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42. How to Plan for Disneyland Paris · Mom Street USA

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  Welcome everybody to Mom St. USA.
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  My name is Jackie, AKA Wishes Mama and joining me back from
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  her excursion overseas is my wonderful Co host Kate AKA the
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  Disney Cicerone. And tonight we're going to be
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  talking all things Disneyland Paris.
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  We're super excited to share this information with you and
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  Kate's going to give you her first hand experience on
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  everything she saw while she was there, which is super exciting.
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  So Kate, welcome back. Thank you.
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  Maybe not. We'll share everything that I
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  thought, yeah, we would be here a long time if we did.
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  That's true. So it was wonderful to go and
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  get to spend some quality time with my family.
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  For those of you who don't know, we did like a really big
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  European Tour. So we went to London and then we
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  did a Disney cruise out of London to do Northern Europe.
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  And then we went to Paris and then Disneyland Paris.
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  So Disneyland Paris was kind of at the end of our trip.
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  We were pretty tired by the time we got there, but we still had a
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  pretty wonderful time seeing all the things.
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  I'm doing, all the things. So I'm excited to share it with
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  you guys. Yeah, I love it.
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  So tonight we're going to kind of go over everything that we
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  did together because I helped Kate plan a lot of her
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  Disneyland fairest stuff before she went.
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  But so we're going to talk about what that planning looked like
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  and then Kate's going to give us some insight on what she
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  actually experienced when she was there.
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  So we're hoping to give you guys an insight.
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  That way if you're someone looking to travel there or you
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  just want to hear about it, we're going to give you lots of
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  good information about that this evening.
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  Yeah, I think it's really fascinating as a a Disney Parks
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  goer, even if you're not planning a Disneyland Paris trip
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  anytime soon, hearing about how it's different over there is
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  actually pretty fascinating I think.
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  So I think it'll be a great episode, even if you're not
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  planning a trip anytime soon, to give you a little bit of insight
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  into a little different culture of Disneyland Paris.
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  So she started out by just talking just an overview of just
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  like what Disneyland Paris is. For those of you who are like, I
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  don't even, I don't know anything about it, so Disneyland
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  Paris was formerly known as Euro Disney visual aids.
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  You're at Disney when it opened in the 1990s and eventually they
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  did change their name. Eventually, they did change
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  their name to Disneyland Paris to try to make friends with the
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  local culture because they they made a few cultural mistakes as
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  an American company coming into Paris.
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  So they changed their name to Disneyland Paris.
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  It's located about 35 minutes out of Paris itself at the end
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  of a train line. So you can actually take the
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  metro in Paris and get hop on a train line and then get right
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  out to Disneyland Paris and you literally get off the train
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  right in the middle of Disney Village, which is kind of like
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  the equivalent of their Downtown Disney area or Disney Springs.
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  It's like their entertainment district.
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  That's where the train drops you off, really.
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  Right in the middle of everything, right in the center.
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  There's there's bus transportation to some of the
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  resorts, which we'll talk about in a bit, like right right there
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  at the train station. So very easy to get around in
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  that way. The Disneyland Paris consists of
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  three parts. So there is Disneyland Paris,
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  which is like the Disney park, like Magic Kingdom or Disneyland
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  here in the US That is their main park.
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  And then they also have Walt Disney Studios, which is kind of
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  like Budget Hollywood Studios and California Adventure kind of
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  combined. That's like that's how I would
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  say it with maybe a little bit of Epcot thrown in there.
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  It's a it's a very interesting part and we'll get more into
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  that as well, but. So those are the the three parts
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  of it that you'll see. The Village is really just not.
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  It's not terribly big, but it has a lot of shopping and some
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  dining options as well. So there are some unique
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  differences that make it not the same culture.
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  If you're, if you're somebody who goes to Disney all the time,
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  you might be surprised by some of the things over there.
