Araminta18
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Happy Entry - Wednesday May 28, 2025 (part 3)
It took about 30 min or so to get all checked in - the CM came to us at the table with our room keys, fastpasses, show tickets, all the things.
It was really a pleasant way to do it, but not fast.
But still worked out for our plan - by 8:15 we were heading back to the monorail and over to Disneyland for early entry.Our view at 8:30:
About halfway back - not bad!
By 8:51, we'd made it in the park and had booked our Winnie the Pooh fastpass (the free one
). Our original plan was to rope drop Peter Pan, but just as I was grabbing the Winnie the Pooh fastpass, I saw that the fastpasses for Big Thunder were already at 10:30 am - originally the plan was to grab a Big Thunder pass at 9:10 am when our Pooh fastpass came due, but I got scared that by 9:10 the Big Thunder fastpasses would be super late (we were planning to leave the park fairly early), so we detoured and decided to head to Big Thunder to ropedrop. With a quick pitstop to say hi to Donald on the way.
Hi!
Over at Big Thunder, there was not a line at all:
They were letting us all in but holding us right before the boarding area until 9 am.
At 9:01 they let us board!
We got the last row - woot! Great ride, though not quite as good a Big Thunder as Disney Paris's Big Thunder.
Big Thunder having written, off we went to Fantasyland and Peter Pan!
Reminded me of Disney World's Peter Pan, though they don't have the nice new queue. We waited about 5 minutes, not too bad! Just enough time to enjoy the theming in the loading area (since the queue just wound back and forth in front of the loading area.
\Tink!
Skull Rock!
Peter Pan was unexciting but you gotta pay respects to the originals. We were planning to do Snow White next, but it was down! Tragedy. So we decided to detour and do the teacups:
Cute ride sign! Otherwise basically the same as DisneyWorld.
Snow White was still down, so we headed for the Carousel, 'cause I love carousels.
