SW-Which exclusive park experience to try?

[cork2009]

Hello! This will be our first time at SW & I was wondering which exclusive park experience would be the best for an 11 and 12 y/o? I looked at the family fun tour but at the end they wouldn't want to take a photo with a guy dressed as Shamu or do the kiddie park so not sure that is the way to go for us...the rest of that tour looks cool though!
Saw someone raving about the penguin tour...that looks awesome too!
So I'm torn and would love some input on which tour to choose.
TIA!!

 

[cork2009]

Well after going through some older threads and talking with the fam, we are doing the penguin tour.

 

[SharonK0527]

Sorry, I just saw your post but wanted to let you know my response would be the Penguin Tour. We did it (myself, DH, and DD age 11) back in October and we LOVED it!!! We had a good 10-15 minutes of quality time with the penguins (MUCH more animal encounter time than I thought we would get) -petting them, posing for pictures etc. We also had good quality time with the Puffin handler and got to watch the baby Puffin she had do all kinds of cute things while we learned about Puffins. My DD still can't stop talking about how much fun she had.

We didn't do any of the other tours but I can tell you, we had a great time doing the penguin tour and would highly recommend it!!