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thanks for your detailed trip report especially for DLP. i think i did mention earlier that i am going there in late october, and will essentially be by myself. i have heard about the unruly lines, but being from philly, i can give as good as i get.
Shame the DLP portion came at the end of the trip and it has tainted your otherwise fabulous vacation!!! Kind of like my March trip where I got sick that one day and that is the day that really sticks out in my mind!
No worries Anne, you've got a trip to WDW to clear away the DLP bad taste!!!
Fabulous pictures! love them! I especially love the one of you in Geneva with the rainbow over the water in the geyser! Sorry I was late to check this out! Glad you had a great time! So, what was your favorite part?
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 hanks for reading my 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 )
Thanks for reading my report. Yea Europe is beautiful between the architecture of the building and the beautiful scenery, it is worth seeing.
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thanks for your detailed trip report especially for DLP. i think i did mention earlier that i am going there in late october, and will essentially be by myself. i have heard about the unruly lines, but being from philly, i can give as good as i get.
thanks again for posting it!
Thanks also for reading my report. i am sure you will have a great time. I am glad that i went, the only thing i am saying is it is not WDW. so i went with high expectations. if you go with the thought that is is not WDW, then it will be okay. i didn't find it hard to be by myself except for the meals. i should have eaten at fast food, but i wanted to experience the restaurant food, which disappointed me, as again they were not like WDW. so as long as you go thinking that it is not WDW, it will be fine.
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Shame the DLP portion came at the end of the trip and it has tainted your otherwise fabulous vacation!!! Kind of like my March trip where I got sick that one day and that is the day that really sticks out in my mind!
No worries Anne, you've got a trip to WDW to clear away the DLP bad taste!!!
Thanks for reading my report Wendy. i like your comment that i have a trip planned to WDW to clear away the DLP bad taste. i am glad i experienced it, but it is not WDW.
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Fabulous pictures! love them! I especially love the one of you in Geneva with the rainbow over the water in the geyser! Sorry I was late to check this out! Glad you had a great time! So, what was your favorite part?
Thanks for reading my report Melissa. Yea the water geyser in Geneva is famous. you see it in movies that film in Geneva. my favorite part was definitely Switzerland, what an amazing country
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 )
Thanks for reading my report. The people in my tour were wonderful, but it's been my experience, since i used to do lots of tours when i was younger, that generally, the groups have really nice people, as they are people who love to travel and love to travel in groups. Switzerland is amazing, it is surrounded by the Alps, which i find are just beautiful, not like the Rockies that we have here. i love the Alps.
i am glad that i did experience DLP, because i wanted to see it, but now when i need my Disney fix, i will go to WDW, my favorite. I still want to go to Europe, but will do tours, not DLP. i would like to do the UK tour (England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland) and i would like to do Scandinavia and Baltic (Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweeden, Russia, Poland, Germany - Berlin, Latvia and Slovania). Yea i certainly enjoyed my tour more than DLP, but i am not sorry that i went to DLP, as i got to experience it and it wasn't that bad, it is just not WDW. If you need a Disney fix, then WDW will do the trick.
i felt like i should ad that i don't think that i will write another trip report, as i feel like it is a lot of work and i don't feel that too many people are reading it, so i am just questioning if it's worth to write it.
Hi! I just read your report, thanks for writing it. I was happy to find it since it is recent (from 2010). I will be at DLP soon (18-21 July) and I am looking for info about the restaurants. I haven't started a thread or looked around much yet but I will. I will try one or two of the buffets that you recommend.
By the way, it is currently hot hot hot in Paris. I hope the temps go down soon.
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Hi! I just read your report, thanks for writing it. I was happy to find it since it is recent (from 2010). I will be at DLP soon (18-21 July) and I am looking for info about the restaurants. I haven't started a thread or looked around much yet but I will. I will try one or two of the buffets that you recommend.
By the way, it is currently hot hot hot in Paris. I hope the temps go down soon.
Thanks again!
thanks, glad you enjoyed my report. hope the weather cooperates with you when you go there
Hi! I just read your report, thanks for writing it. I was happy to find it since it is recent (from 2010). I will be at DLP soon (18-21 July) and I am looking for info about the restaurants. I haven't started a thread or looked around much yet but I will. I will try one or two of the buffets that you recommend.
By the way, it is currently hot hot hot in Paris. I hope the temps go down soon.
