Hey everyone, im back from another amazing trip. Hadnt been since my school trip in 2007, so going with two best mates and with all the new attractions made it that much better.
Trip Overview
Sunday 3rd - Travel + night in Disney Village
Monday 4th - Park Day
Tuesday 5th - Park day + leaving afternoon
Wednesday 6th - Come home early hours to thick snow
Theres a little overview of my trip, cannot wait to start the report. Heres a sneak peek;
Freezing temps (-5)
Missed out major ride
Fight in TOT
Luck with parade and shows
Empty parks
Snow storm on the way home
Im going to get some sleep, but cannot wait to start my trip report :D
Glad to hear you had a nice time, the sneak peek sounds very interesting... Looking forward to the report!
I'm glad you had a good time, and I'm looking froward to your report Owain :)
Glad to hear you had a great time Owain, i'll look forward to your trip report :)
You tease you, be sure to get your rest, welcome home, looking forward to the report.
Quote from: "Owain"Fight in TOT
I'm curious, what happened in TOT? Looking forward to your report!
Quote from: "dagobert"Quote from: "Owain"Fight in TOT
I'm curious, what happened in TOT? Looking forward to your report!
Me too!
Can't believe how cold it was! Hope it's not that bad when I go, although I have bought thermals to be on the safe side!
Can't wait for the report!
Quote from: "jeakat24"Quote from: "dagobert"Quote from: "Owain"Fight in TOT
Can't believe how cold it was! Hope it's not that bad when I go, although I have bought thermals to be on the safe side!
Can't wait for the report!
WE have made a vow to never go between Nov and March because of the cold. It is just not fun.
Glad to be keeping everyone in suspense, I shall start with the trip report.
Sorry if it gets boring, ill try and keep it intresting with alot of photos if I can.
And facebook was the easiest place to upload photos for the size of this forum.
Mouseketeers
Me - Owain
Jake - Forum member "Jake"
Lisa - Mine and jakes friend
Leanne - Jakes Mum
Steve - Jakes Dad
Alex - Jakes Grampy
Amy - Jakes sister
Sean - Amys boyfriend
Callum - Jakes Brother
Paige - Jakes Sister
Evan - Jakes baby brother
So...
Day 1 Part 1
"IM GOING TO DISNEYLAND"
Could not get much sleep as I was so excited, I woke up 4:30am and realised i still needed to finish packing. Adding more jumpers too make sure id stay warm as i knew it would be very cold. Packed chargers for my ipod, iphone and camera. And went down stairs and had breakfast at 5:20 in the morning watching viva hits. I then got ready made sure i had everything and brought my suitcase and hand luggage down to the car.
We picked up my friend lisa, and jake and his family were meeting us in cardiff city centre to board the coach to start the holiday.
We got to cardiff town and saw we had a very nice coach. Two Plasma screens, reclining seats wit lots of leg room, very new and clean and nice leather seats. We gave our luggage to the driver who then told us that our ferry too calais was booked for 1:30pm. We were all shocked as we booked to go by euro tunnel (much quicker and no sea sickness :P) but he said we were going by ferry because off back log in the tunnel from the past weeks trouble. I was happy that it was a very nice coach as we were on it from 6:10 am in the morning (UK time) too gone 8:00pm (French time).
On the coach, with evan the baby
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Lisa and evan
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Callum and Paige
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The driver let everyone sleep during the early hours and about 3 hours later we made a service stop where they had...
KRISPY KREMES
Original Glazed please :wink:
Jake and Me
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Jake and Lisa
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They were delicious ! living in wales there rare for me as i only ever get a chance to buy them when i visit london and take a trip to selfridges (Dozen Original Glazed) :D
Jumped back on the coach and as everyone was awake the driver decided to put a disney film on, Monster Inc.
End of Day 1, Part 1.
great pics and report so far cant wait to read more¬!!
Great start to the report owain.
I wont bother writing one, as it would be pretty much exactly the same, instead ill try post some photos on here when i have some spare time!
Welcome back have been dying to read your report as your holiday so close to mine!. Great to hear you had a good time - am sooo curious about your teasers 'fight on TOT' hmmm guess will have to wait. Your photos are great cant wait to hear more.
ps am so glad I bought so many fleeces!
:D/ :D/ :D/
Great start to the trip report!
