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If you're going to Japan for a week, I highly recommend to take a day or two outside of Tokyo Disney Resort and visit areas in Tokyo. One day at each park, perhaps 2 days at each if you really like Disney is more than enough and Japan has so much more to offer. But it you really want to go only for Tokyo Disney, you can book TDR hotels up to 5 nights and you can make multiple reservations if you need to cover more days. You can purchase tickets separately. For vacation packages, you can also book multiple packages, but that could get costly.

@GenX_Travel Thank you for responding! We have a tour of Japan through Gate 1 Travel we are interested in, so I'm looking at doing Tokyo Disney first, then move over to the Gate 1 hotel to start the tour of the country. Is it possible to book a package and add a few more days separately at the same hotel? It seems odd to limit everything to just 2 days.

@@TheCelticgirl62 Oh, that sounds like a good plan! You can definitely book a package and then separately book reservations for additional days for before or after the package at the same hotel. Just know that the packages become available at least a month before individual hotel rooms become available so you will have to wait a month or so before you can book the rest of your trip. It can get tricky though, since some popular rooms can be difficult to book, so you might end up having to change rooms or even hotels during your stay. The good thing is that as long as you pick a hotel within the monorail loop, the hotel will forward your luggage to the next hotel. On our first trip we had 3 different rooms in a 4 nights stay at the same Ambassador hotel, but the hotel moved our luggage to our next rooms while we were at the parks, so there was no issue, other than we could not unpack all if we wanted to. On our second trip, we were at 2 different hotels (Disneyland and MiraCosta) some nights with VP and some nights without and again they were very accommodating with transferring our luggage.

@GenX_Travel wonderful recommendations. I'm thinking it would be easier to book the hotel and do everything else à la carte. I'm sure it will be the only time I'd ever be there, so I don't mind paying for special passes, etc. I don't want to feel rushed if you know what I mean. Is park hopping a thing, or you buy tickets for one park only?

@@TheCelticgirl62 Unfortunately they don't have park hopping at this time. You could purchase tickets for each park for the same day, but if it's your first time visiting, a full day at each park would be best. Have fun!

I hear you! Their calendar dates keep rolling, but the vacation packages (VP) are not available until about 5 months in advance for the whole month. They used to announce ahead of time when the next month extension would be available for VPs, but they seem to have stopped doing so. Last announcement was for the release of April VPs on Nov 6th. The one prior was for the Oct 3rd release of March VPs. I noticed that the May VPs were released early Dec, but could not find an announcement for it. On the reservations page, if you look at where it says Information and click on List, you can see recent announcement news. Right now looks like they're setting for June VPs (a little late it seems), but the dates are not really available yet, but they should be available soon. I would say that the July VPs will come up at the beginning of Feb. So my recommendation would be to keep an eye staring on Feb 1st and check every day from there. Or keep an eye for announcements in case they start giving notice again. The previous packages have been released at 3 pm JST on the date they select usually a day in the first week of the month, so if you convert to your local time, that would be a good time to check. Success and enjoy Tokyo Disney!

I got Zanmu from the Ado official music store. They still have it available for sale for about $36 plus shipping, which to the USA was about the same in shipping. The other 2, I got closer to when they were released. You can find in auction sites, but the prices can get outrageous.

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Yes, in your case you'll pick 2 for rooms, 5 for adults and 1 for children on the first step. It will ask you the age of the child and if you want the child to share a bed or have a separate bed. Once you select the room type, it will ask you how many adults on room 1 and how many adults on room 2, and also to select the room for the child (room 1 or room 2).

No, tickets are not included with booking the hotel. The hotel is kind of a partner hotel, not an official USJ hotel. They do have a ticket counter at the hotel where you can purchase tickets, but I recommend you try to purchase tickets in advance through USJ website or vendor sites such as Klook.

@@GenX_Travel Doesn't the hotel reservation also come with the express pass?

@@fabianavargasdelara6821 Not sure where you're getting that information from. This video is a review of the Park Front Hotel located in the Universal City area across from the Universal Studios Japan park. There is no mention of tickets or express passes. I do have another video on how to purchase tickets and express passes for the parks. Those are separately sold.

You can only use premier access queue for the rides that you select on the vacation package. For other rides (not including Fantasy Springs rides) you will need to use the regular standby queue. When you enter the parks, you can also purchase priority access passes for individual rides for about $20 US each if they're available (they go fast some days). These only apply to popular rides that have priority access. There's also a 40th anniversary pass that is free that you can try to get for some rides once you enter the parks as well. The Fantasy Springs packages allow unlimited access to the FS rides Peter Pan, Rapunzel, and Frozen through the priority queue and Tinker Bell through the standby queue as well with the Magic passport. This will be over on 3/31/2025. I made an updated video about the new vacation packages after that date and the link is in the description. ruclips.net/video/uv-0MAH8jJo/видео.html

Hi, the maids did not perform during our visit. We did go down to the stage to take pictures with our maid and other maids were doing the same. The website mentions that they might practice singing on stage, but it's not necessarily a show. They have a separate stage on the same building where they perform and it's called Akiba Broadway and it happens on Wednesday evenings, but that's a separate event.

