Shanghai Disneyland Grand Opening Trip Planning Thread

Is everyone watching the main website? Or is there separate site for hotel bookings?
 
It looks like my sister is going to join me for this trip - woohoo! Still waiting to see when the hotel bookings open up!
 


Ok so I'm not going for the grand opening (that is going to be insane!), but now that we have an opening date I am happy and comfortable in saying we will be heading to Shanghai Disneyland in January 2017.

We are hoping to stay at the Toy Story Hotel, if it's reasonably priced (i'm hanging out for them to release prices at this point!) ... I'm hoping you can buy tickets online (it looks like you will be able to) and easily book hotels, FP, restaurants etc on the English website. We have decided to spend 3 days at the Shanghai Disneyland resort (part of an overall 5 days in Shanghai) cos it looks so awesome! We will visit Shanghai city too, our plans are to see the Yu Gardens, go on a Bund and see the city lights, watch an acrobatics show and do a tour of an old area of Shanghai called Zhujiajiao Water Town.

The visit will be part of an Asian trip where we visit Singapore, and Universal Singapore, Hong Kong and Hong Kong Disneyland, Shanghai and Shanghai Disney (obviously) and Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka and Universal Japan and Tokyo Disney. This will be our second time at the Tokyo Disney resort but a first for all the other parks! :)
 
I'm really hoping that I can manage attending the grand opening as my first overseas park. Does anybody think that the highest single ticket option will be a 2-Day ticket (due to it only being a single theme park, rather than multiple), similar to how Hong Kong Disneyland's tickets go? I was also potentially thinking that I could couple it with a plane ride over to experience Hong Kong Disneyland, since I'm on the side of the world anyway. What about dining reservations? When do you think those will open up? Will they even be offered in advance online? If so, does anybody think that there be a craze to grab up reservations like restaurants over here? I'm really anxious to see when tickets will go on sale and when hotels will open for bookings! I really hope I can jump on board with this and avoid being left in the pixie dust... I was thinking I'd opt for a stay at the Toy Story Hotel if I can swing it, reason being that the Disneyland Hotel is more than likely to cost several arms and several legs! And I can't afford tons of extremities when the trip will already be so much... especially if I opt to partner it with a trip over to Hong Kong Disneyland, as well! It would be memorable, for sure! :P
 
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Dentam said:
It looks like my sister is going to join me for this trip - woohoo! Still waiting to see when the hotel bookings open up!
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Yay! :woohoo:

RachelleBeaney said:
Ok so I'm not going for the grand opening (that is going to be insane!), but now that we have an opening date I am happy and comfortable in saying we will be heading to Shanghai Disneyland in January 2017.

We are hoping to stay at the Toy Story Hotel, if it's reasonably priced (i'm hanging out for them to release prices at this point!) ... I'm hoping you can buy tickets online (it looks like you will be able to) and easily book hotels, FP, restaurants etc on the English website. We have decided to spend 3 days at the Shanghai Disneyland resort (part of an overall 5 days in Shanghai) cos it looks so awesome! We will visit Shanghai city too, our plans are to see the Yu Gardens, go on a Bund and see the city lights, watch an acrobatics show and do a tour of an old area of Shanghai called Zhujiajiao Water Town.

The visit will be part of an Asian trip where we visit Singapore, and Universal Singapore, Hong Kong and Hong Kong Disneyland, Shanghai and Shanghai Disney (obviously) and Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka and Universal Japan and Tokyo Disney. This will be our second time at the Tokyo Disney resort but a first for all the other parks! :)
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Sounds like a great trip!

