My Foot Prints

We took the MRT with a transit at Sunny bay from Disneyland to Tung Chung. Yeap, the next destination is Citygate Outlet. The outlet is connected with the train station. You can access to the mall easily even outside is raining cats and dogs.

I thought I can get some good bargain from Crocs, Lesportsac and Esprit……. But very disappointed as Lesportsac outlet was closed and there is not many design available at Crocs. As for Esprit, I found that the price is a little expensive than the Esprit Outlet here at Cheras.

To avoid the crowd at Sunny Bay Station after the firework show in Disneyland, we leave the outlet mall at about 7.20pm.

Unbelievable and for the first time I leave the outlet mall with empty hands. Last time, I ‘die die’ also grab a Couch bag and some spoon from Muji at the Gotemba Outlet.

I thought we can be the earliest guests to the magical kingdom since we had our breakfast so early. But… we were late also. We reach the kingdom at about 10.40am, the park open at 10.30am.

As usual, we start our journey from the Fantasy Land followed by Adventure Land and Tomorrow Land.

KX said it is Thomas train …. LOL

the expensive burger ….

Besides the ride, we also watch the Parade, The Golden Mickey, and Festival of the Lion King. However, KX and I miss the last few minutes of both The Golden Mickey and Festival of the Lion King as the boy keep telling me that he want to ‘poo’ or ‘pee’ half way during the show. But, he told me ‘don’t have’ when he is in the toilet. :S

We are quite worry about our stroller when we are taking the Fantasy Train as we leave it at the stroller parking of Dumbo the Flying Elephant. I was so scared if someone takes our stroller. Ops, we keep our stroller in the hotel room and rent one from the park on the first day there.

Obviously Hong Kong Disneyland is very small (the castle is small too). MSAU and I bump into each other many times within that few hours. This never happen when we visit to Tokyo Disneyland last year.

the Parade……..

We leave the park at around 5.30pm for Citygate Outlet.

When I was eating my breakfast happily, I saw she coming in to the restaurant with her family. And immediately I discover that, she wears that blouse too!

Gosh ….. we are wearing the same cloth!! But lucky that her table is not near to our table, so I think no one will notice about it.

But………………. how could this happen??? I bought the shirt from our previous summer trip in Japan and now, we got it ‘clash’ in HK!!! The shirt is from UNIQLO and it is not available in Malaysia, so I suppose she bought it from Japan too. :S

For the first time, I pray hard that we won’t meet with each other when we are in the park later. However, on that day itself, we meet a few times inside the theme park!!!! Grrr …… there you see, how small the theme park is! When we are in Tokyo Disneyland last year, we never bump into each other although we enter the park at the same time! Tell you, she was disappear within minute after we enter to the park!!!!

On the third day, we all woke up early as we have booked the hotel shuttle to Disneyland Hotel at 7.30am for the breakfast.

The hotel is having a promotion for the breakfast at Enchanted Garden, Disneyland Hotel. The promotion is cheaper than the discount from annual pass. It cost HKD196 per adult and HKD99 per kid above 3. The breakfast available in 2 sessions and we booked the earliest which is start at 8am.

We check out Hollywood Hotel with all our belonging as there is only a small bag which can fit into a locker at the park. I don’t want to return to the hotel to collect the bag. Hate to walk under the hot sun!

We were offered to enjoy the breakfast at about 7.45am. The food is not really nice and the variety of food is not many too. I was expected to see many of food in Mickey shape, but disappointed. Only the waffle and pan cake is in Mickey shape. :S

Pluto and Goofy dresses in chef outfit are the one who greet us first, followed by Daisy and Mickey. Kids are very happy the moment they saw them, especially KX. He adores Mickey very much. The characters greet and take photo with guest from one table to another. Everyone got the opportunity to take photo with them. LOL

Anyway, I am very pissed with one of the family there. Their kid keep on going to other table wanted to play with the character while the character taking photo and playing with other, the father just follow his kid and snap her photo happily but not lecture the kid to wait for her turn at her place. I can see the father seems very proud of his kid of being so ‘smart’.

