Here's my write up from our recent holiday. There were four of us - 2 adults and 2 children aged 8 and 4. We stayed at the Cheyenne for 3 nights and it was our second trip.
Day 1 - Sunday May 20th
We had travelled down to Ashford the day before and stayed at the Premier Inn on the Eureka Leisure park. The room was nice and the hotel has a Beefeater restaurant next door plus McDonalds, KFC etc nearby. It’s also just a short distance from the biggest Sainsburys I’ve ever seen! We were going to pick up some things for breakfast from the supermarket but the Beefeater were offering a continental breakfast for £5.25 per adult and free for children so we did this instead. It was nice to start the day with a decent breakfast rather than snacking in the room and I thought it was good value for money.
This time we parked at Car Park D at the train station rather than the multi story. It’s a little bit further away but DH dropped us and the bags at the front door before parking the car and walking bag so very little hassle for over half the cost! The train journey was straightforward as always and we arrived Marne La Vallee at around 2pm.
Because of the longer opening hours we weren’t in a rush to get to the park so we walked off train and straight onto bus to the Cheyenne. The queue for check in was small so it wasn’t long before we had our documents and room key as our room was ready. Donald Duck and Minnie were in reception dressed in their cowboy gear.
We walked down to our room which was in Running Bear. This is the closest block to the park so the walk in was easier than I had anticipated. I’m sure it must be a shorter walk from our room than from some of the Sequoia Lodge rooms.
After a brief rest we walked back to parks at around 3pm. We walked down Main Street taking in the atmosphere and had a look in a couple of shops. We saw The Celebration Train go past which really got us in the mood. It was pretty busy and I had been expecting long waits for rides as it was a weekend but we walked over to Frontierland to Phantom Manor for our first ride and wait time was only 15 mins.
Despite the bad weather forecast the sun came out in the afternoon so we picked up a couple of ice lollies to cool us down and walked round to the Pocohontas playground as we didn’t see this area last time. We had all planned to try out BTM this time as we didn’t last year but weren’t feeling quite brave enough yet so we decided to put it off until the next day and try out Pirates of the Caribbean instead (another ride we hadn’t done before as it was closed last year). This ride was a virtual walk on and we all loved it! I’d seen other people mention in their reports about the non-swinging pirate but he was swinging away during all of our rides! It was now about 5.30 and we had an hour until dinner so we walked round the caves under Adventure Isle then walked over to the castle and round the upstairs area.
We had dinner at Walts at 6.30 which was really nice. All the food was really lovely and I had asked for a table by a window so we saw the parade as it went past. After dinner I went shopping with DD and DH and DS went to Discoveryland. The queue for Autopia was 15-20 minutes. Buzz and Orbitron were both walkons. Annoyingly it started to rain at about 9pm and we had planned to watch Dreams that night. We sat and watched the cartoons in Videopolis until it was time to go and watch the show. Because of the rain there was plenty of space around Central Plaza so we didn’t have to get a space to early. Dreams was just amazing - I wish I’d been able to see it a second time.
Day 1 - Sunday May 20th
We had travelled down to Ashford the day before and stayed at the Premier Inn on the Eureka Leisure park. The room was nice and the hotel has a Beefeater restaurant next door plus McDonalds, KFC etc nearby. It’s also just a short distance from the biggest Sainsburys I’ve ever seen! We were going to pick up some things for breakfast from the supermarket but the Beefeater were offering a continental breakfast for £5.25 per adult and free for children so we did this instead. It was nice to start the day with a decent breakfast rather than snacking in the room and I thought it was good value for money.
This time we parked at Car Park D at the train station rather than the multi story. It’s a little bit further away but DH dropped us and the bags at the front door before parking the car and walking bag so very little hassle for over half the cost! The train journey was straightforward as always and we arrived Marne La Vallee at around 2pm.
Because of the longer opening hours we weren’t in a rush to get to the park so we walked off train and straight onto bus to the Cheyenne. The queue for check in was small so it wasn’t long before we had our documents and room key as our room was ready. Donald Duck and Minnie were in reception dressed in their cowboy gear.
We walked down to our room which was in Running Bear. This is the closest block to the park so the walk in was easier than I had anticipated. I’m sure it must be a shorter walk from our room than from some of the Sequoia Lodge rooms.
After a brief rest we walked back to parks at around 3pm. We walked down Main Street taking in the atmosphere and had a look in a couple of shops. We saw The Celebration Train go past which really got us in the mood. It was pretty busy and I had been expecting long waits for rides as it was a weekend but we walked over to Frontierland to Phantom Manor for our first ride and wait time was only 15 mins.
Despite the bad weather forecast the sun came out in the afternoon so we picked up a couple of ice lollies to cool us down and walked round to the Pocohontas playground as we didn’t see this area last time. We had all planned to try out BTM this time as we didn’t last year but weren’t feeling quite brave enough yet so we decided to put it off until the next day and try out Pirates of the Caribbean instead (another ride we hadn’t done before as it was closed last year). This ride was a virtual walk on and we all loved it! I’d seen other people mention in their reports about the non-swinging pirate but he was swinging away during all of our rides! It was now about 5.30 and we had an hour until dinner so we walked round the caves under Adventure Isle then walked over to the castle and round the upstairs area.
We had dinner at Walts at 6.30 which was really nice. All the food was really lovely and I had asked for a table by a window so we saw the parade as it went past. After dinner I went shopping with DD and DH and DS went to Discoveryland. The queue for Autopia was 15-20 minutes. Buzz and Orbitron were both walkons. Annoyingly it started to rain at about 9pm and we had planned to watch Dreams that night. We sat and watched the cartoons in Videopolis until it was time to go and watch the show. Because of the rain there was plenty of space around Central Plaza so we didn’t have to get a space to early. Dreams was just amazing - I wish I’d been able to see it a second time.
