We’re open! Winter the Dolphin and Other Rescued Animals Welcome Guests at Clearwater Marine Aquarium!
Clearwater Marine Aquarium is thrilled to welcome guests back into the world of marine life rescue with improved safety measures!
How We’re Keeping Everyone Safe
CMA is implementing significant additional safety precautions to protect staff, animals, and guests, while ensuring a fun and educational visit with limited guests.
Among the many changes, Clearwater Marine Aquarium will:
- Limit capacity to encourage social distancing
- Use touchless transactions
- Add advanced reservations where guests may select an arrival date and time and purchase admission online prior to visiting
- Place signs and floor decals to promote social distancing
- Install barriers at transaction areas
- Require all CMA personnel to wear face masks
- Implement daily temperature checks for all CMA personnel
- We’re taking safety to the next level! Face coverings will now be required onsite for all guests ages 5 and up visiting CMA. No other exceptions permitted. Show off your fun masks while enjoying all that our facility has to offer! Face coverings must be worn on CMA property except when sitting and eating in our café or when out on a boat excursion and practicing social distancing. Face coverings are defined as a mask, buff or face shield.
How You Can Visit Clearwater Marine Aquarium
Home to rescued animals like Winter the dolphin from the Dolphin Tale movies, Clearwater Marine Aquarium is excited to welcome guests again. We encourage booking advanced reservations online This allows CMA to provide a unique experience, with limited capacity for social distancing, while ensuring the highest standards of cleanliness.
Tickets and Visits
- Due to limits on guest attendance to comply with social distancing guidelines, all guests are encouraged to pre-purchase their tickets online on our website or by calling reservations.
- For a more intimate experience, admission tickets have a scheduled start time. Please choose your visit dates and times carefully.
Arriving and Parking at CMA
- Guesst arriving in personal/rental vehicles are encouraged to pre-pay for parking when booking their visit.
- CMA recommends you arrive with ample time for parking and check-in with our guest services team.
Changes You May Notice
- CMA will be encouraging social distancing in all queue lines and throughout the facility. All CMA personnel will be wearing face masks.
- We’re taking safety to the next level! Face coverings will now be required onsite for all guests ages 5 and up visiting CMA. No other exceptions permitted. Show off your fun masks while enjoying all that our facility has to offer! Face coverings must be worn on CMA property except when sitting and eating in our café or when out on a boat excursion and practicing social distancing. Face coverings are defined as a mask, buff or face shield.
What You Can Expect to See and Enjoy When You Visit CMA
- Ruth & J.O. Stone Dolphin Complex – View Winter, Hope, PJ, Nicholas, and Hemingway in our new complex with numerous breathtaking floor to ceiling underwater windows
- Mavis’s Rescue Hideaway – Underwater viewing area with several rescued sea turtles and other marine life
- More Animal Habitat Areas Upstairs – Explore Otter Oasis, Turtle Cove, Turtle Bayou and Shark Pass
- Rufus Beach – Great white pelican aviary viewing
- Stingray beach – View and safely touch our cownose stingrays
- Marine Animal Hospital – Walk through our working marine animal hospital and see our rescue work in action!
- Dolphin & Wildlife Tour – 60-minute eco-boat tours available with limited capacity
- Our expert animal care team and all CMA staff will be happy to welcome you and answer any questions!
Reopening & Safety Questions and Answers
Tickets are currently available online. Please call reservations if you have any questions or need help booking tickets. 727-441-1790 ext. 0. Tickets are also available on-site, but we recommend booking ahead!
We currently open at 10:00 a.m. and close at 8:00 p.m.
The following admission time slots are available:
10 am
11 am
12 pm
1 pm
2 pm
3 pm
4 pm
5 pm
6 pm
7 pm
Yes, please call Reservations at 727-441-1790, ext 0. Be sure to bring a photo ID as your reservation will be under your last name. Or, you can make reservations online here.
CMA Members can reserve their admission tickets and select time slots and visit dates starting by selecting the Member Visit ticket online. Please call 727-441-1790 ext. 0 if you have any questions.
Our boat rides are educational and fun – and yes, our new 60-minute Dolphin and Wildlife Tour is running. You can check the available schedule online.
Educational presentations will be available throughout the day. Schedules may vary. Please check times and locations posted on digital signage when you arrive.
You will have great views of our dolphins, otters and sea turtles! And don’t forget our great white pelicans! Some animal interaction programs are temporarily unavailable. Our Shark Care Experience is now available on certain days. Stingray feeding is also available every day!
Due to enhanced safety and cleanliness standards, wheelchairs and strollers will not be available at our facility. Guests are welcome to bring their own and we strongly encourage all to thoroughly sanitize wheelchairs and strollers before entering Clearwater Marine Aquarium.
Yes, we have increased the number of hand sanitizing stations available to guests throughout our facility.
To ensure the best guest experience while maintaining social distancing guidelines, we will be limiting the number of guests into CMA.
All CMA personnel are required to wear face masks.
Yes, Summer Camps are still on at CMA! We are limiting capacity to 10 people in each classroom to allow for social distancing. Camps will occur in the morning starting at 8:30 am.
A limited menu of pre-packaged food items and beverages will be available for purchase onsite.
All CMA personnel are performing daily temperature checks. Campers are also required to have their temperature checked daily. Guests will not be required to get their temperature taken.
At this time all shuttle operations are suspended.
Our animals will be visible and can’t wait to see you!
CMA is honored to recognize the efforts of first responders, active military, and teachers by allowing them free entry to Clearwater Marine Aquarium with Appreciation Admission that can be reserved online. Please see our other seasonal special offers. No third-party promotions or discounts will be valid during this time.
Please call reservations to book any visits with tickets you have purchased from CityPass, Expedia or other ticket providers. These tickets will not be redeemable on-site. Call 727-441-1790 ext. 0.
If you have any other questions or need to modify your visit plans, please contact our call center at 727-441-1790 ext. 0. We will try to respond as quickly as possible!