Our STRESSFUL Travel Day to Shanghai (first time in China 🇨🇳)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- Welcome to our travel day vlog! Join us as we embark on a thrilling and somewhat stressful journey to Shanghai, China. It's our first time visiting this incredible country, and we're excited to share every moment with you.
In this vlog, we'll take you through our travel day, starting from Heathrow Airport in the UK and flying with Virgin Atlantic in Premium Economy to Shanghai, China. Experience the chaos and excitement that come with international travel, especially when not everything goes according to plan. We'll guide you through the process of obtaining the 144-hour travel visa for China and the unexpected challenges we faced.
Once we arrive in China, we'll head to our hotel for the duration of our trip: the Toy Story Hotel inside Shanghai Disneyland. We'll showcase the hotel's amenities with a full room tour, letting you see what it's like to experience the magic of Disney in China.
Whether you're planning your own trip to China, curious about Shanghai, or considering a visit to the Disney parks in Asia, we hope this video provides a taste of the excitement and challenges that come with exploring new places. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more travel adventures!
USEFUL LINKS (Affiliate Links are included in this section):
Virgin Atlantic Vera: flywith.virginatlantic.com/gb...
Holafly (eSims):esim.holafly.com/
Get a VPN - NordVPN: go.nordvpn.net/aff_c?offer_id...
Book your next Airport stay using Holiday Extra and get up to 25% off your Airport Parking - www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinm...
Our Amazon Storefront (Our Travel Essentials): www.amazon.co.uk/shop/thekers...
It is important to point out that Hong Kong is not a country, it is just a city in China. Have a good time.
We know HK is a special administrative region in China but for the purposes of the 144 hour transit visa we travelled on, China allow HK as a place to travel to. We have never been to Asia before and were excited to travel to the 4 new places but didn’t mean to upset people by calling HK a country.
🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🎉🎉🎉
it's easy to avoid this issue, when you wanna say HK,Macau,Taiwan with China together, make it China mainland. @@TheKershawsAdventures
@@caryzhang9371 Nobody ever confuses Taiwan with China. That's not even a thing.
@@308_Negra_Arroyo_LaneYes. Taiwan is just a province of China. Every educated person knows that.😊
Guys your video made me cry - it was seeing the raw excitement of your son, I’m a single father who has raised 2 boys on my own for the last 12 years and now they are both 18, but your video reminded me of when I took my sons to Disney and their pure excitement, so your video brought out the emotions - I have been to Asia many times so if you need help with anything or quick advice then drop me a message
Aww thank you so much! Glad it brought back good memories for you ☺️ Thanks for offering to help but we are actually home now, this trip was back in March/April
Welcome to China! Wish you have already watched other vloggers' experience. It would be super helpful.
Thank you! We watched so many other people before visiting so we would have an idea one what to do on arrival 😊
Welcome guys to China .
- China is safe country .
- go to the bund . Amazing view also free of cost .
- china infrastructures are great .
- green cars platforms means electric . Blue platforms means normal engine .
- have a good time in Shanghai .
Thank you so much! Appreciate it 😊 We absolutely loved our visit and will be back in the future 😃
歡迎你們一家來到全世界最安全先進國家！祝你們一家愉快旅遊！～晚上多去街上走走！～看看在外國難得的夜生活！～👍👍👍
Thank you! We loved our time there! We didn’t stay out too late because of how tired we were with jet lag
I applaud you for your brave exploration. Don't worry, fear comes from not understanding. Believe that what you feel with your own eyes and your own heart is the most real.
Thank you ☺️
Welcome any sincere and friendly people to China，Love from China❤
Thank you ☺️
欢迎大家来中国旅游，看你们和小朋友玩的这么开心，我也非常开心^_^
Thank you so much ☺️ We had a very fun trip!
Very good video, wish you have a good time in Shanghai, China.
Thank you so much ☺️
I got back from Hong Kong this morning whilst I was there to see family we also went to Disney for the fifth time in that park but unfortunately when we were going to watch the avengers show it got cancelled
Ahh what a shame it was cancelled, it sadly hadn’t started when we visited. Hope you had a great visit? It’s a fab park, we really enjoyed it!
@@TheKershawsAdventures yeah it is a great park but disappointing as grizzly gulch was also closed
Shanghai is a very good place for tourist
We throughly enjoyed our time there 😃
China Hong Kong is part of China, not a separate country.
We know HK is a special administrative region in China but for the purposes of the 144 hour transit visa we travelled on, China allow HK as a place to travel to. We have never been to Asia before and were excited to travel to the 4 new places but didn’t mean to upset people by calling HK a country.
