RachelleBeaney
PrincessShelle
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- Jun 12, 2012
Okay, so I will totally admit that I MAY be skipping the actual city parts right now, lol #sorry. Universal Singapore looks so cute! Amazing photos! And glad there's some different stuff there than the other parks, it looks super fun, even with it being smaller!
I LOVED HKDL, it's quietness and quaintness really made me love it, and to top it off Grizzly Gulch & Mystic Manor, like, WHAT AMAZING RIDES!! I'm SO happy we were vlogging while GG started to go backwards and caught us all by surprise! Lol. It's seriously amazing that the waits for those 2 are so little all the time!! Was there no wire work in FOLK?! The bird (white leotard outfit) came out of the floor/stage and up on a wire/silks when we were there! I really enjoyed the show, and I'm an HUGE LOVER of Folk at DAK, like, #1 fan, lol. It definitely had its differences, and the US version is by far my favorite, but the HK version definitely moved me, and the moving stage really blew me away! Amazing photos!! I really wish we'd gotten more of HKDL!!
Okay, onto Shanghai! Yay! I can't wait to hear what you thought about it!! I'm bummed we didn't get to stay onsite, although we saved a TON of money and it still only took us under 30 mins to get from our BnB to the front gate!
We definitely went to Cheesecake factory twice when we were there, (don’t have it in Canada either..) Love the Chinese New Years decorations!! UGH, we had SUCH struggles with photopass, though we were handing over our own camera, we seriously only dealt with it once and vowed not to again. UGH PIRATES YEEEESSSS I legitimately cried a single tear of happiness. I'm obsessed with all things pirates/POTC, the movies are my favorites, and the fact that SDL has a land completely dedicated to them made me so happy, add on the fact that the ride was MINDBLOWINGLY AMAZING, ugh, so much happiness!
Banquet hall looks awesome!! I believe they switch out who's greeting at the door? Or at least they USED to have Aurora there closer to when the park opened? I know I've seen pictures of her there! OMG THOSE IGNITE THE DREAM PHOTOS! WHAT ARE YOUR SECRETS?!
Bummer that your last stay started out so rough!! And WOW THOSE CROWDS!! I'm super glad we missed anything crazy! The day we were in the city I got a picture from a friend on his lunch break of wall to wall crowds! Gross! Lol.
Gorgeous pictures!! Can't wait to read more!
Lol, don't worry I understand you skipping the city parts - this is a Disney blog after all and people want to read about Disney here Universal Singapore was great, and I was surprised by that as it was probably my least anticipated park of the trip.
I loved Hong Kong Disneyland too, though the original parts could have been done a little better in my opinion, but yes Mystic Manor and BGMRMC (or whatever the acronym should be) were amazing, some of the best Disney attractions of all time! That plus the new Iron Man Ride make the park completely worth a visit, I would ride all those three attractions over and over again. When the park gets the announced marvel land and new castle I think I'm going to need to go back, and luckily for us it's the easiest and cheapest of the Disneyland's for us to visit! Do you have the Vlog from BGMRMC? I would love to see that and the reaction to the ride, it will take me back! There were no wire performers in the Festival of the Lion King, though there was a ribbon performer (the white bird flew on a ribbon) but only that one performer. I guess you could say it's the same thing but I usually distinguish between the two (ribbon work is a lot more difficult I believe!). The show was great, but you are right, the US version is better.
The Cheesecake Factory is amazing, Jared has been saying for years we could make so much money if we franchised it in Australia. You're Canadian then, that's awesome, I still haven't been but would love to visit your beautiful country one day! It's definitely on the travel wish list (which still includes Canada, Europe and UK and New Zealand). I'm surprised to hear about your struggles with Photopass, we had such an incredible experience with it, and with the Photopass app on my phone it was SO easy to find and review our photos. We did buy Photopass plus in advance, and got a little confused about how to active it in our account, but once that was sorted (and it was easy to find English info on the website as to how to sort it) it was easy for us. I'm sorry you had such a bad experience.
Yes someone else recently informed me that they met Aurora before heading into the Banquet Hall, so perhaps they swap between Princesses and the Fab Five characters - it makes a bit more sense for a Royal Banquet Hall, though I did wonder if they did it that way cos they had the Princess meet and green right next door. POTC was completely mind blowing! I'm pretty sure I'll never come across someone who didn't love it completely! Disney needs to bring it to it's US parks. As classic as POTC is I'm pretty sure that no one, not even the most purist of Disney fanatics, could complain if it replaced the original POTC!
Yes the crowds that Friday were INSANE, but the other days we visited weren't as bad, and we were really glad we had the four days as it took the pressure off, especially given how busy the park was.
I hope you continue reading along