Elias1901 said:
I'm really hoping that I can manage attending the grand opening as my first overseas park. Does anybody think that the highest single ticket option will be a 2-Day ticket (due to it only being a single theme park, rather than multiple), similar to how Hong Kong Disneyland's tickets go? I was also potentially thinking that I could couple it with a plane ride over to experience Hong Kong Disneyland, since I'm on the side of the world anyway. What about dining reservations? When do you think those will open up? Will they even be offered in advance online? If so, does anybody think that there be a craze to grab up reservations like restaurants over here? I'm really anxious to see when tickets will go on sale and when hotels will open for bookings! I really hope I can jump on board with this and avoid being left in the pixie dust... I was thinking I'd opt for a stay at the Toy Story Hotel if I can swing it, reason being that the Disneyland Hotel is more than likely to cost several arms and several legs! And I can't afford tons of extremities when the trip will already be so much... especially if I opt to partner it with a trip over to Hong Kong Disneyland, as well! It would be memorable, for sure! :P
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Not sure how the tickets will work - hanging out for this too! I plan to go for 3 days, so hoping that will be an option. Otherwise I guess we'll have to look at buying multiple tickets or else looking at an AP. APs can be great value for overseas parks, but not sure how it would work for Opening Day given the rush on tickets and hotel bookings!

There is nothing like the rush for WDW dining reservations at any other park in the world. I'm not even sure that there's an online option for HKDL and DLP - I've never felt the need to find out. Again though, being Opening Day may prove to be slightly different. Personally I'm not planning to do any dining on actual Opening Day - I'll be too busy running around taking in all that I can! But I may want to make some reservations for the next two days, hopefully I'll just be able to do that there.

I recommend a side trip to HK if you can swing it. I have a real soft spot for that park. It may be small with not much in the way of high thrills, but it's beautiful and full of character - no pun intended lol! Plus, I've heard reports of Mystic Manor being the best dark ride of any Disney park. I'll be able to confirm this after our March trip! If you think you'll make the trip, feel free to browse my HKDL TRs to get an idea about what to expect.
 


The official Shanghai Disneyland website has announced that park tickets are on sale starting Monday, March 28, 2016. A regular priced one-day park ticket is ¥370 (about 52USD) and a peak price of ¥499 (about 76USD). During the grand opening period (June 16-30) the park ticket is at the "peak price" of ¥499.

Hotel reservations will also start March 28

Visit the offical Shanghai Disneyland website for more info and calendar of seasonal ticket prices.
 
orion2185 said:
The official Shanghai Disneyland website has announced that park tickets are on sale starting Monday, March 28, 2016. A regular priced one-day park ticket is ¥370 (about 52USD) and a peak price of ¥499 (about 76USD). During the grand opening period (June 16-30) the park ticket is at the "peak price" of ¥499.

Hotel reservations will also start March 28

Visit the offical Shanghai Disneyland website for more info and calendar of seasonal ticket prices.
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Thanks for the info!! Looks like I will be there right after the peak pricing ends!

ETA: Nope, from looking at the website, peak pricing goes through the end of August. Oh well, it's still not too bad!
 
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orion2185 said:
The official Shanghai Disneyland website has announced that park tickets are on sale starting Monday, March 28, 2016. A regular priced one-day park ticket is ¥370 (about 52USD) and a peak price of ¥499 (about 76USD). During the grand opening period (June 16-30) the park ticket is at the "peak price" of ¥499.

Hotel reservations will also start March 28

Visit the offical Shanghai Disneyland website for more info and calendar of seasonal ticket prices.
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Woohoo! We have a date to work with! Heading to the website to check it out :goodvibes
 
orion2185 said:
The official Shanghai Disneyland website has announced that park tickets are on sale starting Monday, March 28, 2016. A regular priced one-day park ticket is ¥370 (about 52USD) and a peak price of ¥499 (about 76USD). During the grand opening period (June 16-30) the park ticket is at the "peak price" of ¥499.

Hotel reservations will also start March 28

Visit the offical Shanghai Disneyland website for more info and calendar of seasonal ticket prices.
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Thank you for the information! I really want to go in July. Fingers crossed it will work out for me
 
It would be nice if they would give us a time too. And I'm guessing they mean 28th March in local Shanghai time?

It's a shame they won't be offering 3 day tickets. It's going to work out pretty expensive having to purchase a 2 day + 1 day. Great news that the tickets will be dated though and we'll get guaranteed entry on the date we choose! That makes it less of a problem if onsite hotels sell out/are too far over budget.

