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 weeks in advance.
Please note: These experiences do NOT include City Museum admission. It is not necessary to pay admission to City Museum in order to do these tours unless you would like to visit City Museum. 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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Children’s Mermaid & Blue Dolphin Tour – NEW!
Cost: $65 per person (Admission must be paid for participants aged 1.5 and up.)
This ocean adventure starts with Louie, my blue dolphin friend, greeting you in the lobby and escorting you to the World Aquarium. Then you will join me, Sirena, at the World Aquarium for a 1.5-2 hour tour of my new home! I’ll introduce you to my fishy friends and some of my new land lubber friends! We’ll visit with sharks, stingrays, doctor fish, turtles, paddlefish, snakes, small mammals, and more. Together we will explore the wonders of the deep! You can even purchase a souvenir photo to commemorate our time together.
RECOMMENDED FOR PARTICIPANTS AGE 3 AND UP.
We are offering the Mermaid Tale Tour at the following days and times:
Wednesday-Saturday: 9:15am and 11:45am
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: $65 per person (Admission must be paid for participants aged 1.5 and up.)
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.
SHARKS – UP CLOSE!
Cost: $65 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: 1.5-2.0 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.
Extreme Adventure Tour (EAT)
Cost: $100 per person (Participants must be at least 12 years of age to participate.)
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.