Cottageville, South Carolina: Bee City: Town of Beehives

Hand-feed ringtail lemurs! They also have an aggressive llama that's hilarious (at a distance). Try the BBQ sandwich (cheap!) and hang out with the monkeys!!!!

Bee City is a wonderful place to spend three hours with small kids. The cafe is awesome. Really nice people that run the store, restaurant, etc. Couldn't be happier and only ran me $35 for three entry fees, three meals, and two jugs of honey.

The actual bee city part of the attraction is incredibly small, only 4 or so buildings. A petting zoo dominates the rest of the attraction. There is a miniature Mystery Spot here -- however, it is just slanty floors and water running up hill.

Great little place to bring the kids, although we were "kidless" and had an OK time looking at the animals. Some we had never seen before. Not enough bees in our opinion. The gift shop was fun, lots of be, wax, and honey items.

Come with an appetite as the restaurant is quite good. Save room for the cakes. All are homemade and worth going back for seconds.

Bee City Honeybee Farm and Petting Zoo. From the brochure: "See real working beehives set up in the format of a small rural American city. The hives represent businesses such as: Glory Bee Church, a BP station, etc."