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Review
Resorts World's Marine Life Park comprises two separate ticketed gates: Adventure Cove Waterpark and the Southeast Asia Aquarium.
While it's not as disappointing as I found Gardens by the Bay, I don't feel it lives up to the high expectations. Don't get me wrong, though, it's good! It's basically a two-storey experience: the underground level constitutes the aquarium with its huge tanks, and the ground level above is dedicated to water park and dolphin interaction. The way everything is interconnected makes for an engineering and architectural masterpiece, including rooms of the Equarius Hotel reaching up to the ocenarium. S.E.A. Aquarium is huge with its marvelous, giant tanks and educational displays, but lacks character and theming. Perhaps this was never the intention, but apart from the well-crafted shipwreck display it's not really an outstandingly memorable environment. The smallish water park has a selection of pretty lame slides, a short little wave pool, an artificial snorkeling reef, the usual lazy river, lots of greenery and a bit of theming here and there.
All in all, the aquarium is by far the best in South East Asia and the water park (that looks a bit like the brother of Waterbom Bali) is alright, but when it comes to marveling at man-made masterpieces, I'd recommend to head down to Universal Studios Singapore next door.
Southeast Asia Aquarium from above (it's all underground)
Marine Life Park from the cable car
Adventure Cove Waterpark entrance
Wave pool and main slide section of the park
That's all the slides there are
Second slide tower with funnel slide and bowl slide
View from the cable car
Adventure Cove Waterpark slides and wave pool
Snorkeling reef (left) and playground pool (right)
The smallish wavepool
Adventure Cove Waterpark wave pool
Slides through the jungle
Mat racer slide through dense jungle
Lifeguards do the test race
Conveyor belt up into the jungle
Smallish (and probably thrill-free) Tornado slide
Lazy river meets dolphin pool
Lazy river indoor section
Inside Southeast Asia Aquarium
Huge main tank
Shipwreck tank
Tunnel through the shark pool
Hammerhead shark
Main tank with costly hotel rooms on the right