Another Voice
Charter Member of The Element
- Joined
- Jan 27, 2000
I believe the flight from Houston the Toyko (Nariata Airport) is between 11 and 13 hours. Most newer planes have individual video with movies-on-demand for each seat. My last flight on Continental had (according to the flight attendant) more than 250 movies and shows. They had a lot of Disney & Pixar animated features - Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Monsters, Inc. etc. - that I thought you could probably spend the entire trip just watching those.
And considering I remember all those long, long, long, long road trips from childhood trips to Disneyland that 13 hours in an airplane doesn't seem so bad.
Aside from airfare, the other expenses of a trip to Tokyo Disney Resort are very close to a trip to WDW. The Disney-owned hotels: the Hotel Mira Costa (themed as a Renaissance Italian Palace and is inside Tokyo Disney Sea), the Disney Ambassador Hotel (a 1930's Hollywood Art Deco hotel next to Ikspiari, the Tokyo much more elaborate version of Downtown Disney), and the brand new Tokyo Disneyland Hotel (Disney Victorian in style, a hundred times more plush than the Grand Floridian - it sits at the gates to Tokyo Disneyland), these three hotels are generally priced as WDW's Deluxe hotels. Rates in Tokyo vary greatly by season.
Surrounding the parks are six "official hotels", including western chains Hilton and Sheraton. As with Rsauer - I've also stayed at the 'Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Hotel' It's a very modern hotel (no Disney touches) and is less than a two minute walk to the monorail station (but Disney also provides free bus transportation as well). There are "partner" and "good neighbor" hotels that offer busses. And Tokyo Disney also has its own rail station - it's a fifteen minute ride from downtown's Tokyo Station. That means there are literally hundreds of hotels "in the area".
A single day, one park ticket is 5800 Yen - $53.81 at today's exchange rate. A four day (park hopping on the last two days) ticket is $139.63 - compare that to WDW's $71.00 one day and $257.00 parking hopping four day.
Citizens of the United States only need a valid passport to enter - no visas are required.
So what is Kevin waiting for?
And considering I remember all those long, long, long, long road trips from childhood trips to Disneyland that 13 hours in an airplane doesn't seem so bad.
Aside from airfare, the other expenses of a trip to Tokyo Disney Resort are very close to a trip to WDW. The Disney-owned hotels: the Hotel Mira Costa (themed as a Renaissance Italian Palace and is inside Tokyo Disney Sea), the Disney Ambassador Hotel (a 1930's Hollywood Art Deco hotel next to Ikspiari, the Tokyo much more elaborate version of Downtown Disney), and the brand new Tokyo Disneyland Hotel (Disney Victorian in style, a hundred times more plush than the Grand Floridian - it sits at the gates to Tokyo Disneyland), these three hotels are generally priced as WDW's Deluxe hotels. Rates in Tokyo vary greatly by season.
Surrounding the parks are six "official hotels", including western chains Hilton and Sheraton. As with Rsauer - I've also stayed at the 'Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Hotel' It's a very modern hotel (no Disney touches) and is less than a two minute walk to the monorail station (but Disney also provides free bus transportation as well). There are "partner" and "good neighbor" hotels that offer busses. And Tokyo Disney also has its own rail station - it's a fifteen minute ride from downtown's Tokyo Station. That means there are literally hundreds of hotels "in the area".
A single day, one park ticket is 5800 Yen - $53.81 at today's exchange rate. A four day (park hopping on the last two days) ticket is $139.63 - compare that to WDW's $71.00 one day and $257.00 parking hopping four day.
Citizens of the United States only need a valid passport to enter - no visas are required.
So what is Kevin waiting for?
(And if I could go, too!!)
