Enjoy the Night View at Shanghai Disneyland Together!

The biggest issue at Shanghai Disneyland recently is definitely Zootopia! We promised to visit Disneyland during our trip to Shanghai. The exciting news is that Zootopia is opening on December 20th! We bought our Disneyland tickets for December 23rd. Normally, you can purchase tickets on the Shanghai Disneyland website, but this season, perhaps because of Christmas, tickets were not on sale even though it was less than a month away. We ended up buying them from Klook. We couldn't stay at the Disney Resort (too expensive), so we stayed at the nearby Wassim Hotel. Fortunately, Wassim Hotel operates a shuttle to Disneyland! The shuttle to Disneyland is right in front of the hotel, but for the shuttle from Disneyland, they inform you of the location in a WeChat group chat. I had a WeChat account created with a Korean number, but I didn't know how to use it, so a Wassim Hotel staff member kindly got the location from the chat room and informed us via WeChat. I don't have a photo of the ticket, but the tickets were divided into Judy and Gazelle versions, and both my friend and I were lucky to get Judy. You must install the Shanghai Disneyland app, and when you show the email from Klook and your passport to the staff, they will issue your ticket after verification. They also took a photo for identity verification on the spot, which is saved in my Disneyland app (LOL). From then on, you just need to register the ticket on your phone and show it at the entrance! We wanted to enter the Zootopia area, but the wait time was a whopping 240 minutes. Suddenly, the Hot Stuff ride was not operating (LOL). We just bought popsicles in another area. Popsicles were not sold in the Toy Story area, but we saw them for sale in the Duffy and Friends area. I wasn't interested in Duffy and Friends, but I happened to meet LinaBell that day. I knew because of the children screaming (LOL). Feeling happy after seeing her, my friend and I bought various items. There are not many places to charge phones inside, which is a bummer. We went to a restaurant in the Pirates of the Caribbean area and luckily found a place to plug in our chargers. Power banks are a must-have. For those with a Chinese phone number, there are power bank rental services available. We weren't interested in the daytime parade and only watched the night parade. Actually, Disney commonly has a fireworks show at closing time, and we planned to watch that, but it's polite to watch the parade too (LOL). After the parade, people started running, so we ran too, to get a good spot for the castle show. The castle show was surprisingly beautiful. With the addition of the Zootopia segment, the Disney castle show also broadcasted a message encouraging you to pursue your dreams, which was touching. Unfortunately, I can't attach the video of the fireworks here. Perhaps because Shanghai Disneyland is so large, they did the castle show twice to accommodate people who might miss it. After watching it once, my friend and I went to Lillian Bakery to buy bread and were surprised to see the castle show happening again while we were at the souvenir shop. It was so beautiful that we watched it a second time from a distance. Personally, I preferred taking pictures of the scenery over riding the attractions, but if I go again, I'd like to ride more attractions!