Ocean Park Hong Kong offers festively scary Halloween Fest

Filipino tourists have consistently ranked theme parks as their primary reason for choosing to visit Hong Kong. It's not surprising: this island city offers a lot of recreational destinations, foremost of which is Ocean Park.

At a recent media event, Ocean Park Hong Kong presented its all-day-and-night Halloween Fest, running from now until October 31. Some of the attractions awaiting Halloween visitors this year include:

1. H14 at Thrill Mountain, The Summit: H14 is meant to evoke your innermost phobia with a customized journey of intensive thrills and spine-tingling scares. Visitors must be 16 years old and above to enter.

2. Rigor Mortis Live at Cable Car Plaza, The Summit: Winner of the Best Visual Effects at the Hong Kong Film Awards, this attraction will have you walking through dark corridors as you are chased by a masked vampire.

3. Horror-wood Studios at Waterfront Plaza: Scenes from Hollywood’s most ghoulish horror movies are played out as restless spirits haunt you. Oh, and your entire experience is filmed by a director, to be shown to a willing public.

4. Forest of Doom at Thrill Mountain at The Summit: A haunted mansion, a lady in red, and giant spiders await those who dare to visit this mystical forest.

5. Chinese Mad-icine Hall at The Abyss at The Summit: Oh no, there’s a mad doctor in the house, and you all know what that means: evil experiments, floating organs, and a maze of corpses!

If you don’t want to be scared witless, you can still have some clean fun at Ocean Park. They’ve prepared a variety of Lite Spooky Surprises to keep you trick and treating, from a Doraemon Halloween Party where you can enter the Time Machine or look at the Mirror Maze to the Eerie Nippon Journey where you can take memento shots with the King of Hell.

Your journey to a spook-tacular Halloween gets even better: from now until December 31, Philippine Airlines passengers with valid boarding passes will enjoy a 12-percent discount on Ocean Park admission tickets. Plus, Ocean Park visitors can get a 10- to 15-percent discount on admission to 21 other theme parks worldwide, including our very own Enchanted Kingdom.

The money you spend at Ocean Park could also help a good cause. According to the park's chief executive officer Tom Mehrmann, $1 of every paid admission is donated to Hong Kong's Ocean Park Conservation Foundation. "Our attractions aim to give guests more than just an enjoyable time, but to also serve as an educational platform to convey conservation initiatives," he said.

Since its opening in January 1977, Ocean Park has attracted more than 120 million visitors to its doors. — BM, GMA News

Ocean Park Hong Kong's Halloween Fest runs until October 31.