珠海长隆海洋王国 Zhūhǎi Chánglóng Hǎiyáng Wángguó, Chimelong Ocean Kingdom, is the marine theme park at 富祥湾 Fùxiáng Wān, Fuxiang Bay, on 横琴 Héngqín, Hengqin, inside the 横琴粤澳深度合作区 Héngqín Yuèào Shēndù Hézuò Qū, the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone, and within the Chimelong International Ocean Resort. It is one of Zhuhai’s largest visitor attractions and the city’s clearest piece of global-scale entertainment. Before anything else, one thing has to be said plainly, because the same company runs another famous park in the same province and the two are constantly confused. This is the Zhuhai park, not the Guangzhou one. Chimelong runs two very different flagship parks in Guangdong: the Safari Park at Panyu in Guangzhou, where the stars are pandas, white tigers and giraffes you meet from a truck, and the Ocean Kingdom at Hengqin in Zhuhai, where the whole visit is about water. Same company, different city, different animal kingdom.
The park opened in the mid-2010s, official retrospectives say 2015 while platform and industry listings mostly say 2014, and the two are best left side by side rather than merged. What is well recorded is the run of honours that followed. Between 2016 and 2018 it won the themed-entertainment industry’s outstanding achievement award three times, and in 2018 it became the only Chinese theme park to take that award. Since 2018 the wider resort has received more than ten million visitors in a year. If the idea of a Chinese theme park competing at the top of the international industry still seems surprising, this is the park that changed the argument, and the numbers behind it are why the resort next door keeps expanding.
The heart of the visit is the 鲸鲨馆 Jīngshā Guǎn, the Whale Shark Pavilion, which the park and platform guides describe as holding one of the largest acrylic viewing panels in the world and which lets a whale shark pass overhead while you stand still. Around it the park stacks its animal halls: penguins, polar bears, belugas, manatees, dolphins and otters, each with a hall of its own, so that a single day can run from a tropical reef to a polar coast without leaving the grounds. For people who came for motion rather than looking, there are rides such as the parrot coaster and the iceberg coaster. Everything here is a park experience, indoors or out according to the hall, so the day is spent almost entirely at sea level, in the water’s company, without ever getting in it.
The park’s signature is its theatre and parade programme, and it is the reason people stay until dark. There are beluga, dolphin and sea-lion theatres through the day, an afternoon ocean parade, a night-time glowing parade, and a closing fireworks, light and drone show over the lagoon that the park presents under its own name. Show names and times are not fixed to the minute from day to day, and the park itself directs you to its own app for the schedule on the day, which is the only reliable source. Two practical rhythms follow. First, arrive early, because the whale shark hall is quietest in the first hour after opening and overwhelming by mid-afternoon. Second, plan to end the day where the fireworks are, opposite the lagoon, arriving thirty minutes to an hour ahead to find a place to stand.
Around the main park the resort has grown into a small district of its own. There is a water world, a theatre hosting the resort’s own large-format show, and a newer spaceship-themed park, alongside a group of hotels that lets guests walk in rather than drive. The park is large, popular and expensive, and the sensible way to do it is as a full day at least, with an early start and a hotel bed if the fireworks are the point of the trip. None of the arrangements is hard to find once you are there, but all of them reward not treating the park as an afternoon.
The one thing that genuinely changes plans is the weather. The park closes for typhoons or adjusts its outdoor shows when a storm is near, and the typhoon season runs from July to September in this part of Guangdong. Fireworks and parades are outdoor events and are the first things to be affected. Check before travelling in the storm months, and accept that a park built around screens, tanks and rehearsed shows still has its most memorable minutes under an open sky.
Practicalities
Tickets. The official Chimelong website lists two tiers in 2026: a standard adult ticket at about 395 yuan on ordinary days and about 450 yuan on specified dates such as weekends and holidays; child tickets for ages three to twelve or heights of 1.0 to 1.5 metres at about 280 and 315 yuan; youth tickets for ages twelve to eighteen and over 1.5 metres at about 315 and 360 yuan; senior tickets for visitors aged sixty-five and over at about 280 and 315 yuan; and concession tickets at about 280 and 315 yuan. One paying adult may bring one child under 1.0 metre or under three years old free. Two-day passes, family tickets and an undersea-area night ticket are sold alongside. Prices and ticket types change, so use the official site as the reference. As of October 2026, subject to change.
Opening hours. The park opens daily at about 10:00 and closes at about 20:00, with longer hours on holidays, a figure on which two platform listings agree. The closing fireworks show usually starts at about 20:00 and runs about fifteen minutes, the night parade at about 19:15, and the daytime ocean parade in the afternoon. All of these shift with the season, so check the park’s app for the day.
Closing day. There is no fixed closing day, since the park runs through the year. Typhoons are the real risk, and the park may close or suspend outdoor shows when a storm approaches, which is most likely from July to September.
Getting there. The easiest route is the intercity railway to Chimelong Station, from which the park is about a five-minute walk; the alternative is to reach Zhuhai Station near Gongbei and take a taxi for about thirty to forty minutes. City buses K10, K11, 14 and 86 run to the park. From the Shenzhen side there is a fast ferry to the Hengqin pier of about seventy minutes, with a shuttle included. Driving is straightforward, but parking is charged by the hour with a daily cap, and one set of guides gives a lower cap than another, so confirm the rate on site.
flowcloud would say that Chimelong’s two Guangdong parks divide the world between them, the one at Panyu keeping the animals you drive past and the one at Hengqin keeping the ones that swim past, and that a day here ends under fireworks at the water’s edge.
Getting there: Chimelong Ocean Kingdom is the marine theme park at Fuxiang Bay on Hengqin, in the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone, Zhuhai, Guangdong, and is a different park from the Chimelong Safari Park at Panyu in Guangzhou, where the same company keeps the land animals; it opened in the mid-2010s with official retrospectives saying 2015, the official website lists 2026 adult tickets at about 395 yuan on ordinary days and 450 on specified dates, opening is about 10:00 to 20:00 daily with no fixed closing day though typhoons from July to September can close it, and the easiest arrival is the intercity railway to Chimelong Station about a five-minute walk away, with buses K10, K11, 14 and 86 and a fast ferry to the Hengqin pier also available (checked October 2026, subject to change).