I have only ......... days/months till I go again.

[wewantsdaredhead]

How delightfully enigmatic of you. I just love a good mystery...

Stay tuned!

That is so neat that the course takes you through the Streets of America under the Obsorne Lights!!!

Honestly, that's one of the reasons we are running this one!
It all started when I was trying to find any days that both Osborne Lights and F&W overlapped. When I looked at the calendar the only weekend where that occurred was Wine and Dine Half weekend. hmmmmmmmm. A bell went off. I knew I could talk Mrs WWDRH into it. See...the last few times there we haven't been able to see the lights for whatever reason and its just been KILLING her. She kept on saying things like, "we need to come back for just a weekend so we can see those lights again!" It just worked out...
It was all too easy!!

[Amy]

How delightfully enigmatic of you. I just love a good mystery...

Stay tuned!

That is so neat that the course takes you through the Streets of America under the Obsorne Lights!!!

Honestly, that's one of the reasons we are running this one!
It all started when I was trying to find any days that both Osborne Lights and F&W overlapped. When I looked at the calendar the only weekend where that occurred was Wine and Dine Half weekend. hmmmmmmmm. A bell went off. I knew I could talk Mrs WWDRH into it. See...the last few times there we haven't been able to see the lights for whatever reason and its just been KILLING her. She kept on saying things like, "we need to come back for just a weekend so we can see those lights again!" It just worked out...
It was all too easy!!

I do hope you will be to take the time to go and look at the lights during your trip. Running underneath them will be cool, but you really need to be able to stand there and drink it all in!!

[Soarin08]

Congrats on signing up for the Wine and Dine Half H. I wonder if NaCler will be joining you??

Let's hope so, but I think he has something more important to do that weekend...I will let him explain.
If he cant make it, I will understand because it's something pretty cool that doesn't happen to everyone.
If I know him, I will probably see him that weekend for just a half a day if it's even remotely possible.

Now I'm curious.

NaCler where are you!?

[NaCler]

Soarin' - You rang? What can I do for you?

Amy - I am soooo jealous about your DLR trip. I'm trying to plan one but it's falling on deaf ears with my wife. She's just not as mouse-crazed as we are... But she's getting there.

WWDRH - you know I'm excited about another return trip for you guys. Add in that it's another race is even more exciting. Right now the plan is for me, my wife and possibly my oldest son to run the Jingle Jungle 5K on the morning of your run. However, it is right about the time as my other "thing" which the official date has not been set. So, it could change. I hope not as I would love to see you guys again before the big one in January.

Oh, and on topic... 7 days!

[Amy]

Soarin' - You rang? What can I do for you?

Amy - I am soooo jealous about your DLR trip. I'm trying to plan one but it's falling on deaf ears with my wife. She's just not as mouse-crazed as we are... But she's getting there.

WWDRH - you know I'm excited about another return trip for you guys. Add in that it's another race is even more exciting. Right now the plan is for me, my wife and possibly my oldest son to run the Jingle Jungle 5K on the morning of your run. However, it is right about the time as my other "thing" which the official date has not been set. So, it could change. I hope not as I would love to see you guys again before the big one in January.

Oh, and on topic... 7 days!

Oh man...you're still gonna leave us hangin'??? Cool news about bringing the oldest into the running flock of NaClers
Good luck on talking up that DL trip. Let me know what she would most like to see and I'll be sure to get some really good pictures so you can show her how awesome it is!
7 days? Now I'm the jealous one

[acp]

50 days and counting...

Since I last posted in here, I've now reserved my park tickets for Tokyo Disney Resort. Let's just say I'll never complain about Disneyland Paris' online booking system again.. Tokyo's is fairly horrendous* Still, it's all booked and ready now..

Something that may be of use to people looking at visiting Tokyo Disney Resort.. I found a site that has Tokyo Disney Resort's restaurant menus and other bits of useful info on it. Here's the menu pages:
Tokyo Disneyland Restaurant Menus
Tokyo DisneySea Restaurant Menus

Which is somewhat useful

On a related note, that same site also has some pictures of the food samples from a lot of the restaurants, which is awesome (being in Japan, plastic food samples outside restaurants is a thing):
Tokyo Disneyland Food Samples
Tokyo DisneySea Food Samples

So yeah, useful

On a sort-of-useful side-note, (and a sort of plug ), one of my side-projects is also semi-helpful for park visiting (at any resort): parkhours.info. It's very much unfinished, and somewhat buggy, but it does work (I do need to finish making it mobile browser friendly, though)

Andy.


