Disclaimer: We received entrance in exchange for this post, as always, all thoughts and opinions are my own. Read on for our Sealife Great Yarmouth Review
Wherever we visit one of the attractions we always love is a Sealife aquarium, We’ve visited lots with the children and despite this, they still always really look forward to our visits and enjoy them just as much as their first time.
No Sealife is exactly the same so they never tire of exploring and looking around in awe. I think it really helps that my Dad has always had large tropical and marine tanks and a huge Koi pond and Paul’s Dad now lives in Norfolk and has his own fishing deck and boat. Both Emmy and Harry love looking at and feeding the fish, and both have a great love of fishing.
Sealife Great Yarmouth is located on the seafront on the Golden Mile, a little to the left of Wellington Pier/Wellington Bowl. There is plenty of Pay & display parking available on Marine Parade & the seafront car parks.
Ticket prices can vary depending on when you book, and of course, it is always cheaper to book at least 2 days in advance with standard entry advanced booking costing from £20 for adults and £18 for children – you can find all pricing information on the website here. Opening times are from 10 am until 5 pm with the last entrance at 3.50 pm.
You can spend as long inside as you like, be that all day long or just an hour or two. We spent around 2 hours inside as Harry wanted to fill in all of his treasure hunt/trail sheet and had missed a few facts along the way around so we went back a few times to ensure we found all the answers for the question sheets. Upon entry, children are given a trail sheet where they can mark answers to questions on this sheet which they can discover by reading the fun facts on the boards around the Sealife centre. If you answer all the questions and find all the answers you then hand these sheets over to staff in the gift shop in exchange for prizes – these were a certificate and sticker sheets. Harry always loves completing these and gets cross if we miss any on our way around.
As with all Sealife centres, there is always lots to see and to do to help hold everyone’s interest. There are buttons to press that tell you interesting facts, magnifying mirrors to see the fish closer, little tunnels to crawl through for a closer look and fun facts to discover at every turn.
Our favourites as always were the Penguins which I could spend hours watching – you can see these through viewing windows downstairs or head upstairs to watch them over the screens for a much clearer view.
We also really loved the turtles and could sit down on steps to watch them swimming around with the sharks – we spent ages watching them and were just mesmerised.
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The walk-through tunnel is also amazing, you walk under a glass dome and all the fish swim over your head and around you – you can see this in my reel shared below.
You really do have to stop and make time to hold and stroke the animals and listen to the talks about them – both children held a huge millipede and we all stroked a starfish.
If you aren’t in a hurry then you really should stay to listen to one of the talks given throughout the day – I really wanted to listen to the turtle talk but the kids had other ideas.
This is a smaller location and you can easily see everything in an hour, especially if your children are like Harry and run around as quickly as possible, but you’ll find yourselves heading back to find answers to the questions you’ve missed if they do this.
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Clare
Hi, I'm Clare (Emmy's Mummy). A former Nanny and Mother of 2 - Emmy (born February 2010) and Harry (born October 2012). We are Essex based and share our adventures and misadventures of a busy crazy life.
