Tuesday, 28 April 2009

Eurodisney

We took a trip to Eurodisney the other weekend. We left London on Friday afternoon on the Eurostar to Paris and took a local train out to our hotel. On Saturday we started out early and head over to the park. Disneyland opened at 10am so we thought we would get there around 9am to beat the crowds. It turned out that there wasn't a huge queue and we were able to
quickly get on quite a few of the rides before the main crowds arrived for the day. They is a system called a fastpass where you can 'jump the queue' for the more popular rides by going back at a specific time. The system worked quite well and we never had to wait more than 15 minutes for any ride. We also got to see a lot of the shows and parades on Saturday which was good. They have a show or parade every hour or so and there are always characters out and about which you can get your photo taken with. We only got our photo taken with one character Winnie the Poo simply because that in itself took an hour and I wasn’t about to do that with every character!!! Saturday was a really long day as Eurodisney is open from 9.30am till 10pm so you can spend an awfully long time in the park. We were their till about 8.30pm before we decide it was time to go back to the hotel.


Sunday it rained in the morning again however be the afternoon it had cleared up and was turning out to be quite a nice day. The park set up is really interesting. You can’t see outside the park when you are in it and each land is self contained within itself they play songs from Disney movies I am quite proud to say that my child hood must have been well spent because I recognised every song and could put them to each movie! Sunday was a bit more relaxing than Saturday as we had packed so much in the day before. We went on all of our favourite rides for a second time and once finished had done every ride within the park. Our favourite ride by far was Space Mountain which is a rollercoaster in complete darkness and very cool.

We took the Eurostar directly back from Disneyland with quite a surprising number of people. It was a fun weekend and I would suggest if anyone else gets the chance to go and have fun with your inner child.