Ripley's Aquarium anchors Broadway at the Beach's attraction row, and it has been there long enough — 20-plus years — that this page can show you its evolution: three full tours filmed across four years.
The verdict tour
Carmen and Brian's 2025 film asks the title question directly — is it worth it? — walking every exhibit zone while talking through pricing, the exhibits and the upcharge experiences on top of admission. It works as both a tour and a buying guide, and it is the page's lead for a reason.
What changed
Their sloth-habitat edition tours the aquarium around an opening: the brand-new sloth habitat, with the hosts hoping the animals are out and moving — the mechanism by which the aquarium keeps repeat visitors coming back. Their 2022 full tour is the baseline: the whole aquarium as it stood before the newer habitats, useful precisely because the later films show the difference.
The cluster and the numbers
Ripley's here is a cluster, not one attraction — Aquarium, Mirror Maze and Believe It or Not! Odditorium — per the company's own marketing manager in the Myrtle Moments segment. The numbers-first profile supplies the scale: more than 87,000 square feet, 1.4 million gallons of saltwater moving through 40-plus miles of pipe, thousands of fish — and the hosted tour headlines the Dangerous Reef tank, the shark tunnel you ride through with sharks around you.
Sources: the 6 videos on this page, filmed at Ripley's Aquarium between 2022 and 2025.
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