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Sea Life Park Vallarta: Traveler Reviews

TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #1 of 10 attractions in Nuevo Vallarta
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Attraction type: Water park
Address: Carretera Tepic, Puerto Vallarta Km. 155 | formerly Splash Parque AcuAitico, Nuevo Vallarta 63732, Mexico
Tel: +52 998 193 33 60
Fax: +52 3297 0712

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Reviews of Sea Life Park Vallarta

( 8-12 of 12 )
“Excellent experience”

Sea Life Park Vallarta

May 2, 2007
3/3 found this review helpful

We booked the royal dolphin swim online and got the sea lion encounter for free as a promotion they were running. My advice is, book early in the day, the groups are smaller and you get more one on one attention. there were seven of us in our dolphin group (three of us came together), and our trainer, Alex, was wonderful. We had Azteca and Simbad. The three of us were the only ones in our sea lion group, and they spoiled us. Pauline gave us a behind the scenes tour, and we got to interact with not one, but four sea lions, including Pepe, the Very large male, but sweet tempered and not a bad kisser, and his kids Nixie and Michele, and his love of this year at least, Lulu. It was a very relaxed atmosphere, the animals were loved as well as loving, the trainers obviously cared deeply for them. But, don't forget to re-apply your sunscreen before you hit the waterpark (they sell dolphin friendly sunscreen in the gift shop), or you'll get burned like we did. The waterpark has everything for kids to teens to adults to grandparents, and the restaurant has big portions and great cervesas! The videographer and photographer were excellent, and although we took a lot of our own pictures, we had to buy their high quality photos as well as their video. A little pricey for three sets of pictures and two sets of videos, but we haven't regretted it at all.

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“Sea Life Dolphin Swim”

Sea Life Park Vallarta

Apr 1, 2007
5/5 found this review helpful

This was a wonderful day!! We really enjoyed the Dolphin Swim -- it was much better than the one we did in Jamaica. We loved the belly ride and the foot push while riding a boogie board. People of all ages will enjoy this. We spent the afternoon going on the water slides. The park was really clean and nice.

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“Had a Great Time Swimming with the Dolphins”

Sea Life Park Vallarta

5 of 5 stars
new york, ny
Jan 2, 2007
5/5 found this review helpful

We had a great time with the dolphins. We got to ride on their fins, and they pushed us up like on water skis with their noses. Only complaint is that the water is very cold. The waterpark was great to play around in also while you are there. I loved the water slides. A little pricey though for the dolphins but well worth it. We did the royal swim for $139 each. They allowed my mom to just watch us do this tour and she didn't have to pay to enter the park since she assured them she wasn't swimming. They don't allow you to take your own pictures b/c they want you to buy their pictures...which we did of course buy for $12 per picture. Negotiate as best as you can, but try to negotiate in pesos, we negotiated for $90 for 10 pictures but then they charged our card in pesos and they applied some bogus exchange rate of 1085 pesos which is really more like $108 and not $90 but they claimed that was the rate at the bank that day. So my advice is to negotiate in pesos. There's free lockers to put your stuff in.

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“A lot of fun !!”

Sea Life Park Vallarta

5 of 5 stars
Miami, Florida
Jul 31, 2006
10/10 found this review helpful

I went there with some friends about 3 months ago. At the begining we thought it was a place for children; but when we take a look to the activities and to the park, we found a very nice place.

The swim adventure was great, but we should paid for the royal swim, it was the best program with the dolphins; anyway, the next time we go to Sea Life Park Vallarta, we will book the Royal Swim.

I really recomend this place and the dolphin swimming, it's an excellent experience.

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RosyBrown's Summary
Date of Stay: July 2006
Member since: July 31, 2006
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“New Owners-New name”

Sea Life Park Vallarta

Nov 11, 2005
41/41 found this review helpful

A new company has taken over the former Splash water park.The company has six parks from Aruba to Hawaii and one in Cancun-which is temporarily closed due to ther storm-it is now called Dolphin Discovery but the taxis will remember the former name. As a resident of nearby Bucerias with children I have some good news.The former management had poor maintenance and a poor dolphin facility but the new company has fixed it up dramatically including a massive dolphin swim operation and new restaurants. Also the waterpark admission includes a dolphin-sea lion and tropical bird show thats really entertaining. The price is around eighteen dollars for adults and fifteen for kids-you can find the exact prices and maps in the bucerias mexico site and great pictures- I must tell you you cannot bring in food and drinks like before but the park is much cleaner for that reason.

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Reviews of Sea Life Park Vallarta

( 8-12 of 12 )
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Sea Life Park Vallarta: Management Resources

Sea Life Park Vallarta Address

Carretera Tepic, Puerto Vallarta Km. 155 | formerly Splash Parque AcuAitico, Nuevo Vallarta 63732, Mexico
Tel: +52 998 193 33 60 Fax: +52 3297 0712