frenchieSteven
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Hello everyone and welcome here for my first trip report of my first time in Disneyworld.
After more than a month back from my trip I finally take the time to start this. I want to do this before going to Disneyland Paris so I won't compare the two parks (that will be for another topic). So I have to hurry up because I'll be there in a week and 2 days.
It's my first big post so most of you don't know me yet : I'm Steven, I'm 30 (was 29 during my trip), I'm french and I'm a Disney fan.
And here I am :
I just said I'm a Disney fan and I've been one from a long time but I didn't know it before my trip. I knew I like Disney, I loved the music from the movies (frozen, lion king, aladdin...). And that's all that I knew. But now that I'm back I realize that it was more than just that, I mean all my wallpapers on my phone, my computer, my computer at work are Disney pictures. At work we all have a little avatar that we put on a board near the tasks that we are working on and mine is the Genie. And who planned a Disneyworld trip if he is not a fan. So now I know I am and that's really great, I enjoy everything thing even better than before
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As a french I already had some experiences with Disney Parks, after all we have Disneyland Paris. But I've only been there two times, once when I was a child with my parents and brothers, like when I was ten maybe. And the second time I was a student and we went with some friends from college, I was around twenty so it was almost ten years ago. In this two trips to Disneyland Paris I've never done Walt Disney Studio (the first time it was not open yet I think). So my experiences was small and far.
So why did I decide to go to Disneyworld. I have to bring you back to a previous trip I made to explain : back in october or november 2012, on an impulse I decided to book a trip for New York City for Christmas 2012. My first real trip outside of France, alone. And it was amazing, and when I got back home I had an opportunity to do a second trip in NYC on may 2013. And then I decided that I should see NYC once a year. So came 2014 and I was wondering what time to go, and it was easy to decide, I turned 30 the 31st of december, so I said "ok I can do my birthday/new year's eve on times square, nothing can be bigger for a 30th birthday", and it was being in NYC in 2014 and 2015 all in one trip ^^. That was decided but not booked yet, and the more I was thinking about this trip to come the more I had the idea that it should be a two weeks trip with another destination the first week (so the Christmas week).
But where to go before New York? You already know the answer, but I didn't know it, at first I was thinking to go to Canada, because I want to live there someday (I'm actually waiting for my visa but it's a very long process) so I could have visited it first. "Ok so I'll go to Montreal for Christmas", but then "what will I do a whole week there?", and then "where else could I go? what would be crazy enough for me?", and that's when my sleepy Disney side woke up and remembered me that there was a Disneyworld in Florida. So I began to look into it, and it was soon obvious where I was gonna spend my Christmas week.
And that's where this report can really start, sorry for this big introduction without picture (it's hard to take a photo of what's going on in my brain).
And now start the preparation of this amazing trip.
I spent a lot of time on the internet, on Disneyworld website first, it was clear that I couldn't afford to stay on-site, and one of my goal during this trip was to meet people, so I tried airbnb, and find something in Celebration, never heard of this town before but after searching a little I thought that it seemed to be a really beautiful place to stay, and pretty close to the parks. And I discovered disboards.com looking to maybe meet some people while I'll be in the park. One question that came up when I was planning this Christmas week was : should I take a 4 or a 5 days ticket. I was there from saturday the 20th (more in the night between saturday and sunday) and saturday the 27th (and I knew I was spending most of this day in the airport), so I really had 6 full days there from sunday to friday, and I knew that I was pretty sensitive to jetlag so I was wondering if I should keep my two first days in a calm, just visiting the area around or just one. I asked around me and everyone said that 5 days was a too long time to spend in the parks. So finally I decided to take a 5 days ticket, not just because they told me otherwise, but that was what my instinct told me to do, I wanted to do the 4 parks and I knew that doing Magic Kingdom in only one day coudn't be enough for me.
I stop here with the preparation, there's many things I could had like the choice of my fastpass+ but I will include that during the report.
Now the journey begin (yes it's for real this time).
I will be very quick with the travel part, I woke up really early on the 20th of december, took a train at 6am to the airport in Paris (3 hours of train), everything went well at the airport and hop I'm on the plane. There's no direct flight from Paris to Orlando, the cheapest I found was with a stop of 5 hours in Chicago, well two hours when I booked the flight but two weeks before the hours of the flight from Chicago to Orlando was changed by the airline (I wasn't really happy about that, I was supposed to be in Orlando at 6pm and now it was 11pm, that's late but there was nothing I could do). I don't know what happened to me on this plane, I was a little sick at first and I coudn't sleep at all, so when I arrived in Chicago I was really bad, tired and mostly dehydrated, and it was getting worse everyhour, I was scared of missing my second flight because I was spending my time in the restroom passing some water on my face but as soon as I was leaving the restroom I felt bad and I didn't know if I could just stand in line before boarding. But I manage to do it, asked for a glass of water as soon as I was on the plane and forced me to sleep during this flight. And I finally arrived in Orlando (one hour late so after midnight), took a cab to Celebration and got there at 1am (so it was sunday already), met my host and went to sleep like 10 minutes after.
Here is the end of this introduction, soon there will be pictures, starting with my first day on the next post. Sorry this one is so long, and a little messy. I hope there are too much mistakes in my english (my english is still a work in progress).
The fist day is coming soon.
