Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Magic Kingdom is huge, busy and the most difficult park to get in to. You drive to the car park and then either walk or take the tram to the “ticketing & transportation” centre where you have to transfer either to a monorail or boat to actually get to the main gate. I don’t know …
EPCOT is a real mix of rides and tranquil spaces in the form of the World Showcase, a dozen countries represented by a famous buildings. The UK has a pub, of course! However, the boys aren’t that keen on that part of the park (it’s “boring”) so we only did the rides. As we had …
Today’s park was Universal where we had planned a route to include the Simpsons ride, Men in Black, Jaws and then the Beetle Juice show. The park was very quiet and so we were quickly onto the first couple of rides without any fuss at all. The Jaws ride proved more problematical in that it …
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I’ve said this before but Disney’s Animal Kingdom is a beautiful place to be as it is by far the lushest and greenest of any of the parks, Disney or otherwise. It’s a real pleasure to be there and to just wander around. Of course there was some serious rides and entertainment to be had …
After much debate yesterday it was agreed that we would make Disney Hollywood Studios the first park that we visited and so we set off at 08:15 this morning to get to the park before the crowds and the heat arrived. In previous years we have learnt to use the Fastpass system to our advantage. …
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I always struggle with jet-lag when travelling west and this time was no different. While I seemed to have slept ok I still woke up feeling groggy. To allow everyone time to get over the lag we had decided to have a lazy(ish) day today. We started by going out for a late breakfast at …
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The first day is always an interesting one as it goes on forever and you end the day feeling knackered having done exactly nothing other than been sat on a plane for nine hours. Of course the last thing you want, having just stepped irritably off a plane, is to have to stand in line …
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So with less than a month to go there is a real sense of excitement in the Thompson household as we prepare to go back to Orlando. Notwithstanding that this is the sixth time that we will have been to Florida as a family we still all really enjoy it and it is a true …