Trip Report Doing it 'live' baby!

Good morning!!!!

I'm at Gatwick Airport! We woke at 4am ready for my dear parents to drive us to the airport at 5am :eek: we arrived at 6:15am, checked in, went through security and browsed the shops for a while. We entered the British Airways lounge 40 minutes ago, I've had a complimentary sausage and mustard baguette and a cup of tea, I'm now onto the orange juice! I may help myself to a complimentary pastry later! Our flight isn't unto 11:20am there is a expected delay of 20 minutes ( I've had worse!)

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We've managed to get seats near the runway window! The runway is far right so we are directly over a service road but who cares!
 
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dave&di

dave&di

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MR FERRET said:
Hope the head improves and there is no need to apologise as most of us would probably have had a meltdown in that sort of situation. Just chill , Have copious (sp) coffee and go meet the big cheese :D
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Thanks Ferret, Dave's had the coffee, I've had the tea! Plus Bounty PLatter eaten (well half!) not sitting well!
Will report back after the MK!

Have a nice day! ;)
 
Longers

Longers

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Dead jealous, hope you feel a bit better after being immersed in the magic! The flight from the UK normally makes the best of us cranky as its so long but now you are there have a magical time. Looking forward to the updates
 
dave&di

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Ok, back from a day at the parks, I'll write as much as I can but I'm shattered and am lying in bed ready to snooze!

We went to the MK this morning, as we headed to the bus stop there was already a bus there with people loading, we were last on with no seats. :( Our plan upon arrival was to head straight to The voyage of the little mermaid, I'm a fan of the movie so I was excited to be trying it, so off we headed with only one person in front of us, when we got there they said it wasn't open yet but will be in a few minutes, to cut a long story short, 20 mins later is was still down, the cM at the entrance kept making a joke about it and kept saying it will be open in a minute, I noticed a visitor ask another CM about the situation, this CM seemed honest and shrugged her shoulders and said she had no idea when it would open, I wish the CM's would just be honest as visitors could potentially waste a lot of time standing there! :mad: So we went and got a fast past for 10:20-11:20. We then went to Gastons Tavern and I tried Le Foufs brew, it was ok, basically an apple slushie.

We then went on Peter Pan and IASW both only 5 min waits, we then intended on going on Splash, guess what? As we approached we could see there was no water running! So we headed to Thunder Mountain instead which was a 10 min as I'm guessing the people wanting to ride Splash diverted here!

Next, Haunted Mansion, I think we then went back to Mermaid, it was up and running, our FP meant we missed the queuing area which is full of things to see unfortunately, the ride was fun apart from people using flash on their cameras :banghead:

Lunch was had at Caseys, I had the pulled pork dog, (I ate half :oops:) Dave likes the Chicago Dog but its no longer on the menu, instead they have a Polish dog, Wholegrain mustard and caramelised onions, Dave liked it. after this we decided to look around the shops in Main St as the Celebrate it Parade was due in 30 mins, after the PArade we headed to ADventureland, where we went on The Swiss Family treehouse, luckily there were no crowds so we could walk at our own speed (fast!) then we went to the TIki Room, now I like this but I was annoyed at the amount of people who were playing with their phones and having conversations while it was on, in fact - few people walked out a few minutes before it finished, I find this rude.

We the crossed over to Tomorrowland, where our first stop was going to be the People mover, guess what?!?! As we approached it it stopped! 5 minutes later it still wasn't moving and the CM wasn't letting people up the escalator, at this moment The CoP was opening up so we ran into that, we enjoy this nostalgia but flashing cameras once again took the edge off as did a group of people who insisted on talking loudly throughout stating how bored they were!

As we got off we saw the People mover working again so we made our way over, guess what?!?! It stopped again! We decided to cut our losses and head back to the resort stopping at Main St to purchase some things we saw earlier.

As we left Dave decided to exchange our MNSSHP paperwork for the actual tickets as he did this I saw the POFQ bus pull away :banghead: we had another 6 days to get these tickets! We decided to join the Riverside line as there were several people there so we figured it wouldn't be too long, as it happens Another POFQ bus came along within 5 minutes so drama over!

