Still at the park

The Map of Manila. How to get to the Manila Ocean Park

The floor plan.

The Manila Ocean Park.

Park Rules

Flash Photography is not allowed as this scares the marine animals. One specie we saw was injured at its mouth due to camera flash. Better to bring digital camera. The park is open from10:00am to 9:00pm Mondays to Sundays. Food and beverages are not allowed.

The Manila Ocean Park

This is the proof that I really went there! huh! Well they still don't have much souvenirs to take home or any give-aways for that matter, so I kept these tickets. The admission ticket for adults is Php 400.00 while for a child, it is Php 350.00. It's a big chunk from our allowance but I tell you, it's really worth it. If not for the limited time we were alloted to, (bec. we have to go to Avilon Zoo) I would have gladly stayed the whole day. Looking at the variety of fishes swimming could take the reality and the problems away. I felt transported to the vastness of the real ocean for just a few seconds.
Lunch came and we saw how they fed the stingrays and the sharks and the multitude of marine species. It was such a great experience. Stingrays are 'hand fed.' They were like babies that are spoon fed, straight to their mouth. Even the Electric Eel is hand fed by the scuba diver. It was like Fiesta! How I wish I was the one feeding them that exact moment. It was just so awesome!

Ocean Park Manila

Last March 4, 2008, the United Methodist Kiddie Kollege of Solano, Nueva Vizcaya went to the newly opened MANILA OCEAN PARK.
We were so excited, not just the children but us too, the parents and the guardians to visit the first world-class themed park. The Ocean Mall (as I like to call it) is a fusion bringing together in one complex an Oceanarium, a mall, a restaurant row, boutique hotel, open water marine habitats and multi-purpose function facilities.
When we visited the site, it's just a few meters walk from the Museo Pambata which we visited first as part of the students' fieldtrip itinerary. Located behind the Quirino Granstand at the Luneta Park, so it's not difficult to locate it.
Everybody had a grand time. Aside from those who have seen the Hongkong Ocean Park and the Sentosa in Singapore, it was a first time for most of us. Even those who have seen some oceanarium could attest the beauty and the size of the new Ocean Park.
My child's favorite is no other than the stingray. At first, she thought it was a bird, because of its wing-like body. Even after I explained it to her that it was not a bird, when her Papa called asking what she saw in the Ocean Park, she still replied, "a bird."
The picture above is together with her teachers and some students of the school.