If You're Going to Hong Kong Disneyland

My bestie and I just went to Hong Kong Disneyland, here's what we have to say to those who'll visit too. 

Booking in Klook is cheaper

Let's talk about expenses first, shall we.

If you check Hong Kong Disneyland's website and checkout park tickets prices, a 1 day ticket would cost you around ₱4,000.

Wherein in Klook, it's just about ₱3,000 😍😍😍

And then a lot of blog/social media posts also recommends to buy meal vouchers in Klook as well to save a few 💸. Just make sure you read the instructions in the voucher because we didn't. We had to go back to the entrance to have it scanned to be exchanged for the real food stubs. 

We chose to eat in Starliner Diner during our trip because a.) it was a fast food and we're starving; and b.) we were going to Tomorrow Land next anyway. And it was the best chicken wings I've ever tried 🐔that I first thought I wasn't gonna like 😭😭😭 

It's too much

It has everything.

There are:

• Elephants (not real ofc) 🐘and other things in Jungle River Cruise
• A Festival of the Lion King show ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• A Moana show (we didn't get to see)
• Character meet and greets 🐭
• 3 Parades (1:30 PM, 4PM, and 8PM), which should be #1 in anyone's priority list
• A projection show about Mickey Mouse all over Main Street 📽 
• Rides 🎠
• A Railroad to see all of this magical land (that we missed because the last train is at 6PM ⌚️)
• (Everything else we missed like the Mystic Point, Grizzly Gulch, Fantasy Land)
• Castle 🏰 which was currently under construction when we went

Everything. All at once. With overlapping schedules. With long waiting times for each. It's overwhelming. How do we get to see everything in just one day?

We missed a lot of good stuff 💔

You know how people recommend a bunch of things when we tell them about where we're going next? Yep we didn't get to see a lot of those.

We had a list and all of all the things we really wanted to experience and we did just that. The rest, well, there wasn't enough time anymore (plus our feet hurts because we already had a 20KM walk the day before exploring Hong Kong👎🏻). So yep, time management is everything.

And they say this Disneyland was the smallest one.

The Mobile App

Download the mobile app. It has the schedule of events for the day, a list of attractions, restaurants, stalls, facilities (yep even for water stations), and restrooms (++ for search features), and an interactive map that also display wait times for each attractions ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.

It was a trial and error at first and I got lost with the navigation of the app quite a few times but once I got the hang of it, it was perfect 👌🏻

I made a screenshot for show and character meet and greet schedules and then planned everything out from there. It was a big help for us who was in constant panic with time running out to during our stay to see everything we liked.

And for wifi, there's free wifi in the park. A lot of blog posts will say it's only accessible in certain places and by that I thought it was just in a few selected places, but that's just not the case. As long as you're not inside any store or attraction, you can have access. So just step outside and there you go 👌🏻

Some other little things, in bullets

• Commute. Take the Disneyland Resort Line train going here. 
• If everything in Hong Kong is expensive (compared to 🇵🇭), then it is a lot more in Disneyland, even water.
• To avoid the heat, just walk through the shops, they are all connected if your going to the castle from main street and vice versa. Thank me later 😉
• There are no fireworks during weekdays 🙃but then again it's more crowded during weekends 🙃A lot will argue that Disneyland fireworks shouldn't be missed.
• The park ticket voucher from Klook says you have to print it (but I lost all my documents in CRK airport and my bestie ended up not bringing her printed files too so that both of us gets in trouble just in case), but it was okay to just use our mobile phones to scan the QR codes.
• We first tried to eat in River View Cafe in Adventure Land for our Klook meal voucher but we had to pay additional 25HKD each when we got there. So we left and looked for a different place.
• The (expensive) popcorn smells good but I only ate a few of it. Goodbye 30+HKD. The overpriced ice cream are better.
• 📸Take a photo from a lower angle to have less photobombs in Main Street (or everywhere actually) 📸
• ALSO, PLEASE WEAR COMFORTABLE SHOES 👟

That's all. K thx bye.