Parque de las Ciencias by Toroverde — Attraction in Bayamón

A couple of words kept popping up in my mind while walking through the park, those are Greed and Pathetic.

This whole park is incomplete and they want to charge full price. While inside the park most things require additional payment on top of the steep entrance prices. Most of the exhibitions now have “premium activities” that require additional payments and/or gift shops.

Also if you think that buying the ticket at the box office is cheaper…think again! You will get charged the same service fee you get online and your ticket is more expensive. Feels like a scam at this point.

The park has 0 water fountains to force people to buy their water which should be a crime. Most of the exhibits are either incomplete or completely empty. The exhibits that are open were pretty pathetic, the space one was some texts on the wall with some screens and that’s it.

The “small town” in the back has been turned into shops to sell you on even more things. The whole point of that small town was to give the kids the experience of a small town. It is now just designed to get more money out of you.

Also the map is really hard to understand and everything else is missing signage so you see lots of families just lost walking around.

In the end what Toro Verde has done completely missed the mark. The whole point of the park was to teach kids about science while having fun….the kids in our party had more fun running in circles in an unused stage than actually learning anything.

To Toro Verde management, you should close down the park and finish it. Go to the Carolina Children’s Museum to get a better idea of how the exhibit and experiences...

I think it's great that this place exists as a municipal attraction (or some sort of public/private partnership), and it has a lot of potential, BUT, as someone who goes to zoos and children's museums regularly, I was quite underwhelmed by the educational content available here. If your goal is to just have a place where your kids can run around and play in a safe environment that is not your house, this place is fine. If your hope is for the kids or yourself to learn new things, this place is not very impressive. The educational content had either way too much text for a kid audience (as in the space pavilion, which mostly had very long, detailed bios of Puerto Ricans working at NASA) or none at all. A lot of the activities (as in the biology pavilion) were kind of immersive but very light on knowledge they could impart. There was very little interpretive content for the animal enclosures, and I also wondered whether those enclosures met modern-day standards for keeping animals in captivity (especially the hippopotamus one). The dinosaur "pavilion" was just another gift shop (there are too many of those!) with absolutely no content inside, which was really disappointing. From doing a bit of research, it seems like the park was hard-hit by Hurricane Maria and is may be still struggling to recover, but I do hope that over time, it's able to become what it has the potential to be, which is a really excellent education/entertainment complex. I really hope they will hire children's exhibit designers and educators and animal keepers who are able to make...

My visit to Parque de las Ciencias was an utter waste of money and left me feeling cheated. We arrived on a drizzly day, just before a big rainstorm, hoping to enjoy a full day at the park. However, even before the storm hit, the park felt like a wasteland. Most attractions were already closed, and the few that were open were underwhelming at best. We paid extra for a pass that supposedly included all attractions, only to find that just 2-3 were actually operational. To make matters worse, during the rainstorm, the park officially closed, but they allowed those who had already paid to stay inside—without informing us that staff would be leaving early. By 3-4 PM, employees had shut down nearly everything, including restaurants, leaving us with absolutely nothing to do. It was infuriating to realize that the park was effectively abandoned hours before the advertised closing time. When we raised our concerns with staff before leaving, their response was shockingly dismissive: “You should’ve verified things before coming.” This was despite the park being open when we arrived, with no prior warning about early closures or limited operations. Given that more than half the park was shut down well before closing time, I would have expected at least a partial refund for such a abysmal experience, but no such offer was made. I strongly advise others to avoid Parque de las Ciencias unless you’re prepared for a poorly managed, overpriced disappointment. Save your money and time for a place that actually delivers on...