Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium - Sarasota Things To Do
- Address: 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, Sarasota, FL 34236-1004
- Phone: +1 941 388 4441
- Email: info@mote.org
- Website:www.mote.org
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5.0
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26+ reviews from 2 sources |
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| Yahoo! Travel | 5.0 |
25+ reviews |
| Frommers | 2.0 |
1+ reviews |
Estimated Price: From $4
Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium
1600 Ken Thompson ParkwaySarasota, FL 34236-1004
Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium Details
Descriptions from Across the Web
- You'll see a 135,000 gallon shark habitat, sea turtles, jellyfish, two touch pools, two unique manatees, and a Mysterious Mollusks exhibit that features a 25 foot preserved ... more on Yahoo! Travel
- Located at the Mote Marine Laboratory, this is home to a 135,000 gallon outdoor shark tank and many other marine species. more on TripAdvisor
- Kids get to touch cool stuff like stingrays (minus the stinger, of course) and watch sharks in the shark tank at this excellent aquarium. Part of the noted Mote Marine Laboratory complex, it is more broad based than Tampa's Florida Aquarium, which concentrates primarily on local sea life. See man... more on Frommers
- Shark, dolphin, manatee & sea turtle exhibits - Touch tanks with sea urchins, horseshoe crabs & stingrays - Logger head sea turtles - Computer-interactive ... more on entertainment.com
- The 135,000-gallon shark tank at Mote Marine Aquarium lets you view its inhabitants from above and below the water's surface. Additional tanks show off eels, rays, and other marine creatures native to the area. There's also a touch tank where you can get friendly with horseshoe crabs, conchs, and... more on Fodor's
Reviews From Across The Web read all
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5.0
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Our son's favorite stop!
This attraction is our son's favorite stop. Not only is it super kid friendly, it is also educational. The rescue center is informative and lends age appropriate ... A Yahoo! User, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel
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loved mote marine visit
The Park family visited Mote Marine on a 3 week vacation to Florida back in Summer 2002. We took the boat ride round the bay. What really impressed this mom was the marine biologist. She packed in a lot of information. She trawled the ocean and bought up lots of stuff and talked everyone through ... A TripAdvisor Member, a user of Tripadvisor. Read full review on TripAdvisor
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5.0
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It was the best!!
My family and I love to go to aquariums and we were seacrching on the internet for one to go to and we found on e it was the Mote. When we got there we were amazed it was so nice all of the people were great and my family loved the animals we didn't get to go on the boat but it still was very fun... A Yahoo! User, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel
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5.0
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Love the Manatees
This place will be worth another visit when I visit Florica again in November. It is a beautiful place full of ocean life that is relative to the Florida coast. The workers are very knowledgable ... A TripAdvisor Member, a user of Tripadvisor. Read full review on TripAdvisor
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5.0
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Love it here!
(May 07, 2001 00:00)
Don't miss out on the boat trip... A biologist narrates the trip through the surrounding bay waters... even stops at a small island. Great views of all the beautiful ... wloo914, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel
Directions
From St. Armands Circle, head north toward Longboat Key; turn right just before the Lido-Longboat bridge
On City Island
Hours
Daily 10am-5pm. Nature cruises daily 11am, 1:30pm, and 4pm
Miscellaneous
- Admission: Aquarium $17, boat excursion $26, combined ticket $36
Other Web Resources
- Read more about Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium on Yahoo! Travel
- www.mote.org
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