Highs and Lows from the weekend

[Sarah28]

Hi all

I always enjoy reading other people's highs and lows so thought I'd share ours from our mini trip at the weekend. We drove over Friday night, spent Saturday in the 2 parks, and then yesterday we had breakfast/ did some shopping in the Village, and then headed back in the afternoon.

Highs

Renewing our annual passes big yay on it's own! Just need to decide when to go again!

Amount of people in shops and restaurants even though the rides were very busy, the shops and restaurants/cafes weren't too bad - never had any trouble getting seated and the shops weren't rammed or people pushing like we have had in the past - we might have just been very lucky with our timing!

Weather we were really lucky with the weather - it was very grey all day but it wasn't cold at all. We had a bit of rain in the evening about 8pm but was only a little bit of drizzle and didn't spoil anything

Shareholders Card we saved so much money, starting with discounts on annual passes, gift shop purchases, and our meals. Made it's money back already so well worth it.

The Castle looking fabulous after it's refurb! It definitely is the prettiest of all the Disney Castles. Very exciting to see the fountains around the outside and things getting ready for Dreams!

Phantom Manor being able to see the Groom and Phantom in the Stretching Room was amazing! So glad they cleaned it!

Big Thunder Mountain a tradition of ours is to ride it in the dark - it was amazing and I think I screamed all the way haha!

Lows

Ride closures only 2 things were scheduled to be closed on saturday but a lot of rides were breaking down (Space Mountain when we were in the queue, Crush's Coaster, POTC to name a few) - we got to ride POTC towards the end of the night, but Space Mountain didn't re-open and I'm not sure if Crush's Coaster did or not as we had left Studios Park by then

Queues I know we went at the weekend so this wasn't unexpected, but it seemed to be a bit worse than normal as a lot of the rides were closed, this mean looong queues for the rest of the ones that were open - most were topping 90 mins.

All in all, it was a great lil trip and can't wait to go back in a few months to see the 20th anniversary

 

[tinkerbells mum]

sounds like you had a lovely day there shame about the queue times though but at least you didn't let it spoil your time xx

 

[Isila]

welcome back nice trip you had
We'll be staying on weekend this time too, a little bit worried about the crowds

 

[tinks_1989]

Glad you had a good weekend! X

 

[Carrie_Cat]

Hey for Phantom Manor Remember you asking about it

The crowds unfortunately were normal, it's school holidays here atm and Paris and the North of France are still off.

Seeing that the weather was a bit better than late I think it brought more people out.

Glad to see that you had a great time and many more trips to come with the APs

 

[Ms Poppins]

Welcome back

Sounds like you had a fantastic time for such a short trip.

I was blown away by the castle refurb too, amazing

 

[jothp]

Sounds like a fab weekend

 

[tennisfan]

Welcome back

 

[Ware Bears]

Welcome back glad you had a great weekend.

 

[DLPDreams]

Glad you had such a good weekend. Sorry about the crowds (we try and avoid weekends but it isn't always possible!). Look forward to reading your trippie!

Yay about your AP - we've just bought our first ones and are over the moon as saved quite a bit alone on the hotel (they have paid for themselves before we have even got there!), and I'm sure will prove to do more with meals and merchandise discounts . We go back again in November so will use them again then .