Ever since I can remember it has been a dream of mine to visit a Disney park during the holidays and see it all decked out for Christmas, this year I was finally able to go thanks to an extremely good deal we found online. I went for 4 days and 3 nights, which was the perfect amount of time to do everything I wanted to do, even though I would have loved to stay longer, but who wouldn't?
We took advantage of our extra magic hours and our first port of call when we got to the park was to queue to meet Mickey and Minnie, before the trip I knew I wanted to meet them while they are wearing their Christmas outfits. We queued for well over an hour and it was freezing, I couldn't feel my hands and feet by the time it was my turn but it was well worth the wait! I had to buy an extra pair of socks to put on afterwards in hope that my feet would regain some feeling.
After meeting Mickey and Minnie, we finally walked down Mainstreet USA to see the castle and all of the Christmas decorations, it looked breathtaking. I love how during each holiday they change up the scenes that are in the flower beds that are situated in the hub outside the castle, I kept thinking it was real snow. I had seen a ton of pictures online of the Christmas Mickey/Minnie ears that they sell and I looked absolutely everywhere for them but I couldn't find them. It's a good job I took my bow from Tokyo with me to wear! The castle had lights on the turrets which were constantly sparkling, it looked incredibly beautiful.
The Nightmare Before Christmas was one of the films
responsible for kick starting my love for Disney. I have always wanted to
meet Jack but I thought he only did meet and greets during Halloween time and when I
found out he was there at Christmas I was so excited. There was barely a queue
to meet him as he is situated all the way over by Phantom Manor and the park
had just opened, so there wasn't that many people in this corner of the park. He spoke to me for ages and told me my hair bow was
"strange and unusual", he then spun me around to get a better look at it.
Marie is one of my favourite Disney characters, so meeting her was on the top of
my list! The queue wasn't long at all and she was being so cute and mischievous
towards the guests, she also had her Christmas bow on. She told me she loved my hair bow because it looks like her pink one, I then told her she's one of my favourite characters and she jumped up and down with excitement. Once I'd met the characters I'd wanted to meet we decided to go on the rides, my favourite attraction at Disneyland Paris is Peter Pan's Flight, unfortunately It's A Small World and Big Thunder Mountain were closed for refurbishment at the time.
Next up was the Christmas parade and I had the songs that are played during it stuck in my head for weeks afterwards, it's impossible not to sing along as well. It was so magical and it definitely put in the Christmas spirit; they even had fake snow come down at the end on Mainstreet. There weren’t as many floats as I thought they'd be but I guess they need to get it done quickly as it does cause a lot of crowding down Mainstreet and around the castle. Santa is in the last float which seemed to excite all of the children and myself...
We did head over to the Walt Disney Studio Park but we weren't there for long, I rode Tower of Terror as it's one of my favourite rides but I wanted to spend most of my time at Disneyland Park.
After being outside for most of the day, we decided to head
over to Cafe Fantasia which is situated inside the Disneyland Hotel, the most expensive
and beautiful hotel at Disney. I'd read online that they served the famous
Mickey waffles but to my disappointment they'd stopped making these and had
been replaced with crepes. I have a weakness for crepes with nutella but I do wish they
still made the Mickey waffles. I also had a cocktail, which was amazing but I cannot for the life of me
remember what it was called, I tried to find the menu online but had no luck finding it. Once we'd ordered our cocktails the waiter brought us out a trio of snacks which consisted of peanuts, olives and Doritos which was a lovely touch and were devoured in minutes. It is such a beautiful hotel and I would definitely recommend popping
in for a cocktail, or just for a look around.
The next morning we were booked in for a character breakfast
at Cafe Mickey, it's an all you can eat buffet and you sit at your table until the
characters make their way round to you. (Unless you just like to push your child
in front of the characters, which I recommend you don't.) I was able to meet
Chip, Dale, Eeyore, Goofy and Mickey. Chip and Dale were extremely playful among the children and they all seemed to go crazy for Mickey, which you'd
expect. If you have a trip planned then I highly recommend booking a table, you
can go for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
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