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Title: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 4 added
Post by: SwipatronSparks on February 18, 2013, 12:21:06 PM
hey guys, even though there is still 37 sleeps until my trip i am far too excited to leave starting my trip report.... so here it is, finally starting another trip report! and I swear I will finish it this time!
so here's the plan:

day 0 - Wednesday 27th march - jump on the train to London where we will then catch the Eurostar we change at Lillle Europe (any pointers for this are very welcome! never travelled by Eurostar so its all very new!) arrive at Disney around 7pm and check in at the explorers hotel

day 1 -Thursday 28th march - after breakfast we will check out of the explorers hotel and make our way to the sequoia lodge, where we will be staying for the next 4 nights, after checking in and getting our passes we will head for Disneyland!

day 2- 5 Friday 29th - Sunday 31st march- will be the usual Disneyland programme, that we all do while there

day 6  - Monday 1st April - after breakfast we will check out of the sequoia and after dropping our bags off will leave and have a full day in the parks leaving at some point in the afternoon to check in at the kyraid

day 7 - Tuesday 2nd April - we will have the morning to do what we like before we leave on the afternoon for our Eurostar and train home
 
the cast:
me - 22 - the resident disney nut
my sister - 18 - the one who listens but doesnt take it in - also known as sailorsun2008 here on the forum

the mascot for this trip:
my nana plush
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Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd PTR
Post by: Rafael on February 18, 2013, 10:02:26 PM
Have a great trip! Looking forward to your report. :)
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd PTR
Post by: TigerLily on February 19, 2013, 02:50:51 PM
Bet you can't wait to go!  :D  

Looking forward to your trip report  :thumbs:
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd PTR
Post by: AislingM on February 27, 2013, 01:24:12 PM
Love Nana!!!
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd PTR
Post by: SwipatronSparks on February 27, 2013, 01:42:48 PM
Quote from: "Rafael"Have a great trip! Looking forward to your report. :)

thanks Rafel, we will be sure to have a good trip cant wait =] and i promise as i said that i will complete the report this time =]

Quote from: "TigerLily"Bet you can't wait to go!  :D  Looking forward to your trip report  :thumbs:

i cant! last trip was in 2011 so i am uber excited!

Quote from: "AislingM"Love Nana!!!

nana is very very cute she's my newest addition to my plush collection... actually found her in the disney store on times square in new york she was just too cute couldn't resist buying her... (i looked at her every time i went in there for 5 days!)

 :D
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd PTR
Post by: SwipatronSparks on March 25, 2013, 08:14:52 PM
all packed up and ready to leave on the first leg of our trip tomorrow... and picture number 1 of what I hope is going to be many....
Nana with my bags....

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p.s. if your around at DLP between Thursday the 28th and Tuesday the 2nd (we leave Tuesday afternoon) keep an eye out for me, I will have Nana with me most of the time, and my lanyard has a little thing in it saying I am on the magic forum

see you all when I get back...


Swipes...
 :D/  :D/  :D/  :D/  
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd PTR
Post by: Rafael on March 25, 2013, 10:43:56 PM
I am so looking forward to your report. I can't wait!

Have a great trip! :)


I think this is what is going through Nana's mind right now:

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Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd PTR
Post by: toonarmylass on March 26, 2013, 10:22:32 AM
Quote from: "Rafael"I am so looking forward to your report. I can't wait!

Have a great trip! :)


I think this is what is going through Nana's mind right now:

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Awesome lol!!!

Explorers has a great pool no matter ur age and you can get a nice pizza after for 11 € or so. Kyriad is a basic botel but have lovely comfortable beds lol!! Buses explorers is first on the pick up list and kyriad is 2nd!!
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd PTR
Post by: SwipatronSparks on March 26, 2013, 02:50:29 PM
i love that picture!!!! and she definately is.... we are all daydreaming about that =]

and thanks toonarmylass we have stayed in the explorers a few times before but never the kyraid so those tips where helpful =]

*is commenting from my grandmas.... first leg of trip to DLP complete!* :D/  :D/
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd PTR
Post by: TigerLily on March 26, 2013, 03:36:41 PM
Love the damning Nana pic XD haha!

Have a FAB time! DISNEY DISNEY DISNEY! Lol
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd Day 1
Post by: SwipatronSparks on April 04, 2013, 06:53:29 PM
Day 1 travel day...

