KY TRAVEL

Tokyo Trip Part 5 - Disneyland X DisneySea Day 3

2010-08-25T23:00:00.000-07:00

Alright, I was a little plain on Day 1 and 2 but not Day 3 anymore! Guess what? We got a Mickey Robe, LOL. All set and let's go~

Then I realized that it was actually quite hot with the robe on.

We rode on the Disney Resort Cruiser (a bus that takes guests from hotel to the station) to the Disney Resort Line.

Look look! Why so happening over there? Oh my god, look at the line.

Only then I found out we got a big star over there! Mickey in the tracker suit!

Perfect spot for the kids on a Summer day.

Perfect spot for us on a Summer day. The Tower of Terror~!

Warning! Long story short, Ride if you Dare. Say No if you Afraid.

First thing we did that day was to get a FastPass for Tower of Terror. A fast pass was a pass which we could book the time to ride a attraction (time is fixed by the system). It cut down the waiting a lot. However, only limited number available. They ran out of the fast pass on Day 2, that's why we left this attraction until Day 3.

As you could see. We gotta come back for the ride during 6.10pm-7.10pm, else the tickets would be voided.

Creepy?

Scary?

We should know when we came back later. Hehehe. After we finished our first mission, we started walking around the theme park, looking for unexplored places.

New York Deli - look at the Mile Long Sandwich on the billboard.

The very awesome Tower of Terror. It would be nice if we still had this old style hotel around.

The Mexican Band at the riverside restaurant at Lost River Delta.

Spotted, Mickey Hood!

We were in Mermaid Lagoon again. She just couldn't get enough.

The ice cream stall - Mermaid Style.

Arabian Coast

Some walls from Rome. LOL

Awesome!

Gosh! It's so freaking heavy! I needed help from Hercules to move this! Alright kinda lame, stop it KY.

Opps~ The unexplored area on Day 1.

Hey~ Ho~ Mickey Robe for sale~~

Oh my god~ There's a pretty angel at the study.

They got an old school telephone too in the shop.

Awhile later, we ran into Pinocchio!

I did not remember his name but he was from Pinocchio too.

Check out the volcano!

We were almost done in DisneySea. In fact the main purpose in DisneySea on Day 3 was to challenge Tower of Terror~

We then went to Maihama Station for a short walk, there were some shops / boutique there that Vic wanted to check out. After that, we took another route to Disneyland and entered from another entrance.

Dropped by a "hidden" Mickey Shop. It was quite big and complete with many souvenirs.

Oh, a big story book!

We missed this on the first day. This could be found at the entrance of every Disneyland in fact.

Donald Duck!

Who is this?? Wolf Robin Hood?

The crowd pleaser - Mickey Mouse.

Never failed to attract crowd huh?

Pinocchio's father. Why were you in Disneyland? Your lovely son was waiting for you at DisneySea. =p

Welcome once again people.

Our first Mission in Disneyland was to get the Reserve Ticket for the night show - Midsummer Night's Panic! And guess what? The way to get the ticket was from Lottery.

And there we went to the Lottery Room and TaDa! We were lucky enough! Row E, it was the front row!

Next, explore the unexplored. Toon Town!

Goofy was out of town!

Donald Duck's house.

Chip n' Dale - one of my favourite cartoon!

They lived on the tree. Duh~

Mickey's private limousine.

You could meet Mickey at his house but the queue was real long!

And this was Minnie's.

Toon Town with Toon Foods.

The Piggy Bank.

Overview of Toon Town.

Interesting enough. Each town got mineral water in its own theme.

Cinderella Castle.

Inside the Castle, there's a shop - Cinderella Crystal Slipper Shop that sells crystal and glass souvenirs, all very neat and nice.

Dream of many girls.

A demo of how these fine works were done. His skills were pretty cool.

What's Snow White doing outside the Cinderella Castle?

Right after that, we went to look for a spot for the Day Parade.

The Princesses were all so beautiful!

The Lion King

Lilo and Stitch were the Stars of Summer.

More pictures of the Parade on Vic's and My Facebook profile.

After the Parade. We rushed back to the courtyard of the Castle for the water splashing event - Cool the Heat! Gotta do some safeguard my bag first. We asked for big plastic bag from the store to "wrap" the backpack. LOL

C'mon! Let's COOL the HEAT!

You catch a glimpse of what happen at Cool the heat here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhRNpH11UsQ. They got a very clear view!

After that we went for a little shopping and then back to DisneySea for Tower of Terror!

