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Activity provider:The Florida Aquarium

Explore a diverse range of aquatic exhibits featuring marine life from all around the world at The Florida Aquarium. Enjoy entry for the full day.

About this ticket

Free cancellationCancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refundReserve now & pay laterKeep your travel plans flexible — book your spot and pay nothing today.Valid 1 dayCheck availability to see starting times.Skip the ticket lineHost or greeterEnglishWheelchair accessible

Experience

Highlights

• Save time and skip the ticket window line at The Florida Aquarium
• Enjoy 3 different touch pools
• Discover marine creatures from around the world
• Learn about seahorses, lemurs, and free-flying birds
• See animals that have adapted to the environment in MORPH’D, a temporary exhibit

Full description

Get close to many of Florida’s aquatic and terrestrial animals and ecosystems, as well as others from around the world at the Florida Aquarium, including sea turtles and coral. Your ticket allows you to access all of the exhibits, which feature diverse creatures and habitats.  The Florida Aquarium works to protect and restore our planet on many conservation fronts, including research and rescue efforts that help restore Florida’s sea turtle and coral populations and to ensure that sharks continue to swim the seas. 

Get up close and personal with unique moon jellies at the touch pool experience in the Moon Bay exhibit and learn about this hypnotically graceful ocean creature with surprising survival skills.

On the Wetlands Trail, see species such as alligators, river otters, and even the invasive Burmese python. There is also a large aviary that allows birds to explore in a safe environment.

Journey through a mangrove forest to see it teeming with local fish. Witness feedings of the intriguing pink spoonbill or other animals and learn more about the wildlife during scheduled presentations at the ranger station. Embark on the Journey to Madagascar, a unique exhibit featuring ring-tailed lemurs, chameleons, hissing cockroaches, and marine life found in the Indian Ocean. In the Shorelines exhibit, see spiny lobsters and the strange Toadfish as well as Batfish who walk on the bottom of the seafloor.

Take the opportunity to touch the gentle aquatic creatures at Stingray Beach, or bizarre creatures that have no backbone such as anemones and sea stars. In Reef Secrets, discover the intriguing sea horses and pipefish.

The Florida Aquarium journey culminates at the 500,000-gallon habitat that features sharks, rays, sea turtles, reef fish, and moray eels. Learn about the aquarium’s conservation efforts at the Waves of Wonder gallery where undulating jellies also reside. The highlight of this section is Heart of the Sea for bonnethead sharks, loggerhead turtle, tarpon, rays, plus a variety of reef fish. At The Splash Pad, bring swimsuits for the kids who are invited to play in the outdoor plaza at the rain-forest-themed water feature with dump buckets and waterworks, plus net climbs, slides, and more.See more

Includes

• General admission which includes access to all exhibits, 3 touch pools, The Splash Pad, plus educational and entertaining shows or presentations

• Parking
• Food and drinks (available for purchase onsite at Cafe Ray)

Meeting point

Follow signs to enter through the main entrance of The Florida Aquarium. If parking is needed, follow signs to the official aquarium surface lot located 1 block north next to the aquarium. And then follow signs to the main entrance of the aquarium. If arriving via TECO streetcar/trolley, disembark at Amalie Arena station and walk east 1.5 blocks on Channelside Drive or disembark at Cumberland Avenue station and walk south 0.5 blocks on Channelside Drive.Open in Google Maps ⟶

Important information

What to bring

• Swimwear
• Change of clothes
• Towel

Know before you go

• Your entry is valid at the reserved time or later on the same day only
• The Aquarium is closed on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day
• Please note that if young children intend to play in the Splash Pad, adults should bring towels and a change of clothing