I then had a 2 hour nap :oops: I tire easily!!! Plus a bad night sleep the night before and a now minor headache didn't help. Dave went to the pool and had his dinner at the food factory (creole burger, he loved).

This evening we went to Epcot, we got to the bus stop around 6pm, it was packed :eek: the stop was only for Epcot and DTD, now the skies were overcast so It may have been possible. The boat to DTD wasn't running? But we guessed all these people were going to Epcot, there were enough people for 2 buses so after about 5 mins of waiting we got a cab. A couple also did this a few minutes before us.

Once we got to Epcot it was drizzling, I had my emergency poncho so that was ok! Spaceship Earth was first, then we wanted to try the new version of TT, this was down for refurb last year so we were keen to ride it. Guess what?!?! The notice boards said DOWN !!!! We walked over just incase and it appeared to be open, the standby line was out the door and bizarrely the FP times were only 10 minutes away, so we got FP's, looked round Mouse gears and returned to TT, the pre show is different, you now design your own car first, which was fun. I was a skeptic of what I saw of this TT on the Internet but I actually liked it!

We then made our way round the WS, we had a special voucher for PReferred Seating for Illuminations. I hadn't eating since Caseys at the MK and have yet to get my WDW stomach! I managed some chips from the UK pavilion and later on I shared an jalepino cheese pretzel with Dave, he had a few Bud LItes which I had a few sips of! (I'm on Anti biotics for an ailment which isn't helping me much on this trip!:rolleyes:) At 8:45 we took our spot which is basically the ramp that takes you to the boats near Morrocco. After the show we jumped in a cab back to the POFQ, there's no way I'm queuing for a bus when the parks empty.

We got back at 9:45, it's now 22:53 and I need to sleep, Dave's gone to the bar (again!)

Tomorrow morning we go to HS!!!! We have an ADR at the Sci-Fi, I love it there!

Night guys, I'll be back tomorrow. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
 
Zipadeelady

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LuLaSue said:
I am back! I started a trip report but, In typical LuLasue style I have yet to complete it! :banghead: I think I got to day 3. I am a horror!! :jawdrop: BUT...ya gotta love me... LOL... I promise to update it!:happy:
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Lula... I totally get it. My organizational skills are severely lacking to do a trip report. It would be a mess but I love to read everyone else's!!
 
dave&di

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Hi guys,

Woke up at 5:30am this morning! :rolleyes: Wish I could sleep till 6:30am at least! Dave went off to the food factory for his breakfast as usual, he brought me back cereal as the Bounty Platter yesterday was too heavy first thing! Then off we went to the bus stop to HS, luckily as we approached a bus turned up and only 4 of is got on, then the bus went to the other 4 stops at Riverside, this added about 10 mins on but luckily we were early enough anyway!

Upon entering HS Dave went to TSM to get FP's while I took a slow walk to Star tours, he then met me there but it was yet to open as it was only 8:50am. When it opened we got straight on the ride, I clicked my seat belt on as normal and a CM came over and tugged on it, no problems. Then the ride started and within seconds my belt came undone!!!!! :eek: The more it retracted the more it locked, I spent the whole ride holding on for dear life! I know I wasn't going to die but it still makes you question WDW safety standards. When we got off I told a CM near the exit, he shrugged his shoulders and said ok! :banghead: At least I reported it. I had no idea what version of ST I sat through, I wasn't watching!!!!

We then made our way to The Muppets, guess what!?! It was down!!!! We went to Writers Stop instead where I had my proper breakfast! Carrot cake cookie!!!! We then did TSM, I won! The studios have a great new band that perform on the hat stage, their really good, we sat and watched them for a while. Dave went on RnRc, I never will! We also walked around ONe Mans Dream.

We had an ADR at the Sci - Fi for 12:30, we got there 20 minutes early, I don't like that people with reservations have to queue with people trying to get seats then and there, the process is too long and the queue was too long. Once in we both had the PIcnic Burger plus I had a Vanilla shake!!!! Wow was it good!!!!

