The three princess' (and one prince) hit DLRP: A Trip Report. **COMPLETE**

[LoodlesNoodles]

Day three:

James woke us up at 7.30am after two sets of alarms failed to go off at the correct time so we rushed down to breakfast in pretty much just our pj's, we must have looked a site! After breakfast we went back to the room to get ready for our first full day at the parks. The sun was already shining, was going to be a good day!
We were in the park by 8.45 and managed to have our first Buzz game, I lost. We also went on It's a Small World , the teacups, Peter Pan and Space Mountain (it was so smooth!). After Space Mountain we wandered over to Frontierland and started to queue at Woody's Roundup Villiage to meet big W himself. It was supposed to open at 11.15, we started queuing at 10.45, we were the 3rd group to go through and the gate opened at 11.50 with very little information as to what was going on.

We met Goofy, Mickey and Woody here though so it was worth it as I thought it was just for Woody/Jesse. (Pictures still to come!)
After this, we wandered over to Main Street, to get a hot dog from Casey's where we ran into a short(ish) queue for Winnie the Pooh, with whom James just had to get a picture. So I waited in the queue with James whilst Laura and Ami went to get our food. We were in the queue for about 15-20 mins and we were chatting to a lovely family behind us. James got his picture and we headed over to where Laura and Ami were sitting with our hot dogs. I had one with cheese, it was gooood!

After lunch we headed over to the Studios and went to ride Crush straight away, queue was saying 40 mins, we would have been on in about 20 had the ride not broke right when we were 2 shells away from getting on! We decided to wait it out since we were so near the front and in the end we were given passes to come back later. On our way out we found Buzz doing meet and greets, we got a group photo which Laura and I both bought. We then decided to do Rock n Rollercoaster and got the Dude looks like a lady train, next up was Tower of Terror and Ami came on with us! She didn't enjoy it very much, she found it boring?!?! But she came on with us each time we went on it.
After ToT we went to watch Cinemagique but didn't tell James what was going on.
we headed straight back over to Crush and had to go through the back entrance. Lots of fun, Crush is arguably my favourite ride.
We did ToT and RnR a few more times and some shopping (I found a Bernard!!!!!) before heading out of the Studios around closing and headed straight over for our 6.30 Cafe Mickey reservation.

We arrived a little early and were seated upstairs, it was still pretty quiet when we arrived and our food arrived quickly (before our drinks even!). Characters started coming round not long after we were seated. We saw Chip n Dale, Eeyore, Gepetto, Goofy, Minnie, Mickey, Pluto, Mr Smee and Stitch. After the waiter took our plates he asked if we wanted to see a dessert menu, at which I mentioned as slyly as I could that we had actually ordered a cake, which was difficult as Ami was sitting opposite me so she found out that way. He looked a bit bewildered and panicky. He went back to the kitchen and came back a few minutes later to ask who it was for, and a few minutes later music started playing and Ami was pulled up onto the stagey bit between the two sides of the restaurant to dance to respect, which was funny and I got some great pictures. About 15 minutes after this, birthday music started playing and then it stopped as Mickey motioned that he was not ready. He was a bit busy with some kids on the other side. 5 minutes later, different birthday music suddenly started blasting and over came our waiter, with the cake and Mickey bouncing over, along with Mr Smee who danced around our table. Ami was super happy and she got special birthday hugs and kisses with Mickey. The cake was nice, chocolate and had a Mickey's Magical Party Time icing thing.
It was definitely a worthwhile time!

We left just after 8.30pm, and headed back for the hotel. We dumped our stuff in our room and headed over to the bar where Ami had a redwood cocktail and Laura had a nice to meet you (??). I had an amaretto and cranberry juice whilst James had a beer. We headed back to the room for around 9.45 and got ready for bed at 10.30ish

Day Four up next!!

 

[LoodlesNoodles]

Day four

We woke up at 6.30 as agreed this morning, got ready and headed down for breakfast at about 7.10 and chatted about what we wanted to do that day. We decided to do extra magic hours at Disneyland and then head over to Studios just before 10.
We got into Disneyland Park at 8.45 and had round 2 of Buzz wars! I was sitting with Ami today (winner plays winner, loser plays loser, me and Ami both lost day before). We were happy just spinning and getting our low score but having way more fun than Laura and James. I won this round, somehow. Tripling even Laura and James' scores, I must have hit a difficult one at some point.
We all went on Space Mountain quickly, still fun but a bit more shaky than the day before and headed round to do Peter Pan quickly. After this we headed straight out of the park and were in Studios by 9.55. We headed round to rock n rollercoaster and rode that 3 times in a row, v love that coaster!! We then went on ToT before going to do the Car stunt show (try saying that fast, but not around children ) as this is Ami's favourite. It was alright, wouldn't personally want to watch it again to be honest, but then I'm not really into cars. Didn't help that we were in the shade so was freezing!
We grabbed some lunch at Blockbuster Cafe, I had a croque Monsieur thingy and a Mickey brioche.
After this we went to wait for Crush in a nice 45 minute queue
By the time we were out of Crush it was time for Stars n Cars, so we decided to get a spot and wait and watch that. It was enjoyable, but it's not very well organised to watch.
After this finished and as the characters were starting to come round to pose for pictures and autographs we struggled out of the way and went on ToT quickly before going to watch my personal favourite, Animagique. It was just as good as I remembered it and had the song stuck in my head for the next few days.

