All you need to know before you go to the Georgia Aquarium
Debbie Discovers
Jan 4, 2021
3 min read
Updated: Sep 8
The Georgia Aquarium is one of our favorite places. My son had his 6th birthday party here and he was to have a sleepover birthday party for his 10th birthday the day they shut for covid.
🎟️ You need to buy a timed ticket ahead of time.
The Georgia Aquarium offers a daily 10% military discount with a valid military ID, alongside free admission for active and former service members during select Military Appreciation Days. They also give free admission on your actual birthday to Georgia residents. Show your license or a birth certificate for a child.
🅿️They have a parking garage attached. You take an elevator down and still walk a little bit to the main entrance. Buy Parking ahead of time as they sell out quickly. If you have a handicap pass you can still get a spot if it says sold out.
🐟 You show scan tickets after you get into the building.
🐟 You first enter the area if you want a photo taken. We always try to walk around when they change families for the pictures.
🐟 Sign up ahead for seats for the Sea Lion and Dolphin show.
🐟You will go through TSA type security. No lighters for smokers!
🐟Cafeteria (with restrooms in the back) is upstairs. Make sure you look at the station for your ticket number after you order as each station has different tickets they are filling.
🐟 Outside Tropical Diver is a machine to buy a phone charger or exchange your charger Rod.
♿ They have a few wheelchairs to borrow but no scooters to rent. Each big viewing window in the exhibits have a blue carpet for you to wheel your chair up to see.
🐟 I would suggest narrow strollers as with crowds it gets tight to get through. They have stroller parking outside the shows.
The main floor is divided into areas:
Click here to download the map.
Cold Water Quest
They have a place to touch starfish, see beluga whales, sea otters, sea lion, penguins (kids/adults can crawl through to poke head through to get up close to them.) There is also an upper area to view the Beluga whales.
Southern Company River Scout
From their website" In the Southern Company River Scout gallery, you’ll explore the wide diversity of animals found in the rivers of Africa, South America, Asia and right here in Georgia. This gallery is a themed environment full of waterfalls, logjams and a simulated meandering North American river that flows over your head."
Truist Pier 225
This is where you can see the Sea Lions
Ocean Voyager
This is one of our favorites. It has the moving sidewalk which has glass above it to see in the aquarium and another area to touch sea life that leads to the room you see in many movies with the big glass window to watch sea life.
Tropical Diver
This area has jelly fish, a nice place to sit with a large area to watch fish and a small tank with Nemo and Dorey in it.
They also have a dolphin show which lasts about 20 mins. If you want to get drenched sit in the first 10 rows of the middle section. Yes you can wear rain ponchos. They want you to be seated about 30 mins before the show begins. Youmust have a timed ticket to enter.
When you exit the Aquarium, you go through the gift shop and end up just about where you entered. You can purchase your pictures here from when you first entered.
There is a place to eat outside the aquarium, there called Pemberton Cafe and we have eaten there before too. This is a good place to eat if you finish the aquarium and then go some place after.
Address: 1807, 121 Baker St NW, Atlanta, GA 30313
Hours: daily 9-4
* It can be very crowded and small kids can move through crowds better than adults so please always watch your child.
You can download their mobile app
They recommend 3-4 hours for a visits but on a busy day and if you do it all It takes longer.
They have a penguin march down the walkway in the middle of the aquarium, as when you get there for times.
Piedmont Hospital provides staffing for a full first-aid station, located in the restroom hallway between Ocean Voyager and Tropical Diver.
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