Expect numerous “breakout articles” that devote more attention to each individual attraction, restaurant, etc.
If you are reading this because you’re planning a trip, I do think the report itself will be valuable, but I also plan on writing a series of trip planning articles about Tokyo Disney Resort. If this report ends up “costing” you a trip across the Pacific…don’t say I didn’t warn you! Photos don’t do the place justice, but they do convey some of its beauty and quality. If you don’t already, I suspect this report will make you want to visit Tokyo Disney Resort. It is the most incredible place I’ve ever visited. Not only will Tokyo Disney Resort blow you away, but Japan will, as well. You will not be disappointed by Tokyo Disney Resort unless you hate awesome things. We call this our Disney Grand Circle Tour of the Pacific Rim, and describe how you can do it here. However, there’s an awesome trick for visiting Tokyo Disney Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland, and Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa all for the price of a single plane ticket to Asia. That is, for those traveling without kids since airfare is per person and most hotels aren’t, the more plane tickets you add to the trip, the more comparatively expensive a trip to Tokyo becomes.
Airfare is more expensive, but nice hotel accommodations and park tickets are cheaper, which comes close to offsetting the difference. A trip to Tokyo is not that much more expensive for a childless couple or an individual than a vacation to Walt Disney World. If you’ve said “someday” when thinking about Tokyo Disney Resort in the past, I’d encourage you to go make it happen now.
Obviously, there are other obstacles like money and time, but a big roadblock to accomplishing things is often mentality. I think that without making concrete steps to make something happen, that thing will generally not happen. I don’t want to end up with a long list of things I am going to do “someday” when I’m 70 years old because I never made the plans to actually do the things I wanted to do, but instead just hoped they would happen eventually.
I’ve been doing this because I am a believer that “someday never comes.” I think the sentiment that “I’ll do that…someday” is an easy way to destine a goal to fail. Basically, for the last two years, I’ve been perpetually planning this trip. I even regularly priced hotels and had an instant email alert set-up for airfare to Tokyo. We’ve been trying to visit Tokyo Disney Resort for a couple of years, but the logistics hadn’t completely worked out (which is why we visited Disneyland Paris first) until this spring, just after the start of “The Happiness Year” (Tokyo Disney Resort’s 30th Anniversary).ĭespite these obstacles, I had been keeping the Tokyo trip on my radar, regularly reading Tokyo Disney Resort blogs, and following Tokyo locals on social media. Tokyo Disney Resort, consisting of Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySea, hotels and some other stuff, is the holy grail for most Disney theme park fans–it occupied the top slot on our bucket list for a few years beating out surely incredible experiences like meeting Christopher Walken and taking a chimpanzee surfing.