S.E.A. Aquarium at Resorts World Sentosa Review

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The S.E.A. Aquarium is the largest aquarium in the world. Located at the Marine Life Park at Resorts World Sentosa, (Singapore) this contains a total of 45,000,000 litres (9,900,000 imp gal; 12,000,000 US gal) of water for 100,000 marine animals of over 800 species. The aquarium comprises 10 zones with 49 habitats. The Open Ocean habitat, which is the centerpiece of the Aquarium, includes the world's largest viewing panel. At 36-metre (118 ft) wide and 8.3-metre (27 ft) tall, it is intended to give visitors the feeling of being on the ocean floor.

How to get to S.E.A. Aquarium ?

Located at the Marine Life Park at Resorts World Sentosa, you can take a bus or MRT (NE Line) to Vivo City then another bus RW8 or the monorail to Resorts World Sentosa.

Opening hours?

It usually opens at 10am - 7pm daily.

How much does it cost to get in?

Adults: S$29
Children and Seniors: $20

What to expect.

Lots and lots of endless walking in air-conditioned environment. It is wheelchair accessible, but still very very big.

Food and drinks are not cheap there, bring along a bottled water in your bag.

Collection:
The S.E.A Aquarium houses the world's largest collection of manta rays, including the only giant oceanic manta ray in captivity. It also showcases 24 Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, scalloped hammerhead sharks, the Japanese spider crab, and relatively uncommonly-exhibited species such as the guitarfish and the chambered nautilus.

Japanese Spider Crab

Cute Jellyfish

Big Jellyfish

A HUGE Tank with large Manta Rays and other large fishes.

Many other rays that will swim near you.

Giant Oceanic Manta Ray

Beautiful Jellyfish

Starfish and Rays in shallow tanks that you can touch.

Starfish that wants to High Five you.

Weird looking fishes.

Colorful Fishes

Cam Whore fishes which swim in front of your cameras to block other fishes.

Large shy shrimps.

More colorful fishes

Huge Lobsters.

Sharks and Dolphins

Fishes with noses

Beautiful coral reef.


I am quite satisfied with the experience at S.E.A. Aquarium. It is indeed amazing how big the displays are, and how beautiful nature is. Definitely worth going, but just a reminder as well, on the weekends, the S.E.A Aquarium is packed, and so crowded that it is hard to take any meaningful photos of fishes.

This is one of the better aquariums I've been to. I would like to see some deep sea fishes, horned cowfish and other interesting creatures of the depth... But could not find them.

Overall, the staff are quite knowledgeable, but the photographer to take the photo when you go in really really sucks, so don't bother paying $50 for a bad photo. Some nice souvenirs though..

Overall: 8.5/10

-- Robin Low

Universals Studios Singapore: Sentosa - Review

I was at Universal Studios at Sentosa, Singapore on Feb 14, 2010, and the following is my review.

Please note that this is a preview trip, I was not allowed to ride the different rides and not the whole park is open.

Location:

The Universal Studios Singapore is located at Sentosa. A southern island off Singapore. Quite accessible by Bus and Trains (Harbor Front MRT Stop)

Price:

I've heard the prices for a weekday ticket is S$66 and Weekends/Holiday S$72 (+$30 for express pass)

 

The Carpark:

The carpark is HUGE! I would say it can fit 1000+ cars per level and it does have more than 1 level of sheltered carpark in the basement. Finding your car and walking around WILL definitely be a problem but there seems to be a vehicle you can sit which takes you to your car.

The entrance area at the basement is also HUGE, and able to accommodate large crowds. The air is rather stake and I'd not stay in the basement for long.

The escalator going out seemed pretty nice and for day 1.

Universal Studios

The entrance area seemed grand and nice, definitely very interesting and inviting. I'm not sure about the tons of people greeting you, but I liked it overall.

 

There are lots of people waving you in everywhere, some have lack of enthusiasm, but other were filled with it. Generally, the service seemed pretty ok, and staff can relatively give directions even when this is day 1.

The whole park does indeed look very interesting as there are no walls, but the walls actually look like parts from a movie set. Many things are of very large scale, and it definitely looks awesome!

Though this is a preview, there are actual performances, and the above is from "Madagascar" the cartoon. Performance is good, and I'm not sure it was because there were actors in those thick suits in the Hot and Humid Singapore weather!

There were kids and kids and more kids!! Even when there were no rides, many of them seemed to have a good time!

There were many interesting sights to see, and it looked definitely fun!

Many of the structures looks HUGE, and definitely photo worthy.

Attractions:

The Lost World
Far Far Away Land
Sci-Fi City (BattleStar Galactica)
New York
Hollywood
Madagascar
Ancient Egypt

Overall, I would say Sci-Fi City, Ancient Egypt and New York does look really nice. There are rides in the attractions too, and I'd love to go on those rides.

Food:

I've had some food at Loui’s NY Pizza Parlor and Mel’s Drive-in. I would say the decor is relatively ok, but the food is kinda bad.

Loui’s NY Pizza Parlor : The food does not look so appealing and the cheese is not that good. I've tried the chicken wings too, and they don't do it for me. The decor is not noteworthy.

Mel’s Drive-in : Wow, initially, the place looks awesome. It is like a 50's diner and the setup is great for handling crowds. However, the food is simply bad and the cheese burger has a HUGE bun but a tiny patty! The BBQ sauce they use tastes foul too. I can say I enjoyed the soda, and that's about it. I got ice cream on my brownie, but the ice cream did not melt even after 30 minutes and something felt wrong as everything melts in Singapore. The brownie and ice cream was however edible.

The other food places :
Oasis Spice Cafe, a middle eastern food place looks and smells awesome.
Fossil Fuels, a small little hot dog stand.
Friar's, an ice cream place with S$2 soft serve!!
Fairy God Mother's Juice Bar, looks pretty interesting.

I did not look and try out the other food places, will do it next time I go.

I would say, the rides looks really good, and I'd definitely come back for the rides. (Not open to public at time of visit)

The rides I'd try:

BattleStar Galactica: Human
BattleStar Galactica: Cylon
Accelerator
Revenge of the Mummy Ride
Waterworld
Jurassic Park Rapids Adventure
Dino Saurin'
etc.

For More Information visit:
Resorts World Singapore

I would definitely return to try out the rides and review it at a later date.

-- Robin Low