Exploring Disney Magic in Asia with The Kershaw’s Adventures

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Welcome to the great British Mickey Waffle.
In this episode, we're catching up with Gaz and Anj from the
Kershaws Adventures after their spectacular 23 night journey
through Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore, visiting
all the Disney parks in Asia. Join us as they share their
incredible experiences, invaluable tips, and hidden gems

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from each magical destination. So sit back, relax, and let's
dive into this unforgettable journey.
Now my wheels in motion and my windows open with the wind
blowing in my head. I'm driving down the hallway
going to do this my way. I can feel it in the air.

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Here I go. I'm Becca, your host for today's
show and I'm delighted to be here with my fellow and Co hosts
Ben and Robin. So we have a very excited
episode lined up and we would like to introduce our friends of
the show, Gas and Ange from The Cash or Adventures.

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Hello. How is everyone?
We are doing very good, very good.
Well, I. Can't believe that we're in July
already and I think we've just about to turn heating off or
maybe back on because apparentlyan Arctic breeze is heading this
way. No, we don't want to hear talk
of that. Absolutely not.
Not in July. I think ruling for that next

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trip that we've got booked. We have, yeah, but we are here
to talk about a previous trip. I'm very extremely long or
previous trip. I remember when you did your
trip announcer, was it back in March?
Yes, yes, March time. And I, I just sort of like
thought, I want to go to Shanghai, I want to go to Hong

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Kong in Tokyo, but I'm not sure whether I could.
They were all in one trip. Yeah, that's what we thought.
So how, how did you start on sort of the planning side of it?
Is it just something you you thought you do?
Was the original plan just to doone trip and then did you change
or? Well.
We were just going to Japan. That was it.

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That was the plan, that was the original plan and the flights
just were not coming down in price.
No, it was really expensive. And I looked one day and I was
like, oh, there's like a cheap flight to China.
Like one way, maybe we could go there first, then Japan and then
it kind of snowballed from there.
Yes, like a massive, massive snowball.
Yeah, because the good thing is we've we've going to Shanghai is

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Virgin have a direct flight and and as a lot of people who go to
Orlando know, you're collecting a lot of miles and points and
stuff. So it just made sense for us to
have a look at that and it and it came out a lot cheaper than
we expected to, didn't it? And then that again, as I said
that then snowballed the ideas and and then many, many months
of planning that followed. So.
How long did it take you to planit all in title?

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Earlier, Yeah, yeah, from the start of the idea to actually,
yeah. I'd say so because like you,
you, you do little bits at a time.
Like we started by looking at flights because I think you need
to have that kind of framework in place.
And soon as you've got that, then you kind of can then start
to build book to to try and bookthat many flights and to try and

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do it on on a kind of a budget. Like it wasn't like a crazy,
crazy amount, but obviously it wasn't something that was
scrimping and scraping on the same time because it's a mega
trip. But yeah, that's probably the
longest and it's the flights. Yeah.
And then having all the screens open because we were like, we
need to book and book, book, book so that we don't nothing
changes because it did keep fluctuating and we had to switch

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days around and not days off Japan and.
But what I also want to stress is don't make it.
We don't want to make it seem like we knew what we were doing.
All that for it, because literally two days before we
flew out, we changed the itinerary.
Oh, really? Wow, that's impressive.
I don't know you could even do that on an Orlando trip.
Yeah. We hadn't booked the Shanghai

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itinerary in stone. It was, we knew we were going to
be in Shanghai and we knew we were staying at the Toy Story
Hotel and that was, we knew we could get the tickets there and
that was it. And we wanted to go to the
Shanghai Tower and for some reason the tickets just never
became available past the first day of our stay there.
Well, they just weren't available to book.
So we were like, well, if we want to go to the Shanghai

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Tower, we can't start with Disneyland.
We've got to start in Shanghai, which so we completely flipped
the order of the days. Yeah, because originally we
weren't even going into Shanghai.
Like, like for me at first that was a big no.
I was like, I'm comfortable withgoing to, to literally get off
the plane, get me to Disney and I'll stay in Disney, then I'll

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get back on a plane, I'll leave.That's how I felt about about
Shanghai. But YouTube, you know, it it, it
does wonders for your confidenceand gets you to understand a lot
more about what's happening. And I'm just made sure she kept
peppering with them over and over and over again.
I was definitely like you when we were booking our trip.
I was like, I just want to get in a taxi, get to Disneyland.

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What? So it was like, what was it
about the what did you see in YouTube videos that made you
think, OK, I'll go to Shanghai, I'll go to the city?
Everyone just having a great time in the city and people
being dead friendly with them. The not being as big of a
language barrier are the paymentissues that we worried about.
We watched a lot like in that, that year of, of planning, I

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mean, we watched a lot like daily watching these, these
different places to kind of get an idea on what, what it was
like. So really it's like you already
know where you're going. So it felt a bit more
comfortable because we'd we'd watch that much and then they
would like say, we just built the itinerary and was like,
well, this is cool. We can give it a go.
There's still the unknown and you know, I, we were, I was

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still nervous on the day that wethat we were going in there
because it is just the unknown what happens.
Like I'm, I'm, I'm one of these catastrophes, Binker type of
people. Well, you know, when, when stuff
goes like what could go wrong, like this could go wrong, that
could go wrong. But I suppose that helps your
plan as well at the same time. It's almost nice to have the
worst case scenario, but sometimes it's just like, no,

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just it's. That's not going to happen.
But yeah, it's, I think that that's when I realised that you
were going to go on this mega trip.
I thought that would be something that I would really
struggle with is the language barrier.
Obviously things like Google Translate and a lot of places
now that just make it so much easier to be able to get across
that. How, how did you find you dealt

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with that? There wasn't really a moment I
thought, Oh no, we can't communicate because of Google
Translate. And they all had Translate on
their phones as well. So we would if there was like a
moment where there wasn't quite the point getting across in
English because they only had like limited English and we just
typed it in. So Google translated it, and
then they translated back. Yeah.

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And we, we downloaded the offline version of it as well.
So obviously because we didn't want to have it where there's a
point where we have Internet andwe're in the middle of nowhere.
It was like that again was part of that catastrophe of thinking
it was like right here, what potentially could go wrong?
How can we fix it? So like it was making sure that
we have the offline maps. We had offline translate, but
like I said, like we didn't really have that many issues

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really I. Don't think we had anything with
the language. The only thing we really had an
issue with in Shanghai was no one wanted to take us from
Shanghai City back to the Toy Story Hotel.
So they would just wave us away the taxis and then like the
Chinese locals, into the taxi. They were.
So it wasn't that they weren't working, they just didn't want a
foreigner in with them and that it was very clear that that was

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what was happening. And we were panicking a little
bit at that point because we were like, how do we get back to
the hotel if they're not going to allow us into the taxi?
We don't have taxi number to ring.
But we've and the hotel had toldus that the DD, which is their
version of Uber, wouldn't work because we didn't have a Chinese
number. We later found out it would have
done. If we'd have just done it, it
would have worked. So I wish we'd have known that

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and tried it in. That would make it so much
easier. So if that's the advice that we
give to anyone is like, it's basically just like Uber's tough
on it. You've already said yes to your
fares, you're in there. Whereas we did have like.
And then we did get overcharged with the one person that was in,
but it was we got back, so it was fine.
Yeah, to that point where you just don't care how much you're

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spending to get back. Yeah.
That was it. That was.
It. It was double the fare to go
from Toy Story Hotel to Shanghaiand then Shanghai to get back.
He was like double the price. And but in the end, you're just
like, well, you know, I haven't really got, you know, my ads
aren't really good here right now.
So let's just take. It just we've been told no by 5

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different taxes as well. So we were like we, this guy's
letting us in getting. And put in context, it was £15
and it was. Yeah, it wasn't.
So really, you don't really. That is.
Going to be my question. When you say double, we're
talking still not. Affordable taxis in in Tokyo
were far more extortionate than they were in Shanghai.
Yes, I had read about the taxis in Japan.

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We made the mistake of using them twice.
Insane. Sometimes when you're tired and
you just want to get where you need to go, it's worth it for
the convenience. Yeah, it's very true.
I don't think we really had a choice when we landed into
Japan, though, did we? Because we didn't land till
10:50 PM and customs took an hour to clear.
So we were just so tired. We were just like, please just
get us to the hotel. Yeah, and it cost us 45 lbs for

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an 8 minute drive. £15 from Shanghai.
Yeah, exactly. That's it.
On on reflection it was great value.
Sometimes it's a worth value thing, isn't it?
Most must have been a northernerin me.
That was like, he's overchargingme.

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I mean, I knocked him down. I managed to get a bit knocked
down but like. They had like a debate through.
Yeah, exactly. But then I'm reflexing.
I'm like, realistically that wasn't a bad a bad amount it.
Depends. Like when you're in Walt Disney
World and you've opened the Lyftapp and you can see you get
minivan $40 or a regular Uber for a regular Lyft for like 10.

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It's like, OK, but yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Then when was the last time you saw that price difference?
It's usually like $6 or 45 when I.
Yeah, I remember when there usedto just be $25 and you go
anywhere in in Walt Disney World.
Yep. And when it came back, it's not.
Like that we never used. To use them.
So sorry we've. Never.

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Used them. I think the only time we ever
thought, and this was before COVID was when they did things
from the airport and that I was like, oh, OK, it's $200.00.
But if there's a family of you, there's enough sort of you
thinks, you know what I will do?I will budget it and it, it'll
work out OK. But no, just never got a chance
to, to use it then. And now it's just like, no, I'll
hire a car. It's cheaper, yeah.