KW doesn’t have many photos like KX have, as she was quite moody the whole morning due to lack of sleep. But glad that, she manages to take a short nap on the stroller before we left for the theme park. We leave the restaurant at about 9.15am and tour the hotel to look for a toilet for the kids.

Saw Mulan at the hotel lobby, but the kids don’t like her so we didn’t take any photo of her.

The restaurant

the breakfast

Mickey entertain the sleepy and tiring KW

The second day is the day which the kids long-waited since months ago. Both of them know that we are going to Disneyland.

The interior of the train from Sunny Bay to the Disneyland station is same as the Disneyland monorail in Tokyo Disneyland, the windows, the handle, the décor, the seat….. We reach the Disneyland station at about and headed to the hotel via the free shuttle bus after taking a few pictures of the infamous ‘gate’.

The hotel shuttle bus station

The check in and ticket purchasing was done pretty fast at the front desk as everything was already pre- booked. We got ourself ‘Stay & Play for 2 days’ ticket for the price of HKD350 per adult and a kid annual pass (Value) for KW. With the pass, we entitle special seasonal rate for the room, which is 35% off room rate.

We headed to take the shuttle bus to the theme park after dump all our belonging to the room.

The magical journey starts after we had our brunch at Plaza Inn restaurant.

The park is really small and we spent most of the time at Fantasyland. The park is not as crowded as Tokyo Disneyland and we have several rounds of ‘The Many Adventures of Winnie of Pooh’, ‘Dumbo the flying elephant’ and ‘Mad Hatter Tea Cups’. Surprising the kids doesn’t like the ‘Cinderella Carousel’. KW refuse to ride the horse as she said, ‘Cinderella is sit on the carriage wan’. :S

The kids enjoy the ‘The Many Adventures of Winnie of Pooh’ very much and it was slightly different from the one at Tokyo Disneyland. We like the part ‘raining’ the most, it was so beautiful. In fact, we enjoy all indoor game very much due to the cooling environment.

Dumbo the flying elephant

Mad Hatter Tea Cups

Ops, we took the ‘it’s a small world’ ride too and not forgotten the photography session with Mickey and friends at the Fantasy Garden. As for the parade, it was ‘so so’ only and I hate to see that giant ‘Mickey’ as it was so dirty and ugly. LOL

‘Stitch Encounter’ of Tomorrow Land is KW favorite. She like it very much and keep saying want to go for another round. Anyway, it was too late for another round as I don’t want to miss the firework.

The firework is awesome and looks much prettier than Tokyo Disneyland ’s. Before we fly to HK, I already print out Jazz tutorial of how to shoot firework, so it is time for me to practice.

I think the theme park is really very small as we bump into them after the firework show.

A lot of people curios about the rate I got for the Nathan Hotel. LOL

Actually it was a special promotion available at Japanese hotel reservation site, which is also the site I used to book for the hotel in Japan.

This is the promotion banner, “*Hong Kong Happy 88 CPN * – 388 HKD”

This promotion is limited to only 1 room per day. So, I have a total of 5 bookings for the 5 nights stay.

This is the booking detail. See, the rater per night is HKD388; exclude all the relevant taxes which is 10%.

Actually I was overlooking this promotion when I first book the room from them. She spots this and asks me to try while she is trying too. Unfortunately we have miscommunication as when she told me ‘can wor’ then ask me to try, I thought she booked it already so I just try lo…. no harm ma. I was very happy as all my booking went through! A minute after my 5 bookings went through; I receive her message saying that she didn’t get to book the room, because the room was all booked. :S

The booking is quite troublesome as we have to enter our name correctly together with credit card number. The name must same as the name printed on credit card.

Anyway, at that time I haven’t confirm if I really want to go HK due to the AH1N1 issue and also, she need 3 rooms, so no different whether she get this promo or not. Sorry, dear…. And also, thank you for the kindness.

