Do you love Disney, and can’t get enough of it? A great place to go to get the latest news is the Disney Parks Blog. Sometimes they even have live streams of parades or shows, direct from the parks themselves! On Sunday evening, I watched the Main Street Electrical Parade from Disney World.
How many of you played with LEGO as a kid? How many of you actually raised your hand reading that?
Personally, I played with Duplo, not LEGO. My other half played with LEGO. We still have a lot of both to pass on to our Dragon, and hopefully she will have as much fun building with it as we did.
Do you want to recapture your joy of LEGO, or if you’ve never lost it, do you want to explore your enjoyment of it further?
Might I suggest travelling to the origin of these super cool toys? Denmark!
Denmark is awesome, and is definitely in my top ten places to visit. There are tons of really cool things to see and do in this country, as well as Legoland. You can contact me to find out more!
You can stay and play in a world made of LEGO. Go to this link and admire the amazing pictures of the LEGO creations. Then imagine how much more incredible it would be in person.
If you are interested in booking a trip to Denmark to visit Legoland.Jen has retired from working as a travel agent. Hope you’ve enjoyed Fandom Travel.
This news hasn’t been broadcast all over Facebook yet, possibly because it happened during the DNC and everybody’s talking about that instead.
The Waldorf=Astoria in New York is closing for renovations at the beginning of 2017. I’m shocked, but after reading this article, it makes a little more sense. They’re going to be renovating more than half of their rooms into luxury condos, and the rest will be made into high-end, 5-star luxury hotel suites.
In the “men’s” lobby of the Waldorf=Astoria. This is where the financial transactions take place. Obviously, women are now allowed to pay for their rooms, and this lobby is open to all. Image taken by Jen.
I visited the Waldorf=Astoria in November 2014, and was blown away by the grandeur of the main spaces, but the rooms, other than the penthouse, were standard. The hotel was definitely showing its age. So the upgrade makes complete sense, especially since The Plaza Hotel nearby had a similar upgrade recently.
So why is a Fandom Travel blog talking about a hotel in New York?
While not used in a “typical” fandom movie, this hotel has been a setting in many movies, including some old and some new.
If you are interested in booking a trip to New York to see the Waldorf=Astoria before it closes.Jen has retired from working as a travel agent. Hope you’ve enjoyed Fandom Travel.
Montreal (well, an hour outside of Montreal) has a HobbitHouse that you can stay at. I read this news last week and promptly got so excited that I almost fell off my chair. (Exaggeration. I sit on a couch.)
This cute little place means that you can visit Middle-Earth without travelling to New Zealand! However, it is already booked solid until the new year. (Who is surprised? Not me!)
If you are interested in booking this cute little hotel for a short trip within Canada.Jen has retired from working as a travel agent. Hope you’ve enjoyed Fandom Travel.
Yesterday, I posted on my personal Facebook wall about a ridiculously cheap sale from Toronto, Canada to Bali, Indonesia. The prices have obviously gone up since then. I wish we knew now whether or not Dragon is a calm baby, because I was seriously tempted by the price. Hopefully another crazy awesome deal comes up in September/October, like the one to Japan that popped up about a month ago, or this one.
Bali hasn’t had many big films set on it’s amazing shores. The only one I recognized was Eat Pray Love. The third portion of the film was set in Ubud, Bali.
However, despite lacking in fandom culture, Bali has a DC comic book shop, and a lot of their own culture to sample while visiting. The number of temples on the island is staggering, and the craftsmanship of sculptures and other artistic pieces is stunning. The food is excellent, and scenery out of this world!
If you’d like help booking this trip (or others!).Jen has retired from working as a travel agent. Hope you’ve enjoyed Fandom Travel.
Although definitely not luxurious, this quirky spot is sure to delight book lovers, who are allowed to read the 1,700 books that line the shelves of this hostel, and then drop off to sleep behind the bookcases in a little nook.
This charming hostel has only been open for (approximately) a year, but it’s been getting excellent reviews. If you’re heading to Tokyo, I recommend spending at least one night here!
