Day 10, travel day to Hong Kong

By this point I thought I might have a bit of theme park fatigue. Surprising that is not the case. Our pacing (park, nap, park) has really helped minimize fatigue and our travel days have been a restful break in between the parks. Also, we’ve had one more day in each resort that we needed which allowed our last Park day in each country to be very slow paced and agenda free.

This morning we slept in, grabbed a bit of breakfast and then hung out in the room until our 11am check out time.

Our flight reservation was a little sketchy since it was with China Eastern. Their website is buggy and all we had was a confirmation number. Also, I’d transposed a couple of Mikey’s passport digits so we wanted to get to the airport in plenty of time to make sure we could fix this. Why China Eastern? I found super cheap first class tickets fromShanghai to Hong Kong on Kayak. When we boarded the tired Airbus 320 it was evedent why the tickets were so cheap. The plane had clearly seen better days. The real benefit of the first class tickets were the Sky Priority check in (no problems with fixing Mikey’s passport number) and the first class lounge. 
The lounge was spacious and comfortable. A perfect place to relax while we waited to catch our flight. They had free massage chairs in the lounge. They were torture chambers. I tried one and it just kept. Punching me in the same place on my back. Mikey tried a different one and the leg area inflated around his calves to a painful point and trapped him in to the point where he thought, “should I yell out for help? And how do I do that in Mandarin?” Fortunately, moments later the evil chair released him. Dispite the torturous massage chairs we were super grateful we got so spend our time in the lounge after seeing the very crowded and extremely worn waiting area. We blew the remaining Chinese currency in the duty free store and, after a delay of about an hour and a half we took off to Hong Kong. Shanghai’s airport boards many of its planes right from the tarmac. They cram and I mean cram everyone onto a bus that takes around ten minutes to get to the plane. Standing room only. Another perk of first class was having a smaller limo like bus take is to the plane. It’s the little things.

Hong Kong customs was a breeze (we’ve really lucked out with immigration lines) and we found a taxi to take us to the hotel. The Hong Kong taxis are different colors, green, red or blue. You choose the color of the taxi based on where you are headed. We were remaining on Lantau Island where both the airport and Disneyland are so it was a blue taxi for us. 

We got to the hotel around 11:30pm. It was around 82 degrees with humidity at around 80%. At 11:30pm. Gross. 

Disney’s Hollywood Hotel is really pretty. It’s Art Deco design harkens back to the golden age of Hollywood.

Hong Kong Disneyland opens at 10:30am so hopefully we’ll get a good night’s sleep and be ready to hit the day…and the humidity.