lostinwonderland's trip report, 13th - 18th May 2007 (pic heavy)

[lostinwonderland]

Hellooo,

I'm really sorry for how late this (frankly poor) trip report is... I'd make excuses about finishing college and coursework and stuff but if I don't start this TR now I probably never will...

We had a wonderful time, and I feel silly for worrying over Newport Bay because it was lovely...

So this is going to be really rubbish because it's been so long and I can hardly remember what I ate today never mind nearly 4 weeks ago... So it's mainly going to be a load of photos, but oh well... =)

Anyway on with the trip report I'll give you a bit of background info since that seems to be the way to go..

I visited Disneyland 4 times between the ages of 7 and 12 and have missed it everyday ever since... So for my 18th birthday my amazing mummy paid for me and boyfriend to have a 6 day/ 5 night trip, yes she is amazing I told you..

I guess I'll start with who we are..

ME (Annie) - 18 year old Media Student.. I love all things Disney... Would quite happily be 5 again (would make no difference to me mentally anyway)... Love Chip & Dale and Snow White... In fact I wish I was Snow White...

DBF (Russell) - 20 at Uni studying Graphic Design.. Has a hard time putting up with me talking about all things Disney almost every second of the day... Treats me like a princess most of the time, except when he's in a moody (he gets those a lot).. Doesn't like food... Claims to "hate disney" (except monsters inc and nemo) but has come along to please me...

Our hotel of choice: Newport Bay Club (Admirals Floor).. Well we ended up with this one because everything else was booked up for our arrival night. I had wanted to stay at sequoia lodge because I have so many amazing memories there... But Newport Bay Club it was, and I was pretty happy with that, it was something new to experiance and I'd studied every photo I could get my hands on and all seemed well... That was, of course, until I began to find bad reviews and that got my nerves up...

Travel of Choice - Eurostar yayyy!

Soo...

Day 1

We'd stayed in London the night before but I got us up and down in the lobby by 8 I think... Well whatever time it was Russell was so not happy to be awake...

So off we set off to get dropped off at Waterloo, mum appointed me map reader, biiiiig mistake! I'm rubbish, I just pretended to follow the line and know where we are... After a couple of wrong turns and what not we managed to get there... Mum walked us to the gates and told me what to do and how it all works (I've not been abroad since my last Disney trip or on holiday at all actually so yeah very nervous).. Anyway I said bye to my mum and got through the ticket gates and had to bite back tears because I already missed my mum (pathetic I know but it's only us at home), then I felt silly (I always cry) and got over myself... Anyway all went well, found the check in desk and the man asked me if I knew what to do when I got there, well I just resited everything I'd read on here about it... And yes completely right...

So we're on the train I go and get a fruit salad, was a ridiculous amount of money but the only thing I could have not too bothered though... Russell had his ham sandwhiches and crisps.... A little side story not there that hasn't been enough warbling already and we're not even at DLRP yet, but basically Russell eats very very little, and the main thing he does eat is ham sandwhiches and crisps, but not any ham sandwhiches, it has to be white bread, flora (no other margerine) and ONLY (the most important one) Marks and Spencer's extra lean sliced ham, nothing else will do... So anyway the train ride was uneventful got excited when I could see space mountain, and then soon enough we were off the train and at the station... Dropped the luggage off and headed for the parks YAYY!

So we get in I start snapping pics and I almost cry (again) because I'm sooo happy, but then I hear "I need to the loo"... Yes Russell has the innappropriate timing, the character express is departing through the gates and he need the loo! How rude! But I oblige let him go and wait patiently as the train goes by...

=(

So he's soon out and we walk down main street...

So there we are walking with the castle in the distance.. So here's me I wanna go see the castle, who cares about the crowds I'M AT DISNEYLAND!... But Russell interupted with "I wanna go get a fast pass!" it seems like he had decided to listen to some of my ramblings and was actually keen on doing something, so I figured lets go get them for BTM.. The best ride obviously, and it's probably a much better idea than wading through all these crowds so off we went...

