It’s pretty hard not to know Cirque Du Soleil Hong Kong (Kooza) is now on as the big blue and yellow big top dominates the central harbour front beside the Hong Kong Observation Wheel (which is crap by the way). There’s only a few more weeks to go and see it as it closes on June 3, 2018 and while not being the most amazing spectacular thing in the world, it’s well worth going to see.
So, if you end up going to Cirque Du Soleil Hong Kong, you need to buy tickets online. There’s various prices and sections available, I chose the Category 1 tickets, which cost HKD$1,288 per adult and HKD$1,094 for a child, plus an additional $30 booking fee. Total $3,715 for 2 adults and 1 child. Not cheap but there are cheaper ones available and actually for the view, I think the cheaper seats are actually better because you get to see more of the show. Obviously not up close, but you see more of a wide angle. If I had know this before, I’d have definitely booked the cheaper seats although depending where you were, you might have be blocked from parts of the stage.
Anyway, showed up way too early on a Sunday afternoon to Cirque Du Soleil Hong Kong. There’s no cues to get in because everybody rebooks online. Inside the pre-stage area, inside the tent, there’s food and drinks stands, and some kids entertainer to keep them busy if you show up early like we did. Show starts pretty much on time so don’t be one of those slappers who think it’s cool to be late and show up thinking you are shit hot. You are not. Nobody appreciates it.
Cirque Du Soleil Hong Kong starts with the main clown, no idea what his name is, and some of his sidekicks. It’s all a bit heidi-heidi-ho-ish for my taste. I mean adults are laughing and most people seem to enjoy it, but it’s neither mine or Grobblers idea of hilarity. Typical clown stuff, fine to start the show with. This goes on for quite a while until you get into the action, and what I suspect most people go for, the acrobatics, death defying stunts and gymnastics and the like.
I won’t go into too many of the things going on as it’ll spoil it, but basically there’s a couple of body benders, two girls who can bend themselves into awkward positions. Impressive and pretty good. There’s your guys on tight ropes, the death loop (two guys doing some crazy shit while spinning around), acrobatics, a hoola-hoop lady, who I found to be probably the most impressive and another hoop guy. All of the performances are pretty good without being jaw-dropping. I mean your kids will most likely not have seen anything like this before, and I saw some pretty young ones there (like around 3) who stayed for the whole show and didn’t seem to get bored.
Between acts, they bring in the clowns and his side shows, and have some audience participation. Again, not our cup of tea but it’s not that bad and most normal will think it’s fine. There’s some pretty good, loud music accompanying the performances and it’s done by a live band which were rather good. Surprisingly, you’re allowed to take photos in here, just no flash or video recording. Thankfully, the staff are very good about enforcing that and anybody with that focus assist light on or videoing, was spoken to.
For kids they have booster seats, and you might need one as the seats are rather small and close together. We didn’t need it as we were lucky enough to have anybody sitting in front of us. It was pretty full and I’d say we were one of only a handful of people with nobody sitting in front of us. inside is a good temperature, it was about 28 degrees outside and a nice day and I expected them to have pumped up the air con and be freezing but I guess with the tent, it ended up being a good temperature. You’ll be fine in shorts and a t-shirt.
An hour in at Cirque Du Soleil Hong Kong is a 30 minute break, so head outside and get some fresh air. All up it’s 2 /12 hrs. Grobbler gave it an 8/10, which is pretty good for us, I gave it about the same. Not something you’d go back to and see twice, especially at those prices, but definitely worth going for something different and I’m sure your kids will like it. It’s not the most fun a kid can have, but as mentioned, pretty sure they won’t have seen something like this before so it’s a good way to spend an afternoon out of the heat.
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