Thursday 11th – steps 20183
Today we were having our Star Wars breakfast at the Sci Fi restaurant. We were up at 7 and arrived at Hollywood Studios at around 8.50.
It was quite busy getting into the park and it took us about 10 mins to get through. We had some time before our reservation so we decided to have a ride on Star Tours first, there was no wait and we saw a sequence that we hadn’t seen before.
We headed over to breakfast and had our photo taken with Darth Vader and Boba Fett, Darth was really intimidating!
We were seated in our car and had a little bit of a wait before our drinks arrived. Our pastries arrived and they were ok, not amazing. I ordered the Vader waffle and Rob had sausage, bacon and eggs. I quite enjoyed mine but Rob thought his could have been better.
We did have some brilliant character interactions during our meal; I had brought along a pin to trade with the jawas – initially I got a light up mermaid hair accessory but later rob traded it again and I ended up with some beads!
Slightly annoyingly we missed Greedo on the way around and so we asked if we could get a photo before we left; our server said that this was fine but the character handler was very reluctant – it seemed she thought we had somehow sneaked in and were trying to get photos without actually eating.
That was odd but we did eventually get our photo, overall the experience was worth the cost as it saved waiting for the characters in the heat but I wouldn’t go just for the food.
After breakfast we headed to Epcot by boat as we were planning on spending the next day at Hollywood Studios. We arrived at around 1130 and headed to Nemo, we waited around 15 minutes I think.
Then we headed into The Land and the Circle of Life show was just starting – we found this to be an odd experience as Disney the massive corporation told us how we all need to be more environmentally aware! We then had a little float around Living with the Land.
We used our first FP at Spaceship Earth, which at this point in the day had about a 30 min wait so it felt less of a waste! We then moved on to Mission Space for our 2nd FP, we are sure that this ride is less intense than it used to be!
We had some time until our next FP so we did Ellen's energy show, I thought it was quite funny that they kept reminding you that it would take 45 minutes…! I had low expectations for this attraction as lots of people say it’s a waste of time.
It was mega hot though so we were pleased for an opportunity to cool down. At the beginning I was quite impressed, especially with the dinosaurs. Unfortunately though the dinosaurs were the high point…it was almost as if they spent the whole budget on the dinosaurs and then had to finish it off with screens instead!
We used our final FP at Test Track – no photo though as for some reason our magicbands didn’t pick it up. I meant to send an email to track it down but forgot…! From this point on we did scan our bands on each ride (even though you shouldn’t need to), this meant some pictures appeared twice but better than missing it.
We were finished with rides today and so we headed over to the World Showcase. We started with Mexico and had a fun little boat ride as normal, I had been wanting a photo with Mexican Donald for ages so today we decided to wait for him. We actually had a fairly short wait, although he did take a quick break just before he got to us.
We walked the rest of the WS and took the boat back across to Hollywood Studios to collect the car.
We went back to the hotel for a little rest before dinner, we decided to head to an Outback this evening. We both had flat iron steaks with fries and couldn’t manage desserts.
We stopped at Walmart on the way back to the hotel to pick up some bottled water and some Sunny Delight for Rob….he had to have the giant bottle that only just fit in the hotel fridge! Amazingly they had chip and pin at Walmart which was unexpected!
Costs:
Parking $17
Water and juice Walmart $12.64 (PIN verified)
Sci-fi breakfast $124.48
2 x soda $6.50
2 drinks $5.94
Outback dinner $50.54
Today we were having our Star Wars breakfast at the Sci Fi restaurant. We were up at 7 and arrived at Hollywood Studios at around 8.50.
It was quite busy getting into the park and it took us about 10 mins to get through. We had some time before our reservation so we decided to have a ride on Star Tours first, there was no wait and we saw a sequence that we hadn’t seen before.
We headed over to breakfast and had our photo taken with Darth Vader and Boba Fett, Darth was really intimidating!
We were seated in our car and had a little bit of a wait before our drinks arrived. Our pastries arrived and they were ok, not amazing. I ordered the Vader waffle and Rob had sausage, bacon and eggs. I quite enjoyed mine but Rob thought his could have been better.
We did have some brilliant character interactions during our meal; I had brought along a pin to trade with the jawas – initially I got a light up mermaid hair accessory but later rob traded it again and I ended up with some beads!
Slightly annoyingly we missed Greedo on the way around and so we asked if we could get a photo before we left; our server said that this was fine but the character handler was very reluctant – it seemed she thought we had somehow sneaked in and were trying to get photos without actually eating.
That was odd but we did eventually get our photo, overall the experience was worth the cost as it saved waiting for the characters in the heat but I wouldn’t go just for the food.
After breakfast we headed to Epcot by boat as we were planning on spending the next day at Hollywood Studios. We arrived at around 1130 and headed to Nemo, we waited around 15 minutes I think.
Then we headed into The Land and the Circle of Life show was just starting – we found this to be an odd experience as Disney the massive corporation told us how we all need to be more environmentally aware! We then had a little float around Living with the Land.
We used our first FP at Spaceship Earth, which at this point in the day had about a 30 min wait so it felt less of a waste! We then moved on to Mission Space for our 2nd FP, we are sure that this ride is less intense than it used to be!
We had some time until our next FP so we did Ellen's energy show, I thought it was quite funny that they kept reminding you that it would take 45 minutes…! I had low expectations for this attraction as lots of people say it’s a waste of time.
It was mega hot though so we were pleased for an opportunity to cool down. At the beginning I was quite impressed, especially with the dinosaurs. Unfortunately though the dinosaurs were the high point…it was almost as if they spent the whole budget on the dinosaurs and then had to finish it off with screens instead!
We used our final FP at Test Track – no photo though as for some reason our magicbands didn’t pick it up. I meant to send an email to track it down but forgot…! From this point on we did scan our bands on each ride (even though you shouldn’t need to), this meant some pictures appeared twice but better than missing it.
We were finished with rides today and so we headed over to the World Showcase. We started with Mexico and had a fun little boat ride as normal, I had been wanting a photo with Mexican Donald for ages so today we decided to wait for him. We actually had a fairly short wait, although he did take a quick break just before he got to us.
We walked the rest of the WS and took the boat back across to Hollywood Studios to collect the car.
We went back to the hotel for a little rest before dinner, we decided to head to an Outback this evening. We both had flat iron steaks with fries and couldn’t manage desserts.
We stopped at Walmart on the way back to the hotel to pick up some bottled water and some Sunny Delight for Rob….he had to have the giant bottle that only just fit in the hotel fridge! Amazingly they had chip and pin at Walmart which was unexpected!
Costs:
Parking $17
Water and juice Walmart $12.64 (PIN verified)
Sci-fi breakfast $124.48
2 x soda $6.50
2 drinks $5.94
Outback dinner $50.54
