Wednesday 12 October 2011
Disneyland report, with loads of pictures ;).
Dear
reader,
Yesterday I
returned home from my wonderful trip to Disney! :D I had lots of fun with
Bianca, a good friend with whom I went to Disney.
Day 1:
I left for
Roosendaal (a city near the Dutch boarder) on Thursday after having worked the
entire day... you can imagine how tired I was when I got there. My friend
picked me up by car and I stayed over at her place. We set our alarm clock at 5
o’clock so we could leave the house at 6 and head to Disney by car. The next
day everything went according to plan.
We left the house at around 6 and soon
we had passed the Belgian boarder, but then.... the car started shaking
violently. This of course scared us half to death so we stopped at a gas
station to inspect the car... we couldn’t find anything. Thus we set out to
continue our journey.... And again the shaking returned... We decided to call
the AAA road service (or ANWB as we call it here in Holland). We had to wait
for about an hour and then we spotted the car. The man really did his best, but
could not find anything wrong with the car. Thus we set off again. The car kept
shacking once in a while, but we decided to just stop sometimes and then
continue our journey since the car was obviously still functioning otherwise.
At around 1
o’clock we arrived at the Radison Blu Hotel. This is a four star hotel close to
the Disneypark. The hotel clerk that helped us to check in was very kind, but he
sure took his time haha. After check-in we immediately went to our room. My gosh
the room was huge and super luxurious!
We only
paid €95,- per person for two nights, breakfast included! :D Friendly word of
advice: NEVER book this hotel through the Radison Blu website. Instead use a
travel agency. If you are Dutch your best bet is to go to kras.nl; a very dependable
travel agency. You can save up to a whopping €200,- euro’s if you book there.
After
admiring our hotel room and taking some pictures we set out to Disneyland by
car! The first thing we did was getting me my passport annuel (i.e. year pass).
I decided to take the Dream pass, which is the most expensive one; it normally costs
€200,-. However, because Bianca had a dream pass as well, she could give me a
20% discount. The pass thus only cost me €179,-! :D I bet that a number of you
are wondering why I would purchase such an expensive card. Well, first of all,
a three day hopper card for the two parks (Disneyland and Walt Disney Studios)
costs €151,- euro’s; with a 20% discount this would be approx. 121,-. Thus there
is only a 50,- difference between the two. Also, there are a lot of advantages
to this card. You get to enter the park 2 hours before it opens, you receive a
20% discount on all the merchandise they sell in the boutiques and you get a
10% discount on the restaurants in the park. Oh and if you come by car, you get
to park for free (instead of having to pay €15,- per day). There are no block-out
days for this pass, unlike for some of the other passes, so you can go to
Disneyland whenever you want! There are other passports which are actually
cheaper than a three day hopper card, so it might be interesting to have a look
at this if you are going to Disney for three days. If you are interested,
please check out the following website: http://www.dlrpmagic.com/planning/booking/annual-passports/
After
having the passport made we walked around the park. It was almost deserted! We
had expected it to be a lot more crowded. We went, amongst other things, into
the Space Mountain and then decided to go to the Walt Disney Movie Park a try. We
went into the Crush Coaster (the first time I went into this rollercoaster and
it is freaking AWSOME!!!!) and the Tower of Terror.
Afterwards
we went back to the Disney park to get some tickets for Mickey’s Not so Scary
Halloween Party! A special night that is hosted every Friday of October. I was
quite surprised at the price of the tickets, since normally you would only get
a 30% discount on evening shows with your dream pass... Instead, we got a 50%
discount! :D We received a special wristband that you had to show if you wished
to eat in restaurants after 6 o’clock, since the park was only open to evening
visitors from 6 o’clock onwards.
The
attractions in the park were closed between 6 and 8, thus giving us enough time
to enjoy a semi-quiet dinner at the Plaza Gardens Restaurant. This is a buffet
restaurant, so you can chose what you want to eat and how much you want to eat
;).
