Breakfast with a Mermaid

Slip into a whimsical world, enjoy a full breakfast, and snap shell-fies with a Ripley's magical mermaid!

Have You Ever Wanted to Meet a Mermaid?

Here’s your chance to meet a real, live mermaid, plus enjoy a delicious hot breakfast and explore the aquarium before it opens to the public! Fuel up with pancakes, bacon, and more, then snap a shell-fie with a mermaid and ask them everything you’ve ever wanted to know about life under the sea!

The 2024 Mermaid Breakfast season has concluded! We look forward to sea-ing you in Spring 2025!

Upcoming Dates

Pricing

Tier	Pricing
Adult (12+)	$79.99 +Tax
Child (2-11)	$59.99 +Tax
Child (under 2)	$4.99 +Tax

Buy Tickets

Hot breakfast and coffee in the Feeding Frenzy café starting at 8:00 a.m.
Meet and greet with a mermaid
One complimentary mermaid meet and greet photo per adult ticket
Private mermaid dive show
A special gift for each child
Aquarium admission following the event

Woah! The Aquarium sounds like alotl fun! But what are you doing all the way down here with the axolotls – some of the most secretive salamanders in the world?!

Did you know the Great Smoky Mountains are considered the Salamander Capital of the World? Salamanders are abundant in the Smokies and outnumber human visitors on even the park’s busiest days!