Fri-Sat: 9AM-11PM 
PLEASE CALL AT LEAST 24 HOURS IN ADVANCE. SAME DAY RESERVATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTED.
We recommend that weekend reservations be made at least 4-6 weeks in advance.
Please note: These experiences do NOT include City Museum admission. If you would like to visit the City Museum before or after your scheduled tour at the Aquarium, their admission is $12 per person.
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SHARKS – UP CLOSE!
Cost: $50 per person (Admission must be paid for participants aged 1.5 and up.)
DESCRIPTION:
Have Close Encounters of the Sharky Kind at the World Aquarium! This two hour educational tour will give you chance to interact on many levels with the 15 species of sharks on display at the World Aquarium, which is host to one of the most diverse collections of creatures of any living conservation and research based institutions in the world.
A very important part of our shark adventure is education. Tour participants will be presented with fascinating facts about shark biology and behavior, about ocean life, conservation issues, and the significance of sharks in the ocean food chain. Participants will also be able to touch and feed sharks. The visitors will also be able to go behind the scenes to learn more about the research efforts on sharks, their behaviors and conservation programs on-going at the World Aquarium and the efforts of the Conservation for the Oceans Foundation (www.cfto.org) which supports conservation in many parts of the world.
The tour does not include visit to City Museum.
DURATION: 2.0 hours
We are offering the Sharks – Up Close Tour at the following days and times:
- Monday-Tuesday: 3:00pm
- Wednesday: 2:00pm
- Thursday-Sunday: 3:00pm
RECOMMENDED FOR PARTICIPANTS AGE 6 AND UP.
MINIMUM AGE WITHOUT ADULT: 12 years
MINIMUM TOUR #: 2 people
MAXIMUM TOUR #: 12 people
Please note: These experiences do NOT include City Museum admission. If you would like to visit the City Museum before or after your scheduled tour at the Aquarium, their admission is $12 per person.
Please contact us to make a reservation or call us at 314-647-6011.
World Aquarium Light & Lively Tour
Cost: $25 per person (Admission must be paid for participants aged 1.5 and up.)
DESCRIPTION:
Don’t swim past this deal! SEAS the opportunity to have a whale of a time with your family at the World Aquarium on this guided educational tour. Each person will be able to touch a shark, stingray, and stick their hands into the Doctor Fish tank. Learn about the wonders of water and the fascinating creatures that live within the aquatic realm of earth as well as some of their terrestrial friends. Within 1.5+ hours, participants will go on a 1.25 hour guided educational tour including extra touching opportunities, culminating with a 15+ minute Question & Answer session and feeding some of our over 10,000 animals.
DURATION:
1.5 hours (1.25 hour tour with .25 hour Q & A)
We are offering the Light & Lively Tour at the following days and times:
Monday-Friday: 9:15am, 11:15am, 1:15pm and 3:15pm
Saturday: 9:15am, 11:15am, and 1:15pm
Sunday: 11:15am, 1:15pm and 3:15pm
MINIMUM AGE WITHOUT PARENT: 12 years
MINIMUM TOUR #: 2 people
MAXIMUM TOUR #: 15 people
Please note: These experiences do NOT include City Museum admission. If you would like to visit the City Museum before or after your scheduled tour at the Aquarium, their admission is $12 per person.
Please contact us to make a reservation or call us at 314-647-6011.
World Aquarium Seafari-Experience Adventure (SEA) Tour
Cost: $50 per person
This special extended World Aquarium-only tour originates from the Sea Camp experience that we do for individuals. We wanted to offer this as a tour experience and introduce the general public to the World Aquarium, providing the hands-on, personalized experience of Sea Camp but a little shorter taking the best, fun parts of Sea Camp being done as a small group. The tour is 2-3 hours long and includes 1.5 hours of a guided educational tour, approx. 30 minutes feeding, behind the scenes, and approx. 15 minutes of Questions & Answers. Once the tour is over, guests will be escorted to the City Museum entrance.
