A few years ago my wife and I visited Florida and decided to treat ourselves to a day at Discovery Cove, including a swimming with dolphins experience. Discovery Cove is a fantastic sanctuary of a place – offering limited availability to stop overcrowding, and opportunities to swim with all sorts of fish included with the day’s entrance fee.

You can buy all sorts of tickets – swimming with dolphins, training dolphins, or neither. The tickets also include entry to Aquatica and Seaworld for 14 days, and if you pay a bit extra it also includes Busch Gardens.

Food is included for the day, as is animal friendly suncream and drinks. Also included are snorkels and goggles – even prescription ones!

We had a brilliant day at Discovery Cove – relaxing, no stress, and some brilliant and fascinating fish to swim with. One of our best days in Florida.