Assalamualaikum, Konnichiwa and Hi!
As usual, some notes here:
1. this is only meant for sharing, I'm not a pro, just an amateur traveller, but I love Japan sooooo much, so I really want to help others who love Japan as much as me to have some ideas about travelling to Japan.
2. Feel free to skip all those stories, and scrolled to the end of this entry if you're only interested in costs and links of places. I always make a summary in the end of my entry. ^_^
3. If you have extra budget, you also have the option to hire a tour guide. And if you are a muslim, there are also some muslim tour guides, that will not only guide you to attraction places, but may also help to provide you halal foods, and places to pray. ^_^ Mine are more for backpackers ^_^
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So, we woke up early in the morning, hyped up by the fact that we're going to Disneyland, a land where dreams come true ahaks! yes, we grew up watching Mickey Mouse and friends and all those Princess Fairytales especially Cinderella. So, going to Disneyland is totally a dream come true alhamdulillah, eventhough we're not kids anymore ^_^ there's always a child in every adult right???
We already got our direction from our earlier revision in Malaysia, and confirmed all those routes with the Anne Hostel staff. From our study, we should go from Asakusabashi station (nearest to our hostel) to Akihabara station, change to Tokyo Station and finally to Maihama station. The staff said that was ok, then told us a simpler and shorter way to go there but I don't really remember haha. So, here we go!!
When we arrived in Maihama station, our hearts jolted when we heard Disney song was echoing there. We were touched for that dream-come-true moment and at the same time very excited!!
We arrived there around 8.30 am, and went to the Disney Resort 1st for pre-check in. We chose to stay one night at Disneyland Hotel just to have some experiences there. At least once in a lifetime right? Maybe after this, we will try the affiliated hotels around Disneyland and Disneysea. A little bit more info, Tokyo Disney Resort has 3 hotels, Disney Ambassador Hotel, Tokyo DisneySea Miracosta and Tokyo Disneyland Hotel. At 1st I wanted to book the DisneySea Miracosta, but by the time for me to do the online reservation, all the rooms that I want within my budget were already fully booked, so did the Ambassador Hotel, so we ended up booking the Disneyland Hotel. You may find more info about hotels within Tokyo Disney Resort HERE.
The pre-check in started from 7 am - 4.00 pm as we can only get our room at 4.30 pm. The staff was so friendly and nice. She said that she will give us an upgrade room, because I booked the room with 2 beds and a "trundle" bed, but she gave us the room with 3 beds. Then, after she saw us so excited with the upgraded room, she even offered us to upgrade to the highest floor level for a very affordable price. I mean, if the basic one, your room will be on the 1st-3rd floor. But, just to give you some tips, if a staff offer you the same offer, asked him/her will you get a view of the park. haha..
The staff gave us 2-day pass for the Disney Resort Line, and also our key card for our room. While trying to settle all things, I brought out my folder that consists most of my important paper for Japan like the Disneyland Park Tickets, veeeery important! haha. When the staff saw the folder, she was so surprised, because I used my Arashi folder with Matsumoto Jun as the cover hahahah. She said she did not think that Arashi is so well known in other countries too, I think, maybe because she said that she's not really a fan of them or Matsumoto Jun, I did not really remember huhu..
the train pass and the room key (we got three keys with our names on it)
Thank you Disney Resort!
and here is how my folder looks like from front and back
thank to JapanJE Agnes because I got this from a free-giveaway
Usually I don't really buy things with my ichiban, I don't want to be bias that's why I usually buy things with the whole group picture but this one was free *happy*
And after everything settled, we left our bags and luggage to the hotel management, so that the bags can be delivered to our room once it was ready. And the joy began!!
The air was so fresh, and a little bit cold, but the weather was good alhamdulillah. The first ride for us was Big Thunder Mountain!! hahaha.. why? Because I love Matsujun ahhah.. and If you are an arashist, you maybe know what's the relation between Matsujun and Big Thunder Mountain (^_^) and the ride was soooooo fun! A very good openening!
