It is easy to overlook the great places to go in Vancouver when you live here, and it has been some years since we took the kids to the Vancouver Aquarium. So we used our Air-miles to get free tickets and bundled tribe into the truck & headed out to Stanley Park.
What a pleasant surprise greeted us. The new entrance has plenty of room and windows for tickets & if like us; you have pre-paid tickets, you can bypass the queue and go straight in. If you haven’t got tickets, there is also an accessible ticket window, with a knowledgeable staff member who runs through the facilities with you – and, as a bonus, a person with a disability can get in for half price or their attendant can get in for free.
We found all of the exhibits to be structurally accessible – the only problem was beyond the control of the Aquarium & that was other visitors.
A large number of talks and shows, throughout the day, means that there is always something to see or do. The Amazon gallery has a host of beautiful butterflies and a couple of sloths, see if you can find them among the foliage.
Dolphins, penguins & sea otters, jellyfish & sharks – there are an incredible variety of species at the Aquarium and plenty of knowledgeable staff to answer your questions. This is our unimaginatively named new friend Ray
For up to date:
isit www.Vanaqua.org, or if just want a daily fix of cute and fluffiness you can always check out the Vancouver Aquarium Sea Otter Cam.
We love the aquarium to
I haven’t been to the Aquarium for years. Its just so expensive to get over to the mainland from the island! We do love the Aquarium!