SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium
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Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is a Southern Ocean and Antarctic aquarium in central Melbourne, Australia. It is located on the banks of the Yarra River beside and under the Flinders Street Viaduct and the King Street Bridge. The attraction is a Sea Life Centre owned by Merlin Entertainments.
attractions: Crown Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, DFO South Wharf, Melbourne Skydeck, Spencer Outlet Centre, Arts Centre Melbourne, Bourke Street Mall, ACMI, Royal Arcade, David Jones - Bourke Street Mall, restaurants: Pho A Gogo, Delhi Rocks, Munich Brauhaus Melbourne, Left Bank Melbourne Restaurant & Cocktail Bar, Dodee Paidang, Criniti's Southbank, The Hardware Société, Arbory Bar & Eatery, Vapiano Flinders Lane, PAIK'S BBQ(새마을식당)
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Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is a Southern Ocean and Antarctic aquarium in central Melbourne, Australia. It is located on the banks of the Yarra River beside and under the Flinders Street Viaduct and the King Street Bridge. The attraction is a Sea Life Centre owned by Merlin Entertainments.
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🔥 "Candlelight: Best of Magical Movie Soundtracks" 🔥 event at The Melbourne Aquarium, organised by Fever was such a BEAUTIFUL and MAGICAL experience!! My favourite Magical Movie Soundtracks of Walt Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks movies! Invictus Quartet are amazingly talented musicians!! 🥰 It was also awesome that they organised the whole program into segments. Invictus Quartet therefore introduced and cleverly described the musical medley segments that they were about to play. Also, although we were given the QR code to refer to that night's program of songs, we were all entranced by their musical talent that all of us had so much fun guessing the songs instead!! It was such a delight seeing everyone's beaming reactions when they heard their favourite songs! 😁 We absolutely ❤️ LOVED ❤️ everything about this unique candlelight musical experience! Since my favourite Walt Disney movie of all time is "The Lion King", it wasn't a surprise that my favourite segment were the songs involving Animals! 🦁 The Lion King medley was simply breathtaking! Invictus Quartet were able to evoke the fun, happy, majestic and romantic story that we all know and love! 😍 This vibe was then completed by the mesmerising candlelight view and beautiful atmosphere of the Melbourne Aquarium!! 🐳🐬🦭🐟🐠🐡🦈🐚🪸🪼🦑🐙🦀🦞🦐🐧 A massive THANK YOU and special kudos to the the VERY TALENTED Invictus Quartet, the AMAZING organisers, Fever and The Melbourne Aquarium for hosting this fantastic event!
Leanne KateLeanne Kate
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I visited during a weekday, with my two kids (7 & 12). We ALL loved it! Buying a ticket at the venue was a breeze and the line was longish but we progressed very quickly. The photo line at the beginning was a bit frustrating, as all we wanted to do was get in and we already knew we would not purchase a photo at the end. There was a good variety of animals (both marine and freshwater) to look at and we enjoyed a great talk about the crocodile. The animal enclosures and tanks were all very clean and the animals all looked really well looked after. By chance, we even got to watch some of th frogs getting fed which was fun to see. We loved the touch pool and my kids especially liked the displays where they could pop their heads up in the middle of the tanks, thanks to the domes and tunnels built into them. We had to ask some staff members for some help at one stage as we got a bit lost, and both were very helpful and friendly. The movie was just ok - it would have been nice to have a little bit more information about it before we went in. I thought it would be short documentary about a marine animal, but it ended up being a very contracted movie based on "Happy Feet". Having said that, the hightlight by far for us were the actual live penguins. We watched them for about 45 mins and were very entertained by their funny postures and antics. I would highly recommend visiting SeaLife if you are in Melbourne with (or without) kids!
Nicola CliftonNicola Clifton
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Horrible & not worth the cost. Took our 3 year old on 19/11/2024 at 10am opening time. Building entrance not clearly marked , entire outside graffiti, grimy and most windows smashed. The entrance was a mess of people trying to ither collect online tickets, buy tickets or gain entry. Entry was 2 lines with no staff, hot without air-conditioning waiting for a picture , but no advice of what was happening up ahead. Frustration of the crowd set in. Once through the pictures the mass of people (not staggered entry) is at first pool were a man states well that's it next time at 11o'cock we can explain what's in the pool? The first crowd of the day was well before the 4 school buses entered the aquarium. The Aquarium is a maze with poor signage and often placed on the wrong side of were it should be, example wash station and signage for kids to wash hands before playing with interactive area. ? Once you play with sea life you see "wash your hands before." No markings on floor or walls to show you which way to go. Even if you possess Coman sense you are baffled by crowds and which way are we going. Some people found hand out maps, but only if you bought tickets at door. Online well guess your way cause Google maps wont help , lol. The displays are grotty, tired and poorly maintained outside. The SeaLife is awesome and the inside of the tanks are well maintained. Its the public areas that are sad , grotty and tired. Thankfully the animals are well kept. The crowds and little to no air-conditioning make for irritable parents and kids. The vibe makes you uncomfortable. If it was a busy day than what I experienced I would have left via a emergency exit. The glass , Perspex and tinting on enclosures and viewing stations was worn, scratched and filthy. It looked more like a worn down graffitied public toilet or bus stop. It was $151.00 AUD for 2 adults & 3 year old. Compared to Werribee Zoo or Sydney Aquarium it fails to compare for value. As usual the key aspects of the Aquarium are "upselling" merchandise, personal photos and a large public area that rapidly shrinks in size and rooms get smaller herding you to the gift shop that you must walk through a snaking procession of over priced kids toys (impulse buys) from screaming kids & guilt. The promised FREE memories of digital photographs that you stood for 30 minutes in abject heat and crowds to secure with a scanning code business card are not explained nor do staff want to speak to you if you are not buying large personal photo books from them , well the card code on card nor the QR card are accepted online, "not found" the digital photos of the hell you endured to show you kids a great Melbourne experience are not available as they formed part of the excessive unreasonable cost of you Melbourne Aquarium experience. Go to YouTube & watch "Finding Nemo" or watch a sea life documentary rather than suffering this day out & $151 AUD it is not justified in its current condition.
