Mommy was less than excited about visiting the aquarium. It's expensive, and she saw "Ripley's" and thought "cheesy tourist trap." However, Daddy has been talking about this aquarium and wanting to visit for a long, looooong time. So we went. I will say, we are all aquarium junkies and therefore have been to tons of them and are hard to impress, but we won Mommy over pretty quickly. This is a great aquarium! It's got an awesome tot setup. There's a big room with small aquariums that kids can crawl under and come up in a hole underneath so the fish swim around them. Brother thought this was amazing. Every time Mommy or Daddy would lift him up in the middle of the aquarium, he'd start jabbering up a storm and waving his arms all excited. There are also interactive displays around the room for the kids to play with and learn from, I was super intrigued by the one that explains fish anatomy. It had a giant fish and you'd push a button on each organ and it would light up and tell you about it's function. There are also two different touch tanks where kids can climb up and touch rays and horseshoe crabs. The only difficult part was the shark tank. There's a huge tunnel where you can go under the big tank with sharks and other ocean fish. It's really neat, but they have a slow moving electric walkway that goes under the tank. It's a good idea in theory; it keeps everyone single file so even the littlest ones can see and keeps people moving. However, it was just a little too long and slow Tot and Brother both got pretty restless and Mommy got a little dizzy. The space under the tunnel is big enough that you can step off of the walkway if you need to, which we did. We walked a little more quickly though the second half of the tunnel and enjoyed it quite a bit more that way. Overall, one of the best aquariums we've seen (and we've been to a lot!)
Tickets for just the aquarium (if you buy tickets to more than one Ripley's attraction, you get discounts)
Adults: $22.99
Ages 6-11: $11.99
Ages 2-5: $5.99
Under 2: Free
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