These often sell basic food (hot dogs, hamburgers, etc) although there is some variety (one stand sells crepes while another has pot pies). Unfortunately Shedd no longer allows re-entry if you step out for lunch, so this only works well if you're done with your visit. There are also a variety of seasonal restaurant outside from permanent buildings to temporary carts and everything in between, which are only open during the summer. Before Covid, I've handed out many snacks on benches around the aquarium unfortunately you'll often be stopped if you try to do that now. On other days, there are tables along underwater viewing at the bottom level of the oceanarium. On nice days, you can sit outside on the terrace-doors out are next to the Soundings Café on the top level of the oceanarium. Shedd’s not the easiest place to bring your own food, but you can. You can still easily put together a lunch with food like hot dogs or sandwiches and drinks. The Deep Ocean Café at the lower level of the Oceanarium is open on busy days, but doesn’t have a huge variety of food.
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Click for More Information below to see full menus. Prices are decent for a museum restaurant and quality is pretty good. The options are fairly limited, especially for kids, so I don't go there often. Soundings Cafe is a small coffee and sandwich shop at the top level of the Oceanarium (directly above the food court). On the busiest days, staff will enforce the rule that you're not allowed to sit at a table until you have food, which adds challenge when you're on your own with multiple kids. Seating can fill up quickly, so it's helpful to go in by 11:30 or even earlier on busy days. A few steps from there is the Lisbon Casino.The main area to purchase food is the Bubble Net Food Court on the Oceanarium's middle floor (take the stairs or elevator by the Soundings Cafe/entrance to Underwater Beauty). You may buy your ticket online: Skip the Line: Oceanario de Lisboa Entrance Ticketįrom the Oceanarium, take the boardwalk over the river or the cable cars above it to the Vasco da Gama Tower, and walk from there through Parque do Tejo to Vasco da Gama Bridge.Īcross from Oriente Station is the Vasco da Gama shopping mall, which has a good food court. There’s also a family ticket (two adults and two children under 13) for €50.
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You may ride the metro (as well as the city’s buses, trams, funiculars, and trains) for free with the Lisboa Card.Ĭhildren under the age of 3 are free, tickets for those between the ages of 3 and 12 are €13, and for everyone over 13 it’s €19. The Oceanarium is a short walk from Oriente Station, which is on the red line of the metro.
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The cobblestone "sea monsters" around the aquarium How to Get to the Oceanarium Surrounding the building outside, on the cobblestone pavement, is a number of sea monsters. It houses the main tank, which holds as much water as four Olympic-sized swimming pools and can be seen from four levels, where high-tech displays explain everything in different languages. The original building rises from the river, and was designed by American architect Peter Chermeyeff. The Oceanário is a great family attraction In an annex inaugurated in 2011 are sea turtles, and sardines have their own tank since 2017. There are several marine species, such as the curious round stingrays, the very rare gigantic sunfish, seahorses, otters and penguins. The over 25,000 sea creatures seem to be swimming together, but sharks are separated from smaller defenseless fish by invisible acrylic walls.
The aquarium has a number of rare marine species It was created for the World Fair that took place in Lisbon in 1998, and was the first aquarium to show all ocean habitats in one single space. Not only is this one of the largest aquariums in the world, it's also one of the best designed, and, according to traveler reviews, the world’s favorite. Lisbon's aquarium seems to rise from the water