ROBEAR84
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Hi all...
Well we're back in Ashford again, half way home
I will do a more detailed TR in a a few days but thought i'd post the usual highs and lows run done now!
Lows really are just little niggles more than anything. We really did have a fantastic time.
Weather, obviously nobody's fault and we did have some lovely hours but it was really inconsistent. I'd look out before breakfast and it'd be blue sky and sunny, walk down stairs and it'd be grey and raining! Much like home though I guess! The last couple of days there were some torrential downpours though and we got soaked! I'm still trying to thaw my feet and was wearing flip flops!
Lack of characters... I've not seen it mentioned by anyone else so perhaps it was just our bad timing but we did not see a single character out on walk abouts in ever park. The official meet and greets were really busy when we went past them so the children didn't meet a single character until this morning when I queued with them for Minnie. We then had a last minute lunch at Cafe Mickey as I wanted them to at least get the usuals in. DS was goofy mad this trip and luckily he was there!
English show times. Another strange one but we've never had a problem in the past yet seemed to this time. There were much fewer English showings of Playhouse Disney and Stitch and the times for each were so far apart that it was hard to organise yourselves around them. We never wound up seeing Stitch (watched 3 times last trip!) and saw PLayhouse Disney just before we went home! The queues for the English showings were huge too as there was a heavy British presence (as expected!) so I'm sure people were getting turned away. Could definitely have done with more English screenings!
The parade. A completely unexpected low but I'm just not feeling the parade. I love the magic on parade theme, me and Skye sing it ALL the time but I didn't like that they just play the same song over and over. No stops. A few new carriages but essentially the same parade. Yup. Not impressed which I really wasn't expecting!
Service in Cafe MIckey, lengthy waits between courses which wouldn't have mattered but it meant we were there over two hours and only had 1.5hrs to run back into the parks before we left!
Eurotunnel. Excellent on way out and would definitely drive again but on the way back there were delays which were fine but when we got to the train to board they ran out of space after the car before us. Just whacked us on the next train, no explanation of when that one was due to leave or anything even though we were already delayed.
Ok now I sound like a right whinger! The lows really were just little things though even though I've babbled on far too much!
Highs!!!
Dreams. Amazing! After a pretty dire viewpoint on the first night that kind of spoilt that initial wow for me, the 2nd time made up for it. Skye and I waited from 8:30pm for a front row spot on Tuesday night and although it does distort the view slightly sitting that close, she was so pleased to have no one blocking her view!
The Sequoia Lodge. Thanks to my email the week before requesting a block close to the main building and just so happening to mention a few other things we got upgraded to a Montana room! It was a fair old trek still but was a lovely room and had a lake view (albeit minimal as there were loads of trees in the way!!) there were two stuffed Donald's sat on the beds waiting for the children too! We had a lovely afternoon in the pool yesterday which changed Skye's mind about which was her favourite hotel (was still the Cheyenne as she prefers the bunkbeds there!)
Shareholder discount/salon mickey. What can I say? All you shareholders know that feeling of the first knock on salon mickey feeling! Weird! But pretty cool all the same! Only went in twice and once they'd run out of food but we all enjoyed the breather regardless.
All the CMs we encountered were great (even in Cafe Mickey the waiter was trying his best I think it was just lack of staff!)
Converting Skye about POC. We went on this ride on our first day and Skye was not impressed to say the least. She wasn't last trip either as she hates the slides no matterhow much we say it's no different than slides anywhere! We eventually won her round after we went swimming at the sequoia and she wound up having an wicked afternoon on the flume there. She asked if that was bigger than the poc ones Nd we said it probably was (ssshhh!) lo and behold POC is now one of her favourites and we were struggling to get her to go on anything else last night!
Skye also succumbed to Daddy pleading with her to try BTM last night. Have a great picture for that one!!
There's so much more but my whole body is aching so I'm going to catch up on some sleep before driving home in the morning!
