Thanks to the Ligue 1 and the French laissez-faire way of scheduling football games, we missed the entire point of this trip - to attend a PSG game. They had moved the game from Sunday to Friday less than two weeks before we left. In order to offset this disappointment, I promised we could go to Disneyland.
We left Paris in an Uber and an hour later we were in small, quaint French villages. We stayed in a Marriott Vacation Club that was created to be like a village. It was nice to have an entire townhouse to stretch out in, as well as amenities like pools here all while being 15 minutes from Disneyland. As I always prep for these trips, I watched Ratatouille on the train ride. It was easily of the best movies I have seen in years.
Disneyland Paris is divided into Walt Disney World Studios and Disneyland. Walt Disney World Studios has the new Avengers campus, Pixar-land, Toy Story and some old school Studio items like Tower of Terror. We started our day here and D rode the Tower of Terror for the first time. We then did rides in each area, with D’s favorite being the Aladdin carpets, mine was the original RATATOUILLE, and Jordan’s was the Cars Road Trip.
We then set-off through the pretty pink hotel to the Disneyland entrance. Disneyland is set-up in the five major areas like the original in Orlando, but has different rides. We really enjoy comparing the Phantom Manor and Pirates ride to it’s counterparts in Florida. They also have a lot of play areas to explore which was different. My favorite ride was It’s a Small World - as always - and the North American part was comical. I laughed so hard. The other rides that were significantly different were two older rides that was a train ride around disney landscapes and a boat ride with miniature disney movie places. The Tomorrowland also had different rides and we rode was not shut down due to wind.
The park is famous for its castle - it's smaller, pink and has a dragon in the basement. The entire castle is open to explore and has a sleeping beauty theme.
At the end of our day, we needed to eat dinner. We went to their version of Disney Springs right at the entrance/train station which is like four stores and hilarious copies of American-type restaurants. We settled on the only one open in the pouring rain - Rainforest Cafe.
Our impressions were it was smaller and easier than Florida - we did all the major things in a few hours as it was not crowded. I hated the food - the food has been my favorite thing at Disney and here it is terrible American fast food. It was odd to me that the food was bad since we were in France? Even the Pineapple whip was only half as good as Dole Whip.
The humorous part was from September to January, there are only five days the park is not decorated. We went during those five days and got to see some Halloween and some Christmas and some non-decorated parts.
I am sure we will be seeing Disney again, as my daughter has only had the pleasure of attending breakfast at Chef Mickey’s to meet Mickey and Minnie. So she’s now due three trips to the Parks? And will I ever make it to Disneyland in California? So here's to see that beautiful pink castle and having kids who make you go to Disney.
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