Belinda Lee

Review of UnderWater World - Mooloolaba

we pre-purchased tickets online and visited on a t...

we pre-purchased tickets online and visited on a tuesday morning during a non-holiday period. for adults visiting with children under 2 it's quite reasonably priced ($20 each adult) for what it is.... if we had paid standard price on a weekend, or had older children to pay for, we would've been very disappointed....
not a single turtle in the "turtle cove"... one seal......... one sad crocodile......... one monitor lizard that you struggled to view in the enclosure it was kept in... one tiny octopus in its own little tank that looked like it hated life......

the under water tunnel with all the sharks, coral and reef fish was definitely the highlight. our son liked playing with the octonauts stuff, but that's not what we hoped to get from a place like that with a child who ADORES animals.
the touch tank with the star fish he could touch near the entrance was good, the lady there was yawning (at 9:30 in the morning) and I can't imagine it would be very stimulating/rewarding for them
...the luminescent jelly fish near the end were very pretty.
you have to go through the gift shop to exit (we didn't stop to look at anything), raced past the cafe, and didn't go into the play equipment as our son was due for his nap from an unusually early waking time. we were through the whole place in less than an hour.