The "I'm a lucky girl" halloween TR... Day 1

[Kazzabelle]

Hi,
Well I have finally got around to starting my TR. I'm sorry I have not started it sooner as I have had the dreaded flu, I'm feeling a bit better better but I have also got the task of organizing my dd 5th birthday party who is a huge diva and is demanding a Rapunzel party and has invited 30 friends (she has a better social life than me ) luckily my dh is a very good chef and a pastry chef and makes wedding, birthday cakes etc so i'm leaving that task to him.

Anyway back to TR we went 17th-21st October

DAY 1
I would say mum and I woke up feeling a little under the weather but we did not actually sleep, I can't believe I was feeling poorly... "no not today" so i doesed myself up and tried to ignore it.
We left home really early as dad was taking myself, mum, sis and nephew to Ebsfleet station, he insists on leaving way before we need to so 3.15am we were on our way from Poole in Dorset to the station we only got 5 mins down the road and the silly woman on the satnav was not giving directions so we had to pull in and start the satnav again.... Maybe it was a good idea we left early. before long we were back on the roads again which was pretty uneventful after a quick stop at fleet services we were at at Ebsfleet station at 6.20 am (over 2 hours before we can check in) so we said bye to dad and sent him on his way while we skipped into the station like school kids (ok maybe that was just me, my nephew was still half asleep ) as we had been from this station before we knew what to do, so we headed over to the little cafe there who we were greeted by the most happiest lady in the world.... NOT. She was so misserable she made my milk curdle in my very weak tea she made me. I know it was 6.30am and she is not going to the happiest place on earth but a smile would have been nice. (perhaps it was just me being the bouncy happy girl who is off to Disneyland)
heres me sat in the cafe

the 2 hour wait actually went quite quick and before i knew it I was setting off the security alarms at check in and being frisked by security I forgot that the belt I wore sets off the alarms... note to felf do not wear that belt when travelling.

After wondering the very small WHSmiths and arming myself with some celebrety gossip magazines for the journey we were being called to go down to the platform to wait for the train. A little warning for those travelling from Ebsfleet and i guess it's the same from Ashford you get 5 minutes to get to your numbered section on the platform and when the train arrives you get 2 minutes to get yourself and the luggage on, the doors are on automatic timer (so im told) Luckily we were all on ok and nothing was left behind. We found our seats and again somebody was sat in mine (everytime I have to ask somebody to move as they are in my seat) by now I was so tired. The lady sat next to was very excited and asked me if it was my first time too, when i went on to say no and how many times I had been she was amazed, it was so funny she kept asking me questions what to do here and what to do there it was nice as we were talking about my favorite subject, she called me her disney tour guide, actually the cm on the train gave her the wrong coloured luggage labels for the Cheyenne he gave her pink I said to her ooo they have changed the colour as the Cheyenne has always been yellow, she luckily trusted me and checked with him he quickly appologised and changed colour labels. I hope he had not made that mistake too many times as luggage would be sent all over.
We soon arrived at Disney and as we stepped off the train i could here just like we dreamed it booming out of the speakers, the smile just beamed accross my face and without realizing I was singing along too. I took my nephew up in the lift while mum and sis took luggage to disney express as sis has a fear of lifts (funny enough we can't get her to try tot )

We headed off to Annettes for something to eat, not much of a wait and we were seating i didn't even need a menu i knew what I was having I had the rock n roll burger, mum had the onion burger and sis shared a rockabilly burger with nephew as he was not hungry as he had munched all the way on the train. We all went for one of their amazing milkshakes ( for some reason i completely forgot to take pics of the food... sorry but i can asure you it was all yummy)
below is me playing with the table duke box.... yes i am a child who sees buttons and has to press them

by now it was 3.15 and we were heading over to the DLH to check in... I have been sooooo excited about this, this has been my dream to stay here and it's finally happening.

