Bill and I went on a bus trip to Disneyland Paris on July 25th. Ive been to Disneyworld a few times but Bill has never been to a Disney Park so I was excited for him to experience it. The bus left at 5am and we arrived from Germany to the park around 10:45am. When we first arrived at the park the first thing we did was take the Disneyland railroad from Main Street, U.S.A. to the main section of the park which is Fantasyland.
When we arrived in Fantasyland we went through Alice's curious labyrinth, which is a hedge maze like from the movie. Inside the maze they had the cards and the queen of hearts that would pop up from around the maze.
At the very middle of the maze was a tower you could climb up. It had a slide attached to it but it was closed while we were there. After the maze we went and got lunch at Au chalet de la marionnette. I had a hot dog that was on a pretzel bun and toped with currywurst sauce and Bill had a burger that was on bagel. The food was pretty good.
After lunch we made our way to "It's a small world" we thought the line might be long and you have to go on it. The line wasn't long at all and we waited 15 minutes tops to get on the boat.
We were trying to find another ride in Fantasyland but went a little to far and ended up in Discoveryland there were a few rides that we wanted to do but they all had pretty long lines so we decided to go back later but on our way out we say that Buzz Lightyear laser blast ride only had a 30 minute wait and since it is a very popular ride we decided that was the time to do it. Well we waited over and hour and Bill wasn't impressed with it.
We went to check out sleeping beauty castle. Inside the castle they had a few shops one was all crystal and the other was all Christmas decorations. I had to get an Olaf ornament for our Christmas tree next year.
Upstairs of the castle was a display of sleeping beauty movie scenes and they had beautiful stained glass windows surrounding the entire castle.
We were on our way to Frontierland and we ran into someone from our bus trip so we asked them to take a picture of us in front of the castle. We got to Frontierland and the major ride in the area Big Thunder Mountain had an hour wait time so we decided to skip it. We then went and did Phantom Manor which had a 45 minute wait but we only waited about 30 minutes. We had about 40 minutes before our dinner reservation so we went to buy souvenirs. Bill and I each got an Olaf bowl and mug. I prepared for this trip quit well I brought sunblock and an umbrella even bandaids and tylenol. The one thing I didn't pack for us was jackets and it was a very cold 65-70º day with a lot of wind so we eventually both go a hoodie. Bill got an R2D2 one and I got one that said Disneyland Paris with Mickey on it.
We had dinner at Silver Spur Steakhouse. Bill had a buffalo burger and sweet potato fries. Bill has never had buffalo but he thought it was good the only complaint he had was the bun wasn't a normal bun we think it might have been pumpernickel which he wasn't a fan of. I had a three course meal of sweet corn coup which was amazing, skirt steak with fries which was cooked perfectly and a brownie sundae that I shared with Bill. I really enjoyed our dinner and would definitely recommend the restaurant.
We went back to Discorveryland since it was a bit later and we figured the lines would be shorter. We did Star Tours which is a spaceflight simulator and it really feels like your moving this was Bills favorite ride. After that we went into the Star wars store and Bill got two lightsabers because you can't have just one because then how would you battle.
This is a picture of Space mountain 2 we didn't make it on this ride since the line was really long and in Disneyland Paris they don't have a place to put your bags while on a ride so we had all of our souvenirs and stuff. We finally made our way to the last area of the park which is Adventureland the only thing we did in this area was Pirates of the Caribbean ride which we had a horrible time finding. We both enjoyed this ride and the wait wasn't very long either. At this point we had about two and a half hour left in the park so we just picked things from each area that we'd like to do and go and see how the line was. We went under the castle and saw the dragon in the cave then we did the Snow White ride and Pinocchio ride which are just cars on a track that bring you through the story, the lines were short and thats why we did them even though we had no idea what was going on since the stories were in french. Most rides had the stuff in both french and english but since these were small rides it was all in french. Our last ride of the night was the Mad Hatters's Tea Cups. We did a walk through of a submarine and then started our way towards the front of the park since the fireworks were suppose to start at 10pm.
On our way we caught the Frozen sing-a-long. All the songs were in french but it was still interesting since Frozen is my favorite Disney movie. We walked to the front and sat on a bench waiting for the fireworks, well 10 came and went and we were suppose to be back to the bus at 11pm so around 10:15 we left. We ended up walking the wrong way and getting kind of lost getting to the bus but we ended up finding our way eventually. It turns out that the fireworks didn't start till 11pm. We could still hear the songs and see the fireworks from the bus so it wasn't a big deal to me. The bus drove through the night and we got back home around 4:30am. It was a long and tiring day but it was a blast and I can't wait to go to other Disney parks. We didn't have enough time to do every thing we wanted to but we did a majority of the things and we had a great time.
