Hong Kong...

For the short time I was in Hong Kong, it was great. Technically the ship was there for two days, but because I was signed up for a trip to Beijing, I departed Hong Kong early on the second day.

One of the reasons I was excited to go to Hong Kong, was because that is where Disney has built their newest park. It was soo interesting (for me at least) to compare how they changed their product to cater to the market there. My friend Cat (from the ship) came with me. I was lucky enough to have had two extra complimentary tickets from my time at Disney, which I was able to use to get into the park there. It was definitely an added bonus!


I was surprised how many of the signs were in English. Many people don't know that before this park opened, many cast members trained at Walt Disney World.

I thought the Jungle Cruise attraction was brilliant! There are essentially two main languages in China - Mandarin and Cantonese, in addition to English, so I was interested to find out how they would handle that challenge on a spieling attraction (one in which the person at the front of the boat has a talking part). Their solution - 3 different lines, one for each language, and they rotated the boats: one for Mandarin, one for Cantonese and one for English! How cool is that?!

The Hong Kong skyline - amazing. Soo different from NYC!