Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Today was our one and only visit to a water park, Typhoon Lagoon, again included in our Disney ticket price. Like everything else in Walt Disney World the water parks are beautifully themed and dressed. Before we could get in the water and test the rides we had to dump our stuff. Previously the lockers …
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We had unfinished business with Epcot because the last time we went in Test Track wasn’t running and so we couldn’t tick that one off. This is one of our favourite rides so it meant a trip back today specifically to do it. Disney seem to be having a crackdown on what you can bring …
Continue reading “USA ’18 – Day 12 – Cars and Shopping”
I’ve mentioned a number of times in my posts about large areas of the parks being closed as new rides are developed but there is one new “land” that has opened since we were last here. In the intervening four years a Pandora themed land has opened in Animal Kingdom. To be clear this is …
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One thing that I really like about the Disney parks is that they each have their own distinct identity and are beautifully executed. Magic Kingdom, where we were today, has a lovely kitschy, 1950’s America feel to it. Nothing shows this off better than Main Street that you encounter right after you enter the parks. The …
Continue reading “USA ’18 – Day 10 – Too Hot to Mickey Around”
We weren’t quite so lucky down the US 192 this morning only managing to get 12 out of the 15 lights green but it was still pretty swift. Here’s the journey from villa to the parks in two minutes (with the drive under the WDW sign in normal speed). Once again we were up and out …
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Today we were off to Epcot and had planned to dash over to Test Track first to sneak a quick ride in before heading over to Soarin’ where we had a fast pass. In order to squeeze that in we left home promptly at 08:20 and headed off down the US 192. In the past …
After the last few days frenetic activity it was nice to have a late start today. Our fastpasses for the day were all for late afternoon in Animal Kingdom. This didn’t mean, of course, that I could wake later and lie in, no I’m useless at that so I was still up just after seven. …
We’d decided to go back to Universal today rather than use the Fast passes we had for Disney. That means that it is Disney 2 – Universal 2 so far in the battle of the parks. We got there for park opening at 9am so that we could make our way straight to the new …
There was a time when Disney’s Hollywood Studios would have ranked as our favourite park but based on today’s visit it won’t be getting top spot in 2018. The park is currently undergoing a huge amount of building work creating the new Star Wars land and for this a number of rides have been levelled. …
Continue reading “USA ’18 – Day 5 – A Pale Shadow of its Former Self”
After two full on days we decided that we would have a quieter day today by having a late start, breakfast out and a spot of shopping. Breakfast in the US to the Thompsons means Perkins and for me that can only mean the Tremendous Twelve! I don’t know why I hadn’t done this before …