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700 Water St. Denver, CO 80211

303-561-4450

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Best and Only Free Part of the Denver Aquarium
Award Winner 2010

Cuisine(s): Seafood

Hours: Sun-Thu 10am-10pm, Fri-Sat 10am-11pm
Features: Water View

Serving: Late Night

Description

Entertainment and dining complex with public aquarium featuring more than one million gallons of underwater exhibits and more than 500 animal species.

Scuba Adventures

Daily

"It's one of the coolest things to do in Denver right now," exclaims dive guide Shane Taylor. He may be right. In landlocked Colorado, the Downtown...
Character Breakfasts

9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. last Sat. of every month

Family breakfast buffet with aquarium mascots Sharkey, Java and Octavius, dive show, bird presentation and shark feeding. By reservation.

2010 | Best and Only Free Part of the Denver Aquarium

The Denver Aquarium is loads of fun, what with sunken temples, re-created flash floods and piranha tanks, but it's also pricey. Between parking fees, multiple gift shops and added activity charges on top of already steep admission costs, a visit there can waterlog your credit card. Luckily, there's Sharkey Fun Zone, a nearly hidden indoor play area at the back of the complex (accessible via a door near the restaurant entrance) packed with giant-sized whales, sharks, octopi and other sea... More »
2007 | Best Place to Go Under

For a landlocked state, Colorado has a lot of residents who like to dive and snorkel -- and not many places for them to do it. But now you can get down at the Downtown Aquarium, where Swim With the Fish, Dive With the Fish and Dive With the Sharks allow you to do some underwater communing with our fine-finned friends. The snorkeling program, Swim With the Fish, is open to kids ages six to nine and runs $75. The other two programs are more advanced and require each participant to present a... More »
2002 | Best Building on the Endangered-Species List

Ocean Journey was just hours from going extinct when it was pulled back from the brink on April 1. Let's hope that Ocean Journey, the aquarium, survives bankruptcy, because Ocean Journey, the building, is a very fine structure that was conceived to the nth degree when it was built in 1999. Not only does it sport state-of-the-art technical features that support the wide array of aquatic life inside, but it also contains artwork specifically made for the place. Odyssea, a once-only... More »

A big day for Denver's Big Blue Bear

By | Thu, December 11, 2008

Denver's iconic Big Blue Bear— officially called "I See What You Mean" — got some big exposure last Friday when Visit Denver staffer Tyler Wilcox donned a blue bear costume for an appearance on Good Morning America, touting this town's holiday win... More »
Drink of the Week

By Nancy Levine | Thu, August 04, 2005

Welcome to the newest dive in town. When we entered the bar at the new Downtown Aquarium (formerly the barless Colorado's Ocean Journey), my friend oohed and aahed. "Gosh, it looks just like a grotto," she said. Yes, but more like the Disneyland g... More »
Fish Shtick

By Adam Cayton-Holland | Thu, July 14, 2005

Since the beginning of modern time, Denver has played catch-up with other cities. At some point, "cow town" became an unacceptable tag. This was before "fish city" was even a seedling of a thought in the minds of the visionaries, and long before L... More »

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streetsignartist | Denver, CO | 193 Reviews

| Mon, April 12, 2010

dig the eating with the fishes? check out the restaurant here then!
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JaclynA | Los Angeles, CA | 73 Reviews

| Wed, June 24, 2009

Although this is something usually fancied by children, the aquarium is one of my favorite places to go on a weekend afternoon! They have the best assortment of neon fish!
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JamesB7 | Broomfield, CO | 161 Reviews

| Mon, March 22, 2010

A bit campy, but good
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