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1801 N. Griffin Dallas, TX 75202

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  • 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, closed Thanksgiving and Christmas days
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Featuring an aquarium with tanks of fish divided by habitat, an outdoor penguin bay, a seven-story rainforest containing the flora and fauna of Venezuela's Orinoco River and more. The newest additions are giant river otters, called "river wolves" for their size, and the largest collection of Ocellated turkeys (named for the bluish-gray tail feathers with greenish-blue "eyespots").







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  • 2009 | Best Place Not to Bring a Fishing Pole

    It started off as an old warehouse used for numerous businesses like Mohawk Rubber Co. and Tejano Rodeo. Now you know it as the Dallas World Aquarium, home to various underwater species. For only $18 (plus some tax) you get to feel like you are standing in the middle of a rain forest or getting the secret skinny about what really happens under the ocean's surface. Throughout the day they have feeding and performance times scheduled for almost everything from penguins to Orinoco crocodiles.... More »

  • 2007 | Best Leisurely Lunch Hour

    The workday can get so hectic you just need a breather from computers and voicemails and people you spend at least 40 hours a week with. Head downtown to the Dallas World Aquarium and take a lesson from a creature who really knows how to slow down. For the price of a counter-service lunch, you can cruise on through to visit a three-toed sloth. We've gotten to know Bella, our fave, but we hear the other two, Leno and Samba, are just as slow-going and amiable. Take a lean and watch the hairy... More »

  • 2006 | Best Tourist Attraction

    You need stats We got stats: 85,000 gallons of "saltwater with marine life from around the world." A 22,000-gallon tunnel that allows you "to experience a panoramic view of reef life." Three webcams placed in with the manatees, otters and exotic birds. The eight-story Mundo Maya "immersion exhibit that takes visitors from the waters of the Yucatan's Gulf coast to the highland rainforests." Got that What the kids dig most are the sharks and Mexican food and the waterfall. And being on the... More »

  • 2004 | Best Use of Humidity

    Humidity curls our hair and dots our brow with sweat. And there are only a few reasons worth enduring it: tiny howler monkeys with tiny hands and tiny ears; sleek, whiskered river otters; three-toed sloths and stoney, ancient-looking manatees. These and hundreds of other creatures inhabit the Orinoco--Secrets of the River rain forest exhibit at the Dallas World Aquarium, which re-creates a section of Venezuela's Orinoco River basin. There's more to this aquarium than fish, which, in our... More »

  • 2004 | Best Kids Attraction

    Dallas World Aquarium is a genuine tourist attraction, but not in a tacky way. It justifiably draws visitors for its re-creation of a rain forest environment and its dazzling array of aquariums, including a shark exhibit you can walk through via a glass-walled tunnel. It's more about spectacle than education, though the learning is there if you want it. The aquarium features many things you won't see anywhere else in the area, such as the "Leafy seadragons," a relative of the seahorse from... More »

  • 2003 | Best Urban Rain Forest

    Fear Factor No, thanks! We'll take our life-affirming adventures in the safety of a dark movie theater or in a fake, Disneyland-style environment. Even Dallas' risk-averse will get off on the re-created Orinoco River basin rain forest at the Dallas World Aquarium. Just inside the door, a walkway spirals down through the South American jungle facsimile, where you quickly get used to the warm humidity. Enveloped in sights and smells, you'll see and hear birds overhead, spiral down through... More »

  • 2001 | Best Outing with the Kids

    The Dallas World Aquarium (not to be confused with the Dallas Zoo's crappy aquarium) is one of the few places that is kid-friendly, air-conditioned and has something to offer beyond a mall or movie theater. The aquarium has exotic plants, animals and aquatic life. Kids will get a particularly big kick out of the colony of South American black-footed penguins and the Antillean manatees. Unlike some other aquariums that won't be named, the wildlife in the Dallas World Aquarium appears well... More »

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    amazingmissamanda | Mansfield, TX | 12 Reviews

    | Wed, September 1, 2010

    AWESOME, has an amazing indoor waterfall definatly worth checking out

  • DavidK10
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    DavidK10 | Carrollton, TX | 186 Reviews

    | Mon, July 19, 2010

    Beautiful place. They've expanded it a ton since it opened. The rain forest is awesome.

  • kristie712
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    kristie712 | Dallas, TX | 43 Reviews

    | Wed, January 12, 2011

    It's a little pricey, but I feel it's worth the money. Hard to believe something so fab is in downtown Dallas.

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