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  So which I kind of said to my husband, Elliott, he said, I
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  just feel like France in particular is just like maybe
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  like 10 to 15 years technologically behind where we
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  are here, which is really interesting.
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  Yeah. It doesn't mean that they're
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  like not advanced at all, but they're just like they just
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  haven't adopted all the same things that we have for
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  convenience. So.
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  So we'll talk about how that kind of comes into play here as
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  we go. But Jackie, did you want to talk
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  a little bit about what we did, like before your trip, what you
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  should, you know, how to plan for a Disneyland Paris trip?
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  Yeah. So going into this, Kate asked
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  that I kind of helped her do some of that research because
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  she had a lot of other things to research with the other aspects
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  of her trip. So it was one of those things
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  where we felt a little flying blind kind of going into it
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  because, you know, Kate had been to Disneyland Paris several,
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  several years back and a lot, a lot had changed.
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  And so it was one of those things were like, well, we're
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  kind of starting from from the ground up.
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  So I did a lot of just Googling to start.
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  I found a couple different blogs that I ended up using that gave
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  me a lot of really good like, baseline information.
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  So the main blog that I use is actually called Mouse hacking.
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  So it's just mousehacking.com and they had a ton of just like
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  basic layout of like, here's the rides, here's what they look
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  like, here's our suggestions for where you go for second, third.
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  They had a lot of that already on their site, which was really
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  nice. So shout out to them for their
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  very thorough coverage. And then I pieced in some other
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  blogs. I did a ton of reading, probably
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  20 to 25 different blogs that I read through.
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  Just trying to see, OK, this is consistent, these people are all
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  saying these same things. Oh, these people are all saying
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  completely different things about this ride, you know, So it
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  kind of gives me an overview of like what to expect and what
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  seemed like the trends there. I use social media a lot.
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  I mean, you guys know, we're on Tiktok all the time.
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  There are tons of people that do.
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  Disneyland Paris lives on Tiktok.
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  So I found a couple creators that I ended up really liking.
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  You know, you you guys know how that is with with other
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  creators, you go on and you you find the ones that are your
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  vibes. So I found a couple that I
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  really liked that were also very kind to like I would hop in the
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  chat and ask questions about like specific things that Kate
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  and I were wondering about. And they, you know, either they
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  would answer or other people in their chat with injure, which
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  was like really, really helpful. So that was, yeah.
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  So that was huge to be able to help me with that aspect because
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  there were certain things that I was like, I can't find this
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  anywhere. So that was helpful with those
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  types of little questions. I did use some Youtubes as well.
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  There are. There are a lot more Youtubes
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  than there are blogs. I don't always absorb Youtubes
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  as well as I do when I can read things on print and I don't
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  always have time to sit and watch a you know, a 30 minute
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  YouTube from 5 different creators as much as I would want
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  to. So I I skipped around more on
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  YouTube but the blogs were really what I typically used.
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  The thing that was tricky about my research is that not
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  everything was up to date. I found a lot of stuff pre
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  Pandemic. I found a lot of stuff that was
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  like right after they reopened. So it was like, I don't know if
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  that's still helping feel being run or not.
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  So I did my best to find as close to current as I could.
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  A lot of the stuff that I found was like 2022, so within the
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  last year or two. So I felt fairly comfortable
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  with a lot of that type of thing.
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  I feel like the information that Jackie found was pretty accurate
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  to what I I saw. There was just a lot of things
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  we didn't know that popped up. And that was just in general,
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  because it's just not out there or just not.
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  It was just interesting to see what popped up.
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  Right. And that was one of the
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  conversations that Kate and I had was, you know, I I'm going
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  to give you everything that I can possibly find.
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  But I'm positive that there are things that I missed or that we
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  just didn't think about or that we didn't know about or wasn't
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  maybe as descriptive in our research as we needed it to be.
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  So that way Kate and her family knew.
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  What to expect? So, you know, lots of those
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  little things. But yeah, overall I just a lot
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  of stuff online that was really, really helpful for for the
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  research that I did. Yeah.
