Well heres day 1 at least, got eurostar, so useful again they ut me in carriage 3 and my sister and mum in carriage 1, then exactly the same on the TGV at lille, apart from we were now in two different trains :lol: . Arrived at the resort at about 2pm, waited for the pink bus, definately not a good colour for a bus. At Holiday inn check in went fine, then came the fun waiting for another bus, took ages, finaly at disneyland park, and was about 4pm, I had wanted to seethe parade and yay I finally saw it again with the most fantastic Peter Pan ever, he was so energetic, with it and god forbid he was English :lol: . Parade went by rather quickly at town square. Went to studios, where I and sister entertained the idea of rock n roller, oh wow a 45 minute, longest I have ever waited and was great. After was the joy of the tram tour, not much different to other times obviously.
6pm was fast approaching, so photo time, something my sister hates, hoping for sunset to come, 6pm came and went and it was still light :( . Back to disneyland park and got food at oro or whatever in frontirland, really nice food, time then came for phantom manor, excellant cast members especially at keeping people happy during a major breakdown that I got to exprience at the loading platform, but ride was good. Space Mountain time, first time sister got scared by a funny cast member screaming at her, train had no music :( , so in true me fashion we had to go on agai :) , this time we had music, and opted for the left loading platform, to escape the clutches of the random CM :P. Fantasyland rides, it's a small world and so on to finish the night. However park closed at 10pm, time pink bus arrived 11pm :evil: , I will never stay again in the partners hotel, all thanks to the poor bus service :evil: .
Day 2 coming soon.
QuoteBack to disneyland park and got food at oro or whatever in frontirland
Fuente del Oro is open again??? That's great news! I love the food there. :D
Yes that's it, and Hakuna Matata was also open this lunchtime :wink: .
Most probably to compensate the increased capacity.
oooh i love to eat at Hakuna Matata. once in 2004 we had the food there but left the ice creams untill later due to them melting. my mum went up to the counter and asked for them with the recipt and in the end we recieved the whole meal again! :D - a little off topic lol glad 2 see you had a gr8 time paddy!
Day 2: 27th October 2006
Woke at about 8am, took till around 10am to arrive at any park, and when we did, it was Walt Disney Studios. Got to Security check and it was the motorcars and stars music playing and I was hoping to see a car, but no such luck, instead the Cinefolies cast were standing around a foggy Frontlot, me nearly slipping all over the place in trainers that really do not grip well. Finally arrived in the middle of the Frontlot to pose for a photograph, this being the first of many times I will have seen Cinefolies this trip :wink: . Inside Studios1 went to eat le petite dejuner deal they have with orange juice, hot drink and croissant, not bad at all and such a lovely atmosphere to start off the day.
However I needed Halloween stuff to see, so off to Disneyland Park for La Cavalcade, which is fantastic and even better in the fog :) . Went on a few rides, I actually cannot remember, in which order, it was so long ago, but think Space Mountain along It's a Small World were done before 1pm arrived, when our reservation for Plaza Gardens was. This restaurant is absolutely amazing, architecture is beautiful and we were promptly seated, only problem the waiters kept on thinking we spoke French, I watched the cast member look on the computer for us and believe they may have thought we were another set of people since they seemed to believe there were 4 not 3 of us :lol: . We got sat next to the Autumn / Winter painting of Plaza Gardens, which I loved a lot and brought back loads of knowledge I gained from the Disneyland Paris bible :wink: . Food was good and nice selection, especially dessert, I don't believe I have seen desserts in a restaurant go and be replaced so quickly :lol: .
After it was through Discovery Arcade, returning to Walt Disney Studios, Rock n roller coaster was running great, shame about the 35 minute wait, after that I believe it was sadly time for Moteurs Action, I'm not a giant fan of this show. I don't really know why, but just seems to bore me now, especially when I'm missing the Villain Parade :x , but the show thankfully ended and it was time for Cinemagique, which was now running the last show of the day meaning that it would be 5:45pm by the time we left, I noticed the lack of curtain in the show, which saddened me if nothing else, since it now seems remenisant of your typical local Cinema when it starts now. We left the Studios and people were still piling in at 5:45pm :roll: , god knows why they were, I don't understand, but back over to Disneyland Park, where we ended up having food at Belle Notte and night riding Space Mountain, the railroad, which took a while and when I kindly asked the cast member how many trains they were running, his reply was 10 minutes :lol: . Not exactly what I had in mind, did Star Tours, which was rather hilarious, since it was my mother's first ride and she hates rides, she had however been on a simulator like it in Port Aventura and so she wentr on and came off with a headache and feeling sick, so there went any future journey's to Endor with her lol. Back into Frontierland, we believed we would just hit a nice easy queue on BTM, however it was closed due to a technical fault and we were told it would not reopen, so off to Pirates it was where there was no queue, and had a certain eerie sense to the queue line when noones around. We ended up sat yet again in the front of the boat with only 3 people behind us, went round once and the cast member basically demanded we remain seated and want to ride again, so we did and then came again and she even said do you want to ride again? So us being us decided to agree and by the time we returned to the station it was exactly 10pm, not a bad way to end the day :D . Got to the bus stop after trying to find our way out of a very unlit Adventureland and ended up getting on the bus within 10 minutes this time, I however asked yet again at the reception did they have any cards for the internet and after 10 minutes of waiting again their reply was use your credit card, I was saying however I do not have a credit card, yes that got me far. Off to bed it was and ready for my next day, which was my big move to the Cheyenne, and my mother's and sister last day at Disneyland Resort Paris.
