Cabrillo Beach Park Advisory and Boosters Boards Review

It was an interesting place if you were multi-faceted
Do not wait for your mood.
But overall it was great.

It's a small aquarium with some interesting collections. Meet the grunion event was educational and fun! Amazing experience if you have yet to witness a grunion run before

My 8 year old wasn t really entertained and she LOVES this kind of stuff

Great place to take the family for fun and education.

love it get in with small donation!!! so worth it for kids and fish lovers! touch tank! open for a hour twice a day

This is a family friendly place to learn about the marine life the surrounds southern California oceans.

Modest and charming. They love sea creatures over there, I tell ya. Take the kids. Cabrillo is not the shmancy-est locale if ya know what i mean. Lock your car doors and try to look broke. You'll be fine.

Had a good time. Learned new things. Like the hands on experience. Next time will come without the kids.

Awesome place to take the kids its pretty much free just drop a donation in the fish on your way in!

Pretty nice aquarium. Entry price is donation only. Learning center and lots of fish and corals.

Best-ever place to take children to touch creatures from tide pools.
For the adventuresome, check your online tide tables for San Pedro, CA, and go to real tide pools at low tide! You ll see urchins, anemones, maybe a sea hare, or an abalone if you re lucky!
Must-see. They ask for donations at the door $5 Adult, $1 Children. If you don t have money, go anyway! It improves the quality of life, if you have the good fortune to share Nature s bounty with a child. Their amazement is the gift that keeps on giving, beyond diamonds and jewels, Life s true riches for you.

This free (donations appreciated) aquarium is a thoughtfully designed place of exploitation, geared towards young people. There is also much to impress the adults with many very well done exhibits. Perfect for the whole family. We actually enjoyed this more than the typical mega-Disney-esque aquarium.

Fun and exciting place to bring your family and kids to. Staff was friendly as well

Even though it's a small aquarium/museum, I really enjoyed visiting it. Lots of information about the ocean & it's ecosystem. Many amazing sea creatures there, I loved the baby sharks still in their egg sacks (incubators) great view of all the creatures, looks like they are being very well taken care of. The employees were nice & informative. I'd recommend this place to others :)

Fun small aquarium on the beach with a suggested donation.

While in the area for LAs first ever Fleet Week, we wanted to visit the Aquarium. Unfortunately, on Labor Day weekend, parking rates were $9.00 (usually, one can pay by the hour). Added to admission, it wasn't worth it. Not a very friendly welcome to San Pedro.

Small aquarium but lots of fun with great exhibits and staff to answer your questions or give you a tour. There is tide pools you can explore on your own too

Great place for kids to learn about marine life. I even learn something new every time I go with my kids.

One of the best hidden gems of the south bay. this aquarium runs on donation so Please contribute whenever you go as they really do have some amazing projects,exhibits, and research. Nearby, you'll also find delightful tide pools and a park

We attended the Grunion fish event and I can say we all enjoyed it very much.

Great small aquarium - nearly 85 years old, but fresh and interesting. Just a few bucks admission. (The one in Monterey is $50 adults)

As far as free things to do it is an amazing experience. You're allowed to learn and experience local sea life. Very wide variety of animals also! The place does seem pretty run down but I guess that's what happens when it runs off donations. Definitely a good place to take the kids or a date.

Loved it!! Family had a great time ot the breaker/rocks!

Did not expect so much out of a so little tinny place. 5 Stars for that of you are!

This place is perfect to spend time with the family

Little aquarium white LOTS to see! They ask for a donation to get in. Inside there s a lot of interesting stuff, they have plenty of fish and other creatures too.

Awesome place to come and just learn! Great hands on activitys and is really cool! You need to visit the tide pools!

It's a great learning place for kids especially if your kids are interested in marine life.

I love everything about this place, even though they're extremely underfunded. The only thing I'd improve is to have then emphasize the importance for people not to come out in droves with coolers and buckets on grunion nights when it's illegal to catch them. I'd recommend working with Fish and Wildlife to enforce the rules and ticket offenders. Also, I'd recommend hosting regular beach clean ups until it no longer looks like a dump and reminding people not to burn plastic or ban having fires if they continue to do so.

Beautiful place... Lots to see and learn for the kids. It is by suggested donation... I would always consider giving more than the suggested ;)

Such a great educational aquarium. You can visit for free or donate $7 for adults (as of Jan. 2, 2020) It's small but full of information about marine life and the aquatic environment. They have an activity center, touch exhibit as well as an aquatic life nursery you can visit.

Took my kids 3 times in December they love it. Especially the touch tide

It's a fun and educational place to see, touch, and learn about a plethora of marine life. Suggested donations are $5 for adults and $1 for children. Parking is $1 per hour, or $9 for the day. My favorite time to go is during low tide when I can walk about the tide pools.

It's based on donations $5 for adults and $1 for kids/senior citizens. Also, it's really neat to see what our local Pacific Ocean has.

I had so much fun there and so did my cousin we had a blast 5/5 would go again

Educational and fun for all ages. Low key and economical. Easy parking and a beautiful location.

Always a great place to visit. They have talks every month with experts from around the world, and are very informative regarding the marine life in our Oceans. This is a great place for kids and adults.

We never get tired of it. Staff is always so helpful and with a smile

Awesome place. Only 5.00 donation to get in. Lots to see and the touch tank was pretty good. We will be back again for sure.

Awesome aquarium. Make sure you go when you can go to the tide pools too with one of the aquarium guides. We saw so many awesome things, and the guide was so informative and found things in the tide pools the kids could touch. I wish I could give this place more than 5 stars!!

Love this aquarium! A great place to your and bring friends from out of town. Off the beaten path. Such a fantastic range of sea life up close.

A very nice place to walk on weekends with the children or just you and your partner

This place was super cool! We all learned so much about sea life .

Much better than was expected. Much more hands on than other aquariums and docents were very nice. Also had anice library and many unique organisms you usually don't see.

Great aquarium. They have a touch pond that you can visit. The pond is on a time schedule and is open different times throughout the day. This place is just the right size. Compared to the aquarium of the Pacific, this place offers just as much as the other aquarium. The differences between the two are price and this aquarium does not have a huge fish tank. I think this is a great place to take your kids. The aquarium does not charge a fee to visit but does suggest a donation. The fee for parking is $1 an hour and you only need about that much time. And there is plenty of parking. If you want to avoid crowds and save money consider this place.