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Paris Day2: Disneyland Park

At around 12:30am I was woken up by the refuse collection below the room I was staying in – not a quick five minutes, but I can only assume some unhappy “cast member” taking it out on the empty bottles. I much have counted at least 20 glass bottles being thrown into  refuse, that interspersed with the lift next door delivering people; a thankless task, but still noisy.

The following morning, after inspecting the HUGE queue for breakfast, to be honest I’ve seen smaller queues within the park! I decided to forgo the most important meal of the day and see what can be done about my room.

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Paris Day1: Arrival.

Arrived at the hotel at Disney around 2pm local time. Check in was a bit of a chore, bit finally got onto the room – it’s on the 8th floor and overlooking the hotel delivery area – 4/10 for location.

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Paris Day1: Departure

Well we’ve just left St. Pancras station, I feel as if I should be wearing a seatbelt.

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Paris Day1: Ready to go

Arrived at London St. Pancras International to get the Eurostar train direct to Disneyland Paris.

The train leaves at 09:53, so I’m hanging around in the very small departure area waiting.

I think Disney has loaned the station some brass band. They seem very Disney-esk.

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