We are offering the SEA tour at the following days and times:
Monday-Saturday: 9:30am, 12:30pm and 3:00pm
Sunday: 11:30am and 3:00pm.
Admission must be paid for participants aged 1.5 and up.
MINIMUM AGE WITHOUT PARENT: 12 years
MINIMUM TOUR #: 2 people
Please note: These experiences do NOT include City Museum admission. If you would like to visit the City Museum before or after your scheduled tour at the Aquarium, their admission is $12 per person.
Please contact us to make a reservation or call us at 314-647-6011.
World Aquarium Discovery Adventure Tour (DATA)
Cost: $50 per person
Come to the World Aquarium for a 2-3 hour in-depth, hands-on tour. During the Discovery Adventure Tour, your group will be able to feed animals and touch stingrays, sharks, doctor fish, turtles, and more! HAVE FUN while learning and FEEDING ANIMALS during this one of a kind program. Participants receive a guided tour of the front of the house and behind the scenes.
We are offering the DATA tour at the following days and times:
Monday-Wednesday: 9:30am, 12:30pm, and 3:00pm
Thursday-Friday: 9:30am, 12:30pm, 2:30pm and 3:00pm
Saturday: 9:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 2:30pm and 3:00pm
Sunday: 11:30am, 2:30pm, and 3:00pm.
RECOMMENDED FOR PARTICIPANTS AGE 4 AND UP.
MINIMUM TOUR #: 2 people
MAXIMUM TOUR #: 12 people
Admission must be paid for participants aged 1.5 and up.
MINIMUM AGE WITHOUT PARENT: 12 years
Please note: These experiences do NOT include City Museum admission. If you would like to visit the City Museum before or after your scheduled tour at the Aquarium, their admission is $12 per person.
Please contact us to make a reservation or call us at 314-647-6011.
World Aquarium Wildlife Conservation and Sustainable-Living Tour (WCSTL)
Cost: $50 per person
RECOMMENDED FOR PARTICIPANTS AGE 6 AND UP.
MINIMUM AGE WITHOUT PARENT: 12 years
We have found that, while there is interest in being “green,” but few people see the connection between their daily actions and the effects they may have on the ocean. Moreover, the meaning of “sustainability” and living a sustainable lifestyle is nebulous to many. The World Aquarium introduces a new tour based on market research aimed to the public about our conservation based operation emerging global issues and to better understand today’s present opportunities at the Aquarium. The “World Aquarium Wildlife Conservation and Sustainable Living Tour” will give traditional animal and habitat information, but will also address challenges to each type of ecosystem within the continent it is located. As specific effects affect different ecosystems in its own unique way, the tour is aimed at educating consumers about specific challenges locally, nationally and worldwide and suggesting actions which will help ameliorate negative environmental effects through personalized actions.
We are offering the WCSTL tour at the following days and times:
Monday-Friday: 9:30am
Saturday-Sunday: 1:00pm
MINIMUM TOUR #: 2 people
MAXIMUM TOUR #: 12 people
Admission must be paid for participants aged 1.5 and up.
Please note: These experiences do NOT include City Museum admission. If you would like to visit the City Museum before or after your scheduled tour at the Aquarium, their admission is $12 per person.
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Please contact us to make a reservation or call us at 314-647-6011.
Mommy & Me Program
Cost: $12 per ticket (for adults and children age 5 and up); Children 1.5 – 4 years old are $2 each (this is a non-discountable rate)
This program’s focus is on young children who are interested in seeing living creatures. This is a specialized tour for the parent and child emphasizing early childhood education and exploration concepts in the aquarium setting. Tour highlights will include a storybook time, coloring activity and a shortened tour of the World Aquarium focusing on the most engaging ways that will stimulate the childrens’ and adults’ minds. You will touch a shark, a snake, a bunny, a turtle, stingrays and lots more.
Available Tuesday-Friday only from September through February; Must be reserved less than two weeks in advance.
