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Some more pictures of the Enchanted Storybook Castle: Mosaics inside the castle: Going up into the castle as part of “Once Upon a Time” Adventure: A scene with a CGI animated Snow White in “Once Upon a Time” Adventure:

Garden of the Twelve Friends:

Golden Fairytale Fanfare: Here you could buy a picnic basket for two: Marvel Universe:

Gardens of Imagination The hub in front of the castle is HUGE, with several differently themed areas and even some attractions, like the carousel and Dumbo. It is a little weird to stand at the end of Mickey’s Avenue and see the castle so far away. There’s a statue of Walt Disney with Mickey...

Roaring Rapids: Note the 3 tracks above the challenge trails:

Adventure Isle Soaring Over the Horizon was probably the most popular ride at SDL with the longest waits. Chinese guests really liked it as they cheered, pointed and applauded. The theming is very different from the same attraction at DCA and Epcot. The queue is beautiful, although we only did...

Treasure Cove Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure is amazing. We were blown away and rode it 8 times. This is easily my favorite Disney ride ever (maybe until Rise of the Resistance). Wow, the way they used the screens and practical effects was fantastic. 10/10 Eye of the...

I really liked the Lotso and Donald popsicles, and I liked the way they were presented:

The end scene of Seven Dwarf's Mine Train: Just 10 minutes for Peter Pan's Flight: 😂

Fantasyland Frozen: A Sing-Along Celebration is similar to the show at HS. What I liked about this version is that Olaf is not a large human-sized character, but a puppet on a float of ice blocks. That is much better than the freaky big Olaf. 8/10 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was very...

Toy Story Land Toy Story Land is very similar to the one at Hollywood Studios, but better in some ways. It has an Al’s Toy Barn (obviously), which has some great theming. It looks like a huge barn play-set (with handle on top) and fun chicken theming. I don’t understand why Disney doesn’t put...

Lands & Attractions Tomorrowland Tomorrowland is beautiful! The design of the buildings, signage, lighting, walkways, etc are superb. Easily my favorite Tomorrowland. I hope that some of these designs will make it to Magic Kingdom or Epcot. TRON Lightcycle Power Run has beautiful theming...

Tickets & Park Entry Procedure If you stay at one of the two Disney resorts you get 1 hour early access to the park. Everyone else has the option to buy an Early Access Pass. For our first day we decided not to do this and enter the park at the regular opening time of 9:00. I loved our two days...

Disneytown & Merchandise On Wednesday we spent a few hours in Disneytown. It was not busy at all, with only a couple dozen people walking around. There were quite a few nice table service restaurants, a Starbucks, a bakery (that opened at 9:30am, after park opening) and some stores like LEGO...

Arrival We stayed 2 nights in downtown Shanghai and transferred to an off-property hotel near SDL in the afternoon of Wednesday, September 25th. I had booked 3 nights in the “Courtyard Shanghai International Tourism and Resorts Zone”, which is just west of the resort. This was about $75 per...

Summary I had read some pretty bad rumors about Shanghai Disneyland beforehand, such as illegal selling of merchandise in the park, guests cutting lines, and even parents letting their small children poop outside. Luckily we didn’t encounter any bad stuff like this in the park, except for line...

My wife and I recently came back from an incredible trip to China of 3 weeks. We flew from Orlando to Beijing (where we saw the Great Wall and Forbidden City) and took trains and internal flights to travel to Xi’an (Terracotta Warriors), Luoyang (Longmen Grottoes), Zhangjiajie (national park...

These wraps are great, but I wish they would go electric. We recently came back from China and we saw many electric city buses (and cars and mopeds). It was impressive, and so nice to be standing at a bus depot and not be coughing from all the smoke, and to see a couple dozen mopeds and small...

I think the main lesson from all this is that you should use the bathroom before boarding the Disney Skyliner.