ADD A PENGUIN ENCOUNTER TO YOUR EXPERIENCE!
VIP Penguin Experience
Ten people maximum allowed
Cost: $89.99 per person (Admission not included)
What’s included:
- Penguin Encounter
- Learn from our Aquarium staff expert in this 30-minute encounter
- Touch a penguin
- Penguin Painting Experience – Take home an 8×10 penguin painting you helped create
- Must be 4 years or older to participate
- Children ages 8 and under must be accompanied by a participating paid adult
- All participants and accompanying adults must purchase tickets for the encounter
The Penguin Encounter is an add-on to your Aquarium ticket, and does not include admission to the Aquarium.
On the day of your Experience, please check in at Guest Services 20 minutes prior to your scheduled time.
Penguin Encounter
Ten people maximum allowed
Cost: $69.99 per person (Admission not included)
Annual Passholder discount: 15% off (On Penguin Encounter only)
What’s included:
- Learn from our Aquarium staff expert in this 30-minute encounter
- Touch a penguin
- Must be 4 years or older to participate
- Children ages 8 and under must be accompanied by a participating paid adult
- All participants and accompanying adults must purchase tickets for the encounter
The Penguin Encounter is an add-on to your Aquarium ticket, and does not include admission to the Aquarium.
On the day of your Experience, please check in at Guest Services 20 minutes prior to your scheduled time.
RIPLEY’S LARGEST EXPANSION
Ripley’s Penguin Playhouse
The 5,500-square-foot expansion is the largest in Ripley’s Aquarium of Myrtle Beach’s 20-year history. This new addition includes a brand-new Ocean Wonders gallery with eight new tanks, housing awesome new species of fish from all over the world. Two new state-of-the-art classrooms for programs and school groups allow guests to get up close and personal with these extraordinary birds. These unique experiences lead up to our world-class penguin habitat, with floor-to-ceiling viewing glass more than 50 feet long and a 360-degree crawl tunnel for guests to waddle through and immerse themselves. Stop in to view the penguin nursery, which will house and care for baby penguins. Don’t miss this exciting new exhibit!
Ripley’s Penguin Playhouse
The 5,500-square-foot expansion is the largest in Ripley’s Aquarium of Myrtle Beach’s 20-year history. This new addition includes a brand-new Ocean Wonders gallery with eight new tanks, housing awesome new species of fish from all over the world. Two new state-of-the-art classrooms for programs and school groups allow guests to get up close and personal with these extraordinary birds. These unique experiences lead up to our world-class penguin habitat, with floor-to-ceiling viewing glass more than 50 feet long and a 360-degree crawl tunnel for guests to waddle through and immerse themselves. Stop in to view the penguin nursery, which will house and care for baby penguins. Don’t miss this exciting new exhibit!
African Penguin (Spheniscus Demersus)
Dressed for a night on the town sporting their black-and-white plumage, the African penguin is the only species of penguin found on the African continent. Preferring warmer water temperatures unlike their Antarctic counterparts, their unique black stripes and spots serve as their identification, similar to a human fingerprint. Also known as the black-footed penguin, this species is one of the most endangered penguins in the world—numbers have declined by 60 percent in the last 28 years. Welcoming Ripley’s new colony in 2020 is just the beginning of conservation efforts and a growing flock, helping people learn about these vulnerable creatures.
African Penguin (Spheniscus Demersus)
Dressed for a night on the town sporting their black-and-white plumage, the African penguin is the only species of penguin found on the African continent. Preferring warmer water temperatures unlike their Antarctic counterparts, their unique black stripes and spots serve as their identification, similar to a human fingerprint. Also known as the black-footed penguin, this species is one of the most endangered penguins in the world—numbers have declined by 60 percent in the last 28 years. Welcoming Ripley’s new colony in 2020 is just the beginning of conservation efforts and a growing flock, helping people learn about these vulnerable creatures.
Ripley’s Aquarium of Myrtle Beach
Ripley’s Aquarium opened in Myrtle Beach in 1997 and boasts more than 14,000 fish on display as well as many interactive experiences. You can pet a jelly, stingray, or bamboo shark, hold a horseshoe crab, and enjoy hourly dive shows. One featured exhibit is the 750,000-gallon Dangerous Reef where you can ride a 330-foot glidepath through the tunnel and come face-to-face with huge, deadly sharks, 11-foot sawfish, and Gabby the Green Sea Turtle.
Ripley’s Aquarium of Myrtle Beach
Ripley’s Aquarium opened in Myrtle Beach in 1997 and boasts more than 14,000 fish on display as well as many interactive experiences. You can pet a jelly, stingray, or bamboo shark, hold a horseshoe crab, and enjoy hourly dive shows. One featured exhibit is the 750,000-gallon Dangerous Reef where you can ride a 330-foot glidepath through the tunnel and come face-to-face with huge, deadly sharks, 11-foot sawfish, and Gabby the Green Sea Turtle.
