📌 St Andrews, Fife
★★★★
🛠️ Seals currently re-homed due to storm damage to their enclosure (see below), but rest of attraction open (checked June 2025)
What do you think of when somebody mentions St Andrews? Historic university town? The home of golf? Probably not its excellent aquarium, housed in unpromising coastal buildings north of the town centre. The display areas are bigger on the inside than they appear from the outside, with seals, penguins, reptiles and meerkats just some of the larger additions as well as dozens of pools and tanks for various fish. All-in-all, an excellent option for the sort of day when staying outdoors would make you as wet as the creatures indoors. Storms in 2023 damaged the seal enclosure resulting in their temporary re-homing, but plans have subsequently been announced for major building resulting in a much larger attraction – good news!
🌍 Location
📌 The Scores, 5-min walk northwest of St Andrews town centre
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NO 507171
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 56.343686,-2.799884
🚌 Bus to St Andrews
🚗 Car park (seasonal charge) & street parking nearby
📝 Key info
⌚ Daily
🎫 £16 adult / £13 child