Finally someone who agrees original glazed are the best! (A little off topic, but Tesco's have started selling Krispy Kremes!)
Great start, and very intriguing sneak peak! Me too I'm very curious about the ToT fight...
Looking forward to the rest!
good start! :)
Thanks everyone, im glad everyone is enjoying it.
Day 1 Part 2
Passing through england, while watching Monsters Inc. Before you know it we passed the euro tunnel terminal (i think) and drove swiftly passed :( onto dover to board our ferry. The ferry was booked with P&O for 1:30 but we managed to get to the ferry early at 12:00, we all crossed our finger, toes, arms and legs that we could get onto an early ferry but unfortunatly there wasnt one. Oh well 1:30 ferry it was :).
We were stopped by border control, lucky enough only 6 adults had to get off with there passports so we were not waiting to long. From then we queued at the ferry dock waiting for the P&O 1:30 ferry.
While waiting for the ferry a car pulled up with what looked like a dead horse ontop of it, everyone was taking photos and staring at it. Me and amy went out to see it to find out it was plastic. I will post the photo when leanne uploads her photos as i took it on her camera. Soon the ferry came and we boarded and left for dover.
Ferry
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Dover
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Dover
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Dock
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White Cliffs
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Byeee UK !
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We left our luggage with jakes family and went for some food :)
Lisa
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Jake
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After eating we kept ourselves busy by visiting the shop and duty free, jake and lisa bougt some purchases like skullcandy headphones and perfumes. We soon hit land in Calais, FRANCE ! :D
We departed the boat and did not get stopped the other side and started our journey through france to Disneyland PARIS ! It was the longest 5 hours? of my life. The film there was Little Mermaid :) . We had a few service stops but i just could not wait until we arrived. Time passed and we started playing spotting games, amy spotted the sign first. I remember goign passed a huge carrefour shopping center, with a H&M and virgin.
It was dark now, about 7:30pm ish. Still playing the spot the disneyland game i saw huge spotlight in the sky and i imedeatly knew it was Disneyland. I told everyone and we kept our eyes on them waiting as we got closer to make things out, jake shouted he could see the castle and TOT. Soon everyone clocked on and notice it was disneyland, as we got closer everythign came more clearer. We drove passed Newport Bay Club then into Disneys Sequoia lodge for the people staying there, before we got off the coach driver gave us his phone number and told us to be ready at our hotels at 3:30pm tuesday. We were abit dissapointed because we expected a full day in the park but nevermind. We pressed on to Disneys hotel Cheyenne where we were all staying. We checked in, 3 rooms in Calamity Jane, not the furthest from Reception/Food but furthest from the parks ! Our breakfast was at 7:45 but we were told we could come earlier if we wanted too :)
Man what a walk it was with suitcases to the rooms, it didnt help with the receptionist giving us the longest way to get there, Out through reception and turn right she said, when the next day we worked out it was much quicker to go out through the Bar/Food Exit. Arriving in our rooms we changed and got ready to go to disney village.
Me and Lisa
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Me and lisa very dark :P
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We decided to walk along the rio grande to disney village. Not only the coldness was a hint too the temp for the next few days but the fact the rio grande had froze !
Lisa and Evan
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Amy and Sean
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Walking to DV
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We reached hotel new york and started taking some photos
Newport Bay Club
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Callum and Evan
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Disney Village
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Hotel New York
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Ice Rink
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Amy and Sean
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Panoramagique
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Panoramagique
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Jake infront of Panoramagique
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We then walked through DV, and stopped to have a photo taken of all of us on the stage by PH. I will post the photo when available as its on leannes camera :D
We then queued in annette's
Annette's Diner
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Annette's Diner
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I Love annettes, one of the only places i like to eat at in the village. I had the Rock N Roll Burger i think it was :D
Everyone enjoyed there meal and the waiters were great.
Leaving Annette's
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We then went into the disneystore to have a browse, evan wanted everything. In the end he got a mickey and minnie heart pillow and a pluto and mickey plushes.
As it was now midnight we walked back to the cheyenne and what a cold walk it was !
We then got ready and went to bed, Lisa in the double bed, Jake bottom bunk and Me top bunk. Ready for our day at disney :)
Lisa and Me
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Jake Lisa and Me
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End of Day1 Part 2 :wink:
love your report so far and can't wait to read more! great start!
