Day 12 Hilton Tokyo Bay and Tokyo Disneyland

Check out of Shibuya Excel Hotel was easy.

Iruka shuttle
Pick up scheduled at 8, car was there at 7.49, we were ready! Love an early car. Beautiful and clean vehicle. Smooth drive.

Hilton Tokyo Bay
Arrived at 8.30, checked in, they gave us our key for the afternoon and took our luggage to our room.

Walk 3 minutes to the monorail station. 4 day pass for 1400 yen. Monorail 3 mins to DisneySea,   mins to Disneyland.

Tokyo Disneyland

First word Queues! To use the bathroom, to eat, to drink, to ride, queues everywhere. This is a Sunday, we expected queues, but this was next level, I would hate to see it on a Saturday (this first visit was a Sunday).

Next word Rules! No ears on in attractions, children on right hand side of ride, no lcd photography as well as flash photography, take your bags off (common sense but they start reminding you ten people before you get to the front of the queue) sit down for the parade, most of these make the park experience even more enjoyable.

We arrived late today, 9.30ish, we were expecting serious queues to get in, but there was about 10 people in front of us! Shocking!

Headed to Tomorrowland Hall to try for the show lottery, nothing! On the way we passed Monsters Inc Ride and Go Seek, there were 5pm fast passes available, we grabbed them, thought for sure they would be gone. A bit of shopping, and a spot for the Spooky Boo parade. The floor was a little wet and as we were deciding where to sit, a cast member appeared and put down park maps for us to sit on. Both unexpected and appreciated. The cast members here are super attentive.

Spooky boo parade

A bunch of floats with Mickey and friends in spooky versions of the lands in this park. Ends with a lot of singing and dancing.

Quick bathroom break, I got out the map to see what’s next, within 30 seconds two different cast members had asked if I needed help. Love the cast members here.

Tiki Room walk on. This is in Japanese, they hand out little translators for other languages. Grabbed a fastpass for Haunted Mansion Halloween overlay, 2.30 (at 11.30). Small world 20 minutes. Best Small World ever! Pinocchio’s daring journey 20 minutes, as average as any. Queues for ice cream for 15 minutes, as we ate it, the Dreaming Up parade started. This parade was beautiful, impressive, lots of attention to detail! A man let the kids in front of him to get a better view, people here seem so polite.

Into the Country Bear Jamboree. Lunch at Plasma Rays, vegetarian Japanese curry which was very satisfying yet a small serve for the price. Fastpass for Haunted Mansion, still took 15 minutes. Overlay was cool but I prefer the original. Shopping, more food, and at Pan Galactic Pizza Port we got alien Mochi, it was sooooo delicious. Fastpass for Monster’s Inc Ride and Go Seek, our last attraction of the day, loved it, we have a lot of shopping to do! Bought loads of cute merch, grabbed some pastries to take home.

6 minute monorail ride home, 3 minute walk, stop at the convenience store and the Disney shop and we were finally home. Showers and the pastries! Custard bread and orange pastry were both amazing, melon bread is melony 😂 it’s okay but not my favourite. Marley hated it, Mace loved it!