- I have been looking forward to this park as it wasn’t built when we last visited Disney some 20 + years ago, the weather was lovely, sunshine and not too hot or humid.
Parking has been a problem in some parks because we had to ask for space nearer the entrance for Franks scooter but we weren’t allowed blue badge parking as we didn’t have a sticker and then there was Adi’s car too. In this park Mr Jobs worth didn’t want to let them in so Adi just drove past him !
Through the gates and we are in the park, it’s really busy today so we head for the Tree of Life and went inside to watch a short show – Its a Bugs Life – funny and entertaining. Outside Russell the Cub Scout was doing a photo shoot so we joined the queue and got photos,
next we found Mickey and Minnie, Balou and Timón also out for photos. Time for a Starbucks coffee stop before heading to Dinoland where some of us went on a rollercoaster which was for little ones apparently, so we swiftly left this area and bumped into Donald Duck – another photo shoot – and then Goofy and Pluto too –
we have memory maker with our Disney tickets so all professional photos are free – making the most of it !
Our first fast pass is Everest – a run away train – I quite like these type of rollercoaster rides so I happily jumped into the carriage and whoosh we were off but 30 seconds later I thought I was going to die !!!!
The train stopped at the top of the Everest Mountain and then travelled backwards for maybe 15 seconds OMG this isn’t a thrill ride it’s a Horror Ride !!! Not going back on here.
We hadn’t taken anything to eat with us so we decided to stop for a bite of lunch before it got busy but must say it was a ripoff . Crisp packet with a tablespoon of crisps in it,
a dry chicken wrap for 10$, drinks expensive – adi bought 4 cheeseburgers and 4 drinks and the bill was 83$. Time for the next fast pass on he Navi River ride – the normal queue was around 120 mins but we were on in 10 mins – great – NO – very disappointing not interesting in fact very poor. Had we waited in the normal queue for this I would have been furious. As we came off we noticed that Avatar ride was only 75 mins wait, as this is the most popular ride and impossible to get fastpasses for we ran round to the end of the queue.
We waited and waited and after an hour we were told that there was some technical problems and they were trying to repair it. Ok we thought we have waited an hour might as well wait a bit longer …. an hour later – everyone is getting annoyed and a few people starts to leave the queue – we continued to wait and at 2 and half hours we kept thinking we must be nearly there, the next corner? Eventually we arrived at the head of the queue and spoke to the guy sending people to the ride and asked about the delay. Apparently those people who had fast passes, who would only be Disney Resort Guests, were given priority – fair enough, but they were letting in 50 fast pass guests to 5 other guests ! When we had finished the ride, which was fabulous, we realised we had missed our 3rd fast pass of the day so we went to Customer Services and Adi and I gave them the full disappointed routine, children fractious after 3 hours waiting, spoilt our day etc.. and they gave us 3 fast passes each for the next day. Thank you Disney for being so understanding. 
Definitely need a pit stop for ice cream or coffee before heading off to the safari ride but the light was going and when we got into the safari truck it was dark so we only saw silhouettes of elephants, rhinos, lions, giraffes etc. however, we enjoyed the ride but it was getting chilly so we went into the shop to get warm and ended up spending money haha .
Long day, some great bits and some very annoying bits but overall not bad.