I'm from the bay area so i'm spoiled by the monterey bay aquarium but it was my little brother's birthday and he really wanted to see the sharks (he's 21 not 12)... anyways I gotta say it was better than I thought it would be from the yelp reviews. Yes it's small but they have this huge turtle which was awesome.
Here's the scoop... buy the buffett + ticket combo... it ends up being like $10 for the aquarium which is more like what it's worth