S.E.A. Aquarium: Guide To Marine Life Wonders With The Kids [Updated Guide 2025]

Have you visited S.E.A. Aquarium recently? The Ocean has long held the fascination of us all – classics like “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Disney’s “The Little Mermaid”, Pixar’s “Finding Nemo”, Pinkfong’s “Baby Shark”, Netflix’s “Octonauts”, have all been inspired by the rich marine biodiversity in the blue.

A trip to the S.E.A. Aquarium never fails to excite the little ones and is a timeless and immersive adventure for the entire family to wonder, learn and explore and most importantly, relax together.

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Guide to S.E.A. Aquarium, Resorts World Sentosa

Deemed the third-largest aquarium in the world, Singapore’s S.E.A. Aquarium is located at Resorts World Sentosa, and is home to over 100,000 marine animals from 1,000 species across 40 habitats.

For the past 12 years, S.E.A. Aquarium has been advocating ocean conversation, research and education – creating impact through rehabilitating rescued Sea Turtles, to birthing baby Zebra Sharks, to creating an Aquarius Lab to nurture baby Sea Jellies, Seahorses, and launching the Children’s Biodiversity Library at the National Library Building. These key milestones are now presented on an impressive Wall of Fame within the Aquarium.

Fully air-conditioned and carpeted, the S.E.A. Aquarium set us in a tranquil calming “under the ocean” mood in its dim softly-lit interior once we descended into the Basement to enter – even hushing the kids down.

It’s really the perfect place to be at on a sunny or rainy day – or simply a place to visually entertain or educate the kids of all ages for over an hour.

The starting journey of the S.E.A. Aquarium was straightforward and hassle free, as we took a linear journey across 8 main Zones, including the latest new interactive/featured Zones in celebration of the aquarium’s 12th anniversary. Each Zone has accompanying write-ups, with more detailed infographics at featured habitats:

1. Shipwreck Habitat Tunnel
2. Coral Garden Habitat & ART:DIS(NEW)
3. Treasures of Curios(NEW)
4. Sea Jellies
5. Open Ocean Habitat
6. Marine Mirage(NEW)
7. Ocean Oracle(NEW)
8. Shark Seas Habitat Tunnel

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Venturing into the Discovery Zones & Habitats

Shipwreck Habitat Tunnel

As we ventured into the tunnel of blue, we felt ourselves entering a new dimension of life under the ocean with colourful teaming marine life of all shapes and sizes, darting in and out of a rustic larger than life shipwreck.

From Manta Rays, to Zebra Sharks to Bowmouth Guitarfishes and very friendly scuba divers, there was a lot of take in as Little Pea took a long momentarily pause to just appreciate and soak in everything all surround in this new world. Dive feeding takes place Thursday – Tuesday at 10.30am.

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Coral Garden Habitat & ART:DIS(NEW)

We were next greeted by a stunning water column with an impressive majestic Coral Garden within. This is just about as up-close and personal you can get to a Coral in air-con comfort.

With luminous playful fishes playing hide and seek, kids and adults alike will be visually stimulated and entertained for quite a while – try spotting species like the Green Brittle Stars, Orangey Clownfishes and Knobbly Sea Stars. Curious to learn more about the Coral habitat? Daily talks at 1.30pm (5mins).

As part of S.E.A. Aquarium’s 12th anniversary, appreciate the adjacently located artwork display “Evolving Oceans: A Symphony of Life” created by Eugene Soh, a differently abled artist, in partnership with Arts & Disability Singapore (ART:DIS).

Guests can sign up and participate in workshops to co-create this artwork series or get their hands on the exclusively designed artistic chopstick holder (with a minimum retail spend).

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Treasures of Curios Zone(NEW)

Along the way, we also came across these hands-on interactive kiosks showcasing the aquarium’s efforts in marine conservation.

Little Pea enjoyed opening each cabinet to learn more about the aquarium’s beach clean up initiatives and experimented with the motion sensor lightbox which displayed photos of species like the Cake Sand Dollar, Horn-eyed Ghost Crab living in the intertidal zones.