Subscribed. Nice video. 144hours probably not enough for a big country like China. I heard there are some real good places in China worthy of visiting, like ChongQing, ShenZhen, GuangZhou, HangKong, ChengDu（Panda hometown）, The Avatar mountain, etc. Not to mention BeiJing（The Great Wall ）and XiAn（Terra-Cotta Warriors）.
It definitely wasn’t enough time but for this trip our goal was to finish visiting all the Disney parks in the world and we didn’t have enough time to stay for longer Would definitely like to revisit in the future to see more!
Don’t forget hangzhou, yunan, hainan, Tibet and xinjiang
It's more like a teaser to attract more people to come. And it works very well. People can come for just a few day then go to Korea, Japan or south east Asia. For a country requires formal visa to enter, this works great for tourists.
What a sweet family, enjoy your trip in China！
Thank you! 😃
So so excited to watch all of your adventures! Will be taking notes for hopefully doing this trip one day!! Loved this ❤️
Aww thank you so much! You would love it out there, especially Shanghai Disneyland!
Really nice video! Welcome to China and I look forward to your next episode!
Thank you very much 😊
Nice video. Thank you for sharing your family with us!!
Thank you for watching 😊
Welcome to China
Thank you ☺️
How exciting and nerve wracking all rolled into one!! Definitely a bucket list adventure. Great editing btw. I loved every minute of this video. My favorite bit? Your very special, complimentary "2 sided comb" in the Hotel's amenity kit! Priceless!!
It was a bit of a stressful day but so worth it to get there! Thank you so much! He cracked us up with that one 🤣
welcome
Thank you ☺️
Hiya 🤗 loved this vlog, thank you so so much for sharing all the details. Initially I started to think I’m not sure I can be bothered to go through the stress of going there but as I watched more and more and through you sharing everything I think I can do it. I’m glad you made it there ok in the end and from what you showed it just looks absolutely amazing already. Defo on my list for sure. I cannot wait for your next vlog 🩷 xxx
It’s a daunting trip when you start to plan but honestly it’s so worth it and actually a much easier process than we thought it would be, we just made a few mistakes which made it a little more stressful! 100% we would go back. You should definitely keep it on your list, Shanghai Disneyland is incredible!
Get in! Been waiting for this! 🔥 feet up in work! Cuppa and sour patch oreos! Let the vlog commence!!
Hope you enjoy it! 😄
Ahhh you flew on the Dreamliner. Powered by Trent1000 engines, which is one of the engines I develop the control software for. Hope it was a smooth flight.
What a long travel day. The step up in excitement as soon as you got to the hotel and onto Disney property was palpable 😁
No way! Thats really cool! It was a very smooth flight 😃
The longest and most stressful travel day we’ve ever had, totally worth it though because Shanghai Disneyland was amazing!!
A new subscriber here! Love your content, and I can't wait to watch the next episode! well editing, such a harmonious and articulate family you guys, good luck in China
Thank you so much! We had an amazing time and look forward to sharing our day in Shanghai this week 😊
loved the suitcase transition
Thank you 🤩
So much fun! This’s called a super well organised trip ❤
We had a blast! It was very well organised, spent over a year planning this one!
It is enjoyable watching you guys having great fun.
Thank you, although it was a stressful travel we had a great time once through immigration!
Welcome to China! ! Welcome to Come again and again !!
Thank you ☺️
Welcome to China..hope you all having a great time ❤
Thank you ☺️ we had a wonderful trip (this was filmed back in March) and will definitely return in the future!
WOW，lighting Mcqueen！
China is a fantastic country
We enjoyed our time there 😊
Nice vlog! We very welcome the people from any place, any country visiting China, wish you have great time here!
Thank you so much 😊
We did Shanghai, Tokyo and hongkong Disney parks in 2018.
Amazing trip was had by us.
It’s so amazing getting to do them all isn’t it! 😄
Yes Tron was great.
Pirates of Caribbean was amazing
Mystic manor so different.
Loved all the far east parks but some cultural differences are hard to tolerate.
I still remember my first trip to the Magic Kingdom. Happiness all around! Forever!
Disney is for sure our happy place! 😊
You're first vlogger showing Disney Hotel in Shanghai. It's interesting. Enjoy your trip in China!
Thank you! ☺️
Great video xx
Thank you!! 😃
wow, enjoy your time in China!