In frontierland the camera decided to shoot black and whites... Fair Enough...

I think our fastpass time was for about 5.30.. So we ventured of to Adventure Isle...

Did some walking & Russell munched on the last of his sandwhiches:

We rode Pirates of the carribean, Russell didn't like the queue it was "too long" and then when we got into the boat it was "all that for a boat ride"... That was until we went up and he realised that we must go down... It did go over quite well.. I loved it, bummer that the swinging man doesn't work... Weird how I remember that from so long ago...

So after our first disney ride we were reminded when we stepped outside that we really were in the carribean thanks to a tropical lmao: ) downpour... Now being the sensible people we are we waited in the gift shop for the rain to stop and then proceeded to our next destination completely dry and feeling very clever.. HAHA.. Yeah right, we happened to be the only people stupid enough to leg it out across the bridge and over to Hakuna Matata... Needless to say we were definatly not completely dry nor were we feeling very clever... All I could do was laugh... We looked absoloutly ridiculous I wish i had a photo to show but I don't ... Anyway we shared some chips....

We walked over to fantasy land and caught a bit of Merlin in action...

And then headed out of the park to check in to newport bay... Now this was fun... Got over to admirals check in had a lovely CM was very quick, got given our room number sorted our luggage to be sent up there... Everything's going great.. So we get up to the 5th level only to realise that our room doesn't actually exist ...And not only does it definalty not exist our luggage is on it's way to said non existant room ...

So back down to the check in we go, I speak to the lovely CM again, and can't stop apologising I laugh and say don't worry about it.. He explains that as it was my birthday they had upgraded us to admirals floor with lake view so he'd got confused and put down 5 instead of 6... I told him not to worry but our luggage must be lost somewhere, he went to speak to someone and said it would be up in 10 mins and if it wasn't in 15 then to call down...

So we head up to our room... I love it!

Our view:

Anyway 25 minutes later our luggage still hadn't arrived ... So I decided to go down and sort it out, because Russell was too scared.. Haha!
Anyway someone had got confused along the way and I ended up talking to 3 different people and sorting it out... I wasn't too bothered, a bit annoying but nothing terrible! 5 mins later the luggage is there, another 5 my hair is straightened and we;'re back off to the park t make our BTM fastpass..

We wondered around the park, we may have rode Space Mountain I can't remember... Then we went to the sports bar (Disney Village) and shared the turkey baguette meal (I had the sarnie Russell had the chips).. Then went back to the hotel to pick up some money and then went for a walk to try and find the garage to pick up some orange squash and crisps and stuff (Russell supplies basically)...

Took some photos on the way:

We found it, was a really nice walk except the very last bit we got supplies, we got back to the hotel and watched some disney channel, worked out the wake up call... And passed out dreaming disney dreams...

Phew, that was long, I doubt the rest of the days will be...

 

[poppyolivia]

thanks for sharing

The black n white photos are great...gonna try a few of them!!

 

[mulan1]

Lovely thanks for sharing, I love the pics of the scenery, they're great esp the view from your room!

 

[Ware Bears]

Wow, what a lovely surprise being upgraded to a lake view room!

Lovely photos, I too especially like your b+w ones.

 

[tennisfan]

Love the photos, especially the B&W ones. Thanks for sharing, I can't wait for the rest of the report

 

[cstokell]

Frontierland/Phantom Manor looks really good in black and white.

Lucky you to be upgraded, the room looks lovely.

 

[dlpSteve]

Russell is better than a friend at school - he'd only eat Marmite sandwiches with the crusts taken off and the bread had to be his Mum's own made - that and white chocolate - bizarre!

Good starting with Pirates of the Caribbean, that's always our first stop too.

Character Express looks sweet, good photos.

 

[BONITATIME]

this looks like you had a great time
Nikki

 

[Raci]

Loved hearing about your 1st day! Looking forward to the rest

Sounds like you fitted a lot in and the pics are great.
Next time we're there I'm going to take some B&W as they've come out really great.

 

[lostinwonderland]

Woah, sorry!

