jillrobinson
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Got back over a week ago but just not had time to drop in, so here are my highs and lows:
Highs
Meeting Rachel (IloveDLP) and her gorgeous family including 2 stunning little princes in Salon Mickey
Met up with some other FB friends too, always fun to find like minded folks to chat to
Kyriad Hotel I wouldn't hesitate to stay there again
Getting our Dream passes even though we had to queue for an hour and a half to get into the AP office
Halloween Soiree, especially Discoveryland with Stitch and Angels' disco and the weirdest Steampunk costumed band were superb as were many guests costumes and in Adventureland the lighting around the Galleon and fires on the beaches were awesome.
Ratatouille not as amazing as I was expecting, but enjoyed it. But after the 2 and a half hour queue for it I was in a lot of pain, see my lows this may have tarnished my view of the experience a little.
ToT - On my own !!! I found a FP in our flying carpet, so had to use it, love love love that ride, makes me laugh thinking about it
Lows
One very very big one, I've suffered with Plantar fasciitis for years on and off and it's been deteriorating again recently, 1 day in the park was enough to bring on acute episode in my right foot, because I was trying to compensate by leaning on my left leg as often as I could, the left foot decided to come out in sympathy. Basically I would dose myself up with Co-Codamol and Ibuprofen, we'd go to the park for 2/3 hours and then I had to go back to the hotel and rest for a few hours. I did go to First Aid but they couldn't give me any stronger painkillers than I had with me although they did offer a wheelchair, which incidently I could've had free with my new Dream Pass, aah the irony! Needless to say I didn't, if for no other reason than as novices we would never had manoevered it through the crowds.
Overall the trip was pretty awful
Although previously warned I hadn't anticipated the crowd levels would be so huge, it wouldn't have been such a big deal without the foot problem. Over 5 days we rode POTC twice, IASW twice, The Rat once, BTM once, Fantasyland rides all ridden once in an evening oh and ToT once.
The day before we came home we spent a day just watching the shows in the Studios basically so I could just sit down all day and on our last day we stayed at the hotel only venturing out to Annette's for lunch.
The Harvest decorations while very pretty don't say Halloween to me, I much preferred the previous spookier themes.
I'd love to go back fit and well and in a costume for the Halloween Soiree though.
I spoke to few other frequent visitors, who basically all said the same thing, that because it was their 4th, 7th, 10th etc. trip they weren't too bothered about the rides, but if it had been a 1st trip they'd be disappointed and wouldn't recommend Halloween half term week for a first time visitor, which was pretty much how we felt.
Highs
Meeting Rachel (IloveDLP) and her gorgeous family including 2 stunning little princes in Salon Mickey
Met up with some other FB friends too, always fun to find like minded folks to chat to
Kyriad Hotel I wouldn't hesitate to stay there again
Getting our Dream passes even though we had to queue for an hour and a half to get into the AP office
Halloween Soiree, especially Discoveryland with Stitch and Angels' disco and the weirdest Steampunk costumed band were superb as were many guests costumes and in Adventureland the lighting around the Galleon and fires on the beaches were awesome.
Ratatouille not as amazing as I was expecting, but enjoyed it. But after the 2 and a half hour queue for it I was in a lot of pain, see my lows this may have tarnished my view of the experience a little.
ToT - On my own !!! I found a FP in our flying carpet, so had to use it, love love love that ride, makes me laugh thinking about it
Lows
One very very big one, I've suffered with Plantar fasciitis for years on and off and it's been deteriorating again recently, 1 day in the park was enough to bring on acute episode in my right foot, because I was trying to compensate by leaning on my left leg as often as I could, the left foot decided to come out in sympathy. Basically I would dose myself up with Co-Codamol and Ibuprofen, we'd go to the park for 2/3 hours and then I had to go back to the hotel and rest for a few hours. I did go to First Aid but they couldn't give me any stronger painkillers than I had with me although they did offer a wheelchair, which incidently I could've had free with my new Dream Pass, aah the irony! Needless to say I didn't, if for no other reason than as novices we would never had manoevered it through the crowds.
Overall the trip was pretty awful
Although previously warned I hadn't anticipated the crowd levels would be so huge, it wouldn't have been such a big deal without the foot problem. Over 5 days we rode POTC twice, IASW twice, The Rat once, BTM once, Fantasyland rides all ridden once in an evening oh and ToT once.
The day before we came home we spent a day just watching the shows in the Studios basically so I could just sit down all day and on our last day we stayed at the hotel only venturing out to Annette's for lunch.
The Harvest decorations while very pretty don't say Halloween to me, I much preferred the previous spookier themes.
I'd love to go back fit and well and in a costume for the Halloween Soiree though.
I spoke to few other frequent visitors, who basically all said the same thing, that because it was their 4th, 7th, 10th etc. trip they weren't too bothered about the rides, but if it had been a 1st trip they'd be disappointed and wouldn't recommend Halloween half term week for a first time visitor, which was pretty much how we felt.
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for the next trip xxx
