Mandalay Bay's Shark Reef celebrates 6 years with $6 tickets

Photo by Linda and William Nevison

Mandalay Bay’s Shark Reef celebrates its 6th year anniversary with a slashing… of prices, that is.

For the rest of the summer and through Sept. 3, tickets to see the fishies are only $6 after 6 p.m. (last admission is at 10 p.m.).

Regular admission is $15.95 for adults, children 5-12 are $10.95, and children under 5 are free.

If you’re driving, park at the southern most entrance to Mandalay. That’ll save you a mile of walking through the casino.

Get engulfed with this 90,000 square-foot, 1.6 million gallon aquarium containing over 2,000 sea creatures including poker players, sea turtles, piranha, brilliantly colored exotic fish, and rare golden crocodiles that lay golden eggs (kidding about that last part, but bring your Easter basket just in case). Oh yeah, there are also more than 200 sharks than you want to shake a stick at.

That stick would be the audio wand each visitor receives, which gives a personal walking tour through the aquarium at your own speed. Each exhibit contains a number, which can be keyed into the wand to hear pre-recorded audio about the fishies.

Don’t forget to stop by the touch pool, where you’ll get to feel up manta rays, baby sharks, and horseshoe crabs. Just don’t take it too far: employees are off-limits.

As you dive deeper and deeper into the aquarium, the final exhibit puts you at the bottom of a sunken ship, with sharks swimming all around you& above, around, and even beneath your feet. All separated by glass, thankfully.

Even after six years, I still enjoy taking a break from the 115-degree heat (forecasted for this weekend) and popping into the tranquility of the Shark Reef.

Mandalay Bay's Shark Reef celebrates 6 years with $6 tickets

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