Wow some nice pics in there, looks like there were lots of characters out and about.
Shame about the weather cancelling your flight, at least you got to the Resort in the end.
Sounds like you had a good first day in the park. The park also looks empty in the pics, was it? I wish it was empty when we went, meh.
Oooh, bad start to the trip, but it looks like you soon cheered up. Great report so far and really photos. Looking forward to the rest.
Bestest
Andy
Hey Benjuth_lightyear!
welcome to the forum :D/
I'm sorry there was such a huge delay to your trip, i would have been so upset but it looks like you made up for it as it looks like you had a brilliant time and your photos are fantastic, i am so jealous of the one in between minnie and Mickey! :P
Can't wait to see and hear about day 2!! =D>
indeed not the best start but it definetely looks like once you finally arrived at Disney you had a lot of fun. The pictures are great and I'm looking forward to read the rest of your report.
great trip report- loving all the pics. shame bout plane delay
love that peter pan and wendy were on the charcter express- ive only saw them in parades!:)
Welcome to the forum :D
Shame about the plane, but I'm happy you got to DLRP evntually, so you could make this great trip report. It seems like you had an awsome trip and the pictures are great. On some of them it actually looks like there were more characters than guests :lol:
I cannot wait to see the next part of the report :D
Great report, thanks for sharing it. I'm sorry to hear about the plane problems on the first day, but I'm glad that the rest has been good :)
Hello all, thanks for the comments so far!!!
The park was seemed very quiet all through the trip, the only times you saw alot of people was in the audience for the shows but they soon disapered at the end of the show...ive no idea where they were hiding all week!!
The lack of crowds meant there wasnt much of a wait in queues for the rides which was brilliant, i think the longest we queued was about 20 minutes on the second to last day when we went to meet Pooh... the only other queues we got stuck in was for food...
There seemed to be alot of characters out all week, more than ive seen in recent trips which was brilliant!!
Day Three - Walt Disney StudiosIt was another early morning and I again took advantage of the huge amount of food available at breakfast filling myself up with plent of energy for another action packed day..
I had never been to the stuidios in previous trips as it was still in construction stages so I didnt know what to expect, but i knew i wouldnt be disapointed!!
We set off and seemed to arrive at the park incredibly early, it was around 9:15 when we got through the gates, none of the rides were due to start til 10:00 so it gave us chance to have a wonder around and for chazy to take pictures every step of the way...
The first ride of the day came in the form of Crushes Coaster, we'd been advised to get on this early as the queues may build up throughout the day so that where we headed... and soon after we bumped into Donald before heading off to the Studio Tram Tour...
After the tram tour we headed to The Tower Of Terror which was incredible, for someone whos not that keen on heights I was a little nervous but before i realised how high up we were, we were back on the ground... soon after we found even more characters...
Before we knew it after doing pretty much everything in the park we made sure we saved Rock N Roller Coaster and Stitch Live until last.... Stitch was brilliant until he turned on me and descoverd i'd escaped from space prison...i knew we shouldnt of hid and sat on the back row... it blows my mind to think how they do it, but its a fantastic experience!!
As it was only 3:30 we decided itd be a good idea to head over to the main park and see the Once Upon A Dream Parade...
Then it was time to head back to the hotel yet again before heading out for dinner in the evening... we decided to give The Rainforest Cafe a try and wished we hadn't, the place seemed pretty cold, the food was terrible, the waiter forgot our drinks and when it came to putting a little complaint in the manager was the rudest person ive ever come across... I wouldnt recomend it to anyone...
Slightly disapointed and still a bit hungry we treated ourselves to some retail therapy before heading back to the hotel for another packet of crisps and a bottle of coke in hope that our next day would make us forget what a rubbish night out we'd had!
Day four on its way...
Looks like you had a good third day. Shame about the Rainforest Cafe. I've been there on several occasions now (including last week) but the worst problem I've had is trying to get the bill to pay for it (which I seem to find at most restaurants that I go to).
Another great day, except for the Rainforest Cafe incident though :roll: I can't wait for the rest :)
Shame about the Rainforest Cafe. I hope it didn't spoil your day too much.
It looks like you had another great day. What did you think of the winter show?
great update once again :D
Great pictures!!!
Hope you had a great time :D
Another great update, I'm looking forward to reading the final day :wink:
Great Trip report and Pics so far!! I love the pics of you guys with Winnie and the gang!! and i the pic with Rabbit!! How did you manage to get such a close shot?
Can't wait to read day 5!!
hey everyone again!!!
thanks for all the comments that have come through :D
the pic of Rabbitt was at the Candleabration, because it was so quiet we managed to get right to the front of the crowd in front of the castle where Rabbit bounded out of nowhere and seemed to head staight for our camera, i think there might be a video of it somewhere, he kept coming up to the camera really close and staring right into the lens... was good to see Rabbit as ive never seen him in the park before!!
