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Disney & Star Trek Trip 2020

February - March 2020
A 18-day adventure by Alex & Dan Read more
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  • Disney & Star Trek Trip 2020
    Day 4

    Disney Animal Kingdom

    February 24, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

    We kicked off the day at Animal Kingdom; we had intended to get there early enough to get onto flight of passage without a huge wait. Sadly we were a little slow, so went on Navi River journey instead (a new one for me).

    The plan had been to get on a couple of rides before swooping over to the Polynesian villiage resort for a late breakfast, but the wait times ratcheted up quite quickly, Every time we approached an attraction we found its wait time had lept 20 to 30 minutes longer since we set off on the 5minute walk to get there.

    In the event we had a good walk round, bought a few trading pins and then headed out just as the park was opening to non-Disney resort guests to head to breakfast.    Read more

  • Disney & Star Trek Trip 2020
    Day 4

    Disney's Polynesian Villiage

    February 24, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    We arrived with nearly an hour in hand at the Polynesian, so we shopped for clothes for the Star Trek Cruise's Risan Festival of the Moon party in 'Boutiki' the resort shop. We took a wander round and a walk along the beach at the edge of the lagoon, rounded off with meeting Polynesian Pluto!

    The breakfast was great, we got a vegan version of the tonga toast (its an off menu option, but they were very accomodating) which came with a jug of hot maple syrup a strawberry and coconut cream drizzle. Alex had a side of vegan egg, Dan had vegan sausage. We also got a french press of coffee from a Hawaiian coffee plantation, where they rotate the crops between coffee and pineapple; it had quite a delicate flavour (definitely on the yummy side).

    The tonga toast is huge and filling, at the end of breakfast we were asked if we wanted anything to take away (coffee etc) - I think we might physically have burst if we had... high time to ride some rollercoasters.    Read more

  • Disney & Star Trek Trip 2020
    Day 4

    Disney's Magic Kingdom

    February 24, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    For a February, Magic Kingdom was absolutely heaving. There were huge wait times for most rides, so we stuck mostly to our fastpasses, shows and the parade. We did take advantage of a short line to see Mary Poppins, who gave some very good advice on the importance of having a good chimney sweep and the inadvisability of running.

    With the major attractions so busy, we spent a lot more time enjoying the park's theming than we would have otherwise. We checked out the display models of the lightcycles from the upcoming Tron ride and played the Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom, which takes you on quests around Frontier Land, Liberty Square, Main Street USA and Fantasy Land.

    We also played a few of the pirate treasure games, which take you on quests around Adventure land. Once you discover enough pirate treasure you're rewarded with a fastpass for Pirates of the Caribbean, so it was a good way of getting on another ride. The cast member at the exit of Pirates was doing such a good pirate voice we thought at first it was part of a recorded performance; as Alex passed by with her blue hair he covered his ears and cried "mermaid!".

    Having seen the fireworks on our first evening, we carried on riding as they went on walking around fantasy land as they exploded loudly above us. We stayed beyond the fireworks and left during the 'kiss goodnight' show which projects a story onto the castle.    Read more

  • Disney & Star Trek Trip 2020
    Day 5

    Disney Animal Kingdom

    February 25, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

    Tuesday was our Animal Kingdom day. We kicked off with a fastpass for Filight of Passage, a fantastic ride that always attracts big crowds and long lines. We followed that up with snacks (we are waaaay behind the curve on using our pre-paid snack credits on our dining plan) and a bit of shopping before our second FP at Expedition Everest.

    The crowds and queues were still huge, to the point that it was difficult to even move about through the throngs, we think as a result of the Run Disney event that had happened at the weekend. To avoid endless lines we decided to concentrat mostly on non-ride activites, other than those we had fastpasses for.

    We headed to Dinoland USA where a special character event was on. We met the richest duck in the World - Scrouge McDuck himself, along with his trusty chaufer/pilot Launchpad McQuack. We also managed to grab a picture with some 'dinosaurs' who looked suspiciously familar. We capped off our time in Dinoland with our fastpass for the Dinosaur ride.    Read more

  • Disney & Star Trek Trip 2020
    Day 5

    Disney Animal Kingdom, Discovery Island

    February 25, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    We took a late lunch by a pond with beautiful local birds looking on; being after the lunch rush, the resteraunt seating area seemed like an oasis of calm after the crowds on the main thoroughfares. Guests are asked not to feed the birds, so we must attribute the fact that more and more birds came to sit by Alex during our meal to her distinctive plumage (which did match a few of the more colourful feathers around).

    We caught Finding Nemo, the Musical at one of the park's theaters; Dan preferrs its predecessor 'Tarzan Rocks' but Alex is a big fan of the show. We finished our time at Animal Kingdom with a 'night blossom' slushy drink from the Pongu Pongu kiosque in Pandora.    Read more

  • Disney & Star Trek Trip 2020
    Day 5

    Sanna, Animal Kingdom lodge

    February 25, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    We escaped the bustle of the theme park to Sanna, a resteraunt at Disney's Animal Kingdom lodge. We had their renouned bread service, and a selection of vegan curried vegetables.

