Personally, I think it’s such a shoddy name. More likely it was thought up while the thing was being planned. “Kunwari parang London Eye ‘to!” “Sige! Tawagin muna natin ‘tong MOA Eye kasi malapit sa MOA ‘to!” and then they got used to the name and didn’t bother changing it to something original and which doesn’t sound like it’s trying so damn hard to be an important landmark. Either way, the name is lame, but we appear to be stuck with it, sooo…
That’s where TJ and I went. I saw it being constructed about a month ago and was very much attracted to its claim as the country’s biggest and tallest Ferris wheel. We decided today would be a good day to visit since there won’t be a lot of people there yet, and we were right.
Riding the MOA Eye costs P150 and the lady at the ticket booth said the ride would take 10 minutes. Not a bad deal, I figured. A few minutes later, TJ and I were checking out the car we were in, and it amused us a fair bit. There’s an actual air conditioning unit inside, which is nice, because otherwise, we would have melted in the heat, but having an actual air conditioning unit in there was pretty funny. I wonder if it would have been wiser to position the unit higher to cool people better, rather than at the level of our legs, to think its windows can’t even be adjusted to move up or down.
There was a fairly decent view up there. Of course, the sea and SM Mall of Asia would be the first things you will see, but in the distance, you’ll see the buildings in the rest of the metropolis, and a mountain I assume to be Banahaw (not in my pictures, sadly).
The ride took us around only once, which left us feeling cheated, since it felt nothing like 10 minutes and going around just once seems like a waste of PhP150.
I still think the cars could be a lot better, but all in all, the MOA Eye is a decent-enough attraction. I may even want to go back again soon to see it in action at night.
