Sea Life Scarborough

Sea life is a chain of sea life based aquariums. It owns 50 aquariums and 2 sanctuary’s, with 10 of these being based in the UK. It is currently owned by Merlin Entertainments. Sea Life aims to create a love for the ocean to its visitors and increase awareness of marine conservation through its exhibits and interactive experiences.

What can you see at Sea Life Scarborough?

There are plenty of exhibits and activities to do at Sea Life, these include:

• Penguin Island – Visit the colony of Humboldt penguins
• More than 2500 creatures in both indoor and outdoor exhibits
• Tropical ocean tunnel
• Rainforest adventure
• Otter river
• Outdoor adventure playground
• Seal pool
• Rock pools

There is an adventure café on site serving a variety of hot and cold food. Visitors are also welcome to bring their own food with picnic benches available outside the adventure playground. A shop can also be found on the ground floor selling a variety of souvenirs.

For another family friendly activity you can find a Pirate adventure golf situated right next to the aquarium.

Seal hospital

Sea Life Scarborough is also home to Yorkshires only Seal hospital. You can explore the journey of injured seals from their rescue all the way through to their release. Each year the hospital rescues over 30 seal pups and can care for up to 4 pups at a time. Once the seals are healed and at a healthy weight they are released back into the wild.

Accessibility at the Sea life in Scarborough

• Designated accessibility route
• Lift to all levels
• Disabled toilets available
• Assistance dogs allowed
• Council operated car park outside the aquarium with disability spaces available

For more information regarding accessibility you can look at their AccessAble page 

Transport

• Located off Burniston Road, Scalby Mills
• Closest train station is Scarborough train station which is an 8 minute drive from sea life
• Hourly bus service from Scarborough centre to the aquarium (No. 11 East Yorkshire buses)

For more inspiration of things to do in Scarborough you can check out our other listings