Aqua Natura is owned by Terra Natura, the zoo park, and is located nextdoor to this parent park. As a water park, Aqua Natura is a separate entity from the zoo park, with separate admission, separate parking lot, and requires different attire. We visited on one of the first days open for the 2026 season. Only a handful of crazy tourists were there, braving the cold water on an overcast day. None of the water is heated but somehow my family was able to focus on the fun of the slides over the temperature. The highlight of our visit was swimming with sea lions. It was an AMAZING experience! My son absolutely LOVED every minute of getting to know the 3 sea lions (Charlie, Tino, and Joe) and swimming with two of them. Rowland and Petra run the sea lion program. Rowland is in the water with you and is a very kind compassionate trainer. He's as good with kids as he is with animals, patient and gentle. Sea lion Joe is blind, and sea lion Charlie likes to bark a lot, which is loud but fun. Your swim is supposed to last a half hour, but since it was the first day they offered this for the season and no one else had an appointment, we got some extra time. They give you a wetsuit (my son had one but he needed a thicker one because the water was cold) and booties. You get in the water with Rowland and get acquainted with the sea lions. Aqua Natura has 2 professional photographers there taking photos, getting shots of you patting, hugging, and being licked by the sea lions. Rowland gives the sea lions a few fish and has them do a few tricks. Soon he has you holding their necks as they swim around the pool with you riding on their backs! He also has you swim out a ways and shout, "Help me! Help me!" and a sea lion will come to your rescue and tow you back to the shallows! As a mom, I was nervous about my kid in the water with huge heavy strong animals. I was put at ease when I met them and Rowland, and I was able to relax and enjoy watching and photographing my son having a ball with them. Petra did make sure to offer a life vest which we definitely used for safety and I think that made all of us feel safer. This was one of the best experiences of my son's life and I know he will ALWAYS remember it. Thank you Rowland, Petra, and Tino, Charlie and Joe! :-) As of the 2026 season, it was €65 for very early season sea lions swim, plus admission for each of us €20,50 adultos / €17,50 ninos, plus €7 parking (for which we never got/needed a ticket nor receipt and for which no one ever checked). The experience was over €130 ($150 US) and we didn't even stay half a day, but it was worth it for my kid to have an amazing animal encounter. The park was clean and well laid out, with six big slides available pretty much immediately as you entered. It is not a large water park by US standards, but I definitely prefer it that way for cleanliness and to avoid crowds. Going in the early season was the best as we virtually had it to ourselves! I will add one negative which was pretty frustrating (but the animal experience was still 5+ stars): The photographer photos usually go to a computerized print machine in the photo center by the gift shop. There, you select your pictures and size/quantity of prints. The machine was broken the day we were there and they kept assuring us it would be fixed by 2pm. We wanted to leave by 1:30pm but waited because we wanted photos. 2pm came and went and they hadn't fixed it. We left really annoyed at losing sightseeing time and for nothing because they never fixed the machine! It would make a lot more sense to sell digital copies of these pictures. I would never prefer a printed glossy-sheet photo to a digital that I could have printed on canvas or made into a custom tee/mug/etc. In the year 2026 they ought to rethink their business model for photos. They obviously invest a lot in their photographers, so why not make a contemporary product useful to today's families (travelers, especially)? Just send the files to email upon payment and stop wasting time with the outdated (broken) printing machines! read more

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