When I discovered last year that Madison could no longer travel whenever we wanted, we quickly decided and booked a short getaway for her March holidays to Disneyland in Hong Kong.
Travelling with kids always makes me nervous.
First of all I worry if we will actually MAKE the trip. Would the kids fall sick just before?
Of course Liam runs a low grade temperature and pukes the day before we were supposed to fly. Fortunately he was afebrile the morning of the flight and we did get on the plane.
The flight was quite hilarious. It was his 'first' flight and he was terrified everytime they made an announcement on the PA system. And whenever the air stewardesses came he would wave them away with a 'bye bye'.
We made it to Hong Kong in about 4 hours, and checked into the HK Disneyland resort. The place was fabulous! Service was attentive, the grounds were huge and very child friendly. We had 2 rooms booked and they provided a cot for Liam. They also had kid sized bathrobes and slippers!
We spent 1.5 days at Disneyland and the kids had a really good time. The rides are small kid friendly so they could ride on almost all of them. We caught a few shows too which were very well put together. Plenty of retail therapy as well; who could resist shopping in the Disney shops?
The kids were really sad to check out of the resort, but we had planned to go visit the Science and space museum in Mongkok.
The second hotel we checked into was horrible. It was recommended by a friend who thought it was a full service apartment, but when we got there it was no where near any standard of service. I spent the night camping on the floor because we couldn't get a spare mattress. Basically there was no number that we could even call for any help!
First thing next morning I called up the Langham place hotel ( where our friends were staying ) and got us rooms. It was a 1000% upgrade. We also upgraded to 2 family rooms, so in effect we wound up with 4 rooms ( 2 sets of 2 interconnecting rooms ). There was an inhouse spa, sky pool and gym on the 41st floor of the hotel. It was in the middle of Mongkok so we were right smack next to shops and food. The kids were well looked after too-- the staff were attentive, and they had bathrobes/slippers for the kids too!
After we moved over to the Langham place hotel the rest of the stay was fabulous. We managed to go see the Science museum, watch an Omnimax show ( which I fell asleep in -- chair was pretty comfortable!) and have a few good Yum cha meals. The kids enjoyed the pool at the hotel, and I got to use the onsen in the restroom.
Too soon it was time to go home and the kids were really sad to have to leave Hong Kong. We've had some bad experiences in Hong Kong so this was a really good experience for us. I think we probably would be back to enjoy the DisneyLand resort soon in the future.
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