The gift shop it's great as their products have a reasonable price and often have sales.
The setup of the aquarium has you start with penguins, which everyone loves. They move you through to learning about the changing environment of earth and our impact as humans. Then you can check out the outdoor exhibit with sea lions or move up into a number of fish exhibits of the different environments around the world. They have you spiral around the outside of the building, wrapping up at the top of the center large tank exhibit in the middle. Some of my favorite exhibits are the Octopuses, Myrtle the sea turtle, and the Pacific Northwest river fishes.
This is a great place to take your kids, explore on a weekend with friends or even bring a date to.
It's fun as you can get to watch shows, be and touch some animals such as sharks and rays.
Some advice: buy your tickets online and get there early. The crowds here are crazy, however, you can't blame anyone. This place is awesome. It was cool when I was a kid, but know that I'm an adult and more aware of how vital conservation is, I'm floored by the work this place is involved in. Also penguin feeding time; a must see! The information given at the top of the tank is fascinating too. Everything in the aquarium is just so neat. And you can touch animals in certain exhibits.
It is a little small, but a very nice aquarium. The animals and tanks are well kept. They have a lot of demonstrations and educational sessions. I particularly liked watching feeding of the penguins. The training session with the seals was good also. There's a shark exhibit on the map, but it was not fully open when I went. All in all I spent about 2 hours in the aquarium.
It was an awesome place to be as a new tourist in Boston, the animals were both exotic and interesting and the staff was great, answering all my questions about the exhibitions.
The cost of entrance is high for a single visit, but if you opt for the one year membership, you get a great value. I bought a one year membership which allows me unlimited entry with a guest for about $90. The prices and tiers recently changed, but it's still a good value and a great way to keep me revisiting multiple times a year.
The restaurant although it's for my taste a little overpriced, has great and tasty food.
I love aquariums and this one in Boston is great. They do a great job of utilizing a relatively small space to give you a lot of experiences throughout the different exhibits.
We visited with our whole school today. It was an easy visit considering. The school had organized a schedule for the cafeteria for lunch time so we would not take the whole place. It worked fine. We had to wait outside around 10 minutes before entering the Aquarium while a guide told us what to expect, how to approach the exhibits (mainly the touch tank) and how to proceed in the case of a lost student. It was cold, some students left their jackets in the bus so they would not carry them all the time. We were lucky it was not freezing and the sun was out. The kids had a great time.
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