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Exactly. I only did it once and it was
from Magic Kingdom and I wasn't feeling very well and I didn't
want to get on the bus not feeling very well.
So I was like best, however muchit was at the time I've ever
spent. Yeah, yeah.
Is this the thought of not beingwell in on a bus?
I was like, Nope, I have a question for you and it's going
to be so tough and I'm going to put you on the spot and ask you
anyway. I know what you're going to ask.
What? Which is your favorite Disney

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park you knew? You were going to ask that, and
I still don't know. Quite honestly, it changes
daily. So when we were there, I
probably would have said Shanghai.
But since we've come home and we've been thinking about it, I
think the California parks are still my top two parks.
Oh, really? OK.
And then Shanghai. Yeah, I'd agree Vans on that.

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The I still think California Adventure's my favorite, but it
depends on what it depends on what you're looking for, because
I they're all very unique, all very different.
I think that Shanghai is the most spectacular for rides in
the castle and the castle and the Shoals.
Yeah, you can tell it's the newest park and they've learnt a

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lot from it, even to the point where, like the roads, the
streets where they're just so big and you're just so wide, you
don't need to work. Even though it's busy, it
doesn't feel busy. Hong Kong has magic, has magic.
Yeah, it has. It has the Anaheim feel and

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Disney Sea is just a phenomenal park.
It's just the theme in is just anext level.
There's not a single place, not a single inch in that place that
isn't themed. So yeah, it's Tokyo Disneyland,
though, I mean, and and still says I'm I'm too harsh on this.
But that woman, for me, it, it, it lacked a little bit of of

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heart, but that was just. We were very tired by that point
in the trip it. Was quite close to the end.
It was. Like quite firing.
We'd what? A lot of miles, yeah, all of us
were tired and I think we just, that was the day, the first day
in that part was the day that weall broke a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, it's a big trip. But does does make a difference?

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Yeah. But but the reason I say it is,
is because it's a lot of copy paste.
Yeah, so I remember, I can't remember what it what programme
I was watching, but they were saying that like with Tokyo,
there was like, we want an American park.
So they came in and they gave the they gave basically what you
have in America. Whereas when it comes to like

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Hong Kong and China, it was likewe want the Chinese version of
your parks and, and that's the difference that and I could, I
could feel that in in that park.So for me, that's the reason why
I say that Tokyo Disneyland was the one that I wasn't as
impressed with as the others, because it wasn't as the.
Cast members were amazing at Tokyo, though.
Fantastic. Like the best cast members I've
ever experienced in the entire world.
Yeah. Wow, that's amazing.

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That's very high praise. Yeah, I mean, the perfect
example of this is in the Baymaxride.
So like, you know, the happy Ride to Baymax is similar to
aliens swirling sources like thethe cast members danced for
every single ride. They weren't literally up and
they were giving it this, the whole.
Like they got a routine. Yeah, they had it absolutely

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nailed and I was like, they're doing that for like 7 hours
constantly. Oh wow, and and and it was like
every single one was like their first ever time doing it.
Pure energy and just it just made everybody else happier.
So not only have you got that aspect, but you've also got the
efficiency aspects of it. So like we went on to Space

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Mountain, they were, they had a dispatch every 11 seconds.
So and, and it was like you got into the queue before you even
got into Space Mountain. There was like how many is in
your party, right, free, right, you're A2 and A1 or you're or
you're a one-on-one, depending on what, on what you, what
you're doing. Like this is how you're lining
up. And then you'd you'd be about 30

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deep ready to go on the ride. It's like take your bags off
now. So like it was, it was so
efficient. And then they and they got you
on and started moving before youeven seated and got your thing
down to the the front of the like ride where they then
checked that you're in. Yeah, it was so.
Efficient. Fast.
It was so efficient. That's that's incredible.

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But it's made us notice, like operations across all of the
parks now, one slower. It's like that's, that's, that's
the bar. Now you've been to all the
parks, you can sort of go, OK, well, no, this one does.
This park does that better than this.
So you're comparing them now? Yeah, that's it.
Yeah, Yeah. It sounds amazing I'm very I'm
very jealous because I don't know if you know that I had a

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trip to do we have a trip to do all three and we failed after
Hong Kong sadly so I'm very jealous and I look forward to
the time that I can go back and recreate if not the same trip
just managed to get to the othertwo Disney I didn't I'm very
excited the trip and put with that there hospital yeah yeah

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without the hospital would be great I mean I don't think I'd
end up in hostel again given that I don't have my large
intestine anymore the. Problem.
Has vanished now, so hopefully Iwouldn't have the issue.
So yeah, one day, but I am yeah.I, I don't know which I'm most
excited to see more, Tokyo Disney or Shanghai.

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But based on your, your, yeah, based on your, maybe Shanghai's
got the edge. Maybe I'm still looking for
somewhere to go next May. You never know.
Maybe I'll I'll. But you're coming to Shanghai.
Just don't watch our blogs because it might be like the
amount of people that are like, oh, I'm thinking about going to
Shanghai now. And it's like, well, yeah, sorry
about that. You're going to spend a fortune.

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I'm not. I am loving your blog series
though, no? Thank you.
Although I'm not sure I could dothat now or it's a bit too high
for me. Yeah, it's like it, it, it was
interesting with Shanghai, the actual city itself, because like
I say, I think what you, what you see in the media, you know,
is, is enough to scare a lot of people.

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It scared me, you know, in, in terms of being like, well,
actually I'm, I'm not entirely sure whether I, I'm going to be
comfortable in doing this, but the experience that we got there
was very different. Like, you know, we had we, we in
a way it felt a bit like a celebrity.
Yeah. Because like, they're clearly
not used to less than people going because we were walking

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down the street and when people's heads were turning and
we were getting stopped, asked for pictures mainly because,
Yeah, shaking hands like all the.
To Shanghai. Yeah, it was, you know, people
were really surprised to see us,but we're very, we're really,
really welcoming. Very friendly, that's.
Really lovely that's that would make me, that would encourage me
to go to Shanghai, I have to say.

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Like that's, it's not what I'd heard about the welcome of
foreigners and Westerners. So that's really lovely.
Yeah, that's that would make me maybe think about.
Yeah, what we experienced across, like everywhere we went
within the city, everyone was really welcoming and really
friendly and, and more people spoke English than we expected

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to. Yeah, it's true.
Oh. OK, Yeah.
The younger ones, you know we. Were on it pictures.
Yeah, the, the, the, we had a, we had a few people who could
speak good English and then there was a good majority that
could be limited. And then again, any, any time
that we, that neither of us could help.
I mean, we had, we had basics, very basics.
Hello, thank you, you know, and,and, and they do appreciate

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that. But any, let's say Google
Translate was just. It's just an amazing tool that
you can use whenever you need to.
So thinking about Disney and thinking about all the different
parks. Thinking about the Asia parks,
though, what what would you say is like a highlight from each
park? Because I've asked you which
which one's your favorite, but what would be your highlights

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from each park? Like what about your favorite
ride from each park? OK.
Shanghai Disneyland for me is Pirates of the Caribbean by a
long way. It's not even close.
Yeah, that ride was incredible. Yeah.
Are you like golf just for that?Like, forget everything else.
That's the reason I'm going to go to Shanghai just as soon as
I've seen. Some.

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Point of view videos of that ride, It's just incredible.
It doesn't disappoint, like at all.
And it looks cool on video, but in person it's even more like
you can't get you can't tell howthe ride vehicle moves.
It's not so much of a boat riders a duck.
It is a proper duck. It's.
Like it's like runaway railway in water.

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Yeah. Oh, OK.
The boat moves like you're not just going round, you're like it
moves you with the scenes. Wow, Hong Kong Disneyland.
Mystic. Manor.
Mystic Manor, yeah. That's amazing.
So for anyone who's been to Etheling in the Netherlands,

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it's very similar to their Symbolica.
So it's with, it's basically, well, it's, it's their version
of Haunted Mansion, but they don't like the kind of dark side
of Haunted Mansion. So it's basically around a man
who collects jewels with his petmonkey and Albert, who's an
absolute legend and they there'sa potion or it wasn't a potion.

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It it picks up a jewel and all the other collection comes to
life. So that that that was a really
cool ride and then in. Tokyo There's two parks, so
Disneyland I. Love how you got There is two
There are two lands here so I get 2 rides.
Disneyland. I get two, Yeah.

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Beauty and the Beast is just phenomenal.
Really good. That scene where he transforms,
Even seeing it in person I stillcan't figure out how it's done.
And then journey to the centre of the earth in in Disney scene.
Wow, that's, that's amazing. Yeah.
I have actually managed to avoidall the spoilers for Beauty and

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the least. I don't know why.
I don't know when I'm going, butwhenever I see it, I originally
turn it off just because I'm hoping to go one day and I don't
want to, don't want to see anyone.
It's like Pirates of the Caribbean.
I've seen little clips here and there but haven't watched it
full full the way through. See, I mean, honestly, I want to
know how it works. So I'm like they're trying to
study the video going like, OK, I'm going to want to go on that

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one and just sort of see everything from different angles
showing work out how how the ride systems work.
Yeah. Yeah, so I didn't get to see
Journey to the Centre of the Earth before and that was the
one. I was like, no, I do not want to
know anything about that ride so.
It was a surprising ride it. Was a surprise.
Because we've not seen anything,there was parts we weren't
expecting in that. Yep.

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Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen anyone film that one.
No, it's very rare. So I'm not happy.
Why is it there's not going to be?
Yeah. Yeah.
Is it a roller coaster or is it just indoor dark red?
You can give it right for anyonewho doesn't want to know.
Then you need to do this for thenext 5 seconds.
I'm going. To say now, so it's like test

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track, OK. But with a ball track.
Oh, oh, I didn't know there was that.
But you know what? You see it come outside of the
mountain, that bit, yeah. OK, so I was never quite sure
what exactly it was ride wise. Yeah.

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But I have to say I thought it was a roller coaster.
So that was what I always need to do, yeah.
We did. We did.
Yeah, we did. Oh, OK.
And then I think other other things to mention though would
be the night time spectaculars. Yeah, so.
Illuminate. Yeah.
Shanghai. What a firework charm.