    To get back 'home' we decided to transfer to the skyliner at Epcot, which means walking through the park during its evening 'extra magic' hours. We took the opportunity to grab some good pictures and a quick ride on Test Track (which had opened a day early from its refurbishment). We seemed to attract a few glitches as our touch screen in the pre-ride car design area of Test Track and the speaker in our car (#32) was cutting out.Read more

  • Disney & Star Trek Trip 2020
    Day 6

    Slinky dog dash

    February 26, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    We were keen to have another go at Rise of the Resistance, but decided against facing the early start and scrum of people trying to get in at park opening that day (an essential requirement to get a chance). Instead we kicked off our Wednesday at the Disney Hollywood Studios Park with a leisurely, late-morning coffee and Pretzel on 'Hollywood boulevard' before heading to our fast pass bookings.

    Although it had been attracting hours long queues throughout our stay, we hadn't expected much from the new Slinky Dog Dash coaster. At a glance it looks like a fairly run of the mill, out door steel coaster; whilst that is mostly true there are some cool details in the theming. The mechanism itself also seemed a little unusual, with the lift hills acting in a 'launch' style, rather than the conventional slow drag to the top, like a gentle version of rock'n' roller-coaster or the French Space Mountain.    Read more

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    Day 6

    "Get your elbows off the table! "

    February 26, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

    For the afternoon we headed to the First Time in Forever, Frozen sing along show. It's good fun, but we had one eye on our watches because of our 14:00 reservation at the 50s Primetime Cafe, just across the square. We got out of the show a few minutes late, which raised our stress levels a little, but we none the less arrived right in the middle of our 10minute check-in window.

    The Cafe was running behind on its reservations, so it was a 'hurry up and wait' situation, but the bar area (themed on a 50s dinner/kitchen) was pretty cool. The cast in the resteraunt role-play aunts/cousins in the 50s so it was made very clear we were expected to clear our plates; some less well behaved guests at an adjacent table recieved a yell of 'get your elbows off my table'. Forutnately we had been tipped-off about that house rule ahead of time and emerged with stickers to show our membership of the "official clean plates club" (although Alex completely cheated by covering the remains of her meal with her napkin!).

    By the time we emerged from the Prime Time Cafe a fairly heavy rain had started, further cooling the unseasonably chilly day. The wait times at Epcot looked much more favourable, so decided to head over there; Dan was keen to take the 'friendship' boat, whilst Alex wanted the Skyliner, so naturally we took the Skyliner. We were treated to a substantial roll and frequent announcements that the service may be terminated at any time due to the strong winds.    Read more

  • Disney & Star Trek Trip 2020
    Day 6

    Epcot Forever!

    February 26, 2020 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 20 °C

    As we arrived at Epcot in towards the end of the afternoon, it was already noticeably quiet compared to other days of our trip, with more people heading out as we ere heading in (presumably to escape the rain).

    We headed straight to Imagination with Figment, which we were able to board directly… only for it to promptly break down whilst we were in the room with the bad smell effect. As it happened the couple sharing the car with us were from the Rhondda; we had a pleasant chat with them about how Americans struggle with Welsh accents. Sadly in the other cards people were a little cross and weren’t very pleasant to the cast members. The ride did eventually move on, but with the sound track synchronisation messed up so we experienced a lot of in strange silence - but we were all given an extra fast-pass to make up at the end of the ride.

    After that we we hit basically all of the attractions in ‘Future world’ with out much in the way of waits. We stumbled across a Mickey meet-and-greet with no wait, got onto Soarin’, the Land, The Seas and Spaceship Earth all in a few hours. We happened to visit the seas whilst one of the back-stage SCUBA tours was going on, so we got to see a dozen or so very unusual ‘fish’ in the aquarium tank.

    By the evening things were still cold, but the rain had mostly cleared up. We headed to World Showcase, where we intended to ride the Mexico Three Calliberos ride, but found it closed, so we headed to ‘Morocco’ for a quick service meal. The food in the Tangerine cafe is good (lots of tasty hummus) but Dan was suitably appalled when asked if he wanted his mint tea iced :o. After dinner we headed to Frozen Ever After, and were able to get on after a short wait (a queue which had been 90mins to two hours most of our trip) and were out in time to get to the fastpass viewing area for the "Epcot Forever" fireworks show.

    The show is 10 minutes of great fireworks, lasers, clever use of kites and unapologetic fan service, with call backs to some past Epcot favourites like horizons, the universe of energy and the tapestry of nations parade. Most of the show is set to a version of ‘one little spark’ from Journey into the Imagination. It was a great and memorable end to a day that had been really fun, despite the rain.

    We shared a Skyliner gondola home with some Disney super-fans who told us about a new documentary series on Disney+. One of them was a huge fan of Rattatoulie, and was a bit dissapointed the new ride wasn't open yet in Epcot's France pavillion, so Dan gave them a pin from the Disneyland Paris version.    Read more

  • Disney & Star Trek Trip 2020
    Day 7

    Disney’s Boardwalk

    February 27, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    Thursday was a beautiful, bright day in contrast to the rain of Wednesday with great views from the Skyliner as we headed back to Epcot. Alex rocked her new Sally dress bought at Disney Springs the previous Sunday and we sipped root-beer as we travelled back to ’Norway’ for another go on Frozen Ever After.

    We used our Frozen Fast Pass, visited the Gods of the Vikings exhibit for brain food and then the Kringla bakery for food food. We then left Epcot again, for a stroll out onto the Boardwalk for coffee and to checkout the shops. After that we headed on to Magic Kingdom, passing back through Epcot to reach the monorail station pausing to snatch up a maple popcorn in ‘Canada’ because its too good to do only once in a trip.    Read more

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