Trip Report Walt Disney World 2015 February-March Day 1&2

We went to Walt Disney World in 2015, from February 28th till March 14th. We flew from Amsterdam to Dublin, and from Dublin to Orlando International Airport with Air Lingus. The was our first stay on Disney property, we stayed for 5 days at the Caribbean Beach Resort. This is my Trip Report about this adventure!

Day 1 - Home Sweet Home 

We left on Friday to stay at a hotel nearby Schiphol Airport. My company are my parents, my sister and her boyfriend, and my boyfriend John. It was John's first time to fly to America, so he was a little bit nervous about it. On saturday morning, 6:15AM we checked out from our hotel, and a shuttle bus brought us to the Airport. We had a stop over at Dublin, and that's were the trouble started. My Dad had an 0 in his pasport numbre, and the lady thought it was an O. She didn't give my Dad his boarding pass because of that. "It can happen that someones is being declined", she said. We had to register for a new ESTA form, but we weren't allowed to use a computer, so we had to do this on a mobile phone. Not ideal... The lady checked again, and she still saw that he was declined. "It can take up to 24hours before approval". But we don't have 24hours, we only have 2 hours left to catch our next flight! Again, we said it was a zero, and not an O. She checked again. "Yes, it is approved, Daddy can go!"

That was very nervewrecking! Good thing we had 3 hours to catch our next flight, because of this we already lost 1 hour.

I will spare the other details, something about that the gate would close, but didn't, so we rushed for nothing.

After the second flight, which took 7 hours, we arrived at Orlando International Airport. We had booked the Disney Magical Express, and it was wonderfull! At the check-in the people were smiling, and making you feel at home already! We were so tired, that we forgot to take a picture of the Magical Express. So here's a photo from google ;-)

The Magical Express dropped us of at Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort. We were pleasantly supprised by the bell boys! What a luxury to not have to carry your own luggage! But we also felt a bit embarrased to tell you the truth, we have never experienced this!

Day 2 - Animal Kingdom "Birdie what are you doing?"

Well hello jetleg! We woke up at 5:30AM, and we were lucky that the food court was open early. We had a nice walk from Jamaica, building 41, to Old Port Royale Centertown.

Nice warm weather, a walk by the water, yes, this is vacation! I just love American breakfast, so I chose the bounty platter: scrumbled eggs, bacon and pancakes!

After a lovely breakfast we went to Animal Kingdom. We had our fastpass+ reservations made, so our first stop would be Kilimanjaro Safari. I love that attraction, seeing the animals so up close and to not see any gates and stuff. We went on an early morning safari, so a lot of animals were out there! And we had such a lovely driver, who knew where the gaspendal was, so to say, haha. We were lifted off our seats, whiieee! So much fun!

Next stop: Expedition Everest! Fortunally, we only had to "wait" 5 min, thanks to Fastpass+. We did manage to escape from the Yeti again, it was time for some refreshments! My brother-in-law wanted the Ice tea, and boy, that was litterly iced tea! We poored 5 bags of sugar in it, and it still tasted like old cold tea.... Wouldn't chose that again!

We saw the beautiful show Flights of Wonder, that tour guide always makes me laugh. "Follow the flaaaaaag!" Briljant!













Character time! We saw Baloo & King Louis, Mickey & Minnie and Russell & Dug! Russell loved my digital autograph book which I made myself.

I just let the photos speak for itself.

"What would you like to see on this Safari?"

"An ice bear!" 

Birdie, what are you doing?





We had dinner at our resort. We were pretty tired after this first day. But I love Animal Kingdom! I dare to say that it's my favorite park: there are animals (lots of them!), characters meetings, lovely places to eat, lots of green in the parc, and it doesn't feel like you're in this gigantic theme park.



What's your favorite Disney park?