AK 78 was rescheduled to 1705 and took off on time. Nothing to comment about the airasia flight but I reckon it was a pleasant flight for us. The kids are doing well in flight; most grateful is the ‘terrible two’ didn’t ask for a catwalk in flight. His terrible two symptoms just started right before the trip!! :S

Ops, daring us didn’t wear any face mask during the entire trip.

The flight landed at Hong Kong International Airport at about 9pm. We proceed to get the Octopus card after the immigration and customs clearance. Instead of taking Airport Express Train which has to transit at Kowloon Station, we took the AirBus A21 operated by Citybus as there is a station at Hotel Nathan, which is the hotel we going to stay.

The hotel front desk assistant was so kind to offer an upgrade for us. We were upgraded to a studio suite and the rate I pay is HKD426.80 per night. Isn’t it a very good bargain?

I supposed everyone were very tired after traveling for the whole day and we should sleep early to recharge for Disneyland on the next day. But, the ‘terrible two’ refuse to sleep on bed, instead, he want to sleep on the coach while watching TV. So, I have to accompany him with my eyes close while he is watching ‘snooker’ on the TV before he wiling to move to the bed. He reckons ‘snooker’ as 打球 (hit the ball). :S

Note : I was expected to see some ‘praying’ on the street since it was the 14th of July of Chinese calendar, but disappointed didn’t see anything as seen in the TV. LOL

The day before departure, I make a call to KLIA limo to book a cab to LCCT. They told me the cab will pick up us 3 hrs before the flight time. Well, since 3 hrs before is a bit too early, so I decided to tell them my flight time is at 1705 instead of schedule 1645. So, they arrange a cab to pick up us at 1500.

Few minutes before the cab arrive, I connected to twitter airasia and saw that, our flight was scheduled to 1705 as what I told the KLIA limo!!! KNN @#$% this time really ‘buka mulut kena’, anyway lucky that it is not reschedule to few hours later, but only a few minutes later.

Last year November, Airasia announce to waive the fuel charges and also give away free seat at the same time.

After a few searches, the zero airfare with zero fuel charges is really so cheap and attractive and I feel like ‘rugi’ if I let go the opportunities. Ya, I am not a good consumer, buy according to price but not according to need.

After battling with their lousy system, the tickets were finally booked and confirmed. It cost me a total of RM195 for 4 tickets to HK with 1 check in baggage and MOP699 for 4 tickets from Macau to KL, which is about RM130 for an air ticket to HK (return via Macau)!

After waiting for so many months from November to September and also the worry of ah1n1, finally we board the flight to the city of pearl.

A friend is asking me if I have any recommended place to go during the year end holiday. Without thinking much immediately I tell her “MEXICO”. In fact there is lot of destinations around the world, but recently I was influence by the article of puerto penasco sonora mexico, so this is the first place come across my mind when I thought of travel. LOL

To proof to her of the new founding, I sent her some article and information I have gathered from the web to her. Besides that, I also forward to her the information about the puerto penasco condos and sonoran sky which I think she will like it. Let’s see if she manages to get a good deal on the air ticket to Mexico from the coming travel fair, I think most probably she can get it.

Talk about Mexico, the first thing usually people thought of is bull fighting. Hardly got people will link Mexico with beautiful beach and the interesting beach activities. Frankly speaking, I never think of beach when talk about Mexico. Btw, besides the bull fighting, Mexico food is famous too. Mexico cuisine is one of the best in the world.

We headed to take the Morning Liner (Keisei Line) to town after the customs and immigration clearance. We drop off at Ueno and change to Yamanote Line for Ikebukuro.

We walked to the hotel according to the instruction I got from forum, they claims it as the easiest and shortest distance to the hotel. Well, the hotel is not far actually, but due to the station exit for this hotel has no escalator, only staircase, so they work out another route for it. But I tell you, never follow this route!! It was so far!! In fact the shortest way is, get out from the department store (can’t remember whether it is Seibu or Tobu). There is escalator available in the department store.