Great pics!
Great start to your report Owain, I've really enjoyed reading it. I'm looking forward to the rest :)
Great trip report and pics.
Can't wait for the next instalment.
Thank you everyone for reading so far !
Day 2 Part 1
MORNING !
I could hardly get any sleep during the night, we had a wake up call for 6, and had 2 other alarms set. I remember i was up at 4:30 thinking come on 30 mins. Then realised actually 1hour 30 mins. I fell back asleep waking up at 5:50. I could not wait, watching the tv clock.
My alarm rang a minute before 6, i started getting up. The wake up call rang which made jake and lisa move. Jake picked up the phone and then put it down and went back to sleep. I wasnt taking any notice of them and got my clothes ready and jumped in the shower. The shower really woke me up and got me nice and warm for a very cold disney day. After i got ready i came out of the bathroom to find the room still dark and jake and lisa sleeping !
I told jake to go in the shower, no answer. I pulled lisas cover of her to get her up, she wouldnt. So i decided to start packing my bag for the day. Camera, check. Wallet with money, check. Etcc.... at 6:45 jake and lisa finally got up ! While they were getting ready, i sorted the room out. Ripped the hotel easy pass off the sheet of paper and decided to bring an extra hoody on top of my jumper and t shirt. At the moment i was wearing a pair of jeans, a thisrt, mickey jumper and a mickey hoody. With a little help jake and lisa were ready about 7:10am, we were about to leave and i realised i lost the hotel pass, but with a little look i found it ontop of the shelf by the hangers. Me, jake and lisa left for breakfast with Amy Callum and Sean. Jakes family were coming later as they were not too bothered about EMH, plus it was very early for the younger kids.
Our breakfast was for 7:45 but we got there about 7:15. I ate a bowl of frosties, and some croissant's. I picked up some nutellas. I also drank a hot chocolate and about 3 cups of orange juice. With breakfast finished we walked through reception and who was there ?
Callum, jake, pluto, me and lisa in Cheyenne Reception
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We went to the bus stop but no one was there so we assumed that buses were not running. It was bout 8ish, so we decided to walk the bus route. While walking the bus route a cheyenne bus passed us going towards the hotel (typical :| ) . The walk was not long, but VERY cold. We were soon at the resort hub and the photo taking began !
Sorry if these photos are abit shaky. It was dark and i couldnt stop shivering.
Disneyland Hotel
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Disneyland Hotel
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Incase you forgot the theme of the year
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Disneyland Hotel
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We went under the hotel, and could already feeling the disneyland park magic. We got to the cm who had to check your tickets. We all gave him our park tickets and he quized us on the hotel we were staying in. He then asked to see our hotel pass. I put it in my bag so i had trouble getting it back out. With a pull it came out and along with a few nutellas i took from breakfast ! Most embarrassing moment of the trip ! The cm laughed along with jake and lisa and i just picked them off the floor. I gave him the pass and he let us through, we then went through the turnstiles and were in Disneyland park ! :D/
A walk under...
Main Street Station
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A few photo of Main Street USA when empty and dark during EMH
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Main Street Transport
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City Hall
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Dont forget it was still Christmas :wink:
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Me on Main Street USA
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*BEEP**BEEP*
Main Street Cars were running, Me Jake and Lisa jumped on board with another english family to central plaza :D
We got out and had a photo infront of the castle which is on jakes camera, he will post his photos soon :)
Castle
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Castle
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We walked through the castle into fantasyland and straight to Peter Pans Flight, our first ride of the trip :)
It was EMH at about 8:30 so it was a walk on, lovely to go on this ride again as i probably hadnt been on it since 2002. It was a great ride, but abit jerky, all effects were working i think. Including the smoking chimneys at the start of the ride.
Next EMH ride was Dumbo. Always a huge queue so was nice to walk one again :)
Jake and Lisa on Dumbo
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Dumbo
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Looking over to Peter Pan and Pirates
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Tea Cups and IASW
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Castle from dumbo
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We decided we wanted thrills now so from dumbo we walked through fantasyland going past IASW, Fantasia Gelati and Pizzeria Bella Notte. Walking into Discoveryland i love the view of Videopolis, SM and Orbitron. We walked onto Space Mountain and had back seats. I had a pretty nice ride but jake and lisa thought it was quite rough.
