The unique staycation concept has just opened in Yorkshire.
Located just one hour from Leeds in South Yorkshire, the Yorkshire Wildlife Park is opening a new hotel and it's offering you and your family the chance to get up close and personal with some of nature's most exciting creatures.
Located moments from the animal enclosures, the HEX hotel is bringing the zoo to your staycation. Imagine waking up and stretching next to the likes of tigers and polar bears before sipping on your morning coffee: there simply isn't anything like it here in the UK.
The new hotel forms part of the £50 million renovation project from the Yorkshire Wildlife Park and is due to open this weekend.
Image: HEX Hotel
Hex Hotel is welcoming visitors with the appeal of: "wak[ing] up on the wildside and make memories from dusk to dawn", warning "You might even wake up to the sound of the Pride of Yorkshire ROOAARING as the sun rises."
In addition to the regular, but nonetheless breathtaking experiences of HEX, the hotel will be offering a range of themed sleepovers and family-friendly break packages including the Peter Pan mini break, Safari Night Concerts, School's Out for Summer and Spooky Sleepover packages.
By day, families can explore the wildlife park and meet the only polar bears in England or make friends with sea lions basking in the sunshine inside the largest man-made sea lion pool around.
Image: HEX Hotel
Dining options are aplenty around the park and inside the hotel.
Casual dining venue Wilds Cafe-Bistro invites guests to put a pin in the day's activities and unwind with hot food and refreshing drink options, whilst Masai Coffee House serves fair trade coffee, hot and cold drinks plus a selection of light lunches with giraffes.
The Hex Hotel is yet to reveal its full potential, but as the new hotel is due to open this weekend, we imagine the raving reviews will start to flock in shortly.
After closing for the entire second day, The Warehouse stage at Leeds Festival has once again been forced to evacuate.
One of the most anticipated dance acts of the day has been cancelled due to health and safety concerns just moments before the set.
Sheffield DJ Silva Bumpa was due to take to The Warehouse stage today at 1:30pm, but the set was cancelled due to overcrowding.
It's not the first time this has happened at Leeds Festival 2026, as yesterday Omar+'s set was cancelled due to the same issue and the stage was subsequently closed for the rest of the day.
The Warehouse stage is completely new for this year, and supposedly is designed specifically for dance music...which is quite ironic.
Announcing the news to Instagram, Silva Bumpa said: "So so sorry Leeds Fest but due to over crowding my set was cancelled last min I was just behind the stage and got told right before such a massive shame."
Prospa, another prominent DJ who's set was cancelled at Reading on Friday afternoon, spoke up on the situation: "We are disappointed in The Warehouse stage closure at Reading Festival. We were told it wasn't possible to play whilst on the way. This was due to too many people outside the stage.
"We have seen this happen before at larger festivals in the UK. It's time to double the capacity of tents or put dance music on the main stage."
It comes after another dance stage, LS23, was closed mid-set last night due to a health and safety hazard when all the lights suddenly switched off and ravers were forced to evacuate.
If yesterday is anything to go by, we wouldn't be surprised if The Warehouse was closed for the rest of the day which means anticipated sets from Rossi and Mall Grab will also be cancelled.
‘Actually lost for words’ – huge artist speaks out as Leeds Festival set is cancelled due to overcrowding
Clementine Hall
For the second day in a row, a huge set has been cancelled due to overcrowding at Reading and Leeds Festival.
Day two of the festival and there's some pretty disappointed ravers hanging their head as one of the biggest dance music sets of the day is cancelled.
Omar+, a rising British electronic DJ and producer, was due to play on the brand-new Warehouse stage at Reading yesterday and Leeds today.
Yesterday's set was cancelled last minute due to overcrowding, and low and behold the same has happened here in Leeds.
Announcing the sad news to his story, Omar+ said "Actually lost for words. My Leeds set has been cancelled due to overcrowding."
He then went on to show a screenshot of a text message, reading: "I've never seen something like this in my entire life where two shows back to back are cancelled due to overcrowding."
The Warehouse stage is completely new for this year, and supposedly is designed specifically for dance music...which is quite ironic.
Prospa, another prominent DJ who's set was cancelled at Reading yesterday, spoke up on the situation: "We are disappointed in The Warehouse stage closure at Reading Festival. We were told it wasn't possible to play whilst on the way. This was due to too many people outside the stage.
"We have seen this happen before at larger festivals in the UK. It's time to double the capacity of tents or put dance music on the main stage."
It comes after another dance stage, LS23, was closed mid-set last night due to a health and safety hazard when all the lights suddenly switched off and ravers were forced to evacuate.
Sophie Smith -
8th April 2022 
