上海迪士尼度假区 — Hotel in Shanghai

Disneyland was always so magical, having a good experience at the park, but why 3 stars -- here's the reason why :

The staffs, both the park and the hotel, and even the shoppes, aren't foreigner friendly. Most of the staffs can't speak English at all, and not all of them have the efforts on opening their translate apps, So you, as a visitor have to understand chinese or download translate that has " Chinese ( china mainland ) " languages. Which for me personally, as an international tourist attraction for both the hotels and the park, which receiving bunch of international guests from around the world, they must at least learn, know nd understand how to speak English, where most of the guests communicate with it. It's very frustrating when you flew across the globe for thousands of miles or several hours and finally arriving at the hotel, and when you see the Front Office Officers, they cant speak English at all, and just saying : " sorry my english is bad, " and keep explaining with Chinese which they know you don't understand. That's such a waste of time, and could b much better if the FO Officer at least qualified with English. How can the Bell-boy had a better english than the FO Officer?

As a hotel guests, you have the previlege to enter the park 1h earlier, but then, at the tickets gate, they keep on checkin your tickets said that you arent eligible and they didnt find your tickets, it takes like 30 - 40 minutes of the early entry time for that!! Eventough you've shown them the tickets you bought, the park reservation you've been made! And when I asked the Supervisor of the tickets why, back again, she dont know how to explain in english, and she even asked me to CALL the customer care! How can I using my country number calling foreign customer care, while I dont even know what the problem is! so she tried to solve it her own and calling everyone at her cellphone and keep on doing the things the the tickets computer.

Buyin the DPA for Illuminate show, and there's a notes that the entrance is in in front of Mickey somethin I forgot, but when I arrive there, there's no line for Q-ing or even sign for the Illuminate Q, just a bunch of people sitting on the ground, and when I asked the cast member, can he speak english, he said he could, when I asked him again, where is the entrance of the DPA, he answered me in Chinese then saying that his English is bad😂, again and again l, wasting time.

Some of the toilets are very dirty. Emphasizing in VERY

The shoppes, world of Disney and others at the Disneytown was great, plenty of restaurant to choose and easy access from the Disneyland hotel was perfect, both shuttle and wishing star ferry.

The attraction, the shows and the apps are amazing, we could know how long the Q for those attraction and what time will the show begin and how to get there and all the stuffs. But, when I was there, the Tron ride, which the most popular attraction was closed due to maintenance, and it will be closed till 20's of September from the apps.

So yeah, Disneyland was supposed to be magical, but then, lack of languages made it more frustrating than magical. Only if Disneyland shanghai could made their cast member at least can know and understand both English and Chinese will make it much better.

Thank you for both frustrsting and magical experience Disneyland!🤍 Would love to see some changes in my next visit, that might changes the...

So first things first, if you are a Westerner and not used to Eastern culture be prepared to get extremely frustrated at the queues, a) there is a lot of them, and b) personal space is non existent. But if you are okay with these two things then this is a great addition to the Disney east set of parks!

Tron is probably now in my top 5 roller coasters I have personally ridden, and being a bit of a theme park junkie I have been on a fair few! From the themeing to the actual coaster are absolutely spot on, great acceleration, great G through shallow and tighter turns and great elevation changes.

Pirates of the Caribbean is just WOW!! Disney need to learn a lesson here and change them all to the same style as this one! Not just the boring plodding boat ride here! The ocean entering and exiting scenes, where you are fully immersed in feeling like you are accelerating or falling without doing neither are just absolutely top notch! WELL DONE DISNEY!! WELL DONE!!

Then we have soaring, wasnt impressed, I am going to Florida Disney World in a few weeks and hope the one there is better! or at least rode of the banshee is better. (being the same technology, also, I know Epcot has a soaring too so will go on that too)

Roaring rapids at points was good, at others not great, with a fast pass worth it, with out, if I was to return to this park, which is highly likely with working in China a fair amount, I would not waste the time going back on it, same goes for the dwarves mine train. The swinging cars take a lot of the G forces out of the coaster but some really nice swooping lines, If single rider is working and you can cut the enormous queue down to the bare minimum its worth a ride but not with a wait of over 100 minutes.

Buzz light year was quick and cheerful and actually I thought was better than the Paris equivalent.

The one ride that really really took me by surprise was Rex's Racer! Great ride! Super enjoyable! Rode it twice even with an hour queue and no single rider line! really enjoyed it!

Overall it was a great day! The parades were shorter than Florida in the past and Paris, but there is multiple of them. The firework show wasn't as good as Paris either.

If you are a big Disney parks fan, when you walk in for me it was missing that WOW/ smile factor, I think it was the lack of Main Street USA like the others have, then the castle is a miss for me too, with not being able to walk from main street right through the castle, instead having to walk round it made me draw away from the castle. Also something else I have just realised why writing this, is that there was a lack of princesses, IF I was attending with my wife this would have made/ broken the park for her, as she is a fan of the princesses.

Overall though an absolutely brilliant Disney day!! Disney has knocked it out of the park again!! I will...

Pretty bad to be honest. In terms of disneyland's, i only been to two so far, but I really suggest skipping this one. Aside from cultural things (you know, people filming/turning on lights on their phones during rides , jumping the queue etc) My main problem with shanghai disneyland are rides and theming. They suck and not up to par compared to other disney parks. Theming in park itself is just awful. There's barely any thought put into it and it seems to be rushed. For example, in tokyo one, the theming is so good that you can really believe you're not in japan but you're somewhere else, just purely on how good the theming in that park is done, there's a lot of themed buildings, you could see attention to detail, where shanghai one feels like rushed job. I say only one land , the toy story land, feels like they actually put some effort into making that land themed, everything else , when it came to theming , felt really effortless. Hell, i dare to say chinese amusement parks has better theming! Then another issue is the rides. It's heavily and i mean HEAVILY aimed at young kids. A lot of rides felt like dumbed down versions of japanese ones. For example, honey the pooh ride is just downgraded version of the one in japan (they completely cut out spinning part with mirrors and such, honestly a best part of the ride!!!) There are some improved rides like peter pan one, however, the improvements are rather barely noticable. A lot of the rides seemed very dumbed down to appeal for young kids (the cart ride, the water ride is extremely dumbed down). The only ride that felt was aimed for everybody/anyone thats not 8 year old) was Tron and maybe the obstacle course if you choose hard path. Which sucks because as an adult, you just gonna have a bad/boring time, something that japanese one managed to avoid by having a nice balance between rides for kids and rides for adults/everyone. And the worst part is there's very little rides to begin with!! The park is extremely small compared to others, with very little rides and none of the rides are even unique (tron is opening in US soon and the only thing that shanghai one has to offer that isint in other parks are obstacle courses) I would highly recommend just go to japanese one unless youre in shanghai and you have little kids with you. The only reason im giving 2 stars is because hotel and hotel staff were quite nice. Oh and the food sucks too. (Unlike...