* Basically, it's entirely flash based and takes OVER A MINUTE to load up to begin with. Then, if you only want park tickets, it only goes two months in advance (or six months if you're booking a hotel - which I'm not). When you finally get to a date that's two months before your visit to book your tickets, you can only pay for them online if your credit card is registered to a Japanese address. If you're outside Japan, you can only "reserve" park tickets and pay for them and pick them up at the Ticket Centre at the resort. Fair enough. But the problems didn't stop there. The postcode field only accepts numbers, not letters - so no UK postcode can be entered properly. The telephone number field isn't long enough to accept a phone number with an international dialling code. Wanna have a look for yourself? Click here.

[Amy]

Oh my acp, that looks like a lot of work to procure TDL tickets! I simply booked a room and tickets when I arrived which was an easy, if somewhat expensive, process. Where will you be staying while you are there?
Cool links for food ~ I always like seeing the food samples...then you have some idea of what you are in for instead of just reading a description.

[acp]

Oh my acp, that looks like a lot of work to procure TDL tickets! I simply booked a room and tickets when I arrived which was an easy, if somewhat expensive, process. Where will you be staying while you are there?
Cool links for food ~ I always like seeing the food samples...then you have some idea of what you are in for instead of just reading a description.

I thought about giving up and just going and buying them when I get there (which is essentially what I've got to do anyway!), but prefer the idea that I've got them reserved , etc.

I'm not staying at the Disney resort (way too expensive). I'm staying in Shinjuku, at this hotel, which is across the road from Shinjuku station, so should be ideally suited for travelling round. According to Hyperdia (which is an amazingly useful site!), it should take around 35 or so minutes to get from there to Tokyo Disney Resort, which isn't too bad.

At the moment, I'm thinking of nipping to Disney to pick the tickets up on the day I arrive in Tokyo after I've checked into the hotel (The tickets are for the day after and following three days - four days total). I arrive in the morning, so I'm thinking of heading over there in the afternoon to scout out the resort, pick the tickets up, have a look around Ikspiari and depending on tiredness maybe get an after-6pm ticket for Tokyo DisneySea.

[Amy]

Oh my acp, that looks like a lot of work to procure TDL tickets! I simply booked a room and tickets when I arrived which was an easy, if somewhat expensive, process. Where will you be staying while you are there?
Cool links for food ~ I always like seeing the food samples...then you have some idea of what you are in for instead of just reading a description.

I thought about giving up and just going and buying them when I get there (which is essentially what I've got to do anyway!), but prefer the idea that I've got them reserved , etc.

I'm not staying at the Disney resort (way too expensive). I'm staying in Shinjuku, at this hotel, which is across the road from Shinjuku station, so should be ideally suited for travelling round. According to Hyperdia (which is an amazingly useful site!), it should take around 35 or so minutes to get from there to Tokyo Disney Resort, which isn't too bad.

At the moment, I'm thinking of nipping to Disney to pick the tickets up on the day I arrive in Tokyo after I've checked into the hotel (The tickets are for the day after and following three days - four days total). I arrive in the morning, so I'm thinking of heading over there in the afternoon to scout out the resort, pick the tickets up, have a look around Ikspiari and depending on tiredness maybe get an after-6pm ticket for Tokyo DisneySea.

Looks nice. Rail travel is so efficient in Tokyo so that won't be a problem in the morning or evenings. Plus it will give you the chance to have a little snack or rest on the way to TDL/TDS. Definitely take the time to look around Ikspiari ~ I believe I spent my first evening there since I was sort of in the same boat with park tickets, and it is really pretty at night. Bon Voyage is their answer to World of Disney So much to buy, so little suitcase room to pack it in
How much is an after hours ticket? That might be a really good idea, depending on how late they are open. Of course if you just flew in that day, you might indeed be a little tired. You want to be up early and raring to go that first full day there! It really is something to see the Japanese people queued up for the opening of the parks. Everyone had their little mat to sit on, and everything was so organized and orderly. Quite a different site from the milling throngs at WDW!

[acp]

Looks nice. Rail travel is so efficient in Tokyo so that won't be a problem in the morning or evenings. Plus it will give you the chance to have a little snack or rest on the way to TDL/TDS. Definitely take the time to look around Ikspiari ~ I believe I spent my first evening there since I was sort of in the same boat with park tickets, and it is really pretty at night. Bon Voyage is their answer to World of Disney So much to buy, so little suitcase room to pack it in
How much is an after hours ticket? That might be a really good idea, depending on how late they are open. Of course if you just flew in that day, you might indeed be a little tired. You want to be up early and raring to go that first full day there! It really is something to see the Japanese people queued up for the opening of the parks. Everyone had their little mat to sit on, and everything was so organized and orderly. Quite a different site from the milling throngs at WDW!

