The Deep Reviews

lovely friendly relaxed atmoshere and brilliant food

If you want to see beautiful sea animals this is the place to go, amazing staff, outstanding veiw of the ocean in the entrance.

Super family day out. Expensive the first visit, but then you can come back all year for free!

Lovely the grand kids loved it .food very expensive but you can take a pack up.plenty of room.clean toilets .

Loved it, Kids really enjoyed it too.

Started using less plastics since i visited here. Job well done. Will definitely be back again with annual pass. :D

We had been there few years back and it was an amazing place to visit with family in Yorkshire county

Really enjoyed our visit very entertaining and educational

I visited today. The place is fabulous but as far as staff managing social distancing people were taking mask of one's inside staff just looked at them never said a word. I went to one staff member saying one family were getting up very close to us with no masks on. Nothing she could do apparently. Hated every minute so worried about mygrandaughter. We left through the fire exit after half an hour a staff member let us out as they said they could do nothing to help us but leave through the fire exit. We'll if that is good custermas service. God help anyone who goes there during covid

An awesome Gem!
A beautiful day out with soooooo much to do that you'll definitely want to come back again and again.
Nothing is overpriced and the food is brilliant x

Son lost his little jacket there. When it was found, days after it was posted to us with no charge. Excellent service, well worth a visit

Took my granddaughter for her 1st birthday & she loved it. She liked seeing all the different fish, excellent day out for all the family :-)

Brilliant place to go...around 2 hours to get around it....really informative

Exceeded my expectations, a great learning experience and good fun

Brilliant place to take kids loads for them to see and do. Gets busy though! Staff could not have been more friendly either. So easy to get around with pushchair and the food from the cafe was good and not over priced which is a bonus.

Great day out for older and younger kids alike. Lots of interactivity and beautiful displays. A real education to our effect pollution has on our oceans and the life within. We spent about 3 1/2 hours here. It was very busy but we did visit in the summer hols.

Great for children! There is loads to see, lots of snippets of scientific and zoological information and a clean, pleasant environment in which social distancing is admirably managed through restricted visitor numbers. And tickets are good for multiple visits. Brilliant!

A little disappointed by our visit we were expecting more from our trip to the deep we were through the aquarium in an hour and couldn't get near most of the information displays due to ignorant people stood about blocking the walkways.

Great selection of displays and exhibits and ticket gets you admission for the whole year. Great day or for the family...

Although a little smaller than expected, The Deep has an excellent collection of creatures and offers great value for money. A range of both salt and freshwater fish is welcomed and there s even a group of penguins. The aquariums are well thought out and well kept, with a host of educational information on offer.

Travelled from the northeast to visit The Deep, wasn't disappointed. It's a great place to go be it with kids or even couples. Plenty of things do to and look at. Well worth the money.

Good for a few hour, kids loved it. Will definitely be back

My kids love it here. We always take a packed lunch to keep costs down, but there are decent looking food halls available. Easy access to toilets on the way around. Clean and well maintained. Nice that you pay once (cheaper to buy online in advance) and get a year of access. Good car parking, gets full bit usually attendants to help manage alternative parking when busy. Shame the play area at the end is for children under 1m only.

Amazing place. And buy a full price ticket and go back for free for a year. Food is good and great prices

The Deep has been a fantastic addition in Hull, (constructed in 2002), and has become one of Hull's key selling points. An Aquarium full of various schools of fish, various insects, penguins, education on our rising sea levels/global warming, prehistoric existence and what lies beneath our darkest, and undiscovered parts of our oceans.

The food is well priced, and since this is a charity organisation they are very humble. Staff are pleasant, helpful and genuinely enjoy what they do. It's refreshing to see.

I hope this place expands further!

Fantastic

Allow yourself plenty of time for this attraction as you spiral down through layer after layer of fish, sharks and and other marine life

Was really cool there I was there with the school and it was really cool

Not many fish for an aquarium. Lots of displays for kids, though they looked sticky.

Great selection of creatures and the staff are really friendly.

Brilliant place to take children. Lots to see and very educational

What an amazing place. Handling Covid like a boss. Great value for money, lots of educating and interactive things for kids of all ages. Brought my eldest here when he was 3 and now returning when he's 7 with his brother who is now 3. They absolutely loved it. Great aquarium and well worth a visit

Fantastic day. Really enjoyed and will definitely be going back soon.

Had a great time with the grandkids here. Plenty to do.

Kids enjoyed it. Took us about 3 hours to get around at a slow pace. The ticket lasts for 12 months so we will visit again before that is up. Shame it wasn't bigger as it's a good day.

Brilliant place to visit with the kids or without:) only thing we could fault is the waiting time for the lift at the end but is to be expected on busy periods! However In the lift was brilliant and a real treat :)

Great place to visit and with the return day pass it is even better value!