Big Thunder Mountain, and no, we're not stalking that man with the blue hat,
we were just interested with his hat hahahhah
I forgot to tell you that we bought the 2-Day Passport, and planned to spend our time one day in Disneyland and another day in DisneySea. One day of course is not enough for you to complete allllll rides and attraction in one park, so we planned our rides carefully so that we can enjoy the park as much as we can. We even took the FastPass for most of our rides in Disneyland and Disneysea.
Other than Big Thunder Mountain, we also rode Space Mountain (seriously amazing!!), The Haunted Mansion, Star Tours: The Adventure Continues, Gadget's Go Coaster in Toontown, It's a Small World (a little bit boring for adults but sure helps when you want to rest but don't want to waste time only on the bench) and also Cinderella's Fairy Tale Hall. We spent some time in the souvenir shops, some time for rest and eat, and also, PARADE!!! Pictures may speak more haha..
The only thing that we can eat with confidence, ICE BAR!
Full of excitement, even a grandma who sat beside us was dancing and singing ^_^
while queing for Space Tour, no picture of Space mountain because it was a bit dark there
Deylarella and Dyanarella hahahhaha
It's a small world after all..it's a small world after all........zzz..heheh..
A must!!
You can see that there was a weird cute thing hung on my sis and my cousin'd necks right? It was the popcorn bucket. In Disneyland and Disneysea you can have many flavors of popcorn, some of the flavor also came with special bucket (an option, not a must, you can buy it in normal container too).
This one we bought with curry flavor popcorn. We actually didn't want that flavor, but that's the only cute container with flavor that we can eat hahah.. they have this one cute and special for Eastervcontainer, but it comes with Soy sauce popcorn which of course we did not want to try ahhaha. You know what, we can't even finish the curry popcorn huhuhu
The Disney Line station
After all those rides and walking around, we couldn't find a good hidden place to pray, so we decided to stop for a while and went to check in to our room. You can get out from the park with a stamp on your hand, and made sure that stamp is not washed out or you can't re-enter the park. A bell boy was assigned to take us to our room, and I practiced my very little Japanese with him and he said that my Japanese was sooo good *proud* hahahha. Our bags and luggage were already there when we arrived. The bell boy showed us few things, the aircond controller, the tv, and left after we said thank you (fortunately, giving tips is not practiced in Japan).
I love this warm message..
We prayed and rest for a while and went down again to the park. It was dark already, and we walked around while waiting for the night parade and fireworks. We bought some souvenirs including a minnie sticklight for my sis collection.
And the parade began!
and the most waited of all, fireworks!!!!
whoaaaa...... I miss those wonderful moments haha..
Then, as the night still early, we walk around and saw that there were so many people still queuing up for Monsters Inc. Ride & Go Seek. Is it very interesting? Because many people queue for this ride since daylight. Being influenced, we also queue up for the ride. We took around 1 and a half hour queuing before our turns arrived. And, here is an advice, please don't get influenced by others hahahahhaha... I mean, it's fun, but not worthy to queue for a very long time hahahhahahhahahaha...
After that fun but errrrrrrr ride, we went to the souvenir shop to buy some memorial things haha..
And that's how we ended our day in Disneyland.
Cost summary for the 5th Day:
Train fare from Asakusabashi to Maihama = included in 5000 Suica so none
Disneyland Hotel for one night Superior room = 36 000 yen/ room so 12 000yen/pax
2 day pass Disney line = free (for staying at Disneyland Hotel/Affiliated Hotels)
Disney 2 day passport = 10 700 yen (I looked at web, and recent price is 11 000 yen)
Drinks bought at Disney hotel store = ~500 yen/pax (no food bought here, we ate what we brought from Malaysia in our room, and onigiri we bought the previous day when we were in Park)
Total Day 5 = 23 200 yen
Total cost up to day 5 = 69 410 yen
I have to put the popcorn as souvenir because we bought them because of the container haha. Other souvenirs also not included in this cost summary.
You can save more by staying at the affiliated hotel or hotels around Disneyland.
So that's all for Part 5. I hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed Disneyland. Thanks for reading!! xoxo!!
~Walt Disney~
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