After
dinner we decided to go to the hotel to fetch Bianca’s coat, because it was
getting quite cold and she was already down with a cold and we did not want her
to get more sick. We got a little lost, stopped at the gas station for some
gas, picked up the coat and went back to the park.... But surprise, surprise! The
gates to the parking lot were closed! We eventually parked our car at the parking
garage near Disney Village, which cost us about €6,-. Back in the park we went
to a number of fun shows, especially Huey, Dewey and Louie’s Trick or Treat
Party was a lot of fun!
The evening ended with the Disney’s “Not-So-Scary”
Halloween Show, which featured some characters that you normally do not get to
see in the park or any of the shows, such as Gaston and Esmeralda and Clopin!
Day 2:
The next
day we had a wonderful breakfast and set out towards the park at half past 10.
The park was definitely a lot more crowded than it had been the day before so
we decided to take it easy; we did not really like the idea of having to stand
in line for a very long time. This day was even colder than the day before so
we decided to go shopping for a winter coat or a scarf and some gloves. I
eventually bought some fleece gloves featuring Mickey Mouse!
Bianca bought some
cute Alice in Wonderland gloves and a matching scarf! I’m afraid my memory is
failing me on all the things that we did that day, but what we did do was
Pirates of the Carrebean (again because it was so quiet) and Phantom Manor and
we went to Cinemagic, which is located in the Disney Studio’s park; a show
about a man, played by Martin Short (!!!! the wonderful actor who plays Jack
Frost in The Santa Clause 3 and The Mad Hatter in the Alice in Wonderland movie
which features Whoopie Goldberg as the Chesire Cat) who is sucked into a movie, falls in love...
you know the drill ;). We had never watched the show, but it seemed like a
really good option since it was freezing haha. I also ended up buying a new
casing for my BlackBerry! :D Now even my phone is Disney-ish haha!
As for the
shows, we watched Disney’s Maleficious Halloween Party, a really awesome show
in which Maleficent tries to teach the shadowman from the Princess and the Frog
to become a better wizard. The show features all types of villains such as the
evil queen in show white, Cruella de Vil, The Queen of Hearts and Captain Hook.
At the end of the day we watched Mickey’s Magical Celebration, a really awesome
show which features all the Disney princesses!!! :D After the park closed at 9 we strolled through Disney Village to see what was on sale there.
Day 3:
The weather
on the third day was not as great as we had hoped it to be. Although it was less
cold it now rained until 3 o’clock. Thus we did a lot of attractions that were
inside. First we went to Buzz Lightyear’s Lazergame (I really like that
attraction), then to Peter Pan’s flight, Pinnochio, Snow White, Pirates of the Caribbean,
Phantom Manor, Big Thunder Mountain, and went to It’s a small world twice. We
could do all these things, because it was extremely quiet for a Sunday... which
was logical because the weather was just shitty haha! We looked around the
stores a bit and then had dinner at Disney village at the Rain Forrest Café. :D
I really love this restaurant! Frequent readers of my blog will remember that I
also went to the one in London. I have to admit that the service there is
waayyy better than in Disney... But they are probably also a lot busier.
After
dinner I bought myself this really wonderful glass rose from Beauty and the
Beast:
I couldn't get a really good picture of it, but the edges of the leaves rose leaves are covered with (fake) gold :D!
At the end
of the day we watched the Disney’s Magical Celebration again, because my friend
wanted to tape it and because I actually wanted to get some pictures of the
show. The day before I was not able to take any, because I was standing behind
a lot of people, but this time I had a really clear view (we were standing in
the front row :D).
(not a very good picture, I admit, but they wouldn't stand still :(!)
After the show we went towards the car and drove back to
Holland. We arrived at Roosendaal at 1 o’clock, completely exhausted! The next
day we had a wonderful breakfast and then I traveled back to Amsterdam.
So all in
all I had a wonderful time even though it was cold and rainy! :D And I am soooo
happy that I now have a Disney year pass! You really get value for your money
with this thing!
Well that’s
it for now. I hope you have enjoyed my little report of Disney ;). If you have any questions about the hotel or a disney year pass feel free to ask! :D
Love,
Blacky
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