June Disney Trip (with a 16 year old's view!)

Today, we have another guest blogger.  The Birthday girl herself!  Unfortunately, she missed the memo about having pictures to accompany it!  When she writes for me, I normally edit it pretty heavily. But this time she asked me not to...so I am granting her this one wish.   

Starting next week, we will be having some posts about cruising!  One of my favorite subjects!

Disney trip June 2K16

June 18^th 2016

     This Disney trip was for my birthday. I took my friend Cassie, and my niece Alyssa- along with my mom who actually paid for the trip. We decided to stay at Port Orleans French Quarter this time, because it was very friendly and clean compared to other less expensive on-property resorts. The first day we got there, the check in was pretty fast. We had a nice room and friendly service from pretty much everyone at the resort. That night we went to “Ohana’s” for dinner at the Polynesian resort. The food was amazing (especially the wantons)….

June 19^th 2016

Today was actually my birthday (and father’s day)

First we went to church (we got lost on the way so we were late), and after that we headed back to the hotel and then to animal kingdom. We ate at Pizzafari and then rode all the rides that we liked. We didn’t have enough time to see shows though, considering we had to be at Hollywood studios for our fast passes. We got on the bus and went to Hollywood studios around 2:30 or so. We rode the basics first, which were tower of terror and rock’n’rollercoaster. Then, we walked over to toy story mania and got to ride in the new section of the ride. After that ride, we decided it would be almost time for our dinner reservation. We were late getting to dinner at Sci-Fi drive in, but it didn’t matter anyway because the food was disgusting. I mean the milkshakes and water bottles were good, but the actual food would’ve been better if it wasn’t raw. Literally all of our burgers/steaks were reddish in the middle. After dinner, Cassie and I went over to tower of terror while mom and Alyssa went to the voyage of the little mermaid. We rode tower of terror 4 times in a row. Then we went back to the hotel and basically collapsed. We were exhausted

June 20^th 2016

 Today was our Epcot Day… aka the day I could finally spend my money on cool but useless things from around the world

The first objective for the day was to find a ride with a small line that didn’t require a fast pass. All of our fast passes were for after lunch, excluding spaceship earth

We figured since it was Cassie’s first time at Disney world that she didn’t want to be the only one to be having all the first experiences. So we went to mission space. I had ridden it before, but only on the green mode so we picked orange for the first time. The wait wasn’t long for the ride but we saw a lot of people backing out and deciding not to ride, so that made us a little nervous. When we got on the ride and honestly it wasn’t that bad. When we got off it just made our legs super wobbly. It was getting close to lunchtime so we chose to head over to the counter service restaurant in Mexico. The food was absolutely amazing to be honest. We had a reservation to go to at the beach club’s beaches and cream for a Kitchen Sink ice cream. It was huge and we obviously did not eat it all. After our ice cream we went to Soarin’ and test track, which were equally fun. It was time to head to our dinner reservation so we went to Italy to eat tutto italia, which was really good. We didn’t stay for fireworks because we were too tired but we still had fun.

June 21^st 2016

Magic kingdom day

It was a pretty straightforward day all around, even though it was our last day

We had a pass for the early morning magic so that was cool. Except it was basically useless. It only got us in 45 minutes early than it normally would. We got to ride the mine train, and peter pan early so that took care of that. We went to Space Mountain and a couple of other rides before we went to lunch at “Be our guest”. The food was amazing, no surprise, and it came out fast because we pre-ordered. We rode more rides, saw a few shows, and got some snacks then watched the electrical parade at 10. Cassie and I decided to stay for the extra magic hours but ended up leaving anyway because our feet hurt. All in all it turned out to be a good day at my favorite park

In conclusion, the trip was fun. Hot, but fun. There were a few bumps along the road but nothing that we couldn’t fix relatively easy. I rate the trip10/10, and would definitely do again.

 

Guest Blogger

You are in for a treat today!  The Grand Princess is writing today's blog and supplying her own photos for it as well.  This is roughly her 12th trip to Disney, and in a little over a week she will be 9.  She is the Diva part in the title of Two Teens and a Diva...Enjoy!