Photo Shop was not open, Back left jake, right lisa and Me
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Next we rode buzz which was also a walk on, had a poor score, but still managed to beat lisa. Jake had the higest score tho !
Next we went on Mad Hatters Tea Cups, it was fun but not as fun as i remembered. They use to spin much faster, its hard to get them spinning now ! After coming off we saw a cm heater and decided to warm up, lisa wearing knitted gloves tried to warm her hands up but ended up burning her gloves. Me and jake could not stop laughing.
Now as we had done all EMH attractions accept Le Carrousel de Lancelot which we were not too bothered about. We went to discovery arcade where we had a toilet break and looked at the information board. We found out MWW was on at 10:45 so we booked that into the morning. We wanted to warm up so decided to go to Market House Deli where we sat down and had a lovely hot chocolate. While inside we heard the opening annoucement and started to see more people walking down mainstreet. We finished our hot chocolates and decided before huge queues built up we wanted to do frontierland. We walked through the path at the end of Liberty arcade into Thunder Mesa and picked up fast passes for BTM. We then went to Phantom Manor.
BTM
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BTM
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BTM
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Frontierland
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Castle from Frontierland
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BTM
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We then went into PM, great ride. Everythign started comign back to me as i hadnt been on this since 2002. I think most effects were working bar one or two. I love the Dinning Hall scene :) Jake managed to scre lisa and me while riding it too.
We walked through frontierland where a long queue ad formed outside BTM gates as it still had not opened, we picked up fast passes for 10:35 - 11:05 thinking MWW was only going to be 15 minutes long :P With time to spare before the show we walked onto POTC, still my favourite ride in the resort. And an added plus of making you warm after being out in the cold temps.
Jake, Lisa and Me on POTC
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Still love it, amazing ! Loved it before the film, love it even more after. We realised it was 10:40 and that we had 5 minutes to get to the show, we power walked through adventureland and too frontierland where we had to find The Chaparral Theater, MAN ! i didnt know how big frontierland was, the theater is very far back isnt it ! Now i know why DLP is the biggest park out of them all. Anyway we managed to get the theater and still get good seats only being 2 minutes late. The show annoucement came on and said the show would start in 12 minutes. There goes our BTM fastpasses then. 10 Minutes later the doors were shut and the show started.
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The show was great, even if the theater was freezing !
Coming from the show we walked towards cowboy cookout bbq and loads of characters appeared so we had some photos.
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Abu was also there, i had to question though. These were all adventureland characters, what were they doing in cotton wood creek where woody and his gang are ?
We were very cold now and wanted to go back to our hotel room to put on some more layers so we started heading out of the park when we heard minnie, it could only be....... Minnies Party Train !
We ran through liberty arcade and took some photos as we only caught the end.
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We left Disneyland Park and caught a bus back to the hotel room in Cheyenne.
End of Day 2 Part 1 ! :D
im loving your report and love seeing pics of you and your friends in the photos - i love it when people are in the photos as opposed to just scenery shots, i think its the smiles people seem to have on their faces and it reminds me of the smiles I have on my face when im in the parks
Fab trip report thanks for posting. You have great pics, especially love your ones of the show - I can't wait to see it when I go next Christmastime (man it seems so far away....)
Great report so far, lovely pictures!
People's reports always really make me look forward to my next trip :)
THanks for the report so far.
Me too, I thaught, the teacup aren`t moving the same way they did before( we were there in september).
Great pictures, I an looking forward to the nxt days.
Aurora
Thank you for the trip report! Your photos are amazing, can't wait to see the rest of them. :)
Like the pics!
Great report so far! awesome pics too
Great report!! And great pictures - I love the ones during the EMH, everything looks even more magical with that morning light!
Looking forward to more!!
nice tr!
come on dude, im gagging to read more about your trip and see your photos. looking forward to the bit about a fight :lol:
great trip report!! i LOVE reding them all esp on the run up to a disney holiday. makes me so much more excited!! cant wait for more, i REALLY want to know about the fight in ToT!! :)
A shame you had to get the ferry but at least you got there. I cant imagine how devistated i would have been if a trip of mine had to be cancled due to weather conditions!! :( Last time we went (feb 08) our eurostar was the last one to leave london before they called the rest off because of the snow PHEW!