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  Well, that's great. Should we talk a little bit
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  about maybe the hotels? That are there.
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  So I'll, I'll do this part and then you can we can kind of pop
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  back and forth a little bit. So you're not doing all of the
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  talking. Yeah, I do have some of the
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  pictures from at least two the two hotels that I was at.
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  So I have a. Little bit of, yeah, perfect.
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  So on Disneyland Paris property, they have seven different hotel
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  choices that they offer and these are all Disney Disneyland
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  Paris hotels that are straight through their website.
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  So because they are further out from the city, they don't have
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  like what you see at Disneyland and Disney World, but have like
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  good neighbor hotels and other nearby places.
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  This is pretty isolated to just those seven Disney properties
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  they do have. They do have off site ones that
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  have shuttles to them, but they're not walkable.
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  In any way, right? So gives you a little bit a few
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  other options, but if you're someone traveling from the
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  United States to there, you may or may not feel more comfortable
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  just staying at a Disney resort because it's a little bit more
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  familiar to you in that respect and I.
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  Kind of tried to navigate them and put them in kind of
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  categories that would make sense to what we're used to.
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  We're used to seeing kind of those value moderate deluxe
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  levels. So at the value level or their
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  lowest price point that they've got available, they've got the
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  Disney Davy Crockett Ranch, the Disney Hotel Santa Fe, the
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  Disney Hotel Cheyenne and the Disney Sequoia Lodge.
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  So all of those are have a very similar feel and Kate can maybe
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  talk a little bit about how the people over in France are just
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  kind of they love like Western US culture and all of that type
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  of type of OK. So when they were researching
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  how to make Disneyland Paris and trying to figure out what what
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  is it about American culture that people in France actually
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  like, one of the things they found out was that they love the
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  Old West. So there is a tremendous amount
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  of the Old West or Southwest in Disneyland Paris.
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  And I laughed out loud because when like the first thing that
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  we saw driving into Disneyland Paris was this like this covered
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  wagon and I'm like, are we? I know I'm from Oregon.
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  So I was like, I'm literally like, it's like we just came
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  home, but we're in France and it was so bizarre.
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  So I will say that it's a little bit eerie, like walking around
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  this resort. This one is the Hotel Cheyenne.
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  So walking around this resort was a little bit odd because
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  there was nobody there unless it was like everybody was leaving
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  or coming in, but otherwise it was empty.
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  The streets were empty. And it was just like they did
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  the ghost town of. Exactly.
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  That's exactly how it felt. And my gosh, all of their
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  restaurants were not open during the day.
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  So if you were just hanging out at your resort, there's no food
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  for you there. You have to go take a bus or
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  walk into the village because they're they only had their
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  Chuck Wagon Cafe and like all these things open when guests
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  would be there after the park closes or in the morning before
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  they go out. So don't expect to have food all
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  day long at your resort, because it might not happen.
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  Yeah, yeah, That's a whole weird thing to me.
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  But you know, this is what the the rooms look like at Hotel
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  Cheyenne. And so it has like a queen size
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  bed and then it had like it has a bed that actually has a cover
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  on it, looks like a day bed and then has a trundle bed.
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  But that did actually pop up and be full height like you pulled
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  out, it would spring up and you could kind of roll them apart
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  from each other, which my daughters loved because they
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  wanted their own space, silly. Of course they did.
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  But you can tell the theming is kind of like it's almost like
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  value theming in the US like it's very like there's there's
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  wallpaper strips for, you know, we did have a boot lamp and so
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  my my son called it the Boot Hotel.
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  It was really funny. Here it is.
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  It's like because there's a snake in my boot from Woody, so
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  it's just a cowboy boot. That's amazing.
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  I love that. Yeah, So it was.
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  It was, it was basic. It was what we needed.
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  It was, you know, it had almost all the things we needed.
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  And just like in the, what do you call it?
