Macao Giant Panda Pavilion — Attraction in Coloane

The Panda Pavilion is a neat place to consider visiting during trips to Macau. When you arrive at the park near Coloane Village, walk to the ticket booth, selling designated tickets for HK$10 per person. You have to choose a designated time slot, 1 per hour. This is how they control the number of people going into the pavilion enclosure to see the pandas.

You will enter an temperature controlled enclosure area, designed to keep the Pandas happy and healthy and offer maximum viewing experience for a good number of people, per hour. It is also heavily air conditioned which is great if its hot outside which it will be during the summer months.

Remember, Pandas are from cold climate environments so they need it to be quite cool. Unfortunately, Pandas are Pandas... and Pandas are really lazy creatures that like to lay around doing nothing or sleeping for many hours of the day.

Thus, there is a very good chance that they will be inactive during your designated hour, as was the case during our recent trip at 12-1pm. During this hour, they laid in a corner, very difficult to see and only stirred a few times, offering only the slightest of opportunities to see them. This was disappointing but when you only pay HK$10 per ticket, how can you complain.

During other visits, we have caught them during feeding times when they are up near the enclosure class and actively feeding (100% good viewing of the pandas). We have also seen them active during non-feeding times as well. During non-feeding times that we have visited, I'd say the good views have happened 30-40% of the time.

There were some decent animal displays outside as well, including, Red Pandas, South American Toucan, somewhat similar to our Asian Hornbill, that was very interesting to see. There is a large Koy pond as well and some designated picnic table areas that are free of charge for usage.

The Pavilion is located south of the Cotai Strip in Coloane but its easy to find as there is not much development in this direction yet. Our taxi driver knew of the Pavilion but it was his first time there so its possible you might need to bring a map with you as this is a very new attraction at the moment.

Tip: There are some local buses that pick up outside the Pavilion but for visitors, it might be difficult to know where they are going. Its probably best to hail a taxi and just pay for a taxi to get back to your hotel.

Overall, the Panda Pavilion should make a very nice addition to the Macau tourism scene, especially if they are active...

Beautiful animals however their living environments were way too small. It quickly became a saddened experience as we stood back and watched animals seemingly in destress, pacing back and forth anxiously. The enclosures are not soundproofed and so the zookeepers attempts at shushing the overly enthusiastic and rowdy crowd were entirely futile. For the animals’ sakes, you would hope people would prioritize their photo/video ops a little less, unfortunately that would require a general sense of empathy, care and social awareness.. The pandas looked depressed and the same can be said for the monkeys and other animals too. The place definitely needs an upgrade. It was a saddening visit at the end of the day. This place may leave you feeling disappointed with humanity, so visit at your...

Free to enter and very quiet on a week day. We visited around 11:20am on a Wednesday.

Great to see the Panda’s, seemed happy rolling around for the few of us dotted around and splashing in the water. Red panda’s also here, parrots, other birds, flamingos, koi fish pond, different types of monkeys. Wide open spaces with plenty of benches to sit down if needed. We didn’t spot the snack area but there are vending machines for drinks and decently clean toilet facilities.

Gift shop is very affordable, we picked up a medium sized panda teddy for around £6.80.

Walkable distance to nearby village of Coloane (~15 minutes on nicely paved and manicured to Lord Stow’s bakery for a fresh Portuguese tart).

Recommended, especially for those...