Tokyo Disneyland
Topic: Why do hardly any visitors from aboard ever visit.

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51	SuperDry Mon 5/12/2008 10:11a	<<< Anyway though...good tips. Here's MY personal tip. Get drunk and sleep the whole danged flight. :p >>> <<< Drinking alcohol increases dehydration and jetlag. >>> Ah, but the sleep induced makes up for it. Just go to the lav and drink a bottle of water before going to sleep and you'll be fine.
52	SuperDry Mon 5/12/2008 10:18a	<<< I can't really imagine first class is all that much better, and I have heard the same from friends who've experienced both. >>> The big difference is of course the seat. These days, on most carriers offering three-class service, the First Class seat is going to be totally flat and horizontal when in the sleeping position, and the cabin layout is such that every seat has direct access to the aisle. But when awake, there's not a whole lot of difference - the seat only needs to be so big in order to be big enough for just sitting there comfortably. I suppose wine connoisseurs might get better selections in First, but that sort of thing is not important to me.
53	X-san Mon 5/12/2008 6:33p	***These days, on most carriers offering three-class service, the First Class seat is going to be totally flat and horizontal when in the sleeping position*** Certainly a big plus. I don't recall ever having trouble sleeping in a business class seat though. They recline pretty darned far. Coach though? Totally different story. :p
54	The Goddess Mara Mon 5/12/2008 6:43p	Take an ambien and you'll have no trouble sleeping even in coach.
55	X-san Mon 5/12/2008 6:49p	Well, I don't know what ambien is but there is one and only one over the counter medication that is guaranteed to knock me out with one dose. Nyquil. :)
56	The Goddess Mara Mon 5/12/2008 6:54p	Ambien is one of the most widely prescribed drugs in the U.S. You take it and you sleep. Period. About 7 hours. It's like a brick to the side of the head.
57	X-san Mon 5/12/2008 7:35p	Ah. The preferred method since bricks are no longer allowed in carry on baggage.
58	Megara Mon 5/26/2008 5:06p	We're Aussies and we have been to TDR 4 years in a row ! We love it. It's not expensive - Money is worth nothing, it's what you do with it that counts !
59	jtomyl Mon 8/11/2008 3:39p	For people who are making 2 or more trips per year to either FL or CA, they need to take that money and make one trip to Tokyo. After being last year and having some constant exposure since then, I think that most people are loosing out by not making the effort to visit TDLR. After being on the inventive rides and seeing the details that they have, it's an awesome place. I think that Disney themselves doesn't want to promote TDLR because OLC owns it and they wouln't make as much money as someone going to WDW or DLR. OLC is probably happy with the income they are making from the local residents of Japan otherwise they would have really started a push of marketing. When you see rides like The Storybook Voyage of Sindbad, the Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Fort Exploration, it will blow you away. You goto TDL and see Mickey Mouse Review or ride Splash Mountain and have all the water jumpers working or view Dreamlights you wonder why they can't do that in FL or CA. As far as language, not a problem what so ever. check out: http://www.flickr.com/groups/d...rksigns/ for what the signs look like. Not an issue. I think that anyone who visits TDLR will look at WDW and DLR a bit differently to see what is possible!
60	karlg Tue 8/19/2008 7:02a	Frankly, they really don't seem to be trying very hard to get people from abroad to come. As an American that has been to the TDR on about 5 trips over the last 15 years, there seems to be some obvious things they could do: 1. Make it easier to buy tickets, as in allow people to buy tickets on-line, particularly for a specific date. This could be like JR Rail passes that are only available to foreign passports. A person traveling to Japan is not generally up on what days will sell out and the like (unless they get help from the people on this Forum). A few years back in December, I got off a plane that was delayed so I missed the closing time of the booth in Downtown Tokyo, so to make sure I had dated tickets for the next weekend, I took the Express to Tokyo, drop my bags in a locker and road the train back to TDL. Not may people would be so dedicated. On other trips, I try and get to the park 1 hour early to buy tickets to make sure I get in (and to beat the crowds -- I would do it anyway, but it would be nice to know I already have a ticket). How about a Suica like card where I could pay as I go for tickets – this is something that might encourage me to pop up to TDL in the evening. 2. Allow foreigners (at least) to buy multi-day park hoppers for non-consecutive days. I go to TD when I am on business. I generally can squeeze in a day here and there between business meetings. 3. Downloadable high resolution (pdf) park maps. It would be really handy to be able to familiarize oneself with the park layout before the trip. I know I felt pretty lost my first night at TDS even though I had looked at the on-line maps. 4. Use technology to be more multi-lingual friendly. This is ridiculous in this day and age of technology. I remember that Meet the World had multilingual headsets (and as I remember it from many years ago other than a mix of English language songs that was about it back then). Why not have a portable headset that would receive synchronized multi-lingual narration? The only accommodation I can remember in my last few visits is the Magic Lantern Theaters goggles that let you read the narration; how 1920’s? With ear-buds and the like they would be relatively safe to take on any ride. 5. Work with the “official” and “good neighbor” hotels to allow multi-lingual internet reservations. I’m not going to convince my company to let me spend $400 or so a night at a Disney hotel, but they might go for $200 or whatever the going rate for a decent hotel in Tokyo. 6. Give good clear directions on how to use the public transportation (i.e. JR rail and the subways) to get to TDL from Tokyo. Fortunately for me I know about this forum and have gotten great advise/help through the years. 7. Help see that they run shuttle buses later from Narita. 8. “How to” guide for foreigners. In particularly how to make lunch/dinner reservations. I know on my first trip to TDS I would have starved it I hadn’t gotten a Gyoza Bun for breakfast as I couldn’t find a place that wasn’t jammed until about 3 in the afternoon. There is nothing earth shattering above, just some very basic things they could do to make it clear they are open to visitors from abroad.

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