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  Just like in Disney Cruise Line, in order to get the lights to
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  turn on and off, you have to put your key card in by the front
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  door, otherwise your lights won't turn on.
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  So FYI, some people will bring like an extra old credit card or
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  fake credit card or something just to stick in there so you
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  don't have to be annoyed by having to put you a key card in
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  there every time you come in. So you can do that on Disney
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  Cures line as well. That's that's I don't know if
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  they encouraged that, but we did that.
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  Because it's just frustrating to have to dig it out of every like
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  anyway. So, right when you, when you're
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  coming back from the park and you've got all your bags on and
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  you're trying to just get the lights to turn on so you can see
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  where you're going. Right.
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  Right. Where is it?
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  Yeah, exactly. So, yeah.
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  So a lot of those like value level, like I said, resorts have
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  that kind of Western, Southwestern United States
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  theming to them. I mean you can hear it in their
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  name, Santa Fe, Cheyenne, Sequoia.
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  So you get that you get that vibe from that area.
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  This is my view at my window, which was the vegetation was
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  very similar to Oregon as well. I think they're on the same like
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  latitude around the world. So they had, they had Oregon
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  grape and they had evergreens and they had ferns and I was
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  like this is like being at home and it was so crazy, so crazy.
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  So then they've got kind of your moderate or kind of in the
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  middle level of resorts. They've got the Disney Newport
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  Bay Club and the Disney Hotel New York, the Art of Marvel.
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  So those are kind of your two mid range so to speak.
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  And all of these you can find on the Disneyland Paris website.
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  We didn't throw in prices on here because there's just too
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  many variables with dates and how many days you're staying and
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  that type of thing. But they are all very easily
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  accessible on the Disneyland Paris website.
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  Their website is fairly easy to navigate when it comes to that,
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  Yeah, this one I think is that like what they was it the Yacht
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  Club 1, Newport Bay Club Club, whatever, Like what?
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  It looks like the Yacht Club, yeah.
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  And so where I'm standing in this photo as I'm standing in
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  New York, NY and I'm looking across the Bay at the other one.
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  So they kind of all face each other.
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  I would say the Hotel New York is an upscale deluxe resort.
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  I would probably put it because it's, it is spendy price, price
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  point. It's technically in that mid
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  range. But yeah, it's it's borderline
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  deluxe level when it comes to that because it is quite a quite
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  a jump in price point from like the Cheyenne and those ones that
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  we were just looking at up to that.
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  And it's the the, the layout in the everything they have inside
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  of that Art of Marvel is really, really cool.
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  Oh yes, I have lots I can share about that.
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  But I want to stop you if you have more who you want to share
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  about, no, you're good, go ahead.
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  If you want to share some more about the the art of Marvel, I
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  think I'm going to plug in my experience as to why we had two
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  hotels here, because I think this is really important for
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  anyone who's listening. Yes.
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  Please, please don't ever have the same mistake that we had
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  because So what we what happened was we I booked my vacation on
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  the Disney website. They sent me a confirmation to
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  my e-mail. I assume they it said, you know,
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  you have to pay by a certain date.
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  Of course, I was balancing like a million different details,
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  right. So it's like I was thinking just
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  like Disney, they'll send me a reminder e-mail when it's time
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  to pay, right? OK, so turns out all of their
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  reminder emails about payment go to your spam folder and this is
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  a known problem for Disneyland Paris.
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  So they sent me like 3 reminders to make my payment and then they
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  sent me something that said four days until we see you make sure
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  you print this thing out. That was the title of the
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  e-mail. But if I click the button in the
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  e-mail to like print it, it says we're sorry we had to cancel
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  your Disney vacation because you didn't pay.
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  So that's what I found out the last night in Paris before we
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  were going, I found out that they had canceled our entire
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  Disney vacation. And I did cry.
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  All because those emails went to my spam and I went there and so
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  we didn't have anywhere to stay. We didn't have any Disney
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  tickets because they're tied to your hotel, which we'll talk
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  about a day. And we had nothing.
