Christmas at Manila Ocean Park

And IT gave me the WORST Christmas experience - EVER!

And.. All i want is to give my daughter and niece to a very nice Christmas treat. It turned out that their so-called "World Class" is a fiasco after all.

Why? Here is what has happened...

1st Offence: We arrived at 4:45 PM, the line to the ticket booth is so long, the end of it was at the middle of the shed prior to the stairs. When we're near the ticket booth, a staff came to us and the conversation are as follows:

Staff: Saan kayo?
Me: Sa ticket booth
Staff: doon sa baba ang pila
Me: Doon kami galing, bakit may iba pa bang pila?
Staff: (biglang alis nang walang pasabi)

2nd offence (at the ticket booth), and because mahaba ang pila, we were able to buy the ticket at 6:00 PM. Originally we wanted to go to the oceanarium and to the penguin exhibit after. but the woman on the ticket booth told us na mahaba din ang pila doon and offered the Fountain show instead. So I said yes. then she immediately wrote the time "7:00 PM" on our ticket. This means that we only got 1 hour inside the oceanarium. (And we don't know yet that there's also a 9PM fountain show at that time - hindi man lang nag-advise si ate para sana may option kami to go to the later show).

So heto na, we went, and we went in a hurry para maabutan ang allegedly world class na fountain show at at par sa fountain show ng sentosa. We had one interesting incident inside upon which, my neice dropped AJ's bag on the crocodile pen. Si crocodile, perhaps thinking that it was food, kinagat yung bag ni AJ at dinala sa tubig. It was nakakahiya at nakakatawa at the same time. but inabot pa din kami ng siyam-siyam doon kasi medyo natagalan pa before we were given assistance to retrieve AJ's bag.

So heto na, we finished our viewing and we hurriedly went to the fountain show, ayoko ma-late kasi if it is really sentosa-like, the magic will be lost for AJ and Eunice. So it's imperative to experience it from the beginning. So, after the exit, we went up the stairs, we passed by the Penguin exhibit na maiksi naman pala ang pila. And look for the exit, kasi ang sabi nila, the show is located at the front of the ticket booth. Then we saw an exit sign, we checked it out only to find out the entrance yun ng hotel H2O. Balik kami, nadaanan namin ang bar at ang souvenir store, baba kami ng escalator, and followed another exit sign w/c bought us paikot ng tiangge na ibinalik kami sa escalator na binabaan namin. Before we stumbled upon the atrium na pinanggalingan namin sa may entrance ng oceanarium. Siyempre nag-rereklamo na ko by that time. Ang LAYO na ng naikot namin! Wala man lang short cut eh nag-package pa sila ng ganon. Tapos nalaman namin na may 9PM show naman pala. E di sana di kami nagmadali di ba?

And here comes the 3rd offence
So mega reklamo ako sa staff dun, na binastos lang kami. My niece handed her ticket to the staff, aba, bara barang ibinalik yung stub sa amin at yung iba e nalaglag na sa sahig, sabi nya "o heto na" then he took the ticket and thrown the remaing stub on my niece's stomach, I gave my ticket, then he did it again saying "heto pa". di ba, sobrang nag-init na ang ulo ko at dinuro duro ko na siya sabaya sabing "UMAYOS KA!" at sabay walk out. Kainis, I did not pay 500 pesos (x 9 Kami) para lang mabastos!

At heto pa! I was expecting a "WORLD CLASS" show. Yung at par sa Sentosa Singapore. But I for somebody who've been there, I might have been expecting too much. Konti lang yung actual cartoon na makikita mo sa fountain. Puro nagsasayaw na mascot ng starfish at naghahabulang mascot ng chef at lobster. Walang story. walang kwenta. na-bwisit lang ako lalo. Kainis

Who would blame me if sirang sira ang christmas ko because of Manila Ocean Park?