Oberhausen SEA LIFE: Dive into a Breathtaking Underwater World

I bought a combo ticket for Legoland and SeaLife and I have to say it was money well spent. SeaLife Oberhausen is magnificent and beautiful. Until today, I considered the Oceanarium in Blijdorp in the Netherlands to be the most beautiful, but after visiting Oberhausen, there can only be one winner! SeaLife is wonderful and very impressive. This place deserves 10 stars, not 5!

Nice looking aquarium. Nice place to attend after Legolang. Very clear ocean and sea pools. Yon can touch some species and feed others

Yesterday I got to enjoy a really great trip to Sea Life Oberhausen. To be honest i really wasn't expecting much, maybe a few fish swimming around. I was very pleasantly surprised with what i found. This was my first time going to an aquarium here in Germany. After checking in we started the "tour de aquarium". Each section was very informative about what types of fish were there and their habitats. The interesting part for me was that the signs were bilingual, German and English. As we wandered through I saw that all of the exhibits tried to emulate the natural environments of the fish and other creatures. About Halfway through the tour we came to the big tanks with the rays and sharks, right beside the huge tank with everybody in it. At this point i happened to talk to a young man there named Dominic(Please forgive me if i misspell names) who was very informative about all of the creatures there and throughout the facility. After a while talking with him my group wandered further through and we took a break at the outside pavilion right by the river otters, which made for a great resting place while watching their antics. After our little break we came back to the area with the rays and sharks, where i happened to meet Nina Nina was a doll, she was very friendly and informative, and i enjoyed my talk with her. Dominic and Nina are both really great people to talk to because not only do you get your questions asked but they also provide enough additional information to answer questions that you didn't even know you had, LOL All of the exhibits were well maintained, and constructed in such a way as to maximize viewing of the creatures inside. At the end of the tour is a large viewing area that you can sit down and observe the great tank where everyone lives. As we were there i happened to see Dominic and he was able to talk at length about each species and the interactions of the different species together. I have to say that Dominic and Nina both were very knowledgeable, friendly and enthusiastic about what they do. They both showed a flair for not only understanding the questions but were able to answer them in such a way that at no time were the questioner made to feel inferior or unintelligent for not knowing something. All of the personnel that I interacted with were very friendly and courteous and i do apologize for not having everyone's names. They added an extra layer of enjoyment to an really great trip. The only real problem I had there was that some of the changes in the flooring weren't very clearly marked, to me, that could be a trip/fall hazard. Everyone in the group enjoyed our visit as well and we look forward to going back again soon.

Not that great. Older kids would get bored soon. cafeteria is normal. Admission ticket is more expensive than what Sea life has to offer.

We had booked an extra tour and that was really worth it. The planned time to be there an hour earlier was not quite enough for me and my daughter, so I would allow about half an hour extra time. Then it would have been more relaxed for us. Unfortunately, we could not name everything that was in the pools, too, as the information about it was not there. I would have liked that, but overall a great trip with a nice team on site. We were there during the week, on a Saturday we didn’t even make it to the Centro, so I recommend a weekday excursion if you like it relaxed.

Very well maintained and clean very nice staff and the exhibition was super self-explanatory we have always been fans and remain so.

Unfortunately, in my view, SeaLife is pretty much designed to maximize profits. I was there with my 31⁄2-year-old daughter. We had bought tickets online in advance. I find it cheeky that my daughter has to pay the same price (and that from 2 years) we a 14-year-old child. Older children have a very different experience due to the many explanation boards than smaller children. In addition, a cheekiness that the child price is almost equal to the adult price. So an adult with a child pays almost 50€. In addition, the "photo package" costs 3.50€ per person and includes that you get digitally retrievable photos from a selfie station (no printed image!). In addition, the Otter world was closed, and there was no price adjustment for this either. All in all, I think it is a great pity, here you should urgently do something about the price structure.

Excursion with grandchildren was great. Had paid for photo on the Internet, ticket was not enough at the photo machine, would have needed additional receipt, was not mentioned at the cash desk.

It was a great trip. Everything is lovingly designed and the animals also look satisfied. Everything is very clean and well maintained. It's always an experience.

It was very impressive to see the large fish and also other marine animals. We like to come back to you as a family.