After more than a month back from my trip I finally take the time to start this. I want to do this before going to Disneyland Paris so I won't compare the two parks (that will be for another topic). So I have to hurry up because I'll be there in a week and 2 days.
It's my first big post so most of you don't know me yet : I'm Steven, I'm 30 (was 29 during my trip), I'm french and I'm a Disney fan.
And here I am :
I just said I'm a Disney fan and I've been one from a long time but I didn't know it before my trip. I knew I like Disney, I loved the music from the movies (frozen, lion king, aladdin...). And that's all that I knew. But now that I'm back I realize that it was more than just that, I mean all my wallpapers on my phone, my computer, my computer at work are Disney pictures. At work we all have a little avatar that we put on a board near the tasks that we are working on and mine is the Genie. And who planned a Disneyworld trip if he is not a fan. So now I know I am and that's really great, I enjoy everything thing even better than before
.As a french I already had some experiences with Disney Parks, after all we have Disneyland Paris. But I've only been there two times, once when I was a child with my parents and brothers, like when I was ten maybe. And the second time I was a student and we went with some friends from college, I was around twenty so it was almost ten years ago. In this two trips to Disneyland Paris I've never done Walt Disney Studio (the first time it was not open yet I think). So my experiences was small and far.
So why did I decide to go to Disneyworld. I have to bring you back to a previous trip I made to explain : back in october or november 2012, on an impulse I decided to book a trip for New York City for Christmas 2012. My first real trip outside of France, alone. And it was amazing, and when I got back home I had an opportunity to do a second trip in NYC on may 2013. And then I decided that I should see NYC once a year. So came 2014 and I was wondering what time to go, and it was easy to decide, I turned 30 the 31st of december, so I said "ok I can do my birthday/new year's eve on times square, nothing can be bigger for a 30th birthday", and it was being in NYC in 2014 and 2015 all in one trip ^^. That was decided but not booked yet, and the more I was thinking about this trip to come the more I had the idea that it should be a two weeks trip with another destination the first week (so the Christmas week).
But where to go before New York? You already know the answer, but I didn't know it, at first I was thinking to go to Canada, because I want to live there someday (I'm actually waiting for my visa but it's a very long process) so I could have visited it first. "Ok so I'll go to Montreal for Christmas", but then "what will I do a whole week there?", and then "where else could I go? what would be crazy enough for me?", and that's when my sleepy Disney side woke up and remembered me that there was a Disneyworld in Florida. So I began to look into it, and it was soon obvious where I was gonna spend my Christmas week.
And that's where this report can really start, sorry for this big introduction without picture (it's hard to take a photo of what's going on in my brain).
And now start the preparation of this amazing trip.
I spent a lot of time on the internet, on Disneyworld website first, it was clear that I couldn't afford to stay on-site, and one of my goal during this trip was to meet people, so I tried airbnb, and find something in Celebration, never heard of this town before but after searching a little I thought that it seemed to be a really beautiful place to stay, and pretty close to the parks. And I discovered disboards.com
looking to maybe meet some people while I'll be in the park. One question that came up when I was planning this Christmas week was : should I take a 4 or a 5 days ticket. I was there from saturday the 20th (more in the night between saturday and sunday) and saturday the 27th (and I knew I was spending most of this day in the airport), so I really had 6 full days there from sunday to friday, and I knew that I was pretty sensitive to jetlag so I was wondering if I should keep my two first days in a calm, just visiting the area around or just one. I asked around me and everyone said that 5 days was a too long time to spend in the parks. So finally I decided to take a 5 days ticket, not just because they told me otherwise, but that was what my instinct told me to do, I wanted to do the 4 parks and I knew that doing Magic Kingdom in only one day coudn't be enough for me.I stop here with the preparation, there's many things I could had like the choice of my fastpass+ but I will include that during the report.
Now the journey begin (yes it's for real this time).
I will be very quick with the travel part, I woke up really early on the 20th of december, took a train at 6am to the airport in Paris (3 hours of train), everything went well at the airport and hop I'm on the plane. There's no direct flight from Paris to Orlando, the cheapest I found was with a stop of 5 hours in Chicago, well two hours when I booked the flight but two weeks before the hours of the flight from Chicago to Orlando was changed by the airline (I wasn't really happy about that, I was supposed to be in Orlando at 6pm and now it was 11pm, that's late but there was nothing I could do). I don't know what happened to me on this plane, I was a little sick at first and I coudn't sleep at all, so when I arrived in Chicago I was really bad, tired and mostly dehydrated, and it was getting worse everyhour, I was scared of missing my second flight because I was spending my time in the restroom passing some water on my face but as soon as I was leaving the restroom I felt bad and I didn't know if I could just stand in line before boarding. But I manage to do it, asked for a glass of water as soon as I was on the plane and forced me to sleep during this flight. And I finally arrived in Orlando (one hour late so after midnight), took a cab to Celebration and got there at 1am (so it was sunday already), met my host and went to sleep like 10 minutes after.
Here is the end of this introduction, soon there will be pictures, starting with my first day on the next post. Sorry this one is so long, and a little messy. I hope there are too much mistakes in my english (my english is still a work in progress).
The fist day is coming soon
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, I decided to buy one new pin each day in a park. And the two others, Minnie and the padlock, were trade not with cast members but with two child who asked me to trade while I was sitting near Prince Charming Regal Carrousel.
