Camp Quality Mysterious Island Adventure camp was a huge success with just under 200 campers, companions, nurses, doctors and volunteers making the journey across to Zhuhai for this 2-full day camping extravaganza.

After embarking the ferry terminal, we went to a local restaurant for lunch before departing for the massive Ocean Spring Resort Entertainment complex. The complex housed, two large hotels, a fisherman’s wharf featuring entertainment sites and fast food outlets, a hi-tech theatre, a hot spring complex and a modern theme park.

Our first stop was the Mysterious Island Theme Park with it’s many exciting and hi-tech amusement rides, including 5 which are supposedly top in Asia; the “high roller” which is a 360 degrees roller coaster which loop and twist and turn in a rather new and shocking way and probably for those brave campers who went on it, wishing it would stop or perhaps wishing it wouldn’t!! Whether you’re young or old, rollercoaster’s are great fun, for a few minutes, everyone becomes a kid again!

And the Camp Quality kids certainly love the thrills and spills of this spectacular rollercoaster even if it meant a 45 minutes wait in the line! Another favorite amongst the young and old was the “Gushing Dynamo” boat ride which also seemed like another firm favorite amongst all and was guarantee to get everyone wet! wet! wet! The popular “Turbo Spin” with it’s colorful bird beak as a trademark was also another ride which demanded some waiting time in the queues, this particular ride spins you, twist you and turns you inside out!! What a blast!

Not everything in the theme park were just for the thrill seekers, there were rides suitable for all ages including, Pirate shop, frog jump, haunted ride, “kiddies Cart” to name but a few for our younger ones. Throughout the day, there were various street performances including African drum dance as well as a Scottish band pipes band playing in the main section of the park for those who just wanted to wander around the area.

After a hard days play, Everyone was treated to an amazing evening performance at the complex’s Fantasy Theatre, some of the seats in the theatre can actually rotate 180 degrees but the Camp Quality group were on all the standard normal seats which gave just as great viewings as the premium seats. The performance entitled “A Dream by the Sea” was a spectacular one and half hour performance of modern dance, motorcycle acrobatics, magic, music and clown humor, we were all treated to a vast range of different performance and some similarities to a “Cirque de Solei” performance was evident in different parts of the performance.

Next morning, after breakfast, we all descended to the complex’s huge sport club, which Camp Quality had to completely book out the entire function space because we had such a big group with us. It was great fun for a couple of hours of recreational purposes. The club itself was very modern and boasts a multi-functional gymniusm, which we set up 5 badminton courts up for the kids to play, a few table-tennis tables as well as snooker tables and an indoor archery field.

Sadly, all good things had to come to an end and soon, we all had to pack our bags and leave the complex for our 4.00pm Ferry back to HK, however, just before we left Zhuhai, we took the kids to see a traditional wooden puppet show, rather similar to a “Punch & Judy” show but with an oriental twist!

Everyone arrived back home safely on Sunday night, all were exhausted but still very excited since for many campers on this camp, everyone was rather “spoilt” and given the VIP treatment with many of the children and their companions staying in executive suites rather than your standard hotel room because the tour operator upgraded us to a different hotel as well as a higher room grade category. To see the expressions on the kid’s faces when they saw their rooms (and the rest of us too!) was something special!