I'm going to have to stop there and complete day 1 tomorrow as i'm feeling a little blah now from this flu bug and i don't want to miss anything out for you guys. lots of pictures to come and how amazing th dlh is....

 

[Mum to Belle]

Yay!!!! You've started it!!!

What...??? No photos of milkshakes...???? You MUST have been poorly! Sorry to hear you timed you illness for your trip - not fun!

Can't wait to see & hear all about DLH...

 

[Kazzabelle]

Morning!!!
Well as my kids do not realize the clocks have gone back I thought instead of sleeping i would carry on with my TR...sorry this section maybe a bit photo heavy as i liturally took pictures of everything as you will see

Day 1, Part 2

As we entered the DLH that lovely smell just hit us, aaaah beautiful. I was finally checking in here and not just popping my head in for a sniff . We headed over to check in and we were told we were on the ground floor. The receptionist carried on only to be interrupted by another member of staff they started talking in French then the man turned around and said to us we could stay in the room we had been allocated which was facing the car park or we could be given a room on the 1st floor facing the Park so we jumped at the chance of the room change. After being told all the info and being told that our luggage would be taken to our rooms (which was a first for us as we have always stayed in the Cheyenne and had to take them ourselves). We turned around headed for the lifts to be greeted by a few familiar faces... Mickey, Minnie and Pluto. As I did not have dd or ds with me I decided I would take my chance this holiday and have a few snaps with characters.

What a lovely start to our stay.

We headed on up to find our room, we found it really easily and before we even entered we were awwing and ahhhing at the wallpaper and the door handles to the rooms

We finally got in the room and OMG it was lovely we ran to the window to see what view we had been given and this was it...

We could see the top of BTM. I know it's not the view of Mainstreet but it was more then what we expected as we had only booked a standard room and was kind of expecting a car park view anyway.

We were like headless chickens running around shouting look at this, look at that, everything had wonderful details here are a few pics from the room

even the bathroom mirror had pictures of the dwarfs on and the details of the tiles in the bath oh and the boarder around the top

I loved the details on the wardrobes too

I then realised the duvet had pictures on aswell

I went to put some rubish in the bin and i was amazed the bin even said Disneyland hotel... i loved it (im that sad I get excited over a bin )

After a quick freshen up we decided to head into the park but not before a few snaps of the hotel on the way.

we could not resist having a seat in the big comfy sofa

We eventually headed on out to the I was looking forward to seeing what Disneyland had made Halloween into this year as I had seen many pictures and video's on youtube over the years and if it was as great as the Christmas season we were going to be in for a treat.

Sorry guys i'm going to have to stop again and feed the kids they are hovering around me going "MUUUUUUUM were hungry" I will be back soon to tell you my thoughts on halloween.

 

[Isila]

wonderful wonderful wonderful

 

[aj2703]

Nice report so far, looking forward to the rest...

 

[Laura678]

I am loving this!!! I would love to stay in the DLH! The rooms looks lovely!!!

More please!!!

 

[Mum to Belle]

Great photos!!!

You can see Salon Mickey from your room!

Did you realise that you matched the sofa...?!!

 

[tinkertaylor05]

Fab start, loving all your dlh photos and also really like your boots

 

[Sarah28]

I am loving your TR so far, those photos are amazing! I hope to stay in the DLH one day!

 

[Kazzabelle]

wonderful wonderful wonderful

Thanks

Nice report so far, looking forward to the rest...

Thamks I will finish it soon... promise

I am loving this!!! I would love to stay in the DLH! The rooms looks lovely!!!

More please!!!

Thanks, they were lovely rooms they are nice and roomy

Great photos!!!

You can see Salon Mickey from your room!

Did you realise that you matched the sofa...?!!

Ha ha, did not realise I matched the sofa!! Um i mean of course I did it was so planned

Fab start, loving all your dlh photos and also really like your boots

Thanks, The boots are from my second obsession after dlp... next

I am loving your TR so far, those photos are amazing! I hope to stay in the DLH one day!