After Animagique we headed back over to Disneyland park and did a few rides back over there, I think we did Indy, Pirates, Snow White, Pinocchio, and Star Tours (which was way more jerky than I remembered it being!). We did a bit of shopping and headed over to Planet Hollywood for dinner just before 7.
Dinner was good, I had the grilled tuscan chicken sandwich, Laura had the philly cheese steak sandwich, James had the turky club and Ami had grilled salmon. Ami bought the picture the lady took of us for 10euros.
After dinner we wandered slowly back to the hotel and I found my hand is the same size as Goldie Hawn's. Had a poke around the shop and then it was back to the hotel for showers and an early(ish) night.

Coming soon, Day five. Our last day!

 

[LoodlesNoodles]

Day Five, our final day

We woke bright and early and went down to breakfast before packing all our stuff and saying goodbye to comfy room. We left our stuff in the luggage room and handed in our keys and headed to the parks for our last day at Disney. Again, we were in the park for 9am. Headed straight for Buzz, the last of our tournament. James won this round. (Though that could be because I was playing Laura and I was spinning it the entire time. ). We went on Space Mountain again, knocked us all about a bit and had a wander round to Fantasyland and posed for some pictures in front of the castle

James gave us permission to go on It's a Small World again so we went on that.
Afterwards we went straight over to Studios and headed straight for Crush. It was at a 20 minute wait.
After Crush we went on ToT and had a great cast member (I believe his name was Sam. He was hilarious.) We all had our hands in the air for the picture and so Laura bought it.

We went over to RnR afterwards and rode that twice. Did you know they have an REM concert poster for when they played at Milton Keynes Bowl? Me niether! But we were super excited when we spotted it! Something from where I live in Disney?? Awesome stuff! So there's a picture of me pointing to the poster.

We did our best rock faces for the photo and James bought the picture.
This was me and Ami practising, I think she looks more like a pirate though!

We went back on ToT one last time, this time getting a woman who just sounded bored. (Why are the men so much better in this role than the women?) But it was the best algorithm we'd had all trip, lots of fun was had!
When we came out there were characters everywhere. Laura wanted her picture with Ariel but decided she wasn't 'Ariel' enough. I was going to get my picture with Gaston but he ignored me so I gave up. We headed over to do Crush one last time but we were all feeling pretty monged out and the queue was at 45 mins so we decided to go eat.

Back to the main park we wandered, off to Agrabah Cafe! The themeing of this restaurant is excellent. Love how cute it is inside! Starters were really good, I especially enjoyed the chick peas and lentils. I didn't like the couscous, it had tuna in it! Mains were just okay. I can't remember anything I had here that really stands out as being good. And puddings were alright, though incorrectly labelled. I enjoyed the coconut pie.

After lunch we decided to head to Big Thunder Mountain and got fast passes before queueing for 20 minutes. By the time we were off it was time to use our fast passes! Hooray! Back on we went and sat right at the front this time! James flicked us all with water from when you go through the waterfall

We were all feeling pretty knackered by this time so we went and got a drink and decided to catch the Mark Twain. I'd never done this before but it was lovely! We sat on the bottom deck in the sunshine.

Still feeling monged out we sat in Frontierland in the sunshine for a while, before James and I got restless. We decided to go do Pirates one last time and then Space Mountain. Pirates was pretty much a walk on, but only just, as there was a large group of about 30 kids heading there at the same time.
Laura and Ami both decided to sit out on Space Mountain so off James and I went. Queue said 20 minutes, but it was more like 40. We had two little kids trying to push in front of as every 2 seconds, which was getting on my nerves. After we finally got on it was not worth the wait, as it was super painful. So much for our good SM runs.
We headed out and joined up with Laura and Ami. James got his cigarettes out and almost immediately we were being harassed by these kids who looked no more than 8, literally. They wouldn't take no for an answer and tried to tell us they were 14 (in Bieber-land) and were arguing in what I think was Spanish that James should give them cigarettes before finally giving up, kicking a bin and jumping over the barriers to enter the SM queue (which was now only 10 mins, grr!).
We sat around here for a little while before heading off to the constellations store as I wanted the Stitch t shirt. We then headed for Main Street to do the last few bits of shopping before leaving. I got 2 cute cups for 5euros (as my brother loves my other Disney one so much I figured I'd get two!). We left the park at around 6.10 and slowly made our way back to the hotel to get our luggage.
Checked in at the eurostar no problems and found our seats easy enough. Shame we didn't have leisure select going back though, could have done with that extra space. There were no delays and were back in London on time. We walked back to Euston and rushed to get on the 9.40 train back to Milton Keynes, which of course was full so we sat in the corridor-y type bit on our luggage as we entertained ourselves by singing songs and replacing all words with 'James' and guessing what the song was. (James was busy watching a film on his iPhone and not caring about what was going on.) And we were home by 10.30pm and our Disney trip over!

I'm glad I got to go to Disney again, but at the same time it's made me hungry for Florida, fingers crossed I don't have to cancel that trip!
Thanks for reading guys!

 

[Arizona Rita]

Absolutely wonderful report Louise!
Thanks so much for sharing. We will be going right after our Baltic cruise, so in about 3 weeks!
Thanks also for posting the dining reviews. Some of them are so old that I had doubts but yours really helped.
Hope you do get to go to WDW and you have a great time!