Ultimate Hippo Getaway
Give Fritz a $5 birthday gift and you could win the Ultimate Hippo Getaway!
Fritz is 2! To celebrate his birthday, we are offering a prize package that includes a private behind-the-scenes tour of Hippo Cove for 5 people to meet all 4 hippos,$1,250 in flight vouchers with gold status from Frontier airlines, a 2-night stay at Graduate Cincinnati, an original kiss painting by Fritz, a $50 gift card to Fiona’s and more!
How to participate:
- A $5 birthday gift gives you a digital Fritz kiss and one entry to win the grand prize!
- A $20 birthday gift also gets you the digital Fritz kiss and gives you 5 entries to win the Ultimate Hippo Getaway.
We are now offering and additional perk of free access to our virtual member site with every purchase. So, even if you don’t win the grand prize of meeting Fritz & Fiona, you will get to watch them on live cams every day in September!



The Ultimate Hippo Getaway Grand prize winner receives:
*$1,250 flight vouchers from Frontier Airlines - with Gold Status.
*A private Behind the Scenes tour for 5 people to meet all 4 hippos (valid through 10/31/2025)
*Two-night hotel stay at the Zoo’s Official Hotel – the Graduate Cincinnati
*Original Fritz kiss painting
*$50 gift card to Fiona’s located in the Graduate Cincinnati
*Complete library of Fiona books illustrated by Richard Cowdrey
Zoological Society of Cincinnati, an Ohio nonprofit corporation dba The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden (“Zoo”), a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, is sponsoring a fundraising event in accordance with the laws of the State of Ohio. All proceeds of the event will go to the Zoo and will be used in furtherance of its charitable purposes.
Entrance to the Ultimate Hippo Getaway is a donation of a hippo Birthday gift for $5 or five entries for a $20 hippo gift. Each $5 donation receives a digital Fritz kiss print and provides one entry to the drawing. One Winner will receive 5 tickets to the world-famous Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and a behind the scenes hippo tour for 5 people to meet all 4 hippos, including Fritz! A 2-night hotel stay at the Cincinnati Zoo’s Official Hotel, the Graduate Cincinnati, a $50 voucher to Fiona’s at Graduate Cincinnati, $1,250 flight vouchers from Frontier airlines.
Alternate method of entry available. A minimum donation of $5.00 is requested. Free entries defeat the charitable fundraising purpose of this event and are not encouraged. However, Mail in requests for alternate method of entry can be obtained by mail to the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden Events Department 3400 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45220. All requests must be made before noon on August 31th, 2024. Contact the event administrator for any mail in entry questions. All gift sales are final. No refunds are available except in the exclusive discretion of the Zoo. Void where prohibited. The chances of winning are based upon the actual number of entries received.
All sales for the Ultimate Hippo Getaway will end August 31, 2024 at 11:59PM. The winner will be contacted on or before September 7, 2024.
A name and email will be attached to each hippo gift. Positive identification will be required to claim any prize.
The winner will be contacted directly by phone or email. Any questions about these rules and regulations or the prize should be directed to the event administrator at [email protected].