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There's it's not. Does it work?
Heavy. But the castle?
Is it better than factory ever after though?
It's not got the same emotion, but it's a better, it's a better
castle projection show, yeah. I want to treat these nighttime
spectaculars as children, so youcannot pick a favorite.
Or you shouldn't pick a favorite.
And you and you love each one ofthem for different reasons.

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Well, that is perfections we've ever seen on the show, yes.
I play, yeah. Did you see Momentous?
Yes. No, that's got I cried.
I stood there crying like a babyon on momentous.
Yeah, because that song. Which park's that I don't know.
That's Hong Kong. Oh yeah, Momentous is Hong Kong.

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When I yeah, it was that wasn't there.
When I was there, it was Paint the Night and just like
fireworks, I don't remember whatthey were.
Don't think that was it. I think it is a new newish 1
momenta. Yeah, it is really good.
And then Tokyo Disneyland's fireworks.
There's no point in watching them.
They're just useless. Oh well, there's a new.

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There is. There is a.
New fire coming out, you won't come in.
The problem is, So what they do at at Tokyo Disney is they
because they have the two parks next to each other, they just
put the fireworks in the middle.But there's no.
It's just there's no focal. Point It's just fireworks too.
Music it's not. There's nothing.
And they're not spectacular fireworks.
They're just normal. Yeah.
So we just didn't even prioritise.

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What we believe they they have in Disney Sea, they have believe
Sea of Dreams, which is we didn't get the best view, which
is annoying when we paid for it,but we paid for like the their
premier access for that and it wasn't good.
No, it wasn't. We would have been better
waiting. And kind of finding our own spot
for it because the way that it'saround the lake and and then as

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you've got the, the volcano behind it kind of builds up.
So you have a much better view around the edge where it's where
you've got a bit of a higher elevation.
But where we went, we were seated where we're seeing the
people in front of our. Yeah, you have to sit.
So like you, we were like 5 rowsback, but because you sat down
and there's a railing still there, the railing's kind of in

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the way of the show. So but.
It's a great light love. Yeah, it's a good show.
Fantasmic dining packages at Disneyland or a little bit like
that. You have to sit down in the area
and then there's a rail. Yeah, it just gets in the way.
Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, and then it was great to
see the Main Street electrical parade, that version of it.
Just go back to. Your head, that was, that was

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cool getting to see that, yeah. That's nice to have a nice
little parade, yes? Hopefully next month I mean.
Hopefully next month. Do you think there's going to be
an announcement for that? I mean, you never know.
There was. I mean, I can't say how I know,
but I know there was meant to bea new one for the 50th because I

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remember at the time finding that out.
It was quite a long time ago. And I remember saying at the
time, do you mean we've got to wait until that time before it
comes out? And they were like, yeah, sorry.
So. We need so these they need a
night time parade back. Yeah, missed that, missed that
paint. The night was incredible.
I saw it in Disneyland when it started and then saw it a few

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times in Hong Kong. That was such.
That was. That's definitely my favorite
one that I've seen so far. I don't get done starting as a
Spectro Magic. Yeah, John's not here.
To be fair, Spectro Magic does come in second.
So there was no parades at Hong Kong when we were there.
We've got like a I've. Located that they class as a

(26:37):
parade, but it's literally 33 floats.
Yeah, I think it's like 3 floats.
Oh, that's a shame. Yeah, they've not brought it
back yet. Were there any other shows you
saw in Hong Kong that that stoodout?
Hong Kong. Did we see how I think?
Obviously it was a while since I've been, but there was a Moana
show when I went. And I don't think you were, you
were men's yours. Were they in Hong Kong?

(26:58):
That I can think of at the top of my head.
We didn't do the Mickey one, didwe?
Because we'd done it in Shanghai.
Yeah, no, I don't. I think we we didn't prioritise
that did. We no, no.
No, not in Hong Kong. Is the festival The Lion King
finished there maybe? No, we did.
I don't like we did see festival.
Yeah, we did, yeah. We saw that.
Did we watch it? We did.
Did you watch it? We did, yeah.

(27:20):
Now the one in Florida is forever ruined because this is
how it should be. Yeah, it was.
It was miles back, the fire in the floor and stuff.
But I still prefer Paris's. I agree.
I agree. Yeah.
I agree. What does he wear once?
Sadly at the bottom, yeah. It is, yeah.
What about rides? You mentioned Pirates of the
Caribbean. We know there's lots of

(27:41):
different Pirates of the Caribbean and different parks.
Are there any other? Rides that you went on that you
had seen in other parks that youthought were better or just
different in in the Asia parks, Peter Pan and Shanghai is just,
it's really good. Like there's projections,
there's screens, there's animatronics.
Like it's just it's like a plus version.

(28:03):
Yeah, So anyone who's watched our channel for a long time
knows how big of a fan I am of Peter Pan.
Really not a massive fan of it at all.
And I actually enjoyed that one.Like I just, I look at it just
like, like I get the nostalgia and everyone's like, yeah, but
it's a classic Disney, right? No, tear it down and make it

(28:25):
better. Yeah, that's, that's my feeling
on it anyway. And a lot of people are going to
hate that, yeah. I agree.
I agree. Why?
Why does it get such long lines?I never understand.
Understand that I think like 90 minutes and it's like really?
Yeah, that's because young children can ride it and they
can't ride some of. Them I still don't think that's
an excuse for just a 90 minute queue though.
I I think they inflate it to sell Genie on.

(28:50):
The. Line it's.
I want to say one that I'm guessing a lot of people won't
expect because it's actually older, and that's Tron, yeah.
You thought it was better, did you?
Yeah, because the canopy's nicer.
I always thought this when we when we got it in Walt Disney

(29:12):
World, like it doesn't look the same.
That is kind of like a silver. Silver, more futuristic looking,
and actually the way in which it's built into the land just
makes it look a lot grander because it's like built up and
it's faster. Oh, or it it certainly felt.
Faster. It's definitely faster. 100% is
faster. It's the rest of it the same, so

(29:32):
is it longer? Is it a shorter?
No, the the ride is, is exactly the same, but it's just faster.
And you can, you can just tell the difference.
But then there's certain things that Walt Disney World had
pushed on, like their bags and stuff like that.
There's no lockers there. It was just a case of putting it
on a trolley and then someone wheeled it to the other side.
And then he had to pick up at the bride and the pastel That

(29:54):
they've learned, they've learned.
So oh. OK, proper theme parking.
Yeah, exactly. And they had a lot about it.
I'd say my glasses off as well, which I weren't too happy about
on. Oh yeah.
Things so. I've been on this ride and I've
wore glasses. Simon beat Simon Says when he

(30:16):
goes on rides, he has to take his glasses off.
Well, I may as well not go, yeah.
Exactly. That's it.
He's like, oh, look at this blurthat's in front of me, right?
What about what about the JungleCruise?
Did you ride that in Hong Kong? Yes.
Yeah. I'm a surprise.
Yeah. Stops the same ride.

(30:37):
It was, we broke down on it actually, didn't we?
We were there for like 20 minutes just waiting for we had
to get one of the boats to. But yeah, the ending to that,
it's just like, well, that's miles better.
But but yeah, other than that, what what what otherwise did we
do that we're I'm trying to think of what was that?
We've kind of that have been plused because they were they
were quite. Small World has all the
characters through it. Yeah, which again, I don't

(30:58):
understand why that's not in Walt Disney World.
Yeah, hopefully, maybe they'll they'll bring it.
I think that is that the only one now that doesn't have them
in. Doesn't have the characters.
Maybe, Maybe. Yeah.
I think it might be. Disneyland and Paris does now.
Yeah, whatever things were there, there was they don't have
big fund of mountain in in Shanghai.
Oh, and yeah, Hong Kong, Yeah. So they're, they're, they're

(31:20):
coming what's called Grizzly Gulch Railway or something.
I can't remember what it is on top of my head.
Now Ollie wouldn't know it like that.
He'd tell you off top of his head, no problem at all.
But that was that was different.That was different and it goes
backwards. It's it's like a hybrid between
Big Thunder and Everest. That was cool, that.
Sounds really. Good.
It was fun. It was good.
Really fun ride. Do they have something similar

(31:42):
in Shanghai or Tokyo? Oh, Tokyo's got big Thunder, but
it was there was a lot closed inTokyo when we were there.
Yeah, because of fantasy Springs.
Come, come in. I guess they were trying to get
the rest of the park ready because of the capacity.
Yeah, like honey hunt was down, that was down.
Simbads was down. There was quite a there was a
lot. There was a lot of nice.

(32:04):
Yeah, a little bit with honey hunting Simbads.
We were pretty those. Are the two weren't we?
We were like really gutted aboutbut.
Excuse to go back there's. There's a couple now that yes,
there's another two that I can think of that's in Hong Kong
that have been plused. So Buzz Lightyear.
Yeah. So both in in Shanghai.
The Buzz Lightyear in Shanghai is really cool, but it is still

(32:24):
Buzz Lightyear. And then in in Hong Kong, it's
Ant Man and the Wasp. Yeah.
So they they were cool. Yeah, they're really good.
And then starters with Iron Man,because I'm a massive Iron Man
fan, so I was just like, yeah, Ilike that iron.
Man, so so it's nice to. Go.
On man Iron Man experience. Iron Man experience, Yeah, but

(32:47):
it was It's the same ride systemas.
So I realised the one that I want to go to the most is Hong
Kong because it does have all the Marvel stuff.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, Hong Kong, I really
loved it. I'll be honest, I did really
love it. And we ended up spending more
time there because we couldn't get flight home at first.
So I got to really do Hong Kong Disneyland.

(33:10):
I didn't ride the Iron Man ride because Star Tours doesn't agree
with my stomach. So I thought it's probably best
that I don't ride the the Iron Man.
But Siren thought was great, Yeah.
Yeah, I was. I was just disappointed that it
didn't have more scenes like Star Tours does, do you know,
like you can go out and ride andit's completely different.
It's. Just.
Going to say oh unless we got really unlucky.