We then left the park and got a cab to DTD as we had a voucher for $100 Disney Dollars, after browsing for shops for a while we got the boat back to POFQ. Dave has now gone for his swim and I'm about to have a looonnnng sleep :oops:. Tonight were going to MK for MSEP and Wishes!

See you later!
 
dave&di

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Our evening at the MK didn't go as planned, around 5pm, while we were still in our room, it started to rain, not too heavy so we decided to continue our plans, but while on the bus the heavens opened, luckily I had ponchos with me! When we entered the park nearly everything had been closed, Splash, thunder, speedway, barnstormer. Anything that was open was packed and the stores were impossible to walk around (full of strollers and electric chairs!) the rain had stopped but with the occasional thunder but rides weren't reopening which made us believe WDW knew something we didn't. The skies were still looking bad, we managed to get on the People mover which also had a massive queue! We were determined to ride something! At some point the biggest rainbow I've ever seen appeared over the park, we didn't take the camera due to the rain :banghead: the time was now 7pm, we had 2 hours till MSEP and 3 hours till Wishes, with nothing open and the chance of more rain looming we decided to cut our losses. We returned to POFQ, so I decided to try the food factory for the first time, I had the cheese steak sandwich which was enjoyable. We then spent a bit of time in the arcade (am I wrong for getting annoyed at a boy who kept standing next to us and watching whatever we were playing?!?! ) I don't mean I did anything but inwardly I was peed! We then had a Coors lite at Scat cats, boy. It's cold in there! I think tonight is the first night of the NFL league so the bar was filling up! Dave's left his tab open and has nicely escorted me back to the room before returning to the bar! I'm now drinking a can of Coors lite and eating Cheddar cheese popcorn from the parks, next I shall read a few tacky gossip mags while watching 'Everybody loves Raymond' before I go to sleep!!!!

Tomorrow-the AK !!!!
 
dave&di

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This morning we went to AK, our first ride was the Safari, we always do this first, this was our most successful one as we saw lots of animals.

We then headed to EE, I'm not great with coasters but I can get away with this one, I don't really like it but I do it once per trip!

We also did ITTBAB and Dinosaur. We saw the Nemo show for the first time and were really impressed with it.

We then had Pork Sandwiches at the Flame Tree Barbeque, then visited the shops. By now it was 1:30pm and really hot, I always find the AK toooo hot!

We then got a cab to DTD, not for any particular reason! After browsing for a while we wanted to get the boat back to POFQ but the sky had turned grey and the boats had stopped :( so we waited at the bus stop for 20 minutes then once on board we then went to the Westside stop, then onto Typhoon Lagoon, then all 4 Riverside stops before we arrived at POFQ :banghead:

By now it was 3:30pm and once we got to our room the heavens opened, it's now 6:56pm and the rain, thunder and lightning hasn't stopped and isn't due to for hours. :cry: We were due to go to Epcot tonight but after being rained off at MK last night we don't see the point in walking round Epcot when it will be practically closed. We can't get into the food factory as it looks like the whole resort are staying in tonight!

So our night will be spent in the room :arghh: watching bad tv! Dave keeps opening the door every 5 mins to check the weather! This is not going as planned! :(
 
BrittanyRose428

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It's no fun when the weather decides to turn bad and you want to go on those rides! Hopefully you end up making it to them. And you're at Port Orleans! I just stayed there for the first time a few weeks ago and loved it, Scat Cats was really nice. Oh and the flash photography is a huge problem on the Little Mermaid ride. I don't think they make any announcements about it, but they really should, it was terrible all three times I've been on it. It's a shame because it's a really good ride, but sometimes I get so distracted by the flashes. (Sometimes people were even taking selfies and not even pictures of the ride, which makes no sense to me, but thats what happened). I don't know why it is so much worse on that ride than others. =/
 
dave&di

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Basketcase463 said:
It's no fun when the weather decides to turn bad and you want to go on those rides! Hopefully you end up making it to them. And you're at Port Orleans! I just stayed there for the first time a few weeks ago and loved it, Scat Cats was really nice. Oh and the flash photography is a huge problem on the Little Mermaid ride. I don't think they make any announcements about it, but they really should, it was terrible all three times I've been on it. It's a shame because it's a really good ride, but sometimes I get so distracted by the flashes. (Sometimes people were even taking selfies and not even pictures of the ride, which makes no sense to me, but thats what happened). I don't know why it is so much worse on that ride than others. =/
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Hi, POFQ is lovely, I've also had a few drinks at Scat cats ;) freezing cold in there though!