I love that their child/infant tickets are based on height, and not age. Such a great way to do it since you get more value out of the park as you get taller, not necessarily as you get older :thumbsup2
 
zanzibar138 said:
I love that their child/infant tickets are based on height, and not age. Such a great way to do it since you get more value out of the park as you get taller, not necessarily as you get older :thumbsup2
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I agree, that's a great and logical way to structure the pricing!
 
Count me in !!!

I've just booked my flights from UK and I'm looking forward to enjoying opening week in Shanghai Disneyland.

I'm really hoping they open hotel bookings up before March 28th as I'm not sure I can not bear the wait to secure my tickets.

I'm planning to spend a week in Shanghai and maybe 3 or 4 days at Shanghai Disneyland. I'm lucky enough to have visited every Disney theme park in the world so can't wait to cross this one of my list too, looking forward to checking into to this thread over the next few months to enjoy the anticipation with all of you.

SW
 
I only saw the tickets announcement. Is it confirmed that hotels also become available on March 28??
 
So, having never been to Shanghai (or any part of China), I'm assuming the weather in July is going to be incredibly hot and humid. It can't be any worse than Orlando in August and September though, can it??
 
Ember said:
I only saw the tickets announcement. Is it confirmed that hotels also become available on March 28??
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Not that I have seen anywhere, I am hoping they open up earlier, as staying in a Disney hotel guarantees you park admission. Even if staying at a Disney hotel is too expensive for my entire trip I plan to stay 1 or 2 nights so that I can use this benefit. It's hard to guess what price the on-site hotels will be at the moment while the Toy Story hotel is being marketed as a value resort I'm not expecting it to be as inexpensive as the Disney World values.

my best guess is it will be an expensive moderate by comparison $250-$300 a night? Hope I'm wrong as I'd like to book in for my whole stay.

SW
 
steamboat will said:
Not that I have seen anywhere, I am hoping they open up earlier, as staying in a Disney hotel guarantees you park admission. Even if staying at a Disney hotel is too expensive for my entire trip I plan to stay 1 or 2 nights so that I can use this benefit. It's hard to guess what price the on-site hotels will be at the moment while the Toy Story hotel is being marketed as a value resort I'm not expecting it to be as inexpensive as the Disney World values.

my best guess is it will be an expensive moderate by comparison $250-$300 a night? Hope I'm wrong as I'd like to book in for my whole stay.

SW
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I'm hoping for Toy Story, too. Probably for four nights. I figure we'll fly in on the 15th. Have the 16th, 17th and 18th in the park, then fly out on the 19th.
 
steamboat will said:
Count me in !!!

I've just booked my flights from UK and I'm looking forward to enjoying opening week in Shanghai Disneyland.

I'm really hoping they open hotel bookings up before March 28th as I'm not sure I can not bear the wait to secure my tickets.

I'm planning to spend a week in Shanghai and maybe 3 or 4 days at Shanghai Disneyland. I'm lucky enough to have visited every Disney theme park in the world so can't wait to cross this one of my list too, looking forward to checking into to this thread over the next few months to enjoy the anticipation with all of you.

SW
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Yay! Very jealous that you've managed to get to every park! I've still got WDW and TDL to go.

Ember said:
I only saw the tickets announcement. Is it confirmed that hotels also become available on March 28??
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I could have sworn that the original ticket FAQ said something about hotels being available on 28th March too, but they seem to have updated the content. It doesn't seem to mention anything about the different ticket types and costs anymore either, unless I'm looking at something different :confused3

Dentam said:
So, having never been to Shanghai (or any part of China), I'm assuming the weather in July is going to be incredibly hot and humid. It can't be any worse than Orlando in August and September though, can it??
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I'm not looking forward to the weather, especially combined with the crowds! From what I've read about both Shanghai weather and Orlando weather, I'm expecting it to be similar.
 
Ember said:
I only saw the tickets announcement. Is it confirmed that hotels also become available on March 28??
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Yes, it's on the offical Shanghai Disneyland website

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When can guests purchase tickets for THE LION KING production at Disneytown and book stays in your resort hotels?

Resort hotel rooms and tickets for THE LION KING show at the Walt Disney Grand Theater in Disneytown can be booked beginning March 28, 2016 through all authorized official channels. Pricing and room rates will be available at that time.
 
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