D JD J
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Hello, I would like to poorly rate my time and experience here. Its my birthday and I chose to spend my day here as I have Chronic fatigue Syndrome, Functional Neurological Disorder and Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension. I have been on a brain tumour scare for 9 months now. I was 5 minutes late for my jellyfish lab experience due to a few things and we were in the line from 10:25 waiting for tickets to load. I came the day before and was turned away as it sold out as I was buying them in front of the front desk staff. It’s my first trip to Melbourne and possibly my last because I have no idea if I have a benign brain tumour or if it’s cancerous. I’ve been looking forward to experiencing the jelly lab for months. To be turned away two days in a row regardless of my disabilities and health and have Cassi the front desk tell me it’s not her fault I was late and there’s nothing she can do is a crushing feeling. Well it’s not my fault I have narrowing in my brain resulting in too much fluid and a massive sensory overload travelling to a new place, even when I aim to be 15 minutes early. Cassie was unpleasant and rude even when I tried to explain it was my birthday and all that. To not allow someone to experience something because they are 5 minutes late is so 1890, it’s 2024. Do better, some people don’t want to point out how disabled they are. Just because someone doesn’t look disabled, doesn’t mean they aren’t. Please train staff better, especially Cassi. Refunds don’t really compensate for a birthday day that feels ruined when I only paid to enter sea life just to experience the jelly lab. If you’re disabled, I highly do NOT recommend as it feels like discrimination. Cassie was straight up rude, condescending, far from understanding and I couldn’t get a word in.
Zali MelhuishZali Melhuish
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Was rather disappointed with this attraction. It was suppose to be 1 of the key attractions in my itinerary for my family trip in Melbourne. The location was good, it was located in city central thus we took less than 20min to get there. The staff were all very friendly and polite. However the aquarium really needs a revamp, being a family of 2 adult and 2 kids, we spend less than an hour and half in the aquarium. The 4D show was disappointing that customers were leaving the show even before the show was half way played. As we have our pram with us, moving around the aquarium was a little difficult due to the routing within the aquarium when visiting diff attractions. The walkway was quite cramp. The other attraction like the big water tank where we got to see stingray and turtle. The good thing was there were really alot of big sea animals in there but the waters were all chalky. As for pricing. For 2 adults and 2 kids we paid just below $170aud. We have been to Singapore sea aquarium and for the same pax, we only paid jus below $180aud and the aquarium there was so much organised in terms of their spacing for people to move, design and nicer. Lastly. We pre paid $22 aud for the parking coupon at the payment counter. But the coupon card was not recognised but the carpark's machine. However as there were cars behind us, we had to use our credit card to pay again in order to get out.
Herman YongHerman Yong
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Wouldn't recommend the new improved aquarium. Definitely not a positive experience for our family. There was a massive line that stretched all the way outside and took over 30 minutes to get into the building where you get your tickets scanned. The reason for the hold up is that there were 2 lines for pre paid tickets and 2 people at the desk scanning tickets. Then everyone had to filter through one lane only to be stuck in another line for photos.... Why wouldn't you have 2 separate lines one for photos and one for no photos.... more thought and process management for the entry needs to be had as a lot of people were complaining in the line about how terrible it was. Once inside the large aquarium section with the tunnel was dismal. The water was all cloudy and there was very little fish on show. Very disappointing for all that we're trying to view to fish on display. At the end of this experience we had to collect the prams and we had to exit through the gift shop then go back through the disaster of an entrance and push through the single file line to collect the pram while everyone was trying to get in to the aquarium.. surely better planning of the entry system and entrance to the aquarium needs to be made. Overall it was a very disappointing experience especially after we paid $50 dollars for each adult and $39 for each of the grandparents.
Edward HumeEdward Hume
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