To ensure the best possible guest experience, hourly capacities are limited. We strongly recommend purchasing your tickets or making your reservations in advance to ensure you get to visit on your preferred date and entry time. Popular days and times do sell out. If you wait to purchase tickets at walk-up, you may need to wait hours for the next available entry time or find there is no remaining ticket availability.
With Plan-Ahead Pricing, the further in advance you purchase your tickets, the more you save. Get tickets HERE.
Annual Passholders or Members and undated ticket holders can make reservations HERE.
A reopening date for I-471 south at the Ohio River has not been identified. I-471 North is open with lane closures. These closures and bridge repairs over the next few weeks may impact your travel to Newport Aquarium.
We recommend that you plan extra time for your journey and use GPS navigation for the best alternative route to Newport Aquarium.
If you have any questions, please call 1-800-406-3474 and we’d be happy to help!
Dive into the ultimate virtual reality experience with Undersea Explorer! Get closer than ever before to incredible ocean animals like sharks and whales and explore their underwater world. Sit in a cinema motion seat pod, put on your 4K VR headset with a 360° field of vision and enjoy an unbelievable ocean journey!
Tickets for your Undersea Explorer experience can be purchased at any ticket window or at the kiosk in Penguin Palooza on the day of your visit.
Journey to the mythical Tiger Beach – an underwater strip where some of the world’s largest sharks gather, including apex predator tiger sharks.
Swim alongside Humpback Whale moms and their calves and witness a female giving birth, young whales playing and more in this breath-taking adventure.