Carrie_Cat
I'm a Rive Gauche person
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La Rentrée is the whole end of summer thing here
End of the summer holidays, back to school, no more long lazy days as everybody is stressed out again and les Parisiens have come back etc etc
It's also synonym of huge traffic tail backs as people criss cross the country on their way back home - traffic jams all combined were at 330 km at 12pm on Sat
and the worst day was 750 km for the 4th of August 
But I have never and did never expect to see this at DLP at 10.30 on a Sunday morning in September
All 10 rows were open and full and it took us 15 minutes to go through
Once through the cars were already backed up to the start of the moving walkways ... again a first at that time on a morning
and they had started by parking them on the other side were it's normally all coaches and camping cars
So we ended up being right the way over there somewhere on the far right
Once through that lot and 15 minutes walk later we discover that it's all change again security wise
The entrance at Disney Village has now been closed
So you now have to go in the one they have opened parallel to the Studios and cut back round past everything
as the former entrance that is now an exit still refuses to let people through even though it still says Welcome on it
Saw many people arguing with the security about this
Once through all this ....another 10 minutes, makes the metro at rush hour seem fun....get to EoS and thankfully no one so coffee time
You can see one of the Village security check points up there coming in from the HNY end ..it's that hideous green plastic tent
And here's the other at the end of the bridge from Eos/McDo going towards Newport Bay
At least some people had the right idea and got away from the crowds
We went into the park and wandered about
Crowd times were as follows at 12.00
IJ - 20
POTC - 20
BTM -80
PM - 20
IASW -20
PP -40
Dumbo - 50
ST -50
SM2 - 35
Buzz - 50
Fast passes on BTM at 12.05 were for between 14.35 -15.05 with a queue of 50/60 long
On PP at 12.15 they were for 17.25 - 17.55 again with a queue way way back
The Rapunzel meet and greet had at least 50 families in the line so a long wait ahead.
Off we went to Agrabah for lunch
End of the summer holidays, back to school, no more long lazy days as everybody is stressed out again and les Parisiens have come back etc etc
It's also synonym of huge traffic tail backs as people criss cross the country on their way back home - traffic jams all combined were at 330 km at 12pm on Sat
and the worst day was 750 km for the 4th of August But I have never and did never expect to see this at DLP at 10.30 on a Sunday morning in September
All 10 rows were open and full and it took us 15 minutes to go through
Once through the cars were already backed up to the start of the moving walkways ... again a first at that time on a morning
and they had started by parking them on the other side were it's normally all coaches and camping cars
So we ended up being right the way over there somewhere on the far right
Once through that lot and 15 minutes walk later we discover that it's all change again security wise
The entrance at Disney Village has now been closed
So you now have to go in the one they have opened parallel to the Studios and cut back round past everything
as the former entrance that is now an exit still refuses to let people through even though it still says Welcome on it
Saw many people arguing with the security about this
Once through all this ....another 10 minutes, makes the metro at rush hour seem fun....get to EoS and thankfully no one so coffee time
You can see one of the Village security check points up there coming in from the HNY end ..it's that hideous green plastic tent
And here's the other at the end of the bridge from Eos/McDo going towards Newport Bay
At least some people had the right idea and got away from the crowds
We went into the park and wandered about
Crowd times were as follows at 12.00
IJ - 20
POTC - 20
BTM -80
PM - 20
IASW -20
PP -40
Dumbo - 50
ST -50
SM2 - 35
Buzz - 50
Fast passes on BTM at 12.05 were for between 14.35 -15.05 with a queue of 50/60 long
On PP at 12.15 they were for 17.25 - 17.55 again with a queue way way back
The Rapunzel meet and greet had at least 50 families in the line so a long wait ahead.
Off we went to Agrabah for lunch
Thankfully, being there for five days meant we managed to get enough magic to keep me going 
