Hong Kong – Melbourne
As it was our last day today, we woke up reasonably early to pack, get organised, and check out before heading to the park. I planned to be there for opening again. Unfortunately DH was having some issues organising the next part of his holiday (he was going onto Thailand to visit a friend), so we didn’t make it again.
We decided to just have a quick breakfast at the Hollywood & Dine, which was kind of cafeteria style. DH had a made-to-order breakfast of noodles and eggs with chicken wings (which we both thought was kind of weird as a breakfast food). I just had a selection of fruit, yoghurt and juice from the fridge. I had left my camera in the room, so didn’t get any photos of the breakfast or the restaurant. It was definitely a quick service kind of place, but perfectly adequate for a quick breakfast on the way to the park.
Eventually we were ready to check out, so did that and caught the shuttle bus to the park (since we had our suitcases we decided it would be easier). There was no line for check out, and the shuttle bus pulled up just as we were getting to the bus stop.
First thing we did when we got to the park was stow our luggage. It was very quick and easy to do, and cost us HK$60 for each case. Well worth it for the convenience and time saved not having to go back to the hotel.
Soon we were in, and heading towards Winnie the Pooh. You may have noticed that I didn’t ever go back with my fastpass the previous day, and we thought it would be quieter not long after opening. We were in luck, only a 15 minute wait. So we jumped in line.
Then we were boarding our honeypot and bouncing along with Tigger! I did attempt to take photos on the ride, but failed miserably.
We exited through the shop. There were some specials in this shop last time I was there, so I had a quick look. There were specials again, but nothing that was of particular interest to me.
By the time we were exiting Pooh, it was nearly time for Fantasy Gardens to open.
We decided to have a bite to eat while we were waiting, and made our way to Clopin’s Festival of Foods.
We got a Schizuan (no idea how that is spelt lol!) beef between us, and watched the teacups while we were eating.
Then it was time to head back to Fantasy Gardens. The characters hadn’t all arrived yet, but I thought we may as well go around in order, so we lined up in Minnie’s pavilion. Soon enough she arrived, and there were only a couple of people in front of us in the line. The handlers saw my anniversary button and started singing happy birthday lol! I had long given up trying to correct people so I just went with it. But then they saw that DH had one too, and got very confused. We explained to them that it was actually our anniversary, which caused much amusement to Minnie, who had a good giggle (well, made lots of giggling gestures anyway). I had photos on my own first, but after learning about our anniversary, they made DH get in the picture too and got us to have a kiss.
Next up was Pooh, who also had a very short line! I hadn’t met Pooh before, so it was quite exciting for me!
We decided to give Mickey a miss, since we have lots of photos with him. The next pavilion was for Mulan, but she must have been on holidays while we were there, and Donald was there in his Chinese outfit instead. DH wanted to go straight to Goofy, so we skipped Donald and went to Goofy first.
Next we went back to Donald, and just walked straight up to him as there was no line at all! I felt a bit sorry for him!
There was a showing of the Golden Mickeys coming up, so we made our way out of the gardens and over to the Golden Mickeys theatre.
On the way out, we stopped to have a look at the official photos (as you may have remembered that I had vowed to buy one if we saw them again). We ended up getting one of the Minnie ones where we had a kiss, as we thought it was a nice souvenir of our 1st anniversary. We also got some keyrings with one of the Pooh photos on it. It took about 10 minutes to process the keyrings, then we made our way to the theatre.
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