After my first visit to Disney Hong Kong I wasn’t particularly keen on going back a second time and encountering the same experience ( horrible food, long lines, people yelling and pushing the like). I guess I have to be somewhat glad to say it wasn’t so bad but Disney Hong Kong, like any Disneyland anywhere in the world, is still way down on my list of things to do in Hong Kong.
Grobbler has become a Star Wars Guru and sine Disney Hong Kong has a star wars themed ride (which we did last time, about a year and half ago), and Jedi Training, thought he’s absolutely love it. First up, we arrived, as usual, about 5-10 minutes before opening time, not many people, so a good start. First thing we went to do was prebook and register for the Jedi Training, which has 3 sessions throughout the day. We did the first one which was at 11:45. Short walk over to the Star Wars ride, HyperSpace Mountain. The first time we did Grobbler was around 4, and had I known how fast it was, I never would have taken him on it.
I was holding on to him for dear life and trying to make out like I was really enjoying it, when in fact I was just thinking when is this going to end. I thought bungy jumping was less scary. So anyway, I was surprised when he said he wanted to do it. Second time around wasn’t so bad, about a 5 minute wait. The ride is quite fast, it’s mostly dark and only lasts a few minutes. If you have younger kids that scar easily, they will crap themselves.
Next up we headed to It’s A Small World. Grobbler didn’t want to go, but we wanted to first in to the Star Wars Command Post, which II’ll cover in a minute. It’s A Small World at Disney Hong Kong is absolutely, positively…shite. Basically you can taken on a boat through a canal where you can see small things. The worst thing about it is it takes so long. I haven’t been on all the rides at Disney Hong Kong, but this must be one of the longest, and with no chance to abandon. Unless you really like looking at weird looking models of people and animals and things, give this a miss. I asked what rating he gave it, and he said 0/10. Stink would be an understatement!
Here’s What We Both Thought of A Small World
Next we headed to Star Wars Command Post, which is basically just a photo op of either R2D2 or Chewbacca. We were first in, no wait, no lines, apart from the dickheads who hadn’t come across the concept of lining up and tried to get in front of us. You get about 10 seconds where the staff will take a shit photo in shit light of you and R2D2. If you have to cue for this at all, it’s not worth it, but if there’s nobody there, I guess it’s worth a go if you’re into Star Wars.
We then had some lunch. After the shit food we had last time at Disney Hong Kong, I came prepared with a sandwich. Up comes the Jedi Training, which sounds awesome but is not. A few minutes earlier we bought a make your own Light Saber in the shop, but much to Grobbler’s disappointment, were told you can’t use. Anyway, basically there’s a bit of a show, Darth Vader comes out and a rather good looking Rey comes out to fight him.
They line the kids up and they get about 2-3 seconds to “fight” Darth Vader (or another character if they’re unlucky). It’s all rather rushed but I guess they’ve got to give as many kids a go as possible so fair enough. I thought Grobbler still would have loved it, but after finishing he said it wasn’t that good. So enough with the Star Wars, we headed to the Iron Man ride, which is basically an indoor simulator. It’s actually done pretty well, you take off over Hong Kong and the experience is not bad. We both though that was alright. Prepare to line up for that though.
We then headed for a go at the spinning cups, again no lines on that, but if there are, don’t bother because you’ll be lining up for 30 minutes for a ride that lasts about 1 minute. After that we’d both had enough of Disney Hong Kong, but went on the River Safari again, which is, you guessed it, nothing to write home about. We waited about 10 minutes, not too bad, but the actual ride is, like most thing at Disney Hong Kong, rather tacky and childish with not much going for it.
Yes, let’s dress our kid up in suit to go to Disneyland!
So there you have it. Second trip to Disney Hong Kong was marginally better than the first, but unless you really like Disney, think twice about going.
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