No ticket – no park!

It was finally time to return to Disneyland Paris. We had not been in a while and our Annual Passes had expired, but we had decided to return and stay on property and get passes with our stay.

Turns out that the airfare was cheaper going a day early, so we booked one more night at a good neighbour hotel.

We left our home town on the early flight to Frankfurt

and arrived there about an hour later. We did not have much breakfast at home, so we decided to stop by a restaurant at the airport and get some. The menu was huge and so we chose what our hearts desired

and had a great time munching away. Bellies full we went to find our gate and sat and waited. We learned that the flight was delayed a bit, but that is just the way it is in the winter. The flight left Frankfurt about half an hour after we should have, were again fed

and it was another hour and 20 minutes and we had arrived in Paris. Tom went to get in line for the rental car, while I waited for the luggage, which takes forever in Paris and about half an hour later I finally was on my way out to find Tom.

It was his turn to talk to the agent and since we had a prepaid voucher it did not take too long to get through the paperwork. And soon, with key in hand we headed up to the carpark. Took us a little while to find the car, but soon we had loaded our luggage into our Nissan Juke and off we went.

Since we did not have tickets for that day we had decided not to use the motorway, but instead enjoy the countryside and visit the Concorde Memorial. We had come by the memorial some time before by accident and had always wanted to come back and stop and have a look around and since Tom had found out that there was a geocache as well, this was where we were headed. GPS set and we were on our way and had soon found the memorial. We stopped, looked around

and Tom hunted down his cache and after about 40 minutes we were on our way to Disneyland Paris again.

Since we used the scenic route, it took us about an hour to get to our hotel. We checked in and were handed a key to a room at the ground floor. Now I am not a huge fan of ground floor rooms, but for one night it would work. We quickly had found the room, it was clean and had a huge glass door opening out toward the parking area and we were quite happy with it.

So we just got our things in the room and then drove to Val d’Europe to get some provisions for the day. Val d’Europe is not too far away, about 10 minutes, including getting in and out of the car. We took our sweet time looking around and then did some grocery shopping at the Auchan market.

This is a huge market and again we took a lot of time looking around. Finally we were done and loaded our purchases into the car and off we went back to the resort. By now it was later in the afternoon and when we returned to our room we realized that we had been placed smack dab in the middle of a huge load of 15 to 16 year old students.

They were loud, really loud and knocked on our door numerous times until I told their chaperone that I was going to call the front desk if it didn’t stop. The knocking stopped, but the noise stayed.

Well, it was still early evening, so no way to complain. We had an early dinner in our room with some baguette, ham, cheese and some spreads and then headed over to the bus stop to go to the Disney Village. The bus was still full with people who wanted to get off on one of the next stops and also had some people who had previously gotten on, so it was standing room only.

We later found a spot to sit down and within a few minutes we had reached the railway station and were now on our way into the village, which was crowded, really crowded. We went through the security check point, strolled through the shops and were happy we had bought our own dinner as the line for Earl of Sandwich, which we had wanted to visit for dinner, was out the door and seating not available.

We spent about an hour at the Village and then decided to take the next bus back to the hotel, as it had been quite a long day anyway and we wanted to get up and get going early the next day. When we got back to our room the noise had not died down, but once it was going close to 11 it died down just enough for us to have a good night’s sleep.