Tokyo, Japan - Oct.2009

This was challenged since beginning...12 hours of flight? what was I thinking?





we watched movie, play game, color, eat a meal, walk around inside of airplane...we are still up in the air...


12 hours after we are in Narita airport, couldn't see my parent who supposed to pick us up....
now what? we don't speak Japanese(o.k i can do most restaurant and shopping in Japanese) and no yen(Japanese $) in our pocket....

somehow we made to hotel Nikko Tokyo bay, here is my review from tripadvisor:

we went there for one week and we liked the hotel - we travel with 2 adult and 2 babies(2 years and 10 months) staff are friendly like any Japanese hotel but they don't speak good English, sometime we had hard time communicate with them we need roll-away bed - they charged $80 per day,
looks like they had great pool and spa but they charged $30 per person on first day and $15 for second day - which i think too much, i think it should be free for guest and if you have kids like us, don't tell them we will do swimming - they are not allow person under 18, we had hard time explain to 2 years old...
room was really clean, i mean really clean - usually hotel didn't clean bath tub not very well, even nice hotel's tub have soap/water stain but this one was spotless every night
breakfast was good - didn't changed menu whole week but no complain, they had good Japanese style(soup, rice, fish...)and western style and really good coffee!!
location was little far from main Tokyo, you have to take monorail which is really clean and nice and it go through bridge so it was fun with kids but each way can be coast up to $4 and don't take a taxi, very expensive
good hotel for someone who don't want to be in the middle of Tokyo and if any one travel with kids - DO NOT bring stroller, we had hard time in subway, hotel door(we have double) getting around city, lots of place don't have elevator!!
oh, did i mention this place have free bus service to Disney!!

can't say enough how much fun we had...and i can't list all the restaurant we ate - it will go page after page...what can i say we love food

Tokyo Disney Sea : theme as port around the world, it divide to Mediterranean harbor, mysterious island, mermaid lagoon, Arabian coast,lost river delta, port discovery and American waterfront
it was unique since we don't have this one in the state, if you have kids worth to take time and stop by for day

Japan was very pricey memory for us
everything was so cute and wonderful but there is always expensive price tag come along with it...
it was completely different world and experience
i thanks god that he gave us wonderful opportunity to see other world

Happy vacation