Coral World Ocean Park Review

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Coral World Ocean Park

  • Address: Coki Point, north of Rte. 38, Estate Frydendal, St. Thomas
  • Phone: 340/775-1555
  • www.coralworldvi.com

Fodor's Review:

This interactive aquarium and water-sports center lets you experience a variety of sea life and other animals. The park has several outdoor pools where you can pet baby sharks, feed stingrays, touch starfish, and view endangered sea turtles. There's also a walk-through aviary where colorful rainbow lorikeets might drink nectar from your hands. Other activities include the Sea Trek Helmet Dive that lets you walk along an underwater trail with a high-tech helmet that provides a continuous supply of air. A Shark Encounter program lets you observe juvenile sharks as they swim around you. A sea lion pool, which opened in 2007, is where you can get a big, wet, whiskered kiss. Also in 2007 the lorikeet exhibit opened. Buy a cup of nectar for $2 and let these parrot-look-alikes perch on your hand and drink. Coral World also has an offshore underwater observatory, an 80,000-gallon coral reef exhibit (one of the largest in the world), and a nature trail full of lush tropical flowers, ducks, and tortoises. Daily feedings take place at most exhibits.

  • Cost: $18, Sea Lion Splash $99, Sea Trek $68, Shark Encounter $43
  • Open: Daily 9-5
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