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Great TR, Chez. I'm finding the train, etc. very interesting. I also wondered about the change over of driving on the left side to the right side of the road. I would imagine that it's difficult to make the switch so quickly.
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What a great evening...I am sorry that the food and service was not as good as it should have been (the apptizer looked delicious though). But I am glad that the character interaction made up for what the rest of the meal was lacking.
I must agree what a strange group of characters...but some rare ones that you would never think of seeing at a meal. How great to see some of the characters from Pinnochio and of course getting to see Eyeore (they must have known you were coming )
Glad that your ride back was quick, looking forward to hearing more.
Saturday 20 December – part one: what a great score!
It was an early start for us, as we had agreed to meet Sabine and Manuel at 8.45, a perhaps slightly foolish move, as we had only just got in before midnight last night. Still, we did get going and only had a couple of minutes wait for the train at the station.
Our hotel
We were at our meeting point in front of the Disneyland Hotel on time and saw Sabine and Manuel coming toward us just a minute later. Talk about great timing.
We immediately headed for the Disneyland Park entrance. It was on Extra Magic Hours with only guests of the Disney hotels and ours allowed in at this time. At first, we saw a massive line of people waiting to get in and just knew that they weren’t hotel guests, so we tried another entrance to the right and were asked to present our keys. It’s here I’ll say that last night I realised that our room keys have nothing to identify us as guests of Hotel l’Elysee, so I decided that we would take the piece of paper that our keys had come in, as those marked with the hotel name. It’s just as well I did, as I don’t think we would’ve been let in otherwise. (As a footnote, I did see the next day when waiting to check out that the hotel does actually advise you to take your room key holder, but they don’t tell you that when you check in).
I had problems with my ticket, as it had become demagnetised and I quickly realised that problem had something to with having my BlackBerry near it, as the holder for that has a magnet in it. Ooops. I quickly moved it, although it meant that the ticket wouldn’t work for the rest of the day, which was a pain. All finally in, we walked up Main Street, getting photos on the way of the Christmas decorations.
Shops are there as soon as you enter The backside of the Disneyland Hotel is actually overlooking the park
We headed first into Discoveryland (their version of Tomorrowland).
Space Mountain
There we went on Buzz Lightyear’s Laser Blast. Mark rode with Manuel and I rode with Sabine and that worked for me, as I ended up with more than anyone else – 44,900. It wasn’t a great score, but we thought that there weren’t as many targets in here, as there are at Walt Disney World. There was also some argument over the guys’ scores. Mark took a photo of their score at the end of the ride, then the ride photo at the end gave them totally different scores, into six figures! :queston:
Mark’s score – I was too happy to worry about photographing mine! Manuel’s score Gosh, don’t we all look serious?
When we came out of there, Manuel and Sabine wanted to go on Space Mountain, so we held their bags for them and one in particular seemed to be very heavy. We would later find out why… They were through the line and back out again in no more than 10 minutes, it was so quiet in here. While they were gone, we went and took a few photos.
Yes, they have Star Tours here....
... and Honey I Shrunk The Audience
Hey Cheryl, great trip report so far! I caught a nasty cold and have been in bed for the past week so I didn't get a chance to read your trip report - or start mine for that matter - so far. It's so great to read about our trip
I love the photos. . . . . It seems like the shops on Main Street look very similar to WDW, but the rides look very different. Interesting . . . . . Can't wait for more
Great update....I love seeing all the pictures. There are definite similarities yet big differences as well. I love how the Hotel looks out onto the park (I would not mind that view ) Looking forward to more...
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Well if DD Alicia decides to spend a year.... or even a semester in France I guess I'll have to torture myself and go to DLP!! Though I thought I LOVED your idea of staying nearby to save some money, the looks of the Disneyland Hotel overlooking the park WOW!!! (I think I'll have to start saving MORE than just my pennies for that one!)
I can't believe how empty the park is! It's like you guys have it all to yourself, that's great. It's so interesting to see how similar - yet different - it is to WDW. And I was surprised to see so much English! I thought EVERYTHING would be in French first. That's interesting too!
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