Hey everyone,
Just to let you all know i am now back from my trip to DLRP :cry: We had a great time and once i manage to get everything sorted (packing, photos etc) i will be writing out my trip report along with a few of the 300 photos i had taken (counted them in the airport today, exactly 300 :P ).
So be ready for Breeno's trip report that will have new adventures, old ones, a ride on the manor not to remember and many, many cups of coffee :lol: All will be reveled in the coming days.
Welcome back to the UK :)
Glad you had a good time
Welcome back breeno :D/ :D/ :D/ :D/
Really looking forward now for your photos and that all important trip report, just the little comments you have made already have got me intrigued... :wink: :D
Welcome back, cant wait to see the photos!!
me either get a move on he he he lol
Day 1 is expected to be posted later today, once i get the on the laptop and remember everything i will be starting it. So day 1 should be posted before the end of the day :)
Ok let's get this trip report kicked off :D
Day 1
So the first day of the holiday started at around 6:00am on a N. Ireland morning. After having a wash, getting dressed etc i went on here to say my last goodbyes before the holiday and that i may be on the forum during the holiday, subject to if the ipod will work. Then came the 2 hour drive from County Fermanagh to Belfast International Airport, boy did the town look strange very early on a sunday morning, town is usually very busy every day of the week and was extra busy with the 12th celebrations the day before but only very few cars on the road, was a great sight.
We arrived then to the airport and pre-booked our space in the airport car park (any members flying from Belfast International Airport and has a car you should pre-book the car park, alot easier than the normal way) so all we had to do was but the car thing we printed from the e-mail and the gate opened into the car park. The airport was busy as usual, although there wasn't a big queue for check-in with our flight to CDG. After getting rid of the luggage we headed for the shops and got a bite to eat (but i only had a sprite, wasn't hungry), bought the latest Liverpool FC magazine for the flight in the WHSmith and then searched for the internet cafe in the airport, but it was after security, which, as usual, had a long queue. We went past security with ease as usual and proceeded to the rest of the shops, me and my dad both got aftershave (will check what it is later) and i went on the internet cafe for a quick visit back here and i also checked the VEA website to see if the strikes were still on (i heard they were on at the start of the month) but the offical website said nothing. So onwards to the flight. Flight was nice and smooth and the chicken and stuffing sandwichs were great! :D
We touched down in CDG at 2:00pm french time and the next VEA coach was at 2:35pm but we didn't have time to stand around, after picking up the bags (tipical one bag wait ages for) we had to search for the part of the terminal the VEA coach stopped, we hadn't been in terminal 1 for a few years so we all forgot where it was but we found it in the end. When we did reach the hall the coach stops at (32 i think) there was a white bus similar to the yellow ones in the resort stopped there and a man asking people if they were going to DLRP, and if they were pointed them to go on the bus, i though straight away "the strikes still on" and so we entered the bus with our holding our bags (nowhere eles to put them). The bus went around CDG for a while, i was tex ing a friend so i didn't know where the driver was going but at the bottom of terminal 2 we stopped where a red VEA coach was waiting for us, i though "hang on, what happened with the strike?" but i was happy to be going on a coach with good seats :)
Now here's where the pictures come in so if your only here for the piccys, start reading :P
As the coach got closer and closer to DLRP i was practically glued to the window looking for my first sighting of ToT finished (last time i seen it in real life was last July) and i managed to spot it, heres a photo of it:
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We then arrived in NPBC to find this waiting in our room.
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I was surprised to see it, as were the rest of us. We were staying in a admirals floor room so not only did we get the balcony but we got great perks including from 4pm-5pm in the yacht club free coffee, drinks and biscuits, which my dad used to full advantage by using it everyday :P
After spending some time in the yacht club for the free refreshments we headed for the studios via the Disney Village.
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I didn't bother going the ToT just yet but my dad wanted to so when he went on it i was busy taking photos of WDS.
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When my dad returned from ToT he said that "it was alright" and "a bit disappointing", this confused me after hearing all the good comments about it here, but i still had confidence that it would be great when i went on it the next day as it came from my dad who members who was at DLRP during the same time as me may have seen him looking at brick walls (he's a builder and said he could tell what the wall was made from) :lol: Anyway we then walked about WDS for a little while, went into a few shops and then left for Disneyland Park were we went on Indiana Jones first as Phantom Manor wasn't working and Big Thunder Mountain's queue was far too long (or was that the other way round? Never mind), we then went on some more rides and i took some more photos.
