Ocean Park, Hong Kong

Ocean Park Hong Kong is one of the world’s most popular amusement/marine mammal parks and it was a thrill to visit its attractions. It was not on our original itinerary though. We were traveling with our mother (who’s in her early 70’s) and were cautious about tiring her out by doing too much on this trip, so we didn’t have anything scheduled upon our arrival.

 Luckily, we shared a coach with other Pinoy tourists who were headed to Ocean Park from the airport and Mama was a bit peeved that we thought she could not keep up with us. So my sister Maris quickly bought tickets (Yay, my birthday present!) from our tour guide and after checking in at the Silka Seaview hotel in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, we headed straight to Aberdeen.

This park is really huge so it’s important to grab a free map at the entrance to figure out where to go. Since it was 2pm and we haven’t had lunch yet, we bought some spaghetti and drinks from a food kiosk and it was surprisingly, pretty good.

Our hunger problems solved, we started taking in the sights and wandered into Aqua City where the souvenir shops are located. My sis had to buy a shirt because she didn’t change at the hotel and was feeling overheated and sweaty.

 Predictably, that’s not the only thing we ended up buying. We just had to buy cute panda stuffed toys, refrigerator magnets and key chains galore  and dear mama had to be talked out of buying shark hats and the like so we just tried everything on instead!

So after all the eating and buying and walking around, this self-proclaimed “panda groupie” went to the pandas first… be ready for cuteness overflow on the next post.

Ocean Park

Aberdeen, Hong Kong

opening hours: 10:00am - 7:00pm
general admission price: $280 (adult), $140 (child)