(33:32):
Yeah, imagine. How many times did you ride?
It just twice, but it was definitely the exact same ride
both times, so I wish they had like more scenes, yeah.
Because I've officially retired from Star Tours.
Like I'm never going on that ride ever again.
And but Iron Man didn't make youolder.
That no. But again, my love for Marvel

(33:53):
was. It's sort of counteracted.
Ride type to ride that. Ride and the Nemo one was kind
of like Star Tours as well in Tokyo.
Yes. The sea racers, Newman.
Fancy racers. That's what it's called, no?
So the institute, one marine life, I don't know, but.
There's an emo version that was very cool.

(34:14):
Yeah, that. Was did it make you want to lose
your lunch and. Not starter doesn't bother me
though, so it's Gaz needs to answer that.
I didn't come off it wanting to go on again, let's just say
that. OK.
OK, noted. Yeah, noted for future.
How did you find navigating around the parks?
Because obviously going to Disney World, to Disneyland

(34:36):
Paris, you sort of know them. Top of you are the map.
You go around, you know where everything is.
How did you find working your way around sort of different
layouts of parks? They're all laid out very
differently. So like Shanghai Tomorrowlands
to your left, which is just bizarre, going left for
Tomorrowland and then you've gotin the hub, you've got Summer

(34:58):
Fantasyland in the actual hub. Yeah, it's like the.
Carousel and Dumbo. Front of the castle, which is a
bit bizarre. Hey how's the feeling of this is
similar but different? Yeah.
So I think that was the most different, that felt the most
different. Shanghai is the way it was laid
out. Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, I think did. You feel like you were walking a
lot more because you said it wasquite spread out.

(35:19):
Did you feel like a lot more fits?
Yes. So Hong Kong was the easiest of
of them all because it's the smallest park, so it wasn't too
bad. Shanghai, if I remember rightly
because I literally was editing this the other day.
I think we did 15K and 17K on the two days that we were there.
OK. And we didn't do 14 days.

(35:40):
We went back for a break both days.
We. Did a break both days.
Wow. OK, it like it's really
difficult to see on on blogs thethe true scale of that park,
like it's it is enormous like it.
Is even the castle doesn't come across how actually big it is.
Yeah, it's, it is so big becauseit's so even just walking from

(36:03):
one ride to the to the next, they're so spread out again
because everything's so big. Like it takes more time to get
to each one. Makes sense it does.
To be fair, when I look at videos and things I feel like it
looks spread out. I wasn't sure if it was just how
it looked or if it actually was,but clearly it is actually.
Really. It really is.
Yeah. It's funny because like,

(36:23):
everything's bigger apart from their Main Street.
So like, they, they don't have main streets.
It's called Mickey Ave. It's very short.
It's so short. And then it's just massive.
It's just huge after that. And like, the hub's not
symmetrical. So like you've got to like, it

(36:44):
is a bit weird because you go down and then there's not
there's because is it Feng shui?So because of Feng shui, there's
no direct route out of the park.Oh, OK.
You don't want the positive energy flowing out.
Yeah. So like to get from that to the
castle that you've got to kind of go round the hub to get to
it. OK, Yeah.
And there's a big maze in the middle of the hub as well.

(37:05):
Yeah, there's Alice's. Like the new the new Alice in
Wonderland. It's just behind in it.
It's just. Was that behind that's?
Just the side. That's just the side.
Though as you can get to it as you're walking down though
because you go over the bridge, don't.
You decide. So we were there for two days in
Shanghai and it wasn't enough for Shanghai.
Really. Wow.
So I would 100% recommend three days for Shanghai, for for Hong

(37:28):
Kong, I'd say you probably can do it in two days, would you
say? Yeah, I felt, I felt that's the
park. Feel the most satisfied with
that We. A blanket approach I'd say to
anyone. If you planned on going to to
the Asia Parks plan 3 days for each park.
OK, all right. That's what you need minimum to
be able to get everything you want done because we went with

(37:49):
the approach of no copy and paste until we've done the new
rides. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. And then and then new rides.
We can then move on to other things because we need to
prioritise. We still didn't do everything,
no. That's going to be our approach
when we go to Disneyland next year.
New rides 1st and they're the ones that we've we know and
love. Yeah, they they remember that

(38:11):
even if they're ones you know and love, they might be
different. Yeah.
Oh yeah, that's true. Like Pirates of the Caribbean.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
So, yeah. So yeah, I know what you.
Mean was it like a version of Genie Plus or Premier Access
that you used help so or did it not?

(38:32):
We didn't use it in Shanghai. The only we did buy the premier
access for Illuminate Priority access.
I think it's called the PriorityPremier.
Premier Access. For Illuminate, because the
first night, well we tried to get on the first day and we
couldn't, we didn't manage it because it sold out really fast
and we could not get anywhere near the hub.

(38:52):
They literally closed the hub down and cast members don't like
you through. So we kind of watched it off to
the side and couldn't really seeall the castles.
So we that's the only time we used it in Shanghai.
And the fireworks viewing I'd recommend to anyone to book it
because it is smack in front of the castle.
It's the best viewing I think I've ever heard of a fireworks
show ever. Yeah.
So we, we went with the approachfor each park that the nighttime

(39:15):
spectacular, if there was a premier access, we'd buy it
because it's like you're only here once, you want the best
view possible, we'll buy that. And then our original plan was
for each of the parks. He's like, right, OK, well,
we've got two days, so let's go there, make a judgement call on
the day and if we need it, we'llbuy it.
And then with Hong Kong, we justwas like.

(39:37):
It was it was Ollie's birthday so we pre booked that before he
went. I think it was 8.
We we got eight, yeah, we got eight rides for for that one.
I'll be honest, we didn't need it.
No, it was definitely a waste ofmoney.
Yeah, it was a good view for mementos though, wasn't it?
So. My my advice to anyone would be
that just set aside money that you could potentially buy

(39:58):
premier access on the day if youneed to but don't necessarily
worry too much about pre ordering it.
Because like unless you're goingin a busy time, because we
again, when we're doing our planning, we were trying to
understand well what we were restricted because of all these,
you know, school time and stuff like that.
But we did look at different times of year that we could
potentially go. So we knew that both China parks

(40:21):
were going to like China and Hong Kong were going to be
quieter, and we knew that Japan was going to be busier.
Yeah. So we bought.
We also bought Universal. Yeah, we bought Universal
Japan's Express Pass, which is 100% needed like.
We would have gone on nothing. Do like 3 hour queues for every
single ride, it's crazy. That that was going to be my

(40:41):
next question was how long were the queues everywhere?
I mean, not everywhere, but you know, a generalisation.
If I'm going to Shanghai, were you there during the week?
Did it make a difference if you're there during the week to
the weekend? Yes. 100% like the the the we
avoided weekends. Well, we basically we stuck
stuff that wasn't parks in on the weekends where we could.

(41:04):
Apart from universal, apart from.
Yeah, yeah. We didn't have a choice with
that one. It was a case we and we knew it
was. Never again.
But that it's. Busy and even with express
passes. Yeah, we've got on free rides
with Express Pass in the entire day.
Wow. Oh, it was.
I mean, there's, we've never experienced a crowd like that
ever in a. Theme park.

(41:25):
They go, they go crazy. Yeah.
I think we'll start plug. Yeah, I'm not looking forward to
editing it. We've just seen that, all the
swearing. Yeah, not that.
Can't see him. I think Hong Kong had the lowest
weights, yeah. Then Shanghai, then Japan.
Have you? What would you say though was

(41:45):
the average for each? For Hong Kong, 10 minutes, 5 to
10 minutes was the average that we waited and China.
Was a little bit more. Than that 20 to 30.
Maximum. And then 40 plus in the more
popular. But the good thing is with it so
like Shanghai, the opening hourswere massive.
Like they were open from like because we got the early entry.
Was it half Seven? Half seven.

(42:06):
Until 9:00. Oh wow.
That's a long time that you know, in a day to be able to so
and you got got to the evening time you're on walk ONS, right
trends and stuff like that. No problem at all.
So like it's, it is dependent onthe time of year, but like it
there wasn't an issue really realistically it was just the

(42:27):
sheer amount of stuff you wantedto do and.
The spaced outness. Yeah, yeah.
But there was planning involved in it because like with
Zootopia, we, you know, we knew we had to be in there first
thing in the morning. So we got there in the first
day, there was a 2 hour queue just to get into the land.
So it was like, right, Zootopia scrapped that.
We're not doing that today. And then the next day it was

(42:49):
like first thing Zootopia. But funny enough, the entire
day, it didn't even get a queue to get into the land.
And that was a Tuesday. So like the Monday was really
busy and the Tuesday wasn't. Oh, OK.
And I think even with that, we only queue for 30 minutes to get
on the ride, didn't we? Zootopia first round, it's not
even that was it? There was a SEC because we went
straight back on him because thequeue we were like, Oh well, it

(43:10):
might as well. And that's a really cool ride as
well. We've not mentioned it.
Well, that is a very cool ride, yeah.
So what's in Zootopia Land In that land?
Just really a hot. Pursuit.
Yeah, that's the only ride. There's a lot to look at, a lot
of like interactive kind of little hidden gems around.
Yeah, it was more Easter eggs, really.
And then just to kind of show that look, look at this place,

(43:33):
it's for huge things and small things.
And then it was all kind of, andthen you could get the popsicle
there. The jumbo part.
Yeah, the jumbo. So there's a couple of snack
carts, the ride. That's it.
As I think I say it in the vlog,if I don't, oh, woman, did I say
in the log? No, I don't think I didn't
actually. I don't put it in my top five

(43:54):
lands in the world. OK.
I think I do. It's a very yeah.
It's really like you feel like you're in Zootopia.
Yeah, it's cool to look at, but I just think it lacks more
rides. I think is there a plan to put
another one in there? Maybe there's room?
There's room, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, I just, I wanted more yeah from that.

