Day 4
Didnt visit the concierge desk this morning, way hey! So it was straight to the parks, well not straight as we stayed sleeping longer than we planned but finally left it was 9:30am so not that bad, however as we got near the bus stop the Epcot one was on its way out the hotel, bummer because it was going to mean a 20 minute wait at least. When it did turn up I was thinking, it is not going to be so bad, I am sure we will be able to do all 3 main rides when get to Epcot.
- Epcot
So we go via normal bag search. I know they are doing a job and trying to keep us all safe but they range from hardly looking to empty everything on the table. The one I had today was empty everything on table, and far enough it just a small inconvenience for safety but just why are we queuing for this at just after 10am? Then over to the ticket barrier to queue some more!!! I was thinking at this point "did I pick the wrong park to go to today (the day after Thanksgiving)" well turns out Sorin is the most popular ride in Disney World and thats what everyone was going to do. Anyway once we got the group all past the ticket bit, I head off with one of the girls to collect the fast passes for Sorin and everyone else headed towards Mission Space. Anyways we get in to the building for Sorin and the crowds where unreal and get down to the fast pass bit and says 2pm return, "what its only 10:20" how can it be 2pm already and 60 minute wait?? Well that was that ride scraped, no point in getting the fast passes, so we head back out. Now Disney should think about displaying the times as you enter that big building, I bet loads of people would have turned around and went else where instead of adding to the crowds inside.. anyway no big deal, off to meet everyone at Mission Space.
Turns out everyone was at Sorin, and Mission Sapce had a 10 minute wait.. magic, so I run over to Test Track and grab fast passes for that and then head in to do Mission Space by this time it was a 20 minute wait, but thats not a problem. My wife and her mother stay off with my son but before we went in we asked for our rider swap ticket (note, never forget to ask for this even if you dont plan to ride that day). So as we wait to go on the ride, the youngest in the group (Amanda) starts to get freaked out by the warnings all over the place. These where a bit hard core I felt, it was enough to scare a child and it did, but then again I guess they where trying to be honest as after all they dont want people in that are going to get motion sickness. So as we get to the front, I offer to stay off with her as she was crying at this point, didnt help her other 2 sisters and even her dad was winding her up about how bad the ride would be, shame on them
Anyway she says it ok she will go on as she said she would try everything, so on we go. I was the commander and she was the pilot and I forget what the other one was, as it only takes 4 people per ride area 3 of us went on 1 and 2 on another. Anyways she loved it and done all her Pilot tasks bang on time, I loved it also.. however I could notice the fact we where are spinning. If you look forward and at the screen you wont notice it at all or as much however even doing that, my mind wasnt being fully trick however rest all reported they didnt notice the spinning, so must have just been me.. but not a problem as I dont get that sick on that type of ride.
Any how that was a good one
We got off and the wife, her mum and Amanda (the one that was crying before she got on and then loved it) went back on thanks to the rider swap ticket and right in to the fast track queue.
By the way this ride has next to no wait for single riders, keep that in mind if you dont fancy it yourself, as you wont be waiting out side too long if only 1 in your group wants to do it. But you really should give it a go at least once.
After that it was off to Test Track, waited for 10 mins outside for our fast pass time to come, when it did come we done a rider swap and this time wife stayed off first again, my wife and I where the only ones in the group that had ever done Test Track before as last time with 2 of the girls we waited in the queue and it broke down. Anyway you would not believe this we go to the fast pass queue and wait for 5 mins for it only to go and break down, I was like no way this happened last time 2 years ago. So out we go, our fast passes could be used again that day but we where not staying the full day. However only good thing was we had a rider swap and it was usable for next 3 days, so in the wallet that went.
Not having the best of luck and feeling hungry we headed off to get food. Picking Morocco, way around the other side, well it is if you go the wrong way round LOL But that was good as gave us a chance to see the different countries and very nice some of them looked also, here are a couple of pictures from some of them.
So we have our counter service at Morocco, was huge chicken thing I had and was really nice but they gave you this oil dip thing with it, that to me didnt taste of anything so didnt use it but still a nice counter service, desert was a some Moroccan thing and it was super sweet and was only able to have 2 bites but hey I never ever have desert at lunch time so wasnt a problem and besides the dinning plan is designed to stuff your face, I think
After lunch and having a bad well not actually bad, just not a as planned day in Epcot we decided to call it a day and come back when its less busy and a day we can get up on time Before we left we walked past France and the girls got sun umbrellas and the guy wrote the names on them, as it took 30 odd minutes we walked over to see the "UK" and get a pint. Wow the pint is expensive and might be British Bar Maids but I am guessing none of them had worked in a bar as it had a head on it like they had just given me an ice cream cone, felt that was poor as the least they could do is get it right when charging you an arm and a leg Still didnt complain as it was more an experience of drinking in UK part than actually drinking to get tipsy.
One thing, I felt Wales and Scotland where grossly under represented in the UK part, they might as well have just called in England. Wouldnt have had a problem with that, what I am meaning is if you call something UK, you need to chuck in a bit from all of the UK but if it comes off looking like its all England then just call it that, will save confusing our American friends who almost all think Scotland is in another country from the UK Anyway thats not a big deal as I consider myself British and love and get on with many people in England so hope you see my point and not take it as me wanting them to have a load of people in kilts and bag pipes running about By the way Canada had more Scottish going on than UK with Off Kilter Band LOL and than again I could have missed the Scottish and Welsh part as I didn't exactly explore
Ok way off track, anyways we decided to go to MGM via Boat and this gave me a chance to show parents-in-law the boardwalk and Beach Club that we had stayed in before while getting to MGM in a more interesting form of transport than a bus.
