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Marine Life Park

Theme Park Guy Rating: 2.52.52.5
Date Visited:
November 07, 2012 / November 05, 2013

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) Southeast Asia Aquarium from above (it's all underground)

Marine Life Park from the cable car Marine Life Park from the cable car

Adventure Cove Waterpark entrance Adventure Cove Waterpark entrance

Wave pool and main slide section of the park Wave pool and main slide section of the park

That's all the slides there are That's all the slides there are

Second slide tower with funnel slide and bowl slide Second slide tower with funnel slide and bowl slide

View from the cable car View from the cable car

Adventure Cove Waterpark slides and wave pool Adventure Cove Waterpark slides and wave pool

Snorkeling reef (left) and playground pool (right) Snorkeling reef (left) and playground pool (right)

The smallish wavepool The smallish wavepool

Adventure Cove Waterpark wave pool Adventure Cove Waterpark wave pool

Slides through the jungle Slides through the jungle

Mat racer slide through dense jungle Mat racer slide through dense jungle

Lifeguards do the test race Lifeguards do the test race

Conveyor belt up into the jungle Conveyor belt up into the jungle

Smallish (and probably thrill-free) Tornado slide Smallish (and probably thrill-free) Tornado slide

Lazy river meets dolphin pool Lazy river meets dolphin pool

Lazy river indoor section Lazy river indoor section

Inside Southeast Asia Aquarium Inside Southeast Asia Aquarium

Huge main tank Huge main tank

Shipwreck tank Shipwreck tank

Tunnel through the shark pool Tunnel through the shark pool

Hammerhead shark Hammerhead shark

Main tank with costly hotel rooms on the right Main tank with costly hotel rooms on the right