(44:17):
So, yeah, we had that as a new land and we were in Hong Kong.
We also had R&L, so that was that that that was cool.
That was plused on it. The the frozen ever after.
That's that's miles better. But now Tokyo, we Fantasy
Springs is just completely blownthat out of the way out of the
water on it with the new one. It's just it's like, oh, we need
to go back there now. But yeah, that's.

(44:39):
Always the way, isn't it? There's always, there's always
something new coming to a park. And I was saying sort of, well,
we start recording tonight thererumours of 1/5 gate and whatever
might be coming toward Disney World.
We always have the excuse to book another trip.
Yes. Yeah.
And now with all of these, it's like we've got a Disneyland
trick booked for next year. We've never been before.
There's going to be so many different sort of opportunities
to try out all these new sort ofexperiences.

(45:02):
Yeah. And now I'm going to start
looking at Asian Park, I said. It's not you're going to get
him. You've got to get the castles.
I don't know. We've done all the Shanghai,
Hong Kong being our favourites, but actually Tokyo's going to be
the first one that we will probably go back to, yeah.
OK. Yeah, OK.
How come? We didn't feel like we did

(45:23):
Disneyland justice and Fantasy Springs, yeah, wasn't open when
we were there, so. Yeah.
Did you buy premier passes when you were in Tokyo?
Just to just have a ride with Baymax and believe Sea of
Dreams, yeah. But they have.
They've also got Priority access, which is like the old
Fast Pass system, free of charge.
Oh. Anniversary Pass, it's called,

(45:44):
Yeah, I don't know how long that's staying for because
obviously the 40th celebration ended just before we got there.
We. Didn't think we were going to
get. It but they.
Extended it. You just get.
You don't get to pick three. You just get to pick.
Once you've scanned in, you get to pick one.
And then I think it was 2 every two hours.
Two hours. Yeah, you.
Can get another one. Oh nice.
So it was nice. So that was for like things like

(46:07):
Indiana Jones. Monsters Inc.
Yeah. Yeah, stuff like that.
So we did use that. We used the free version quite a
bit, yeah. I, I've got another question for
you because you know, I'm motivated by one thing and one
thing only. I want to know what was some of
the best food you ate? Because it's one thing that I

(46:28):
didn't really have a huge plan when I was going was I didn't
really know where I was going toeat because I'm a fussy eater.
What was some good food or memorable food that you ate?
Or maybe memorable for not the right reasons?
So when we say we did a year's worth of planning, about 90% of
that was probably food, yeah. Amazing.

(46:49):
Yeah, like literally we, you haven't got your book with you
now, have you? But like, literally like there's
just pages upon pages. Then we must get this.
This is the. Sky, I think I've got it on my
phone. Actually, I think I haven't.
We have like, so when we're doing anything in like in our
household, there's a, there's a an Apple note that goes.
Spreadsheet and a spreadsheet. I don't write a note.

(47:10):
So like we have like our own folder that was just for the
Asia adventures and like for each one there is like stuff you
need to know about the park, therides you want to go on, but
there is literally ones that just say snacks and like.
Tick them off as we want. So this one is the Shanghai one.
So just to read out the ones that we actually did that that

(47:31):
we've ticked off. And there might be some that I
haven't even ticked off. So there's the lot.
So cheesecake in in Toy Story Land.
That was that was really good. Amazing.
That was really good. It was a strawberry cheesecake,
but it was like a a really light, fluffy, moussy kind of
cheesecake. Oh, it was so good.
That was, yeah, you'll hear us say.
So good. A lot Alien pizza.

(47:54):
So alien shaped pizza. That was in Toy Story land.
Weird thing with that one. Blueberries.
Never had a blueberry or a pizzabefore.
And a pizza I. Mean I'm not sure fruit belongs
in pizza anyway. Well, so if you if you, if you
have that mindset, then let me tell you where it was.
So it was part of the eyes and it was inside of a pineapple, I
think. You might skip that one.

(48:16):
Yeah. I was really good though it.
Wasn't that was good? We had the Winnie the Pooh pizza
as well, didn't we? That was another pizza that we
had. So you'll notice it's all
themed. So like if it isn't themed, I'm
not interested. Like it's it's got to be themed.
We had an Avengers burger, whichwas the worst thing ever.
Don't go to that in Tomorrowland.

(48:38):
One neutron, that restaurant, we, we had like an Avengers
feast, family feast and it it was like. £40 Yeah 40.
Quid and like we virtually laughed the whole thing.
Then we just add the fries and one burger between us all.
Yeah, there was a Tigger tail with ham and cheese on it that
was like a sandwich that was like.
An orange bread. That was nice.

(48:59):
In terms of ice pops, there was a Lena Bell ice pop, Donald Duck
ice pop, and a Zootopia ice pop.We got all of them and then
bakery stuff on the on the Main Street bakery part.
So that was that was Shanghai. So I think out of all of those,
that Lotso cheesecake is the onethat I remember stand out, yeah.
For the right reason. Yes.

(49:20):
And then it's getting snacks. Hong Kong, we had Mickey pizza.
Donna kebab. Did we have a Donna kebab?
No, they didn't have it. Oh, I just ticked it off because
we couldn't get it. Yeah.
Lena Bell waffle. That was on.
Yeah, that was good though on onMain Street.
That was really. Good.
It was the lightest, fluffiest, like Mickey waffle that was Lena
Bell shaped but that we've ever had.

(49:42):
Yeah, that was so nice. We didn't really have much
there, but I will say that it's the most expensive meal that
I've ever had in my entire life in Hong Kong Disneyland.
Was it in the Disneyland hotel by the channel?
It was indeed. Enchanted Garden.
Oh my God. Simon got to enjoy that meal all
day. Simon.
Oh no. Like that was a very expensive

(50:04):
meal for Simon. Oh.
Geez, I can imagine. So like we, we kind of got stung
a little bit on that one. So basically what happened was
we arrived at Hong Kong Disneyland, checked in and we
didn't know that there wasn't a quick counter.
So we we asked him and was like,is there anywhere we can get
like a pizza burger? They were just like laughing at
us and like, no, like you're in the.
Disneyland. They weren't laughing at us.

(50:25):
They were just like, you can go to there's like a Walt's Cafe,
was it called? But it was all like really fancy
food that Ollie wouldn't eat, girls wouldn't eat.
I didn't really fancy. There was a quick counter in the
Explorers Hotel, but to get to the Explorers Hotel you either
had to walk for 20 minutes, so you had to get a 40 minute
shuttle. So it was like 40 minutes in

(50:46):
between each one. So we didn't do it on the first
night because we were so, so tired.
So in the end, we're just like, right, we'll go to the, what's
it called, Enchanted Enchanted Garden.
That's it. And originally we booked it for
later on in the night and we were like, oh, when I remember
to do it or not. And at the time it was $60.00
per person. It said so from 60 lbs, wasn't
it? Yeah, but that from should have

(51:07):
checked the from. From keyword From From.
Yeah. And then so we sat down.
We went there and was like, hey,we were a little bit tired.
There's no chance you can move it, move it forward.
The people were fantastic. They're like, Yep, no problem.
So they sat us down. It's a character meal as well.
And then literally, as you sit, as you sit down, they just go
caviar. Well, they just served as our

(51:27):
caviar and we just looked at each other and went, this isn't
60 lbs each, is it? What's going on here then?
It's the best character interactions we've ever had in
in any Disney park. Mickey literally phenomenal
takes comes over. Ollie hasn't like eaten much and
he takes him over to the buffet and like helps him pick food.
OK. So like it was the like

(51:49):
genuinely the best character interaction.
Yeah. And then like, Pluto came over
to make sure we're having a dessert and like all he went to
taste it. He's just like.
But it was. It was.
Yeah, he had a police show on itis he's like don't eat me.
And it was just like all interactions was just really
cool. So cool.

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And then and then at the end of it, they were like, and here's
your bill and it was like, I think £239.
Yeah, it was crazy. And not only that, right the
cheek of it on top they had. So when they're going around
with all the all the characters,the the other photo, photo pass
photographer going along it and in the end it was like, and if
you want the photo pass, that's an extra 100 lbs.

(52:31):
I was like, Nah. We'll just still get on pictures
we got, OK? Thank you.
I actually I have to say that wedid.
That isn't one that I missed outon.
I thought was the other one withthe little tiny, the little tiny
dim sum. Now I we did make.
Christmas, yes. Yeah, that's the one what you're

(52:51):
going to say, because that was very expensive.
Yeah, that one as well. Yeah, and you had to pre-order
it all, so it's all pre-ordered.So Simon just enjoyed it all.
Oh wow, did. You.
Guys do the same as us then and they went, which ones do you
want and you went all of them, yes.

(53:13):
Which ones? Yes.
Yeah, yeah. Did you have to pre-order?
They're still doing that becauseI know when we went we had to do
it all in advance and pre-order.We were having it out of them,
yeah. Yeah, we did indeed.
Yeah, Simon had a great time. Oh God.
I mean, that was a lot of food. Yeah, exactly.
Wow. Yeah.

(53:34):
That's crazy. Yeah, I think, I don't think we
got absolutely everything. And there were, there were a few
things that we'd skipped on and we kind of went for like one or
two of everything so I could take pictures.
That's exactly that was it. You just go there.
Everyone else is just taking cowmeat in the food and we're like.
Yeah, yeah, Simon was sending mephotos while I was in the

(53:57):
hospital. Here's this one.
They do such a good job of them though, don't they?
They look, they look really good.
They looked amazing. I'm sure they tasted wonderful
too. They.
Were OK, they were OK. They weren't as good as wearing
what it did to me, were they? But they were still.
It was still. Oh, I'm trying to see now if
I've. Got the novelty.