Sorry the trip report has been delayed everyone, will resume tomorrow. Week before this week i had an a level so was busy and this week i have been down my nans. So i will post the next instalment tomorrow ! :D
Can't wait to read more.
Another one waiting to read about the fight :lol:
Looking forward to the next installment, I'm still dying to find out what happened on ToT!!
I am so sorry for the wait, ive just been so busy. But on with the show...
Day 2 Part 2
We went back to our hotel room to warm up, have something to eat and put more layers on so we wouldnt get cold quickly again. I put on another pair of socks, joggers underneath my jeans and another pair of gloves underneath my original pair.
We went to see jakes parents in there room who had come back because evan the baby was tired and cold :(
We went to the village to get jakes mum and grampy a coffee and went back to the room.
We then made our first visit to WDS of the trip :)
Place des Frères Lumière
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Walked straight through Place des Frères Lumière into Disney Studio 1
Lisa and jake to the left in Disney Studio 1
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And just like our luck with Minnie's Party Train as soon as we stepped out of Disney Studio 1, Stars and cars were leaving so it was a great time to take some photos of the parade :D
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We were so lucky to catch that parade as it left, and i have to admit i think its an amazing addition to the studios and really fits its part, very showbiz !
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As me and lisa had never been on before, we decided our first ride in WDS was going to be...
TOT
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End of Part 2
Another great set of pictures!!
Sorry everyone was feeling the cold, though....
Looking forward to more!!
Any more to come Owain? I'm looking forward to the fight! :lol:
Not adding anything to this then Owain? I was SO looking forward to the bit about the fight :lol:
Do you know I keep checking to see if the fights been uploaded! Shouldnt encourage fighting.... but.... Come on Owain! :)
Hmm I see I'm not the only one waiting to hear about that fight!!
PLEASE tell us about the fight!
I realy dont want to hold you guys back any longer and i really want to finish the report, but i stopped it because i was having trouble getting the pictures. Would you mind just a text report and when i can get the pictures post them after ?
please do we are dying to know what happened
OOH! That'd be fine Owain :D I'm dying to know too! (Honestly I am not violent at all!)
:lol: Well ill finish off the second day today then tomorrow the last day (or as i like to call it, fight day) :P
I am also not violent ! :lol:
Owain!!!! Hurry Up! (petualnt child stamping foot!) :P
Come OOOONNNNNNN Owain!! :lol:
OMG, i nearly finished the last of day 2 and ie closed. ill have to start again now ! :|
Oh no! :( Finger crossed you'll get it sorted x
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come on dude
Lol - this seems like the most sought after trip report ever!
Quote from: "Adam"Lol - this seems like the most sought after trip report ever!
LMAO
Maybe that is why he is keeping everyone in suspense. lol
Owain, I only live up the road and know that the weather hasn't been so nice that you never want to stay indoors. lol
Day 2 Part 3 :lol:
Im going to post the whole report then pictures later !
So tower of terror was amazing, wow i was not expecting to get that much airtime, and nor was my bag i dont think.
I cant wait to post the photos online because our tot first go ride photo is amazing, haaaa !
So after the ride jake and lisa purchased the ride photo, and i got the photo album at discount because of this. (Some offer they had at the time)
After this we needed something smooth so walked down the bare alley way behind AODA and went on cars, for a kids ride it spins quite fast. The queue is very well themed and the ride was amazing. Me and jake went at the back and lisa at the front. After this we walked to Crush but the queue was quite long and decided to go to backlot.
Next ride was RNRC as it was shut when we first entered the park. Walk on we got to the pre show room and lisa was still shaken from TOT, so didnt ride and went back through the entrance and waited for us in the shop.
Me and Jaker had back seats and had a great ride. I love the launch, its so fast, lights fog everything was working great. We got off to greet lisa, had a food/toilet break and managed to convince lisa to ride rnrc now !. She enjoyed it loads and wishes she had ridden it with me and jake the previous time.
We had a phone call of jakes mum now so decided to walk out of wds and go meet them at the resort hub. Walking through WDS i took some photos. (Coming after the written report)
We met Jakes mum, baby brother and his grampy as they had been warming up in the hotel room. We walked up main street and saw that Party Time with Mickey and Friends was about to start so we stood and watched/filmed the show. Im not a fan of these shows i prefer more, stage shows like tarxan, lion king etc.
