Ocean Park Aquarium, Shark Bay Review

Great place to see a large variety of sea animals tour guides were marine biologists, very friendly, you can stay on the tour and go around as many times as you want kids had a great time.

Middle of nowhere this place suddenly springs out. And it's very cool. Huge aquarium with big fish in a two story building, dam full of norwest snapper, but the piece de resistance is the "shark lake", a donut shaped dam full of big sharks. Kids will go nuts for it. Good talks and displays, quite interactive, if you are in the area have a look. Won't be disappointed.

They have a great system of doing a continuous guided tour around the aquarium, you join in at whatever point they are at when you arrive and when they reach the end, another guide will take over and continue the tour from the start, so you don't miss anything. It takes roughly 1 hour.

The guides are all very knowledgable marine biologists/scientists and very friendly with the info they give and with answering any questions.

Donny? the turtle was great to see, and he/she played well to the cameras.
The shark feeding was also very well done and is done on every rotation of the tour.
It was also great to see sea snakes and other venemous and dangerous sealife.

Although we didn't have any food or drink from the cafe, the selection was good and the cakes were very tempting.

I'd have given 4.5 if I could, only negative is that some tanks or areas look like they could do with some cleaning or upgrading. I'm sure they have this in mind!

Ocean Park was originally a pink snapper hatchery and has evolved in to the aquarium it is today.

Loved every minute! Learnt so much. Great tour by Josh.

Awesome place to visit, dog friendly. We really enjoyed our visit today.

Very informative, passionate staff. Well worth the visit..

Very interesting, had a lovely meal and the staff were friendly and helpful.

Great tour, thank you guys! My partner and I loved it.

Tour guide Luke explained everything in good detail. Awesome experience for us and the kids

Staff are great and knowledgable and just so friendly will be recommending to people visiting Denham

Friendly and very enthusiastic staff and lots to see and being told,but as others have commented before slightly expensive

Very friendly staff, good food and alot of very interesting information on the tour would highly recommend taking a few hours to visit

Great fun and a decent educational experience. Good fun!

Such a cool place to take the kids or just enjoy as an adult.
Learn lots on the tour and get to see some pretty cool sea creatures.

Great experience. Shark and fish feeding was fantastic. Very informative tours, great value for money and the food from the cafe was tastey

The tour is so interesting and lively! lots of quirky little facts and stories along the way! kept our kids entertained

Excellent marine scientists give a guided tour of the tanks explaining interesting facts about each aquatic creature. The tour takes about an hour. You are free to then wander around to look further.
The cafe has good food for lunch.

Awesome, way better than i expected....and nice coffee and food to top it off...

An lovely compact aquarium focusing on the local marine environment. Almost all exhibits are open tank affording you a great view of the fish and other marine life.
One of the marine biologists working the will constantly be performing a tour, just hop on when you arrive and you'll eventually get to set everything (take about 1 hour). There are very few signs so you'll need the tour to appreciate the exhibits.

The staff were knowledgeable, enthusiastic and really made the experience a memorable one.

There is a nice cafe with a great view connected to the aquarium. They also do excursions into the bay although you need to book this in advance.

Very friendly and informative staff who provide information on the various fish species in a fun and interesting manner. The animals here are well taken care of and are kept in generously sized aquariums so they are very easy to view.

A small cafe is situated here along with plenty of parking. It would be nice if they kept a wider variety of marine life but otherwise a worthwhile visit.

Great place to visit, the tour was really interesting, with lots of different fish & sea creatures to see. Great coffee & cake in the cafe to.

Excellent food great staff and a very informative tour not to be missed. This is great value for money.

Awesome place to visit. Tour guides are very knowledgeable and take their time to explain everything in the aquarium and how we impact and can help our marine ecosystem. Wish we had gone earlier in the day as the menu looked excellent. Thousand times better than wasting time and money at Money Mia - (don't get me started).

We did the Steep Point 4WD tour which is brilliant. Luke our guide was knowledgeable and entertaining and the scenery is spectacular.

Guide Description It was so much fun and it was a lot different from the usual aquarium. good

Great experience, we loved it. You do guided tours only which was great coz we had an awesome guide.. I think his name was Josh? He made the whole tour really interesting and knew his facts.

Entry fee was $24pp with concession.

Tour guide was excellent, very friendly staff and very welcoming. Only downside is the food, $20 for a pulled pork sandwich, 2 bits of bread, pork and coleslaw with chips. No dressing or sauce. Quality should reflect pricing.

Very nice fresh, high quality food. Great family park and tour through the aquarium. Views are stunning.

Great fun for the kids; lots of critters to see and learn about. Great food too

Small but packed with intetesting sights. Join the tour at any time and the knowledge of the guides will amaze you. Very interesting and informative. See the lemon tip sharks being fed, the baby rays, sea snakes, stone fish, lion fish and much, much more. Fully licenced bar and cafe.

