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| - My first visit here with my kiddo and my other good mommy friends and their kiddos. Let's just say I couldn't WAIT to get the heck out of there. It's a nice little place to visit if you're wanting to show your children lots of fish, stingrays, eels, jellyfish, etc, but good luck if there's a school group here, you're shit out of luck enjoying your time.
For our visit, there were at least 3-5 middle school groups there... and while I know all kids end up amped up on sugar and adrenaline for field trips, good GAWD, this place just amplifies it. There are little rooms as your go through the aquarium that are dark and quite nicely display the water-life, but with so many kids that dark room echoes and you can barely hear anything. Not to mention the trampling of smaller kids. My solution? They have a main door that they control the timing of for groups to enter in.. .for the love of all that is holy, don't let groups in every 3min, there needs to be a larger gap, more like 20min. I honestly wouldn't mind waiting for the previous group a few 15 to 20min so that my small group could see things in the first few rooms without then being bombarded by a group of like 40kids! I was exhausted!
We got discounted prices for the tix but 18 dollars? umm, no. Not worth the over-crowding, the trampling.. notice I don't insult the aquariums or the fish selection.. I understand, it's a mall.. it's Arizona... we have no water, I don't expect Monterey Bay Aquarium status.. but I did this thing.. done with it.. don't care to go back.
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