OCEAN PARK
Hong Kong
 Park News - (12/11/2022) According to a report at Blooloop, Ocean Park is still struggling after finally opening the long delayed Water World waterpark in September 2021. The posted financial results from the attraction for the year ending June 30, 2022 show it ending with a loss of HK$1.81 billion (US$231 million). While it is a loss, this is an improvement for the attraction, as it managed to improve revenue over the previous year by 15.6%, despite suffering lengthy pandemic related closures during the year, resulting in 105 lost days for Ocean Park and 128 days for Water World.
With all that in mind, the hope is that things will be much improved at the end of next year’s report, as the park has reported having high attendance figures already thus far during this year’s Halloween and Christmas seasons.
(9/24/22) In an update from Blooloop, they report that a call to find investors to help fund a plan to transform an area near the main entrance of Ocean Park into a free-entry retail/dining/entertainment zone failed to attract any serious offers. At this point Ocean Park will look into ways to finance the project themselves, as well as to review their initial proposal concept to determine why the investors they spoke with in the end opted not to submit offers for the project.
2023 to 2027 - Parkwide Renovation Plans - (1/14/20) Ocean Park has announced another set of huge expansion plans for the theme park to take place between 2023 and 2027. As part of a 10.6 billion yuan investment in the park, it will add seven new “scenic spots” loaded with new attractions.
Spots 1 and 2 will be: Ocean Plaza and Azure Bay, where the current waterfront park will be divided into these two new themed areas. Ocean Plaza will actually be open to the public for free and include restaurants and retail stores and the park’s new entrance. From here guests will entire Azure Bay, themed all about water and include a new deep water pier as well as new adventure rides and a monorail to move guests around.
Spot 3 will be Jungle Adventure - One of five new areas that the current “peak park” on the mountain will be divided into. Jungle themed, it will offer an assortment of new exciting rides as well as a new indoor coaster that will use multimedia to allow guests to experience an underwater world.
Spot 4 will be themed to the Pacific Ocean, with special restaurants along the cliffs overlooking the sea.
Spot 5 will be Cape Paradise, adding new new coasters experiences. Based on the concept art one will be an Alpine Coaster while the other appears to be pair of Maurer Spike powered racing coaster tracks.
Spot 6 - Adventure Valley that will feature some kind of gravity powered car ride with different tracks suitable for different age groups.
Spot 7 - Explorer Coast, the new home for marine mammals, with new environments created to allow for multiple species to live together. The Ocean Theater will be turned into a new multi-purpose venue.
Lots of concept art was released, which includes views of a ton of new coaster rides for the different zones of the park. This also includes what appears to be a B&M Dive Machine, some kind of inverted coaster in a jungle, a cool looking sit-down coaster that slides back and forth half-pipe style over a rocky waterfall landscape and more.
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