The Deep, In Hull

[Miss Wiggle]

me and the other half were thinking of a trip over this weekend, is it any good ?

 

[donna123]

hi,
my hubby and 3 kids went last yr, yes it was ok, we were spoilt by going to the sea life centre in plymouth that was awsome, have a good time when you go, all the best donna .

 

[Miss Wiggle]

hmmm plymouth's a bit of a mish for us, thanks tho

 

[SamUK]

id be interested to hear about the deep too.


got the next 2 weeks off and me and siobhan need some places to go!



om a sidenote - my mates call my bedroom the deep lol.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

If we go I'll report back

aye my work mates say I should charge people for coming round, like a public aquarium

 

[SamUK]

that'd be great.

i hope they get to build that NIRA or whateva it was called.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

aye I'm in 2 minds cos of the animal testing, don't know the facts really to make my mind up, but I'm sure it would be amazing to visit

 

[dwarfgourami]

I went to the Deep last year and enjoyed it very much indeed. They've got this tank that sort of goes down several floors, so that you have a shallow reef at the top, then the deep end of it goes right down, with sharks and things at the bottom, and lots of different angles to view the fish from. I've been to Portsmouth, Bournemouth and Hull within the last year, and Hull was definitely the best.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

cool, doesn't look like were going this weekend now, might go for a little trip for my bday in a few weeks

 

[timmystood]

No, I've been twice. I live about an hour from it so to me it's my nearest public aquarium. However, everytime i've been i've been disappointed. It certianly isn't a full day out really, it only last a few hours at most. It's really just one massive tank which grabs your attention for about 30 minutes or so and that's about it (assuming you can see over the tourists heads to look in it!!).

I believe that last time we went we spent more time in the gift shop than the actual aquarium.

 

[dwarfgourami]

No, I've been twice. I live about an hour from it so to me it's my nearest public aquarium. However, everytime i've been i've been disappointed. It certianly isn't a full day out really, it only last a few hours at most. It's really just one massive tank which grabs your attention for about 30 minutes or so and that's about it (assuming you can see over the tourists heads to look in it!!).

I believe that last time we went we spent more time in the gift shop than the actual aquarium.

Perhaps I was lucky or perhaps it's got more boring since I went a year ago. I spent hours watching the cleaner wrasse doing their cleaning and different fish interacting with each other over the reef. It's not just one tank, either: downstairs, they've got quite a few smaller tanks, and a coldwater one or two.

The one that disappointed me was Bournemouth, which sold itself with all these amazing freshwater habitats; but in fact, a lot of the fish didn't look that healthy, and there were some serious mismatches=bullying going on. But maybe I just picked a bad day- as we all know, fishkeepers have them.....

I quite like my local one in Portsmouth; it's not enormous but it always looks well kept.

 

[timmystood]

It sucks in my area, there are none!!

Unless anyone knows of any in the Lincolnshire area!! All we seem to have is seal santuaries! (sp?)

 

[keane]

me and the other half were thinking of a trip over this weekend, is it any good ?

You're much closer to the Blue Planet Aquarium in Ellesmere Port than you are to The Deep in Hull!

steve

 

[Miss Wiggle]

where's ellesmere port when it's at home then?

 

[keane]

where's ellesmere port when it's at home then?

ever heard of Cheshire Oaks? That's in Ellesmere Port.

Junction 11 or 12 off the M53. Only about an hour and a half away from Leeds

steve