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  And I that never happened to me before because it always
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  depended on those, like emails to remind you to pay.
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  Now it is on me that we didn't pay in time, the full balance in
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  full. But I was also thinking in my
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  brain, I have been going to Disney World a lot recently
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  where you just pay when you get there because I haven't been
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  doing packages as an annual pass holder.
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  So somehow in my brain, I just like totally spaced it.
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  So we got a last minute price without a ticket at the Hotel
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  Cheyenne for one night. And then they the only room they
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  had left in the entire complex for the other three nights was
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  staying at the Hotel New York in their Empire State Club suites,
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  which is like the concierge level, like crazy amazing
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  suites. OK, so we paid a lot.
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  Too much because we had nowhere else to stay except for off
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  site. And at that point I was like, I
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  can't do this like we are. We're tired.
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  It was the end of our like 30 day trip.
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  It was awful. However, the place we stayed was
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  pretty amazing. So after we got over the sticker
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  shock and paid whatever, we stayed in this amazing room that
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  had a giant let's see if I can find a good photo.
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  So this is what the rooms look like and they're they're huge.
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  They've got, it's like a suite. So there's got two, it's got
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  benches on the ends of the beds and it has two chairs by the
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  window with a table. And then there's a big vanity
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  and this giant mirror that actually has like a 70 inch
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  television screen inside it. So your TV is behind your mirror
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  and that's means, you know, that you've paid a lot of money to
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  have that. So they also had all of our
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  like, this is our vanity set. These all came came free and
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  they're these little like beautiful designed little black
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  boxes that sell, say, Disney's Hotel New York, Art of Marvel.
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  They gave us like all the things we need to sell with 100%.
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  I was like, we paid a lot. I was like, what can we take
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  without getting charged? That's where we're at.
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  So Elliot, it's funny because there's they have these really
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  beautiful cups in there. I think I have a picture of them
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  that came with our our little coffee maker that says the Hotel
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  New York Art of Marvel. And we did learn that the water
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  is free, but we can't take the cups, right.
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  So he did go to the gift shop and purchase one.
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  So we do own one now. But they did give us free water
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  every day, which is nice bottled water, Stillwater as they would
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  call it. And we did get like this, just
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  like they do in the in the States.
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  They've got shampoo and conditioner and body wash, but
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  it's all like Marvel themed. It's very like masculine
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  smelling, like what soap would Iron Man use that kind of what
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  it smells like. So you, your whole family
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  smelled like Iron Man for a few couple days.
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  But all the art in the rooms was unique to the particular room we
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  were in. And then the concierge level
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  also included like a special check in area.
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  OK, So we went, we rolled up to like the usual like Schwab's
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  check in area, right, like the the sanctions and stuff.
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  That's where we check in, because that's what we can
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  afford, right? And they're like, Oh no, like
• 20:20
  you need you. You've got to come to the Empire
• 20:22
  State Club. Check it.
• 20:23
  I was like, what? Go around the corner.
• 20:26
  They have a whole room where you sit down at a desk and they have
• 20:29
  a personal person to like check you in and show you around and
• 20:32
  like demonstrate all this. I'm like, I'm I'm I'm not in
• 20:35
  that tax bracket usually. Kids what is this?
• 20:39
  I'm like, this is amazing. So they they did they had a
• 20:43
  personal, personal show us up to our room.
• 20:45
  They took care of all of our bags, which by this point are 8
• 20:48
  suitcases because we're really glad somebody else is handling
• 20:50
  them. Are you sure?
• 20:52
  You're like, yes, please take them.
• 20:53
  Please. The best part was they had an
• 20:56
  Empire State Club lounge. They had two of them.