Duration: 2 hours
Minimum Group Size: 6 adults (adults & children)
Maximum Group Size: 20 total (adults & children)
Admission must be paid for participants aged 1.5 and up.
Children are not admitted without an accompanying adult.
Please note: These experiences do NOT include City Museum admission. If you would like to visit the City Museum before or after your scheduled tour at the Aquarium, their admission is $12 per person.
Please contact us to make a reservation or call us at 314-647-6011.
Extreme Adventure Tour (EAT)
Cost: $100 per person
The Extreme Adventure Tour (EAT) tour is not for little sissies who will only touch cute furry animals. Only those who are courageous and who want to live life to the fullest should attend. Attack your deepest fears head-on by experiencing the scariest, slimiest and creepiest animals that live within the World Aquarium. Touch and interact with tarantulas, scorpions, stingrays, sharks, cockroaches, millipedes and many more freaky creatures.
On the Extreme Adventure Tour, we aim to challenge participant past what they’ve known before, showing, through complete immersion, the extreme interactions of animals and humans across the world while taking a thrill seeking perspective to some of the most exotic or myth based animals throughout the times. This adventure includes activities such as: tour, touch, feedings, and missions.
The EAT Tour also focuses on who eats what, who and what they eat, and how who eats what. Participants will see many animals eating, see various methods of how animals capture their food, and will be able to feed some of the animals (sharks, stingrays, snakes, tarantulas, scorpions, frogs, chameleons, anemone fish, cichlids, turtles, kinkajous, and more) which will vary depending upon the day and time of the EAT program. Visitors can even be food to some of our animals (feeding the doctor fish dead skin from the participants’ fingers).
Participants will receive a complimentary fossilized shark tooth necklace as a memento of your new courageous identity.
All participants must sign a liability waiver at the beginning of the tour.
Participants must be at least 12 years of age to participate.
Tours Available: Monday-Thursday at 3:00pm Friday – Saturday at 8:00pmMaximum 2 hours in duration
MINIMUM TOUR #: 2 people
Maximum Group Size: 10 total
Please note: These experiences do NOT include City Museum admission. If you would like to visit the City Museum before or after your scheduled tour at the Aquarium, their admission is $12 per person.
Please contact us to make a reservation or call us at 314-647-6011.
World Aquarium Adventures in Learning Program – FOR SCHOOLS ONLY!
Cost: $75 per person (Admission must be paid for participants aged 1.5 and up.)
DESCRIPTION:
The School Tour will be unique to any other, the objective of this tour is to engage kids of elementary school levels to be inspired and inquisitive over [technology, discoveries, & human activity] in the world around them by:
- Providing a different, new perspective to material covered in school.
- Showing how things learned in a personal, formal, and theoretical setting apply to daily real-world life, science, and natural setting.
Our goal with this tour is to get the kids to experience what it’s really like to be an oceanographer or scientist. Through linking small-scale interactions of a curator, life at the aquarium, and things learned in school, we hope to take education past exhibits and animal care, to an insight on the day-to-day of animals & humans alike as they live throughout the world. This educational tour has been structured around national school science curriculum models on what it really means to be environmentally mindful.
Designed for school groups, the Adventures in Learning Program is a three-hour hands-on tour on which students seek adventure within the Aquarium, behind-the-scenes, and do classroom activities at the end of their tour. Extra touching and feeding opportunities will make this tour an experience your students will never forget! This program is scheduled Monday-Friday only. The tour does not include visit to City Museum.
DURATION: 3.0 hours
We are offering the Adventure in Learning Program at the following days and times:
Monday-Friday ONLY: 9:30am OR 1:00pm
MINIMUM AGE WITHOUT ADULT: 12 years
MINIMUM TOUR #: 10 people
MAXIMUM TOUR #: 20 people
Please note: These experiences do NOT include City Museum admission. If you would like to visit the City Museum before or after your scheduled tour at the Aquarium, their admission is $12 per person.
Please contact us to make a reservation or call us at 314-647-6011.