Just-Pete
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jun 10, 2009
Just a quick Trip Report, as it was only a one day visit. But as my signature suggests I have done the Florida parks a lot, and being British I have also done DLRP a lot. So visiting my first new park in an age seemed worthy of a TR. And although it was only one day, I have to say it was probably one of the fullest days I have had in a park in years. I think knowing we only had one day really caused us to focus in and make the most of the day. Also the size and how busy the park was that day played into our favour and allowed us to get a lot done.
Background:
I was on an 11 day trip to Asia visiting my two friends who are a married couple living and working as teachers in an international school in Bangkok. (We have done WDW together before when we were younger as part of a larger group and a few trips to DLRP together) We had spent the first 2 days in Bangkok, then 3 blissful days on the island of Koh Samet. Then back to Bangers for one day before took an AirAsia flight to Hong Kong for three days. Our trip to HKDL was on the second day. The first day was just touristy stuff in the city, and the third day was really just the Ngong Ping 360 Cable Car and the big Buddha and then back into the city to Mong Kok for a look around some markets before heading back to Bangers, where we had two more days before I then flew home.
The trip:
We woke up early but still took things pretty easy as we knew we had time with the parks relaxed opening time (10am). So we grabbed a bit of breakfast for us all from the Starbucks on the way to the MTR station. We were staying at the Renaissance Harbour View, so we had to make a couple of changes on the MTR lines. But as any of you who have been to HK will know, the MTR is a seriously easy Metro system to navigate so we had no problems, and by 9:27am we were safely at Sunny Bay awaiting the Disney Train which promptly showed up.
This bit for me was super exciting, as I am a bit of a transport geek and I had already arranged my whole trip around particular flights for my miles balance, and for the model of aircraft and new types of business class seats (which Cathay Pacific won BTW) and it sounds sad but one of my favourite things about WDW is the Disney Transport options. So this was great, and a really well done transport mode. I loved the little disney touches with the windows, handles and the little character statuettes inside. It really got things off to a great themed start.
So soon enough we had arrived at the Disney end of the line and we were stepping out into a slap to the face of a heatwave.... This was easily the hottest day yet of the trip! It was like walking into a wall of hot humid air!
We hadn't pre-booked or done anything online, as the tickets seemed quite cheap by most standards to us, so we just joined a line and bought tickets at the tickets booth. I just paid with my Monzo card and this was no problem. I got an immediate notification on my phone that I had just spent £60.29 ($78.86) at Hong Kong Disneyland and once my friends had sorted themselves out, we made our way to the turnstiles and into the park....
To Be Continued.
Background:
I was on an 11 day trip to Asia visiting my two friends who are a married couple living and working as teachers in an international school in Bangkok. (We have done WDW together before when we were younger as part of a larger group and a few trips to DLRP together) We had spent the first 2 days in Bangkok, then 3 blissful days on the island of Koh Samet. Then back to Bangers for one day before took an AirAsia flight to Hong Kong for three days. Our trip to HKDL was on the second day. The first day was just touristy stuff in the city, and the third day was really just the Ngong Ping 360 Cable Car and the big Buddha and then back into the city to Mong Kok for a look around some markets before heading back to Bangers, where we had two more days before I then flew home.
The trip:
We woke up early but still took things pretty easy as we knew we had time with the parks relaxed opening time (10am). So we grabbed a bit of breakfast for us all from the Starbucks on the way to the MTR station. We were staying at the Renaissance Harbour View, so we had to make a couple of changes on the MTR lines. But as any of you who have been to HK will know, the MTR is a seriously easy Metro system to navigate so we had no problems, and by 9:27am we were safely at Sunny Bay awaiting the Disney Train which promptly showed up.
This bit for me was super exciting, as I am a bit of a transport geek and I had already arranged my whole trip around particular flights for my miles balance, and for the model of aircraft and new types of business class seats (which Cathay Pacific won BTW) and it sounds sad but one of my favourite things about WDW is the Disney Transport options. So this was great, and a really well done transport mode. I loved the little disney touches with the windows, handles and the little character statuettes inside. It really got things off to a great themed start.
So soon enough we had arrived at the Disney end of the line and we were stepping out into a slap to the face of a heatwave.... This was easily the hottest day yet of the trip! It was like walking into a wall of hot humid air!
We hadn't pre-booked or done anything online, as the tickets seemed quite cheap by most standards to us, so we just joined a line and bought tickets at the tickets booth. I just paid with my Monzo card and this was no problem. I got an immediate notification on my phone that I had just spent £60.29 ($78.86) at Hong Kong Disneyland and once my friends had sorted themselves out, we made our way to the turnstiles and into the park....
To Be Continued.