After walking up making last checks we left for the train station, boarded our train and where leaded for London at around quarter to 11.... A game of travel monopoly later and we where pulling into kings cross station, we took our time wandering over to St Pancras as it was only 20 past 12 and we weren't due to leave until just after 2, but the time passed quickly and we where soon on our way, a stopover in lille that almost brought us loosing nana to a couple of kids due to the language barrier! (See sailorsun2008s report she talks about this) and we where on our way again and then not long after we where getting our first glimpses of disneyland spotting space mountain through the trees.

 it was now that i appreciate arriving at DLP late, and also see what you mean by the bus is a mad scrum, we almost didn't make it onto the first bus to the explorers but managed it... Just.... A hop skip and jump and we where checking in at the explorers, room 605, nice view over the entrance of the hotel, by this time it was coming on for around 7.30 and with some time to kill we went for a swim, which nicely took up a couple of hours, we decided on just having a pizza in the hotel which we took up to our room a little TV watching (handy tip for you adults staying in here... we found that for our TV the cbbebbies channel becomes bbc1 i would assume when cbbebbies is finished for the day)

 we settled down for sleep.... Sleep that unfortunately wouldn't come for hours.... Now i don't know if it was just the fact that i knew i needed to be up or what, but the slightest noise kept me awake... But i watched the clock tick... 12.30... 1... 1.20... 2... Then the room above us seemed to be having a party for themselves.... Lots of noise, by 2.45 with a 6.30 wake up i couldn't take it any more and wandered down to reception to see if they could help, the lovely man came straight with me to find the source of the noise (it was coming from directly above us) and the lovely people in the room where very apologetic and not 5 minutes later i was once again tucked up in bed...

But even with that noise gone sleep still wouldn't come.... I even caught myself at one point coming up with what i would write in my trip report....I couldn't say when it was that i fell asleep, but i do know that my phone blasting rebel love song by black veil brides at me for an alarm very nearly gave me a heart attack...

here are the few pictures i took on the first day.... i will put pictures throughout the text in the next days...


our first train was on time
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first glimpses of disneyland through a rather murky TVG train window...
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our room for the night... with our mascot nana....
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the view out of our window...
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To be continued in day 2...
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 1 added
Post by: Rafael on April 04, 2013, 08:26:24 PM
I loved the shot of Space Mountain through the window. Pretty cool! :)

I can't wait for the next installment! :)
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 1 added
Post by: BlackPearl on April 05, 2013, 07:24:14 PM
I love the plush Nana.
Hope you took her to Peter and Wendy   ;)
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 1 added
Post by: jeakat24 on April 06, 2013, 02:06:22 PM
You're not the only one- whenever I know I have to be up for something I can never sleep!

Good trip report so far, looking forward to the rest
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 1 added
Post by: SwipatronSparks on April 06, 2013, 02:14:57 PM
thanks guys, glad your enjoying it even though that first bit wasn't so interesting =]

next park will be up very soon (uploading the photos as I type this, the next instalment will have more photos =]
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 1 added
Post by: Rafael on April 06, 2013, 06:42:25 PM
I thought it was pretty interesting, SwipatronSparks! :)
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 2 added
Post by: SwipatronSparks on April 06, 2013, 10:18:50 PM
DAY 2

As our alarm for the day went off i found myself getting up quite easily considering my complete lack of sleep, we started getting ready, for our breakfast, looking forward to our first day in the parks......after breakfast we left the explorers, caught the bus, jumped onto the next bus that took us around to the sequoia lodge and after checking in and dropping our bags in the luggage room we left for our first day in the parks, actually getting there for around quarter to 9. meaning we got around an hour of extra magic hours!
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we walked into the park,
this is my sister entering the park
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 snapped a picture of the 20th sign,
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and headed on, it was here on my first glimpse of the castle that i burst into tears, yeah we aren't sure why, anyway after calming myself down we called into city hall and booked our tables for meals for the rest of our stay.

castle
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After wandering around for a little while we found that space mountain had a very short queue of 10 minutes and so this was our first ride of the trip. When we came off we headed for the back of fantasyland and pirates (we had to wait for rope drop even got to see them open the ride for the day, it was quite funny and i do have a video currently in editing where this can be seen =] pirates seemed to be working very well, there is (thankfully in my opinion) no addition of Jack, the swinging pirate was swinging, every set where needed was well lit, however the two sword fighters wernt actually hitting each other.... but alas we paid this no mind and after we got off the ride we then went on our first ever (but not the only one this trip) proper exploration around adventure isle
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(theres more but i don't want this to be too picture heavy for those of you with a slower connection)

we then headed for frontireland where our third ride of the day was phantom manor,
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this ride was.... dark.... as in even the lighting inside wasnt working right on some tours around the manor, where the self knocking doors are we couldnt actually see anything at all there at one point, and never on the 5 or 6 trips around the manor over the course of our trip did we see the goblin on the back of our doom buggy at the mirrors...

after a browse around boot hill we wandered towards main street where we saw the celebration train going past, and after a wander through the disneyland hotel we headed into the studios, again much wandering around ensued and we found the rockin roller-coaster with only a 5 minute wait...

