I've done the Dolphin Discovery with my children about 8 years or so ago so can't speak to how it is recently. It's a high dollar experience, on top of the fees, then they want to sell you videos and still photos that they got you to pose for, for yet more money.

People are certainly entitled to their opinions, but horses are intelligent mammals, as are pigs, and yet most of us would ride one and eat the other without giving it a second thought, so I happen to find all the negative comments to be overblown.

There's certainly nothing unpleasant about being there. The people who work there are nice and have a nice rapport with the animals.