The Blue Planet

by Alan Cole · Published Monday, August 25th, 2008 · Updated Monday, August 25th, 2008

Unusually for us we decided to conform to the norm and have a couple of days away during a Bank Holiday weekend!

We drove up to the Blue Planet in Liverpool on Friday morning. Morgan’s travel sickness seems to be coming on in leaps and bounds so it took a little longer and quite a few changes of clothes to get there than normal but it isn’t to bad a drive.

It isn’t cheapt to get into the Blue Planet but we had booked into a Premier Inn for the night and got a free child ticket with that and the prics compare to most other attractions. I have to admit that I wasn’t that impressed to start, but I did used to work in an aquarium so I guess I was expecting a little more from the tanks in such a large aquarium. The big shark tank did of course impress though and that is really what it is all about. The ‘show’ was a little corny but the tank itself and the fish were pretty impressive. Thankfully it wasn’t too busy so (when not chasing Morgan around) we were able to take our time and have a good look. We bumped into a friend of Morgans which was good as they seemed to enjoy each others company and when we ask him what was the best thing about the Blue Planet he says it was seeing his friend there!

After a little play in the playground and some lunch we had another quick circuit around the tanks before heading off to find a chemist and some travel sickness tablets for Morgan and our hotel for the night.

Overall the Blue Planet was good. I still think it is quite expensive and I think the smaller tanks could be a lot better than they are as they just feel like padding for the main attraction of the Shark Tank.