True, I must have inadvertently had Google Translate on while going through the site. There are a few English words here and there, but not the entire site. The process is intuitive for most people regardless, but in order to see the main instructions in English, a translation extension such as Google Translate is needed.

Sure. Note that this is only for the Grand Chateau side and not the Fantasy Chateau side. If you visit the Tokyo Disney website and click on Hotels and select the Fantasy Springs hotel, you will see a section to learn more about the Grand Chateau. There you will see information on the 8 attraction tickets included that can be used on some of the most popular rides at both parks. This is the list from the site: <From April 1, 2025> ■Tokyo Disneyland Big Thunder Mountain Splash Mountain Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast Pooh's Hunny Hunt Haunted Mansion Star Tours: The Adventures Continue The Happy Ride with Baymax Monsters, Inc. Ride & Go Seek! ■Tokyo DisneySea Soaring: Fantastic Flight Turtle Talk Tower of Terror Toy Story Mania! Nemo & Friends SeaRider Indiana Jones® Adventure: Temple of the Crystal Skull Raging Spirits Anna and Elsa's Frozen Journey Rapunzel's Lantern Festival Peter Pan's Never Land Adventure Fairy Tinker Bell's Busy Buggies The Magic Lamp Theater 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Journey to the Center of the Earth

@litacurran4348 The drink voucher is for unlimited drinks during the 2 days of the package at both parks. There are some limitations on the type of drinks you can get, the locations where you can get the drinks, and a time frame you might have to wait between drinks, but all those details will be included in the vacation package documents. They recently expanded the selection of drinks too so that is a plus.

@GenX_Travel thank you so much. Happy Holidays.

Good suggestion! Will keep in mind for future videos of this kind.

Depending on what month you're going in 2025 the vacation packages will vary. These Fantasy Springs packages are good until March 2025 and you can book them already for any date up to March 2025. Tokyo Disney released new packages for April 2025 earlier this month and packages for May have not been announced yet. Looks like they're announcing them about 5 months in advance, so most likely packages for the month of May 2025 will be announced early December and so on. So, once you know what date you plan to visit, start looking at their website for packages. For the last release, they became available at 3pm Japan time, so you'll have to convert that to your local time.

@@o2g1337 You’re welcome! Thanks for watching. Sorry for the confusion, each person gets only one card. There were 2 of us so I got the Princess card and my son got the Master card. Have fun! It’s a pretty unique experience.

​@@GenX_Travel Thank you :)

Aww, sweet! Always fun to see something again years later and bring back the memory.

Can I get the physical ticket home delivery to India or need to collect from somewhere,if somewhere then where it is

@@Drk12-yt Hello! When you book the vacation package through Tokyo Disney that includes the hotel stay and park tickets, you will receive a confirmation email when you book. When you get to the hotel on your check-in day, they will give you a folder with all of your tickets printed out.

@@GenX_Travel Wow,nice, thanks for clarifying,see u👍🏻✨

@@GenX_Travel How many Rapunzel area boat rides we will get in the day 1 passport(attraction and more)

@ The Fantasy Springs Magic 1-day passport included gets you unlimited rides to all the attractions in FS on the specific day (usually it’s day 2, the day at DisneySea), so you can ride Rapunzel as many times as you want. The package usually says Disneyland on day1 and DisneySea on day 2, so check first, you can only ride FS on the DisneySea day, but yes there’s no limit on how many times.

Thanks for watching the video! When you book a VP, you will receive a folder at check-in with cardstock paper tickets and vouchers. They’re all printed on the same page(s) and you separate them by pulling them apart on the dotted lines. For the FS Magic pass, you will show the ticket at the entrance to FS and they will give you a wristband either at the entrance or at the first FS attraction you visit (depending on how busy the entrance is is my guess). To ride each FS attraction, you have to show both your ticket and the wristband at the priority entrance for each attraction. So save the ticket since you will reuse it throughout the day. There will be a separate ticket for the special unlimited attraction pass that you can use to ride attractions in both DL and DS parks via the priority access line. You will present that ticket at each attraction and reuse it at each attraction since it’s unlimited. Unless, they have changed the tickets, note that these are thicker paper tickets about the size of credit cards/business cards, so try to bring a pouch of some sort to keep them from getting damaged or wet since you will be using them often. The drinks ticket is unlimited as well and after 2 days of use they were looking pretty rough, but survived. :-)

😀 Mine too! I cannot guarantee this will be your experience, but when we visited, we were helped by 2 maids. The first maid knew enough English to have a basic conversation with us, take our orders, explain the process, etc. The second maid was in training learning English and she had printed cards with phrases in Japanese and English. She did her best and we did our best to make her feel at ease so that she felt comfortable speaking English with us. So we managed just fine and we didn't have to speak Japanese at all. At the very least, if they can't pronounce something, I'm sure they'll point you to the card to relay what they need to tell you or even use apps to translate. Gambatte!

