Tora Millypoops
Cleaning my Ears
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So this has taken me a lot longer to write with starting a Christmas temp job and finding a new job for the start of this year. But now as things have settled down I should be able to write the report at a reasonable rate 
Back in November I took a trip to Walt Disney World, primarily for my one of my best friends weddings (but we will get to that day later )
Let's just say my travel days didn't quite go as I had planned. I travelled down to the airport the evening before my flight so I didn't have to worry about getting there in the morning. I got to the train station at 5:30pm intending on being at Gatwick airport by 8pm so I could drop my bag off and not be at the airport quite so early in the morning. However, I got to the train station to find out that the majority of trains were cancelled and the next one I arriving was an hour later...and a train which didn't take me straight to the airport. So after a long journey plodding across the London underground with my case I eventually made it to Gatwick airport with 10mins to spare before bag drop closed...to get there to find all the staff had already left. Fair to say I wasn't in the greatest of moods by this point XD So I went to the airport hotel that I had booked and settled in for the night.
The next morning I dropped of my bag, and luckily there wasn't a long queue Had breakfast in the airport and started my 9 hour flight to Orlando. The flight was really good and I got to watch a few films on the way. Got through customs in Orlando really quite quickly so everything was on the up. Collected my bag and then headed over to the Magical Express. This is where it got a little interesting again. I was told as I was on my parents booking for Saratoga Springs Resort (who arrived a few days previously) I did not need a booking confirmation number on me as it would be on the Magical Express system when I arrived and I just needed to give my name. Hmm apparently not. So after calling and texting my parents a few times and finding out what our hotel reservation number was I was back on my way. I had a swift journey to Saratoga Springs, a quick freshen up and straight to Epcot as had fast passes for the new Soarin'.
In Epcot I rode Soarin' which I thought was as good as always, alongside Living with the Land, The Seas with Nemo and Friends and Spaceship Earth before meeting up with some friends to watch Illuminations. Its fair to say by this point I was pretty tired but still managed to go to Boardwalk to get some icecream before calling it a night (vacation priorities right there).
Sorry for the lack of pictures in this report, I haven't got around to upoading many yet so hopefully I will get them on here over the next few days. In the mean time I have put together a quick video of what we got up to in Epcot that evening if anyone fancies a watch
Read my pre-trip report here: http://www.disboards.com/threads/ce...-twist-pre-trip-report.3544385/#post-56442831
Back in November I took a trip to Walt Disney World, primarily for my one of my best friends weddings (but we will get to that day later
) Let's just say my travel days didn't quite go as I had planned. I travelled down to the airport the evening before my flight so I didn't have to worry about getting there in the morning. I got to the train station at 5:30pm intending on being at Gatwick airport by 8pm so I could drop my bag off and not be at the airport quite so early in the morning. However, I got to the train station to find out that the majority of trains were cancelled and the next one I arriving was an hour later...and a train which didn't take me straight to the airport. So after a long journey plodding across the London underground with my case I eventually made it to Gatwick airport with 10mins to spare before bag drop closed...to get there to find all the staff had already left. Fair to say I wasn't in the greatest of moods by this point XD So I went to the airport hotel that I had booked and settled in for the night.
The next morning I dropped of my bag, and luckily there wasn't a long queue
Had breakfast in the airport and started my 9 hour flight to Orlando. The flight was really good and I got to watch a few films on the way. Got through customs in Orlando really quite quickly so everything was on the up. Collected my bag and then headed over to the Magical Express. This is where it got a little interesting again. I was told as I was on my parents booking for Saratoga Springs Resort (who arrived a few days previously) I did not need a booking confirmation number on me as it would be on the Magical Express system when I arrived and I just needed to give my name. Hmm apparently not. So after calling and texting my parents a few times and finding out what our hotel reservation number was I was back on my way. I had a swift journey to Saratoga Springs, a quick freshen up and straight to Epcot as had fast passes for the new Soarin'. In Epcot I rode Soarin' which I thought was as good as always, alongside Living with the Land, The Seas with Nemo and Friends and Spaceship Earth before meeting up with some friends to watch Illuminations. Its fair to say by this point I was pretty tired but still managed to go to Boardwalk to get some icecream before calling it a night (vacation priorities right there).
Sorry for the lack of pictures in this report, I haven't got around to upoading many yet so hopefully I will get them on here over the next few days. In the mean time I have put together a quick video of what we got up to in Epcot that evening if anyone fancies a watch
Read my pre-trip report here: http://www.disboards.com/threads/ce...-twist-pre-trip-report.3544385/#post-56442831