Thank you 😃
Went to Hong Kong before it was handed back to China, such a fascinating city and so much to see. You won’t have a language problem as most speak English as they’re taught it in school. We also took a trip to a primary school out in the sticks where we were shown around and the kids put on a show dancing and we were invited to join in. I’ll never forget those memories. Enjoy every moment 🤗🏴
We went to Hong Kong from China (this trip was in April) and we loved it there too! Thank you so much for watching 😊
@@TheKershawsAdventures Hong Kong is not a country, it is just a part of China
English is taught in mainland China and has been for years. They start learning in primary school, so a lot of the younger generation can speak some level of English. The problem is a lot are not confident speaking it with a foreigner especially an English speaker.
Loved it and well done staying so calm amidst all that uncertainty by virgin staff , I would have been annoyed they didn’t know exactly what forms etc you needed
We had a saying for this trip and that was “embrace the chaos” think that’s the reason we stayed as calm as we did! 😆 We knew with this kind of big adventure it wouldn’t be all plain sailing!
What a fantastic vlog can’t wait for the next one ❤❤❤
Thank you so much! We can’t wait to share the next one! 😄
thanks for making vlog
Thank you for watching 😊
Love your videos, China looks great. How about a "Tips for China travel" video? Like what APP to use, things you learn would make China travel easier! It'll be popular & help lots of people!
Thank you! Absolutely we are going to make a planning video of what we did to book, needed to travel, mistakes we made, etc 😊
@@TheKershawsAdventures Great! Thank you so much for sharing! Big Good Luck on your travel!
SO Nice that you guys stayed at the Disney hotel. much familiar and convenient for family.
We wanted the perks of staying in a Disney hotel this time, an hours early entry into the park being a big one! 😊
Welcome to china, hope you have a wonderful trip
Thank you so much 😊
have fun
Thank you ☺️
very nice. hotel amazing .never seen this kind of hotel.😄❤❤❤
It’s a pretty cool hotel, like being straight in the Toy Story film!
Cool ❤
😊
Have a good time in China! As a Chinese staying in Manchester now, I am so glad that you choose China as your traveling destination ❤
Thank you, we had a great time!
hope you find food and scenery to your liking and enjoy your time in China!
Thank you, we had a wonderful trip ☺️
China is the future… magnificent
❤️❤
Wonderfully trip❤
It really was a wonderful trip! 😃
Have a good time
Thank you ☺️
这时候来上海很合适，再过段时间天就热了have a good trip
Thank you, we had a great trip!
Great vlog guys! 😊
Thank you 😃
Again brilliant video. You guys need to do future videos on long haul family travel to non usual places for U.K. families. That’s your USP. Ange is a star, I can’t get Mrs Wakeywarrior on camera or the kids !
Liked the modem noise.
Thank you so much! We are for sure going to be travelling to more new places, we have the travel bug now! 😄
Chains people's is very nice and and Chaina is awesome place to visit guys you should also add the prices of the hotels so that the people's in overseas know where is the cheapest place to sta
We are going to do a planning video with all the prices and how we booked 😊
Its not normal its double sided 😂 what a guy! Great vlog!
Thank you! He cracks us up every day with his Ollieisms 🤣
Well done for doing your research. Of course, you will never know the details of every single step, but you obviously prepared well. I can’t believe how many other travel vloggers don’t even do the basic research on the country they’re going to. Bit puzzling when we’ve got access to so much info on the web. Doing so, I planned my family’s entire trip to Japan in 2017. I will be doing the same when I hopefully get to travel to China sometime in the future.
We always do as much research as we can before we go somewhere for the first time, just helps make a trip run smoother!
❤❤❤❤❤enjoy.
Thank you ☺️
good time
😊
Welcome! You are so smart, print the hotel name in Chinese is the smart way to resolve the language barrier. 💯
Thank you! 😊
the theme hotel is spectacular, i miss shanghai. don't forget to check the water town near shanghai where you can take subway to.
Unfortunately we didn’t have time to do the water town on this trip, hoping to come back in the future to explore more!
Thank you so much for posting this. We are leaving next week on nearly the EXACT same itinerary. We are starting in Orlando but it's on Virgin, transferring in London, going to Shanghai, doing the 144 hour transit Visa, staying at the Toy Story hotel, and then taking Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong. Glad to see despite some snags you made it through. Hopefully no issues for us. Our biggest difference is we have one night at a different hotel first, but I have all the hotel stuff printed and as long as they are both in Shanghai it should be fine. The middle names thing is a little worrying. Don't think I can fix that but looks like you made it anyway.
You’re going to have the best time! Safe travels and enjoy! Even with the few little snags we are so so so glad we went and would 100% go again! Just be prepared for the jet lag that first day, we couldn’t cope past 4 and literally were in bed by 5pm 🙊
@@TheKershawsAdventures Our first day is in city. Staying on Nanjing rd. By People's Park. Then moving to toy story for 3 nights (hopefully not confusing for customs. I got it all printed). We are gonna try like hell to stay up to see the city lights. Might be able to sleep better on plane as it's an even longer journey for us starting in Orlando. I have low confidence in MCO agent handling the "Hong Kong is China" thing quickly so we will get there very early.
