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| Enjoying the lovely view and atmosphere from the window sill |
I really didn't want to leave our Beauty and the Beast room but we had to if we wanted to make it for Happy 15 priority entry for Disney Hotel guests.
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| Tokyo Disneyland Hotel and Tokyo Disneyland Station in the morning |
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| Tokyo Disneyland Station in the morning |
We decided to spend our final day of the trip at Tokyo Disneyland even though we were here two days ago because I personally can't get enough of the castle.
Thank God for Happy 15 early entry passes because the queues were crazy on Christmas morning!
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| The regular queues! |
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| The Happy 15 queues All the way in the front yay! One of the perks of staying at one of the 3 Disney Hotels |
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| You can't tell but I'm really excited, just not a morning person haha |
The moment the gates were opened, the sister and I ran towards Stitch Encounter, the only ride opened for guests with Happy 15 passes (only certain areas of World Bazaar and Tomorrowland were opened).
As we were running, we spotted Mickey and Minnie! Initially I didn't want to fight with the kids to take a photo with my favorite Minnie Mouse but the sister pushed me forward exclaiming, "how often do you NOT have to queue to take a photo with Minnie?!? GO GO!!!!"
So I sheepishly jumped in, caught Minnie's attention and managed to get a photo with her! Sooooo happy! =)
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| With Minnie at Tokyo Disneyland (this was my phone's wallpaper for a long time!) |
After jumping with joy from getting a lovely photo with Minnie, the sister and I continued our fast walk to Stitch Encounter, which had a really short queue so we didn't need to wait (yay!).
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| The welcome show at the holding area |
Stitch Encounter is a very unique attraction in that it was an interactive show where a computer-animated Stitch interacts live with the audience. Even though the show was in Japanese, we could still understand what was going on based on Stitch's body language and my limited Japanese. Both the sister and I found it very entertaining and funny!
After the show, we ran to Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters to get the FASTPASS before joining the already 30-minute queue to ride Space Mountain. I was panicking because I thought it was a scary roller coaster (like Universal's The Mummy!) but it turned out to be a thrill ride that even kids as young as 5 years old can ride!
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| Clockwise from left: Space Mountain; Riding the escalator up to the ride (very futuristic); Escape Pod for people who freak out halfway and want to leave the queue! |
I love Space Mountain! I wouldn't mind riding again if only the wait time was not 60 minutes by the time we were done! 😞
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| Loving Space Mountain |
We went to ride Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters next and utilised our FASTPASS.
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| Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blaster |
This one is much like Toy Story Mania, with a lot of laser pointer shooting. Personally, I feel if you've done Toy Story Mania, you can afford to give this a miss and vice versa because they are very similar. I actually regretted not getting the FASTPASS for Monster's Inc instead.
We headed to the park entrance to meet up with the family. While waiting for them at the entrance, we spotted Tigger and Eeyore! They were on their way to the photo spot and since we didn't want to queue, we tried to "steal" photos with them while they were walking! 😆
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| Failed in getting a photo with Tigger |
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| The failed photo that the sister took of me and Eeyore versus the awesome photo I took of her and Eeyore! Oh well, this is payback for Minnie! Hahaha |
After meeting with the family, the sister ran to Tomorrowland Hall to get the FASTPASS for Star Tours.
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| How is it that this dainty looking building actually housed the Pirates of Caribbean ride?! |
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| Pirates of the Caribbean |
In fact, I found it strange that this ride was not in Tokyo DisneySea. Shouldn't it fit DisneySea more?! 🤷🏻
In any case, it's probably precisely because this ride was often missed by people that the wait time was only 15 minutes!
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| Boats awaiting passengers for the journey |
It turned out to be a better ride than we had expected! The girl loved it so much we went on it twice! 😁
We caught the same Christmas Fantasy parade that we saw on our first day at Tokyo Disneyland. I made sure that this time, we were right at the spot that the Frozen float would stop and my girl would be able to see Elsa.
