We are back from Paris, we had a wonderful time. Unfortunately things started off very badly, but lesson learned. It seems like all the United flights leaving Tulsa left at least 4 hours late due to mechanical problems, which meant that we missed our AF flight out of ORD. We ended up having to cancel our flight, at a cost of $224 to get the miles back. Thankfully AF had plenty of saver awards leaving all weekend long, but just not in business. We ended up booking a flight for that same night, but missed it by 15 minutes. By some miracle AF rebooked us for free and also gave us hotel, lyft and food vouchers (I'm not really sure why, but I'm so very grateful). They called us while we were running across ORD to ask if we were going to make our flight and I told them we were running from our connecting flight but didn't make it. By the time we found the AF office the manager had already booked us on a flight for the following day, but then asked if we would rather get there 3 hours earlier (5:45 AM arrival) with a connection and we said yes so they quickly switched us.
I do have travel insurance that includes missed connection, but I'm not sure if they'll reimburse us for the $224 to redeposit our miles. I have to figure out how to file a claim. Next time we have 2 different tickets we'll be flying in the day before.
I should have listened to you all on the DIS and not DH.
We missed our first day at DLP, but arrived in time for Early Park Entry so we had 2 full days. We managed to ride all the big rides and never waited more than 30 minutes for anything. The only thing we did miss out was on all the cool character meets they have all over the parks, I think with a 3rd day we would have been able to do character meets.
I'll try to write up a small trip report.
We did visit the new Delta Skyclub at ORD with our Amex Plat cards, our flight to JFK was on Delta, but we had to pay $39 for each of our girls. It is AMAZING, the bathrooms are awesome. I didn't get any pictures or eat any of the food from all the stress but it looked delicious. I did enjoy the mimosas.
And CDG departure passport control is extremely understaffed, I think they only had 5/6 workers at terminal 2E/F, not enough for the number of people leaving Paris through that terminal. It took us almost 2 hours. If you are over 18 (not traveling with children) with French/US/CAN passport it was a much shorter wait, maybe 20 minutes.
I've posted some pictures on my
Instagram. Also, our Japan trip is in 200 days.