After-6pm tickets are ¥3300 (£22.99/$34.72), so around half the price of a full day ticket, and the parks are open until 10pm each night I'm there, so it'd give me a four-hour head start on that park (although that late in the day I guess the queues for a lot of the attractions will be lengthy and unfastpassable (yes, that's a word... now..)). It would add an extra opportunity to watch Fantasmic! though..

As I say, it is going to depend how tired I am. I'll certainly nip there and pick up the tickets, etc, but given that I arrive in Japan at around 9am after a ten-hour flight from Frankfurt (which in turn was after a couple of hours flight from Manchester), I might be a tad on the tired side. We'll see. Of course, sleep can always wait - who travels halfway around the world just to sleep

For the main park days, I've written down in my itinerary the times I'd need to leave to get there for around 45-60 minutes prior to park opening, having read about the rather long queues for park opening

[Amy]

Looks nice. Rail travel is so efficient in Tokyo so that won't be a problem in the morning or evenings. Plus it will give you the chance to have a little snack or rest on the way to TDL/TDS. Definitely take the time to look around Ikspiari ~ I believe I spent my first evening there since I was sort of in the same boat with park tickets, and it is really pretty at night. Bon Voyage is their answer to World of Disney So much to buy, so little suitcase room to pack it in
How much is an after hours ticket? That might be a really good idea, depending on how late they are open. Of course if you just flew in that day, you might indeed be a little tired. You want to be up early and raring to go that first full day there! It really is something to see the Japanese people queued up for the opening of the parks. Everyone had their little mat to sit on, and everything was so organized and orderly. Quite a different site from the milling throngs at WDW!

After-6pm tickets are ¥3300 (£22.99/$34.72), so around half the price of a full day ticket, and the parks are open until 10pm each night I'm there, so it'd give me a four-hour head start on that park (although that late in the day I guess the queues for a lot of the attractions will be lengthy and unfastpassable (yes, that's a word... now..)). It would add an extra opportunity to watch Fantasmic! though..

As I say, it is going to depend how tired I am. I'll certainly nip there and pick up the tickets, etc, but given that I arrive in Japan at around 9am after a ten-hour flight from Frankfurt (which in turn was after a couple of hours flight from Manchester), I might be a tad on the tired side. We'll see. Of course, sleep can always wait - who travels halfway around the world just to sleep

For the main park days, I've written down in my itinerary the times I'd need to leave to get there for around 45-60 minutes prior to park opening, having read about the rather long queues for park opening

If you have enough energy, I would say go for that half day! As you said, you can see Fantasmic and maybe take in a few of the attractions. The nighttime shows there are amazing!!
If I am remembering correctly, and they haven't changed the policy since I was there ten years ago, TDS doesn't operate like the parks in the US. Here if you are in line even a minute before the park closes, you will be getting that last ride in. Over there, they would come along and (very politely of course) tell you that you wouldn't be able to ride as the attraction was closing...and it closed right when the park did!

[acp]

If you have enough energy, I would say go for that half day! As you said, you can see Fantasmic and maybe take in a few of the attractions. The nighttime shows there are amazing!!

Yeah, from what I've seen online their version of Fantasmic! is pretty awesome.

If I am remembering correctly, and they haven't changed the policy since I was there ten years ago, TDS doesn't operate like the parks in the US. Here if you are in line even a minute before the park closes, you will be getting that last ride in. Over there, they would come along and (very politely of course) tell you that you wouldn't be able to ride as the attraction was closing...and it closed right when the park did!

That's useful to know, I'll bear that in mind.

[Amy]

If I am remembering correctly, and they haven't changed the policy since I was there ten years ago, TDS doesn't operate like the parks in the US. Here if you are in line even a minute before the park closes, you will be getting that last ride in. Over there, they would come along and (very politely of course) tell you that you wouldn't be able to ride as the attraction was closing...and it closed right when the park did!

That's useful to know, I'll bear that in mind.

You might want to ask a few CMs when you arrive to double check...but I wanted to say something as I remember being quite disappointed when I didn't get on Journey to the Center of the Earth late one evening

[captianbubble]

Woo-hoo! One month and a day until I go to Disney World! Yay my fourth time and this time I am going with my school choir!

[Amy]

Woo-hoo! One month and a day until I go to Disney World! Yay my fourth time and this time I am going with my school choir!

I bet you will have a great time! I'm guessing you are performing at the parks then too?