Didnt visit the concierge desk this morning, way hey! So it was straight to the parks, well not straight as we stayed sleeping longer than we planned but finally left it was 9:30am so not that bad, however as we got near the bus stop the Epcot one was on its way out the hotel, bummer because it was going to mean a 20 minute wait at least. When it did turn up I was thinking, it is not going to be so bad, I am sure we will be able to do all 3 main rides when get to Epcot.
- Epcot
So we go via normal bag search. I know they are doing a job and trying to keep us all safe but they range from hardly looking to empty everything on the table. The one I had today was empty everything on table, and far enough it just a small inconvenience for safety but just why are we queuing for this at just after 10am? Then over to the ticket barrier to queue some more!!! I was thinking at this point "did I pick the wrong park to go to today (the day after Thanksgiving)" well turns out Sorin is the most popular ride in Disney World and thats what everyone was going to do. Anyway once we got the group all past the ticket bit, I head off with one of the girls to collect the fast passes for Sorin and everyone else headed towards Mission Space. Anyways we get in to the building for Sorin and the crowds where unreal and get down to the fast pass bit and says 2pm return, "what its only 10:20" how can it be 2pm already and 60 minute wait?? Well that was that ride scraped, no point in getting the fast passes, so we head back out. Now Disney should think about displaying the times as you enter that big building, I bet loads of people would have turned around and went else where instead of adding to the crowds inside.. anyway no big deal, off to meet everyone at Mission Space.
Turns out everyone was at Sorin, and Mission Sapce had a 10 minute wait.. magic, so I run over to Test Track and grab fast passes for that and then head in to do Mission Space by this time it was a 20 minute wait, but thats not a problem. My wife and her mother stay off with my son but before we went in we asked for our rider swap ticket (note, never forget to ask for this even if you dont plan to ride that day). So as we wait to go on the ride, the youngest in the group (Amanda) starts to get freaked out by the warnings all over the place. These where a bit hard core I felt, it was enough to scare a child and it did, but then again I guess they where trying to be honest as after all they dont want people in that are going to get motion sickness. So as we get to the front, I offer to stay off with her as she was crying at this point, didnt help her other 2 sisters and even her dad was winding her up about how bad the ride would be, shame on them
Anyway she says it ok she will go on as she said she would try everything, so on we go. I was the commander and she was the pilot and I forget what the other one was, as it only takes 4 people per ride area 3 of us went on 1 and 2 on another. Anyways she loved it and done all her Pilot tasks bang on time, I loved it also.. however I could notice the fact we where are spinning. If you look forward and at the screen you wont notice it at all or as much however even doing that, my mind wasnt being fully trick however rest all reported they didnt notice the spinning, so must have just been me.. but not a problem as I dont get that sick on that type of ride.
Any how that was a good one
We got off and the wife, her mum and Amanda (the one that was crying before she got on and then loved it) went back on thanks to the rider swap ticket and right in to the fast track queue.By the way this ride has next to no wait for single riders, keep that in mind if you dont fancy it yourself, as you wont be waiting out side too long if only 1 in your group wants to do it. But you really should give it a go at least once.
After that it was off to Test Track, waited for 10 mins outside for our fast pass time to come, when it did come we done a rider swap and this time wife stayed off first again, my wife and I where the only ones in the group that had ever done Test Track before as last time with 2 of the girls we waited in the queue and it broke down. Anyway you would not believe this we go to the fast pass queue and wait for 5 mins for it only to go and break down, I was like no way this happened last time 2 years ago. So out we go, our fast passes could be used again that day but we where not staying the full day. However only good thing was we had a rider swap and it was usable for next 3 days, so in the wallet that went.
Not having the best of luck and feeling hungry we headed off to get food. Picking Morocco, way around the other side, well it is if you go the wrong way round LOL
But that was good as gave us a chance to see the different countries and very nice some of them looked also, here are a couple of pictures from some of them.
So we have our counter service at Morocco, was huge chicken thing I had and was really nice but they gave you this oil dip thing with it, that to me didnt taste of anything so didnt use it but still a nice counter service, desert was a some Moroccan thing and it was super sweet and was only able to have 2 bites but hey I never ever have desert at lunch time so wasnt a problem and besides the dinning plan is designed to stuff your face, I think
After lunch and having a bad well not actually bad, just not a as planned day in Epcot we decided to call it a day and come back when its less busy and a day we can get up on time
Before we left we walked past France and the girls got sun umbrellas and the guy wrote the names on them, as it took 30 odd minutes we walked over to see the "UK" and get a pint. Wow the pint is expensive and might be British Bar Maids but I am guessing none of them had worked in a bar as it had a head on it like they had just given me an ice cream cone, felt that was poor as the least they could do is get it right when charging you an arm and a leg Still didnt complain as it was more an experience of drinking in UK part than actually drinking to get tipsy.One thing, I felt Wales and Scotland where grossly under represented in the UK part, they might as well have just called in England. Wouldnt have had a problem with that, what I am meaning is if you call something UK, you need to chuck in a bit from all of the UK but if it comes off looking like its all England then just call it that, will save confusing our American friends who almost all think Scotland is in another country from the UK
Anyway thats not a big deal as I consider myself British and love and get on with many people in England so hope you see my point and not take it as me wanting them to have a load of people in kilts and bag pipes running about By the way Canada had more Scottish going on than UK with Off Kilter Band LOL and than again I could have missed the Scottish and Welsh part as I didn't exactly explore Ok way off track, anyways we decided to go to MGM via Boat and this gave me a chance to show parents-in-law the boardwalk and Beach Club that we had stayed in before while getting to MGM in a more interesting form of transport than a bus.
I said, its not a real cruise its more like a boat trip, and she says no its them you speak too. I was like ok.. so went to the desk, no one on it, so I picked up the phone and got connected to 
in a few days time but when I get to that point you see it was actually a good thing!!!
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