Tips for visiting Disney World(迪斯尼乐园)
星期三 十二月 31, 2008 10:59 am
We planned to visit Disney World last year. Since we didn’t find a good deal and I feared my son was a little young, we waited for another year. In 2008, we felt it was the right time. At the beginning of Sept,we started to look for a good deal.
At that time, we knew economic was slowing down. Acording to my previous research, I knew some good deals would float out around Dec. So I kept searching and waiting.
I mainly searched two websites: hotwire.com and expedia.ca
I found one site was good for USA departure, the other was good for Canada departure.
Anyway I found a good deal on Dec 2 by expedia. I booked flight/hotel and car rental. At least 500 Canadian $ cheaper than last year for the same date and days.
For Disney Theme Park tickets, we consulted many friends and found we needed not a hopper since each park was full of fun and events and one day was not enough. Before we departed, I called the hotel asked information about tickets and shuttles. We also searched the reviews about the hotel. Many reviews shared their tips. So we knew we should rent a car to save time.
At hotel, we asked about the discounted tickets, but they asked us to attend a tour. We purposed tickets first to save time for playing in park and arranged another day for the tour and refund. Since we believed we could use it as a break from the busy visiting on park.
We bought 7 days tickets, since the difference between 6 days and 7 days was only a few dollars. The 4 days, 7 days was only ten dollar.
Orlando has a lot of places to visit. So we thought we could visit other places next times since we would like to come back a few years later.
For seven days, we have seen all the shows in the four theme parks and play most of the games there.
Some of them we played twice or more times.
The perfect game play time was at the early day of park open and near the park close, less people, so we could ride on and on. I like soaring, earth space trip. I like most shows. Very creative and beautiful.
For eating, we loved the smoked turkey leg. A huge leg, just 6.5 $. Noodle station was good for eating too.
We were lucky since during our stay, there were less visitors than most of the time and we always first tried to get fastpass for very popular games, then we took time to enjoy each show or other games.
By doing that, it saved us a lot time. Some games we could see others waited for 2 hours. But it only took us half hour. For soaring and Mission games, when we got the park at 9:00, we immediately went to take fastpass and the fastpass was already arranged to 6:50PM at night. So you can see how many people lined up before. Since we prepared to stay till the park close, so we went to see other shows or games and needed not worry. If you took one fastpass, you must wait for one hour to get another one even for different games. So be organized and planned ahead.
Disney World also provides other good services. Be sure to get a photopass. You can present it wherever a photographer is and he will take photos for you and upload photos automaticly to their website. You will be given 30 day to view and decide if you want them or not. They are very professional and take good photos. We have 90 photos be taken in different places.
Another thing is to prepare some clothes to wear (or leave them on your car, so you can get them when need) since at night it gets very cold. But the firework is worthy all the waiting. We have seen three firework. Two on Magic Kindom, one on Epcot. All are very unique and beautiful.
It is pity that our camera cannot capture the beautiful scene at night. So we will remember them into our heart.
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