We then headed to buy camera after checking in to the hotel. According to the data from kakaku.com, this shop offer the best price for the model I wanted to buy. Well, after searching it for some times, we were told that they have run out of stock for this model. So, off we went to another shop, Outlet Plaza which located at Akihabara.

Outlet Plaza is pretty easy to find and we manage to get the camera at last. Immediately I insert the memory card and start using it. Since we were there at Akihabara, we just walk around before off to next destination.

The flight takes off on time and we were offer meal for the route KL to KK. We have to transit in KK for flight to Tokyo.

KK airport is small, as well as the MAS Lounge. At first, I thought there should have some ‘bigger’ shop for me to kill time, but I was wrong. There are only few shops and most of them selling the same things, more like local made souvenir.

We were asked to line up to get into the cabin to continue our journey to Tokyo

We were offer another light meal after the take off. By that time, the gal has already fallen asleep. So good to eat without disturb.

The flight was smooth and landing at about 6.23am. Tell you, I love the feeling of landing! So good to be in Japan!!

After checking and analyst the red leave forecast from previous year’s record, we decide to depart on 16 November and return on 30 November. We will first go to Tokyo to enjoy the Disney theme park before headed to Kyoto for red leave. It is not our first time to these places, so we didn’t arrange much destination this time. Mainly is to enjoy the surrounding and the peace.

It was really surprise that we could finish our 15days trip to Japan. We departed to Japan on 1 Apr, but due to flight delay, e get to board the flight only on 2 Apr, and we return from Japan on 16 Apr. I am sure everyone curious how much we have spend for the half a month holiday in such high living standard country. Excluded the shopping, and our international flight ticket, we only spend about 6k per adult. Well, basically baby is free for the trip, except the international flight ticket.

We travel to Tokyo, Hokkaido, Kyoto and Osaka and the trip also covered the 3 large theme parks in Japan, which is Disneyland, DisneySea and Universal Studio. To be frank, 6k per pax is freaking cheap for such a trip, especially when you compare it with the tour from travel agent!!!

After the spring trip, initially I wanted to plan for a summer trip to Hokkaido, but seems like the gap between the trips was too closed, so I decided to change the plan to Autumn Trip!! Yes, we will go for another trip to Japan in another few months later!!!! LOL

We woke up pretty early in the morning, (about 5am). It was time to go home and we have to do some last minute packing after getting ourself ready! We have to rush for the train to Kansai Airport which departs at 0803!! If we late for the train, then we have to take another train which require transit at another station. Better don’t take the risk.

Trying to wake the gal up after we all get ready, but I think she is just too tire and don’t bother us. Anyway, we just put her on the stroller and start our journey to airport. We manage to catch the train and the journey is really smooth without any disturb from the gal! She woke up only at about 5 mins before we reach the airport.

We first go to collect our luggage which we store in the airport locker room. After that, of course is go to collect the strawberry mochi (おしゃれ（いちご大福）)which I have reserved few days ago. The strawberry mochi (おしゃれ（いちご大福）)was nicely packed with icepack and we were given some extra paper bag. How nice of Japanese. I still have some Yen with me and I don’t have the practice to bring home any foreign currency, so I just simply spend on the cheese cake from the same shop. Surprising, their cheese cake is yummy too!

おしゃれ（いちご大福)

After the immigration and customs clearing, immediately we proceed to ANA Lounge for breakfast. The lounge is small and not many variety of food available. We have some snack and Onigiri, and also ‘bring’ home some white wine & red wine. The Lounge was just outside the boarding gate, so we spend our time rest in the lounge till the last minute. lol

See, these are all from us. Gosh… we need 2 cars to fetch us and the luggage!!!

Hmm… I simply like the new cabin of business class, the seat was more advance and nicer, although it is not flat enough!!