Today we went to Disney's Animal Kingdom it was Bri's birthday. We rode Mt. Everest, It was fun! We then went to the Kilimanjaro safari, we saw so many animals. I had a great day.

Today we went to Disney's Magic Kingdom. We did the early magic hours it was nice because there was no people .First we rode the minetrain it was very fun! We then rode the tea cups we got dizzy, but it was still fun.

Today we went to Epcot. We first rode Soarin' since it was new the line was out the door, but it was worth it. We then went around the world, it was fun.

Today we're leaving, I had a great time, I would go again.

Two Teens and a Diva do Disney --part 3!

And, finally we come to the last day of our park days.  This one started extra early.  We were doing the Extra Morning hours at Magic Kingdom.  Our instructions told us to be at the front gate to enter at 7:45.  The day before this as well as the day after this one, the park opened at 8 am.  Today’s opening was 9.

Castle as we walked in 

We arrived and were instructed to wait in a single file line.  Our bands were scanned and we were given a special band to show we were allowed to be riding and eating breakfast.  So far so good.  With the exception of the single file line.  Remember, we had already been scanned, so basically we were already ‘in’ the park.  Already through the turnstiles, just not yet inside the arches.  And we waited.

And waited.  And waited.  In a single file line, we waited.

Then, surprise it is now 8 am and they FINALLY let us in.

With only a few rides open, it was our chance to ride those rides, leaving the rest of the day to tackle the remaining part of the park.  We head to Seven Dwarfs.  One of my favorite rides in Magic Kingdom.  The four of us walk into the ride area.  They ask us how many are in our party and we say 4.  They send us into a line to ride next.  Two in each car.  So far our wait was zero minutes.  As we went in, I notice the opening in the line to go for repeat rides.  So far so GREAT! 

The first two of us get in the ride car…and when the second two go to get in…nope sorry.  There are some Cast Members who are here to ride!  Yes, the cast members got to ride breaking up our party!   Outrageous!  Since they only have one train running that morning, we waited until the first part of our party returned and tried to speak to them to let them know to wait…and then we ride.  We come back and our party is no where to be seen!  They had not heard us tell them to wait, and did not know about the return to ride again!

By the time we find them, the wait time is now really up there, so we head to the next ride.  We then rode Peter Pan and Winnie the Pooh.  Guess what we now hear?  The opening ceremony for rope drop!  And wait, they got to come in at 8:40.  We had exactly 40 minutes in the park prior to opening.  We decide to head over for breakfast at Pinocchio Haus.  Even though I put on the reservation that one of us was gluten free, there were no gluten free options for breakfast other than a few pieces of fruit. 

So, my review of the early morning magic at Magic Kingdom is a complete bust! For the price we paid it was not something I would recommend or sell to a client. 

From Little Mermaid

Small World

This is also our Be Our Guest lunch.  I will give Be Our Guest lunch a big 5 stars out of 4!  It never disappoints!  A little side note.  We added a fourth person to our trip sort of last minute.  I was unable to change our 3 to 4 people.  I ended up getting a second reservation with only one person with a five minute difference in time.  While in theory this should have gone smoothly, in actuality, the cashier had a bit of problems with it. We had preordered.  He could not figure out how to charge the dining plan.  We ended up having to give him our order all over again!  So, while this will work, be prepared for a bit of extra time or effort.  While not a major deal, thought I would mention.

Shortly after lunch, the teens decided their feet hurt (remember me saying that would come into play?).  They voted overwhelmingly to return to the room to swim.  (It was already in the 90’s). 

We headed back to the room, where the teens proceeded to nap for three hours while I took the Grand Princess to the pool! I obviously have the only two teens in the world that would rather nap than to explore Disney!  LOL.

We did end up back at Disney for our final Fast Passes and to have a counter service dinner at Cosmic Rays.  The girls managed to ride every single ride they wanted to.  I managed to get a lot of people watching in. Over all we had a blast!

The Grand Princess and I headed back to the room by 9pm.  It had been a very long day for us, and I still needed to get things packed because we had an early morning breakfast reservation at Polynesian.  The teens of course decided to stay for the fireworks.  The park was open until midnight.  

They ended up leaving the park shortly after we did!  What can I say?  We are a bunch of party animals!