By now it was around 1am and we where both hungry and decided to leave the parks and have a wander to the earl of sandwich which we have never heard bad things about, we weren't disappointed, our sandwiches where lovely, and it gave me time to catch up on my report writing. While sitting here we decided to kill the next hour by having a wander around the lake, calling in for a look in the new york and newport bay club hotels.

When we eventually made our way to the hotel and collected our room key, we decided to relax for a while before we headed back out going to the studios where we made our first drop in with the tower of terror.
 While in the queue a cast member called Louis saw my pins and the thing i have in my lanyard saying I'm on the forum, he asked me what it was about and then said he thinks he had a user name for it, so Louis, if your reading hi!
After our drop in we headed to toy story play land where with a 15 minute wait we went on rc racer, then headed for the disneyland park where we intended to get in a few rides while the parade was on.... Instead we ended up finding a spot and watched the parade, when it was finished we left the park and headed for billy bobs for our evening meal.
When we where finished our meal we realised it was only just turning 7... We both then made the decision to head for the park.... It was time to finally see dreams...and we managed to get really good spots comfortably close to the front but not too close (we where on the curb of central plaza pretty much in the centre of the castle)
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And that's it my camera was in the hotel, my ipad was back in my bag.... It was time for dreams... And it didn't disappoint! I was crying by the end of it, it was amazing! and we left the park talking about how we couldn't wait to see it again....
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 2 added
Post by: TigerLily on April 07, 2013, 11:35:25 PM
Great trip report - I'm really enjoying reading it! And lovely pics! I'm so excited to watch Dreams. I had a peak on YouTube and it looks breath taking.
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 3 added
Post by: SwipatronSparks on April 16, 2013, 05:04:15 PM
Day 3 (this day seems really short to me.... sorry about that...)

So the night of day 2 went extremely well sleep wise and i actually woke up before my 7am wake up this time, this morning we where having breakfast in the park, we ate in the pinocchio restaurant (i always forget what its called)....
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fantasy land from the window next to us...
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pain au chocolate.... yummy...
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After some food we headed to peter pan which only had a 5 min wait, it was lovely as always, and nice to ride as it was closed when we where last at DLP, though i dont know if it was just me, but it seemed a little.... bumpy....

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we then went for a walk around taking some photos, of the beautiful fantasyland, even catching the small world clock parade

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after looking in on the dragon we ended up in discoverland and headed for a ride on buzz,
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 we waited for rope drop at frontireland but with a 30 min wait for big thunder we left that off and headed down main street at the bottom we got on the main street car and ended back at the top just in time to catch the horse drawn street car back down, it was as we where coming back down that we saw just how busy the parks where going to be today, we left the parks to head back to the hotel (sisters camera had died and she left the spare batteries behind.) where we made a plan on where we where going to head when we wandered back :) on our way back to the parks we called in for a look around the Newport Bay Club, where we had a fun few minutes with goofy who was quite enjoying himself posing for photographs
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When we eventually got back to the park we headed straight for big thunder, where we where right up to sitting down when the ride decided to break down, we where given a fast pass for later and sent on our way, these where taken just after we sat down before they decided the ride was broken....
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 we moved on having another good hunt around adventure isle finally finding that oh so elusive pirates throne (though to be fair this was the first time in 10 trips that we had had a proper good hunt around the place)
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 before heading for fanstasyland via adventureland where we took a tour through Aladdin's passage and taking a ride on its a small world (it had a 10 minute wait)
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we also accoridng to my pictures had a ride around on the storybook boats...
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 after small world, we went in search of some food we ate out of Casey's while back in the queue for big thunder (this time it worked!) after which we went on phantom manor (5 mins) and found that on wandering through the parks that pirates only had a 10 minute wait and so went on that, our last thing for the day was the labyrinth, it was now 10 to 5 and with tired feet and aching knees we headed for our 6.30 show of buffalo bills (we where told to show up at 5.30) it was brilliant as always
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end of day 3  :)