After party time we walked through fantasyland and realised the time, we had previously in the day told jakes mum how good Mickeys winterwonderland show was so they were going to watch the 1630 showing i think it was. We rushed over to the chaperal theatre. WOW didnt realise how big the park is until you walk from one side to the other !
As jakes mum brother and grampy went to watch the show, me jake and lisa boared the disneyland railroad and took a trip to main street. As we passed fantasyland we saw that the ouadp was getting ready to start, they all waved to us on the train, i love that :D .
We got off at main street station and took a place on the stairs and watched/took photos of the parade. It was amazing, we were too far away to smell the scents but it looked great especially in the dark.
After this we met up with jakes mum grampy and brother and took even on iasw as he really loves this ride. After this jakes mum grampy and brother went back to the room too get ready. Me jake and lisa stayed in the park and explored it in the dark. WOW adventureland is scary when its dark ! We did the alladin walk through. I needed a toilet at this point but the mens were locked :evil: so we walked over to the discovery arcade toilets. Taking photos of main street/castle in the dark. We did some shopping and left the park to get ready for annettes.
We got ready and i think we ended up walking again to the village. This time we had our meal around 8:30ish so finished eating at 10 so could finally explore the dv shops. Disney village was dead, literally no one was there ! I finally bought my From Sketch to Reality book in english :D . With everyone else buying some merchandise. We went to catch the bus but saw that me missed the last cheyenne bus so caught the santa fe one.
We walked through that santa fe grounds and crossed the bridge too cheyenne. Went too the room and passed out as we were so tired.
Next day 3 - last day :(
Sorry there is no pictures, will post them after report is finished.
And sorry its rushed i just feel bad that i left it this long too do, i know my promises arnt always great but i will make sure i do my halloween trip report properly as its 6 days long !
Thank you all for waiting ! :D
So nothing on this fight then? was there even a fight in the first place? lol. great report though :) xx
just remembered this, checked to see if it had been updated with the "fight" and suprise surprise, nothing. :roll:
Sorry im the worst trip reporter ever ha.
Worst part is, it was so long ago i dont really remember much. I no im a devil :twisted:
From what i remember;
Me and Jake had got fastpass for TOT, lisa did not want to go on as we had been on twice previously this day. Jake decided to be a gentlemen and stay with lisa. So i went on my own (Not that i cared, i love this ride). So i went through the fast pass and was in the library in no time! . This is when it happened. We were directed to the lower level of the boiler room. I was right by the corner just before the last stretch of queue (you no by the actual giant boiler) and there were alot of people behind me as sneaky me waited by the library door as id watched the video alot. Anway i could here shouting and see the group, they were only 6 people infront and could tell something was wrong. There was shouting. I think it was a guy with his mate and girl friend having an altercation with a group of 3 older men the same age. I dont know what it was about, couldnt understand, but it didnt sound nice. The cast member told them to calm down, then the guy with the girl swung for one of the guys in the other group then it all kicked off. All of them fighting, i think the girl got caught up in it aswell. Cast members shouting ( couldnt get to them as they were still a few people back from the front of the queue) They called security. But as guest didnt want to get caught up everyone started running back, but others were aware so everyone was pushing back and falling into each other. It was a complete mess. The cast members reached them and split them up, still shouting at each other (the two groups) One was kept by the boiler and the others by the middle lift. Security came from the door behind the boiler and took the one group and the others were taken through the cm doors by elevators ( suppose to also exit them separately aswell ) . They had stopped all boardings aswell, so all the people on the second level had a show i guess. I was quite frightened as i did fall over when everyone pushed back.
Guess i remembered more now i thought about it, sorry people for not finishing this off. I loose track alot. But im meaning to get at least pictures of my halloween trip as the pictures are great. Thanks everyone.
P.S - I wish i filmed this, not that i praise fighting but for memebers to see. I dont think they would believe there eyes that people would behave like this, especially in a queue, putting others at risk .
That sounds so awful :( how scary. What a way to ruin the magic. I was in a simular situation when I fight broke out infront of me in the queue for stealth at Thorpe park :( at least I wasn't on my own though, poor you :(
holy panda poop, that's mental :shock:
i thought it was gonna be a bit pushing and shoving not a full on gang fight :lol:
Oh my, I hope they was removed from the park.