Cairns Aquarium Admission: Enjoy Turtle Hospital Tour & Meet Rescued Sea Turtles

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Immerse yourself in the world of sea turtles at Cairns Aquarium. Take a guided tour of the Turtle Hospital, meet rescued turtles, and learn about the threats they face. Admission included.

Duration: 3 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Cairns Aquarium - The Cairns Aquarium showcases over 16,000 Great Barrtier Reef and Tropical Rainforest fish and aquatic creatures within 71 living habitats and 10 Tropical North Queensland ecosytems for visitors to explore and enjoy. Take a 30 minute guided tour behind the scenes to visit the Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre.

What's Included

General Admission Entry
Turtle Hospital Tour

Additional Information

Meet our rescued turtles, and learn all about the threats and dangers Australia’s six species of sea turtles face in a guided Turtle Hospital Tour.
The Cairns Turtle Rehabilitation Centre, located at Cairns Aquarium, is a Not-for-Profit, volunteer run, charitable entity, caring for rescued sea turtles.
Guests are taken on an exclusive tour of the onsite…

Location

Cairns Aquarium

5 Florence Street

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Sochi12

Nov 3, 2024

Not to be missed - Wonderful place. The tanks were clean, and the animals looked healthy. There was a good amount of seating for the larger tanks. Good signage and information panels. We paid to do the turtle hospital and it was 100% better than the fitzroy island. It looked cleaner, the people were knowledgeable, and the whole experience was pleasant.

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Dave

Oct 13, 2024

Awesome experience ! Brilliant commentary and staff! - Brett and the team made our daughter Rosie’s birthday the most magical day. Such a great experience for the whole family

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Stace5112

Sep 20, 2024

A fabulous experience☺️ - What an amazing aquarium!! We loved this experience, especially the Turtle Rehab tour. Such lovely, knowledgeable, passionate staff, Also the various talks about the different environments, rainforest, reef, saltwater and freshwater. What we thought would take a couple of hours ended up being nearly 4 hours . Fantastic!! 🥰

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Natalie_l

Sep 4, 2024

Fun and educational - Fun trip to this aquarium. It was great to learn about the ecosystems and animals of this area. The turtle rehab center was cool because you could see these beautiful creatures up close. Would definitely recommend.

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Michel_a

Aug 28, 2024

an excellent time - what a lovely time so many thing to see and still learning even at age .just wish we did have more time

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Hakkiriikkis

Aug 27, 2024

Amazing, start your trip here! - Tip: start your visit to Cairns from here! This is more than just an aquarium, you get so much information about the reef and the rainforest, so it is better to come here first and learn and then go to Daintree rainforest and the great barrier reef. The whole place is just amazing! Also definitely book the turtle hospital tour. The money goes towards helping the turtles so it is a good cause, and it is amazing to see the turtles so close! We took the turtle hospital tour with Genevieve, and she was amazing. You could tell she loves her job, she was so passionate about the turtles and educating people about them. I really feel that everyone visiting Cairns should go on the turtle hospital tour.

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Julie_s

Jul 30, 2024

Great - Just to find out more about what they do for the animals and that they are helping and that the only money they get is from this

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Catb_99

Jul 13, 2024

Fabulous aquarium - This is an absolutely fabulous aquarium and we have been to quite a few! We arrived for opening at 9.30am and spent around 2 hours walking through. We listened to one of the talks but for the rest of the time the signs provide plenty of interesting information. If you wanted to, the talks are scheduled at sensible times and in the correct order that you could listen to them all. The children loved it, a few interactive exhibits - all of which actually worked! And a range of tanks from tiny seahorses to enormous deep reef, predator and freshwater tanks. We went out for lunch then came back for our turtle tour. This was a 15 minute or so presentation about sea turtles and the rescue and rehabilitation work they do. Then we got to feed some lettuce to one of the resident green turtles and see all three of the turtles that they currently have. The guide was very knowledgeable and helpful.

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Gazzawb

Jul 26, 2024

Good variety of sea life on show - Great variety of sea life on show. And a chance to you j star fish. The Turtle rehabilitation tour was very informative but better viewing of turtles is required. Coffee shop was closed.

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Mitali_s

Jul 17, 2024

Great seeing turtles up close - The presentation at the turtle hospital (more of a room than a hospital) was informative and it was incredible to see a turtle from up close. The aquarium experience was slightly underwhelming, possibly because we have visited multiple aquariums from across the world. Would recommend as an activity to some time in Cairns.

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up to 15 guests

1 Adult