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Thanks again Elissa, I really appreciate the advise. I managed to buy tickets completely hassle free last time I was there, but seeing as I was trying to sort out a one day ticket for my father as well as my own multi-day passport I thought I'd try and arrange everything online to avoid complications when I arrived. Its good to know you guys didn't run into trouble buying various tickets in person, hope everything goes as smoothly for me in a couple of weeks!

Further to my original post, I've just spent the last hour wrestling with the Tokyo Disney Online Reservations & Tickets System and I'm completely stuck. All I want to do is book a four day ticket for myself and a one day ticket for my father - the ticket selection process works flawlessly, but when it comes time to enter payment information the security code box is greyed out, and despite entering the correct info for card number and valid through dates, my card is rejected - whilst I know for a fact that it is working perfectly! I know I could deal with all this whilst I'm there, but having spent time in Japan before I'd rather have everything sorted out before, rather than trying to deal with the language barrier on the day, especially as I'll be attempting to buy a senior ticket for my father. Could anyone offer me any advice? Cheers Guy

Thanks for the quick reply - I guessed as much, but thought it was worth checking. I'm going to go ahead and do as you suggest, not being able to park hop for the majority of my last visit was frustrating and I'm sure it will be worth the minimal effort. And hey, maybe I'll pick up one of the popcorn flavours for the trip back to Tokyo! Now I just have to decide which park I want to be limited to on Tuesday night.. Guy

Hi all, In just over a week I'm heading to Japan for a two week trip, a week of which will be spent in Tokyo. During this week I'll be visiting Tokyo Disney for the second time - I'm booked into the Sheraton Tokyo Bay for two nights, from Tues 24th til Thurs 26th of this month, and up until now my plan had been to buy a 3 day ticket and do the following: Tues: Arrive late afternoon, check in and spend evening in DisneySea Weds: Spend day in Disneyland Thurs: Check out, spend majority of day in DisneySea, hopping back to Disneyland if time permits, before returning to Tokyo late afternoon/early evening. However, when I went online to book my park tickets, I noticed that the four day tickets were only slightly more expensive than the three day tickets, and realised that if I purchased a four day ticket to start on Mon 23rd, then I would be able to park hop on both the Weds and the Thurs, which would be far preferable than being limited to one park for the only full day (Weds) I have there - and well worth the small price difference, as I'm sure it will be many years before I can make it back to Tokyo! My question is, if I were to book a four day ticket starting on Mon the 23rd, would I still be able to collect it on Tues 24th, be able to visit one park that night, and use it to park hop on the following two days? Or, would I have to travel to the resort at somepoint on the Monday, collect the ticket, enter/exit one of the parks, and then return to Tokyo in order to activate it? I hope I've been clear enough in my question here, if you need any more details please just let me know! Many Thanks Guy

I'm planning on going to Cedar Point for the first time this October - provisionally the weekend of the 11/12. Disregarding weather and other unpredictable factors does this seem like a good weekend to go to the park? I'm thinking along the lines of crowds etc... The website says that the park is open Noon til Midnight on Saturday and 10am to 10pm Sunday - providing that we stay in an on sight hotel on the Saturday night to get early entry on Sunday does this seem a reasonable amount of time to get onto the majority of the rides? Is the park normally crowded on October weekends? Thanks in advance for any help!

I really wish there were rides which still scared me, but the most I get out of them now is a bit of an adrenaline rush - even when I went skydiving a bit over a year ago, I wasn't really scared - nervous perhaps, and I definitely had a sense of anticipation, but not scared. Sometimes walkthrough haunted attractions get the better of me though, although I'm not sure I'd count someone making me jump by appearing out of nowhere counts as really being scared - or does it?

Thanks for the quick replies! I'll be sure to check up on the EMH, but to be honest if its as quiet this time as when we went in September 2006, I'm not sure we'll even need to use them - I think the only EMH we took advantage of last time was to stay late in Epcot to get a few rides in on Soarin and Test Track! If I was going with friends I'm sure I would be, but going with my parents (on an increasingly rare family holiday!) means that I have to take them into account, although my dad is almost as bigger fan of the parks as I am - especially IoA and Epcot! I really do appreciate the input anyway! I'm really looking forward to it, as although Orlando doesn't have the best coasters, I really love the atmosphere - and as I don't really get to spend much time with my parents anymore thats another bonus - especially considering I'll be leaving England to study in the States (10 minutes away from BGE!) for a year next September. Now if I could just remember the name of that restaurant overlooking the MK...

Hi guys, I'm planning a fairly last minute trip to Orlando in January, and was looking for a little advice... We're planning on arriving on Saturday the 12th and staying for a week, leaving the following Saturday. I've found out that the weekend we arrive is the Disney Marathon so we're planning on staying for three nights at Universal first to avoid the crowds at Disney on the Sunday, probably at the Portofino as we enjoyed our stay there so much last time, then heading to Disney for four nights, probably at the Yaucht Club. So, we've got that much figured out, now its trying to decide which parks to do on what day - I don't feel the need to do all the parks as I've been to Orlando a few times, and there haven't been any major additions since I last visited. Anyways, considering the Disney marathon is the weekend we arrive, and that the next weekend is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, our current plan looks like this... Sun: Fairly relaxing day, maybe go to Universal for a few hours, eat at Portofino Mon: IoA, Mythos for lunch, Citywalk in evening. Tues: Move to Disney, do some shopping, Epcot in evening. Weds: Magic Kingdom / Disney Studios, Ohana in the evening. Thurs: BGA, Epcot in evening. Fri: Maybe hit up a park in the morning before holiday crowd arrives, then take the afternoon to do some shopping and catch Cloverfield(!). Most likely Epcot in evening again! Bearing in mind that my main aim is avoiding crowds, does this plan look ok to everyone? Any suggestions about what I could do to change or improve it? Any great places I'm missing out on? One thing I'd love to know is the name of the restaurant from which you have a great view of the Magic Kingdom/Castle, I think its in one of the main Disney resort hotels. Thanks in advance for any suggestions, any help is appreciated.

