The beauty of Shanghai Disneyland Enchanted Storybook Castle
Hi everyone! On June 22nd – 23rd 2016, we went to °o° Shanghai Disneyland (SHDL) in China! Coming from a Disney Fan in Malaysia, never in our life we thought we could visit the grand opening month of a Disney park!
Therefore, we are really grateful and lucky to have this opportunity! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧*yayayay*
As excited as you are, we woulda like to share a brief overview/review/summary/personal thoughts of our Shanghai Disneyland trip.
Our full SHDL’s travelogue a.k.a Dairy with actual timeline and details will only be completed and posted in few months time. We apologize to those who wanted to read.
We will separate this post into few parts. (please click the link to read)
A) Preparation before your trip
B) Information before you enter the park
C) Welcome to Shanghai Disneyland!
D) Brief summary of our Adventure
* // DISCLAIMER: All information we share in this blog is based on our personal experiences during our visit to Shanghai Disneyland in June 2016. Information we share might change / not be accurate during the time of your visit. We advise our reader to use our information as a basic guideline/ for references only. We are not associated with the Walt Disney Company and any other entertainment company. All characters belong to Disney. All photographs (unless otherwise stated) contained on this site are our own, taken by us (fattybunbun.blogspot.com). This means that we reserve the rights to all photos taken and posted by us. The purpose of this blog is to document and share our Disney experience with the readers.//*
[Written in June 2016]
PART A: Preparation before the trip
1. Visa- You'll need a valid Passport and a Chinese VISA to enter China.
- Since we're from Malaysia, we apply for our Chinese Visa at the Chinese Visa application centre located in Hampshire Place Office, Kuala Lumpur.
The office address is,
Level 5 & 6,
Hampshire Place Office,
Jalan Mayang Sari,
50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - You are required to fill in a form, bring a photocopy of your travel document, 1 passport photo and pay a fee to obtain a VISA.
- RM80 (normal service: 4 days to process); RM300+ (immediate service).(As of date June 2016)
- The centre provides a passport photo service, photocopy, and printing service as well.
- Please visit their Official Website for more information.
2. Attire:
- For non-fancy dressers: Good ol’ comfy top, a bottoms/ skirt stretchable enough for TRON roller coaster ride (lol) and A MUST - comfortable shoes!
- For fancy dressers: Gurl, guiseee you know your style. This is optional but you too can try to,
- Disneybound because it’s so much fun! or
- Theme dressing with your pals (eg Winnie the Pooh theme, Mickey & friends theme)
- Twinning outfits for couples and sisters!
- Lastly, cute and comfortable shoes to match your outfit! - If you have a Kid, you could also bring her to the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique inside the Castle for a full hair & makeup Princess transformation for a FEE / PRICE. A very magical experience!!!
- Every Disney Park requires you to walk, long stand and maybe jog a little most of the time. So be sure to put on a pair of comfortable shoes.
Our Mickey, Minnie, Donald & Daisy theme.
3. Bag:
- A small sling bag or backpacks are recommended.
- Backpacks are useful.
- It’s big enough to just dump everything in and carry around.
- The downside is you have to place your bag under your leg for some rides.
- Probably need a raincoat for rainy weather. - A small sling bag is light & easy.
- It’s really convenient to keep your phone, park tickets, and a photo pass.
- The downside, there's no space for bigger items like water bottle or umbrella. - Regardless of how big or small your bag is, you still need to proceed to security/bag check before entering the park. (But that isn’t much trouble)
- Most bags and camera bags will be asked to put under the seats during most of the rides.
- We just found out there's a luggage storage service right next to the ticket counter.
- *Bunny tips*
- Bring the only necessary item (passport/park tickets/camera/water bottle/umbrella/raincoat) with you/in your bag. - And keep the rest in the lockers, it is much more convenient when it comes to playing rides and taking a photo.
Oswald backpack that we bought in SHDL
4. Food & Drinks:
- Outside food & drinks are allowed to bring in the park but with T&C apply.
- Mineral water bottle is sold in the park as well if you wouldn’t mind spending some bucks on it.
- *Bunny tips*
- Bring a small 500ml water bottle, IMO water bottles more than 500ml are bulky and heavy.
- You can refill your empty water bottle as you walk along the park, mostly found near the toilet.
A water fountain in Adventure Isle
5. NO selfie sticks :
- Selfie sticks are restricted and 100% does not allow in the park. Probably because you may block people view and hit someone.
- Also, there’s plenty of photo pass photographer in the park who can take great photos for you!
6. Credit Cards
- Shanghai Disney Resort and Shanghai Disney store accept foreign credit cards, but we're not sure if all foreign card is accepted. Ours is a VISA card.
7. Recommended items in Summer:
- A fan is highly recommended. As of now, I don’t think they are selling a fan in the park except for the 200 yuan super expensive but super cool with a water spray gun electric fan.(◕︵◕)
- Umbrellas and raincoat/poncho. (Disposable cost 10yuan, pretty Disney official cost 50+/- ).
- Sunblock, it might come in handy.
- Powerbank / portable charger.
8. Cameras:
- We're using our trusty Canon DSLR with 18-55mm standard lens for most of our photos.
- A GoPro Hero 4 sliver with a wrist strap (mostly use in rides) and an iPhone as a secondary camera.
9. Disney Apps :
- Shanghai Disney Resort app (Left): A virtual map to look around the park and allows you to check the waiting/queuing time for every ride, showtimes, basic information such as toilets location, First Aim centre and etc. (Click here for more info).
- Photopass app (Right): allows you to view the photos taken by the photo pass photographer and search location for photo pass spot.
Both apps are available for iPhone and Android (photo credits: Shanghai Disneyland)
Okie Dokie!
That's the basic preparation tips and information we would like to share! Tho, they were just simple tips, but we hope they come in handy for ya trip to Shanghai Disneyland!
You can continue to read our part B of our Shanghai Disneyland post, " B) Information before you enter the park" by clicking this link.
Where we talk about the stuff that will be going on before the gates open at 9 in the morning!
Till then.
Signing off,
Fattybunbun 🐾
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