For each festival you can obtain a Festival Passport and this one was no different, it acts as a guidebook, are free and you can pick them up at the park entrances and most of the merchandise locations.
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While at the Magic Kingdom park Fiona introduced me to an awesome game – Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom that you can play in the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World. As the story goes Hades has decided to make the park his new summer home and assisted by various Disney Villains is trying to take over the Magic Kingdom Park. Standing in his way is Merlin who needs your help to defeat them.
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Fiona and I were visiting in January, apparently during unusually cold weather that was hitting Florida with a nighttime temperature occasionally dropping below freezing!
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This post is part of a series called Walt Disney World 2018 As part of our package we had Disney’s Quick Service Dining Plan, we opted for the Quick Service plan as it seemed better suited to our overall plans. As part of the deal, you get 2 Quick Service Meals and 2 Snacks per…
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This post is part of a series called Walt Disney World 2018 We stayed at Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort which is one of what Disney calls their Moderate Resorts and opened in 1988. It’s themed on the Carribean, hence the name, and consists of several islands located around a central lake. Each island area is…
View MoreAlistair & Fionas 2018 holiday to Walt Disney World in Florida.
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Living in the UK, London is only ever a few hours away and when Warner Brothers opened up their studios in London where the majority of the films were filmed I had to visit. I’ve been lucky enough to have been to the Harry Potter Studio Tour twice so far, the first was with my sister at the end of November 2015 and I visited again with my Floridian friend Zahra in August 2016.
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I landed in Darwin, capital of Australias Northern Territory, a little after lunch having taken a 4.5-hour flight from Brisbane and immediately was hit by the tropical heat on stepping off the aircraft. After grabbing my luggage I jumped onboard a shuttle which took me to my hotel. I had chosen to stay at one of the DoubleTree by Hilton hotels down on the Esplanade – mainly because I wanted a cookie – but also I quite like DoubleTree hotels.
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We arrived late at night at the apartments, so next day we were up early and heading out into the city, we made our way up the main shopping street towards the river and hopped on a boat tour sailing down the river. The tour was very informative, sitting up on the open top deck might not have been the best decision as while it was warm in the sun, the breeze on the river was quite chilly.
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No visit to New Zealand would be complete without a visit to at least one of the movie sets or locations from Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit. As we were only planning on visiting the North Island we’d decided in advance that we would go to the Hobbiton Movie Set which is located around one hour north west of Rotorua or around two hours to the south of Auckland.
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