Animal Experiences

Ultimate Animal Experience

Here is your chance to have the greatest hands-on ultimate animal experience there is at SeaWorld San Antonio.
This tour is available every day, whether SeaWorld is open or closed to the public.

• Touch Animals
• Feed Animals
• Enter Water/Habitat
• Behind-the-Scenes
• Available when SeaWorld is Closed

Puffin Interaction

Make new feathered friends from the Arctic on this unique and immersive animal experience. Get to know all about alcids before suiting up in our provided parkas and boots.

• Touch Animals
• Feed Animals
• See Animals

Penguin Interaction

Following an educational briefing from one of our educators, you will enter a charming and chilly world where you’ll encounter more than 100 penguins of various types, including the regal king penguin. Join us and enjoy the show as our penguins waddle and swim among the rocky cliffs and icy water of this wonderfully realistic habitat.
This tour is available every day, whether SeaWorld is open or closed to the public.

• Touch Animals
• Enter Water/Habitat
• Available when SeaWorld is Closed
• Behind-the-Scenes

In-Water Sea Lion Interaction

During your interaction, you’ll get to play the role of an animal ambassador in training, interacting with sea lions both in and out of the water.

In-Water Dolphin Interaction

When we nearly doubled the size of our Dolphin Lagoon, we reserved a special area in its shallows for just such once-in-a-lifetime experiences in hopes of inspiring an even deeper understanding and appreciation for these magnificent animals.

• Touch Animals
• Feed Animals
• Enter Water/Habitat

In-Water Dolphin Beach Interaction

Discovery Point's all-new Dolphin Beach has a water depth of 20 inches, and accommodates reservation parties with members at least 48 inches tall. Your entire group will be able participate together in most of the unforgettable elements of the In-Water Dolphin Interaction.

• Touch Animals
• Feed Animals
• Enter Water/Habitat

In-Water Beluga Interaction

Due to habitat improvements at Beluga Stadium in January and February 2022, the Beluga Interaction will be unavailable.

Our SeaWorld San Antonio In-Water Beluga Interaction is one of the only immersive programs of its kind in the world, giving our guests a chance to get to meet these amazing animals up close.

• Touch Animals
• Feed Animals
• Enter Water/Habitat
• Behind-the-Scenes

Beluga Whale Tour

Do you love beluga whales? Join our educators and animal trainers backstage to meet a beluga whale and make an unforgettable connection with these amazing arctic animals.

• Touch Animals
• Behind-the-Scenes

Dolphin Tour

Get an in-depth, insider’s perspective on SeaWorld. Learn how we care for our dolphins both here at the park and out in the field while you soak up some rare opportunities of your own, like touching a dolphin.

• Touch Animals
• Feed Animals
• Behind-the-Scenes

Killer Whale Tour

Find yourself face-to-face with SeaWorld’s awe-inspiring killer whales on this unforgettable tour. Join our trainers as they share personal stories, unique facts about killer whales and discuss world-class care and attention they receive each day.

• Feed Animals

Penguin Tour

Discover what it is like to work and care for amazing penguins on this tour.

• Touch Animals
• Behind-the-Scenes

Sea Lion Tour

Get up-close and personal with happy-go-lucky sea lions, enjoy a meet-and-greet with one of them, and learn about these delightful animals from the trainers who get to work with them every day.

• Touch Animals
• Feed Animals

Shark Tour

Separate fact from fiction as you explore the incredible diversity and design of sharks.

• Touch Animals
• Behind-the-Scenes

Dolphin Encounter

Dolphin Encounter is an exclusive tour with an animal trainer and friendly Bottlenose dolphins at Discovery Point.

• Feed Animals

Animal Ambassador Tour

Go behind the scenes and meet our keepers. There you will encounter a variety of exotic and rescued animals, hear their stories, and get a chance to take photos with them.

• Touch Animals
• Feed Animals
• Behind-the-Scenes

All-Swim Program

On this unforgettable experience, guests will participate in four of our in-water interaction programs: In-Water Dolphin Beach Interaction, In-Water Beluga Whale Interaction, In-Water Sea Lion Interaction, and the Stingray Encounter.
This program is available only on days SeaWorld is not open to the public.

• Touch Animals
• Enter Water/Habitat
• Available when SeaWorld is Closed

Animal Adventure Tour

Visit us for an exclusive look at life behind-the-scenes for the amazing animals that live here.
This tour is available only on days SeaWorld is not open to the public.

• Touch Animals
• Feed Animals
• Available when SeaWorld is Closed
• Behind-the-Scenes

Family Adventure Tour

Begin an adventure where your kids will play to learn about some of the curious animals that call SeaWorld home.

• Touch Animals
• Feed Animals
• Available when SeaWorld is Closed
• Behind-the-Scenes

Stingray Tour

Feed and touch stingrays with an Education Guide at Aquatica, and learn more about these fascinating underwater creatures.