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After that we then headed out of the park, spent a bit of time in the village and went to the NPBC bar.
And that concludes day 1 of my trip report :) Hope it wasn't too much or too little, day 2 should be either tonight or tomorrow :D
I don't know how on earth you managed to walk right past ToT and not ride it. :shock: I was straight on that thing last time I went! You've got problems sir! :lol:
(Oh, and great photos!)
Great pics!!
Looking forward to day 2 :D
great photos!
sounds like you had a good first day
how could you walk past the Tower of Terror?
saving the best til last :?:
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Thanks for that. I am also staying on the Admirals floor in a couple of weeks so your insight has been of great interest. =D>
Epcot_Boy :ears:
Quote from: "Epcot_Boy":hello:
Thanks for that. I am also staying on the Admirals floor in a couple of weeks so your insight has been of great interest. =D>
Epcot_Boy :ears:
There is also another great little perk that will be releved in day 2, which should be either tonight or tomorrow :D
Quote from: "-breeno-"So the first day of the holiday started at around 6:00am on a N. Ireland morning. Then came the 2 hour drive from County Fermanagh to Belfast International Airport. We touched down in CDG at 2:00pm french time
Well breeno my first question is nothing to do with DLRP but more about your morning timing to actual touchdown at CDG. It has me puzzled.... :?:
If your journey started at 6.00am in the morning, say half an hour to get ready, spruced up and say your goodbyes, then 2 hours onto that in trip time, would bring it to 8.30am, you need to be at the airport 2 hours before you fly on average, so that would take you to 10.30...Yet you touched down in CDG at 2.00pm french time, so that would be 1.00pm our time. I would not believe it takes 2 1/2 hours to fly to Paris from Belfast. From Newcastle it's only about 1 hour 15 mins... :?: Mmmmmm, something a miss... :mrgreen:
Mind you, trip report looking good already, with those all important first pics, looking forward to the rest of you're report... :D/
Great trip report and pics so far Breeno, I'm looking forward to the rest :mrgreen:
Great pictures Breeno!!! :D
It is a great report and as I like to take a lot of photos in the parks I really enjoy your pictures, which are absolutely stunning :D
Looking forward to the upcoming days
You have some brilliant pictures :) Glad You Had a godd time!
x
Cant wait to read day two
Glad you had a good time! I cant believe you got a blacony!!!!!
great trip report for day one!! =D>
can't wait for the rest!!
stunning photos by the way!!
Lets keep it going breeno... you have me glued already and as I'm looking at NPBC I am hoping you give me some positive reviews So I can complain to Wendybird1 for continually saying "But I want to stay at Sequioa!"
Nice start by the way... I'm firmly clenched to my seat!
and whats wrong with SL? :P
Thanks everyone for you comments :D Just to let you know Day 2 is about half way complete and will be posted by tonight i hope [-o<
Cant wait!!
Great photos an dreport so far Breeno.
I am glad you didn't get held up too much with the VEA on the way there. We got put on that bus and taken to the VEA termininal but had to wait half an hour on the red bus and then it took them ages packing everyone on plus the driver then sat and waited for ages to see if anyone else came...took ages! It was probably my report you read about the strike, i am hoping it was well over by the time you got there. I was only affected by it on the way home.
Can't wait to hear about day two and see more photos!:)
xoxoxox
So lets continue the report with,
Day 2
Well day 2 started at 6:55am french time, so that's 5:55am over here time, and that equals a very tried Breeno :lol: After washing, getting dressed etc we headed down for breakfast and were we in for a treat. One of the perks you get for staying in an Admirals floor room is the addition of an "American's Breakfast", thats bacon, scrambled egg, chips, sausages and tomato, along with the normal breakfast, yum! :D After that, we decided to take to bus to the parks and then off to Disneyland Park.
