Souvenir Shop + Chip and Dale

8 / 4 / 102 / 23 / 14

After our dinner at Hollywood and Dine, we went inside the Gifts & Souvenirs shop located at the main the lobby from the Studio Lounge of Disney Hollywood Hotel. Everything you need for your trip down the red carpet can be found here. The shop features gifts, apparel, collectible trading pins and sundries perfect as “pasalubong”.

My Son Ciren on his PJ’s inside the souvenir shop

Here’s my Erin Girl making her own pose

Our kids with my Mom looking at those cute stuff

Hubby and I bought few shirts in that store that were ON SALE. As we headed towards the elevator, my kids screamed when they saw Chip and Dale mascots coming in. My kids ran towards them and hugged the two. Actually the kids thought they were the Chipmunks!haha! We had our photos taken by the girl who assisted them while getting inside the lobby. It was a fun encounter for my kids and ehem! the kids at heart (me,hubby and mom)

It’s us together with playful and friendly Chip and Dale

First Night in Hong Kong

8 / 3 / 102 / 23 / 14

Continuing my blabs about our Hong Kong Trip..

After that tiring day at HK Disneyland, we went back to our hotel and prepared ourselves for a light dinner before we call it a day.

After a little rest and freshening up, we went down the lobby and head on to Hollywood and Dine to have dinner. Hollywood and Dine is a quick-service restaurant featuring open display cases where guests are able to choose from a selection of sandwiches, fresh fruit, juice and salads. Congee, dim sum and noodles are also available as well as selection of European-style patries.

The kids ask for fried chicken, but sad to say they don’t have it. So instead we ordered this one for them:

Roasted Turkey (leg part)

It tasted sweet like our native tocino and it was big enough you’ll get full with just a piece. Unfortunately, our kids did not liked it. They just toyed on their food and ran here and there. My Mom and I were the one who feasted on this meat. While hubby ordered this for himself:

Congee? Noodles? (Not sure what’s the exact name of this)

Dinner at Hollywood and Dine
(They don’t served water in every meal instead you have to buy it separately. A bottle of water cost HK$12)

Recycled Tissue Paper

Wouldn’t miss to share this conversation with you:

My daughter asked for tissue paper because she wanted to wipe her mouth. Hubby had to ask for a tissue paper at the counter. I don’t know but in all our food trip in HK, we have to really ask for it unlike in our country where every meal is automatically served with tissue paper. Upon giving it to my daughter, my Erin girl exclaimed, “Ay bakit ganito kulay maitim?!”, we told her that its okay because its a recycled tissue paper. Though we knew she don’t know what a recycled paper is, we did not further elaborate it to her because she already said in a loud voice “Ayoko na gamitin yan, pangit naman tissue sa Hong Kong, madumi!” hahaha! Kids! There were few Pinoys inside the restaurant that time and they all looked at us smiling at my naughty daughter.

Quickie Post

7 / 15 / 102 / 23 / 14

I wasn’t able to update my blogs, especially this one (with the continuation of our HK trip wherein I know some of my frequent visitors here are all waiting). I got a pile of online task to finish (thanks Bro!) and an unexpected thing happened because of the storm Basyang. But then I’m still thankful that it was not that bad unlike with Ondoy, however, that long brownout caused too much delays on my deadlines and here I am now, cramming. (but honestly speaking I think I’m more productive when I cram, see, I was able to post this one). Hubby cannot take another night without electricity so he brought us again in Hotel Sogo (I blogged about our first experience in that hotel and if you are interested feel free to drop by here).The kids felt relieved when they knew that we will not sleep at our house and that they can watch TV once we get there. Upon arrival at Hotel Sogo, near Sta. Lucia East Grandmall, we were greeted by I think 3 or 4 families like us and with their kids too. We got our number and waited inside the lobby for an available room. Good thing the room that we got has two double beds, mom occupied the other one with my son and daughter while me, hubby and our baby shared on the other bed. After the kids took their shower, they went to bed and watch TV. They were not able to finish what they are watching because they already fell asleep. (probably because they didn’t got a good night sleep last night because of the brownout and they also did not got their afternoon nap).

We had our breakfast at Tropical Hut and after that hubby went his way to his office while me, my mom and the kids went home. The weather today was delightful, as if nothing happened and most of all, the electricity is back!

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The Fun Had Just Begun!

7 / 6 / 102 / 23 / 14

We were a bit surprised when despite of our advanced reservation in Disney Hollywood Hotel by our travel agent here in the Philippines, we still got to wait until 2pm before we got a room. We have checked in few hotel and resorts in our country and they were not that strict in terms of their check-in and check-out time unlike in Hong Kong. (Anyway, our travel agent told us about how strict they are in terms of time).

There were plenty of other guests inside the lobby (mostly Indians), waiting like us. So we had our lunch first at Chef Mickey.

Finally, when hubby went back to the guest service officer at 1pm (after we had our lunch), he said there was already a room for us. Yes!

Finally! Room 7740

We were all eager to get inside our room and so the moment we stepped inside and saw those two beds, we all jumped in and laid flat on our backs.

rest.. rest.. rest..

The kids enjoyed jumping up and down the bed and toyed on everything they saw inside the room

We unpacked some of our things; changed clothes then took a rest for just an hour. After that we went down for a free ride in the hotel’s shuttle service going to Disneyland (Finally the main event!)

Inside the elevator, going down the lobby

We traveled for around fifteen minutes I think and when the bus stopped, the kids immediately wanted to step down. Actually, hubby and I wanted to do the same as we can’t take anymore the smell of some of our co-passengers. As we stepped down, we saw that it was still a long walk before we get to the main entrance. We didn’t bring my youngest daughter’s stroller because I knew there are available strollers for rent inside the park. By the way, we purchased our Disneyland Park Ticket at the guest service of Disney Hollywood Hotel when we checked in.

I couldn’t describe how much fun the kids had during our stay inside the park so I’ll just share with you some of our pictures.

On our way to Disneyland through the Hotel’s Shuttle Service

Long walk before reaching the main entrance of the park

View from the inside of Disneyland HK

Rainy Day Theme Parade (my son doesn’t care if he gets wet as long as he sees all of the characters in the parade)

Snack Time!(hubby’s hand with plastic gloves courtesy of the food attendant in the park)

Inside a souvenir shop (see their funny hats?cute huh!)

Bye Disneyland!:(

Our kids were all tired and exhausted so we decided to leave the park at around 6pm. (I know we missed one memorable part of visiting Hong Kong Disneyland, the Fireworks Display). Maybe next time *wink*

Take A Look Outside Disney Hollywood Hotel

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We were all tired and hungry when we reached Disney Hollywood Hotel. We went inside the lobby (leaving our baggage to the usher who greeted us from the main entrance) and there we saw lot of guests (more of them were family of Indians). Hubby went to the Guest Services Counter and showed our reservation voucher given by our travel agent. To our dismay, the CSR told us that check in time will be 2pm (we arrived there around 11am). Hubby asked if there was no other way we can get a room right at that moment because we have an infant with us. He said sorry because all the rooms were up for cleaning and will be available by 2pm. With no further adieu, we just look around the hotel’s amenities and had some few photo ops.