Inside the Hotel Hightower was super creepy with the dim light and the creepy sound effects. All we could see was an old abandoned hotel with the hotel owner - Harrison Hightower III's antique collections. After the queue. We entered into a hall where the story of Hightower was showcasted:

After his expedition to Africa, Hightower brought home an idol by the name of Shiriki Utundu. He claimed that the natives were very unhappy to part with their beloved god and threatened him that it would curse him. On December 31, 1899, Hightower held a huge party, attended by many members of the press. There he boasted about how great he was for taking the idol and denied any claims to it being cursed and even went so far as to insult it. He even used the idols head to put out his cigarette. Around midnight, he entered the elevator to retire to his quarters at the top of the hotel. As the elevator neared the top, Shiriki Utundu came to life. The idol zapped him and the elevator, causing it to drop and crash at the bottom. When the elevator was finally pried open, only Hightower's hat and the idol were found. The hotel was then abandoned and left for many years, claimed by the locals to be haunted.

Unlike any other, this free fall tower brought us back to 1899 inside the elevator with simulation of the story behind the mysterious disappearance of Hightower. Inside, it was all dark. The elevator slowly brought us to the top where we could see how high we were through a broken window and when as the green light stroke, the elevator fell!! Half way through, we saw Shiriki Utundu and it fell again follwing his evil grin~

This was definitely the best ride in Tokyo Disneyland, apart from Indiana Jones! We missed 2 main rides - The StromRider and the Journey to the Center of the Earth (both under maintenance) but I thought, Tower of Terror made up the experience! Words couldn't describe the excitement. LOL. It was Genius Fun!

After Tower of Terror, we went back to Disneyland again for the Midsumme Night's Panic! It was hosted by Lilo and Stitch with plenty of dance and fun with the water splash! It started with just Lilo and Stitch then other Disney characters joined them for a dance. It was very fun with the song, light, water and fireworks!

Again, I share the YouTube link with you as we didn't take any photos. Check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlao_H95zB8

After the show. We ended our day / our Magic-filled Adventure at Tokyo Disneyland with souvenir shopping at the biggest store in Disneyland.

With 3 huge bag of souvenirs, we finally waved GoodBye to Tokyo Disneyland. See you soon~

...End of Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea Magic-filled Trip...

OMG. I so miss Tokyo Disneyland now.

Tokyo Trip Part 4 - DisneySEA

2010-08-21T23:29:00.000-07:00

You can't believe how excited we were as the day started. It was our 2nd Day at Tokyo Disneyland and today we gonna go to DisneySea (still Disney themed but with more adult rides).

Vic turned into Minnie Mouse!

We had our brunch buffet in the hotel. They had wide varieties and all tasted good. I tried most if not all of the vegetarian food and my favourite were the Margherita Pizza and the KY-made salad.

Hey, hey, check out this Japanese glutinous rice dumpling.

The desert of the day - Victoria Ice

The desert of the day 2 - Sheraton Penguin

3500 Yen per pax for the lunch. It was not very expensive for a Japan buffet meal, taking the fact that it was Sheraton @ Disneyland. Their common bento was like 500~700 Yen.

One thing good at Disneyland is that you don't have to line up for the tickets. You can book in advance and collect it at the Hotel or the check in counter.

We decided to extent our magic passport to 3 days. We couldn't get enough to enjoy the whole theme park! This was when the joke of the day started. I was asking the lady whether we could extend our tickets from 2 days to 3 days. I knew they couldn't catch what I was saying. So I pointed on the date and showed them 2 fingers (as in 2 days) and then showed them 3 fingers (as in 3 days). Guess what? She told me my tickets are for TO-day and I could enter the park. TWO days vs TO-day. We were there showing sign language for more than 5 minutes until she got us correctly. Phew~ I better brushed on my Japanese language before my next trip to Japan.

Ta da~ Tokyo DineySEA. Awesome globe, love it so much.

The Mediterranean Harbour - an Italian port city! When they say "Harbour", they really give you "Harbour", this is why I love Disneyland!

I'm so in love with this shot!

First thing that we did was shopping - Vic said I looked so common without any accessories. And here we were.

Mickey Head? Hat?

Mickey Wizard?

Cute huh?

And for the golfers.

This is what we call real THEMED park.

Look at the crowd who was waiting for the upcoming show. Despite the fact of this big crowd, the waiting for the famous attractions (rides) was still more than 60 minutes!

Gondola Ride at the Venice themed area.

Let's sail and venture the undiscovered part of the world.

The Mc Duck Department Store.

The Big Band Beat at the Broadway. This was one of my favourite show at DisneySea.

Broadway broadway!

The infamous Tower of Terror~~~ Common on the outside, creppy on the inside.

Gosh~~ The SS Columbia is one of two remaining turn-of-the-century excursion steamships in existence was right in front of my eyes!

