Rachel's Next Adventure

Much like SeaWorld in California this park has enough to keep you entertained for a full day. I'm not going to get into the arguments about the parks so i'm going to keep this post really short. The shows are essentially the same as California, but as this year was a special anniversary for the parks, they had staff members out surprising random guests with gifts. I really enjoyed this viewing area, which is something I didn't see in California. I'm going to keep this post short, its a park that will keep you relatively entertained while you're there because of the shows, but thinking back there isn't really anything that stands out. Follow this blog on BlogLovin'

Disney's All Star Sports Resort We decided to stay at the All Star Sports as we wanted to stay on site and this hotel had a running track which my fiancé wanted to use in the mornings. When we arrived to our room we found this on the bed, although sadly, despite tipping MouseKeeping daily this was the only Mickey head they made me, so I was devastated when my fiancé messed it up! The hotel also does pizza delivery, or you can pick it up, we got one one night from the restaurant, neither of us really liked it to be honest. One day we noticed that Mouse Keeping had put a towel bunny in our window, it was a cute surprise. But then the next time I went to my room I noticed all of my Duffy Vinylmation were missing. I ran out to the window and saw this display! The hotel has more than one pool, with games and movies being shown at the main pool, but it was always loud and busy, the pool near our room was mostly quiet and more relaxing, but it wasn...

My fiancé and I had both ordered in room surprises for each other for our first full day at Walt Disney World. When we arrived back at our room around lunch time the gift I got him was there. And when we went back at night, the one he got me had arrived too. The website is really easy to use and I personally recommend it if you feel like surprising someone you're travelling with, they have a lot of gifts from balloons and autograph books to sweets and towels. Theres something to put a smile on everyones face! These are the towels we got. Follow this blog on BlogLovin'

In September my fiancé and I travelled to Orlando, Florida and spent two weeks staying on-site at Walt Disney World. We didn't visit the parks on our first day, so the highlights of our first day are shown in the two photographs below. Magic Bands These are fairly new to Walt Disney World, and are for on-site guests and AP holders. They hold your ticket information, your hotel key, you can put your bank card on there too - and they only take the money after you spend a certain amount so you don't get charged international fees for every purchase! My wrist was too small for the adult size, but they have an adjustment to make them smaller so I ended up with my band not having the black outline. These bands also hold your FastPass+ reservations and your Memory Maker information. First visit badges! We got our first set of these at Disneyland California in August 2013. Frozen Lemonade For anyone who hasn't read my posts about Disneyland Resort,...

I wanted a specific tin for saving up for Disney holidays but I couldn't find one to buy that was cheap enough / looked good or big enough so I decided to make my own. First you need an empty and clean soup/spaghetti/custard tin and a flexible tape measure to measure it with.  Once you know the size of your tin, open a new page to that size on PhotoShop, or whatever editing software you have. I then searched for some Mickey heads on Google and arranged them on the page. Once I was happy with that I went back to Google to find a free Disney style font to write "Disney Savings" across the tin. Then all you need to do is print and cut out your design before sticking it onto the tin! Its a nice quick craft you can do, and a good idea to help keep the little ones busy and interested in saving for their Disney trip!  If you want the design I used just comment below and i'll send it over to you. Follow this blog on BlogLov...

Once again, we stayed at the Royal National Hotel. It is in a perfect location, and not too far from Kings Cross is the tube station happens to close (this happens quite often, and we have had to walk to Kings Cross to catch our train before, so please leave spare time if you need to catch a train - no matter where you're staying!). The breakfast here is absolutely amazing, although i'm pretty sure the bread buns come in frozen, a sausage sandwich for breakfast here beats one anywhere else. They offer a cooked breakfast and a continental breakfast, depending on your room type you might just get the continental breakfast included in the price, but you can pay for the cooked breakfast if you want to (I think its about £4.95 per day for the cooked breakfast). The rooms have a kettle and a hairdryer, but you might want to take your own hairdryer as the in room hairdryers aren't that powerful. They do leave some tea bags in the room, but not many so if you...

In August I took another visit to London Zoo, this time with my Mam and my brother, neither of them have been to London Zoo before, and neither of them have been to a zoo for about two or three years. We had a nice day out together, although my brother was tired and grumpy, he took a little bit of a nap resting on a table while my Mam and I got a cookie. The cookies here are absolutely amazing! Nice and crunchy, none of that gooey in the centre mess. As I posted about the zoo not that long ago, i'm going to let the pictures speak for the zoo this time. Follow this blog on BlogLovin'