Today, my 13 year old daughter, Ciara, is my guest blogger.
Ciara compares the following "boat" Walt Disney Water Rides:
It's a Small World, Pirates of the Caribbean , Gran Fiesta Tour
Starring The Three Caballeros, and Maelstrom.
She also enticed her 7 year old sister, Ceili, to do a video review.
Enjoy - and - thanks Ciara!
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It's a Small World is a Disney classic that is loved by many. According to Wikipedia, the
ride features over 300 brightly costumed audio-animatronic dolls in the style of children
of the world, frolicking in a spirit of international unity, and singing the attraction's title
song, which has a theme of global peace.
With that said, It's a Small World was intended to give every rider a clear understanding
for the theme (as stated above the theme of the attraction and song is global peace).
However, my family and I have ridden It's a Small World countless times and always
leave with the same thoughts and memories of the ride. What are those thoughts? Well,
the song - "It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all, it's a small world after all,
it's a small small world". The song is a catchy yet very irritating song. Even though this
is true, the catchiness of the song is very contagious. All day the song will be stuck in
your head, and you will want to ride it all over again.
It's a Small World has just had new renovations done as well. I have to say that my
family and I were not impressed with them. The renovations did enhance the intended
theme, however defeated what we think was the most important part. The song. These
renovations changed the language or the tune of the song with every room you moved
through. It made the song less catchy, and let's just say we only went on that ride once
while there.
Pirates of the Caribbean is another well known ride at The Walt Disney World Resort. A
ride for fans of the movies and for adventure seekers. I myself am not a fan of this ride,
however, my 7 year old sister loves it. The reason I'm not so keen to ride it every time,
is honestly I find the robots pretty creepy. This ride is filled with robots dressed as pirates
that look like the characters in the movie. They creep me out because they are very
realistic looking, and I'm not sure why, but I've just never been too fond of robots, especially
those that look like real people. On the other hand, my 7 year is sister is not frightened
by the robots at all, and is rather is a huge fan of the ride. Whenever we go, Ceili (my
sister) insists on riding at least 5 times. This trip I believe we rode it 9 times in total!
We aren't quite sure why she loves it so much because she has only ever seen one of
the movies when she was really little. When I asked her why she loves it so much her
answer was simply just "the pirates".
The Gran Fiesta Tour (Starring The Three Caballeros) is a lesser known attraction,
however is one of my family's favourites. This attraction is in Walt Disney World's
EPCOT theme park. It is located in the World Showcase's Mexico pavilion. Once you
board the slow moving boat (like in Pirates of the Caribbean, It's a Small World, and
Maelstrom) the ride takes you through the Mexican pavilion, and at one point goes right
by the restaurant. This ride shows each rider the adventure of The Three Caballeros
(Donald Duck and 2 friends) which makes it very enjoyable for younger riders. My family
highly recommends this ride.
The last ride I am going to review is Maelstrom. This attraction is also located in
EPCOT's World Showcase, however is in the Norway pavilion. This ride is full of
information on the culture and everyday life of the average Norwegian, however is very
confusing for younger riders. When I asked Ceili for her opinion on the ride she said "It's
really boring, and I didn't understand it at all". With that said, my parents understood
the ride, however Ceili was right. It is not the most exciting ride, and we were fine with
only riding it once. Overall, I would only recommend this ride to people that are really
interested in the culture of Norway. I would not recommend this to families with very
little children because as mentioned in the interview with Ceili, the ride does have a very
slight drop backwards, and the ride is filled with trolls (which scared my sister).
Let me know if you have any questions - and - watch the video interview with my sister.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nhLzH_LVXM&feature=c4-overview&list=UU4lUGLkA5gZ-Id5f6IJlraw
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Thanks, Ciara!
Contact me to book your next Disney holiday. (Ciara will help me advise you about things that will interest your teen.)
Sheila Gallant-Halloran
[email protected]
613-837-0699
