There is no MTR at the moment which goes to Ocean Park, so we took the MTR from Mong Kok to Admiralty, and there is a bus from Admiralty direct to Ocean Park. There is however construction work going on on an MTR station just next to Ocean Park, so there will probably be MTR access to Ocean Park in the near future.
The kids were pretty used to lining up in position by now, so it was nothing new to them haha. Reminds me of the Von Trapp kids in The Sound of Music :)
The older ones had their maps, so they led the way!
Most of the theme park is located up on a hill, so we could either take a cable car or a train up. We opted to go by cable car going up, and took the train coming down. We did initially plan to go to Ngong Ping cable car the previous day, but due to the unpredictable weather, we cancelled that trip. But at least the kids were not disappointed, since we got to ride on a cable car after all!
It was quite a fair way up and it took quite long too. The kids were more excited than the adults haha. It was quite scary actually. I didn't even dare to go up the cable car when we were in Langkawi.
Our first stop was the shark exhibit.
And then it was time for the sea lion and dolphin show! Look at the backdrop - with the actual sea behind.
Hot and sweaty - but Helene was happily clapping away at the dolphin's leaps and tricks.
Then it was time for some rides! The rides at Ocean Park are more of the "thrilling type" so they are not really suitable for kids, unlike Disneyland. Hannah was quite disappointed that she couldn't ride most of them because she couldn't make the height requirement (Heidi and Helene were totally out for the rides). But here are some of the ones that she could ride.
Due to the blazing heat outside, we disappeared into the penguin exhibit to cool off, and it was freezing inside! Talk about extremes. We were informed earlier that this particular exhibit would be cold so we had prepared jackets for the kids, but we didn't expect it to be that cold.
Happy kids with their loot from the gift store:
Then it was out into the heat again to see the panda exhibit. There was a panda mascot which we took a photo with.
It was so hot that the panda was hiding inside.
This was a really funny clown which made balloon animals for all the kids. It started out with only the little kids (Samyra and Helene) wanting balloons, but in the end he had to make for all of them :)
We stopped for a meal at the cafe next to the panda exhibit before leaving, The price was even more ridiculous than in Disneyland, but they did have these cute panda buns.
Guess who enjoyed them the most? :)
Back at the hotel that night, the adults had their food indulgence - curry fish balls and other yummy snacks!
And the next day, it was time to go home. Kids took a photo in our room before checking out.
Bye bye Hong Kong, it was a fun trip! Have to now start saving $$$ for the next holiday! :)
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