Disney Feb 14 - Family Trip! Part 4

Day 4 (5^th Feb)

Today we were heading to the Magic Kingdom. Rob and I were taking the Keys to the Kingdom tour and the others were going to join us later.

The tour was a birthday treat for me – so Rob was just along for the ride. We had to get up super early as we booked the 8.30 tour. We arrived in the parking lot and parked right at the front. We checked in for the tour and ordered lunch and collected our bottle of water. I quickly popped to guest relations to collect our paper fastpasses for later.

 

The tour was really interesting and I would highly recommend it. Our guide was knowledgeable and pleasant, I knew some of the information already but it was still totally worth it.

During the tour we took a ride on the Jungle Cruise, Enchanted Tiki Room (our first time) and The Haunted Mansion. We stopped for lunch around the halfway mark at Columbia Harbour House where we were given our souvenir pins.

After the utilidors we were dropped off by our guide near the front of Main Street and so we tried to locate the others.

We actually found them quite quickly as they were having a photo with Pluto.

 

 

We wandered back towards Liberty Square and we headed onto Haunted Mansion. Paul and Tracey were going to take Charlie on the Liberty Square Riverboat but the just missed it so waited for us to get out of the mansion.

We started across towards Frontierland as we had a FP+ for Big Thunder Mountain. Paul and Tracey rode after the rest of us having waited with Charlie.

We then headed all the way across to Tomorrowland for our next FP+. We took a couple of goes on Space Mountain using the FP+ and some of our paper fastpasses.

 

 

 

 

Charlie fell asleep so Paul and Tracey waited with him whilst the rest of us took a spin on the Carousel of Progress.

Our final ride of the day was Buzz Lightyear using FP+ before we called it a day and headed back to the villa.

 

 

 The others decided to have burgers cooked at the villa but Rob and I weren’t really in the mood for them so we decided to pop out and see if we could find something else to eat.

We drove along the 192 for a little while and found a Panera Bread so decided we would try it out. We both got a sandwich, chips and a dessert. It made a nice change from all the Disney food :)

(FP+ 15.00 – 16.00 BTMR, 16.00 – 17.00 Space Mt, 17.00 – 18.00 Buzz)

Day 5 (6^th Feb)

Today we were off to Hollywood Studios. We arrived around 10am and Rob and I headed into the park to guest relations to collect our paper fastpasses and then met the rest inside the gates.

We then headed off to get our FP+ sorted. As expected by this time we were unable to get FP+ for Toy Story Mania so I selected Rock n Rollercoaster, Tower of Terror and Star Tours.

We decided to head across to Toy Story and use one of our paper fastpasses as the line was already quite long.

We then decided to see the Voyage of the Little Mermaid – although Paul and Kevin decided to skip this one. Charlie fell asleep part of the way through!

Trying to get as many of the shows etc in during the day we were across to Indiana Jones next. I think this is a pretty fun show but you don’t really need to watch it on every trip.

Our FP+ window was just opening at RnR so we started across that way – I had forgotten that Leona was too short for this ride so she was a little upset but that soon passed.

We got into the line – Paul and Tracey stayed with Charlie and Leona whilst we went on. We were in the line and mentioned that the ride goes upside down and Sharna evidently wasn’t aware of this....! I went next to her and she screamed the whole way round....! :)

 

 

Once we were off Paul and Tracey went for their ride. By now we had managed to carve out a small window for lunch. Our next FP+ was at Star Tours so we went back across the park and got lunch at backlot express. The quick service options in HS always seem to get bad reviews on the many websites...I’m not sure why though as we had sandwiches (and some had burgers) and the sandwiches were quite good.

Up next was Star Tours – Sharna skipped this as she gets motion sick as did Paul and Charlie. We got Yoda in our sequence which we had never seen before :)

It had unfortunately started to drizzle a little and our next part of the plan was to see Lights, Motors, Action (as Charlie loves cars) so we headed over to get a seat. We managed to get seats under cover so we were sheltered from the rain :)

I had realised earlier that seeing LMA would mean we would be too late for our FP+ for ToT. I had tried to rearrange it for later but as there were 8 of us there were no slots left (I attempted this at around 2pm) – so much for don’t worry if your plans change!

The show was good and once we were done we decided to have another go on TSM as we were already too late for ToT – we used another of our paper fastpasses. I’m pretty sure that Paul and Tracey (and maybe Charlie) skipped this one as we ended up with a spare paper fastpass for 3 people.

 

We were almost done with the park but wanted to get on ToT so we popped across and used our last paper fastpass. Tracey stayed with Charlie whilst the rest of us rode and then we had a paper fastpass for 3 people left - so Kev, Sharna and I went for a final ride whilst the others took a leisurely walk back to the exit.

 

 

We all met up back at the car – after Ken and Sharna had a quick photo on the way out.

 

 (FP+ 13.05 – 14.05 RnR, 14.30 – 15.30 Star Tours, 16.00 – 17.00 ToT *missed)