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Sea Jellies

The Sea Jellies Zone captivated all of us the most with the neon UV lighting and RGB light effects. The slow jellio-like “tentacle” movements of species like the Moon Sea Jellies, Sea Nettles and their translucent illuminance were mesmerizing.

One can just fall into a trance just watching them slow “dance” in hue. It’s a good strategy to use this section to put a kid to sleep. Learn about the diet and care for these cute Sea Jellies daily at 11.45am (5mins).

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Open Ocean Habitat

This was everyone’s favourite mid-way rest-stop with carpeted “terraces” overlooking the largest habitat of the aquarium.

We stood in awe and felt so small as Reef Manta Rays, Javanese Cownose Rays, Leopard Whiprays, and Giant Groupers glided past us nonchalantly.

This is a fantastic midway stop to rest, go for a toilet break or get refreshments from the food kiosks. Right now, guests can enjoy a special anniversary menu set of grilled cheese sandwich, tomato soup, hotdog and grain bowl at just $12 when purchased with a drink. Hear more about the majestic Ocean Habitat daily at 1.15 pm (10mins).

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Marine Mirage Zone(NEW)

For curious souls, Marine Mirage is a new interactive touch station – Little Pea enjoyed being pleasantly surprised and was spooked off as she touched replicas mimicking the textures of marine life such as the spiky Sea Urchin to the smooth soap-like skin of a Cownose Ray. 

For kids interested to make a career in marine life, inspiring personal quotes of aquarists are also featured.

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Ocean Oracle Zone(NEW)

An interactive exhibit zone focused on educating kids on conservation, we enjoyed viewing the impactful artwork, inspired by saving marine life, done by the participants from the Junior Ocean Detective programme.

The little ones couldn’t get their hands off the huge RGB viewfinders as they tried to look through the interactive lenses to uncover different marine animals such as the Moray Eel, and understand the concept of Mutualism (animal relationships like predator-prey, partnerships).

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Shark Seas Habitat Tunnel

We finally entered the lair of the king predator of the sea, where more than 10 species of shark like the Blacktop Reef Shark, Whitetip Reef Shark, Scalloped Hammerhead Shark zipped in, out above our heads all surround in a sunlit water tunnel.

Little Pea squealed as a huge slow moving Sand Tiger Shark slowly buoyant past her with unflinching eyes. Watch hungry sharks being fed by a chainmail-clad diver every Tuesday and Thursday at 2.30pm.

Exiting the S.E.A. aquarium, we surfaced to the bright light of day, blinking and feeling refreshed from this therapeutic and immersive experience.  

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Programmes, Amenities and Accessibility

Programmes:

Meet & Greet – Get a wefie with the lovable Manta Mascots Mon to Fri: 12 pm & 4 pm / Sat, Sun & Public Holidays: 12 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm

Junior Ocean Detective – For kids 7 to 12 years old, investigate marine facts about animal relationships; from predator-prey relationships to symbiotic partnerships where animals benefit from one another.

Learn more here: 

Aquarist Lab – Get up-close and personal into the nursery of the aquarium’s in-house marine species and learn how they are being cared and fed.

Amenities:

Toilets and a nursing/diaper changing room are located just before the Shipwreck tunnel. Toilets can also be found at the Coral Garden Section and Open Ocean Habitat. Snack food kiosks are found at the Open Ocean Habitat area. Pram and wheelchair friendly ramps or lifts facilitate access across zones.

How to get here:

Conveniently accessible via the Sentosa Express monorail from VivoCity Mall (linked to HabourFront MRT Station on North East Line). Take the monorail and drop off at the first stop “Resorts World Station”. Follow the signs towards the waterfront direction.

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Ticket Prices to S.E.A. Aquarium

The S.E.A. Aquarium “12 Years of Creating Wonder” campaign runs from 1 March to 30 April 2025 and is included with regular admission. Families can enjoy greater savings with an exclusive promotion: 50% off a child ticket for every adult ticket purchased. The promotion starts from 1 March and is available for a limited time only.

Find out more here from Resorts World Sentosa’s 12 years of wonder.