One of the best choices to do in San Francisco with kids!
Review by: Boris S, October 2017
Amazing experience for kids and adults
Review by: Johnvass, August 2017
A wonderful museum full of interesting exhibits. We spent several hours there and were never bored. We particularly liked the eco dome and the planetarium show and the earthquake experience.
Review by: Sharon H, August 2017
We went early in the morning on a quiet day, no real queues and plenty of space to look and enjoy the wide variety of exhibitions. Favourites included Claude the albino alligator, the aquarium and the shake house in the Earthquake exhibition. I'm giving it four stars though because as it reached midday, it did get much busier and it became a bit trickier to enjoy time when everyone around wanted to see same thing. The restaurant was confusing with multiple queues for different food counters, drinks kept in a different place and another queue for cashiers, some of whom didn't take cash payments. I mention this just for advice on planning when to go and best to bring a packed lunch to enjoy in garden.
Review by: diane.connelly, August 2017
Tried to do two tours in one day, Didn't get to tour the whole tour as the tour ended at 5:00 P.M. Will try to take the tour again
Review by: diane.connelly, July 2017
Tried to do two tours in one day, Didn't get to tour the whole tour as the tour ended at 5:00 P.M. Will try to take the tour again
Review by: Michael K, July 2017
Very cool place for families. An the museum across from the Academy is superb!
Review by: Catalina C, June 2017
This tour was amazing!
Review by: Alex S, June 2017
In general it was ok, but... statement skip the line is NOT true. First when we came we stood in line to get in, but they said they cannot let me in because I need print out of tickets. So we had to wait in another line, wait for tickets to be printed and then go again in other line to show those tickets to eventually get in. So i really didn't see any advantage using Viator. And the worse of all employees of academy of sciensces were saying to viator not to tell skip the line but they still do, so it looks like they lie to people just to get more customers
Review by: Maureen, June 2017
The Academy itself was amazing, so worthwhile and no problems there. It was the Skip the Line component. There was no Skip the Line, I couldn't get my ticket to scan and the entry staff said they hadn't heard of this offer. Had to queue at ticket box same as everyone else. Don't offer what can't be delivered.
Review by: Jill M, June 2017
There was no such thing as skip the line. I still had to get in line and obtain a ticket after presenting my Viator printout. Viator should advise that they are not anything to do with California Academy of Science that Viator is simply a third party. My experience with Viator was horrible. I should have purchased admission for myself and my 4 year old grandson directly from California Academy of Sciences. The exhibits were fantastic and Eduardo from California Academy of Science was wonderful, sympathetic and very helpful considering the mess Viator caused me. I was on the phone with Viator for 40 minutes, on hold listening to violin music then I heard a couple of clicks and someone from California Academy of Sciences had me re-explain what had taken place. I am thankful Eduardo got involved since no one from Viator even tried to call me back after they dropped me from hold. A total nightmare just trying to buy two admissions via the internet with the hope of skipping the lines for a one day admission.
Review by: dawneysue1, May 2017
The California Academy of Science was enjoyable. We seen them feeding the Penguin which they talked about what they feed them and other interesting things. The rain forest was need they had butterflies flying all around. There was other interesting things to see there also. _br/_ The only complaint is that skip the line, we still had to get in the ticket line because they would not accept the voucher we had.
Review by: shughes, May 2017
This is a great way to skip the line for tickets, though when we went there wasn't a line, and you still have to wait in a shorter line to exchange the voucher at member services.
Review by: Richard C, May 2017
It was a horrible experience! first they won't allow you to skip the line, then they will let you queue to a long line to confirm your tickets, next they don't recognize the vouchers by viator so they will ask you to send them the email confirmation of viator so they could print the tickets... it would have been much easier to go there and purchase the ticket at site as the price is just the same...
Review by: Claire P, May 2017
It was ok but not as good as we expected. The aquarium was not as good as led to believe and we had such a short time in SF and I would have preferred to use this day in a different way._br/_ The ticket is also misleading as I bought it as a 'skip the line' ticket and still had to stand in the line to get a ticket from the gate before we could get in the doors.
Review by: Lori B, April 2017
I would not choose this tour again. We did the skip the line so we wouldn't have to wait in the line. When we arrived, we went straight to the door and waited in that line which was much shorter. As we were waiting, a busload of people came and got in the regular line. When we got to the front of the line at the door, they refused our entry and made us go and get into the regular line. So then we waited in THAT line. After we got to the front they reissued our tickets and so we went and got into the door line again. We were not impressed at all. My recomendation is to skip the Skip the Line tickets and just go get in line.
Review by: Lori T, March 2017
Skip the Line: California Academy of Sciences General Admission Ticket--This is misleading. You do not skip the line. You will NOT be admitted with this voucher. Please proceed to the ticket counter and they will issue you a ticket and then you may proceed to the entrance where a nice lady will scan your ticket. I didn't check what the prices were at the counter so can't comment on the prices. The activity itself was great. We spent about 5 hours there, but only because we were waiting for the penguin feeding. Parking is very expensive in the paid parking lot but worth it if you have little children and can't spend half the day looking for curbside parking and then lugging your family up a hill to the Academy of Sciences.
Review by: James King-Min H, December 2016
Check in was quick, easy and smooth. Everywhere we went help was available, friendly and thorough.
Review by: Rachael M, December 2016
Really amazing -- so many different things to see and do. The shake shack as my daughter calls it was the best because it gave you a real feel for the earthquake pun intended. My husband's favorite was the biosphere and mine was the planetarium!!
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