Trip Report Dreaming My Way Back to Disney. A First Ever Solo Trip

I’ve been back for over a month now and am finally getting around to writing about one of my best ever Disney trips. I spent 2 nights at All Star Movies, the first time staying here.

This was my first time back at Disney World since January 2020 when I did this:

But, I’m getting ahead of myself because the main part of the trip was…

A transatlantic cruise on the Disney Dream.

This has been a cruise I’ve wanted to take ever since my first cruise 11 years ago, so I was very excited to finally be able to do it.

So the plans were:

October 20th to November 2nd: 13 night Westbound Transatlantic cruise from Southampton to Fort Lauderdale with stops at Vigo (Spain), Lisbon (Portugal), Ponta Delgada (Azores) and Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point.

November 2nd: Brightline train from Fort Lauderdale to Orlando

November 2nd to November 4th: All Star Movies resort only stay with lots of good food, resort hopping and fireworks

And I did all of this completely solo, which as a mum of four was not something I’d had the opportunity to do before.

 

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Wednesday 23rd October: Lisbon, Portugal (cont)

Next we visited Lisbon Cathedral. Beautiful

And the church of St Anthony of Lisbon

 

[MinnieM123]

Really enjoying your photos throughout this TR. You've visited some amazing places!

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Really enjoying your photos throughout this TR. You've visited some amazing places!

Thank you. I really enjoyed visiting them all

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Wednesday 23rd October: Lisbon, Portugal (cont)

While we’d been in the old town it had been easy to stay together as a group, the only traffic was the trams and some e-bikes. After leaving the cathedral we then headed into the newer part of the city and it became more difficult to walk together as a group, lots of traffic and narrow crowded pavements. It also made it hard to stop and take photos.

I did manage a photo of the Santa Justa lift. Apparently there are amazing views from the viewing platforms at the top but the wait to get up there is always very long so we didn’t go up. I would love to go up there if I ever return to Lisbon.

Past some monuments on the way to our next destination

We were supposed to be going on a funicular to the highest point of the city but unfortunately when we got there there was some building work being done and it wasn’t operating that day. Our guide said she could get us up there via a few escalators instead.

At this point we were about halfway through the tour and our guide gave us the choice of going up to the top of the city with her or go our own way. About half of us decided to split from the group. I’d really enjoyed the first half of the tour but wanted to explore on my own a bit. And there was a particular place I wanted to find that I didn’t think the tour would go to.