As we were getting on the Mermaid ride someone instantly took a flash photo and the CM loading shouted out about no flash photography but she continued once we moved along! :mad:

Thanks for reading :)
 
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This morning we went to MK, we managed to get there in time for the Opening ceremony again. We went straight to the Mermaid ride again and luckily it was working this time! Then we headed to Splash which was also working today!! :) Then we went on Thunder Mountain.

I had yet to have my traditional Corn dog in Frontierland yet, my stomach just won't stretch enough! Nine months of dieting just so I can stuff my face at WDW and I can't do it! So we then went to the cart but there were none there yet! (It was only 9:30am) so we went on the Hall of Presidents, afterwards the corn dogs had arrived!

Next, PIrates of the Carribean (I can't remember what we did after! It was 12 hours ago :oops:) at some point I tried a Nutella Waffle from Sleepy Hollow, it was as good as I thought it would be, Dave tried the Proscutio version but us Brits don't mix sweet with savoury and he couldn't enjoy it so I gave up a quarter of mine! :(

We did Buzz Lightyear for the first time ever :oops: and we both actually enjoyed it, I won! We also rode the Railway for the first time since 2008!

We left the park quite early at 1pm as we had an ADR at The Brown Derby tonight as part of the Fantasmic Dinner Package at 5:45pm. I need at least an hour sleep during the day! :oops:

I stupidly decided to eat at the resort upon our return, I had the scrimp po'boy at the food factory, tasty! So I knew that I wouldn't be hungry for our expensive ADR! :banghead: Were on the QS dining plan so BD doesn't count.

So we ate at the at the BD, we both had the blue crab cake spring rolls for apps, they were nice enough. Dave then had a steak and I chose the Cobb Salad, I'd been looking forward to this for months, I've never had one but when researching the BD the Cobb salad looked lovely. The waitress brought up 2 big serving spoons beforehand and I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do with them :oops: then when the waiter put the dish down he asked me if I wanted it mixed, this threw me and I instantly said yes. I think this was one of the worst decisions I've ever made! It was disgusting, a mixture of too many flavours, blue cheese, dressing, advocado etc, I think I could have stomached it if I ate bits individually but like this I found it distrusting but I continued to eat it, a lady on a near by table had the same and ate it all although hers wasn't mixed! I ate as much as I could without vomiting! :hungover: I finished off with the Gratefruit cake, which I enjoyed, but I wasn't even hungry to begin with, I enjoyed the experience at the BD and loved the decor and atmosphere, I was just unlucky with my food choice!

We then walked around so Dave could walk off his dinner (he actually ate his!) we don't do rides on our Fantasmic night which is a waste but once you're turned up and had your ADR rides aren't always a good thing to do! The system of the Fantasmic entrance has changed since last year, you now enter along side the general guests and a small section 'mickey' is set aside, you end up showing your ticket to 3 different CM's before you get seated:banghead: the DInner PAckage seating had a third reserved for something else and people were complaining there wasn't enough seats, it seems very chaotic as now you have Fastpass reserved seating as well, it seemed one big mess.

The show was as good as ever but at the end the 2 big boats of characters didn't come round, the cast just appeared on the stage waving steamers:( I can only guess something went wrong, this can't be a permanent ending!?!?

We then got a cab back to the resort, I've returned back to the room, Dave has gone to the bar as he does every night:rolleyes:

Tomorrow, Epcot in the morning!

Night! Zzzzzzzzzzz
 

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