i have also kinda decided that i would really like to post all of my photos on here, but that would just take hours both for me to do since photobucket doesnt like auto copying the links anymore and it would take hours for the page to load as well as it would make this thread very photo heavy, so i have decided that i will post a second video (i am going to post one anyway with all the footage i took) with all my photos in, it will just be a bog standard slide show but will make things so much easier =]
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 3 added
Post by: BlackPearl on April 16, 2013, 09:17:35 PM
Nice report so far! Thanks for sharing.  :D
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 3 added
Post by: Rafael on April 16, 2013, 10:25:50 PM
I really enjoy your report and I love your photos. :)
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Post by: Fluffymilly on April 17, 2013, 12:15:04 AM
I'm loving your report especially as we are unable to visit Disney this year. We usually go every year even if only for a couple of days. I hope you will forgive me asking but I'm curious as to why you stayed in 3 hotels. Am I missing a trick?? We have only ever stayed 'on site' . What are the reasons for the extra 2 hotels? It sounds like a lot of hassle!!
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Post by: SwipatronSparks on April 17, 2013, 07:41:28 AM
its just the way we do our trips and it can be a bit fiddly but is ultimately worth it because when it works you have had a good nights sleep the night before and arent all tired from travelling when you arrive in the parks, right from the first time we arranged our own transport we have always travelled the day before, we usually only stay in 2 hotels one a disney hotel such as the sequoia and one offsite such as the explorers because as you know your first day in the parks is your arrival day, so we travel the day before and not loose that first day by travelling, as for the 3rd hotel this time around it was cheaper to book that 3rd hotel and travel home on the Tuesday than it was to travel home on the Monday and it worked better timing wise for our connecting trains when we got back into London.
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Post by: Fluffymilly on April 18, 2013, 11:24:05 AM
Aha a cunning plan! well done. I'm loving your trip report. We are fortunate to live very near Eurostar so we have a quick journey to Disney but it might still be a nice option to try. Thanks for your reply.
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 3 added
Post by: SwipatronSparks on April 19, 2013, 08:09:30 AM
Aah we live in the north east near durham so we evn when flying usuall end up at dlp quite late and we loose a full day just travelling hence our cunning plan :) day 4 will be along soon
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Post by: cinderslg on April 25, 2013, 05:20:56 PM
lookforward to the rest and your pics of course  :D
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 4 added
Post by: SwipatronSparks on May 19, 2013, 07:01:57 PM
Day 4....

Our day began with breakfast in the parks again before our first ride on dumbo, then we had a ride on space mountain before hopping over to the studios where we had a wander around taking some photos at the big cheese thing outside restaurant des stars....
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before we joined what seemed to be a horrifically long queue for crush we ended up waiting around half an hour so not too bad after all though no where near our 10 minutes from our last trip back in 2011.
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 after crush we had a ride on rc racer and picked up fast passes for the tower of terror.

We jumped back to disneyland where we had only our second ride in 10 trips on Autopia, hilarity ensued while on this as I decided I wanted a photo of my sister who was infront of me, there was much yelling about not watching the 'road' and about me taking both hands off the wheel :P

By this time it was time to go back for our drop in with the tower.
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As we came off the tower we found that it was nearly time for stars and cars which we watched (no photos of this as we where right at the back) before heading back through studio 1 with no particular destination in mind i got some candy floss then as we exited the park (it was huge I swear it was bigger than my head) we decided on heading back to the hotel for a while before we would head back towards the parks stopping off for the decent of the stairs show (i recorded this so no photos again) then into the park for our 5pm reservation in walts.
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we where seated with a lovely view on to main street
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After a lovely meal while watching the parade go by we checked the queue times and with a 20 minute wait we headed for our second ride of the day on autopia. Then on to pirates, big thunder mountain and phantom manor after this we decided on a photo hunt, this was one of the first times we had seen the park properly at night and so we took full advantage before heading back for the night...
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sorry for how short this day seems,
to be continued in day 5...
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 4 added
Post by: norhel on May 19, 2013, 07:53:58 PM
Nice pics :-)
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Post by: SwipatronSparks on May 19, 2013, 08:17:01 PM
thanks norhel =]
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 4 added
Post by: gemmasteele84 on May 19, 2013, 08:58:22 PM
loving the report :)
Title: Re: disney trippin 2013 march 27th - april 2nd day 4 added
Post by: Rafael on May 30, 2013, 06:20:52 AM
I am really enjoying your report. The pictures are beautiful! :)