Photo time, so hope you're ready for a lot, I was there 8 days after all :wink: :
Day 1
Walt Disney Studios Frontlot on a cloudy afternoon
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Generic Halloween sign photo on Main Street Railroad Station
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Frontierland by dusk
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One of the many angles of the Castle
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Blurred photo of the Orbitron :D
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If you have never read this before, feel ashamed :lol: :wink:
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It's A Small World's fountains
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Another view of the Castle
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Plaza Gardens by night
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That's all for now, look out for day 2 and so on :wink: .
Day 2 photos:
Cinefolies avec mois in a nice foggy Frontlot
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Pinocchio in his Ghost costume
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Goofy getting a Pumpkin from Alice :)
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Stitch on the search
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Pumpkingirl
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Fountain inside Plaza Gardens
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Rock N Roller Coaster
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Tour De Force
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Space Mountain, if only it went to the moon :(
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Star Tours communicating with the outer edge of the Universe
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The top of Le Space Mountain
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One of my favourite halloween photos :D
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A Better clearer view of the castle from Discoveryland
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Discoveryland entrance in green :?
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Pumpkinmen working overtime
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Wonderful fountain I've never really noticed before outside of Pirates
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Another castle view :P
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Main Street on a wonderful Halloween evening
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Cat on a Pumpkin, whatever next?
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Day 3 coming soon.
Day 3 included Walt's, which was the best restaurant I have ever been to in my whole life :D , food amazing, service superior to most places and the Victorian feel, even when you're sitting in the Frontierland is absolutely astounding, overall this restaurant should be tried by anybody who can afford it.
On this day also I changed Hotel to the Hotel Cheyenne, where I'm sure the check in guy played a joke on me by giving me a key that would not unlock my door and would have to return to the desk and ask for another one. I was given a room in Sitting Bull, was a rather nice room and would definately stay here again. I was now by myself in the resort so was able to do whatever I wanted, instead of being told by my sister what we are going to do next, which gave the trip a bit of a boost, plus Pumpkinmen were back in the Villain Parade :D . So here's some of the photos from Saturday 28th October 2006:
View out onto Harrington's from the Frontierland room we were sat in at Walts
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A wonderful painting of the Far West on the wall
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Another painting of the west
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Pumpkinman in the Villain Parade
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Mickey and the gang on their float
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Stitch invading the float using his mask
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Blurry Peter Pan
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Pink Witch invading the seaweed dance
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Ursula, a very manly ursula anyway :lol: :wink:
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A happy dead pirate?
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Dead Town's People
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Gaston posing
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Iago clones
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jafar
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Pack of cards
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Maleficent's Servants
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Maleficent herself
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The castle caught well at night, shame it's on a slant, damned railing in Fantasyland :x
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Great trip report and photos so far Patmagic :)
:D Mmm, gorgeous Gaston pic! What day did you take that on Pat? I think that's the Gaston we saw on Monday the 30th, but it could've been the one we saw the day after... :P both Gastons on Monday and Tuesday were gorgeous! :) The one on Wednesday was just OK...
:) Great report!
Brilliant pictures, you really captured the moment! :)
Quote from: "Masamune":D Mmm, gorgeous Gaston pic! What day did you take that on Pat? I think that's the Gaston we saw on Monday the 30th, but it could've been the one we saw the day after... :P both Gastons on Monday and Tuesday were gorgeous! :) The one on Wednesday was just OK...
:) Great report!
They were taken on Saturday 28th October 2006 :wink: , and also have to agree Gaston does look nice, though dunno he is a bit cheesy for my liking :lol: .
Sorry I haven't read you report, but I know that your pics say more than 1000 words, as usual :)! Looks really great and I think the wheather seems to fit to Halloween!
Is the Villains Parade a bit different or is it the same to last year?
It's a bit different with the Pumpkinmen at the beginning instead of the props and Scarecrows routine. Also the country western style halloween lo ween music is used on the first float that was occupied by Pumpkinmen, but now Mickey etc and Stitch. Also added characters behind that float, apart from that and taking away the horse and cart it's all mostly the same as last year :wink: .
=D> Nice picca's!!! Great trip!
