OldSchoolReasons
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Visiting midweek is the way to go! We got lucky and it didn't rain all day. Hong Kong is without a doubt the wettest city I've ever been to and I'm from London. The combination of heat and humidity has ensured my hair has looked absolutely mental every single day.
The park is a nice, easily covered size and some of the back areas feel like world's away from the main hub of the park - Mystic Point and Grizzly Gulch especially. The mountain backdrop gives it a really whimsical feel too.
The other guests were super polite and I didn't see any queue jumping or other behaviour you hear nightmare stories about, in fact they're so much politer than the US parks.
The Toy Story land is the biggest and most organised of the three I've been to and there isn't that horrid bottle neck that occurs in Florida.
The rides were awesome. Mystic Manor is my favourite park attraction in the world! How do they achieve some of those special effects? How cute is Albert? Yep, I'm obsessed. I also liked Hyperspace Mountain a lot, it's much smoother than the US equivalents and Iron Man was a fun take on the Star Tours simulator format. I wasn't keen on Ant Man at all. Paint the Night was amazing, we watched from the train station platform (thanks Gelatoni Fan) and enjoyed perfect sightlines and nobody around us.
The best thing was the queues. The longest queue we had was 15 mins to meet Iron Man! We managed to walk up to lots of characters including Tigger and Donald so that was an added bonus. Most rides were at 5 mins all day. Lots of queues said "30 mins from this point" but then the queue was empty.
Also I hasn't seen this mentioned anywhere else but I didn't have any problems finding vegan food. I ate the black lentil curry set and the mushroom rice hotpot at Explorer's Club. The curry did come with paneer cheese but I just swerved that. Food portions were massive and fairly inexpensive too.
Getting there was really straightforward and Google Maps is incorrect when it says it's a 45 min walk to the gates from the station - it's right outside!
The park is a nice, easily covered size and some of the back areas feel like world's away from the main hub of the park - Mystic Point and Grizzly Gulch especially. The mountain backdrop gives it a really whimsical feel too.
The other guests were super polite and I didn't see any queue jumping or other behaviour you hear nightmare stories about, in fact they're so much politer than the US parks.
The Toy Story land is the biggest and most organised of the three I've been to and there isn't that horrid bottle neck that occurs in Florida.
The rides were awesome. Mystic Manor is my favourite park attraction in the world! How do they achieve some of those special effects? How cute is Albert? Yep, I'm obsessed. I also liked Hyperspace Mountain a lot, it's much smoother than the US equivalents and Iron Man was a fun take on the Star Tours simulator format. I wasn't keen on Ant Man at all. Paint the Night was amazing, we watched from the train station platform (thanks Gelatoni Fan) and enjoyed perfect sightlines and nobody around us.
The best thing was the queues. The longest queue we had was 15 mins to meet Iron Man! We managed to walk up to lots of characters including Tigger and Donald so that was an added bonus. Most rides were at 5 mins all day. Lots of queues said "30 mins from this point" but then the queue was empty.
Also I hasn't seen this mentioned anywhere else but I didn't have any problems finding vegan food. I ate the black lentil curry set and the mushroom rice hotpot at Explorer's Club. The curry did come with paneer cheese but I just swerved that. Food portions were massive and fairly inexpensive too.
Getting there was really straightforward and Google Maps is incorrect when it says it's a 45 min walk to the gates from the station - it's right outside!
