Getting around Hong Kong is a breeze. The city has an excellent metro and bus network. The metro is especially clean, efficient, and a very smooth ride. You feel like you’re gliding between stations. Our journey to Disneyland only took about 40 minutes, door to door. The last section was on a special Disney train, with cute Mickey Mouse shaped windows and hand rings:

DW had pre-booked us in to a 9.30am character breakfast at the main Disney hotel. The food was nice enough, but of course the main draw is to meet some of your favourite characters up close and personal. As you might imagine, this was a big hit with The Boy:

We had to leave though when Pluto started to get a bit too friendly with DW. I had to threaten a saucepan of water….

Afterwards, we headed over to the park itself. DW had (as ever) done her research, and had booked us a guide for the day. A very friendly girl called Eunice. I don’t know if you can do this at the other Disney parks, but it’s a great idea. For €300, someone will bring a party of up to six people around for the morning, and you get to skip all the queues and go as many times as you like on any of the rides, even the most popular ones. This is an investment well worth making. You spend most of the time actually on the rides instead of queuing for them.

So off we went to our first ride. The honour of picking it fell to The Boy. He chose a rocket ship type thing where you go up and down and fly around in a circle. Unfortunately for him and the rest of us, it started to absolutely lash just as we were getting on. Two minutes later, and we’re all thoroughly drenched. Like drowned rats, we tottered off in search of an INDOOR ride.

Now this is where the guide was invaluable. If we were just there by ourselves, I suspect we would have headed home shortly after that. It was pouring rain, with no sign of letting up for hours, and the queues for all of the indoor rides were bananas. Spirits were low. I felt bad for The Boy especially. It was just very bad luck that the rain came on so heavily when it did.

But our guide was peppiness personified. She brought us over to the (indoor!) Buzz Lightyear ride where you use a laser gun to shoot aliens. After a couple of turns on that we were (a) a bit drier and (b) a lot happier. We bought some ponchos and kept on truckin’:

We had a great time over the rest of the day. It dried up in the afternoon, so we extended our guide for a couple more hours, watched the parade and went to most of the outdoor rides as well. We were very tired by the time we got back to the hotel, and almost fully dry by then too! Although mine and The Boy’s shoes are still a soggy mess. Just as well it’s shorts and sandals weather today 🙂

Who let him behind the wheel??

On other rides:

Watching the parade: