.Jerudong Park

So I went to Jerudong Park Playground few days back with my cousins. The plan was to go on the supakart ride so I didnt bring my camera along. We arrived the place at about 6:05 pm and parked the car at the playground area. Entrance for parking was $1.00 and we bought the "all day pass" which is $5.00 per person. So with this "all day pass", we will be able to play all the rides at the playground for that day.


From the car park, we took a shuttle to the supakart ride which is at the fouth phase side of the playground. The shuttle was free but the driver was'nt friendly. So it was a quiet, boring ride. Along the way, all I can see was old dead rides, not functioning anymore. Even the tall tower was'nt there anymore. The place seemed dead.

So we arrived at the supakart ride. We present our tickets before riding the go-karts when the "jaga" guy said to us:

"Tau sudah rulesnya nie ah untuk gokat anie ah?"


I was like "what rules?", and he explained the actual ticketing for the supakart ride. It goes like this:

1. "all day pass" tickets can be used for all rides for the day
2. Supakart can use only for one time ride, then after that have to pay $2 per ride.

I felt cheated when he told me that. But I thought it makes sense since they have to spend more on the fuel and stuffs so we agreed to the regulations. Nevertheless, we had fun and i almost got into an accident when I tried to overtake my bro. *hehe*

After the supakart, we tried the waterlog. After waterlog, we thought that we would go to the bumper car ride so we waited for the shuttle to take us back to the other side of the playground. But it never came. We saw an empty shuttle near the waterlog and asked the guy next to it. But instead the guy said "inda ku tau. aku jaga sini". Really rude. I wonder why the jaga people at the playground are so rude, considering the job was really easy and the got paid for it. So we walked all the way to the bumper car ride.

In the end, we did have fun at the dead playground. We langgar'ed lotsa kids at the bumper car ride and went home satisfied. But the disappointing thing about the place was the personnels there. They never seemed to smile, not even a little. I know we're just a bunch of guys but I really think that they need to be more friendly. I think the person in charge should take this into consideration.

Can't say anything much about the rides there. The only rides still open were:

1. Supakart
2. Waterlog
3. Telecombat
4. Small bumper car
5. Big bumper car
6. The timbak timbak game
7. Pirate ship
8. Caterpillar
9. The pusing pusing thing (not pusing lagi)
10. Boat Ride
11. Merry-go-round

Jerudong Park Playground has been around for more than 10 years. It opened in 1995 as the only theme park in the world which is FREE. I remember when it just opened, you would see alot of crowd flocking the place every night. Every saturday night you would expect to see like more than 10 busses from Miri parked at the food stalls. After it was announced that the place is no longer free, the popularity of the place went downhill and people stopped coming to the place and after awhile the place was left to die. Even so, people would still come to the place every now and then especially during the school holiday. Opening hour is from 2pm to 10pm every day except on Monday and Tuesday.

My suggestion, if you want to go there only for go-kart, buy the "per ride" pass which is $3 and then pay $2 for the consequent ride.