DLPR was as hot as Florida Trip Report- Day 1

[mark&sue]

The Cast

Me - Susan
DH - Mark
DD - Kirsty

Best Friend - Lisa - celebrating her birthday whilst at DLPR
Lisa's DH - Maurice
Lisa's DS - Jack
Lisa's DD - Megan

This trip is both mine and Lisa's Christmas present and we are celebrating Lisa's birthday while we are away

Following our trip to WDW last year, Mark announced he was all Disneyed out and we should rent our DVC points out for a couple of years and go out to our place in Spain during the school holidays. I was really sad not to have my Disney fix However was overjoyed when Mark relented last Christmas and said we could go back to DLPR for a long weekend. We have already been with our friends Lisa and Maurice to WDW and DLRP so arranged our Christmas present for July to coincide with Lisa's birthday.

We booked our stay at the Sequoia Lodge with our DVC points. Our season ticket with Seafrance was good for two cars on one trip and we purchased the length of stay passes through DVC. In order to make a proper weekend of it we were staying the first night in Dover, then three nights at Sequoia Lodge and for the day of Lisa's actual birthday spend the night at Calais.

Its Thursday 24th July and I am working a half day. Everyone else is off work and of course the kids are off school. Mark picks me up at 12 and we go straight off to Lisa's and drive down to Dover. The journey is not too bad although we have to go on the A2 as the Motorway is shut. We arrive at the Premier Inn in good time to have lunch. We check in and manage to find an outside table in the restaurant.

The seagulls seem to enjoy it too!

The service is a bit slow (we are not lucky with our meals this holiday!), but the food is nice. The weather is lovely and go for a walk along the seafront.

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We head off along the pier. It gets a bit windy

We go back to the hotel and get ready for dinner. As we remember the service is slow we order bottles of wine instead of glasses. However the service is exceptionally slow and we are all really thirsty!!!

Finally we finish our meal and go straight to bed as we are off early in the morning.



susan

 

[CHEK]

What a beautiful day , sorry to hear about the slow service!

 

[Pinky166]

Wow it was windy!

Great start....except the slow service!

 

[Cyrano]

The weather looks great

 

[jjk]

great start, shame about the slow service

 

[Strommie]

Nice start to your trip

 

[irongirlof12]

fab start, looks very warm but windy

 

[Minniespal]

Lovely start, shame about the slow service.

 

[Mandy62]

What a superb start. Look forward to reading your trip reports.

 

[florida sun]

Great start Susan

 

[mandymouse]

A great start Sue Btw, I've got the same earrings as you

 

[Lizzybear]

Great start I like the piccies of Dover, brings back memories of when we got the ferry from there on family holidays when I was a kid! We made that looooong drive every year, sometimes driving to the south of France aswell Ahh the days before Easyjet and Ryanair!

 

[mark&sue]

A great start Sue Btw, I've got the same earrings as you

Mandy

I had three pairs of these but have now lost four separate earings so only have one pair. I was hoping to get more in Disneyland Paris but they do not sell any. Hope I don't lose any more as I have to wait two years before going back to WDW.


Susan

 

[mark&sue]

Great start I like the piccies of Dover, brings back memories of when we got the ferry from there on family holidays when I was a kid! We made that looooong drive every year, sometimes driving to the south of France aswell Ahh the days before Easyjet and Ryanair!

Lizzy

I love that ferry ride. We are driving all the way to Alicante next week on the same route. We did it in April in our Transit van and it is practically a straight road.


Susan

 

[tennisfan]

Lovely photos, brings back memories of when my mum & dad had a caravan in Deal. Many holidays were spent down there. We used to go up the cliffs of an evening & watch the ferries.

Look forward to reading the rest of your trip

 

[Nubbedy]

Great start to your trip - apart from the slow service.

Sara.