This station is a major interchange point between the Tsuen Wan Line, Island Line, and South Island Line. The station itself is a construction site that will also be handling traffic from the Shatin Central Rail link (with any luck- delays and scandals have been piling up) so you can expect things to get a bit more hectic in the future.
Now that I work at Ocean Park, I find myself using this station a lot more... and this station definitely has its fair share of positives and negatives. For one, it's quite spacious, reaches a lot of places that you'd actually want to go to, and their crowd management is on point.
On the other hand, going to the South Island Line feels like an escalator expedition to the centre of the earth. While this ensured that trains were able to operate normally throughout construction, and it probably brings an added benefit to tourists that may confuse the two Island lines, for the regular commuter, it is to put it plainly- annoying.
To add insult to injury, the South Island Line platform seeks to penalize people for taking stairs- formerly a good way to bypass escalator crowds, these infernal staircases pointless except in an emergency- that is assuming you can find them. If you're trying to rush to catch the earlier train, don't bother- the escalators are going to be clogged, and forget the poorly designed staircase, they decided to foreground stairs altogether for the platform.
That being said, the new concourse is admittedly very clean looking as it also feels quite open. Shake they kind of dropped the ball with ventilation on the newer platforms. read more