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As it's now officially 25 days until we leave for our DLP summer madness trip, I thought I'd put together an introduction to our trip. It's our first trip in high summer in about 6 years (the last time we were there in high summer was for the 10th anniversary).
Where / When are we going?
We're heading off to a currently unknown hotel near the Euro Tunnel on the 25th, then we should be crossing the Channel first thing the next morning and heading onwards to DLRP and the DCR from Calais. We're then staying at DCr for 5 days (4 nights), so we return on the 30th.
What are our plans?
We've got 5 days total there, most of which are likely to be sent in the Disney parks. We're taking a day away from the Disney parks to visit Parc Asterix on the 28th (I'm rather fond of roller coasters and theme parks in general and haven't yet made it to PA, so I'm looking forward to that day).
We want to have a go at the tree climbing course at Davy Crockett Adventure and I'm perfectly happy to join him, so we'll be doing that first thing on the 29th, although neither DM nor DSF seem too keen on joining us
No doubt we will want to go swimming at some point; we've generally found the pool at DCR to be a very good pool, if a little cold in the winter! Hopefully being the summer, it'll be nice and warm this time though...
Apart from this, we'll be trying to do as many rides as possible, making sure we see the fireworks and Fantillusions because we haven't seen either in a few years and generally having a good holiday.
Where are we eating?
We decided that we'd try out some different restaurants for a change, so our restaurants (which we booked at the weekend) during our stay will be:
So basically, that's our trip. We've still got a couple of things left to book (mainly the Euro Tunnel, the Ashford hotel and the tree climbing. Congratulations to those who made it to the end of this, because it's grown slightly longer than I was originally planning. For those of you who have made it to the end, there's one more thing...
Our transport curse...
First, a small amount of background. We've been to DLRP quite a number of times, but we've often had somebody else go with us. We have been 3 times as a group of 4 now (this will be our 4th) and every time, we've had travel problems on the way back, so I now swear that we're cursed (there's never been a problem when we've had others with us). These have included:
Where / When are we going?
We're heading off to a currently unknown hotel near the Euro Tunnel on the 25th, then we should be crossing the Channel first thing the next morning and heading onwards to DLRP and the DCR from Calais. We're then staying at DCr for 5 days (4 nights), so we return on the 30th.
What are our plans?
We've got 5 days total there, most of which are likely to be sent in the Disney parks. We're taking a day away from the Disney parks to visit Parc Asterix on the 28th (I'm rather fond of roller coasters and theme parks in general and haven't yet made it to PA, so I'm looking forward to that day).
We want to have a go at the tree climbing course at Davy Crockett Adventure and I'm perfectly happy to join him, so we'll be doing that first thing on the 29th, although neither DM nor DSF seem too keen on joining us
No doubt we will want to go swimming at some point; we've generally found the pool at DCR to be a very good pool, if a little cold in the winter! Hopefully being the summer, it'll be nice and warm this time though...
Apart from this, we'll be trying to do as many rides as possible, making sure we see the fireworks and Fantillusions because we haven't seen either in a few years and generally having a good holiday.
Where are we eating?
We decided that we'd try out some different restaurants for a change, so our restaurants (which we booked at the weekend) during our stay will be:
- Crockett Tavern
- Inventions
- Steakhouse (sunday brunch)
- Walts
- Ludwig's
- California Grill
- Silver Spur
- Plaza Gardens (tea party)
So basically, that's our trip. We've still got a couple of things left to book (mainly the Euro Tunnel, the Ashford hotel and the tree climbing. Congratulations to those who made it to the end of this, because it's grown slightly longer than I was originally planning. For those of you who have made it to the end, there's one more thing...
Our transport curse...
First, a small amount of background. We've been to DLRP quite a number of times, but we've often had somebody else go with us. We have been 3 times as a group of 4 now (this will be our 4th) and every time, we've had travel problems on the way back, so I now swear that we're cursed (there's never been a problem when we've had others with us). These have included:
- Horrid traffic on the way back to the ferry causing us to almost miss the ferry
- A bomb scare at the airport which would have made us miss our flight had the person who's bag caused the scare not been on our plane
- A nasty road accident involving an overturned lorry and several cars which made us miss the Euro Tunnel.
Take care when you ride TOT, you might end up in the 5th dimension! 