(54:18):
Yeah, exactly. Right.
So shall I finish it off with the Tokyo snacks as well?
Because I'm conscious I haven't.I haven't gone through them.
Yeah, yes, go for the Tokyo. Right.
So we've got so Tokyo was the snack capital of Disney.
So just like this is the one, ifyou go in for snacks, do you go,
you go to Tokyo? And they don't just look pretty
for pictures, they taste. Majority of them taste amazing.

(54:40):
Yeah. So this.
Is that's. What Disney World's lacking?
Yeah. Yes, this is this is a lengthy
list, so buckling everybody. So we're going to start with the
Mike Melon bread. So like it looks like Mike
Wazowski's. So that was that was OK it.
Was OK, that was. OK, we've got the Shandoo tail.
We didn't do that. That's that's gone now.
On it. That's gone.
The alien mochi. So good.

(55:01):
Oh oh. You have to like Mochi to like
them. Do we still?
No, I mean. No, you I love the the like
consistency is like for some people that's enough.
Yeah, but they they, they were really.
I think I've ever had them. No, definitely.
You need to give it a go at least once just to give it a
try. They were cool popcorn.

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Just every single popcorn you can think of under the.
Sun Soy. Sauce.
What did we get? We had which?
Flavours, did you? Get we got Curry.
Curry soy sauce. Soy sauce.
Caramel. Chocolate.
Chocolate. White chocolate.
The chocolate one, the caramel and the chocolate were our top
two. Yeah, there was another one as
well that was salty, something Ican't remember now.

(55:44):
Top man. Oh woman, I've got it right down
here. Caramel, honey, milk chocolate,
garlic shrimp. We didn't dry Curry and then so
you sauce and butter. Yeah, the but it left like it.
Was greasy, wasn't it? But it left like a do you know
when you melt butter and it leaves that, like, layer on top,
once it starts to set, that's what it felt like it left in
your mouth, like a layer of grease on your tongue and it

(56:05):
just on your teeth. And it was just not, it was not
good. That was the only snack that
went in the bin. Yeah.
Mickey shaped churro, which is nicely nestled between a Walt
Disney World churro and a Disneyland churro.
So that's where it sits. OK, we've got the shrimp bun
that. Was all right.
That was good. That was the one with the is

(56:25):
that the Donald? That was the Donald Duck and
thing potato churro. Now that is the for me is the
surprise of the trip. Potato Churro.
So it's like I. Feel like you can't ruin a
potato? Churro about that long and it's
filled with like a sweet soy. Curry.
Curry kind of middle. But that was just, it's just

(56:47):
something you don't expect to bebrilliant.
And then when you taste it like that was really good.
I think we got that like four times.
Yeah, the The Seat Salt ice cream, Monica.
So like a little Ice Cream Sandwich that was like sea salt.
It's. Like a a pink wafer on the
outside with sea salt ice cream and then like a Raspberry jam in
the middle. That was delicious.

(57:07):
The Baymax Rice Curry. That was what?
I want. Yeah, honestly, we thought it
was just going to be like reallygood for Instagram, taking
pictures. It tastes really.
It is possibly the nicest Curry I've ever had in my life.
Oh my gosh. It was epic.
Yeah, really nice. Few others saw Mickey shaped

(57:28):
Nuggets, gyoza, sausage bun, pizza turnover and the Mickey
hand bun, which is similar to the one that was Donald.
And then for drinks we had appletea, soda and melon Fanta.
Melon Fanta is very good. It's bright green.
Yeah, like, like illuminant, like, you think that it's
radioactive? But the Mickey Hamborn, that was

(57:48):
probably a stand out, wasn't it as well.
That was good. We had a couple of them, didn't
we? That was a.
Chicken. We got one to share and then we
sent Gaz back into the queue together, another one each.
It was very good. Yeah, so, but snacks, snacks are
really good. We didn't have like apart from
the centre town Baymax meal, we didn't have a sit down in Tokyo

(58:09):
because of all the snacks. Yeah.
Oh wow. OK.
We didn't actually have a sit down meal in any of the parks on
on a park day so that we had theone in in Hong Kong that not on
the day was. It Yeah, we did.
The one at Mystic Manor. Yeah, completely lie to me.
That was with the butter chicken.
That was a really good meal though.
Yeah, it was a good meal. It was a semi buffer.
Sit down. I feel like that's a.

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Is that not? Is that not a quick service?
It's like in between. It's a semi buffer.
It's like. It's it's yeah.
It's kind of like, what's the one in contemporary called
Mickey? Chef Mickey.
Chef Mickey, Sorry. Yeah, Chef Mickey.
Yeah, so it's a bit like that. So you do, you do sit down, but
then you've got to go up and getyour own food.

(58:51):
Yeah, so like you get all your starters from the like buffet
and then. They bring you the main OK.
OK, I'm sure what we ate there, but in my memory I thought it
was just a quick service. Then there is a.
Quick, it's been a while round there.
With the chicken nugget. Oh, maybe.
Maybe ate somewhere else then? That we got for all that was
it's. Definitely minimistic matter I

(59:13):
remember. Yeah, but it was very much a
case of like, sit down, you are losing park time, so let's let's
snack. And the amount of snacks that
you can see that we've gone through, like it wasn't like we
were hungry. And genuinely, apart from that
soy sauce butter thing, everything was very good.
Oh. That's that's really good too.

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How? Did you find it with or finding
Ollie food to eat? Because obviously I can imagine
different culture. Different snacks.
I know it was the most difficult.
Outside of the parks or inside the parks?
Because inside. Inside was alright because they
had kind of western options for Ollie, so he is not a fussy
child at all and he absolutely adores Chinese food.
But what is Chinese food over here is not the same as what it

(59:59):
is there. So we went thinking, oh, he's
going to be able to get noodles,fried rice, all those kind of
dishes that he would have here. And they, they just don't have
them. They're just, that isn't what it
is. So, and the chicken was quite,
it's like thigh and it was quitefatty.
And he was just not a fan of that kind of consistency.
So in actual Shanghai, he was quite fussy, wasn't he?

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But then when we got to Hong Kong, they kind of had more
noodly options in Hong Kong. And yet much better.
Yeah, in the parks though, for anyone, because I'm guessing
there'll be a lot of people watching who want to go out
there that probably won't be as adventurous to go and do the the
things outside of the park, which we definitely recommend to
do by the way, if you can. There's no problem.
We've been out of us eaters. There's chicken Nuggets

(01:00:43):
absolutely everywhere. There's burgers, no problem at
all. There's, you know, there's,
there's tons. So like you don't need to worry
about whether you're going to beable to find something like
there are the the exotic stuff that you can go and find, but
there are plenty of places that just have your box standard.
Yeah, you could go and just eat Western food if you wanted to.
Yeah, even in the hotel. So like we went in Toy Story

(01:01:05):
Hotel, we got our breakfast included in the in the rate for
Shanghai. And you go down and they have
like an Asian side and then theyhave a Western side.
So you've got your sausage, yourbacon, your eggs, your waffles,
your pancakes, right. It's all there.
Oh, you can go. Yeah, I wasn't saying what do
they have on the Asian side. I, I don't, I can't think what's

(01:01:26):
for breakfast that would be Asian.
So. There's no such thing as.
Breakfast Asian They don't have breakfast.
Though they just have. Items.
It's so it was dim sum, it was noodles.
It was just normal. The normal Asian dishes put for
breakfast, which was we, we werehaving it like it was, but
having soup dumplings at 6:00 inthe morning was very bizarre.

(01:01:50):
I think they've got it right. Who says you should only eat
certain foods at certain times? Of course, yeah.
It's true. I think they got it right.
I've been, I've been campaigningfor McDonald's breakfast all day
for years and it's just not up there.
Yes, yeah. They definitely, they do it in
the USA for a while they were doing all day breakfast and I
think they've stopped again, I think.
I don't get it. You get to 11:00.

(01:02:11):
It's not no, I I don't need breakfast.
I'm happy to have a breakfast wrap all day long.
When it was half ten, it was like, who wants a burger at half
ten? I want, I mean, I, I know I've
said that you can have it anytime, but I just want the
breakfast at half ten. In fact, I want it all day.
Yeah, that's it. I said 6:00 PM.
If all he wants a Happy meal that's fine, but I still want it
meant muffin. Yeah, I'm with you.

(01:02:36):
I'm definitely with you. And a nice a nice greasy hash
brown. Exactly.
Yeah, just everything with a hash brown.
Yeah, there's nothing at the end.
Yeah. I was going to say we're the
only one. I can't be the only one that the
rule is always you get a hash brown with your meal and you get
another one. My best friend, my best friend,

(01:02:58):
she was in hospital with her first baby during COVID and her
partner, bless her, brought in at McDonald's breakfast because
the food wasn't great. She's had AC section weren't
allowed in and out. So he brought it in.
He brought 1 hash brown and she was like who buys one house
where's the other one? And we've never let him forget.

(01:03:19):
Forget it from. Now on.
He's one. Brilliant.
Where did you stay in all three countries?
So on site on in all of them, I think that was one thing that
that wasn't really up for negotiation in any sort.
We stayed at other hotels as well though.

(01:03:40):
Yeah, but like when? We for the parks themselves, we
stayed on site for the perks of being on site.
Yeah. So, yeah, so I suppose part of
the itinerary, some of it we just didn't make sense to go to
the to the the Disney hotels. Because there was a lot of
hotels. Yeah, but so we stayed in the
Toy Story Hotel in Shanghai. We stayed in the Disneyland

(01:04:02):
Hotel in Hong Kong, which we don't recommend.
Well, we don't. We just recommend the explorers
over it. Yeah, that wouldn't be the
option. Now if we would go again, we
wouldn't stay there again. It's just a better vibe in there
and there's a quick concert ring.
It just makes more sense, I think, to stay at Explorers
Hotel and then in Tokyo we stayed at the Toy Story Hotel.

