Poema del Mar aquarium tickets, Las Palmas

Poema del Mar is the aquarium of the Loro Parque group, the company behind Loro Parque on Tenerife, and it opened to the public on 8 January 2018 on the Sanapú pier in the Port of Las Palmas, a few hundred metres from Las Canteras beach. The aquarium says it holds more than 550 animal species and over 9 million litres of water, in 35 marine and river ecosystems laid out in three zones: the Jungle, the Tropical zone and the Deep Ocean. The name comes from a series of paintings by the Gran Canaria artist Néstor de la Torre, which hangs in the aquarium's restaurant.

The route starts in the Jungle, with freshwater rivers, a cenote, crocodiles, piranhas, a pig-nosed turtle and the giant fish of the Amazon and Mississippi, among palms and plants that the aquarium says come from Africa, Asia and Australia. The Tropical zone follows: clownfish, jellyfish and seahorses, mangroves, the Red Sea and Arrecife, a glass cylinder of more than 400,000 litres of coral reef that you walk around. El Veril gathers the fish of the Canary Islands, from moray eels to parrotfish.

The Deep Ocean is the finale. Sharks, among them bull sharks, sand tiger sharks and zebra sharks, swim with rays, groupers and a loggerhead turtle in one great tank that you see three ways: through portholes, from a 360 degree viewing dome, and through the curved window. The aquarium gives the window as 36 metres long, 7 metres high and more than 250 square metres, and calls it the largest curved aquarium window in the world. The Néstor Restaurant looks into the same tank, and the Nemo Snack Bar sits by the Arrecife cylinder.

The ticket is a day visit for a timed entry. On the aquarium's own booking page, read on 6 November 2026, entry slots ran on the hour from 09:30 to 15:30, and the aquarium is open every day of the year from 09:30 to 17:30. Wi-Fi is free throughout, flash photography is not allowed anywhere, and the GetYourGuide listing marks the visit as wheelchair accessible.

The price is the same as the aquarium's own: an adult ticket was 29 euros on GetYourGuide and on poema-del-mar.com on 6 November 2026. The difference is the small print. The aquarium's own terms say its tickets are non-refundable, while this one can be cancelled free up to 24 hours before, which matters for a visit you may want to keep for a grey day. It was rated 4.8 from about 4,600 reviews on GetYourGuide, where it was marked a bestseller. Two groups should buy direct: Canary Islands residents, who paid 19 euros for an adult and 13.50 for a child aged 3 to 11 against a document check at the door, and anyone who wants the aquarium's Annual Pass or Photo Pack.

Staying in the south without a car, the Skip-the-Line Entrance and Transport to Poema del Mar ticket adds a hotel pickup and return for 55 euros, rated 4.7 from 30 reviews and about 5.5 hours in all. For animals as well as fish, the island's two zoos are in the south: Palmitos Park, our animal park page, with its bird and dolphin shows, from 39 euros and rated 4.7 from about 1,900 reviews, and Cocodrilo Park in Agüimes, from 13 euros and rated 4.6 from about 1,400. On a clear day near Puerto de Mogán, our submarine page shows the island's real seabed instead. In Las Palmas, our Vegueta and Triana walk with tapas fills the other half of a city day.