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After taking a few snaps and a look in a few shops we then headed over to Fantasyland to go on Peter Pan's Flight for the first time in many, many years. I could hardly remember what the ride was like being i think i was 4 or 5 when i last went on it and couldn't see why it was so popular, but thanks to EMH i got the chance to see why, it really is a well done attraction with a clever track layout. After that we headed over to Discoveryland for Buzz Laser Blast and Star Tours, so much fun watching people trying to take off their seat belts just after star tours, not knowing they won't until the doors open :lol: After that we headed to the Studios for one thing... The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror!
As usual i had to stop every 5 inches for photos :P
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Just noticed there now, does anyone think the earfel tower could do with a repaint? Maybe it's next on the list after Studio 1.
Now for the ToT and i have to agree with the members who have said this to me, how did i just walk past it?! My mum said she wouldn't go on it so when my dad and I queued the normal queue, my mum fastpassed it for us and herself as well (she wanted me to tell her if she would like it). Now at first i thought if you went on the fastpass queue you would miss out on all the theming but i was completely wrong! All you miss is the long queue as the normal queue takes a left turn a around the hotel before ending where it started which is outside the hotel doors whereas the fastpass queue is the same only to just walk straight to the hotel doors. Speaking of queues, Kristof, were you in the ToT queue on Monday morning? If so did you see someone in a blue vest shirt just outside the doors? I thought i saw him in the queue, but then i thought i saw Kristof a million times around DLRP :P As for the ride itself, WOW! By no doubt one of if not the best attraction I have ever been on, and the CM's do a really do job in it, first of all there was one called Bob and he was really funny. He was looking up and down at people like they were a rat or something when they walked into the lift shaft then in the shaft he said "Hold on to anything you want to keep, your hats, your glasses, your bags, your breakfast" and "any questions? Too late!" and just closed the doors :lol: After exiting the ride and buying the on ride photo (will have to post it on here sometime, looks funny), we went on ToT again with the fast passes which we could of used, but not before fast passing for a second time :P As for the second ride on the ToT was just as great as the first one, funny enough Bob the CM in the lift shaft was in the library this time :P He noticed us from the last ride and asked us did we want it pre show in English, to which we said yes, only to have a lot of French people come in after it was already set of English :lol: Then when it came to the lift shaft we had another funny CM called David, the shaft was full of French people so he did the safety talk in French then asked "anyone speak English?", to which we put our hands up and he said "good luck!" :lol: Anyway after my second ride on ToT we thought that we wouldn't use the other fast passes and head over to the hotel for the refreshments so we gave the fast passes to some people who were going to go on ToT but wasn't then because of the queue, they were very grateful, made you feel good as well because the child with them really wanted to go on it :)
So after the hotel refreshments and many, many cups of coffee from my dad :lol: , we decided to head back to the park where I discovered the phantom in the stretch room, which I thought was new only to discover yesterday that it wasn't :P anyway here's some pics of the manor.
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By the way that's the bag to keep the camera and camcorder I have on me.
Anyway after a ride on the manor and BTM it was time for something to eat, which we did, in Fuente Del Oro and for some reason, the only place in the parks I seen something to do with Bastille Day there, a stand which French flags and ribbon on it. Anyway the food was great and here's some pictures.
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So after that we just went about the parks, went into shops and attractions, then headed back to the hotel via the village (NOTE: the following pictures were from earlier in the day, but this is a good time to post them :P ).
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And when we arrived in the hotel we headed to the bar for drinks and kinda see the fireworks :p
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And that concludes day 2 of my report :D
brilliant report again and fab photos!:) looking forward to hearing more!
aw it was nice of you to give the people the fast pass. I like being nice to people when I am there:)
xoxoxox
Nice read again Breeno ;-)
And you surely got taste for great football clubs :lol:
Great report. Can't wait to go now myself 8)
QuoteJavey74 : I would not believe it takes 2 1/2 hours to fly to Paris from Belfast
The flight takes about 1hr50min from Belfast to CDG[/size]
Another good read, more great pictures.