And hell ya, Mickey Mouse was there too at the harbour, greeting us xD

Giant propeller!

Spotted, the Arabian Coast, place where Aladdin lived just across the sea.

Say Peace people! Sweat. >.<"

Port Discovery - the Marina of the future.

The Aquatopia - a boatride that moves and spins through a lagoon amid waterfalls and whirlpools. Quite a Kiddo ride but it was fun to ride in Summer because you would get WET on this ride!

The main attraction of Port Discovery - Storm Rider (a large-scale simulator ride) was down for maintenance. Too bad. It looked pretty cool from the outside.

While we walked into the Lost River Delta, we spotted an aircraft.

Yes, it was an aircraft! Looked like it belonged to Indiana Jones. LOL!

Temple of the Crystal Skull!

Time for a break! Time for an ice cream! Guess what we got?

We got a Sea Salt Ice Cream. It tasted weird on the first bite. Salty vanilla flavour. I don't think we got it back here. xD

Lost River Delta houses 2 exciting attractions - Indiana Jones and Raging Spirits. As usual, the waiting time for Indiana Jones was crazily long, so we decided to put it on hold till night. And we went for Raging Spirits!

Cursed cursed~

Warning! Warning! If you can't take it, please leave.

Opps, Arabian Coast - my favourite!! Aladdin was my favourite cartoon when I was YOUNG.

Photo Spot for Duffy~ Haha. (Duffy is doll that Minnie gives Mickey, it's like their love bear)

Hey hey where's my pretty Jasmine??

Sultan Jafar is messing with the folks.

Ahah! Jasmine!

Market place.

Can I have a Cheese Naan?

What's behind the door??

Oh yeah, the Magic lamp theater - a 3D experience with live show.

There's big stuff at this court - Bon Fire Dance (in conjunction with Bon Odori). Look at the poeple, they were there booking a perfect spot 2 hours before the party!

Mermaid Lagoon - Vic's favourite!

Palace of King Triton.

The King Triton.

This Palace is built indoor and under the ground to give an "under the sea" feeling.

The Mermaid Theatre which show casts Under the Sea - a musical show (based on Little Mermaid) featuring live actors - One of my favourite also.

Magical device to speak Triton Kingdom language xD It was actually a translator (Jap>Eng).

Look at this! A group of Japanese school girls spotted! Kawai! I think nobody will ponteng sekolah if our school girls dress like this as well. LOL!

Riverside Restaurant, did you notice there was actually a Mexican band singing~

The Sinbad Storybook Voyage. They used the similar concept to It's a Small World.

Many sexy belly dancers were there to entertain us.

It was about time for the DisneySea Nighttime Spectacular BraviSEAmo. A story where Fire and Water came to Harmony.

And as planned earlier. We went to Indiana Jones ride right after BraviSEAmo show! There was very short queue. How short? Waiting time = 5 minutes, short enough?

Woohoo~ We rode a Jeep and went through the Adventure with Indiana Jones to claim the Crystal Skull! PURE FUN!

The result of our ONE DAY VENTURE at DisneySEA.

Planning for Day3!

A little bit of night view.

Mermaid Lagoon

Mysterious Island - we hadn't got time to explore this port on Day 2.

SS Columbia

Tu~tu~

Tower of Terror!

Big Band Beat

End of Day 2

Tokyo Trip Part 3 - Disneyland (Night)

2010-08-15T08:35:00.000-07:00

Hey peeps~ Guess who’s back? Sorry for the long wait (if you were waiting, lol). Now let’s check out Dineyland @ Night.

Spotted! Vicky theKitty~

The night scene at Disney was spectacular. All the buildings were awesome with all the lights on. Unlike many theme parks, Disneyland attractions / rides were opened until 10pm, so we still could play all night long. But there’s something nobody would miss - The Disneyland Electro Night Parade!

Here it goes:

Cinderella

Snow White

Winnie the Pooh

The Candle from Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

Monster.INC


Cinderella, pretty as a princess

and her Prince Charming

After the night parade, many people went home right away. Some went shopping for souvenir and some went to play! In Japan, most of the shops close at 9pm. I thought they sort of used to go back home early. All the rides had no many people after the night parade . And so we took this chance to finish all the “pending” rides!

Never miss this! - Big Thunder Mine Train

The waiting time in the morning is about 60 minutes! But at night, it was not more than 10 minutes! Fast right.

Then we went for a flight with PeterPan.

It’s like a flight to Peter Pan’s world. It took us back to the story. Superb for Peter Pan fans.

Then we reached Queen Heart Banquet Hall - Restaurant with Alice in the Wonderland theme.