(01:04:25):
22 of the Toy Story hotels, though, yeah.
We can compare the two. Was that deliberate or was it
budget or what was available? I know Tokyo can be very
difficult to get into any of thehotels there.
Yeah. I think if we wish to do it all
again differently or do it all again, would we do it
differently? Yes, we would.
Wouldn't we? Like I think the only one we'd

(01:04:46):
probably say it again would be the.
Toy Story in Shanghai, yeah. For different reasons.
So like the the we have no problem with the Toy Story Hotel
in Shanghai. It was fantastic.
The location was brilliant. The perks that you get with the
hotel were, you know, there wasn't any difference compared
to others and it's just a cool themed hotel with Hong Kong

(01:05:07):
Disneyland. They, well, they weren't really
any perks staying there, were they?
No, just the location. Yeah, to find being close to
the. Park.
Yeah, it's the closest one to the park.
So you can walk. To it, but it is still like a 15
minute walk, but it's a lovely walk.
Yeah, but you don't get early access.
You have to pay extra for that, Yeah.
Yeah, Hong Kong, you have to pay, you have to pay the extra

(01:05:29):
to get in and it wasn't even that much, was it?
Like, was it 15 minutes early this summer?
So you. Don't need it in Hong Kong.
Though, no, no, exactly. You don't no.
And and again with the the Hong Kong Disneyland hotel, although
it was stunning, it just wasn't practical in terms of what you
what we need from from a from a hotel when we're there.

(01:05:50):
And and it just looks so much nicer.
The Explorers Hotel, didn't it? Explorers was kind of like a
Polynesian meets wilderness lodge vibe.
Oh, I like. That.
Did you visit the hotel? Did you visit the Hollywood
Hotel when you were there? No.
I'm gutted about it. When I found out that the
gauntlet smart bang in the middle of it, I was like oh.

(01:06:11):
We that's where we stayed and I loved it.
And actually that's the cheapestof the three in Hong Kong.
That wasn't the reason we stayedthere.
It was just that I really liked the vibe.
It's very like Hollywood Studiosvibes, like very MGM vibes
almost. It was one man's dream sort of

(01:06:32):
vibe to it. So yeah, we stayed there because
I, I really liked it. But we visited all three and I
agree, the Explorers Hotel was beautiful.
Really. Beautiful.
I find it very interesting that there's like a plot that's ready
for another hotel. So like you've got you've got
like the Disneyland Hotel, emptyplot, Explorers hotel, Hollywood

(01:06:54):
Hotel. So it's going to mean they're
clearly waiting to build on thatat some point in the future.
Yeah. And then and going back to
Tokyo, Toy Story Hotel. And the reason we wouldn't stay
there again is because you don'tget early entry to Disney Sea
when you stay at at the Toy Story Hotel.
As of right now, neither does the Disneyland Hotel.

(01:07:17):
Only Mira Costa and the Fantasy Springs Hotel get Disney Sea
access as of right now because it's only just opened Fantasy
Springs. Whether they'll bring it back to
the Disneyland Hotel, they haven't said.
Yeah, I mean you're having that extra 15.
I know it's only 15 minutes it. Does make a difference?
But it makes a big difference toget into the party, even just to
get into the queues alone, like at the beginning of the day

(01:07:40):
makes so much of a difference tobe able to do it.
So I think if if you have that little bit of extra money, the
mirror Costa would probably where we'd want to try next
time. And then and then, yeah, of
course I fantasy that was open. That hotel looks amazing.
So when you went to Shanghai, did you just stay in the Toy
Story Hotel the whole time and then visit the town?

(01:08:01):
OK. And in Hong Kong, the same, did
you stay in the Disneyland Hotelthe whole time?
Just in Tokyo, you stayed elsewhere.
The first night we stayed at theGrand Nikko in Doba and that was
a properly nice hotel. It was done in hotel and it was
quite convenient to get into Tokyo.
It was at the train station. It took a bit of time to get

(01:08:24):
into actual. It was like halfway between
Disney and the airport. So it was like a perfect
location because the the first day we were in Tokyo, we wanted
to go out and explore Tokyo and it was close to team labs
planets, which is something we've been wanting to do for
ages. So that's it was like, right,
that's close to that. We'll, we'll book there.

(01:08:45):
So and then we did all the the rest of the time and was in Toy
Story, wasn't it? Yeah.
And then and then we went to we.Moved to Osaka, we then stayed
Hotel Keehan which is the Universal Hotel.
They're like, not official universal, are they?
But they're like they are good. Neighbour by.

(01:09:06):
Good. Yeah, Yeah.
I mean, there is this like partly down to like being a
safety net really like it's something you know.
So that's the reason why it was OK.
There was never a discussion of oh, we could stay just outside
was it? We never had that discussion.
It was like we're going, we're staying at these hotels.
Yeah, I think when we booked, I couldn't get into any of the
Tokyo hotels. So we ended up in Hilton, which

(01:09:30):
is on the monorail loop right there.
But that was because I couldn't get in.
The other hotels were sold out. That Hilton's right next door to
the Toy Story. Yeah, like right next door to
it. Yeah, I think Tokyo was the
hardest one to. Get up in the middle of the
night, didn't we to get that? Yeah, yeah.
So we, we, we have planning videos that goes through each

(01:09:50):
one of these as well in, in granular detail because like
there's people who are going to want to know about like how
we've done certain things, the costumes of it all when you book
what's involved in it. So all these are on the channel
as well, so. Oh, that's amazing.
As the series, as the series progressed, so like, yeah, so
like when China's, when China's done, we'll have the China bit

(01:10:13):
because like originally we were going to do like a an
all-encompassing planning video.And he said, well, actually
there's so many people that probably won't do the whole
thing in one in one go. So we've kind of chunked it down
down now into each country. So try and help people really in
terms of like if they're going to one specific one, that's the
advice that we'd give. I think we're going to split it

(01:10:35):
up into the city and there. Yeah, so there'll be like a, a
country in general. So stuff like Alipay and the
Great Firewall and you know, how, how are you going to make
payments? Visas.
Yeah, it's SIM cards, that type of stuff.
But then there is specific stufffor the Disney parks, like when

(01:10:56):
do you book your hotel, how do you get your tickets?
What's the best rides to go on all that type of stuff that
they're going to be on there? Because we know that people want
that information. That's really helpful yeah so if
if you didn't already know whereto find you guys you we'll make
sure that the links in in underneath this video so anyone
that's watching doesn't already follow can find you easily I.

(01:11:19):
Appreciate that. So what?
What are your future plans? Now you know you've done your
epic sort of Asian adventure. There, there was one person that
was like, now you've finished all the parks, now you're going
to have to do all the cruise ships that.
Isn't that isn't the No, that's.Not the No, that's not the plan.
Right now we've got one more trip to Disney World on this set
of annual passes and then we aregoing to let them go and have a

(01:11:42):
year off Disney World. We're going to go to Florida and
not do Disney World, we don't think.
We see them you. Know what?
I I yeah, I agree. Really hard.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because we're doing that this
year. We're doing that this year.
It's so hard. You're going to the Halloween
party. Don't make Halloween do.
That's just thing we can do. So I'm an is just is to do the

(01:12:06):
cruise and then do some other theme parks that are not
universal and not Disney. Yeah, that, yeah, I think we
just need, it's been really nicelike when we went to Asia to
kind of do new and just explore something somewhere that we've
never been before. And there's so many European
parks that we're really interested in.
We're going to try Europa Park, which is basically Europe's

(01:12:29):
Epcot because they've got, they've got the Epcot ball
there. So we want to give that a golf
and this there's like Porto, Ventura in Spain that we might
want to try out. There's I mean, there's all
sorts of things that we've been looking.
We've got a. Big list of We want to try a
Royal Caribbean cruise, Yeah. We want to try more Disney
cruises if we can, Yeah. And.
But in that annual pass go, it'ssort of it's, it's really weird

(01:12:52):
because ours expired last November and ever since then
they keep thinking, oh, we've got a Florida trip this year,
but we're not going to go to many parks.
Well, we do. Do we buy a one day ticket
because we've not seen Luminous yet at Epcot.
It's all these sort of things that you just get so used to,
just going to all Disney World and doing all of the parks and
trying to fit as much as you caninto a two week trip.

(01:13:12):
But I'm so looking forward to being able to relax on A7 night
cruise on the Disney Fantasy, coming back to Walt Disney
World, staying in a Disney resort and just doing a
Halloween party. Yeah.
That then just sort of having a car and just trying food that
we've not not done before and relax on holiday instead of
coming together at 7:00 AM for aboarding group.

(01:13:32):
Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, that's it.
You know, you're still conditioned to do it these days,
but I think so we, we purchased the annual passes last August.
So we had the two week tickets and then we had this like moment
of madness and we're just like, let's do it.
Let's, let's get our annual passes again.
Yeah. And actually, if we're being
really honest, it's probably something we regret a little

(01:13:54):
bit. And and that's because it, it,
it does tie you into it because like as soon as you've got it,
then you go, well, I can go and do this stuff that's new.
And, and we have done that because obviously we went, we
went to Asia, but at the same time you go, but the cost of
that I, I've got to go and buy tickets.
I've got to go and do this. And then when we've got DVC as

(01:14:15):
well, he's like, well, you know,the hotel exactly.
The hotel's paid for. The tickets are paid for.
Well, when you're trying to costup the two differences, there's
always, there will be one winner.
You forget about the fact that you've just paid all that, that
money for the annual pass earlier on a few months ago.
It's like there. Well, that was.
That's gone. That's gone.

(01:14:36):
Math. Disney math.
Yeah, Disney maths. So, yeah, so it has made us like
we went, we went in February, we're going back, we're going
back in, in a few months time. And we're very privileged to be
able to say that we can do that.I'm very grateful.
But I think we we're now at the point where we're like we want
to try and do a few other new. Things I think going doing Asia

(01:14:57):
and stepping massively outside of our comfort zone has made us
want to do it more. And maybe we've got kind of got
to track the travel bug now where it's not.
We're not going to go to Disney World every single year and just
no. But I don't think we would just
go to Disney World now. We will.
We will go to other countries and explore new places now
because we've done it and we loved it so much.