Thanks again!
It's hot hot hot everywhere in Europe right now. They are forecasting the temperatures to go down from the start of next week, so hopefully you'll be OK.
What a shame I won't be on to our Disneyland Paris trip report by the time you go - I've still got a number of installments to go before I get there, but we were tere from 9 - 11 June, so if there's anything I can help with, then post away and I'll do my best to answer your questions.
It's hot hot hot everywhere in Europe right now. They are forecasting the temperatures to go down from the start of next week, so hopefully you'll be OK.
What a shame I won't be on to our Disneyland Paris trip report by the time you go - I've still got a number of installments to go before I get there, but we were tere from 9 - 11 June, so if there's anything I can help with, then post away and I'll do my best to answer your questions.
Oh yes, that report would be helpful. I'll enjoy it afterwards as well, I am sure.
My most urgent question is how far is the Newport Beach hotel from the exit of the RER train? I can't access the DLP site easily to find out, flash player required and I am on a device that doesn't use it. So I am not being lazy and not just looking myself. I have been to DLP once, but did not stay on site. I will be coming from central Paris, not Roissy so I can not just take the Disney bus. What do you think? Is there maybe a taxi stand there, or can we walk? It will be me, DS14 and very little luggage.
Which two restaurants should we do? We like table service, don't mind 2 hour meals and don't need characters.
you can walk from Newport Beach to the train station, it is about 15-20 mins walk, i have done it, it is just a nice walk.
the 2 table restaurants, i would say Walt's on main street, it is really nice and you could do Blue Lagoon in Adventureland. but all the hotels have very nice restaurants, most of them have each a table service restaurant and a buffet and they are really nice. also in Disney village, i enjoyed rainforest cafe.
you can walk from Newport Beach to the train station, it is about 15-20 mins walk, i have done it, it is just a nice walk.
the 2 table restaurants, i would say Walt's on main street, it is really nice and you could do Blue Lagoon in Adventureland. but all the hotels have very nice restaurants, most of them have each a table service restaurant and a buffet and they are really nice. also in Disney village, i enjoyed rainforest cafe.
Hi, thanks for the restaurant ideas. I wish I could reserve online, but it seems like you have to call. I may try and do that this week - just a week before we are there....trust me, I am never this unorganized for a wdw trip! I am just trying to go with the flow. We have three nights so we should be able to do lots. With only two people to please decisions are made easily. I think the weather and my stamina (feet) will be our weak points. But I imagine the parks are smaller distances than WDW.
The only question I have then is is there a sign to the hotels? We will be walking from the train to the hotel the first time, without having been there before.
you don't have to worry about ressies at DLP really, you could go in the morning and make your ressies, it's not like at WDW
There is a sign to the hotels. for Newport Beach when you get off the train station, you go in Disney village, walk until the end and then it is a pathway and there's signs for all the hotel, the first one is hotel New York, then you turn right and it will be hotel Manhattan, you go to the end of the pathway and it's Newport Beach
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you can walk from Newport Beach to the train station, it is about 15-20 mins walk, i have done it, it is just a nice walk.
the 2 table restaurants, i would say Walt's on main street, it is really nice and you could do Blue Lagoon in Adventureland. but all the hotels have very nice restaurants, most of them have each a table service restaurant and a buffet and they are really nice. also in Disney village, i enjoyed rainforest cafe.
Hi, thanks for the restaurant ideas. I wish I could reserve online, but it seems like you have to call. I may try and do that this week - just a week before we are there....trust me, I am never this unorganized for a wdw trip! I am just trying to go with the flow. We have three nights so we should be able to do lots. With only two people to please decisions are made easily. I think the weather and my stamina (feet) will be our weak points. But I imagine the parks are smaller distances than WDW.
The only question I have then is is there a sign to the hotels? We will be walking from the train to the hotel the first time, without having been there before.
Thanks for the directions! I feel much better knowing how to get there. I might just be able to relax on this vacation. It's good to know we can just wait on the restaurant ressies if we want.
yea you can make them when you get there or the morning of. it is fine. if you don't make ressies, you can still go, but you will have to wait and sometimes, they tell you to come back in a couple of hours (they give you a ressies for in a couple of hours, i did that too and during that time, i went shopping and came back at my time. it is not a big deal like WDW. i think because WDW has the disney dining plan and that's what makes it so busy
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