Po-po-po-po poker face~

One of my friend even cosplayed Queen Heart @ Comic Night organised by us lately.Presenting the Queen of Heart! Btw, March 2011 we will organize another seminar themed Uniform Night.

Another very cute attraction of Disneyland - Small Small World

Small Small World

The Big Book of Winnie the Pooh

Star Wars Ride

It's very cool inside. The place was decorated like the spaceship of Star Wars!

Monsters. Inc was very similar to Toy Story (Bugs Lightyear) attraction. It was a shotting game with movement.

Monsters. Inc

At night, the last event / show is Midsummer Night Panic. We gave it a pass on Day 1 and left it for the last day. But we caught the fireworks xD Just to share with you.

Thought it was quite short but it's a pretty nice. Let me share with you more night scenery.

Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse

Vic with Mickey Mouse

Resort Line @ Night

Mickey Mouse Themed Clock

That's all for the night. We went back to hotel for a rest. To be honest, it was very tiring after 1 whole day in Disneyland. But, it was REAL FUN too!!

Internet Area for Hotel Guest. This was where we FB-ing in the Hotel.

KY in Japanese bath robe.

And we ended the day with Supper on Bed.

Onion Ring with Chicken.

So long my friend. Time to get some sleep. =p

Super comfort night.

Next up DisneySea!

Tokyo Trip Part 2 - Disneyland (Day)

2010-08-02T10:21:00.000-07:00

Hey people, how are you doing? Let's continue our journey to Disneyland =)

After some rest at the hotel, we started our journey to the Disneyland. And here we are, waiting for the Resort Liner. The whole area is Disney themed, including the cabin!

Tu~tu~ Who wants to hop on the train to Disneyland?

Vic and I on Resort Liner

The interior of Disney Resort Liner

Disembarking from the train, the first thing that we saw was Disneyland Resort, freaking nice! 5 class, Disney themed (yes of course), from RM$1300 onwards but easily Full House. We can’t get a room here!

Took many shots but finally got this nice one. Hooray!

We took the 2 days pass. However, you may upgrade the tickets later on which we did.

The ticketing booth

For the birthday babies, you can get a special “Happy Birthday” sticker if your birthday is on the day that you go Disneyland. It is very simple, you just need to tell the Kawai Japanese at the counter that it is your birthday. But the BIG problem is it is not easy to communicate with the Kawai Japanese because all we know to speak is “Arigato gozaimasu”, “sim mi mase” and “kawai”. LOL.

Please excuse me if I spelled wrongly.

So I was there talking to this lady telling her that it was Vic’s birthday but she couldn’t catch what I was talking. I tried several times and she kept giving me the blur face. And suddenly the same thing crossed our mind, write “birthday” in Chinese! Because some Japanese words (Kanji) are similar to Chinese words. And so I asked for paper and pen and wrote “birthday” in Mandarin. BINGO! She understood what I was trying to bring across =) Apparently, she understood English but she couldn’t catch what we were saying.

And we got this, Deng Deng! With this, everywhere we go, they will wish Vic Happy Birthday in their high pitch + kawai voice and clap hands. Damn cute their expression.

The very hard-to-get Birthday Sticker

And here it is, the long awaited Disneyland!

I guess you will love more pictures, less talking. Some here we go, let’s the pictures do the talking.

What's up Disneyland!

Vic on the main street

Then we met with the Fairy!

We also see Alice running around

The main street

Vic on another shop. So excited with the design and effort.

Famous fashion store back in 1960's ?

2 of us

Wild duck is everywhere.

The Adventure Land. Build around story like Indiana Jones, Tarzan etc.

Mr Tarzan's three house.

Wth~ sleep in a tree house??

Then we saw this cute little boy and old man from Up.

Big Thunder Mountain roller coaster, this is a cool one!

Then, we dropped by Haunted Mansion, the creepy and scary mansion.

Main attraction of the day! Cinderella Castle. Isn’t it cool?

It’s very hard to find vegetarian foods in Disneyland. All they got are burgers, sandwiches, steaks, rice etc. There is one restaurant that serve vegetarian food only and they only got 1 selection, it’s a vegetarian meal combo. But it doesn’t suit Vic’s appetite. So no choice, we got ourselves french fries. Presenting all the way from Tokyo Disneyland - FRENCH FRIES - first meal in Disneyland.

Damn cute right the restaurant, the waiter also Kawai~

Next, we went to Tomorrow Land where Bug Lightyear and other Space creatures live in. Space Mountain is the main attraction. I quickly asked Vic to play this first, since we couldn’t take any fast pass until 1.30pm. From the outside, the queue looked short. But after the queue on the outdoor, there was another long queue indoor!

