Shanghai March 2019 - Day 5

Day 5, we checked out of Sweetome and moved to Novotel Shanghai Clover Hotel in Pudong, near Disneyland. It was between Novotel and Disney's Toy Story Hotel. But Toy Story Hotel's room was half the size of the Novotel room, and more expensive.

The moment we walked into our Novotel room, we knew we'd made the right choice. The room was huge, with 2 queen size beds, and a children's corner with a tent! The kids loved it. Aaron even slept in the tent for 1 night! 

Very quickly after checking into the hotel, we went to Shanghai Disneyland. As advised by Gillian and Lun Cheak, we had lunch outside at Disneytown before going into the park. Had an excellent Japanese lunch.

We were expecting huge crowds even though the Shanghai Disneyland app showed that queues at most of the rides were short. But there was no crowd at all! Probably the emptiest Disneyland we'd ever been to! 1st time we could take somewhat empty shots without loads of people in the background!

We managed to do 4 rides, all with 5-15 min waiting time only: Dumbo the Flying Elephant, Voyage to the Crystal Grotto, Hunny Pot Spin and Pirates of the Caribbean Battle for the Sunken Treasure. 

Also caught the Eye of the Storm: Captain Jack's Stunt Spectacular show. Even though the dialogue was all in Mandarin, the kids enjoyed the show very much because there was so much action and the set was so impressive.

By the time we finished the show, it was starting to turn dark, even though it was barely 6pm. Was nice to see the attractions light up.

We went out to Disneytown for dinner. There were so many restaurants to choose from: Breadtalk, Crystal Jade, Xin Wang, Wolfgang Puck, The Cheesecake Factory, etc, and even a Food Republic! We went to Food Republic for the variety of food.

We finished dinner by 7pm, and still had plenty of time before the fireworks at 8.30pm. So we went to Gardens of Imagination for Aaron to meet the various Marvel heroes.

I was slightly disappointed with the fireworks. It was more a light show than fireworks. Very high tech, but not quite the magical disney fireworks we had anticipated. Too little fireworks.

Still, it was a nice, magical ending to the day.