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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Sep. ~ Nov.: GOING TO DISNEY! ~tips needed~: Archive through September 14, 2005 users admin

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Not1worry
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07-30-2002

Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 4:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Not1worry a private message Print Post    
Our plan is to go from 10-2 to 10-7!! We don't do Halloween in our family (it is my bday on the 31st anyway), so we skip stuff like that. If we're both going to be there at the same time, we'll have to plan to at least say hello to each other! I'm sure DH would completely freak out at the though of meeting someone from cyber world in real life, but then again, he just doesn't get the whole message board thing anyway. We just won't invite him, LOL.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Sunday, August 07, 2005 - 4:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
pic

Just sent you an email... I hope it works out!!

Buttercup
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07-16-2005

Monday, August 15, 2005 - 3:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Buttercup a private message Print Post    
We're getting ready to celebrate a couple of birthdays at Disney World, but haven't decided when to go. Even though, I think this may may be a dumb question, I'll ask anyway How "bad"/crowded is Disney World over Labor Day weekend vs. let's say this coming weekend?

Last time we went was in May and it wasn't too crowded (we went to Epcot, Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom)

Thanks in advance!



Bastable
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07-09-2002

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 8:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bastable a private message Print Post    
Guys, I am so excited! I just got news that I'm going to be flying to Hong Kong the week after next to attend the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland! I'll be there on opening day! Garsh! WOW!!

I'm a big Disney fan--I know more park trivia than anyone I know. But this is TOO MUCH!

Ddr
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08-19-2001

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 8:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ddr a private message Print Post    
Wow, how exciting Bastable! I never realized you were such a Disney fan.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 8:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Bastable, if you happen to get any extra pins from Disney Hong Kong, I'd be willing to buy some.. we got caught up in the pins this time at DL here..

Oh and.. I've not been on Space Mountain and I was looking hard and didn't see a single cookie up in the sky :-(

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 8:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
How cool, Bastable!!! Congrats!!!

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 9:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Very cool, Bastable. I can't believe you are this excited about going somewhere. LOL. Where exactly is Disney Hong Kong? We were there in March 2004 but I don't recall seeing it being built.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 10:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Too cool Bastable! Bet you're going to have a blast!

Sea, I started buying pins this last time we went. Tinkerbell to be specific. At the time it was part of the ongoing joke about girling my van out so Darren wouldn't want to drive it, ya know with good old Tinkerbell hanging from the mirror what guy would, lol. Then I decided I liked her and have been actively looking for faires to decorate my car with. Darren now calls it the fairy mobile.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 11:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I have a tink or two but decided to collect cats.. I have a Tigger, a Figaro, Si and Am, The Cheshire cat, a pin with Disney Cats, a pin for Alice's Cat Grooming Service (Purrrrfect Head to Tail Pampering; We'll Put a Smile on Your Face), a Nala pin, pin with Simba and his father .. but I got other pins too, and a book that shows me that there are far too many pins out there!!

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 7:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Yeah Bastable, another one excited about Disney, but HONG KONG!! Way cool, now somewhere online I went to a blog of someone that went to the Hong Kong Disney... they were asking people to test the train that takes people out to the park, and the only thing that was open (if I recall) was the First Aid Station - they posted the pics, and I believe Space Mountain was included - and now YOU GET TO GO!!

MM mickey MM

Buttercup
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07-16-2005

Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 10:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Buttercup a private message Print Post    
Lucky you, Bastable! I told my husband about Hong Kong, and he said "Let's go!...in a couple of years." I hope you will share your experience when you get back.

Reader234
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08-13-2000

Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 6:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Here's a link for Hong Kong Disney pictures, its another message board, someone's sister was there and they posted pictures...

Dis boards

Bastable
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07-09-2002

Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 1:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bastable a private message Print Post    
Juju, HKD is on Lantau Island, on the same island as the airport. It's on the way to the main city.

Oh, yeah, ya'll, I have been going to Disney since I was a toddler. I can still remember WDW when the trees were all saplings and it was so blazing hot that the only snack anyone wanted to eat was the chocolate-covered frozen bananas. You can barely find those anymore.

I went to Disneyland Paris for the second time last January, too. It'll be lots of fun to compare HKD.

This is the best source for preview Hong Kong Disneyland photos that I know about. MouseInfo.com



Bastable
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07-09-2002

Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 1:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bastable a private message Print Post    
For those who know Hong Kong, here is a subway map with the new spur line for Disneyland shown on the left. Hong Kong's main skyscraper area is around the "Central" and "Admiralty" stops, and Kowloon centers around "Tsim Sha Tsui."

Hong Kong map

By the way, I know about a company that sells CHEAP trips to Hong Kong. It's charging $699 per person in January--that includes airfare from the West Coast AND six nights in a hotel! It's a reputable company that I have used myself in the past called Go-Today.com.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 6:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Bastable, we went to Hong Kong in March 2003 with Go-Today. It was a super special deal I booked on my way out the door to spend the winter in Cyprus. We couldn't afford not to go. It was round trip from Seattle, which is my closest airport, if you don't count Vancouver, BC. Round trip air, airport transfers, half day sightseeing, and 5 nights hotel for $499.

We were VERY happy with Go-Today. Everything went like clockwork. We stuck with the lowest hotel, which, in retrospect we might not do, since it was far out into the ethnic restaurants area. We upgraded our tiny room with a bed jammed into a corner to a spacious room with down blankets and view of Victoria Harbour.


Bastable
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07-09-2002

Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 8:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bastable a private message Print Post    
Juju, I love the stuff you know!

Deesandy
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08-12-2003

Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 8:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Deesandy a private message Print Post    
Anyone have a hotel near Sea World that they would recommend?

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 9:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
How cool!

Dees, try one of those suite hotels. They're usually very reasonable and lots of room.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Sunday, August 28, 2005 - 10:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Dee, we just stayed at the Best Western Bayside in a couple weeks ago. Nice hotel, not too pricey, not too cheap, but best of all it wasn't more than 10-15 minutes away from everywhere we wanted to go. We were a couple blocks from the harbor, a couple minutes from Seaport Village, 10 or so from Old Town and just about that from Sea World. The hotel staff was great, very knowledgable about the area (with one minor exception, the one guy we asked didn't know the children's museum had been torn down, lol.)

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Monday, August 29, 2005 - 12:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Dee, if you mean Sea World in Orlando, we stayed at a really nice hotel that wasn't too expensive. Doubletree Club Hotel in Lake Buena Vista. Its close to Sea World and Disney and everything else out there. Here is the website:

http://tinyurl.com/dvpf6

Bastable
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07-09-2002

Monday, August 29, 2005 - 10:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bastable a private message Print Post    
The Renaissance World Center Marriott is right there, and its atrium even has birds on loan from SeaWorld.

My favorite hotels in Orlando right now are the Nickelodeon Family Suites (www.nickhotel.com) and the Hard Rock Hotel at Universal.

Bastable
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07-09-2002

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 5:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bastable a private message Print Post    
Oy! I just got back from Hong Kong today, and the opening of the new park. I have some pix... any subjects that people want to see shots of? It may take me a day or two to wake up and post them, but I'll see what I've got...

Babyruth
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07-19-2001

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 6:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyruth a private message Print Post    
I'd be interested in seeing any Hong Kong variations on classic Disneyworld/land scenes. Or was it exactly like being in Orlando?

Thanks, Bastable. Get some good rest!

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 11:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Me for pics.