Lesley Wake
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- Mar 16, 2017
Yeah it is so hard to fit everything in with a (relatively) short WDW portion of your trip! Guess it just means more to include for a future trip!Interesting thought about not having enough time to photograph Flight of Passage riding first thing or with a Fastpass. I will take it on board, though I'm going to have to weigh up the importance of those line shots with all the night shots in the park we want to take, particular as the park will most likely only be open until 8pm and sunset it at 6:45pm (late sunsets are good, but it does mean less hours when the park is dark!)
I hadn't thought about photographing Everest in the morning at sunrise either. I think we will probably be in too late for sunrise at 8am, as I think sunrise is about 7:20am, but will definitely check out Everest in the early morning light.
I love AK at night and there is so much awesomeness to see, so yeah I definitely understand your hesitation! Who knows though-maybe hours could get extended closer to your trip?
That makes sense then for FEA. I believe even during F&W the WS doesn’t open until 11.Frozen Ever After is actually a new attraction for us (I realised I forget to mention that) which is why we are doing it twice. I promised Jared that if there were new attractions I was going to make him photograph we'd do it once for photos and once where he could relax and enjoy it! I'm hoping if we arrive early enough and rope drop it it won't cut into our F&W time too much. On that note, I know WS normally opens at 11:00am. Does it open earlier during the F&W festival, or are the booths in FW open earlier?
I thought about suggesting another day of tickets though didn’t know if it was in your budget. I do actually prefer TSL at night though! The colors of SDD really pop!I did think about how we could fit in evening photos at DHS, as I really wanted to capture Toy Story Land. The issue is that all 4 days we are in the parks we only have three evenings, and I'm not sure we will fit in park hopping to take pictures at DHS. The only night it may be viable is the EPCOT night, but I really have a full photo taking itinerary there because we have so little photos of EPCOT and because DHS shuts at 8pm on the 1 October. Still if we can fit it in we will try (ideally, if we aren't too jet lagged, we could do it on our rest day, but it would require another days tickets so it depends on if we decided to add on an extra day once there). I would really like to shoot that area though, so I will really think about this a bit more.
Yeah I’m excited too! I’m following Disney Tourist Blogs advice of a HalloXmas Trip. Starting in Shanghai, doing 2 full park days and planning on staying at the Disneyland Hotel. Then Hong Kong, another 2 full park days and staying at Explorers Lodge. Then 2 weeks in Japan: 2 days at Tokyo Disney for the Halloween activities, then heading to Kyoto for a couple nights, back up to Tokyo itself for a couple nights, and then back to Disney for the rest, and they should already have Christmas stuff up! I will probably do 4-5 Park days on that end-I haven’t quite decided yet! I was able to get pretty good pricing at the Sheraton in renovated rooms, so I’m staying there (couldn’t swing the official hotels though I will try to check out the lobbies)! It was originally only going to be Japan, but then I saw the Halloween stuff for Hong Kong Disney so decided to add that, and then I didn’t want to leave one park unvisited (I went to Disneyland Paris last summer), so I added Shanghai too! Not enough time to really do sight seeing in either of those areas, but I decided the focus for me this trip is the Disney parks. I’ll have to return for a proper China trip another time!I'm so excited for your own Asian Disney Adventure. I hope you post a trip report here so I can follow along . I'm sure it will be completely amazing, I love the Asian parks and I'm sure you will too . How long are you going for and how long are you spending at each park