Casinocolin's Pre Trip Report Part 2

[casinocolin]

Sunday September 7th.

As MK & the Rope Drop is somewhat a family tradition on our first day at WDW. This year is not going to be anything different even though DS & DD won't be with us. So a early wake-up call at 7am, shower and off to catch the bus at 8am to MK.

A quick light Breakfast will be taken at main street bakery, using our snack option for the day. We will then head off to the entrance of Adventureland to wait for the rope drop. The first ride of the trip will be JC, this ride has never lived up to my expections, I believe Walt wanted to have real animals and I think that this would have been better, what do you all think?

POC will be our next stop, we love this ride, got to be one of our favourites. I think we could ride this over & over again. As JC is being refurbished in May & POC in June, we are pretty confident that they will be open when we are there.

We will then go on to Frontierland to ride Splash another favourite of ours, I can always remember being allowed to stay on this ride once by the CM, on one of our trips as there was no one waiting in line. Has this ever happened to any of you on any ride in WDW? BTMR will be our next stop.

Time for a rest now so we will hop onto the WDW railroad and do a circle of the park arriving back at Frontierland to walk into Liberty Square to go on a ride through the dark with 999 happy haunts. We rode this last year the first day after it reopened from the refurb, do you think the changes are for the better.

Now it will be time to go back to our childhood and go to Fantasyland, yes we will do Peter Pan's Flight, Snowhite's Scary Adventures & the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, not forgetting Its a Small World of course. Showtime now at Mickeys PhilharMagic, I have promised DW to try to not fall a sleep in here this year, as this tends to happned after a tiring couple of days travelling etc.

I think we will be ready to have lunch by this time & we are planning to eat at Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe today. After lunch we will head for COP, believe or not this is one of DW favourite rides, so I hope Disney never ever take this one away, I know there has been a few rumours in the past. I used to love Alien Encounter. DW & DD went on it once but never agian. Such a shame they replaced it with Sitch, it is just not the same, what do you all think about this?

Suitably refreshed after getting my afternoon nap in COP (dont tell DW). Buzz will be our next ride with no DS to beat me I am confident of achiving the highest score this year, never live it down if DW beats me. SM will be next on our agenda, I think this ride is due for a major refurb I think it is a bit dated now.

Our final ride in MK today will be the TTA, without DD & DS there is a good chance we will be riding this several times as DW absoluetly loves this ride. (cant think why) Can anyone give me a clue? If I finally manage to get DW off this ride we will be catching the MR to Epcot.

Once in Epcot SE will be our first ride this was shut on our last trip (2007) so looking forward to this one, lets hope the refurb is for the better. On to MS, DW will sit this one out. We will then head for TT, on our first trip to WDW in 1998 TT was due to open but to our bitter dissapointment it was not ready to open and we had to wait to the following year before we could ride it. This is a great ride.

Our ADR is at the R&C tonight. We will make our way to the UK & have a couple of drinks, hopefully outside the R&C weather permitting before dinning. We would love to see Illuminations after dinning, from the Balcony of R&C, so hope to get a table outside, otherwise I believe you can go outside once illuminations commences. Head home to CBR by bus, well ready for our bed after a hetic first day.

Hollywood Studios & Epcot Tomorrow ADR San Angel Inn

 

[sandshal]

Hey Casinocolin,

Didn't realise there was another disser from Lowestoft!

Sharon

 

[Mrs Hobbes]

Hi Sharon and Casinocolin, I'm just down the road form Lowestoft too

Nice to see some local dissers

 

[Minniespal]

Excellent

 

[natalielongstaff]

Sounds good

 

[jjk]

 

[Beth__WDW23/6/02]

 

[wicket2005]

Sounds good though I hate those rope drops in the Disney parks. They always seem a bit dangerous for the little kids as the crowd surge forward.

Real animals on the JC would have been fantastic, provided the snakes in the cave were not live!

We too have been allowed to stay on Splash Mountain on some occasions not often. Usually they make you go right round again which seems a bit of a waste of time when there is no line. However Islands do this frequently especially on the water rides.

We actually quite like Stitch but seem to be in the minority here. We didn't like Alien though.

If by TTA you mean the transit railroad around tomorrow land. It will be a favourite because you can sit down for 10 minutes or so and usually there is no queue.

 

[arieljasmine]

Your first day plan sounds great. I love the changes to the Haunted Mansion, think they have done it very well. I love the TTA too - like a previous poster said, it's great to rest your feet and just look around at what's going on.

Laur's

 

[wilma-bride]

Wow, sounds like you have the whole day pretty much planned. I much prefer to just go with the flow - maybe that's why I never seem to get much done

I normally don't like JC but had a really good Captain last time and it was a scream. TTA is one of my favourites - paging Mr Morrow, Mr Tom Morrow

 

[mark&sue]

JC always seems to open later than the other rides when we have been. Hope you get all the thing you want done as your day sounds so busy.

Have a great time

susan

 

[suzycute]

Sounds like a great trip - but even having been to WDW 5 times - I just can't figure out what JC means!!!! I know as soon as someone tells me, it will become completely obvious.

 

[arieljasmine]

Sounds like a great trip - but even having been to WDW 5 times - I just can't figure out what JC means!!!! I know as soon as someone tells me, it will become completely obvious.

Jungle Cruise

Laur's