Ocean Park Hong Kong:The HongKong City : hotels reservation special prices for online hotels resorts booking by The HongKong City


	TheHongKongCity
	History Hongkong
	View Hongkong Map
	Festivals
	Hongkong Guide
	Transport
	Shoping
	Activity Guide
	Hong Kong Disneyland
	Ocean Park Hong Kong

Ocean Park Hong Kong

Ocean Park Hong Kong is a theme park in the Southern District of Hong Kong Island. The marine-themed amusement park covers the area of Wong Chuk Hang and Nam Long Shan, and is located in Hong Kong. Public can go to Ocean Park by taxi or Citybus.

The park, ranked 7th in 'The World’s Most Popular Amusement Parks’ by Forbes in June 2006, had 4.38 million visitors in the fiscal year 2005/2006. Ocean Park also ranked 17th in the TEA/ERA Theme Park Attendance Report 2007 with approximately 4.9 million visitors, higher than Hong Kong Disneyland at 21st place with 4.1 million visitors.It covers an area of 870,000 square metres.The different parts of the park are connected by a gondola lift system (or cable car system), as well as the world's second longest outdoor escalator.

Get $50 off your $250 Order for St. Patrick's Day

The theme park currently has over 14 rides and other attractions such as aquariums. Besides housing two roller coasters, Ocean Park also features a Giant panda exhibit, a jelly fish and shark aquarium, as well as a four-story aquarium displaying more than 2000 fish. The official mascot of Ocean Park is "Whiskers"—a waving sealion.

Besides being an amusement park, Ocean Park Hong Kong also operates observatories, well developed laboratories, an education department and a Whales And Dolphins Fund.

Ocean Park Hong Kong was the first institution in the world to have success in artificial insemination of bottle nose dolphins, and developed numerous new breeds of goldfish.

in September 2007, Ocean Park Hong Kong increased its ticket prices by 12% and 14% to take advantage of the Golden Week Holidays.