Thanks... I will promise to finish this TR asap but at the moment my dd 5th birthday party has taken over my life she is demanding a rapunzel party and has invited 35 friends... I must be mad

 

[tinks_1989]

where are you I need MORE!

 

[Kazzabelle]

where are you I need MORE!

Aww thanks!! I will hopefully be back on Sunday to carry on with my TR as dd birthday party will be done and I can concentrate on the TR. I will finish it... Promise

 

[tinks_1989]

Aww thanks!! I will hopefully be back on Sunday to carry on with my TR as dd birthday party will be done and I can concentrate on the TR. I will finish it... Promise

SUNDAY!

Ok looking forward to reading the rest hope your daughter has a great birthday party x

 

[Kazzabelle]

Day 1 Cont...
I am so sorry for the delay in finishing my TR my dd and ds has come down with a sickness bug and they have not wanted to leave my side. They are now on the mend so here i am to carry on...

So as we entered the park we could see a few pumpkins scattered by the bandstand outside city hall and a few purple and orang flowers around

We thought there must be more decorations through mainstreet. As we stood down mainstreet we could not see anything you could not even tell it was halloween. If you have ever been for the christmas season you can look down mainstreet and instantly tell what season you are in. The usual music was playing over the speakers with every 3rd song or so they would throw in the halloween song and a couple of witchy squeels and that was it. So far we were not impressed. We then headed over to frontierland to expect to see more things here as we knew that previous years this had been turned into halloweenland.... again nothing just a few pumpkins outside the shop. . We were starting to feel a bit gutted as we had been so excited to see what dlp do for halloween as we have been looking on youtube etc from previous years.
We headed over to btm to be very surprised that there were still fp left at 4pm. we grabbed one each and decided to head to potc as usually it is a fast loading ride.... 20 minutes later we got on. the wait was longer then when we went in July, my theory was they had less boats going around.
After potc we headed over and did tea cups and IASW which was pretty much a walk on.

We got a drink then headed over to do our FP for btm. We had been measuring my nephew for months to see if he would be tall enough for this ride by our measurements he was, but to be sure we got the man at the fp eneterence to check. Yippeeee he was. It was not quite our time so we had a wonder and went back for our time. By now the cm had changed. She stopped us and measured my nephew as expected but she said he was not tall enough. We explained that the last cm measured him and he said he was. Mum then realised she was measuring him in a dip in the floor... No wonder he was not tall enough. When we pointed this out she stood him on a flat surface and it was fine he was over the line.. Yay (watch out for the dip when having your little ones measured as this happened a few times) So after btm (I do love this ride, guarenteed to make me laugh the whole way around) we decided to use our dlh fp on Peter Pan as nephew was desperate to go on here. This is such a lovely ride and makes me feel all warm and happy.
It was getting near to 7pm closing time. We had a wonder through the mainstreet shops and head back to the room armed with snacks as there was no way i was paying over 4 euro's for a twix in the mini bar. We stopped on the grand stairs for a photo op while it was quite

When we got to our room we had noticed we had the beds turned down and chocolate coins on our pillows. I wanted to see the view at night so i opened the cutains to be completly stunned. (these pictures do not do the view justice)

We could still hear the mainstreet music playing. We got into our PJ's and settled down with the curtains opened looking at the view listening to the music. We joked that if we were at home we would be going who's playing that music so late but as we were at dlp it was so lovely to fall asleep to it. I woke at 11.30pm and it was still playing.... I love it.

(day 2 tbc... the day where i made dh green with envy)

 

[tinks_1989]

cant wait for more hope DD and DS are all better xxx

 

[Kazzabelle]

cant wait for more hope DD and DS are all better xxx

Bless . They are getting better now thanks. DD is never poorly she did not know what to make of it. She fell poorly the morning after her 5th birthday.