Long Island Aquarium & Exhibition Center (Atlantis Marine World)

This FINtastic destination boasts more than 100 exhibits and interactive experiences, including the Butterflies, Bugs & Birds exhibit, Shark Dive, Penguin Encounter, daily sea lion shows, and more. It’s a great place to visit anytime of the year!...

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    (631) 208-9200

  • Website

    longislandaquarium.com

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    Aquarium

Address

431 E Main St Riverhead , NY 11901 United States

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Comments / 46


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butterflies penguins shark tank tours wildlife fish aquariums exhibits stingrays boat rides pets fields friendly staff
 Keagan

Great place! Plus it's right next to a decent hotel . Nice lil get away from the city ! The animals are amazing! The Piranha looked sinister, like a squad of navy seals waiting to strike!

Keith Petersen

Nice way to spend a day away from the beach . Go early as it gets crowded . If you want to feed the birds, go to that first. Birds very hungry and friendly early in day

NorthForkParents.com

Lots to do and see. Kids will love it! Beware, lots of ways to spend lots of money here from entrance to cafe to gift shop (where you HAVE to exit), fish feedings, arcade , rides...

Lyn Hastings

A little pricey , but a fun time for the family. Loved the butterfly room. Small but lots to do. Shark tank rocked!

Char

Kids love this place! Penguin ???? feeding and seal ???? show were the favorites. Also lots of great big sharks ???? to look at! Butterfly ???? area was also a hit with the kids!

Tanya

Lovely place for a family, kids and everyone who loves animals, it was nice to meet a worker who loves his job n passionate about it.

Karen

Beautiful aquarium . Do not miss the penguin exhibit and the sloths!

Bina P

Such a fun place to go to. Especially on a date! I definitely enjoyed myself. The butterfly and parrot exhibit is a must!

Elvis Torres Delgado

The insects exhibition is awesome. The whole aquarium is great and worth it. The food is expensive and low quality.

Elethia M.

Warm weather is need for parts of Exhibit to get the whole range of the aquarium ... but its a good time overall

Mark Essel

Great couple of hours and fun for kids . Tack on a couple of hours if you go on the marine biology boat tour , just avoid the loud in your face guides... Read more

Nicole Norris

Love the birds and butterfly walk throughs! Great place for young children!

Chris Crystal

Sea Lion show is a great time for the whole family.

Patrick Devine

20,000 gallon coral tank is amazing!

John W

My Son’s wedding..Such a nice place to have a wedding ❤️

Karen Guerriero

Definitely check out the butterflies and the birds! It's an incredible experience!

Elethia M.

Warm weather is need for parts of Exhibit to get the whole range of the aquarium ...

Rei

Petting the stingrays .. best experience !! Or are they manta rays.. oops!!

Liz F

great place, had a lot of fun, but they need leafy seadragons!!

Christopher Capobianco

Shark tank , tours available

shonah

Great place for a wedding! We had the most amazing experience!!

Sophia Jackson

Smelled like fish market and it’s designed looked like something trapped in the 80s definitely not worth no $30 entrance fee, and half the aquarium is outside!!! Even in the winter time ????

Brian Mietlicki

The shark tank is beautiful

Lizzie Borden

Cool NYC attraction

Tracy Boyd

The butterfly exhibit was pretty cool!

Emma Rose

The boat ride is awesome!

Nancy Minero

my daughter is an intern here great place

Andre W

Small... I guess you have no other choices if you are all the way out in Long Island already.

Rebeccah Jansen

This is the best place in the world to go to

Doris k

Japanese spider crab

Allison

Get married here!

Melanie Serrano

This place is a dump . It's filthy and disgusting. The animals look unhappy and sick. You can walk through the entire place in 15 minutes. It's a complete rip off.

John M

Touch pool

Leigh Quindara

This place is so expensive ! It's very nice, but in my opinion not worth it unless you can snag a discount .

Gina

Do the penguin encounter. So worth it.

Joe Mazziliano Sr

Good on a Sunny day also !!!!!!

Tracy Lorenz

Great place to spend a lazy day

Lynn Sladowski

Cute aquarium but overpriced for the amount of exhibits they have

Dennis Beatleboy

Expensive but nice.

Anthony DePal

Great place to bring children on a rainy day.

Justin Zaleski

Very expensive for such a small place.

Melinda Diaz

Don't eat there the food is bad especially for the price. Go online for discount tickets.

Craig Krueger

Visit the penguins .

Jennifer Zichettella

Had a horrible experience with a manager named Trish.. Love the aquarium but she left a horrible impression...

Phil Cheese

I work here

Juliette B

Overpriced, overcrowded, overrated. I would NOT recommend.

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