Sea Life.

Advantages: Educational
Disadvantages: Expensive, 14+ charged as adults etc

...There are four Blue Reef Aquariums located in the UK: ~ Newquay ~ Porstmouth ~ Hastings ~ Tynemouth The latter one is approx 10 minutes drive from where I live. Formerly known as the Sea Life Centre, I've visited a few times on very wet days to amuse the nieces and nephews. - Admission Prices - This isn't cheap! Adult - £7.75 Child (aged 3-14) - £5.75 Senior & Students - £6.75 Family of 4 - £24 Family of 5 - £27.50 There's also an option of becoming an annual member, which I really should contemplate as since it's so nearby, I would probably save quite a bit and use it more often: Adult - £22 Child (age 3 - 14) - £18 Senior & Students - £20 Family of 4 - £65 Additional benefits include: Free Admission for a full year to all Blue Reef Aquariums. £1 off the full admission price...

neenn 07.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Blue Reef Aquarium Tynemouth, North Tyneside

See life at the SEALIFE centre!

Advantages: 2 for 1 offers on a lot
Disadvantages: parking quite high to pay if only staying a morning or afternoon

...Scarborough Sea Life Centre is well worth a visit - we had a 2 for 1 offer from Tesco's and I have recently seen a similar offer on a particular brand of tea bags. I often seen voucher of a similar nature in The Mirror Newspaper and have seen The Sun advertising vouchers of this nature too. Price: It costs £12.95 per adult, £11.95 for concessions, under 5''s go free, and children have a cheaper rate, which I do not remember as it wasn't applicable to our group. (Prices were for October 2008). Parking: We had to pay for 3 hours parking, which was about £3.50. I found this to be quite high, if you only planned to stay at the centre for a few hours. However there is plenty to see and do at the centre and you could easily stay all day. As we'd planned to go somewhere else on this day, it did turn out to be a little expensive and so we...

werewolf 27.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Scarborough Sea Life Centre, North Yorkshire

Besides the sea

Advantages: "We joined the navy to see the world?."
Disadvantages: "And what did we see? We saw the sea." (Irving Berlin)

...? where?s the grandeur or subtlety in that? Beaches need props or surrounding scenery to make them interesting: sea life or rocky outcrops on the foreshore, a backdrop of tangled vegetation or steep slopes behind. The best of all beaches nestle in coves, and you have to pick your way down to them by steep footpaths, catching views from different angles as you descend. This gives you a chance of finding them deserted on arrival too; other people seldom improve the scenic quality of anywhere. If only it were not so absurdly overcrowded, Britain would be a good place to find such beaches ? in Cornwall, for example, and in many places down the west coasts of Scotland and Wales. A family favourite of ours for many years was Druidston Haven in Dyfed, which has a small hotel of great character on the clifftop at which to stay, but no other...

torr 23.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Where is the best sea view?

Life under water at Sea World

Advantages: Alot of shows and cafes
Disadvantages: Only a couple of rides

...and I would recommend anyone who goes in Orlando to go to Sea World, because it's a really good adventure park and you see a lot of wild life etc. I would recommend you to buy the Orlando Flexi Ticket because you get sea world included with it. The car parking is $12 and the Fireworks are the best Fireworks in Orlando! Prices form $30 to $40...

Willylad2K8 30.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Sea World, Orlando

All at sea in the hands of a Doctor

Advantages: Nice light comedy
Disadvantages: The story and most of the film in general

...comedies of the era. This one loses Kenneth More from the cast but holds onto the other big name, Dirk Bogarde, the heartthrob of the era, reprising his role as Simon Sparrow, and finds a new role for the blustering James Robertson Justice. He has changed from being Lancelot Spratt in In The House to Captain Hogg, the ships commander in this one with very little difference to be seen between the two. Doctor At Sea has a number of similar themes to its precursor, medical hilarities, women problems and love still haunt Sparrow's life to a large extent and all of these turn up again. The idea of setting the movie at sea must have seemed like a good one. It gives the writers a radical departure, location and set wise, from the school/hospital tied original and allows them to explore a doctors life from a different direction. Though the limitations...

