Atlanta Aquarium - not worth the hype

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Jace

Wow, what a HUGE disappointment that was

We went Saturday with my parents and 10 year old niece....what a HUGE let down that place is. It is almost like they built this huge concrete structure and put some windows in here and there to let you look through to see some fish

I have been to 3 other aquariums and this was by far the most poorly laid out one I have been to.

Whoever said you can't see the whole place in one day is obviously walking a step every 10 minutes, it was PACKED in there and we could barely move and we saw the whole place in under 2 hours

There were 3 places that were huge walls of glass/window that showed you enormous views, but even those were not all that impressive.

while Atlanta may have the largest aquarium in the world, they sure did a poor job of showing it to you.....even the penguins, sea lions and otters exhibits were just piss poor

The documentary we saw on PBS about the aquarium was actually better than the aquarium itself.....the ads and tv specials we have seen on the aquarium made it seem 10x bigger than it actually was

I took about 230 pics though, as soon as I go through and delete out the crap ones I will post and show you everything in there.

the beluga whales were beautiful though, and they seemed SOOOOO happy, they were nice to watch

Dunno what you were expecting, but I rather enjoyed it....

Only thing I dont like about it is the crowding....and worse yet crowded with old people and kids which makes traffic flow a bit of a nightmare.

I wanna go back sometime soon with a real camera. Last time I was there I didn't wanna pack a D-SLR, so I just had my handy little Elph with me. It's excellent for snapshots, but it was completely overmatched by the lighting, motion and reflections.