Quote from: "PATMAGIC"Quote from: "Masamune":D Mmm, gorgeous Gaston pic! What day did you take that on Pat? I think that's the Gaston we saw on Monday the 30th, but it could've been the one we saw the day after... :P both Gastons on Monday and Tuesday were gorgeous! :) The one on Wednesday was just OK...
:) Great report!
They were taken on Saturday 28th October 2006 :wink: , and also have to agree Gaston does look nice, though dunno he is a bit cheesy for my liking :lol: .
:D It may have been the same one as Monday or Tuesday then! :P Either way, I was very satisfied with all the Gastons I saw... :lol: they were practically dreams come true where I'm concerned!
Day 4: Sunday 29th October 2006
My first day completely alone, not many highlights from this day apart from being able to see Cinefolies mostly all day long :lol: , Dinsye Cinema Parade with cut cast, which was not that great to see and also took part in the guided tour of WDS this day. The cast member was trying to put me off doing it, but I refused to do the DLP one instead and went ahead, the cast member was very imformative, though some of it I already knew, but overall not bad for €10 and I got a free pin too :D .
An empty Main Street, well nearly
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Nicely empty Fantasyland :D
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Chesire Cat's face looks even great in the winter as it does during Spring and Summer
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Dumbo the not so flying Elephants :lol:
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The Old Hag herself
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Her Majesty the wickedness Maleficent and me
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Daisy, me and more of the car :P
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Clarice who couldn't figure a way for me to stand, so that pose won
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Miss Loulou
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I'm sure the medicine is some type of drug :P
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Cinefolie
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Loulou AGAIN
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Sourceror's Apprentice and what's that greenary :wink:
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Chip avec moi
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Sourceror mickey conjering up the Walt Disney Studios water tower
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Studio 1 in Christmas
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Loulou again, shae just loves the camera
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Cinefolie
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Another cinefolie
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Walt Disney Television Studios
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Rendez Vous Des Stars
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Moteurs Action
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It's like Nightmare Christmas 2 holidays collide
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Armageddon and just for Ant a Tower of terror shot :wink:
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Christmas at a building site
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Cinemagique looks so nice at night :D
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Blue, Yellow, Blue, Yellow what is it?
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Art of Disney Animation
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Agique or maybe Tragique :lol:
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The Partners Statue in all its glory :D
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C'est dans la boite :wink:
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Christmas
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Sourceror's Apprentice at night
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Walt Disney Studios
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Disneyland Park
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City Hall
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Gas lamps lit again :D
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That was way too big, sorry if you got annoyed by the amount of photos :P , day 5 coming soon.
lol it took me 15 mins to finally see them all! great pics paddy and i think you know cinefolies of by heart now :lol:
I totally love your pics....They are so nice and they help me not to miss Disneyland too much...
Quote from: "swity"I totally love your pics....They are so nice and they help me not to miss Disneyland too much...
Amen brother... :(
QuoteAgique or maybe Tragique
haha :P
Day 5 Monday 30th October 2006:
My final day completely alone, rather a boring day, watched some cinefolies, didn't do too much that I can remember, spent a rather long time on the internet actually at the santa fe. Went back into the Disneyland Park later where I tried the pasta pots in Colonal hathi's, and I was the last customer of the day, the cast member was rather funny. Ended up asking for it and then he predicted what I was going to say next like coke? answer oui and then bolognaise sauce, answer again oui. That probably made my day as well at the same time recieving a text message about meeting up to go to paris the next day, of course I would not forget something so interesting to me :D . After I went toured Fantasyland where I cannot remember riding anything apart from It's A Small World and then back off to the Cheyenne for some fun High School Musical viewing in french :lol: .
Ohh exciting a gas lamp in Discovery Arcade :lol:
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Another Cinefolie, like I stalk anyone else :P
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Pumpkinman who was just after posing, so he made me walk after him to get the photo, then continued to stand in that position to see if any people noticed he was not actually a pumpkinman stuck in time. As ever a girl came and posed under him as though he was a stuck pumpkinman, so he decided to move when she wanted to take a photo :lol:.
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Ugly looking thing, who resisted photos, so hit me on the head instead :lol:
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One man's walkway is another's historic interest :wink:
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ANOTHER castle shot
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The Santa Fe bus has fancy Halloween decorations, how come the Cheyenne bus did not? :(
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The santa Fe internet room, by night with wonderful ESSO petrol station in background
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Walt Disney Studios studio1, NO The Hotel santa fe :wink:
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Phantom Manor minus the cool halloween night lighting effects
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Dragon, yes Maleficent
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Awww very cute display in Snow White's shop
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Le carousel Du Lancelot
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The teacups, well lanterns :D
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A beanstalk, it did not amuse some custodial cast members when I was trying to use a bin they wanted to empty to take the photo :lol:
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The castle from yet another view
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Tomorrow will try and upload all my halloween photos, including a few maybe from Paris, not that they're that exciting :wink: .