Hi everyone I've never done one of these before and didn't expect to so my memory of what we did day to day may be a little off and it may be lacking in detail:
This was Arlo's first holiday, he is 15 months old so we were apprehensive about his first flight and our first experience of a family holiday.
Day one:
We were up early for our 09.15 flight from Manchester to Charles De Gaulle, it made a change to wake arlo up rather than the other way round, a change he wasn't best impressed with.
After a final case weighing we were picked up just after 6 and off to the airport. Check in with Airfrance was a doddle and they let us keep the pram with us until boarding as was security as they let us through the queues quickly due to the pram. Terminal 3 at Manchester is a little lacking but nice enough and Arlo was happy enough looking out at the planes
The flight itself was better than expected, He wasn't happy for the first ten minutes then fell asleep.
When we arrived at CDG it turned a little stressful as there wasnt much info on where exactly to go and when we arrived at immigration via a Monorail it was chaos with a sea of people instead of organised queues, eventually we got through and along with twenty or so other people from our flight spent the next 15 minutes looking for the right carousel as the flight wasn't listed, we then found the pram and headed for the exit. I then turned on my phone to see 8 voicemails from RS transports but the driver was still there and our shared shuttle ended up being a private one albeit without a child seat.
The journey to Seqouia Lodge was only half an hour or so and check in at the hotel was fine with us being assigned a room on the fifth floor of the main building. We headed to the room and noticed a CM clearing a room and taking a Mickey balloon out, Nikki decided we may as well ask and he was more than happy to give Arlo the balloon which was nice (while it lasted...), the room itself was beautiful, theming was just right and tastefully done.
After a quick freshen up we headed to the park via a quick Earl of sandwich. I was actually stunned how gorgeous the castle is, I didn't remember it being so nice, after taking a few photos we decided just to have a walk around fantasyland and go on its a small world and call it a day.
Arlo loved IASW and we barely waited at all but as we were getting him out of the pram his newly acquired balloon became untied and off it flew- easy come easy go!
After going for a swim and giving Arlo his bath we went back out for tea at Rainforest cafe again with no wait, I had the chicken tikka burger and Nikki had the menu cha cha with the tortellini and we just gave arlo some of ours, we then shared a Creme brûlée, Arlo loved the Cafe as we were sat near the elephants which he couldn't take his eyes off!
And that was day one!
I'll do more later (if I can remember when we did what ha)
This was Arlo's first holiday, he is 15 months old so we were apprehensive about his first flight and our first experience of a family holiday.
Day one:
We were up early for our 09.15 flight from Manchester to Charles De Gaulle, it made a change to wake arlo up rather than the other way round, a change he wasn't best impressed with.
After a final case weighing we were picked up just after 6 and off to the airport. Check in with Airfrance was a doddle and they let us keep the pram with us until boarding as was security as they let us through the queues quickly due to the pram. Terminal 3 at Manchester is a little lacking but nice enough and Arlo was happy enough looking out at the planes

The flight itself was better than expected, He wasn't happy for the first ten minutes then fell asleep.
When we arrived at CDG it turned a little stressful as there wasnt much info on where exactly to go and when we arrived at immigration via a Monorail it was chaos with a sea of people instead of organised queues, eventually we got through and along with twenty or so other people from our flight spent the next 15 minutes looking for the right carousel as the flight wasn't listed, we then found the pram and headed for the exit. I then turned on my phone to see 8 voicemails from RS transports but the driver was still there and our shared shuttle ended up being a private one albeit without a child seat.
The journey to Seqouia Lodge was only half an hour or so and check in at the hotel was fine with us being assigned a room on the fifth floor of the main building. We headed to the room and noticed a CM clearing a room and taking a Mickey balloon out, Nikki decided we may as well ask and he was more than happy to give Arlo the balloon which was nice (while it lasted...), the room itself was beautiful, theming was just right and tastefully done.
After a quick freshen up we headed to the park via a quick Earl of sandwich. I was actually stunned how gorgeous the castle is, I didn't remember it being so nice, after taking a few photos we decided just to have a walk around fantasyland and go on its a small world and call it a day.
Arlo loved IASW and we barely waited at all but as we were getting him out of the pram his newly acquired balloon became untied and off it flew- easy come easy go!
After going for a swim and giving Arlo his bath we went back out for tea at Rainforest cafe again with no wait, I had the chicken tikka burger and Nikki had the menu cha cha with the tortellini and we just gave arlo some of ours, we then shared a Creme brûlée, Arlo loved the Cafe as we were sat near the elephants which he couldn't take his eyes off!
And that was day one!
I'll do more later (if I can remember when we did what ha)