Very nice aquarium with some excellent interactive exhibits for children and young adults to learn more about the ocean in general, be warned that it can get extremely busy at peak times and you might have to wait for the exit lift that goes up within the large tank.

Had a fantastic trip to the deep. All the tanks and exhibitions were great. The staff we really friendly and very knowledgeable. Would highly recommend for all ages.

Fabulous day out with the family, very engaging staff that are passionate about their subject and conservation. Beautiful displays of very healthy appearing fish species, well thought out penguin habitat and play areas and interactive displays for small children

There is also a reasonably priced cafe and lifts throughout. For those of us with mobility issues there are also wheelchairs in the lobby.

When you buy your tickets you get a free return for as many times as you wish for the rest of the year.

Don't forget if you have a Tesco club card that you can use your points, currently at 4x (soon changing to 3x) the value to buy tickets as we did making it a very budget friendly day out. The look of joy and wonder on my granddaughter's face as she was exploring here would have made it worth double the full asking price though.

There are two carparks adjacent to the main building, on the flat so mobility friendly.

Fun.carnt wait for the penquins. Carnt do everything too buzy the tour book is 3 pounds!

It is a place for babies, children and family fun ... But if you want to have fun alone, forget it

Well thought out and clever design. Plenty to see great for everyone

The Deep is fantastic. We have an autistic boy and he loves it and they are very aware of our needs and very helpful here

Brilliant day out for the family, thourly enjoyed as did daughter. Well priced and ticket lasts for 12 months. Only a short walk into Hull Town and Museum Quarter. Cafe is OK.

Visited with our disabled son on what was advertised as a tranquil Tuesday, expecting to find special needs schools visiting and a generally quieter visit. What greated us as we walked down the ramp into the main exhibit was some much noise coming from what we discovered was 8 schools. Last time we visited we were there approx 2 hours after being shunted out of the way by tribes of unchecked 5-6 year olds we exited 30 minutes later. We did later find out in the depth of the website that tranquil Tuesday starts at 3pm this needs to be made clearer. We had a very disappointed and upset son who had looked forward to visiting the deep as part of our holiday to the area

Kind of OK place, have seen bigger and better places then this, was not comparable with any of them, but kids liked it, for them it was great experience

Was 6 school parties when we visited so very crowded and noisy. I'm sure on other days it would be better experience

Very busy as it was half term. I bought tickets online but discovered you still have to queue up with everyone else so it was no advantage. Then on returning the next day to use our 12 months free access ticket we were told we had to queue again and would have to do the same at every subsequent visit. Kind of makes the order online & free years access a bit of a joke as you don't get in any quicker and seeing as the queues were approximately 1.30 hrs during half term I won't be rushing back.

Really good aquarium, with wonderful exhibits to see. There were plenty of hand sanitatiser stations around, staff seen with cleaning gear constantly and allocated viewing spots indicatedby floor stickers. Didn't get too crowded but there were some selfish people who would spend ages looking at some tanks then a queue would build up, which obviously isn't ideal at the moment. Maybe the more popular tanks could be monitored? Although I understand this may not be possible depending on staffing levels. Thoroughly enjoyed our visit and the saw fish was a favourite

Great place, has a huge fish tank in the shop goes from to ceiling

A fantastic place to go with or without kids. Better with

Amazing place to visit. So many wonderful things to see and learn. Great for kids and adults. The cafe meals are delicious and extremely good value for money. Guarantee you will be amazed at the big tanks with all the different fish. Absolutely fantastic.

Not bad for a day out. The staff are very friendly and great with the kids. The food is pretty good and not too ridiculous price wise. There is quite a lot to see, but it did seem to end quite quickly so we went round again. The main reason I'm only giving it 4 stars though is because they didn't have an octopus. But your ticket lasts for a year so we will be back to see if they have one then.

Didn't match up to expectations. Not as big or as many big lagoons as expected. Only one larger pool, plus the penguins and few other smaller tanks. Price ok. Crowded in holidays so battle to see things. Wtitten displays too much for the kids, could be simplier info displays aimed at kids. Overall not as much to see as there could be. But what there is is good.

Yeah not bad for the money.. nice that they're not a profit making aquarium. Unlike blue planet where you need a small mortgage to take the kids out.. a lot of the tanks were closed for maintenance but again you can't grumble as it's cheap to get in.. would deffo be a great place to take kids... if you're going to go on a Saturday or Sunday then go before 11am or after 4pm as you will queue for at least an hour to get in.

One of Hull's prime attractions. Fantastic aquarium and great views over the Humber. This is one of the few successful Millennium projects

Great place for a family day out. Buy the year long ticket for a little extra and you can go back as many times as you like in 12 months!