SeaWorld Adventure Park Orlando  Shamu and friends are spectacular as always. Get there early to enjoy the pre-show fun on the giant video screen and for boring parents to secure a seat outside the splash zone! Shamu Adventure is featured during the day and Shamu Rocks America lights up the night. Both are excellent.

Key West at SeaWorld is home to Stingray Lagoon and Dolphin Cove - both are very hands-on so look out for posted feeding times. (You buy their fish to feed their dolphins and nobody seems to mind!) The underwater dolphin viewing area is excellent and features underwater microphones that allow you to hear the dolphins' clicks as they talk to each other.
                                 

Pacific Point Preserve is where dozens of California Sea Lions (and half the local bird 
population) ride the waves in search of a fishy handout. Again feeding times are posted.
 Manatees: The Last Generation? is a good place to introduce children to SeaWorld's 
animal rescue program. The environmental message is quite clear.
Smaller kids definitely need a stop at Shamu's Happy Harbor where they can spout off in 
the water area and play safely amidst waves of colored balls, trampolines and climbing nets.

The Intensity Games water ski show features stunts, jumps and barefoot action. 
The huge stadium means everyone gets a seat. The Key West Dolphin Fest is
 another popular stadium show where you're introduced to Dolphins, and False Killer
 Whales (useful information if you're a salmon!). This one fills up fast so get there
 well before show time. The most popular sit-down presentation is The Sea Lion
 & Otter Show starring the very amusing antics of Messrs. Clyde and Seamore. 
Get there 20 minutes early and watch the SeaWorld mime hook up with hapless
 tourists with hilarious results. Don't laugh too hard you could be next! 
By contrast, Wild Arctic involves a thrilling and consequently rather bumpy 
helicopter 'flight' to the base station where you can venture above and beneath
 the ice to meet walruses, seals, beluga whales and everyone's favorite, 
the polar bears.
 

Living up to the title of 'adventure park' SeaWorld also offers two outstanding thrill rides. 
Journey To Atlantis, a cross between a log flume and roller-coaster, has two of the 
steepest, wettest drops you'll find anywhere. The mighty Kraken, meanwhile, is being
 hailed by 'coaster heads' as the best ride of it's kind in town.

Best Value Tickets:
Orlando FlexTicket
SeaWorld^©Adventure Park/Busch Gardens Tampa Bay Value Plus Ticket