Goofy had us up at 6.45am and I have to say that initially I thought the bed hard last night but it was soon comfy and the polyester pillows were lovely and plump!! Anyway it was hard to drag ourselves out of bed but the park was calling and so far it didn't look like it was going to rain!!
We had breakfast times of 7.00 to 7.30am so we generally turned up around 7.30am!! There was no queue at this time but boy does it get busy half an hour later!! Breakfast was lovely and we had a choice of rolls, breads, croisants, pastries, cold meats, cubed cheese, yogurts, fromage frais, fresh fruit salad and various drinks. As I have a wheat allergy I mentioned this to our hostess as she was seating us and it was no problem for her to go and get me items 'sans gluten'. Each morning was the same I had crackers, bread, cakes and asstd packets of biscuits and what I didn't eat I did put in my bag for later in the park. We did see some famillies making up rolls for lunch but they are so obvious when doing it!!
We got into the park for 8.30am and straight away headed for Peter Pan where we rode it twice as there was no queue! We then did the teacups twice, Pinnochio, the dragon under the castle and the carousel - can anyone get on those horses on the outside? Me and my mate tried our hardest but couldn't even get our legs over
!!! So we had to settle for ones in the middle and near the centre!!
By this time it was 9.20 and we left so we could be at the Studios for opening, the gates were opened at 9.30am and it was like a scrum to start with it!! We headed off to Crush's Coaster and luckily there was only a 20 min wait, the queue behind us was awful and when we came out the queue time was up to 90 mins already! We then did the Cars which we thought was fun but it is a very slow loading ride so you can understand why queues build up. RNR coaster was next which we did twice and we also did the Studio Tram Tour which was good but I didn't like the flames as I could feel the heat on my face, still I survived it!! We then cheked the queue time for Crush's again but it was shut due to technical problems.
We then left the Studios and headed for Annettes where we both had the rock n roll burger, mine minus the bun. The portions were huge and our meals were hot. We were so stuffed that I could only look longingly at the dessert menu, we couldn't eat another mouthful! It was about 1pm we stared eating and it was fairly quiet in Annettes.
After stuffing our faces we headed back to the park and did Its a small world, Snow White and Pirates of the Caribbean where I had a bit of an issue with the darkness!! It was so dark walking down to the ride I couldn't see a thing and had to hold my mates arm! I don't see well in darkness and it kinda freaks me out a bit and the last time I did this ride I didn't think it was this dark! Thankfully we were pleased to see lights where the boats were loading!
We then headed off to Big Thunder Mountain where we grabbed a fast pass and then queued for 30 mins to ride it so we could ride again straight after as the Fastpass time was for 30 mins later.
We managed to ride BTM 7 times as were grabbing Fastpasses before riding our Fastpass as the Fastpasses were evry 30 mins and after 30 mins had expired we could get another one!! We did start to notice people queuing and then when the Fast Pass queue joins the regular queue side by side and just before going down the stairs, people were jumping over the barrier and going down the fastpass queue!!
We left the park at about 7.15pm intending to go and find the Chinese Restaurant at Val'd Europe but the queues for the ticket machines were huge!! We waited about 40 min and we din't go very far so we gave up on that option and though we would try the bus. If we were reading the timetable right it would have taken 30 mins from Disney to Val d' Europe! So we abandoned that idea and went to The Rainforest instead for dinner, it was okay! Have done a seperate report for that.
We wondered through the disney village, interesting to note that it takes 5 mins to walk from the Village to the Hotel New York and another 3 mins to the Sequoia Lodge. We settled for a Hot Chocolate in the bar before heading back to our rooms and a nice soak in the bath!! Goofy set to wake us up at 6.45am again!
We had breakfast times of 7.00 to 7.30am so we generally turned up around 7.30am!! There was no queue at this time but boy does it get busy half an hour later!! Breakfast was lovely and we had a choice of rolls, breads, croisants, pastries, cold meats, cubed cheese, yogurts, fromage frais, fresh fruit salad and various drinks. As I have a wheat allergy I mentioned this to our hostess as she was seating us and it was no problem for her to go and get me items 'sans gluten'. Each morning was the same I had crackers, bread, cakes and asstd packets of biscuits and what I didn't eat I did put in my bag for later in the park. We did see some famillies making up rolls for lunch but they are so obvious when doing it!!
We got into the park for 8.30am and straight away headed for Peter Pan where we rode it twice as there was no queue! We then did the teacups twice, Pinnochio, the dragon under the castle and the carousel - can anyone get on those horses on the outside? Me and my mate tried our hardest but couldn't even get our legs over
!!! So we had to settle for ones in the middle and near the centre!!By this time it was 9.20 and we left so we could be at the Studios for opening, the gates were opened at 9.30am and it was like a scrum to start with it!! We headed off to Crush's Coaster and luckily there was only a 20 min wait, the queue behind us was awful and when we came out the queue time was up to 90 mins already! We then did the Cars which we thought was fun but it is a very slow loading ride so you can understand why queues build up. RNR coaster was next which we did twice and we also did the Studio Tram Tour which was good but I didn't like the flames as I could feel the heat on my face, still I survived it!! We then cheked the queue time for Crush's again but it was shut due to technical problems.
We then left the Studios and headed for Annettes where we both had the rock n roll burger, mine minus the bun. The portions were huge and our meals were hot. We were so stuffed that I could only look longingly at the dessert menu, we couldn't eat another mouthful! It was about 1pm we stared eating and it was fairly quiet in Annettes.
After stuffing our faces we headed back to the park and did Its a small world, Snow White and Pirates of the Caribbean where I had a bit of an issue with the darkness!! It was so dark walking down to the ride I couldn't see a thing and had to hold my mates arm! I don't see well in darkness and it kinda freaks me out a bit and the last time I did this ride I didn't think it was this dark! Thankfully we were pleased to see lights where the boats were loading!
We then headed off to Big Thunder Mountain where we grabbed a fast pass and then queued for 30 mins to ride it so we could ride again straight after as the Fastpass time was for 30 mins later.
We managed to ride BTM 7 times as were grabbing Fastpasses before riding our Fastpass as the Fastpasses were evry 30 mins and after 30 mins had expired we could get another one!!
We did start to notice people queuing and then when the Fast Pass queue joins the regular queue side by side and just before going down the stairs, people were jumping over the barrier and going down the fastpass queue!!We left the park at about 7.15pm intending to go and find the Chinese Restaurant at Val'd Europe but the queues for the ticket machines were huge!! We waited about 40 min and we din't go very far so we gave up on that option and though we would try the bus. If we were reading the timetable right it would have taken 30 mins from Disney to Val d' Europe! So we abandoned that idea and went to The Rainforest instead for dinner, it was okay! Have done a seperate report for that.
We wondered through the disney village, interesting to note that it takes 5 mins to walk from the Village to the Hotel New York and another 3 mins to the Sequoia Lodge. We settled for a Hot Chocolate in the bar before heading back to our rooms and a nice soak in the bath!! Goofy set to wake us up at 6.45am again!
