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    Explorer's Reef

    4.1 (7 reviews)

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    Marcus F.

    First impressions mean everything and the Explorer's Reef makes a good one. Skin nibbling fish, horseshoe crabs, and bamboo sharks are all part of this interactive exhibit. Hands and shirt sleeves will get wet and sometimes a kids shirts. There do have hand washing stations. Warning!! You don't have to worry about any of the animals in this reef, but you will have to watch out for schools of ASS-CRACK! More prevalent during the warmer summer months.. Be safe out there!

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    Akiko I.

    - Locale Destination - It's in Sea World, San Diego. It's right by the park entrance, right after you past the first shopping area. - Gluttony Expedition - Even the first exhibit you see in Sea World isn't a half ass! This is so fun! You can touch several ocean creatures - including "cleaner fish". You put your hand into the water and hold still. "Cleaner fish" will swarm up on your hands and clean up your dead skins. Very tickle yet fun!! There's a washing station for this type of "touching the creature" exhibits - you can wash your hands after you touch the creatures! *** FYI *** "Fish Spa" (put your feet into the tab full of these fish, then the fish would eat off your dead skins to clean your feet) is getting the popularity lately. I thought it was in Korean only, yet even UK got the popularity. However, the risk of infection recently caused 14 US states to ban fish spas. A customer steps into the spa water and if, unfortunately, he or she happens to have an infectious wound, the infection can definitely spread to other people who step into that very same spa tank. It doesn't necessarily work, but it's kinda fun and weird way to clean your feet off ;p - Conqueror's Deduction - It's fun to be able to touch the ocean creatures. Especially "cleaner fish" was lots of fun!

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    Belmont Park is one of those iconic beach places that you see on TV and movies and you're like is…read moreit really like that? Yes, yes it is! We picked mission beach specifically to ride the 100 or old roller coaster and we wrre not disappointed. It was $16 for us both to ride 1x each and it was fun. Its old. Its wooden. It creaks. It is worth it! Other attractions at BP looked neat but we specifically came for the coaster. There are tons of food options and some are sut down, some are fast food. Great date day!

    Where do I start? I show up to purchase wristbands for myself and my 10-year-old and the cashier…read morewas very aggressive and intimidating. He shouted out the total for two wristbands and I let him know there was a different price online. He shouted out to purchase the wristbands online for that price. I walked away purchased the wristbands went back to pick up the physical wristbands. He scanned the barcode and put the wristbands on our wrist. And then with a smile said the list of rides that were closed. And then said " we are short staffed and due to that we do not have employees at the rides once they get here at 12:30 then you'll be able to get on the rides" I looked at my 10-year-old and said OK we'll go walk the beach and get a bite to eat until they open up. Guess what the staff never got there! Honestly, he thought it was funny when he told me that we weren't going to be able to get on rides until the other staff got there. There were a few rides like the mini dipper and the carousel. But who buys wristbands to get on a couple rides and then get on the bumper cart. If that's the case then I would've just bought individual tickets. LET YOUR GUEST KNOW AHEAD OF TIME IF YOU ARE SHORT STAFFED AND THE PARK WILL NOT BE RUNNING AS USUAL!! I had to keep looking for staff to let us on rides and then even then I wasn't able to get on every ride. I paid for a wrist band for myself and my daughter thinking that we were going to be able to enjoy the day but we were not. I do want to point out that I'm a single mom and low income and this was supposed to be something amazing for us. $100 to Belmont Park is absolutely nothing but for me it is. And just FYI, I a lot of people kept leaving the park upset. But for them, they didn't purchase wristbands. We waited till after 5 PM hoping that as the shift changed employees would come and open up all of the rides, but that never happened. I was hoping to get my money back for the wristband, but because the employee at the counter was so aggressive I was honestly afraid to go up and ask for a refund. I'm hoping Belmont Park will make this right and provide my daughter and I with an opportunity to return to Belmont Park at no charge to us and be able to get on the rides.

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