Quote from: "Soap"And you surely got taste for great football clubs :lol:
I agree :D
I support barca :!:
nice pics!
cant wait to get more reports :) and its getting me excited lol
Quote from: "-breeno-"After washing, getting dressed etc we headed down for breakfast and were we in for a treat. One of the perks you get for staying in an Admirals floor room is the addition of an "American's Breakfast", thats bacon, scrambled egg, chips, sausages and tomato, along with the normal breakfast, yum! :D
Now I'm looking forward to that =D> :wink:
Really enjoying this report :D Thanks for sharing :)
Epcot_Boy :ears:
Great report breeno for day 2, with some splendid photos there to go with it. Well done =D> =D>
Looking forward to day 3... :D/ :D/ :D/ while still anticipating what happened to Phantom Manor after that... :shock: :shock:
Great report so far, i never knew ToT had a preshow in English.
Thanks all for your comments :D
Day 3 should be posted tomorrow, sorry i couldn't write it today, there was a big GAA match on today and my county was in it so i just had to watch it :P
no prob. Sure its worth waiting for
Who won the footie?
Quote from: "Pete's Dragon"no prob. Sure its worth waiting for
Who won the footie?
Ulster Final you mean?
[spoiler:u68a8kme]Draw. Armagh were winning by 1 point and then Fermangh got a point in the last seconds *phew* :lol: Replay next sunday.[/spoiler:u68a8kme]
well off topic
ooooh, close one !!!!
great trip report for day two...
can't wait for day threee!!!
Sorry for the delay of continuing the report, with the big match yesterday and being up the town today i haven't got much time to write it, but here is...
Day 3
The tried day of the holiday started a little different to the last day, because i woke up with my breakfast waiting for me :) One of the perks in an admirals floor is the option on breakfast in bed so we thought we would try it for a day and me being me i was asleep when they knocked on the door with it, i could sleep through anything :P As for the breakfast it was your usual DLRP brekkie, with the option of an american's breakfast at extra charge but we didn't have it. After the breakfast we got ready for the parks and proceeded straight to WDS to see could we use EMH to full advantage again for Crush's Coaster.
When we arrived at WDS it wasn't opened so we joined the small(ish) queue for the gates, which grew, and grew, and grew. At least we weren't bored to death waiting, Donald came out onto front lot and came over to us at the entrance and there was a band playing in front lot, not bad but when your trying to talk to someone back home on your phone you'd wish they would shut up :P Anyway when the gates did open we headed straight for Crush, like many, many others. We joined the queue which stretched out from the Crush entrance to Animagique! Was wasn't opened yet BTW but when we were in the queue was could see the new fastpass for Crush replace the flying carpets one and when we were queue we saw two men dressed in suits standing about half way between us and the fastpass, then another man in a suit joined them, they shook hands and started talking, i couldn't hear them but they but they were looking and pointing towards to fastpass. Anyway as for the ride it was just as great as it was 12 months earlier, i need see any change since i was last on it but my mum thought the actually coaster part was darker than before.
After Crush we went onto ToT for my third time, sadly neither Bob or David was there :( Ah well, it was still just as great, after that we went into La Terrasse for a drink and snack and i managed to some get photos of WDS.
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Also i noticed that the back of Studio 1 was being painted, would of posted it here earlier but i was beat to it :P
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After snapping a few pics we started to head to Disneyland Park, without getting a few photos of inside Studio 1.
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When we arrived in Disneyland Park we went into a few shops, a few attractions and the got a bite to eat at the Cowboy Cookout before headed back to NPBC for, you guessed it, the refreshments :lol:
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After the refreshments we decided to head over to the lighthouse just outside NPBC, we never thought you could go over to it but we saw people at it and going over to it the days before, there is a little path beside it that leads up to it.
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After that we headed back to Disneyland Park where we went on Honey, I Shrunk the Audience for the first time in many years. It was a lot more quiet than it was a few years back when i was on it, quite funny when in the pre show the presenter of the pre show said "Hello? Is this thing on? Can you hear me?", nobody said anything, then she said "Good" and continued talking :lol: As for the ride itself it is still good but does seem a little dated, was much better when it was first opened. After that we went to Videopolis for something to eat, the new toppings bar are great and very clever. While we ate we watched the classic Disney shows and, wait for it javey... three of them in a row had Donald in it with a main part! Great ones at that :D Once we finished our meal we just went around the park going on various attractions and shops before heading back to the hotel that night to go to the bar again :D
And that concludes day 3 of the report, sorry about day 3 not being so great but i can't really remember much from that day but the next day (day 4) i remember the most and includes the "ride on the manor not to remember", coming tomorrow (hopefully) :)
:hello:
Nice pics again =D>
Epcot_Boy :ears:
you sure did get a big amount of photo's breeno :) love reading your stories altho known me i would forget about what i done each day by the next day lmao
Thanks for posting day 3 on your Trip Report with the all important photos, you see it goes to show, Donald gets all over, if not in the Classic Disney Shows, it's over for a chat near the front lot.. :wink:
I did give him a ring you know to tell him you were going and to look out for you... :lol: :lol: :mrgreen:
Looking forward to the all important day 4 with the mystery of PM... :shock: :D
Great TR Breeno!