If you’d like help booking this trip (or others!).Jen has retired from working as a travel agent. Hope you’ve enjoyed Fandom Travel.
On Facebook yesterday, a lot of people were sharing an article about The Nook Cafe – a Harry Potter themed coffee shop. Being a huge fan of Harry Potter, I decided to write a bit about it today.
The Nook Cafe in Manila. Image from aminoapps.com. Great article at the link, from someone who has actually visited the cafe!
The Nook Cafe is in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and celebrated their one year anniversary yesterday, June 7. (Happy Anniversary!)
They are celebrating all week. If anyone reads this blog and happens to be in Manila, go check them out! But be prepared for a wait – if they’re packed on a regular day, I imagine that it will be even more so during this week!
I now have another reason to travel to the South Pacific!
If you’d like help booking this trip (or others!).Jen has retired from working as a travel agent. Hope you’ve enjoyed Fandom Travel.
Do you miss going to sleepaway camp? Or did you never get the chance to go? Here’s your chance! There is a Geek Summer Camp for Grown-ups! And I’m rather excited about it. You can spend four days/three nights at a sleepaway camp in the Poconos (Pennsylvania), and experience a whole bunch of really cool activities, including horseback riding, sword play, rock climbing, various water activities, and others!
Independent Lake Camp is a children’s camp, but ENC has booked it for a week this June. Image screen captured from www.epicnerdcamp.com. Watch the video – it seriously makes me want to go.
The price is CRAZY low for its first year, as a promotional price – over half off! Next year will be a lot more expensive.
Need to get there? I know a travel agent who can book you a car, train, or plane (there is a shuttle from Scranton for the latter two options). Jen has retired from working as a travel agent. Hope you’ve enjoyed Fandom Travel.
Fiction has had a lot of influence in our daily life. Just look at all the gadgets that Star Trek suggested would be the way of the future, that we actually have now in 2016! Tablets, communicators, cell phones, etc. But I’d like to look at the places that have been influenced by fiction.
1. Stargate Command
Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado is the base for NORAD, but there’s rumour that there is a door that has a sign saying “Stargate Command”. Unfortunately, since the US military moved back into the mountain, only tours with “a mission-critical rationale for visiting the mountain, where the tour is essential in performing their daily functions in defending the homelands” may enter the complex. Darn.
2. Platform 9 and 3/4
Any Harry Potter fan would enjoy visiting King’s Cross station, and they’ve even set up a trolley halfway through the wall between platforms 9 and 10. The station also has “Hogwarts Express” listed on their screens at 11 am on September 1st. I would love to show up on that day at that time, dressed as a witch. Anyone want to do that with me?
Although the Sherlock Holmes house doesn’t exist at this address, there is now a Sherlock Holmes Museum that you can go visit. When Doyle wrote the series, Baker St only went up to #85!
There is a fire station in New York, Hook and Ladder Company 8, that was the setting for the Ghostbusters headquarters. They have some cute little nods to the movie, both inside and out.
Disney announced the other day that their Transatlantic cruise from Port Canaveral, Florida to Dover, England will include a stop in Sydney, Nova Scotia. I’m rather excited about this, for obvious reasons. (Yay Canada!) You can check out the full itinerary here.
On top of that, the price is ridiculously low for a Disney cruise. Fourteen nights, and…well, you’ll just have to look at the price list here. Yes, that’s in USD, unfortunately. However, yes, that is for two people. No, it doesn’t include airfare.
Yes, it leaves on Ottawa Comic Con weekend, because it is the Disney Magic, heading over to Norway for its Frozen-themed cruises in May, June, and July. It’s also going to do a nice little tour around the British Isles. There are also itineraries in the Mediterranean, departing from Barcelona, Spain.
Want to go on a Disney cruise? I sure do, now that I’ve done my research for this post! Jen has retired from working as a travel agent. Hope you’ve enjoyed Fandom Travel.
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