Disneyland is very smart, every ride is unique on its own theme. For example, for the Space Mountain, indoor is designed as if you are going into a huge Spaceship, waiting to be launched into the outer space. To give this superb ambience, they need to decorate many details. For that, they make sure of the huge area for the queue which not only helps Disneyland to manage the crowd but also impress them with the cool decoration!

Upon coming out from Space Mountain, we saw a theatre about to show cast “One Man’s Dream”. So lucky, no need to wait! Without further ado, we chiong into the theatre!

It's like a musical performance, filled with all sort of Disneyland characters.

Waiting for the show to kickstart!

Snow white and her prince <3

Mickey, Donald and Chip and Dale.

Even the Antz and Bugs also came to join the party.

Quite a nice show, full of joy, music and Disney characters. If you love music and dance, this is a must watch.

Next up Disneyland at Night!

Tokyo Trip Part 1 - The Journey

2010-07-26T09:45:00.000-07:00

I don't know why I have a special feeling towards Japan since I was young.

Maybe it's because of my dad's job? He works for a Japanese company where he will go to Japan almost every year.

Maybe it's because of the comic that my brother and I read since young? Dragonball and Doraemon are our favourites.

Maybe it’s because of the games that we used to play? Final Fantasy, Dragon Ball GT, Metal Gear Solid and Devil May Cry.

Maybe it's because of the food? Japanese food is my all-time favourite (even though I'm vegetarian now), Sushi, Cold Cha Soba and Tempura.

Whatever it is, Japan is one of the country that I love to go to. And it so happen that Tokyo got a Disneyland and there’s where Victoria (my girlfriend) love to go. So on her 20th birthday on July 2010, we decided to go to Tokyo.

And here we go:

Tokyo, here we come!!

We departed on the night of 13th July, so we spent Vic’s birthday (14th July) on flight. To give her a surprise, I purposely browsed through the duty free catalogue on our transit flight to Bangkok to check what she liked. I bought it secretly when she fell asleep and on our flight to Tokyo, I presented the present to her at 12am sharp. She was shocked and she always thought I was very bad at giving surprises (which in fact I was).

Pierre Cardin Jewelery Box

In flight meal

Souvenir from Thai Airways

And we finally arrived at Narita Airport after about 6 hours of flight.

Japan, here I come~~

Surprisingly, the outskirt of Narita Airport and so GREEN~

Before going anywhere, we checked out the toilet as "rumours rumours" their toilet very "IN". Yes, it was really cool and advance to the extent you could play some sound to muffle the 'dum dum" or "shhh shhh" toilet sound.

Luckily there was a guide that teach us how to use it xD

Our first destination was Disneyland. Equipped with the railway map, we started our journey to Tokyo Disneyland!

Note: From Narita Airport, there were few alternatives to go to Disneyland. You could take limousine, bus or railway.

I was freak out when I first saw the railway map. There were so many different lines!!

What do you think?? Crazy isn't it??

Though the railway lines were so complicated, Japanese could simply check "how to take the train" via few clicks on their phone! Cool!

Where to go? Which way to go?

Anyhow, we “dare dare” took the train to Maihama a.k.a. Disneyland Station. Guess what, after 45 minutes of “adventure”, we finally reached Maihama and headed straight to Tokyo Disney Resort Welcome Center to check in hotel and luggage.Luggage would be sent directly to our hotel room from here.

The Welcome Center where we checked in.

We then take the Resort Liner to Sheraton Hotel (Bayside Station).

Resort Liner Map

Our Resort Liner 2-Day Passes

Everything is in Disney Theme! Fantastic!

Dang dang dang dang! This is it – Sheraton Hotel, one of the Disneyland Official Hotel.

Sheraton Grande

Freaking nice hotel, complete with a garden, pool, cathedral, shopping, spa, restaurant etc.

Pool @ Sheraton

Cathedral @ Sheraton

Spotted! A pair of couple taking photo shot @ Sheraton

Garden @ Sheraton

Lobby @ Sheraton

Level 8 @ Sheraton, with special themed

After checking out almost all the places, we check in to the room at Level 8 (special themed)!

The SUPER comfort room!


See view from our room

Free gift from the hotel =)

The amenities

And Vic started her camwhore session!!

Then I joined the camwhore too!


Super windy, chilling!

After a quick bath, we started our journey to Disneyland. Excited! And guess what, I spotted my dream car - Porsche 911 Carrera! Cool! Good start for the Journey to Disneyland!

To be continued ... ...

Next up! Disneyland Day 1!

Cinderella Castle