I’m sure you’ll be fine if you have the confirmations for both hotels printed out for them. Keeping fingers crossed you guys get some sleep on the plane, that’s where we failed, just didn’t manage to have long enough!
I used Holafly for my trip to Turkey and planning to use it again when I go to California later in the year.
When you said about middle names mine arent on anything Ive booked is that an issue for USA?
We’ve never had a problem in the USA if they’ve been left off in previous years. I think China are just stricter when travelling on the 144 hour transit visa, they still let us in though so it was all good! 😃
@@TheKershawsAdventures I just got worried as it will be my first time going to USA
nice title😂 hoping your channel‘s followers number raise fast🎉😊❤🇨🇳
Thank you ☺️
Airport then airplane and then airport and then in taxi and then disnyland and then hotel room..., Wow people travel through the wormhole... almost cannot see anything on the way, very tipycal and unique style.
There wasn’t really another way to get there from the other side of the world… don’t worry we don’t just stay in the hotel room!
👍👍👍👍👍
😊
nice..
Thank you
Thank you so much for this video specifically. We are wanting to visit SH Disney next year , and have been wondering what the process to enter the country as a visitor is like. Glad you made it through customs safely.
What was it like trying to find, and catch a cab there. Do the6 take credit cards , or did you have your use their currency?
We went to the official airport taxi stand and showed them the printed in Chinese hotel address and hopped in no problem. They take Alipay but our card (Halifax clarity) failed to work with Alipay so we paid cash for the taxi. We did manage to link the revolut card to Alipay later that day and it worked for the rest of our time in China.
We visited China for two weeks in May this year. We were very lucky. Our guide put us on to a local sim card where we have access to all the big apps such as fb, youtube, google. I wonder if this sim is for tourists only. You should ask around at the airport.
We pre purchased an eSIM with unlimited data that worked brilliantly for us
Seeing the Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie photographed by them, it is perfect, will you go
Unfortunately we only had a few days so didn’t have much time to explore at all. The reason for this trip was to finish the three Disney parks we haven’t been to in Asia. We will be back in the future to explore more co the country ☺️
Impressive video! Remember, Immersive Translate can significantly simplify your interaction with locals by translating conversations in real-time.
Thanks, will keep that in mind for next time we visit
As a foreigner who have just visited Xi An last week, understand your excitement. China has super infrastructures and the facilities are new and clean. Only weak point to be improved is some people's behaviors in public space, such as jump queue and smoke indoors.
We loved our time there 😊
Nice
😊
Amazing !
😄
Nice.
Thanks 😃
What is it that you are using for payment? Are you not able to use credit cards directly at their tills? Do most places accept cash as an alternative?
We tried using our Halifax clarity card through Alipay (their version of Apple pay) but the two step verification kept timing out so we attached our revolut to Alipay and was able to do it that way. They do accept credit cards directly at some tills but our Clarity card just wouldn’t work. They also accepted cash everywhere we visited.
@TheKershawsAdventures Thank you so much for your response, we're planning this exact trip for next April so finding it really useful! Thank you again
No problem at all, we will be making a planning video at the end of the China vlogs which may be helpful for you ☺️
Have you been or going to the Bund? It's truly amazing at night.
We have been, sadly are home now! The Bund was amazing, we got to see it day and night and it’s just a pinch me, are we actually looking at that kind of moment!
Has Gaz booked a solo merch trip yet? With extra case!
No, Gaz wouldn’t take a solo trip but definitely would consider an extra case next time 😆
Yes it looked stressful, yes Virgin should have been more helpful, but WOW, once you were there we could feel your excitement. Highlight for me was ha.......................ha..................ha 😂 (Flash is my hero)
The stress was completely worth it to get there! That was for sure a highlight 🤣🤣 Wish we’d bought it now!
A lot of food contain nuts and peanuts (peanut oil), and nut allergy is not popular in China, so many food contain some kinds of nuts in there, including cross contamination!!! Be sure to check your food before you order with the manager (if in restaurants), and the ingredients charts, people often miss peanut oil, and make sure to bring epi-pens if you have allergies!! (Police #: 110, Fire department #: 119, Ambulance#: 120)
You two are the bigger kid than your son nice vlog have fun in china.
We are forever big kids 😆
Hope you enjoyed your trip in Shanghai?
