Hello!
As some of you may remember last year I won a free stay in the Hipark Residence
in Val d'Europe, so we had to force ourselves to go back to DLP
Originally it was going to be in March, but seeing that there were school holidays everywhere, and that the weather was kind of OK,we decided to move it forward to February. There were of course already some people on holiday, but it seems to be more and more difficult to avoid that... Also originally it was going to be just the 1 night, and just the 3 of us (my husband and my almost 3 year old little princess), but a friend of mine decided to join us with her husband and 3 kids (and make use of the special AP offer with which we could get tickets for our friends for 21 euro!!), and we also decided to add one more night to make it a very reasonable 3 day trip...
We decided also last minute to add an extra night Saturday night, staying somewhere cheaper but not too far. We tried the Saphir hotel (20 minutes away, on the Francilienne). Hotel was OK, avoid breakfast though...
Sunday morning we went to check in in the Hipark, we had a nice surprise and the rooms were ready (our friends were staying also there), so we could leave all the bags in the room before heading out to the parks.
It was a GORGEOUS day. Beautiful blue sky, not to cold (for February, that is...). Absolutely perfect.
After getting the tickets for our friends, we were in
My friend Yolanda had already been to the parks a couple of times before (with me of course) but for her family it was the first time
Group photo (my husband with Alicia, and my friends with their 3 kids, ages 1 - 2 - 4)
And with me
We thought we would start with IASW, but the queue seemed quite long (ok, maybe it was 10 minutes....
) so we headed to the back of Fantasyland for Le Pays des Contes de Fees and Casey Jr. There was NO QUEUE AT ALL!! For a sunny sunday like that, it was quite surprising!!
Pays des Contes de Fees first. Ooooohh!!
I have to admit, this is one ride we never used to do, firstly because it's closed so often, but also because I thought it was really more for kids.... But it's a really cute little ride, and the sets are beautiful!!
Casey Jr next.
We did this with Alicia last year, and she hadn't been too keen... This time again, when it started going up and down a bit she did get a bit scared... But she enjoyed the rest of it, so fingers crossed it will be better next time!! I can't wait for her to be able to ride BTM, so I need her not to be terrified of roller coasters!!
We went for the teacups next, where again the queue was very reasonable, maybe 5 minutes? On the way we saw the Mad Hatter with Alice, but there was no queue to meet them, only the usual crowd of people around them, so we didn't bother. We had seen earlier Eeyore and Tigger outside Plaza Gardens, and they had a very organised (and quite long) queue to meet them, so the system is there, just not always in use...
The kids loved it of course, always a favourite the teacups
On to Alice's Labyrinth, a must on a gorgeous sunny day!!
When we got out, the Queen of Hears and Tweedle-Dee (or Tweedle-Dum, can you tell them apart) were coming our way. We tried to go and see the Queen first, but the girls got scared of her... But Tweedle-Dee was OK
By now it was lunchtime...We had booked Plaza Gardens for 13:00, so we headed that way. We were all starving!
Continues soon!!
