St Andrews Aquarium — Attraction in Scotland

This is an absolutely brilliant family run business in St Andrews that strives diligently and does an excellent job of looking after and caring for the animals in its care. The animals that can be seen are Marmoset monkeys, Meerkats, Humboldt Penguins, Seals, Catfish, Piranhas, Clownfish, Lionfish, Iguanas, A Boa Constrictor and some Poison Dart Frogs, which is a lot of variety and wide ranging. The enclosures and tanks the animals are kept in are spacious, clean and excellently maintained showing the excellent standards the attraction does to look after the animals in its care and maintaining their welfare and this clear by the fact the animals are really tame and happy to engage with visitors coming right up to the Tank in a happy and loving manner. There is information provided about each animal near to the area where they kept providing an excellent amount of informative information and their plight in the wild and the efforts done to protect them from a conservation perspective. Although the site is not particular big there is plenty to see and plenty to enjoy the way with the seals and the penguins particular characters who are fun and lovely to watch. There are talk times for the animals at different times and these are provided to you by the excellent helpful friendly staff on entry to the attraction and who also make you very welcome and want to visit the attraction. There is no cafe on site itself but there is a place to the side of the attraction thats sells burgers and drinks at reasonable prices and is a run by a family member linked to the attraction and is worth a visit as the burgers are absolutely delicious. There is a small gift shop selling a nice range of souvenirs at reasonable prices. Overall this is an absolutely brilliant place to visit and see some great animals on show and is definitely worth a visit if...

Made a length trip from Peterhead, Aberdeenshire to take my kids to St Andrews Aquarium. It was a good trip and we had fun. The prices were quite fair for what they offered.

The animals were absolutely wonderful to see and were of great variety. There's a great selection of fish, sharks and lots of other things. They've got a beautiful gigantic spider, Axolotl were adorable. We couldn't tear ourselves away from the shark tank. The dancing rays and one particular shark who tried jump out the tank were a joy to watch.

The venue is full of stairs, it's not really chair accessible. But this is well advertised if you pay attention. The areas are well lit. There's plenty of room. We didn't get over crowded at all.

I think there could maybe be a few more seats dotted around the place and maybe have staff walking around to get parents to keep their kids in check. Screaming toddlers, kids with disgusting sticky hands, others trying to get into the Meerkats and others trying to touch the sharks popping up out of the water. As a parent who keeps their kids well behaved, it's extremely frustrating to be around. But not the venue's fault in the slightest. Just bad parenting.

The only other negative is the awful parking situation. It took over half an hour to find a parking space locally, which is maybe the only real negative. Can be pretty bad for disabled people who would rather get achy enjoying the venue instead of...

My partner and I had the best day at St Andrews aquarium, it was lovely. When we got there, the lovely woman on the reception (I didn’t catch her name!) was very kind and personal, she let us know if we go to the meerkats first we will just make the feeding activity. Which was great, Fin then came out and gave a great talk for 15 minutes, making the session nice even disclosing the crickets which makes us all gitter. After that we decided to make the next 2, the monkey and the penguins. Penguins enclosure was brilliant, it was nice to see them so comfortable. You might go and think oh they’re cold! But if you wait for the talk Fin and Chris will tell you all about it and we got to see them in malting season. One of the penguins was swimming loads and giving himself belly scratches. We never usually stay for talks, but I highly recommend doing them on your trip as I seen a couple reviews saying there wasn’t enough to do. It is lovely and I think our best aquarium experience. For lunch, we went to the Saints Sizzle, wow! It was really reasonable, tasty and a decent portion. All staff were so friendly and again, must put a lot of effort into keeping enclosures clean! Thanks for a great day, and again to the woman on reception who was so helpful and welcoming...