• 20:58
  They had one where you could go and just get like free soda all
• 21:01
  day long. And then they had another one
• 21:03
  that where they had tea from 4:00 to 6:00 that was included
• 21:06
  and they had the most amazing breakfast we have ever had in
• 21:10
  our whole life. It was Marvel themed breakfast,
• 21:13
  but I'm talking like they had. I'll see if I can find some
• 21:16
  pictures. They had fresh honeycomb that
• 21:19
  you could like scoop off of the comb and put with your
• 21:22
  breakfast. They had all the French
• 21:24
  pastries, all the French pieces you can think of, all the the
• 21:26
  fruit. The watermelon had a Marvel's
• 21:28
  logo in boarding fruit, Our coffee and.
• 21:32
  Hot chocolate came with Marvel characters on top, so you can
• 21:36
  order a specific character. I I have my picture for you,
• 21:40
  'cause I was like, it was amazing.
• 21:41
  It was literally the best breakfast I've ever had.
• 21:44
  Here is little baby Groot on top of my daughter's hot chocolate.
• 21:48
  My word. That is the cutest thing I've
• 21:50
  ever seen. We're going to, we're going to
• 21:52
  need to post that on like our our Instagram so that people who
• 21:56
  are just listening to the podcast afterwards can see all
• 21:58
  of these amazing cafe art on here.
• 22:03
  Yeah, it was and teas and hot chocolates, it was crazy.
• 22:07
  So this ones like The Avengers logo as well, you could just
• 22:10
  kind of choose whatever character you wanted and they
• 22:11
  would just put it on here and things.
• 22:13
  So we had the fresh honey we had.
• 22:16
  They had all the pastries and things.
• 22:18
  Let's see if there's a little video here.
• 22:19
  But they had, they had fresh bread that they had made.
• 22:21
  They it could make you an omelette to order.
• 22:24
  You could have all the all the French things that you would
• 22:27
  never oh, here's the honey, look at this like this is crazy.
• 22:30
  You could either have the fresh honey that had dripped off of
• 22:32
  the honeycomb. Or you could have the actual
• 22:34
  honeycomb yourself. I was like, this is how like
• 22:39
  some people live, isn't it? I was like, oh, and then they
• 22:42
  had Mickey. They had little cake Mickey
• 22:45
  bread that you could have a lot of breakfast.
• 22:47
  It's like a little tiny. So it's what is it like a little
• 22:50
  tiny chocolate cake Mickey in the middle of the bread.
• 22:53
  Oh, that's so cute. Oh, my gosh.
• 22:56
  And yeah, so anyway, I could guess you about this breakfast
• 23:00
  for the rest of the episode, but I will just say that if you do
• 23:03
  stay in the Empire State Club. It's it's you get a lot of
• 23:08
  amazing things with it and it's only open to people that stay at
• 23:10
  that like concierge level. So save your money kids, and
• 23:16
  treat yourself to that that that whole service, Yeah, it was
• 23:22
  great. So anyway, I I won't say too
• 23:26
  much else about that except that because we were on this
• 23:29
  concierge level, you could also book private character meet and
• 23:34
  greets with any of like the Marvel characters.
• 23:37
  So you could just call and make an appointment and like go see
• 23:40
  Spider Man. And so yeah, it was amazing.
• 23:44
  Did you, did you and your kids end up doing that?
• 23:46
  I know you said they're not huge character people.
• 23:49
  Did you guys end up doing the that character interaction?
• 23:53
  We didn't do that one in the hotel.
• 23:55
  We did do the one in the parks. In the hotel, yeah.
• 23:58
  Yeah, very cool. Anyway, I'll, I'll just say that
• 24:01
  in the hotel itself, if you are a huge Marvel fan, like oh
• 24:05
  sorry, that one has a picture with my kiddo in it.
• 24:07
  They have just art everywhere. So you can go and see all the
• 24:12
  original kinds of classic Marvel Comics all over the hotel.
