Loro Parque tickets: the four shows, the way north and the orca question
Updated October 1, 2026 · 8 min read
The short answer: the Loro Parque admission ticket costs €44 per person, has a 4.8-star rating from 14,513 reviews and is the right buy for most people – provided you come by rental car and are at the entrance by 9:30am. If you don’t have a car, take the hotel transfer package from the south for €65, which works out at €21 per person for the return trip and costs you time in the park. For both parks on separate days, there’s the combined ticket with Siam Park for €78. On GetYourGuide, only three deals for Tenerife have more reviews: two whale-watching trips and Siam Park.
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What’s missing there decides the day. By name, the description mentions only three of the four shows – parrots, orcas and sea lions – and doesn’t say when they run. Nor does it mention that Puerto de la Cruz, where the park is, lies on the north coast. If you’re staying in Costa Adeje or Los Cristianos, you’ll drive right across the island, and on top of that there’s a question best settled at home, not at the entrance.
Four ways into the park compared
| Deal | Duration | From | Rating | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loro Parque admission ticket | Day ticket | €44 per person | 4.8 (14,513) | those coming by rental car or staying in Puerto de la Cruz |
| Combined ticket for Loro Parque and Siam Park | two day tickets | €78 per person | 4.7 (8,299) | families visiting both parks on separate days |
| Loro Parque with hotel transfer from South Tenerife | 8 hours | €65 per person | 4.4 (3,296) | guests in the south without a car who only want Loro Parque |
| Both parks with transfer to Loro Parque | two days | €99 per person | 4.5 (873) | guests in the south without a car who want both parks |
The four shows and how to plan your day around them
The four are sea lions, parrots, dolphins and orcas. Each lasts about 20 minutes according to the park, which recommends arriving a few minutes before the start. The schedule is on the park’s website; the park has changed it seasonally before, for instance at Easter, so check again before your visit:
- Sea lions: 9:45am, 10:45am, 1:45pm and 2:45pm
- Parrots: 10:25am, 12:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm and 4:45pm
- Dolphins: 11am, 1pm and 4:15pm
- Orcas: 11:55am and 3:15pm
The bottleneck is the orcas, with two slots, and the dolphins, with three. If you want to see all four, build your day around these two. One order that works without rushing: orcas at 11:55am, dolphins at 1pm, sea lions at 1:45pm, parrots at 2:30pm. Between the end of one show and the start of the next, that leaves 25 to 45 minutes for getting there and finding a seat. The morning before and the time after three is left for anything without a set time: Planet Penguin, which the park describes as an ice landscape with real snow and an iceberg, the aquarium with its shark tunnel, and the rope bridges of the Katandra Treetops aviary.
If you’re at the entrance by 9:30am, you can in theory see all four before midday: sea lions at 9:45am, parrots at 10:25am, dolphins at 11am, orcas at 11:55am. Between parrots and dolphins that leaves only 15 minutes, though, and whether that’s enough depends on how full the stands are. Take this as a possibility, not a plan.
The park is open daily from 9:30am to 5:30pm. The booking page states four to eight hours for a typical visit; plan on a full day once children are along. According to the park, the restaurants in the park are open from 11am to 4:30pm, the kiosks all day.
What the day costs
The €44 is the price per person for the ticket. On top of that comes what the booking page doesn’t put a figure on. The park’s own car park costs €7 a day, according to the park’s FAQ. The park rents out a pushchair for €5 a day plus deposit, wheelchairs against a deposit for free; it asks for three days’ notice for a reservation. You’re allowed to bring your own food, according to the FAQ, and there are several picnic spots in the park; what a meal costs in the restaurants is stated by neither the park nor the booking page.
If you also want to visit Siam Park, the combined ticket costs €78 instead of €44 twice over. That’s €10 less, exactly the saving the park itself quotes for its Twin Ticket. These are two separate days, since Siam Park is in Costa Adeje. The park states a validity of 15 days from the first visit, the combined ticket’s booking page 14 days; what’s shown at the time of purchase is what counts. Everything about the water park is at Siam Park Tickets.
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Puerto de la Cruz is in the north
From the south, allow roughly a good hour each way by car, more in traffic. That’s an estimate, not a measurement. Three options come into question, and they differ mainly in how much time you get in the park.
By rental car you pay €44 for the ticket plus €7 for parking, are there at 9:30am and leave whenever you like.
The hotel transfer package costs €65 per person, takes 8 hours and has a 4.4-star rating from 3,296 reviews. Broken down: you pay €21 per person for the return trip, €42 for two. According to the booking page, pickup is only available in the south, and the entry tickets are only handed out on the bus, so you can’t join under your own steam later on. The eight hours include the journey, and some reviews describe the bus ride, with its hotel stops, as long; one guest mentions around two hours each way.
The park’s own bus is sold as an add-on in the Loro Parque ticket shop: arrival from 10am according to the ticket shop, around 10:30am according to the park’s timetable, return south at 4:30pm. That’s six to six and a half hours in the park, and the last dolphin show at 4:15pm and parrot show at 4:45pm both fall away. Price and stops are on the park’s site.
For both parks with transfer there’s a package for €99: Loro Parque and Siam Park on separate days, with transfer only to Loro Parque. The German short description calls it a “Ticket-Paket für zwei Personen” (ticket package for two people). The English-language booking page means a Twin Ticket by this, i.e. two park admissions, and states the price per person. Compared with the €78 combined ticket, the transfer costs €21 here too. Check this on the booking page before you work out the sums.
