Hi All,
I have booked a surprise trip for my two young daughters to DLP. My wife doesn't even know, as I am trying to keep them all in the dark until the day we go. Will be harder than I originally thought. Does anybody have any tips or ideas of how to let the surprise out? I have a few ideas but think they may be a little lightweight
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Cheers
Kev
I surprised my 4 year old daughter at Christmas with her disneyland paris reveal. I did a treasure hunt with clues, each clue led to a small box which had a piece to a jigsaw that I had had made. At the end of the hunt she got to unwrap the pieces and put the jigsaw together. The jigsaw was a pic of DLP and said 31 sleeps on it. She loved it!! 😄
Here is a pic of the jigsaw ☺️
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Hmm!....tricky keeping your wife in the dark, are you intending to do all the packing etc? How are you travelling? Could you make out you're going somewhere else (that necessitates packing, passports etc)?
The downside of keeping it a surprise till the last minute is that you don't have that period of anticipation and excitement. Our first trip was following on from a holiday in France so a couple of days before we were due to leave we had a special dinner and made the announcement - I produced a brochure and guide book for them to look at which were devoured over the next few days and lots of time was spent planning and re-planning, they almost had as much fun doing that as going!
Another time we surprised our boys once by picking them up early from school and driving straight to the tunnel. We were going to a Shareholder event that started at 8:30pm and arrived at the gate just as it opened - the boys were thrilled as you can imagine but they never fell in until they saw the Mickey signs on the A4.
I'm sure you'll get lots of other ideas suggested and how about try searching the word surprise on this forum - might throw something up ;)
A card from Mickey and friends in the post inviting you all over :D
We are going in December! Or daughter was so excited last year that we decided to keep it a surprise this year! We are going with our friends so not sure how easy it's going to be but we have decided not to tell our children until we are at the ferry port!!!! 😁
Cheers guys
Some great ideas here, the jigsaw looks like a great idea. I have tried this once before (surprising the family) but couldnt keep it in. I ended up telling them about six weeks before we went.
This time I am not letting it slip. I will have to pack and creating an idea of going somewhere else is a good idea,thanks Caz
Thanks guys,really appreciate it
We're going next week :) We only told the boys last Sunday :-X (we booked it last September!). Once before we went on the way back from our summer hols, and I had not told anyone where our 'overnight stopover' hotel was!
The most bizarre thing about it was that the boys didn't look up from their books/tablets/ etc. for more than an hour as we drove towards & through Paris, so managed to miss all the Mickey signs on the approach to the off-site hotel (not to mention the Eiffel Tower)!!! Once we checked in they were all ready to crash for the next few hours in the room, but I said, come on then, bring your camera ::) I couldn't believe how genuinely shocked they were when they DID see the Mickey signs when we drove along the A4, and later as we dined in the Blue Lagoon they thanked me for the best surprise ever! Good times!!
we have an easter egg hunt planned for easter sunday, disney themed clues will lead to a banner announcement that we're going to disneyland paris along with kids bags full of disney treats for the journey, we travel the next day on Easter Monday. It's all prepared and nephew has just asked for an egg hunt this year which is perfect timing. Only problem is that us adults, me, my husband, my parents, sisters, brother in law are all desperate to chat about plans for when we are there. There's already been a couple of slip ups but luckily have gone over the kids heads so far! It's very hard keeping this secret when it's so exciting, particularly when it gets close. We've done alright for the last six months!