Average Han: Disney Land Paris Day 1

So here is the first in what will be 5 Disney Land Paris posts. So without further ado I'll get straight on with the journey to Disney and arriving and what not. The purpose of these posts is ultimately to give a little bit of insight into what goes on so if you are planning to go you know what to expect and how things run, and also just so I personally have a journal, if you like, to look back on when I'm old and grey and remember what such a fun trip this was.

So on the 11th of May 2014 Meg and I were leaving Ebbsfleet train station on the Euro Star to go to Disney Land. Some would ask, why the Euro Star? Why not fly? Or get a Ferry? But since neither Meg nor I drive yet the Euro Star was pretty much our only option, plus it gets you there super quick, checking it and out is a doddle, compared to the airport, plus the station in Paris, which is Marne-La-Vallee, is pretty much outside the Disney Land gates. So super convenient, and since we stayed in a Disney Hotel we just had to hop on a shuttle bus every time we wanted to get to and from the Hotel to the Park, with no extra charge as we were staying at a Disney Hotel. Which moves me on to my next topic, the Hotel...

The front of the hotel

We stayed at Hotel Santa Fe, which is Pixar Cars themed as well as New Mexico, so as well as the whole hotel being themed, it was carried into your rooms as well.

We were in room 239 of the Luigi block of rooms

This was our room, apologises for it having all our stuff everywhere, but these were taken a few days into the trip. In our room we had 2 double beds, a TV, and a bathroom.

This was my bed.

Then this was Megan's bed. Clock the sleeping Mater picture on the wall!

The TV, and my two empty tubs of popcorn.

Considering we spent as long as we could in the parks, Meg and I still managed to watch a fair amount of Disney Channel. It felt like we were about 8 again, I guess some things never change!

I do love a good light bulb mirror!

I didn't take photos of the bathroom, since it just had the standard, toilet and bath shower combo, then this fabulous mirror with light bulbs round it.

Moving back to more of the checking in side of things, when you stay at a Disney Hotel you get a thing called 'Disney Express Luggage service', which basically is a service where when you arrive at the station in Paris you check your luggage in at the Express service counter and they take your luggage to your hotel for you, so you can literally go straight to the park and not worry about lugging your suitcase around. Then on your day of departure you check it in to this room in the hotel and they then take it to the station for you to pick up just before your train home. Its a handy little service which means you don't have to worry about your luggage.

So once we didn't need to worry about our bags Meg and I were away and straight into the Disney Land Park, which is the Park with Sleeping Beauty's castle. Even thought it has only been just over a year since I'd last seen the castle it still took my breath away seeing it again.

It literally looks as though it has been plucked from a fairy tale, so beautiful.

After taking a few photos and still not believing that we were actually there we finally decided to go on a ride, and the one we chose to be our first to go on was 'It's a Small World'. We were both incredibly surprised that we pretty much walked straight onto the ride and probably cued for about five minutes, and this luck continued for the first three days, then by the 4th and 5th we were having to cue for a lot longer.

We managed to pretty much cover the whole of Fantasy Land in our first day which included; Peter Pan's Flight, the Snow White ride, Dumbo's flying Elephants, Mad Hatters Tea cups, Casey Jr, and Le Pays des Contes de Fees, which is a boat cruise though miniature scenes from fairy tales (this is one of my favourite rides).

These are some photos from it:

After checking out the whole of the Disney Land Park and going on a couple more rides, the night was drawing in and we decided to have dinner at Colonel Hathi's Pizza Outpost, which served Pasta, lasagne and pizzas.

I went for the Lasagne and garlic bread with a fanta.

After this we wondered round a bit more went in a few shops and after making the decision to go back to the hotel rather than watch the lights show, Disney Dreams, we hopped on a coach back to the hotel and just chilled. As much as we wanted to stay and watch the lights show on our first night, we we both so tired from travelling and walking around all day, and we didn't feel that we would be able to do the light show justice, plus we knew we still needed to check into the hotel, so we went and had a good nights sleep instead.

After checking in and eventually finding our room we couldn't wait to get into our beds, which were incredibly comfy!

So I've managed to track and work out what I brought on each day, so at the end of each post I thought I would do a haul of what I brought that day.

This is an overall view, as you can see I brought a cuddly Sven I couldn't resist he was just too adorable not to get. My first purchase of the day was buying an autograph book and a pen, because I am just such a big kid, and then Meg and I decided that we needed knew ears, so we both brought these fab silver sparkly sequin ones. Then as some little keepsakes for myself I brought these Aurora and Rapunzel glittery figures, and this adorable Mickey and Minnie magnetic photo frame.