Whilst I haven't been on a TOGO stand-up, out of Intamin and B&M it has got to go to B&M - I have a real soft spot for Riddler's Revenge.

Whilst its an interesting statistic, as a resident of the UK I'd argue that of the 109 parks listed on RCDB, not many are proper parks - I'd consider many of them to be more static fun fairs than true parks. This may be true of many of the parks in the US as well, but as I am ultimately unfamiliar with the vast majority of US parks I can't comment. As far as the argument over the differences in parks between the US and the UK is concerned I've got a couple of points I'd like to chime in with. Firstly, someone in this thread brought up Alton, and whilst I'd agree that the gardens themselves are lovely, the park has a large problem with vandalism and is generally not particularly well cared for. Also, especially over the summer months you find it full of fairly reprehensible people - for example, before they started targeting smoking in queue lines I'd often be witness to parents giving their young children (anywhere from perhaps 11-13) cigarettes. Also, over aggressive teens spitting, line jumping, shouting at each other and other guests, swearing loudly, smoking spliffs in queue lines, amongst other anti-social activities are an issue (we all have our moments but there is a time and a place) and the park seems to take absolutely no steps towards solving these issues - I've never seen anyone ejected or even reprimanded and I used to go on an almost weekly basis. I'm not sure if its just me, but I've always thought parks should have a fairly family friendly atmosphere. I've experienced this on various levels in US parks as well, but haven't come across anywhere as consistently bad as the UK parks. Another minor issue is that over the summer months Alton suffers fairly large problems concerning wasps - the Oblivion queue can be a nightmare. Most of these problems apply to the other big UK parks as well (although as a more family orientated park Chessington isn't always as bad). I'd like to add though that I do have a soft spot for these parks, Thorpe is my home park, and at Uni I'm close to Alton, but its got to the stage where i refuse to visit apart from weekdays during the off season. The one other point I'd like to make is that whilst many US parks are literally a collection of rides (looking at you Six Flags), the US does have some true THEME parks, a title I hesitate to give to any of our parks here. No park seems willing to put in any real money towards theme (although with the behavior of some of our patrons I almost hesitate to blame them) which leaves the parks feeling lackluster compared to their US counterparts. I'm particularly fond of Universal Orlando, even though as a huge coaster fan it doesn't offer the biggest thrills (although Spiderman more than satisfies the dark ride lover in me!) - the entire atmosphere of the park makes the whole experience that little more special. The parks are kept astonishingly clean (at least by UK standards) and its hard to not enjoy yourself in such a fantastically presented environment. Over here you're lucky to find paint that isn't fading, theming which isn't tacky (if existent), and a single wooden queue line post free of years worth of chewing gum build up. Even Europe doesn't suffer the problem of an over saturation poorly themed parks - some of the Euro parks are beautiful and almost give the best US parks a run for their money. My father is also a huge theme park fan but will no longer visit the UK parks with me - we either have to travel to Europe or the States if we want to visit a park together because he doesn't enjoy the atmosphere over here. I'll wrap this up now as I didn't envisage such a long post (rant?), and I hope no one takes this the wrong way - I don't really dislike the UK parks, I just feel that they are lacking a bit of needed attention. I also can't help wishing that one day we get a theme park with some real theming! Oh, and the re-theme of Professor Burps Bubbleworks at Chessington into the Imperial Leather Latherworks is one of the most appalling things I've seen at any park, ever. Thanks for destroying a small part of my childhood guys!

Whilst I agree that the ride itself doesn't seem to be anything groundbreaking, as a huge Led Zeppelin fan I have to say I'm excited to see just how well it syncs up with Whole Lotta Love - not my favorite Zeppelin track by any means, but hearing anything by them whilst riding sounds great to me! Hopefully I'll be able to get out there to check it out at some point during the opening season, but if not I can take solace in the fact that in a little over a week I'll be seeing them live at the reunion gig in London - so excited!

Indiana Jones et le Temple du Péril at Disneyland Paris

My current background is of the French dance duo Daft Punk inside their pyramid stage that they have been touring with. Most amazing live music experience of my life and most impressive stage show I could ever imagine! Daft Punk - Alive!

Front row ride on Nemesis at Alton Towers towards the end of the season - near the top of the lift hill it started to hail, by the end of the course it was hailing really heavily. We were the last train before they shut it down due to the weather, and having hail hit your face at 50 mph is no fun! Earlier that same day, got left out on the Oblivion brake run for 10 mins in the pouring (and freezing) rain - the ride ops were even laughing at us! Came down with a cold after that visit.