Ro x
Well we're back in Ashford again, half way home
I will do a more detailed TR in a a few days but thought i'd post the usual highs and lows run done now!
Lows really are just little niggles more than anything. We really did have a fantastic time.
Weather, obviously nobody's fault and we did have some lovely hours but it was really inconsistent. I'd look out before breakfast and it'd be blue sky and sunny, walk down stairs and it'd be grey and raining! Much like home though I guess! The last couple of days there were some torrential downpours though and we got soaked! I'm still trying to thaw my feet and was wearing flip flops!
Lack of characters... I've not seen it mentioned by anyone else so perhaps it was just our bad timing but we did not see a single character out on walk abouts in ever park. The official meet and greets were really busy when we went past them so the children didn't meet a single character until this morning when I queued with them for Minnie. We then had a last minute lunch at Cafe Mickey as I wanted them to at least get the usuals in. DS was goofy mad this trip and luckily he was there!
English show times. Another strange one but we've never had a problem in the past yet seemed to this time. There were much fewer English showings of Playhouse Disney and Stitch and the times for each were so far apart that it was hard to organise yourselves around them. We never wound up seeing Stitch (watched 3 times last trip!) and saw PLayhouse Disney just before we went home! The queues for the English showings were huge too as there was a heavy British presence (as expected!) so I'm sure people were getting turned away. Could definitely have done with more English screenings!
The parade. A completely unexpected low but I'm just not feeling the parade. I love the magic on parade theme, me and Skye sing it ALL the time but I didn't like that they just play the same song over and over. No stops. A few new carriages but essentially the same parade. Yup. Not impressed which I really wasn't expecting!
Service in Cafe MIckey, lengthy waits between courses which wouldn't have mattered but it meant we were there over two hours and only had 1.5hrs to run back into the parks before we left!
Eurotunnel. Excellent on way out and would definitely drive again but on the way back there were delays which were fine but when we got to the train to board they ran out of space after the car before us. Just whacked us on the next train, no explanation of when that one was due to leave or anything even though we were already delayed.
Ok now I sound like a right whinger! The lows really were just little things though even though I've babbled on far too much!
Highs!!!
Dreams. Amazing! After a pretty dire viewpoint on the first night that kind of spoilt that initial wow for me, the 2nd time made up for it. Skye and I waited from 8:30pm for a front row spot on Tuesday night and although it does distort the view slightly sitting that close, she was so pleased to have no one blocking her view!
The Sequoia Lodge. Thanks to my email the week before requesting a block close to the main building and just so happening to mention a few other things we got upgraded to a Montana room! It was a fair old trek still but was a lovely room and had a lake view (albeit minimal as there were loads of trees in the way!!) there were two stuffed Donald's sat on the beds waiting for the children too! We had a lovely afternoon in the pool yesterday which changed Skye's mind about which was her favourite hotel (was still the Cheyenne as she prefers the bunkbeds there!)
Shareholder discount/salon mickey. What can I say? All you shareholders know that feeling of the first knock on salon mickey feeling! Weird! But pretty cool all the same! Only went in twice and once they'd run out of food but we all enjoyed the breather regardless.
All the CMs we encountered were great (even in Cafe Mickey the waiter was trying his best I think it was just lack of staff!)
Converting Skye about POC. We went on this ride on our first day and Skye was not impressed to say the least. She wasn't last trip either as she hates the slides no matterhow much we say it's no different than slides anywhere! We eventually won her round after we went swimming at the sequoia and she wound up having an wicked afternoon on the flume there. She asked if that was bigger than the poc ones Nd we said it probably was (ssshhh!) lo and behold POC is now one of her favourites and we were struggling to get her to go on anything else last night!
Skye also succumbed to Daddy pleading with her to try BTM last night. Have a great picture for that one!!
There's so much more but my whole body is aching so I'm going to catch up on some sleep before driving home in the morning!
Ro x
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glad you had a fantastic time. 