Ailran 30.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Doctor At Sea (DVD)

So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish

Advantages: I did get to swim with a dolphin, Friendly staff
Disadvantages: Expensive, Small, Poorly maintained, Poor visitor facilities, Conditions for animals not great

...put the opportunity of both of us swimming with wild dolphins out of the question as it would simply stretch our budget to the point where it would prevent us doing some of the other things we had planned for our trip. This was where the Sea Life Park came in, as an option to swim with dolphins that we could afford a bit more easily. "Is This The Way To Waimanalo?" = The Sea Life Park is located on the windward side of O'ahu on Makapu'u point, near the town of Waimanalo. It is easily accessible from the tourist hub of Waikiki via the number 23 bus (which is conveniently marked "sea life park", runs frequently and picks up along Kona Street) and will cost you a mere $2 for the 40 minute journey. If you are driving it, the park is on highway 72 and has a decently sized free car park. I would recommend you...

Collingwood21 02.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sea Life Park, Hawaii

SEA SPRAY FOR MERMAID HAIR

Advantages: non sticky, enhances curls, hair stays soft, good hold
Disadvantages: boring packaging, not a very exciting smell

...When it comes to beauty products, make-up, hair care and the like I am a somewhat fickle individual. I have cupboards full of things I?ve used once or twice but I always seem to find an excuse to buy more. I?m sure when I go shopping for such items the sensible part of my brain just shuts down and I become an advertisers dream, seduced by rows of eye-catching packaging for things I don?t just want but obviously really really need. I bought GHD Sea Spray hairspray at the hairdressers; I find I become especially vulnerable at the hairdressers. It?s bad enough in Boots where I can just pick and choose what I want to buy but in the hairdressers where a plastic pumped, collagen filled botox beauty is persuading me that I simply cannot live without said product, I find it all too easy to give in. I?m sure I am not the only one who just...

coolcam7 29.04.2007 · Read review
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Review of GHD Sea Spray

  (SEA) MONKEY BUSINESS!!!!

Advantages: amusing, entertaining, cheap,
Disadvantages: none really.

...It was my son's Birthday a couple of weeks ago, I was wondering around Toys r us when I came across the educational section, My son loves Science at school so I thought I would buy him something scientific. I saw these Sea Monkeys and thought they looked interesting, I didn't really know too much about them at the time but thought for £6.99 they were the perfect present. What are Sea Monkeys? *************************** Well I wasn't sure myself at first what these things are, but apparently sea monkeys are just tiny eggs in a packet that are kept in suspended animation until you hatch them into the water. They are kept in instant life crystals for years, which preserve their lives until they are ready to be hatched. Sea monkeys have been around since the late 70's but are uncommon. They are a hybrid variety of brine shrimp...

Lynzie 02.09.2005 (22.11.2005) · Read review
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Review of Benjamin Toys Sea Monkeys

An Octopuses Garden By The Sea

Advantages: underwater tunnel
Disadvantages: vastly overpriced

...Deep Sea World in North Queensferry under the iconic Forth Railway Bridge bills itself as Scotland's national aquarium and a fun filled venue for a family day out. The aquarium is easy to reach by car with ample free parking, a nearby railway station and bus service from Dunfermline. The first thing you will have to do when you arrive, depending on the time of year, is queue up for tickets. There are markers at various points along the queue telling you how long until you will reach the door, expect to wait up to an hour at peak times. You queue along the quarry which is supposed to hold seals but was empty the last time I visited. Spending ages in a queue is not the best way to start a visit anywhere and this is one of the many reasons that we do not visit anymore. Once you get inside the first area you come to is a main hall...

wigglylittleworm 19.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Deep Sea World, Edinburgh

See sea holly in flower soon

Advantages: Pretty , attractive to butterflies
Disadvantages: Spikey

...I treated myself to a garden plant this weekend a sea holly, Eryngium bourgatii. This is a very pretty plant with green leaves divided into spikes in a frost pattern. This mound of dark blue/green leaves have silver veins in them. A stout branched stalk will grow up from the leaves to about 60cm. This stalk will have small dense, blue cone shaped flowers these each have a spiky silver blue rosaceous collar of leaf underneath it. This plant is very attractive. The flowers are really a fantastic Oxford blue colour. Eryngium bourgati is a native of Spain,, the Pyrenees and Med coast . It likes chalky sandy soil well drained soil so I hope it will like my Chiltern chalk. The best position for this plant is full sun. It is a perennial frost hardy needs little water so should be simple to look after. I bought my plant for £5...

mumsymary 09.07.2009 (12.07.2009) · Read review
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Review of Sea Holly