A return to Magic Kingdom

Posted on by Ian C.

Our first visit to Magic Kindom since September 2019, which was a good and quiet day thanks to hurricane threats – this latest visit was busier but perhaps not as busy as it might be due to the Super Bowl! We got rides at Buzz Lightyear (twice!), Under the Sea – Journey of The Little Mermaid, Haunted Mansion, Winnie The Pooh, Pirates Of The Caribbean, as well as It’s A Small World, Carousel Of Progress and the TTA. We didn’t pay for lightning lanes and our longest single queue was about 45 minutes for Haunted Mansion.

Here’s a selection of photos from our day …

We stayed through to the 8pm fireworks, which were spectacular of course (and crowded of course!):

I did some video of the fireworks, too:

Finding Nemo V2

Posted on by Ian C.

The first time I’ve visited Disney Animal Kingdom since Covid, and of course I returned to the wonderful “Finding Nemo” show – and there’s been a lot of change to it! The stage background is now a projection that sets the location, so there’s no more for example bringing in the fishtank prop (the seagull Nigel is completely gone too!), but overall the show was still excellent and almost all the favorite characters are still performing …

A return to Disney Epcot

Posted on by Ian C.

Before the pandemic we purchased our annual Disney Passes so we could visit the parks whenever we wanted, although since moving to Stanton the drive meant we visited less often – then the pandemic hit and Disney changed everything! They increased prices (of course) but they also scrapped fast passes and demanded having to pre-plan everything, reserving a day before visiting, not being able to book any rides unless paying even more $$$, and then still only one-at-a-time – we decided to stop giving money to Disney!

But now, we have rejoined (at about $2,200 for both of us!) so we visited Epcot; it was busy (first weekend of the Festival Of The Arts) with lines of up to two hours, but we visited the new Moana-inspired land “Journey Of Water”, walked World Showcase, and did a few shorter-queue rides (Nemo, Living With The Land, Spaceship Earth) …