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Having a stop over at Frankfurt airport is advenurous enough, one
does not need to be in a hurry. Well, to cut a long story short, our
plane left 25 minutes after its scheduled departure time and we were
in Frankfurt after a 50 minute flight. We changed terminals and
found our new gate right away. This plane was on time and we made it
to Paris in time.
While I waited and picked up the luggage, Tom went to pick up the
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By then it was 6.45pm and the party was supposed to start at 8.30. |
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Disneyland
Paris is about 45 minutes from the airport and we needed to check
into the hotel before we headed to the party. When I arrived they
had already finalized the rental and we ready to go. We picked up
the car, fixed our navigation device and off we went. We hit the
motorway and the traffic jam.Travelling on the motorway was very
slow and it took us more than an hour to reach our destination,
Disneyland Resort Paris. Before we went to check in we went to the
gas station to pick up a few drinks. |
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Then we headed for the front desk. We were assigned a nice room in
building 48 on the European first floor, American second floor.
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We put all our things in the room, had a sandwich, pulled out our
Mickey pumpkin ears and took the resort bus to go to the main
entrance. We arrived there at 8.45pm. Security was done in no time
and even entering the park was easy. We were then told that we
needed a wristband, which I lost twice within the first 5 minutes.
We then figured out how to close it so it would stay on. |
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There were A LOT of people in the park. Wait times for the rides
were long so we strolled the park and took in all the decorations.
We went into Frontierland and there were fireeaters and other
acrobats. |
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Since we wanted to see the show, the parade and the fireworks we
decided to skip the rides at all and just walk around after we had
watched the fireshow. |
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The castle looked amazing and Phantom Manor (the Haunted Mansion)
looked spooky with all the different colours and in no time it was
time for the parade. There is NO special parade for Halloween, but
it was nice to see an extended version of the Fantillusion parade
for a change. |
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We then explored Fantasyland and Discoveryland and tried to find a
nice spot for the show in front of the castle. It was a nice show,
but it was the same they did during the day. |
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We then explored Fantasyland and Discoveryland and tried to find a
nice spot for the show in front of the castle. It was a nice show,
but it was the same they did during the day. |
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We had about an hour until the fireworks, so we went to have a look
at the shops on Main Street. Later we went around the castle to take
some pix of the castle’s new „birthday celebration“ look. When we
went back to Main Street to find a spot to watch the fireworks, the
hub and Main Street were FULL of people!! It was amazing to see so
many people waiting for the fireworks. The fireworks were nice but
rather short and nothing like what we had seen in the US at the
Pirate and Princess Parties. |
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It was way past midnight by then and the party was going on until
1.30am with a dance party, but we were too tired to stay any longer.
So we headed towards the exit and then walked over to our resort,
because lines for the buses were LOOONG!! |
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Actually we were both happy to be back in our hotel room since we
were both so tired and Tom was battling his cold! Fun fact – when I
took off my rings at night all three of them fell onto a sideboard.
They ended up looking like a Hidden Mickey! We took that as a good
sign and went to bed. There were four more days ahead of us!
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