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Park News - (2/19/2025) A few updates have been posted by the local news about what’s going on with Marineland in Canada. As previously mentioned, the park has secured “third-party bridge loan financing” which requires the park owners to “expeditiously” remove all marine animals from the property. This is a reason behind why the property is being subdivided into four sections, in order to separate the land currently occupied by the park and animals away from other parcels that are being used as collateral to secure the new financing.
    The intention is not to sell off this property, but to eventually merge all of the park property back together whole, but if there is a default on the new financial payments, then these separate pieces of property could be sold off in order to pay the debts. The real problem however is that there is not a clear plan of what the owners of Marineland have planned for the property… because it is not a guarantee that it will reopen as a theme park of any kind once the animals are removed, and in fact the final goal could be to simply sell off the property to be redeveloped into any number of new uses, including residential housing.
    At this point, the only item that seems to be clear is that the owners are in need of this new financing in order to do anything with the park at the moment, including the possibility of opening it in any form for the 2025 season, so stay tuned.
 
    (2/8/2025) So is Marineland finally ready to be sold to a new owner? Quite possibly, as a video posted by Amusement Insiders reports that new documents released from the City of Niagara Falls indicate that some big changes are in the works.
   You can watch the video below, but the gist is that the park is now ready to remove all of the animals (land and sea) from the park, but to achieve this they are asking that the huge property that the park sits on be divided into four smaller pieces, so that two of the four can be re-zoned to allow for other things for a time, so that these sections of land can be put up as collateral for loans the park needs to finance the needed changes. As mentioned, these changes would remove all of the animal exhibits and reformat the park into more of a traditional theme park experience.
    And while I’m talking about Marineland, I would be remiss if I did not mention that it was reported earlier today that the park has euthanized a seven-year-old Beluga Whale this week after a long health battle through various medical conditions and an irreversible renal disease it had been struggling with.

 
    (11/9/2024) According to the local news in Canada, another Beluga Whale has died at Marineland this week. While death is part of the ‘cycle of life’, this is apparently the fifth whale to die at the park over the past year. An investigation into the park has apparently also determined that the deaths are not due to quality quality issues.
    2024 in general has been an interesting one for the park, with rumors spreading rampant at the start of the year that the park might not open at all, only for it to open for a relatively short season from late June through to early September. At the time it was also stated that the park was preparing for a “strategic evolution and redevelopment plan that will occur under new ownership”, but nothing more was ever announced about the possible sale of the park either.
    So it does make one wonder, once again, about the status of the park going forward and if it will open again in 2025.

 
    (4/22/2024) We finally have some new information about Marineland Canada to share. According to a report on Yahoo, the park has announced that it will open for the 2024 season on June 28th, thus putting an end to those rumors that it was shutting down. The park will also operate a 7-days a week schedule from then through to the Labour Day Weekend.
    The interesting thing is that the article also confirms that the park is preparing a “strategic evolution and redevelopment plan that will occur under new ownership” with the park to focus on “core attractions and experiences this season” along with a discount on admission prices. Tickets for the 2024 season and a list of the “core attractions that will be operating” this year will be released on the Marineland website and Facebook page on May 1st, 2024.
    So in other words… it does sound as if only part of Marineland will be open for 2024, while other sections may be closed, as a new ownership begins to plan and transform the property to fit their new vision for it. What I didn’t see mentioned however is any details about just who the new owners are, and what kind of previous experience they may have in the industry, or if they own any other attractions at all.
 
    (3/27/2024) Marineland has finally responded to the online rumors claiming that the park is closing and laying off staff as being false. According to the statement released, they confirmed that the park has always been “subject to all kinds of rumours started by people for their own reasons, some innocent, some not” and that “To be clear, Marineland is not closed.”
    Of course, not helping back this up is the fact that the website has still not been updated to show hours for the 2024 season, or allow for any kind of advanced ticket sales. Nor are they accepting job applications right now, so there still seems to be a bit of a mystery here… for now. We know last year they said they were open to offers if someone wanted to buy the park, so perhaps they are in the midst of finalizing a sale. Either way, keep your eyes open for any future updates from the park about the 2024 park status.
 
    (1/27/2023)  We first heard the rumor that the family that owned Marineland may have been thinking about selling it during the early days of the pandemic, but nothing ever came of it. Back in June 2018 John Holer had just passed away it is sounds like ownership of the park was passed on to his wife, Marie Holer, which led to a lot of speculation about the future of Marineland over the following years, though the park has basically stayed the course through it all.
    Now, the local news is reporting that Marineland is finally ready to look into the the idea of finding a new owner to take over the theme park. While Marie Holer, who is 84-years-old, is now looking to sell the property, this does not mean that Marineland is preparing to close down. Far from it actually, as the park has started that they will open this May and and plan to open each year going forward, so there is no plan to shut the park down.
    Instead, Marie Holer is looking to find a new individual or a group who are willing to buy Marineland and develop and invest in the park long-term, to grow it to be an even bigger attraction.

2025 - Nothing is known at this time...