Awesome to let the kids get up close and personal with sharks and fish that you can only normally see, if you catch them!!
Expensive, but very knowledgeable tour guides and your money helps to keep the aquarium open!
Definately worth a look if you get up to Shark Bay!

Very nice restaurant. Very informative tour of the aquariums.

Great faculty , a little expensive but girls are great

So informative with very knowledgeable and educated guides. Amazing sea life that you get to interact with up close. Beautiful restaurant and views to end the trip with. 100% better the aqua in Perth!!

Excellent tour more than expected. All I can say is it was BRILLIANT.

Did not know this place even existed. By passed a road sign on the way to Denham. After we checked in at Denham we went back for a look. Great tour with knowledgeable staff.

Definitely worth it visiting!!!Brilliant,knowledgeable and warm welcoming staff,great place where to have a lunch & coffee or two..thanks guys

The girls there are very informative and patient with the kids questions. It s definitely a stop if your in the area of what. Lovely views at the cafe. Kitchen was closed but the food looked good.

The tour is definitely worth it, fantastic value, so educational and interesting. The tour guides are really smart and friendly. Cafe food is way better than anything in town. Highly recommended.

Nice place for kids. Fun and informative. Staffs were so friendly. If your kid is a curious champ or an animal lover, it's a must visit. Staff encourage their curiosity and questions.

However it's a small aquarium. Sharks are the highlight + some sea animals and fish in around 10 tanks. It's only around 1 hour guided tour around the place. Dogs are allowed which is a bonus point. However I felt $27 per person entry fee was a bit too over priced for this place. Adults may not find it too entertaining.

Shark won t attack the stinky fish..kids were a bit disappointed..

Very interesting and informative. Great location on the beach front and a short from Denham and other vantage points.

Great place with super friendly and professional staff. Learned a lot about the local marine life. Kids loved it as well. Small but really worth a visit

Utterly not worth the steep ticket price for a few fishes

We did the tour with our 3 year old. Our guide kept us and him engaged in the tour. It takes about an hour.

Fantastic place. Lovely location Cafe was great. Tour was wonderful, Shark feeding was absolutely fantastic.

Thank you Bec. Very informative tour enjoyed by all.

Do not deserve a long detour, but if you pass by ...

Terrific place to see all the local marine life from the area

What a cool place to visit! Converted fish farm, now an aquarium. Was very cool to see the sea snakes doing their thing up close and personal, shark feeding was awesome and the big fish tank was my highlight, being so close to big snapper and black mulloway. Our guide Russell was very knowledgeable and friendly and answered all our questions. Must visit here if you are in the region.

A lovely spot....fantastic views over the bay, a very informative, fun tour seeing the fish, lunch from the cafe was excellent-not a spot to be missed.

Great place to learn about the marine life around WA, very friendly staff with big knowledge of the area

We arrived around 2pm for lunch and missed the rush. They had sold out of quite a few menu items so we ordered the Seafood Platter for two. It was delicious, cooked to perfection with a great variety of seafood. It was more then enough to feed two people, the squid was to die for! We will definitely be back!

Great tour. Very knowledgeable staff to tell u anything you want

This is the best aquarium I have ever been to any I am a Marine biologist. Great food any aquaria

I loved going there there were so many fish types and a great restaurant very nice for when you are on vacation in sha K bay and you want to look around at the marine life there

Very interesting. The marine biologists know there facts.

Not what I expected. They focus on getting the animals better then letting them go rather then something big and flashy. The staff were very knowledgeable and took their time to answer questions. We arrived before a tour so decided to feed our baby. The lady taking the tour came to us to say don't rush, whatever you miss I'll catch you up and she actually did!

Awesome place and awesome staff. All of the the tour guides are marine scientists so you get the real deal. Meet Linda the lemon shark who is 3 meters long along with some unique ocean creatures native to the area.

Great experience but not much to look at.
Prices were very high and for only an hour

was a great experience only downer was their coffee but the meal, service and tour were awesome

Tour was amazing. The hosts do a continual tour that just loops around so don t need to worry about starting times. Would recommend. Lunch was also nice - we tried seafood platter.

Knowledgeable tour guides and lots of interesting sea life to see.

All the things that you might see are in this one place - and you will know so much more about them when you do see them. Highly recommend the 4WD tour and they have serve awesome coffee!

Big expectation but dissapointment in the number of marine life.

I have been to aquariums all over the world but I enjoyed Ocean Park aquarium the most of all. I was sceptical at first, but we had such a good time. There aren t massive walls of glass and there aren t millions of fish, but there also wasn t hundreds of people and it wasn t overly commercialised. The experience of getting close to the exhibits was genuinely exciting. The tours are relaxed, but informative and the types of animals they have were very interesting. I will never forget looking down as the sea snake lifted its head out the water and took in the people standing around the pool. The aquarium is a credit to the owners and staff.

This is brilliant tour to introduce you to and learn all adout the marine life around Shark Bay. The guides are all marine biologists and have great personalities. You are able to finish your visit with refreshments over looking the day.