So the time had come, I woke up for the very last time at DLRP saddend at the prospect of having to go home wishing I could stay forever...
We headed for breakfast one last time to take advantage of the huge amount of food, thinking how much I'd taken advantage of having it all on offer all week and not being sure how i was going to cope when i got home not to find 10 baskets of quasonts in my kitchen ready for me to feast upon...
We went and grabbed our bags from the room before poppin them into storage for the day...
It was time to complete all the things that we had missed, we had to get everything done today... first things first tho, chazy hadnt eaten much for breakfast so we went to grab a bacon and egg mcmuffin from Macdonalds :s
Then we dived straight into WDS to catch Armageddon and Animagique...
Then we headed to the main park where we had timed it to find the Character Express heading down Main Street and what made it better was that Buzz Lightyear had been added to todays Express which made me very excited!!!
It was now time for a bit to eat so we grabbed some chicken and ribs from the Cowboy Cookout Barbeque...
Now, i think i mentioned in another days report that im not to keen with heights....so we headed straight to the Swiss Familly Robinson Tree House... :(
Once youve started to go up the only way to get down is to keep going up to come staight back down....i was a bit uncertain after the first couple of steps and clung on very tightly most of the way around...i dont look as scared as i was in the pics tho... i mustve been playing to the camera a bit!!
After putting my feet firmly back on the ground we took a slow walk through the park... finding Aladain on the way... he confirmed to us despite his accent he wasnt from the south of england and was definately from Agrabah, Aladain was great we had a good chat to him about flying carpets and things!!
We soon arrived back at the hotel to collect our bags and wait patiently for the Transfer bus to CDG.... unfortunately we managed to get home easier than getting there, I would have been quite happy to get stranded at DLRP, but that was not to be :(
That was just a small selection of the photos from our trip that mainly chazy took.... she took thousands of photos and its been a mission picking out the ones i wanted for my report, if i come across anymore that ive missed and wished id put up i will post them at some point, i think theres videos too somewhere!!
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=D> Fantastic trip report, I've really enjoyed reading it and seeing your photos. I'm glad you had a great trip :)
^Ditto. I've really enjoyed reading your trip report. Your discussion with Aladdin sounds cool.
I'm a little bit like you when it comes to heights and I totally know what you mean about the tree house, I don't think I've held on to a rail so much going down a stairwell. :P
The photos you've posted are great and it'll be really cool if you have more to show.
I really loved your report and of course your photos. I can relate to the feeling of not wanting to leave the place so very well. It does sound like an amazing time though and I hope to read more reports from you in the future :P .
great review so far, really enjoyed your pics.
do you know what sort of time Sleeping Beauty awoke from the castle? Ive never seen that before and my girls would live it!
loved your report im guessing you both had a really good time :D/ :D/ , loved the photos, sounds like your girlfriend will want a return trip at some time. :D :D
What a great trip report. Great Writing. Great Photos. Just Great really. Glad you enjoyed yourself.
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What a Fab trip report!!
I loved all of your photos!! You got some brilliant character photos too!!
What a great way to celebrate your anniversary! Thanks for posting your report!
omg.......i loved reading your report......
i wish i didn't work in school where my holidays are governed...it looked so quiet on your trip.i can only go in school holidays....gutted...que's. :( :(
your trip sounded fantastic :) :) :)
mist list next time i date a man he must be in2 disney big time.lol
lynny
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Great trip report :D :D :D :D
I really enjoyed reading it :) :)
Hope you upload some more photos :wink: :wink:
Quote from: "Clairelb"great review so far, really enjoyed your pics.
do you know what sort of time Sleeping Beauty awoke from the castle? Ive never seen that before and my girls would live it!
I'm not quite sure, it was around 12 when we saw her and the show lasted for about 10 minutes, after that she came to the side of the stage and did a little bit of signing and some photos...
i think it happens more than once a day but its not advertised on any of the schedules, the best place to ask is on arrival at the Town Hall on Main Street where they can tell you pretty much everything about who's appearing where!!
Quote from: "smurfy74"sounds like your girlfriend will want a return trip at some time. :D :D
forget about her, I want a return trip there now......I'll let her come along too tho :)
Thanks for all your comments!!!
It was a pleasure to share with you all... and keeping my fingers crossed there'll be a return trip by the end of the year to catch the Halloween celebrations and Mickeys Magical Party!!!
Great trip report. Looks like you had a lot of fun.
Fab Trip Report you have there benjuth_lightyear :D/ =D> :D/
Plenty of photo's to look through, which also tells me that you had a lot of fun... :D/
Thanks again for sharing.. :wink: :D
I had such an amazing time, i'm very lucky to have been able to go, was an amazing time. I did take thousands and thousands of photos tho!!