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Posted on April 29, 2018

USA ’18 – Day 8 – Helen makes a plan

Today we were off to Epcot and had planned to dash over to Test Track first to sneak a quick ride in before heading over to Soarin’ where we had a fast pass. In order to squeeze that in we left home promptly at 08:20 and headed off down the US 192. In the past …

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Posted on April 28, 2018

USA ’18 – Day 7 – Rivers of Light

After the last few days frenetic activity it was nice to have a late start today. Our fastpasses for the day were all for late afternoon in Animal Kingdom. This didn’t mean, of course, that I could wake later and lie in, no I’m useless at that so I was still up just after seven. …

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Posted on April 27, 2018

USA ’18 – Day 6 – Universal Appeal

We’d decided to go back to Universal today rather than use the Fast passes we had for Disney. That means that it is Disney 2 – Universal 2 so far in the battle of the parks. We got there for park opening at 9am so that we could make our way straight to the new …

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Posted on April 26, 2018May 3, 2018

USA ’18 – Day 5 – A Pale Shadow of its Former Self

There was a time when Disney’s Hollywood Studios would have ranked as our favourite park but based on today’s visit it won’t be getting top spot in 2018. The park is currently undergoing a huge amount of building work creating the new Star Wars land and for this a number of rides have been levelled. …

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Posted on April 25, 2018

USA ’18 – Day 4 – Shop till you flop

After two full on days we decided that we would have a quieter day today by having a late start, breakfast out and a spot of shopping. Breakfast in the US to the Thompsons means Perkins and for me that can only mean the Tremendous Twelve! I don’t know why I hadn’t done this before …

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Posted on April 24, 2018May 3, 2018

USA ’18 – Day 3 – Not so Fast not so Furious

Our drive along the 192 into the parks takes us past numerous eating establishments but at the very end there is a formal looking building with the words “Bob Evans” above the door. Initially I thought that it might be an estate agents or a realtor in the local parlance but a quick search identified …

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Posted on April 23, 2018May 3, 2018

USA ’18 – Day 2 – Kerching!

One of the things that irks me somewhat about coming to the parks in Florida is the price of the parking, in fact that they should charge for parking at all. That’s right parking isn’t included in the price! When we first came it was $5 a day and you got a really nice souvenir …

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Posted on April 22, 2018May 3, 2018

USA ’18 – Day 1 – Never Say Never Again

So, here we go again, for another spin around the Walt Disney World parks in Florida. Yes, yes, yes I know we said that last time was THE last time and that we said that the time before too but we just couldn’t resist. This really is the last time… The flight was at a …

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Posted on April 21, 2014

USA '14 – Round Up

It has become something of a tradition to do a round up post at the end of our Florida holidays and so this is it. Here I group together all the posts to allow you to quickly find the post most relevant to what you are interested in. If you want to do a comparison …

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Posted on April 14, 2014

USA '14 – Day 15 – The long way home

Given that the flight back to the UK is late afternoon this gives us plenty of time for one last hurrah. Even though we had only been there yesterday it was decided to go back to Hollywood Studios today. I have to admit that this was done on a majority vote basis and like the …

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