We had a great trip thank you ☺️
The good news is finally have overnight High speed train to HK from Beijing West and Shanghai Hongqiao only available every Friday to Monday start on June 15th. But not yet add 144 hours visa free transit yet.
That’s great, will keep it in mind for future visits if we don’t use the 144 hour transit visa 😊
@@TheKershawsAdventures Yes! Like as eleven European countries are France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Hungary, Ireland, Spain and Austria people and children no need apply China visa can go to whole China trip to stay in China visa free for 15 days until end of next year on December 31st,2025.
For the Malaysia people and children visa free will be permanently visa free to China soon to extend 30 days from 15 days like as Thailand and Singapore does it.
Hopefully they will add our country too
Might be New Zealand passport holder person will be no need apply China visa coming soon for 15 days visa free stay in China for Kiwis passport.
Hk has its own independent immigration system which technically considered as "abroad" but sovereigty belongs to China. as a Chinese we usually double check if we do : A county-HK-Mailand" A county- taipei-HK-mainland" or " A county -Taipei- mailand China" this will make the immigration process more confusing.
来中国吃好 喝好 玩好 祝你一家幸福
Thank you, we had a wonderful visit and will 100% be back in the future 😊
The 144 hr transit visa is new most people don't know the rule Hong Kong is a autonomous region of china different systems the best is to get a 10 yr multiple entries visa so many places to see 144 hr is just not enough for a long flight to get there.
For sure the 144 hours wasn’t long enough and meant we couldn’t move outside Shanghai as that’s where we flew into. Would love to come back and see more places in the future 😊
The bun's supposed to be strawberry flavor according to the receipt.
Besides, no one drinks tap water in China whether or not it's safe.
Thank you! The menu didn’t actually state a flavour so we weren’t sure!
When you go through hong kong，you can buy a sim card there for mainland china, then all the western apps can be used within mainland china.
We purchased eSIMs through Holafly before we came which did the same 😊
一定要有中文字幕
Will try get them added
China is very good for tourist
We had a great time!
This season is very suitable for vacation in northern Xinjiang. We recommend Conners Lake.
It's very cool in summer over there The temperature in summer is around 15-20 degrees
Xinjiang Conners Lake CD1 ua-cam.com/video/N4SyXH0dSgg/v-deo.html CD2 ua-cam.com/video/LKPD30c3GiQ/v-deo.html The scenery is a bit like Switzerland and North America
Xinjiang Tianshan ua-cam.com/video/rB-Npj8oLSc/v-deo.html
Thank you, we will keep that in mind for whenever we next visit 😊
China has 5 children that is Taiwan, Macau, HK, SCS islands, and small islands north of Taiwan.
I didn't Virgin guy can be so political lol yes, HK is part of China, but according to policy, 144 visa free visa apply to HK, Taiwan, Macau as third destination. As frequent traveler, I could feel your guys excitement, everything is exciting, right? the hiccup at check-in, even the airport cafe and food lol You guys definitely will get more excited in Shanghai, it's another level lol
We knew we could go to Hong Kong but it totally threw us and made us question it! Travel day is always exciting but going somewhere new and completely different was excitement on another level!
We absolutely loved Shanghai, standing at the Bund felt so surreal, like we were looking at a postcard! Well in the afternoon it did at least… you’ll see what I mean next week 😆
🇨🇳
So Hong Kong is a country or not? I saw your explanation about being on a Chinese exit visa, you said you understood the Chinese visa policy and then you were vague about the definition of Hong Kong, but at the beginning of the video you still said you were going to four countries including Hong Kong. So you still consider Hong Kong a country?
We know HK is a special administrative region in China but for the purposes of the 144 hour transit visa we travelled on, China allow HK as a place to travel to. We have never been to Asia before and were excited to travel to the 4 new places but didn’t mean to upset people by calling HK a country.
🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🎉🎉🎉
🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🎉🎉🎉
Fab vlig, your excitement brings a smile to my face. Love living my disney trips through you.
Thank you ☺️
How come you didn't apply for your VISA through the Chinese Embassy in Britain. Its there in your passport, nothing to worry about.
We looked at doing it but with another holiday we already had booked before hand (so unable to hand our passports over to the embassy until after this) we weren’t sure we would have had enough time to get it.
China's largest city is not Shanghai now, it's Shenzhen, Shenzhen is twice the size of Shanghai and not polluted, better go to Shenzhen than Shanghai.
The little boy is a little shy.
He’s not shy at all, he was just absolutely shattered! It was our longest travel day to date and we had been up for over 24 hours by the end of the day!
@@TheKershawsAdventures got it!enjoy your journey in china
Thank you, we had a wonderful time 😃
19:16 Full name -- Chinese government is very fussy about this. It's about identity.