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Panda Packages

  • Looking for a great hotel for your family, friends, or business guests who are visiting the Washington area?
  • Want to support giant panda conservation?
  • Want to do both at the same time?

You can! Just book accommodations at one of ten area hotels partnering with FONZ. These premier hotels offer special Panda Packages throughout the year.

People who book a panda hotel package will get a special Zoo Welcome Kit, given to guests at check-in.

Zoo Welcome Gift Box

gift box

Guests will receive an attractive white box with handles and a panda picture! Inside you will find:

  • Cute plush panda
  • Zoo Tycoon 2, a computer game for Windows
  • Zoo pen with animal design
  • Zoo map
  • Panda information card
  • Panda sticker and Zoo scavenger hunt

Contents of package will always include a panda plush, Zoo map, pen, photos, panda information card, and scavenger hunt sheets. Other items may change as stock becomes available.

Zoo Welcome Gift Boxes are available only for rooms booked through a participating hotel's website or reservation phone number. They are not available at the Zoo.

Participating Hotels


link toBeacon Hotel and Corporate Quarters
a short Metro ride from the Zoo

address 1615 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
phone 1.800.821.4367

Link toBethesda Court Hotel
a short Metro ride from the Zoo

address 7740 Wisconsin Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20814
phone 301.656.2100

Link toBolger Center
(enter "panda" as promotion code when reserving online)
shuttle service to the Zoo provided

address 9600 Newbridge Drive
Potomac, MD 20854
phone 301.983.7000

link toConnecticut Avenue Days Inn
one Metro stop from the Zoo

address 4400 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
phone

1.800.952.3060
202.244.5600 ext. 252

link toEmbassy Suites Washington
one Metro stop from the Zoo

address 1250 22nd Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
phone

1.800.362.2779
202.857.3388

link toFairmont Washington, D.C.
a short Metro ride from the Zoo

address 2401 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
phone

1.877.570.5556

Link toHoliday Inn Arlington
a short Metro ride from the Zoo

address 4610 North Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22203
phone

703.243.9800

link toHyatt Regency Bethesda
four Metro stops from the Zoo

address One Bethesda Metro Center
Bethesda, MD 20814
phone

1.800.233.1234
301.657.1234

link toOmni Shoreham Hotel
a short walk from the Zoo

address 2500 Calvert Street, NW (at Connecticut Avenue)
Washington, DC 20008
phone 202.234.0700

link toWashington Suites Georgetown
a short Metro ride from the Zoo

address 2500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20037
phone 202.333.8060

Other hotels near the Zoo

Please Note
The National Zoo lies between Metro's Cleveland Park and Woodley Park/Zoo/Adams Morgan stations on the Red Line. The above information about hotel proximities to the Zoo assumes that hotel guests staying north of the Zoo would exit at the Cleveland Park station, and those south of the Zoo would exit at the Woodley Park/Zoo/Adams Morgan station.