It is getting me realy excited, although I don't have a trip planned for the near future :cry:
ANYWAY! :lol:
Keep it coming!
=D>
great day three!! loooking forward to
Quote from: "SophieD"the "ride on the manor not to remember",
sounds cool!!
loving the pics of Hollywood Boulevard!!
Love the photos!! It might just be because we were there at the same time as you so the same bellhops were working, but we loved Bob and David too!! We went on ToT 13 times and they were there most of the time, they definately made the ride sooooo much better and they are our favourite bellhops!!! I am also intrigued by this ride on PM....
Thanks again everyone for your kinda comments :)
Ok i think it's time to get another day of the report posted so here is..
Day 4
The last day of the holiday in the parks started slightly different to the day before, we didn't pick breakfast in bed. Another difference of the day was that we couldn't go back to the hotel for refreshments, as the hotel was shutting down it's power from 1-5pm i think, im guessing every hotel was doing it for safety checks. After breakfast, we headed to Disneyland park and finished off that last minute shopping (shopping service is a great, great idea) and got a few snaps.
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Once the last minute shopping was complete we went over to Frontierland via the passage in Liberty Arcade, a very kinda person gave us his 3 fastpasses for BTM (must of been karma) and to our luck we could use it straight away, but we couldn't as well. We were in a massive fastpass queue (they always were massive this year, don't know why) when a CM wearing the phantom manor CM costume said to everyone in the queue "there is a problem, all fastpasses will be accepted all through the day", we were sad to see a problem on BTM but atleast we could use the fastpasses later in the day so we decided to head for Phantom Manor, but we were arrived at the gates they were closed, with a CM telling everyone there was a techincal problem. With both of Frontierland's main rides down, it could only mean one thing... photo time!
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We saw a few CMs i think they were walking on that path beside the track in the pic below, sorry couldn't get pic of them.
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After a little trip tp Adventureland for rides and shops we went to Discovery Arcade where i fell in love with Ben & Jerrys ice cream :D only problem was i had 3 scoops of chocolate fudge brownie in a cup which was far too much, couldn't finish it :P After that we headed for WDS where i found this, it made me laugh.
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Yep thats a poster fro Crush behind ToT poster just slapped on :P Thought they would of replaced it, not just put a ToT one over it.
Anyway after a deck into a few shops of WDS and a look at the queue times on the info board (20 minutes for Armageddon! Never seen it that long before) we decided to see Moteurs... Action! Stunt Show Spectacular as my dad has never seen it before. The last time i saw it was 2002/03 i think and a few things has changed since then, won't say what so i won't spoil it for anyone but a few things have been taken out, but it's still great. After that we got a bite to get in the restaurant in Studio 1 (i can never remember names, sorry) where i got a Tower burger which was great and kept the box (sorry Butlin, i just had to :P ) then we headed over for Cinimagique, still as great as ever and is a great place to cool down on a boiling day :) By this time it was past 5pm so the power was back on in the hotel and my dad had to get back to change his clothes so we did, and i haven't been in WDS since :P
After that we headed back over to Disneyland Park where we decided to go on Phantom Manor and here is the story of it in full.