(01:15:19):
Yeah, I I attempted for Alami. Oh yeah, it's on the list.
So I think. Like 100%.
I'm very torn. So it's my 40th in 2026 and so
the closest kids holidays to that will be the Easter ones
where I can get two weeks. So Japan.
Naralani. You know where to come if you

(01:15:41):
need any tips. Yeah, I.
Do yeah, we need we need to the list like we we talk about all
these ideas we actually have like A and just this planning
book, it's like the Bible of theKershaw's adventures.
It's like, like it's literally looking like where we going next
And and like Disney's always going to be a part of that.
And we look and we look at it and go right, well, what in that

(01:16:03):
road map? Where, where does that fit in?
And it is like Alani, we haven'tdone yet.
Hilton Head we haven't done yet as part of DVC.
We haven't done veer upbeat. So they're definitely going to
be on the list. Cruise ships lookout lookout
point is just has just been released.
So that's something we want to look at.
There's news cruise ships. There's going to be one that's
in Singapore again soon. So it's like, well, maybe we
want to go and try that one out.Like there's all next year.

(01:16:24):
Exactly. It's like they're they're all in
in the talking points alongside doing stuff that's that's not.
Different and epic universe if you want to go back and do epic
universe, probably next summer. So we haven't actually really
made apart from we've got the cruise book from the thing that
we the placeholder. Oh.
The placeholder I wouldn't we. Wouldn't we?
I know I can't, but it was called for a second.

(01:16:46):
We got the cruise book from the placeholder and that is
literally it because we're trying to wait for to see what
Disney announced. Well, this is it.
Like we'll have all these plans in place and then they'll go
like, hey, look at all these newthings that we'll be able to do.
And it's like, got to go back. They've got to go back.
It's like if Epic does open early, are we going to be able
to do it like without having to book an extra strip?

(01:17:08):
Are Disney going to do the adventure?
And is the itinerary and the cost going to be something we
can afford to do next year? Like we just, we got to wait and
see what they they come out with.
Yeah, our our our trip next yearwhere we've got Disneyland
booth. Like I'm so can't wait to just
be in a Disney pub that isn't Disneyland Paris or Disney World
and just be in a park where we walked.
It's just I can't. Wait, it is a magical part and

(01:17:30):
and we want to go back there as well, desperately that that was
the best. I think honestly, that
California trip that we did lastyear was the best trip we've
ever taken ever. Ever.
Even over the Asia trip, that was the best trip we've ever
taken. Oh wow, it was just a every
moment was magical. Yeah, look back on that and
there's genuine magic to sprinkle throughout that place.

(01:17:52):
I it really is. It's phenomenal.
Disneyland Paris as well, though.
Like next year, yeah. Yeah, You know, look.
At them, yeah. Yeah.
It's all like, you know this we want.
It's all, it's all in the heart.It's all to be talked about and
discussed. We can't decide.
Yeah, there's, there's just so many plans.
I don't know what to end. What next?

(01:18:14):
I think I'm just going to hand it over to you to plan the next
few trips and I can go along. That's fine.
And I don't believe that's. No, it won't, as part of me goes
like that. That would be nice.
It'd be a nice surprise, but then I'd like.
I don't. Know too much of A control Free.
Yeah, I've already too much. It's all right, Ben.

(01:18:34):
This is why we're friends. That's why I'm just so leaned
forward to staying at DisneylandHotel next year.
Did you get it confirmed? Yes.
Actually, while we're recording a message saying it's all
confirmed. Oh.
Is that amazing? Oh, so happy for you.
I'll let you know what it's like.
Yeah, because you'll stay there in a few months, aren't you,
Robin? Yeah, we get, we'll, we, I think

(01:18:56):
we check in there on the 31st ofOctober.
We, we, we bought Disneyland DVClast year before my diagnosis
and we've got a duo studio for us and Simon's parents this year
are on the end of our Hawaii trip because I'm 40 this year
and that has been my, my birthday trip, my mega trip as

(01:19:18):
we're going to Hawaii so ending in Disneyland and I'm very, very
excited. I've spent today looking at food
options in Disneyland and makingmaking a list on my phone.
I've got quick service tables and sand stacks, no.
We we've seemed to have stayed away from table service over the

(01:19:38):
last few years, haven't we? I think ever since the Disney
dining plant went. It's coming back though.
Yeah, it's coming back. Whether we take advantage of
that hasn't, I think because of the DVC.
Well, I think when we're going next year, our dates aren't
covered under it. So I think that is also another
reason why we decided not to do Disney because I think if if we
could have got the free dining, we absolutely probably would

(01:19:59):
have done. Yeah.
But. You know what?
We've gone and planned. So many times and it's I just
can't make it work. Especially when you add BBCS
like table service. I'll get my discount with that
as well. And it's like just makes it.
I like the idea that I can just tap my magic band and it's done.
But I can do that anyway and just just sign the tip and it

(01:20:20):
charges it to the room. So it's yeah.
Yeah. I I feel the same.
We've done less and less table service recently found them.
Sorry, Disney, but I found them expensive and food's only all
right, and lots of them. So yeah, even places that we've
previously loved, they've changed things slightly and it's
not quite as good, but it's a little bit more expensive.

(01:20:42):
And I've just kind of gone. I'm not sure I'm loving it.
One of my favourite sit downs isor Hannah I absolutely love and
it's not necessarily for the food, it's the actual vibe of
the place. I absolutely love it, but we
just cannot warrant the cost that it is now 2. £150 last time
we did it A. 160 lbs for the three of us and it's just like

(01:21:02):
you can't warrant that when you can go and get like you go off
site and you can get like we've eaten for $30.00 for the three
of us. Yeah, I, I have to say I've done
Ohana twice since the pandemic when it reopened and they've
changed it since. And I haven't enjoyed it either
time. And I'm with you.
I just think I don't want to paythese prices and think it's only

(01:21:24):
OK. I'd rather go like tambu lounge
and like order the noodles from there.
Yeah, go to Kona and get the getthe amazing bread pudding.
Yeah, that's what I'm there for,to be honest.
This next trip is the first tripwe have 0 table service box.
Wow, OK. I don't know how to feel about
that because the planner would be like it.

(01:21:46):
Got to 60 days now, actually waspossibly doing something.
Why we're not doing any of it? I will say one table of service
that surprised me recently was Tony's.
I've never eaten in there before.
Not I always heard terrible reviews.
So I was kind of like, I'm yet to hear a good review.
I'm I'm OK, I don't need to go. And then Disney food blog said

(01:22:08):
they've had a change of chef anda change of menu and they it was
really good. So I thought I'll try it.
I really enjoyed it. I thought was really, really
nice. We we got the garlic bread to
start, which was came with a cheese fondue.
Oh my gosh, it's like the best garlic bread I've had in my
life. And I like a lot of garlic
bread. And then actually we didn't get

(01:22:30):
full on mains. We got like Caesar salads and
soup. By the time we'd had the bread
and the soup at lunchtime, it was enough.
It wasn't that expensive and thefood was really nice.
OK, so you can always pick one of those up last minute because
the secret's not yet out you. Can always.
Pick one of them up. Do you know what's crazy though?
When I was I was looking and there is a lot of availability

(01:22:53):
even for like the next few weeksfor the likes of Chef Mickey's
and Topolinos and I'm like. Doesn't make sense.
It there's obviously people are not wanting to pay the extra.
When when you look for like $50.00 for a character breakfast
and it's like, well, if your family are full, that's $200.00
and it's just yeah. This.
Is what? The people to talk with their

(01:23:15):
feet. Yeah, than that I think so,
yeah, that's. What they need?
And there, there is a lot. And when you look, there's just
so much availability because you've got that new option where
you can see the whole kind of week with the.
That makes it so much easier to plan, Yeah, Even though if
you're not booking many, but yeah.
Yeah, we'll see what happens when my next trip's not till

(01:23:36):
December, so we'll see what happens in for when I'm there in
December. Usually because I'm there over
that day weekend, we usually do book a meal one if not both days
because if it's hot or cold, either or you either need some
air conditioning to cool down orwarm up and a seat for a little
while because I'm usually wearing heels.
So we do usually book one for one of those days.
That's how Tony's came about thefirst time and yeah, I really

(01:23:59):
enjoyed it, so we'll see what happens.
I think we're going to put the character breakfast.
I think Cape May and. We did Cape May.
That's the beach, I think. Yeah, we've done services, OK,
but there. Might be a couple of others.
I think most most of the stuff can be off site so when you've
got a car it's so much easier just.

(01:24:19):
Looking forward to Kiki. Kikis.
Looking forward to Kikis Maple Street Bakery get there too see?
We've been there and we'd like it.
Yeah, there's a. New one just like above Magic
Kingdom, like if you drove one, it's new that one.
So you have to try that one. Is that the one where you like

(01:24:40):
the secret fireworks place? There's like a yeah, it is near
there. It is near the secret fireworks
place, but it's a bit further than that though, a bit further
away than that one. But that's the pizzeria that's
literally in the like next to the castle in the car park.
Yeah, Keep. We kept saying we kept driving
past it going we need to do that.
But time ran out, as it always does.

(01:25:01):
Always gives you a reason to go back, though, doesn't it?
Yeah. A big thank you to Gaz and Ange
for joining us today. Follow their amazing Disney
journey on their YouTube channel, The Kershaw's
Adventures. Your stories have brought the
magic of Disney parks to life for us all.
Thanks to everyone who tuned in to the great British Mickey
Waffle. We're so happy to have you with
us and can't wait to share more exciting content soon.

(01:25:24):
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My. Wheels.

(01:25:44):
In motion and my windows open with the wind blowing in my
head. I'm driving down the highway
going to do this my way. I can feel it in the air.
Here I go.

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