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| Left: Right at the Photo Spot, can't miss Elsa this time!; Right: My girl wearing her Elsa dress again even though she had already worn it the day before. |
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| More photos of the floats of the Christmas Fantasy parade |
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| Elsa and Anna! |
Unfortunately, we were sitting on Anna's side of the float so we only managed to see Elsa when she exchanged places with Anna for a short time.
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| Anna, Olaf and Elsa |
In that short instance though, Elsa spotted my girl wearing her Elsa dress and gestured her own dress to show that she had noticed it! It must have been really quick because the sister saw it but I didn't. My girl kept waving but Elsa had gone back to her side of the float and the girl couldn't see much of her after that. She was rather disappointed.
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| Waving like crazy to Elsa! |
After the parade, the hubby, sister and I went to ride Star Tours: The Adventure Continues while the mum watched the kids.
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| Star Wars |
It was a simulator ride that had really nice special effects! By the time we were done with the ride, it was time for us to head back to Tokyo Disneyland Hotel to check out. Sadly, all good things must come to an end... 🥲
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| A group selfie before we leave |
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| The sister and I wearing Mickey and Minnie hats |
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| Tokyo Disneyland Hotel in the day |
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| Enjoying the view from our room one last time! |
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| Girl with the dollhouse at the lobby |
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| Left: Girl wanted to take pictures with everything before we left; Right: Baby Boy wanted to be fed while we were eating our lunch at the lobby (might as well since it was such a nice place to hang) |
We left our luggage at the Bell's Desk before heading back to Tokyo Disneyland for our final rides of the trip. The last one was Pinocchio's Daring Journey because it had the shortest queue at the time.
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| As you can see, Girl was not happy that Pinocchio's Daring Journey was going to be our last ride at Tokyo Disneyland |
We actually got the FASTPASS for Monsters Inc Ride and Go Seek! but we couldn't make it as we had to leave for the airport to catch our flight back. It was with much sadness that we gave it up and blessed a random family instead (at least someone else will get to enjoy it).
We spent the rest of the day hanging out at Cinderella's castle, which is the most magical place in my opinion =)
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| Final photos with Mickey and Cinderella's castle |
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| Group photo (too bad Baby Boy was asleep) |
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| View of the square in front of Cinderella's castle |
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| I think we would miss this castle the most, the girl and I |
As we were leaving Tokyo Disneyland, we came across the Christmas Fantasy parade yet again! This time, we were on Elsa's side of the float and I told the girl to try and get her attention.
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| Left: Waving as much as she could to Elsa; Right: Elsa and Elsa =) |
Although we were further away, the sister managed to get Elsa's attention by waving very frantically (it also helped that we were standing in an area that had less people). Elsa waved back and blew my girl a kiss! I caught it on camera just in case you don't believe me (at 1:05 minutes of the video below):
My girl was so happy and star-struck that she literally walked back in a kind of elated daze! *laughs* Dreams do come true! 🤭😍🤩
We headed to the bus stop at Tokyo Disneyland Hotel to wait for our airport transfer.
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| Waiting at the bus stop for our bus |
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| Taking pictures with the pretty outdoor fountain while waiting |
We were all really sad to leave! I will miss you so much Tokyo Disneyland!!! *sob*
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| Group photo by a kind hotel staff |
We arrived at Narita International Airport and cleared customs just in time for dinner at Tatsu.
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| We were so hungry! Yum! |
The kids also had a little bit of time to play at a small play area for pre-school kids.
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| Play Area at Narita Airport |
We had more food on board our plane back home to Singapore!
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| Our dinner/supper |
By the grace of God, we arrived safely back in Singapore (and feeling the "warmth of her embrace" as we walk through the gates to the taxi). As always, it was a pain trying to unpack and more so since we bought a mountain of Japanese snacks from Tokyo!! 😅
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| I think we have enough snacks to last us for 6 months! |
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| Special mention: More pins to add to my already large pin collection =D |
This has got to be one of the most epic trips of my life! I will never forget it for as long as I live! 😍🤩
When can I go back to Japan? *laughs*
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