Think I abandoned this for kittens and unsuccessful job hunting..

Here we go onto day two.. Except I've forgotten everything we did, thank goodness for pictures!

Ok soooo, we had Fantasyland Breakfast this morning! We had to fight through a crowd of people to get to the gates to get through, because everyone was just standing there even though they didn't have breakfasts.

Was lovely walking down Main Street

After breakfast we walked around a bit and tried out the Wonderland thrones.

And did some more walking over to Discoveryland

It was funny, because everyone was still behind the ropes so although we had every right to be on our side we still felt naughty

We got fast passes to Buzz and then went to Adventure land, on an adventure of course.

Russell decided that this was the time for Indiana Jones, we got fastpasses for about 30 mins later. Anyway on the way we saw our first characters yay!!

Ok so we went on Indiana.. We never went on again, haha!! I remember when we (my mum, uncle, auntie and i) went on it years ago, it was our last day and really big mistake..

Then we headed over to the Studios... Oooooo...

Anyway, Russell decided that this was his favourite out of the two... We did the animation tour thingy haha and then the Tram tour, shared a nuggets and chips meal and headed back over to MK for the parade. We got such a kick out of the announcements..

And then the battery ran out, before I got one of Snow White

We must of gone on Buzz and then gone to the hotel where Russell ate crisps we watched Recess or something and the camera charged.

Anyway we went back to the parks for EMH. Rode SM a lot. Then we left and went to Planet Hollywood, prepared for an ultra long wait but it was only 5 mins if that, didn't even have time to order drinks!

It amused me that they came and took pictures at the tables, I had a mouthful of food!

Then we went back to Newport Bay and got ready to back out to the Village.

*Am just sorting Day 3 pics will be back in a few mins to post it*

 

[Cyrano]

Great photos. You both look like you are having a wonderful time

 

[lostinwonderland]

Day 3

Woo I'm on a roll..

Another Goodmorning Fantasy land breakfast which meant more rolls and fruit salad for us

And we did some more walking around after.

And then we had the first ride on IASW.. MUAHAHAHAA!! I wish I had a picture of Russell's face of sheer terror through it.. I'm a lovely GF

Me with my eyes shut outside IASW:

Then we caught Alpha bet you are.

It was cute. Then we made our way over to The Studios.. This is the point where I wish I'd had the camera out and ready, because as we were walking towards Studio 1 Pluto runs up to Russell and hugs him.. This was great, it really got Russell into it, and Pluto won himself favourite Disney character (along with Goofy of course )..

We walked down to Rock n Roll Rollercoaster which only had a five minute wait.. Russell decided that we have to come back to go on ToT. I agreed

Russell obviously very pleased with his hug

Now we were naughty and took a picture of the picture (on my phone at that), which i highly regret now, but I like to spend all my money on the last day and not a lot before .. You can hardly make it out but Russells face is hilarious!!

Then we went to see Moteurs Action, and Russell saw a mate from Uni in the queue that he had no idea would be here, really random and weird!!

It was really good, Russell loved it We headed back to MK just in time for the Character express, which we love! We love the music and the dance and had no shame in dancing the dance routine and singing along Seriously if anyone ever finds a way to get the music let me know and I will be forever in your debt love it!!

Then Haunted Mansion which was my favourite ride as a kid.. It kept stopping, Russell wasn't really impressed, but I loved it, I don't know whether it's because of the ride or the memories it gave me.

We then went back to the hotel to get ready for Buffalo Bills.

We were in the Yellow section, I thought the food was really good but too much of it, Russell didn't touch a thing except the ice cream..

 

[Dianetigger]

Brilliant trip report, loving reading it and your pictures are wonderful (especially the B&W ones).

 

[Ware Bears]

I'm really enjoying this ~ lovely photos.

 

[Orion33]

thankyou very much for these!!!

Kxx

 

[BONITATIME]

These are great photos. You look like you had a great time.

 

[dlpSteve]

The Alpha bet you are thingy looks fun - hope I get to see that when we go in October. What an annoyingly photogenic pair you are