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| - This is a nice sized aquarium in the area between the Bass Pro Shop & the Silverton casino. Both are connect through the building and the aquarium is just past the entryway & near "The Mermaid Lounge." Twice an hour (according to the waitresses at the Mermaid Lounge), there is a mermaid show in the Aquarium. We originally read about the mermaids in an online news piece and being regular visitors to Las Vegas, we decided we'd see something off the beaten path. We arrived at the Casino just before 3PM and sat down in the Mermaid Lounge to have lunch and wait for the mermaids to come out & play with the fish for our enjoyment. The Lounge is really a sports-type lounge, with a lot of televisions on sports stations and the waitresses wearing referee shirts. But there's a line of seats with a long table facing one side of the aquarium, so that's where we sat.
We ordered fries with a garlic aioli, chicken teriyaki & fish fillets. (Mom felt wrong eating fish in front of the aquarium, but hey...circle of life, people.) The food was good - nothing too exciting, but not bad either. I also had a "Limeade cocktail" - Sprite, Lime Vodka, a dash of something I can't remember & lime wedges and cherries on a spear.
But I digress - back to the aquarium: After about 40 minutes of waiting, a diver came out to feed the fish and ten minutes later a mermaid popped out. She swam in the water for about 25 minutes. There was a lot of interaction with the children on the other side of the glass and waving around her tail and such. We were very entertained. :)
I don't know if we'd go back again, but it was fun to see the only (free!) mermaid show in Las Vegas.
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