SEA LIFE London Aquarium

Wheni think Aquarium I think of having a dry undersea adventure. All the other Aquariums I've been to made me wish I could live under the sea with all these beautiful exhibits and fish.

This Aquarium however was pretty dreary and plain. It felt like mostly underground, very dark. The only things I really enjoyed was the big circular tank with the sharks and the tank that you can stand around and look down on the fish, mostly rays and such are in this tank.

There were a few types of fish that I was impressed by, but all and all it was not very exciting. We went to this on the first day of our trip after the london eye voyage since it was so close, we took lots of pictures..i think it was because we were so excited to be in London on our Honeymoon...afterwards going through the pictures most of them got deleted and I found myself saying things like " omg god how many pictures of fish does one person need" "man the lighting is bad" and "what was wrong with us that we took over 100 pictures of boring fish"

I am going back in July 2009 with my little sister who is 12...we will probably take her here but only because its a 2 min walk from our hotel and it will kill a little time.

My sister and I decided to take a trip to the London Aquarium with my 2 daughters (2 and 5) thinking it would be a great place to take them! How wrong we were. We paid £26 to get in and that was with the 2 for 1 offer you get but as I have read in other reviews we feel we were cheated as this was still very expensive for what it was. This really was an awful place, there are no child friendly interaction bits for them to do, its very dark and dull inside.Old and dated, definatley in need of a refurb! We were only in there for 30 mins, such a waste of time. We were also not told of any feeding times or given any information. VERY POOR. The one in Bournemouth is 10 times better and you get an open ticket allday so can go back in as many times as you want.

Anyway if you are in London and want to go to the Aquarium give it a miss and go to The Science Museum, we went there after! Its free to get in and there are lots of hands on, educational fun things for all ages of kids to do and we were in there for over 2 hours!!

My ten year old daughter was determined to go to the London Aquarium, but after reading the reviews here I was dreading the possible major disappointment. I couldn't have been more wrong, we had a great time. I thought that going in half term at 11am was probably going to be a nightmare, but we only queued for 5 minutes to buy our tickets. Once inside, there were plenty of people, but we had no trouble seeing all of the exhibits. There was masses to see, the place was well laid out, the descriptions of the fish were succint enough to keep our interest without going into over lengthy detail and I thought that the whole thing had been done with great imagination. Although I agree that it's quite expensive, I felt that it was worth it. Everywhere you looked there was something that was interesting. We both loved the shark tank, the hands-on tank, all of the smaller tanks with easy to see exhibits in them and especially the sea horse 'temple'. it was good to see that our indigenous fish weren't forgotten either. At last I have seen a home-grown stickleback. I thought everything looked well-tended and clear and the underwater feel of the whole place was totally in keeping with the fishy feel of it all. There have been lots of comments on trip advisor about how difficult it is for small children and babies in prams to see anything. I took note of the deep shelves that there are at the edges of most of the tanks, where children could sit to see inside and if I were going there with a baby in a pram, I would make sure I avoided the busy times. True of practically any tourist attraction. I am looking forward to going back there with my three older children, they will love it.