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| - Good for young kids, not good for aquarium aficionados or people who like oceanariums, lots of fish, big viewing areas and quiet museum-like experiences.
Perhaps I'm spoiled growing up in the north burbs of Chicago and having a pass to the Shedd Aquarium my whole life, and seeing some of the best aquariums across the country but... SEAlife didn't do anything for me.
I can sort of deal with the price, it's expensive to set this type of thing up and get the fish in and blah blah... I get it. It's pricey for the experience but I get it - so nothing in my review is based on the price.
A few of the tanks only had a couple fish in them, so I'm assuming they're still populating them. and some of the areas like the circle room with the fish going around the room and above the doors had half the room's windows masked off... unfinished? idk.
The starfish thing was roped off when we went but there was a staff person there talking to kids about them.
There was a little movie theatre area showing shark videos... aka discovery channel. That opened up into the room with a somewhat small viewport considering no more than 10 people can look through it at a time without blocking it from behind. Dinosaurs hanging from the ceiling... okay? That big viewport looks into the main center tank area, with a shipwreck type of thing... lots of bigger fish and sharks swimming around.
Which eventually leads to 'The Tunnel'... One side looks into the middle of that big tank and the other side is short with a nearby rock wall; not many fish on that side. The floor was clear but, even in the short time the Aquarium has been open, was scuffed so bad it was pretty much not-see-through. They'll have to figure that out.
One little black light tank with jellyfish... couple of those bubble things you can crawl under and stick your head up into the middle of the tank for a photo op... couple skinny semi-circle shaped tanks... one little sea horse viewport... little lcd panels with info on them for the display...
Felt some areas were bare.... lots of open room w/ nothing to see, most places except the main Ray tank with the overlook balcony. Note, not a petting tank, it's about 5' tall or so but clear all around and lots of rays swimming around and some sharks from what I remember.
The walls are colorful and lots of lighting effects going on around every room - nice walls I thought.
Being in Arizona, of course everything has to be bilingual with spanish... and in one case (the active display on the floor that you interact with) the whole thing was in spanish with no way that I could tell to flip it to english to figure out what the game / point was of the display. FAIL, wtf? Useless.
After that you're dumped into the gift store... honestly I didn't even take the time to look at anything... more screaming kids and strollers blocking routes and I was ready to get outta dodge as fast as I could. After the store is a kids play area - something with the big plastic tubes and stuff like you see at burger kings. AAHHH get me out of here! Reminded me of a playground or school recess area.
So, needless to say I went in expecting more and left feeling shorted and unimpressed. Won't be back.
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