Day 5 Discover Hong Kong: Disneyland

Like other travelers, we also included Disneyland as part of our itinerary.

How to Go to Hong Kong Disneyland?

We utilized Hong Kong MTR to go to Disneyland. 

The trains was from Tung Chung station to Sunny Bay station followed by Hong Kong Disneyland Resort line. The trains run every few minutes daily from early morning until late night  

The train to Disneyland was Mickey Mouse themed 

The handler bars were also in Mickey Mouse heads

Finally we arrived

A clean shot as not much visitors in 9 am 

Since we arrived there early, we managed to see the opening ceremony of Disneyland. 

colorful Mickey Mouse head of flowers 

1) Main Street, U.S.A

The first attractions we visited was main street U.S.A. 

All the shops in the U.S.A. street made me felt I was not in Hong Kong anymore 

The closer looks of the shops. Most of the souvenirs outlets were at main street U.S.A.

2) Fantasyland

 Here's sleeping beauty's castle. It's the icon for the Fantasyland  

Cinderella Carousel looked very grand 

It's a 4D Mickey Mouse show

3) Tomorrow Land

Naruto became driver and I was the passengers. To Naruto, driving this children car was easy as ABC. 

4) Toy Story Land

Picture was downloaded from Google images. Giant Woody said hi with us 

Also grabbed from Google images. Parachute drop appeared in TVB Hong Kong frequently. The male character hold female character's hands tightly in case she was freaking out. This time I went with Naruto, she can't like the male character hold my hands and assured me.

  I'm not physically and mentally prepared in enjoying such speedy ride. I was getting older and not going to take risk anymore

Toilets in Toy Story land were made from huge scrabbles tiles. 

Naruto so daring to imitate "army guy" 

5) Disneyland Parade

All the Disney characters perfomed in the parade. I admitted I was not recognized all the Disney characters. 

Which one was your favorite Disney character? Mine was Donald Duck and Minnie Mouse

I wished to hug Minnie Mouse but didn't had such opportunities 

Winnie the Pooh 

Simba and friends

Cinderella. 

6) Adventureland: Tarzan's Tree House

Tarzan tree houses was part of the adventureland.

We took jungle river cruise to reach Tarzan's tree house

Looked like real trees and lushes 

It depicted the story of Tarzan 

7) Grizzly Gulch 

The kids was so cute in playing the water shooting . 

Oh my god, Naruto was on jail.Who's going to save her???

8) It's a Small World

It's a boat ride across the  joyful singing children around the world 

Although it’s my first time went to Disneyland, I lost it’s magical feeling. I felt “that’s it” for Hong Kong Disneyland. Perhaps it was due to:

• The rides and attractions were few. We can completed all rides and attractions in the afternoon when we went there in the early morning.
• The queues for cartoons characters for photographing extreme long. Further, these cartoons characters were not available for all day long for photo taking. 
•   Lack of food options. Mostly were fast foods and Indian foods.
• Dislike the promotion strategies in selling the Disneyland T-shirts. For example, the selling tags mentioned that all the long sleeves Disneyland T-shirts had discount. Meanwhile, the short sleeves T-shirt no discount. The time we went to Disneyland was autumn but still sunny and hot day. Obviously, everyone grabbed for short sleeves T-shirts.  Disneyland definitely earned much for that reason.

Despite above shortcomings, it’s priceless to see the kids’ reactions as they experienced the rides, show and parks for their first times. They were so overjoyed when taking pictures with the Disneyland characters. In the same way, Disneyland characters hugged and kissed them.  Besides that, the kids demanded the parents to buy Disneyland souvenirs and the parents always restricted the kids to buy more. Some parents even monitor and control the kids’ naughty behavior from times to times. All these kids’ reactions and their interactions with parents can’t describe by words. It did connected my own childhood memory. Although my parents didn’t bring me to Disneyland, I’m always grateful to what they gave me until today.