We first of all we were in the queue line, just at the side of the manor with a slightly big queue behind us as well, when about 6 English youths around my age (14-16 my guess) just ran us the bank of Phantom Manor, jumped over the wooden fence and skipped everyone :x Then at the doors they started banging the door that was closed because there was another bunch of people in there for the stretch room but that didn't bother them. When we entered the manor they were talking and shouting non stop, even when the CM told them to be quiet, when we entered to stretch room things didn't improve, they we still shouting away, then when the CM told us to move to the center in french, they started saying "What she on about? What does that mean?", they were also told various by the CM to keep quiet by would they? No. They didn't actually shut up until the CM walked up to them and said "do you want to be put out?", but that still didn't stop them talking throughout the scene. Know if you think that is bad just wait until you here this. When we actually got on to the ride part they completely ruined it for everyone, shouting, spitting, yes spitting! I saw one of them spitting at the first aimatronic of Melanie and at one stage one of them was holding on to our doombuggy :x :x I was soo close to just hitting his hand to get him off, put i didn't, i knew that behind the scenes you are always watched. I couldn't stop think that all the time, effort and money WDI spent making PM this great was being ruined because of a few youths, now i know there are members around my age who was around the age of them, and i think they would agree with them when i say it is good to have a laugh with friends but there is a line not to cross, and they crossed it big time. Anyway back to the story. Towards the end of the ride where you exit the doombuggy via the
moving walkway, we were getting off the buggy but the walkway wasn't moving, the doombuggys were not moving and there was no CM standing by the controls, which was beeping with a big, flashing red light on it, we started walking out of the manor, filled with rage over them youths when we could hear one of them, "Get off of me!!" he was shouting, the CM at the end of the ride was dragging him back into the ride by the back of his neck, along with the rest of him, at first we thought that they pressed a button on the control panel, thus stopping the whole ride but then it clicked, security must of been watching them since the stretch room and then contacted the CM to stop them and probably ban them from going on PM again. When we left PM we headed over to the seating area beside the Mark Twain enterance because that's where my dad was (he didn't want to go on PM), just after telling him the story we seen the lot of them walking past us and not a sound from them, what ever the CM said to him i thank him so much for doing so.
Anyway after that we didn't used that fastpass of BTM we had from the started of the day, then headed back to the hotel via the village where we had a take away from Annettes diner and ate it on one of them seating things that the pillars used to be. After that we headed to the hotel and went to the bar for the last time.
And that concludes day 4 of the trip report, there is only day 5 left which isn't very interesting as its just really travelling home.
Great trip report and pictures Breeno, I've really enjoyed reading it :)
Quote from: "-breeno-"After that we got a bite to get in the restaurant in Studio 1 (i can never remember names, sorry) where i got a Tower burger which was great and kept the box (sorry Butlin, i just had to :P )
Curse you for copying my idea... :roll: :lol:
Quote from: "-breeno-"now i know there are members around my age who was around the age of them, and i think they would agree with them when i say it is good to have a laugh with friends but there is a line not to cross, and they crossed it big time.
Absolutely agree with you Breeno, I'm glad they got dealt with. Quite ironically, the same sort of thing happened on the last day of our last trip as well. We were about to board our boat on POTC, when a gang of teens came walking out of the caverns next to where the CM controlled the guest flow, they must have jumped out of the boat in the last scene because of the usual boat tail-back. The CM just looked at them in shock and said 'you got out of the boat!' And because of this, they had to reset the ride system, causing the whole ride to slow down, even when it restarted because all of the boats where piling up by the station. They turned a 15 minute experience into about double it! Also, when we were in the burning city scene, we saw some CM's with some torches looking around? :?
Breeeeno! That´s a great and fantastic trip report! And wonderful photos!!!! Thank you for that! =D>
thanks for posting day four!! really good trip report!!
i can't believe what those young people did on PM!! its soooo disrespectful.......but i'm glad they had their commupance!!! :P hehehehehe!! :P
looking forward to day 5!
great report so far
bring on the 5th day :D/
(tbh i am a lil shocked about the incident!)
Thanks for day 4 Breeno, well worth reading, especially after the fiasco on Phantom Manor, they deserved to be launched into the water around BTM, that's where I would have put them, if I had my way. My Blackbelt 3rd dan in Ju-Jitsu, would have come in handy here. :lol: :lol: :mrgreen: Goes to show what sort of a world some people live in, total stupidity, dis-repectful and arrogant behaviour. Good to see they didn't get let off the hook. Actually we had some idiots on It's A Small World, back in October 2007, I told them to grow up and give them such a look, I must admit they did shut up!! :o
Looking forward to your final day 5.... :D/
Ok here's the final day of the report, sorry in advance that its not that good and no pictures as all it we were doing was travelling home.
