This tiny converted church houses an astonishing array of fish, amphibians, reptiles and insects. Staff are incrediby enthusiastic and obviously passionate about the collection. The leaf-cutter ant farm, with its see-though tube trailing across the ceiling is amazing to watch. I was also lucky enough to visit while they were spraying all the reptile houses and handling the chameleons. The... more

NB - all three of my family are fully mobile on two feet. The Tenby Aquarium, aka Silent World, was one of the highlights of our trip to West Wales this year and the year before. The aquarium is in a small converted church, and fits in a huge range of (smaller) marine creatures, on the ground floor, and on... more

We went to visit today 11th August 2006 and were utterly disappointed with our experience. We travelled from Llanelli taking little over an hour to get there, but were very dissapoined with what greeted us. (I should point out that we weren't expecting a "Sea-Life centre!"). First of all, we had to park about half a mile away from the... more

The aquarium is set inside a redundant Victorian church, adjacent to the town cemetery and with its own fascinating burial ground - which is covered in the white flowers of wild garlic in the spring. Look for the grave of the founder of the British free press and the local estate agency - Frank B Mason. The views across to... more