I’ll delve into each day in more detail through this pre-trippie, but at a high level, we will be spending:
2 days in Hong Kong – one will be the day we arrive so mostly covering Central, the second will be Big Buddha/Lantau and Kowloon
1.5 days in Hong Kong Disneyland (the other ½ will be travel to Shanghai, and possibly Disney Dim Sum at the Crystal Lotus restaurant)
The castle is undergoing some renovations and as at now they haven't announced when it will be open.
This is what it did look like:
This is what it will look like:
This is what it currently looks like
So keeping our fingers crossed on that one...mostly excited about Iron Man Experience, Ant Man and the Wasp: Nano Battle, Big Grizzly Mountain, meeting Cookie (Duffy's pal exclusive to Hong Kong), and Mystic Manor
Ooh, and snacks
1 day in Shanghai - all the sights!
2 days in Shanghai Disneyland
Mostly excited about Tron, Pirates of the Caribbean, Voyage to Crystal Grotto, and Buzz Lightyear Planet Rescue.
Ooh, and snacks
2 days in Tokyo - all the sights (or lots of them anyway)!
2 days in Tokyo Disneyland
Mostly excited about Enchanted Tiki Room with Stitch, It's a Small World, Pooh's Hunny Hunt, and Monsters Inc Ride & Go Seek.
Ooh, and snacks
2 days in Tokyo Disney Sea
Mostly excited about Toy Story Midway Mania, Tower of Terror, Aquatopia, Raging Spirits, and Indiana Jones.
Ooh, and snacks
... spot the theme there!
And souvenier shopping of course...have you seen the merch in the Asian parks?!
But Journey to the Center of the Earth will be closed
Some people will think we’re crazy going all that way and not seeing more of the countries themselves, but for us, this trip is about Disney and completing the 6 Castle Challenge (hence the name of this pretrippie/trippie), and experiencing some of those new cultures. We will squeeze as much as we can out of our city days, but if we like what we see and experience, we can always go back. We have already said that we’ll likely go back to Tokyo because there is so much more to see there, e.g. Osaka, Kyoto. This trip will certainly give us a taste though.