A Disney Parks Around the World Journey: Day 4 – Man Plans, God Laughs Part II

“It’s not about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.”

A Disney Parks Around The World Journey: Day 4 – Man Plans, God Laughs

“The best laid plans of mice and men…”

A Disney Parks Around the World Journey: Day 3 – Four Parks, One Day Part II

2nd part of our 4 parks in 1 day journey.

A Disney Parks Around the World Journey: Day 3 – Four Parks, One Day

Today we knock a bucket list item off our list. 4 parks in one day and a VIP tour.

A Disney Parks Around the World Journey: Day 2 – The Calm Before the Storm

An easier slower paced day as we rest up before the upcoming parks marathon.

A Disney Parks Around the World Journey: Day 1 – Away We Go

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

Enough talk. After over a year in planning and over five years since we last tried to do a similar trip, and Kendall getting run over by a car in that time frame we are finally embarking on our adventure across the globe.

A Disney Parks Around the World Journey: The Planning Part IV

For those just tuning in, here’s a quick one sentence recap of what happened in our last episode of Disney Trek: Warp Speed through the Parks. Bottom line, I had missed out on the initial release of discount business class seats on Zipair despite waiting on them for OVER 5 MONTHS!!!

A Disney Parks Around the World Journey: The Planning Part III

Our plane was set to arrive at 4:35 PM in Tokyo Narita Airport. This final international park is by far the one we were the most excited about, and not surprisingly also required the most research of the international parks. Tokyo Disney Resort is a world unto itself, as it is not owned by The Walt Disney Company but is instead owned by The Oriental Land Company.

A Disney Parks Around the World Journey: The Planning Part II

So assuming we make it to our 11:30PM flight to Shanghai, we now needed to find a flight from Shanghai to Hong Kong. When booking award flights you often don’t pick the dates, the dates pick you. Searching the various awards programs turned up Cathay Pacific, which is the flag carrier for Hong Kong. Thankfully, Cathay Pacific had a large amount of business class availability so we were able to pick any date we so choose.

A Disney Parks Around the World Journey: The Planning Part I

Of note, this was written about 5 days pre-trip, so we have no idea how good or bad these plans are gonna turn out, and some plans will likely change just based on last second audibles. Everything can l can crumble faster than a Chips Ahoy cookie dumped in milk as our as planes get delayed, aircraft swaps occur, and bad weather sets in.