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Interesting about the Agrabah Cafe - we were thinking of going there, but opted not to in the end - sounds like it could've been a good decision.
Sorry you don't feel many people are reading this trip report. Unfortunately, this is what sometimes happens in the "less popular" forums. I've noticed a lot less people, for example, read my trip reports in the Globetrotting forum, as opposed to the WDW forum. Sadly, this is one that a lot of people haven't discovered yet, but I can tell you that, with very few trip reports from Disneyland Paris, this will be invaluable to anyone planning a trip there - and indeed around Europe - so please don't feel that your work has been wasted, as it certainly hasn't.
As an aside, it may be worth signposting people here, perhaps from the Globetrotting forum or even the Sunroom, just giving them a heads-up that the report is done, if they want to read about and just running through the places you saw. I know a lot of people would love to read about all the places you visted.
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Thank you for posting your trip report, Anne! I agree with Cheryl 100%, there aren't many trip reports for Disneyland Paris so it's great to have yours here
I'm sorry you had mixed feelings about DLP. The one thing I noticed is that you didn't feel as comfortable being a solo traveler at DLP than you would at WDW. I think that may be due to the fact that solo traveling isn't as popular in Europe as it is in the States, so seeing someone by themselves at DLP just isn't as common.
Also, you may have had bad luck with all the Italian guests around. I know that the crowds can make or break your experience at DLP! Europe is made up of so many different cultures, and they all have different ways of handling things.
The reason why the parks were so incredibly crowded during your stay is that June 3rd was Corpus Christi, which is a national holiday in some European countries (and there's often no school on the Friday after so that a long weekend at DLP is possible). Also, in some countries, schools are on break around this time of year.
Interesting about the Agrabah Cafe - we were thinking of going there, but opted not to in the end - sounds like it could've been a good decision.
Sorry you don't feel many people are reading this trip report. Unfortunately, this is what sometimes happens in the "less popular" forums. I've noticed a lot less people, for example, read my trip reports in the Globetrotting forum, as opposed to the WDW forum. Sadly, this is one that a lot of people haven't discovered yet, but I can tell you that, with very few trip reports from Disneyland Paris, this will be invaluable to anyone planning a trip there - and indeed around Europe - so please don't feel that your work has been wasted, as it certainly hasn't.
As an aside, it may be worth signposting people here, perhaps from the Globetrotting forum or even the Sunroom, just giving them a heads-up that the report is done, if they want to read about and just running through the places you saw. I know a lot of people would love to read about all the places you visted.
Thanks so much Cheryl that you appreciate my report. i don't know about the Globetrotting forum or Sunroom, so i am not too sure what you are talking about
Thank you for posting your trip report, Anne! I agree with Cheryl 100%, there aren't many trip reports for Disneyland Paris so it's great to have yours here
I'm sorry you had mixed feelings about DLP. The one thing I noticed is that you didn't feel as comfortable being a solo traveler at DLP than you would at WDW. I think that may be due to the fact that solo traveling isn't as popular in Europe as it is in the States, so seeing someone by themselves at DLP just isn't as common.
Also, you may have had bad luck with all the Italian guests around. I know that the crowds can make or break your experience at DLP! Europe is made up of so many different cultures, and they all have different ways of handling things.
The reason why the parks were so incredibly crowded during your stay is that June 3rd was Corpus Christi, which is a national holiday in some European countries (and there's often no school on the Friday after so that a long weekend at DLP is possible). Also, in some countries, schools are on break around this time of year.
Again, thanks a bunch for your trip report!
thanks so much Sabine for your comment as well. yea i guess i just didn't have a bad experience, although i did meet a couple of really nice italian families, some of them that i encountered in the parks were very pushy. again it all depends like you say
Thanks so much Cheryl that you appreciate my report. i don't know about the Globetrotting forum or Sunroom, so i am not too sure what you are talking about
but now that i already wrote my trip report in DLP, how can i enter my trip report in these without having to re-write it
You can just start a new thread in those forums saying "hey - I went to DLP and Europe. Come read about my 2 week adventure. The link is in my signature" or something like that.
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Great trip, Anne! You really moved alot but saw and experienced quite a bit. Thanks for sharing all of it. Besides all your beautiful photos and descriptions, i was interested in your menu each day. Sorry that you didn't like the food in Italy but everything else sounded good. I love all the foodie souviners that you brought home. Definitely doing that on my next trip. Too bad about the few mishaps with the sick guy and your fall. I'm glad that you didn't let it mar your trip. Sounds like it was a wonderful trip that you will remember for along time. for taking us along.
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You can just start a new thread in those forums saying "hey - I went to DLP and Europe. Come read about my 2 week adventure. The link is in my signature" or something like that.
Spot on - that's exactly what I was thinking when I first suggested it.
Great trip Anne. I read it from the beginning but haven't said anything. I went to DLP in 2004 so it was neat to hear about how you felt about the park. Sounds like you had a nice time in Europe as well. Thanks for the report and the pictures. I enjoyed reading about your adventures.
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Great trip, Anne! You really moved alot but saw and experienced quite a bit. Thanks for sharing all of it. Besides all your beautiful photos and descriptions, i was interested in your menu each day. Sorry that you didn't like the food in Italy but everything else sounded good. I love all the foodie souviners that you brought home. Definitely doing that on my next trip. Too bad about the few mishaps with the sick guy and your fall. I'm glad that you didn't let it mar your trip. Sounds like it was a wonderful trip that you will remember for along time. for taking us along.
Thanks Lorie. sometimes during a trip there are one or two mishaps, but overall the trip is always worth it and wonderful. it's like life, we have mishaps that happens, but we have to look at the overall and all the positive things in our life
Great trip Anne. I read it from the beginning but haven't said anything. I went to DLP in 2004 so it was neat to hear about how you felt about the park. Sounds like you had a nice time in Europe as well. Thanks for the report and the pictures. I enjoyed reading about your adventures.
Anne - Just had a chance to catch up and ended up reading the entire report. What a wonderful tour of Europe, your pictures were amazing and what a great group of travel mates. The people on the tour looked like they were great fun to tour with. You really covered a lot of places on the tour, I have to say the pictures of Switzerland were amazing, I could definitely dream about living there, I would not mind waking up to the at view each morning
Sorry that you did not have such a great experience at DLP, It really did not sound very fun with the rude guests and that not so great food. Gld you got to experience it, but there was definitely a difference in your report from the tour portion to your time at DLP.
Thanks so much for sharing your trip with us, I loves your WDW report and this was great as well, loved seeing the pictures from Europe (definitely on my wish list but until then I live vicariously through other peoples reports )
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