Having some problems uploading pics, they keep getting distorted, so just words for now.. sorry there are so many of them!
Day One
The travel bit
The night before we left our landlord decided there was a pressing need to knock a hole in the wall to get to a pipe. So, all my well planned Disney prep was undermined by having to pack up half the kitchen to make room for this destruction to take place.
Our alarm went off at 5.30 - 'We're going to Disney today!!'
/ 'It's too early!'
Climbing over boxes of kitchen utensils, we got ready and were out by 6.15 for the short tube journey to Kings Cross. Our train was at 7.22, just enough time to get a Cafe Nero breakfast (somehow last time we didn't see Cafe Nero, and had to suffer through a horrible mushroom bap thing from the other cafe!).
After a smooth and uneventful journey we arrived in Gare du Nord (can I just say how amazing St Pancras looks compared to Gare du Nord!). Following helpful advice found on the boards we found our way to the Metro, and were very impressed that we managed to buy our tickets to MLV purely with change from our June trip! A pretty straightforward journey on the pretty smelly Metro to Chatelet les Halles where we crossed to the other side of the platform (very easy, thanks Paris) to the RER A to Marne La Vallee Chessy, Parcs
Disneyland.
The RER journey was uneventful, apart from a very annoying jazz busker. If he was on the Northern Line in London rush hour he'd get an unpleasant response I'm sure! Sat opposite some Americans who seemed to be going to some strange university competition and were talking about chinos.
We arrived at Val d'Europe around 11ish, having got to Paris just after 10. It felt like we'd barely been away (admittedly, our last visit was in June..!). As old pros we knew to go to exit 2 for the Ibis/Etap. Despite checking in early at the Ibis our room was ready - 209 - and was pretty much identical to room 213 we had before! For those who are interested, think a Travelodge in the UK. Very basic, but comfy enough and plenty of room for a single or couple. Bathroom is in a 'pod' like contraption in the corner of the room, not one for the claustrophobic but the shower is decent and it was nice and clean.
One last boring bit. Last time we bought a book of ten tickets to go between Val d'Europe and MLV. This time we somehow (i.e. I got it wrong) bought a book of ten T+ tickets which can
not be used in these parts. Oops.
Correct tickets bought, we boarded the train to DLP! Woohoo!
Despite being October, the weather was absolutely lovely, and remained so until we left (when I like to think it poured down).
After doing the obligatory happy dance and pics of the DLH, we headed in, happily beeping our APs (free trip!). Lots of lovely pumpkin decorations at the top of Main Street, really nice and colourful without being tacky.
First on the agenda was food and big thunder mountain. We picked up fast passes for an hour and half later for BTM and after sadly discovering our favourite pizza at Colonel Hathi's was not on offer, headed to Fuente del Oro for lunch. The boy queued for an awfully long time for some fairly average food. But portions were more than enough - I had the 9.99 taquitos meal and he had the 12.99 fajitas including ice cream. More food than we needed!
Then, in true BTM style, it stopped working... so it was off to our 2nd fave Pirates of the Carribean. No queue until the boat loading area this time. Lots of the effects were working that hadn't been last time - for example the swinging pirate! It was great noticing new things each time round.
After Pirates we wandered through Fantasyland, queues for Snow White, Pinocchio and Peter Pan were long as ever, but we jumped on the teacups which we hadn't done before. Fun!
We then wandered round to Discoveryland (the boy's fave), and Buzz, which had a 5 minute queue. LOVE Buzz, it's so fun and great that every ride is different as you try and beat your score.
Wandered back over to BTM which we did once with our old fastpasses (expired but they let us on as it had been down), and once in the regular queue. Also LOVE BTM!
Then we remembered that the Star Wars characters were appearing today, so wandered over to Star Tours for an excited boyfriend to get his pic taken with Darth Vader. This was our first experience of a character scrum and it was horrible, people are SO pushy and the adults are the worst!
Hopped on to Star Tours (no wait), which was better this time than last. Last trip I sat in the front far right seat, so couldn't see anything but the motion was horrible. This time I was in the back far left which was much better! Still don't understand what the robot thing (not R2) is about. And still didn't get to Endor.
Feeling a bit worn out from all the action, we stopped at Cafe Hyperion for a hot choc. My first of MANY at DLP! Yummy!
We wandered back over to Fronteirland and did BTM again (3 times that day), and Phantom Manor. I'm sure they had turned the lights down at PM as it seemed a lot darker and all the special effects much more visible (and spooky!).
After a wander through upstairs at the castle (closed on our last visit), we were well and truly exhausted after the early start, and decided to beat the park closing rush and head to Annette's.
For some reason they had hardly any staff working at Annette's, so while there were loads of free tables we had to queue for about 15 mins. Not sure why, just the Disney spirit of queueing I guess!
I had the avocado burger which was pretty good (and huge!) and the boy the chilli burger (also huge!). As I had the classics menu I also got a chocolate brownie. Was expecting this to be like the one at the western place in the village - in a plastic packet - but was really nice with ice cream and cream!
Overall the food was pretty good, lots of it, and decent value for Disney (especially with the AP discount).
After dinner it was only about 8pm, so with not much to do at the Ibis we had a wander through the village. I bought one of the Nightmare Before Xmas hair clip hat things I'd seen lots of people with! We decided to head to the Hotel NY for a drink.
Wow, drinks are expensive! I had a Mojito and DBF a beer, we'd never spend £20 on 2 drinks at home but when on holiday... Was nice though, and we did get olives...
After that we headed back through the village to the glamorous RER and Ibis for bed!
Sorry that was so long! Day 2 coming soon!
) and we went in 2008 for halloween. I had my piccys taken with jack and sally outside Phantom Manor - they were seriously the best character interaction we have ever had, such great friendly people. Jack was just amazingly funny... so good! 
They also had a halloween town themed band in the graveyard of Phantom Manor that played songs from the film so def check that out 