@@scrap.catastrophe Thank you for the feedback! I really appreciate it. When we were planning our trips, I wanted just the information and perhaps pros and cons, so I try to present it that way and let the viewer make the decision. Enjoy your trip! Japan is beautiful and so are the parks.

Hi! With this Fantasy Springs vacation package, the one day Fantasy Springs Magic pass is included and you can use it on the day specified (the day designated for DisneySea) since the area is inside the DisneySea park. The onsite hotels checkin time is 3 pm and checkout time is noon (12 pm). If you want to stay at the hotel longer, you can probably ask the hotel to see if they offer late checkout, but if you're just going to the park, you can leave your luggage at the hotel bell desk on your checkout day, go to the park, and then return to retrieve your luggage later on. They will absolutely do that! There are also coin lockers at the monorail stations that can fit large luggage if you rather do that. They're about 700-800 yen.

@@SNESFan43 Cool, you got the reservation! Yes, you can just show the email with your name and reservation number to the person at the entrance. About the name, no worries, as long as you got the email you’re good. That’s actually good that they allowed it like that, in the past some people had trouble continuing without translating the name. That makes things a lot more simple. Have fun at the cafe, it’s super cute!

@@GenX_Travel Thank You! I’m so relieved to hear that, I can’t wait to experience the Cafe :)

Awesome, thanks!

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

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Oh, you're right! That's too bad that they don't allow reservations for one person. But if you still want to visit that one, try going early for lunch when they first open or early dinner like 2-3 pm and hopefully the wait is not too long. They have another location more visible in Akihabara, so maybe this location doesn't get as crowded. If not, try Maidreamin or Maid Made, they both accept reservations for one person. Have fun in Japan!

Aquariums are not liked by everyone. With that said, if you're referring to the coloring in the video, part of it was the lighting in the place. The day we visited, everything looked clean and well maintained. Thanks for watching!

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Yes, there is a standby queue and a priority (DPA) queue for each ride in Fantasy Springs, except for Tinker Bell, which only has a standby queue. The Fantasy Springs passport included in the Vacation Package allows you to ride Peter Pan, Rapunzel, and Frozen through the priority queue and Tinker Bell through the standby queue, but no worries since access to Fantasy Springs is restricted and the standby line for Tinker Bell was about 5-15 minutes at the most. If you're talking about the restaurant at the Fantasy Springs Hotel, I would say that your chances of dining there are very slim if you don't have a reservation or staying at the hotel since you cannot venture into the hotel unless you're staying there. But if you're talking about the restaurants in the Fantasy Springs area, no need to worry since those do not take reservations. The restaurants in the area are quick service and you can even use mobile order, which might be required at busy times. We were able to eat at 2 of the Fantasy Springs restaurants without problems. We didn't try to eat at the one in Frozen, only went in for drinks, but that one seemed to have a little more of a wait time.

@@GenX_Travel thx a lot!

Is the drink voucher for unlimited drink or just one drink?

@@Robles2891 Glad it was helpful! Yes, the Fantasy Springs Magic pass gives you access to DisneySea, so you’re getting a ticket to Disneyland and a ticket to DisneySea. The difference between the Fantasy Springs pass and a regular DisneySea ticket is that you get unlimited access to the Fantasy Springs area and the rides in the area. You can even leave the area and return. With a regular ticket to DisneySea you cannot enter the Fantasy Springs area at all for now, even though it’s inside the park, because it is so new and they’re limiting access to it. The only way to enter Fantasy Springs would be to get a standby (free) or premier (paid) pass once you’re inside DisneySea. Those passes run out fast, are for one ride only, you can only get one at a time, and once you leave Fantasy Springs you cannot re-enter.

This video was SO HELPFUL!!! Thank you so much for the detailed breakdown. I'm planning our first trip and this answered a lot of my questions. Time to watch more of your Japan videos to help me make a hotel decision! 😁

@@claytonica23 How fun, your first trip! I'm glad the video was helpful. I will be releasing another video soon about planning a trip with the goal of visiting the Tokyo Disney parks. Hopefully you'll find more tips there as well.

❤ Thank you!