zanzibar's European Adventure

[zanzibar138]

Years ago, we discovered that we have distant(ish) relatives (whom we've never met) on my dad's side who live in... Strasbourg. So I've definitely heard of it.

All together now...

 

[pkondz]

So I caved last night and ended up rebooking the Cheyenne direct through Disney and cancelling my Qantas booking. I was just so worried about issues linking everything through MDE.

I hadn't even thought that could be an issue.

Yes, I am right at the tail end of the millennial generation who really dislike picking up the phone, even more so if it's for an international call that I know will be expensive and possibly poor timing.

Yeah... for me it's the latter part that bugs me.

On the plus side though, everything is now linked perfectly in my MDE and we're all ready to go! I can even start making restaurant bookings through the app.

Yay!

All together now...

 

[iona]

I was quite happy to have a night in a random town as a stopover, but when I looked up Strasbourg, it actually looks kind of amazing! And since we were going to end up with 8 nights in Salzburg, I've decided it's worth spending 2 nights in Strasbourg on the way through since the train to Stuttgart leaves early in the morning.

Strasbourg is supposed to be worth visiting - we’ve got it pencilled in for the European road trip we’re doing in 2026 or 2027. Keep an eye on the hotel prices though - apparently they skyrocket if the European Parliament is in session there.

 

[zanzibar138]

Strasbourg is supposed to be worth visiting - we’ve got it pencilled in for the European road trip we’re doing in 2026 or 2027. Keep an eye on the hotel prices though - apparently they skyrocket if the European Parliament is in session there.

Good to know, thanks!

 

[zanzibar138]

The first change of plan​

So you know how I said our flight to Europe was really a few days too early... well I received an alert for the same flight a few days later!

So we will now be flying Bangkok to Paris on the Sunday, the day before my birthday. Since we will be arriving late at night, we'll probably stay in a cheap airport hotel that night, then make our way to DLP early the next morning. So I will now need to call Disney to change our dates. We'll go back to Plan A of having Monday to Friday at DLP, then head into Paris for 2 nights and onto Salzburg from there. We may still decide to go via Strasbourg since I've now got everyone all excited about going there lol! I'll have to look up the trains to find out what will work.

Although the flight will still cost us around the same (aside from any mild fluctuations in the exchange rate), this flight will put us in a better position to be able to reduce the total amount of time we'll be away to be able to save some money that way.