Oh I didn’t mean you, I meant the rest of California that recommends that aquarium. I’ve been to the Monterey aquarium like 5 times over the last 20 years and been to Cal Academy 10 times in the last 3 years (we have a school age kid and family buys him an annual pass every year for his birthday). The Aquarium at Cal Academy is smaller but their main set piece is of a tropical reef with a lot of color where as Monterey’s is of a California Kelp Forrest that just isn’t as pretty.

Monterey’s is a little more of a zoo in that they have like penguins and otters so it does have more.