Towan Promenade, Newquay, TR7 1DU.
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When looking to visit Blue Reef Aquarium, tickets can be purchased both online and at the attraction. Discounts are available when purchasing online.
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Ticket prices for pre-booking (these were correct as of the 20/04/2024):
Adult (13+) - £14.35
Child (3-12) - £11.10
Over 65 or Student - £13.35
Child under 3 – Free
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They offer annual memberships; £43.05 for an adult (13-64 years old), £33.30 for a child (3-12 years old) and £40.02 for a student or a person over the age of 65. They also offer a family of four annual membership for £127.25.
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When booking for just a one-off admission, they have family tickets available. A family of four ticket (2 children and 2 adults) is £48.90.
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Blue Reef Aquarium is open to the public between 10am-5pm, however these can differ throughout the year so please check their website before visiting.
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We spent around 45 minutes there. We easily could have spent at least another hour if came back for the animal talk and feeds. These happened throughout the day and your ticket allowed you to come back at any point that day to take advantage of these talks.
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At Blue Reef Aquarium there were a variety of animals/sea creatures including turtles, lobsters, sharks and many other sea creatures. There is also a gift shop.
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Our favourite area of the aquarium was near the end where you could see the turtle. We were able to get close and the turtle loved coming up to say hi.
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There are plenty of parking available in a few hard surface pay and display carparks. St Georges Road was one of the closest, which includes disabled spaces, but there were no child spaces. Parking cost us around £5.80 for 3 hours. The car park (which has both stairs and a ramp) took us around 7 minutes to walk to the main entrance door for the aquarium.
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While at Blue Reef you can get food in their onsite café. Their prices were what you would expect from a cafe at an attraction. There was nowhere inside the attraction to have a packed lunch, however the beach is right next to the aquarium and there are several picnic benches jotted around outside.
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When we visited this attraction, our boys were 2 years old and 6 months old. We found this day out to be enjoyable, no matter your age.
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By the entrance, toilets available which included an accessibility toilet.
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To travel between the floors, there are both stairs and a lift available. Pushchair parking is by the main entrance.
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Overall, we would visit again if we were in the area, however we would not travel especially for this aquarium. When we saw staff, they seemed friendly and helpful. The aquarium was not the biggest, there wasn't the largest variety of creatures to view, and we found parking around the area quite expensive, however we did like the fact the tanks available to view were at a good level for our 2-year-old to see by himself. Therefore, we have rated this day out 3 stars out of 5.
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Date of recent visit: April 2023
