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Zoo Atlanta offering discount to early risers

By Melissa Ruggieri
Aug 1, 2011

If you want to do the zoo in the morning, you’ll save money while sweating less.

Zoo Atlanta is offering a $5 daily discount through Aug. 28 for guests who arrive before 10:30 a.m. The discount cannot be used with other offers and guests must mention “beat the heat” for it to apply.

Info: 404-624-9453, www.zooatlanta.org.

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Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.

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