Day 5
Ok day 5 started pretty similar than other ones with breakfast, not in bed just normal breakfast. After it we finished packing and just relaxed until the VEA coach came (we couldn't go to the parks because the next coach was at 10:00am and we had to be at CDG by 11:00am i think). Anyway when we arrived in CDG we had a bit of time to kill before we could check-in, so we headed for the cafe place in terminal 1, got a quick bite to eat and a newspaper. When we were just about finished my dad who just came back from a walk about (does that alot) told us that the check-in was open, so we rushed over to it, only to find a rather big queue for it :( But thankfully it moved quick. After check-in we proceeded to the shops, which weren't exactly France's finest but ah well. After a look in the shops and going through security we headed for the departures lounge were they was a duty free and a cafe. I didn't eat anything from the cafe but we got the last of the last minute shopping :P As for the flight itself it was fine, had another chicken and stuffing sandwich which was lovely (did i mention i had one on the way to CDG?). Only problem was a kid in front of us got his hands on two Pringles tins and started hitting with each other from about 3/4 of the flight until landing :P When we landed back in rainy Belfast we went past passport control, got our luggage and then headed back to the car park for the car for the 2 hour drive back to Enniskillen.
And that concludes Breeno's 2008 trip report. I hope you enjoyed it, please tell me what (if anything) you like about it and what you disliked. Oh and sometime in the near future (perhaps later today) i will be posting all the photos in this report and more for my trip on my fotki page, links in my sig :)
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A great report -breeno-!
Well Done Brenno!
I throughly enjoyed it.
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And as for the inncidents, Last year (2007) I went on a school trip. Euro Tour 2007, it consisted of traveling from Scotland down to hull where we boarded a ferry to Belgium ect. untill we arrived in Paris.
We visited Disneyland paris which was great but at the end of the day 3 kids (from our party) had gone missing so our Teacher went to town hall and all 43 of us waited just at the exit. Suddenly a toupe of characters came out. The sherife of Nottingham came over to us to give us special attention (we all had red caps on), a certain girl in our group was playing along with him but then suddenly tried to steal his money bag. He obviously didn't giver her the bag which resulted in him recieving a kick in the shin :x
Then Tweedle dee+dum came to see what the commotion was, the girl wasn't getting any attention from Tweedle dee or dum so she decided to give Tweedle Dum a slap in the back of the head. A hard one too! :oops: One of the teachers then told her off and repetedly shouted "How would you like to be in a hot costume in the middle of a Themepark?" :shock: Which just finnished it for me, "You can't say that" I replied.
ANYWAY
The point of that story is it's disgraceful how little respect youths have for others.
well done for such good reports and great pics, look forward for seing the rest of your pics sometime :D
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Loved it all Breeno, great report. Has really wetted my appetite for next week =D>
Thanks again :wink:
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hey -breeno- loved the trip report and all the photos!!
now i cannot wait for my trip in December!!
thanks for posting!
Thanks for the final day of your trip report breeno....Like any, the last day is mostly about packing and returning home....Really sad part about the whole trip I find... :cry: :cry:
I used to wonder when I hit this part of the holiday, where all the time had gone, it's true when the say "time flys when you're having fun"... :)
The return trip from entering CDG, never seems to really change does it... :mrgreen:
When you get home do you often think.....Oh I forgot I was going to get that before I left...But it's the usual "too late now", "have to wait till next time".... :roll:
Still, you can always look back on the good times, while you were there.... :D/ :D/
Thanks for sharing your report as ever breeno... =D> :D
Great TR Breeno! Really enjoyed reading it :) Can't believe the Phantom Manor incident - why on earth do people go to DLRP when they're gonna behave like that and deliberately spoil others' enjoyment?! I would have had a really hard time keeping civil, especially if they'd ruined Phantom Manor for me as it's my favourite ride!
Great report Breeno! I was there the same time as you and did look for you but alas I didn't see you! Love all the pics you took! I'll start on my report today or tomorrow. :D