision about cancelling or re-booking for a later date when we have a clearer picture of the situation.

Easter character appearances – we have re-booked Hey Duggee for the 28th and 29th August and Poppy and Branch from the Trolls are with us on the 30th and 31st August 2020.