If you’re staying in Puerto de la Cruz, you don’t need any of this. The park’s free train runs, according to the park’s directions page, every 20 minutes from Plaza de los Reyes Católicos next to McDonald’s, to the park from 9:30am to 4:30pm, back from 10:15am to 5:30pm. The park’s FAQ names 9am as the first departure. If you’re relying on the first train, ask locally.
The weather is different in the north, too. The trade winds pile up clouds on the north side, and Puerto de la Cruz is cooler and more often overcast than Costa Adeje. Sunshine in the south says little about the sky over the park. For a day among enclosures and stands that doesn’t have to be a drawback, but a jacket still belongs in the backpack. What else the north has to offer is at What to see in Tenerife.
Children: what the park says and what the booking page says
According to the park’s FAQ, children under 3 get in free, children from 3 to 11 pay a separate price. There’s no discount for large families, according to the park. The current level of the children’s price is on the booking page, and the park can change the age limits. For children there’s Kinderlandia, a play area with rope bridges, a snake slide and a roller coaster, the Orca Train.
There’s a contradiction worth clearing up before you buy. The English-language booking page for the €44 ticket states that the deal isn’t suitable for children under 6. The park itself lets children under three in for free. Whether the note refers only to an add-on option isn’t apparent; ask the provider if you’re travelling with a toddler.
How Loro Parque compares with the closer parks in the south is covered in Tenerife with a toddler, the overview across all ages in Tenerife with kids. Closer to the hotels in the south is Jungle Park near Arona, €36 and 1,153 reviews. Its three shows, according to the operator: sea lions, birds of prey, exotic birds.
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Orcas and dolphins in tanks: what the dispute is about
This is where many people make up their minds. Loro Parque keeps orcas and dolphins in tanks and shows them in two of the four presentations. According to the park, four orcas live there: Morgan, Tekoa, Adán and Teno.
Animal welfare organisations reject this on principle. World Animal Protection writes that it is “widely recognised” that orcas cannot thrive in captivity, and criticises the park for continuing to breed orcas. On the female Morgan, rescued off the Dutch coast, the organisation writes that she was originally meant to be released again and is now used for shows and breeding. The park says it took Morgan in at the explicit request of the Dutch authorities.
Authorities have also spoken up. In April 2025, Spanish authorities blocked the transfer of two orcas from the now-closed Marineland in Antibes, France, because a committee considered the facilities unsuitable, according to the news agency AFP. The park disagreed: it says it meets all standards, and its tanks are well above the minimum sizes set by the only two relevant sets of regulations, in the US and the UK.
By its own account, three orcas died at the park between March 2021 and September 2022; in 2024 it reported the death of the 29-year-old Keto. A report published by the park attributes the three earlier deaths to acute illnesses that couldn’t be treated.
The park sees itself as an “embassy for the animals” and points to research, species conservation and its foundation, the Loro Parque Fundación. According to the foundation, it has saved 18 species from extinction and put over $30 million into more than 300 projects worldwide. It doesn’t offer swimming with dolphins or other direct contact, saying this is out of consideration for the animals.
Both sides can be read up on, and the 14,513 reviews don’t settle the question. They say most people enjoyed the day, not whether this form of keeping animals is acceptable to you. If it isn’t, this ticket isn’t for you.
Dolphins and pilot whales live year-round in the open sea off Tenerife’s south-west coast. Whale and dolphin watching covers 37 deals from €25.20, and what you can look out for so the animals aren’t harassed is covered in Whale watching without the chase. If you’d rather see the fish and seabed for yourself, Snorkelling and diving has 44 deals.
When you’re better off skipping it
If you’re staying in the south and only have one free day, but really want the beach and the sea. With the transfer package, that’s a bus day with a park in the middle.
If someone in your group struggles to walk and you want to book the hotel transfer package: the booking page calls it unsuitable for people with limited mobility. With your own car and one of the park’s wheelchairs, that looks different.
If you can only arrive around midday and are going for the orcas. After 11:55am, only the 3:15pm slot is left.
And if orcas and dolphins in tanks are a line you won’t cross. Other day-trip ideas are at Things to do in Tenerife, 153 deals from €6.
Our recommendation
For most people: the Loro Parque admission ticket for €44 per person, plus €7 for parking. That comes with a 4.8-star rating from 14,513 reviews, and with your own car you’re at the entrance by 9:30am and can see all four shows without rushing. That’s a difference no transfer package makes up for.
For families who want both parks: the combined ticket for Loro Parque and Siam Park for €78 per person, 4.7 stars from 8,299 reviews. That’s €10 saved compared with two separate tickets, two separate days, and Siam Park is in the south, close to most hotels.
For guests in the south without a rental car: the hotel transfer package for €65 per person, 4.4 stars from 3,296 reviews – eight hours, a good part of it on the bus. If you’re also planning on Siam Park, take both parks with transfer instead, for €99. Neither package’s booking page lists pickup outside the south.
If none of this fits: if you reject keeping orcas and dolphins in tanks, don’t buy this ticket – the 14,513 reviews don’t change that. With young children and little time, Jungle Park for €36 is the closer, shorter choice, even though it only has three shows. And if you’d rather see the animals in the open sea, book a whale and dolphin watching trip from €25.20.
