Tokyo Disney

[misskrystal]

My db wants to go to Japan next year and I, of course, want to go to Disney. So, we've decided to go to Tokyo and visit Disney while we're there.

I was just wondering what everyone thinks of it. I haven't heard anything about it, good or bad, so I don't know what to think.

Any advice would be really helpful, especially when I start to plan.

Thanks all.

 

[steve_rob]

Sorry I can't actually help much - we've never been, but it's on our long term plan to go there - in 2010! We were looking to do this to complete the Disney "Grand Slam" (both Paris parks, both California and all four Florida ones done), but now we've also got Hong Kong it'll be even longer before we complete the set!

However, this is what I do know about Toyko - the parks are SUPERB! Whereas Disney have been cutting costs on new attractions and new parks in the States (and also to some extent in Paris), a completely different company owns the Tokyo parks - they just pay Disney a royalty fee and hire Disney's Imagineers when they need them. This company have apparently put shed loads of money into things like the new DisneySea park and the level of quality and attention to detail I'm told is fabulous! Everyone who goes there seems to rave about it anyway.

 

[tyke]

Check out the Tokyo Disney website - the resort looks amazing !

There are some reviews of Tokyo Disney on the Virtual Tourist and Trip Advisor websites.

I suppose I will have to add this to my 'to-do' list also !!!

tyke

 

[disneyholic family]

we were in Tokyo Disneyland many many years ago (during its first year of operation, when i was pregnant with my now 21 year old daughter!)...

so i haven't had the good fortune of seeing Tokyo DisneySea as yet...(but we'll probably be going in early november or late October)...

as for Tokyo Disneyland (at least as it was 21 years ago), it's very much like the Magic Kingdom (and the original Disneyland)...
at the time, there was no English (i don't know if that's still true) but the scripts were so obviously the same that my husband and i actually laughed as we remembered the jokes from WDW...

since i love Japan and i love Disney, it's probably true that i'm not the person who will give you an objective opinion....but we had a grand time....it was veyr interesting, seeing something we knew so well (disneyland), but sharing it with Japanese,.....

unlike when we went, if you go now you can stay right onsite.....probably a good thing to do especially given that there are now 2 parks to visit.....(the Hotel Mira Costa looks stunning)....
keep in mind that everything in japan is incredibly expensive....including disney and its hotels...