• 24:17
  So that's pretty cool. And the building itself, just
• 24:20
  FYI, is designed by Michael Graves, who is a very famous
• 24:24
  architect that Michael Eisner had him come in and designed
• 24:29
  that hotel. So it's there's one that's in
• 24:31
  Portland too that's like a very famous building.
• 24:34
  OK. So I'm like, it's time to say
• 24:36
  that, Yeah, yeah. Now a lot of that, like some of
• 24:39
  the artwork and stuff you can see in like the lobby and common
• 24:42
  areas or is that all in like the upstairs guest areas For that
• 24:45
  one, that was the upstairs guest area is a little bit more plain
• 24:49
  in the hallway. I kind of showed you the door
• 24:51
  which has like a the numbers with the red, that kind of very
• 24:54
  marble. They had like a big mural that
• 24:56
  was by the elevators. They had a a thing that like a
• 25:02
  photo booth that I can't show you a picture of because it has
• 25:05
  my kiddo in the middle. But that has kind of The
• 25:07
  Avengers. It's like you're putting
• 25:08
  yourself in a comic book, which is really fun.
• 25:10
  So even if you don't stay at the hotel, go in to visit it and you
• 25:13
  can see a lot of that art and take a photo even if you don't
• 25:16
  stay. At the hotel itself, I think
• 25:18
  it's worth a trip if you are a huge Marvel fan.
• 25:21
  Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
• 25:23
  So back to kind of what the other hotels that we were
• 25:26
  talking about, you're good. That was perfect.
• 25:29
  And I was wanting to see and you sent me a few photos.
• 25:31
  I was like I want. To see all of it too.
• 25:33
  I know, I know. Here's some of the designs you
• 25:35
  can get on your coffee. They're they, I think they even
• 25:37
  have like a 30th one for Disney. So if you don't want Marvel, you
• 25:40
  could have like Disney design amazing.
• 25:43
  That's amazing. So the then their top level like
• 25:48
  Ultimate Deluxe Resort that they have at Disneyland Paris is
• 25:52
  their Disneyland hotel. So that's kind of the top of the
• 25:56
  line, although it probably rivals the price of that, that
• 25:59
  concierge level of the the Marvel Art of Marvel Hotel as
• 26:04
  far as those prices go. But yeah, but that Disneyland
• 26:08
  Hotel is their top tier hotel that they have to offer.
• 26:11
  So 7 total choices that you have.
• 26:13
  And again, they range every budget to kind of like what you
• 26:16
  see at what we're used to at the Disney pubs.
• 26:18
  They've got the Hotel Honey Hotel and everywhere in between.
• 26:25
  So take your pick. Well, the Disneyland Hotel is
• 26:29
  not open right now. Just FYI.
• 26:31
  If you're planning a trip, they're renovating it, turning
• 26:33
  it into to like a Princess theme, essentially like a royal
• 26:36
  theme. So I got to see a lot of
• 26:37
  construction stuff on the windows and whatnot for that,
• 26:40
  which is kind of a bummer, but they're doing that just if
• 26:44
  you're traveling this year in France, just know that they're
• 26:47
  hosting the Olympics next year in 2024.
• 26:49
  So a lot of things in Paris and in France in general are just
• 26:53
  kind of under construction because they're trying to make
• 26:55
  everything look better for the Olympics.
• 26:56
  So just heads up for that. Yeah, and that includes a whole
• 27:00
  new Arendelle area of Disneyland Paris that they're hoping to
• 27:05
  have open. I believe both before the
• 27:07
  Olympics start. So they've got all sorts of fun
• 27:09
  things from Paris all the way to Disneyland Paris that they're
• 27:12
  working on for. For that event, Anna asked.
• 27:17
  The Disneyland Hotel, is that the one that's over the entrance
• 27:19
  to Disneyland Paris? And yes, so it's kind of like
• 27:24
  the big pink hotel. If you've ever seen it, I'll
• 27:26
  pull the picture in a minute of it, but the big hotel is kind of
• 27:29
  like at the entrance. Then there is a train station
• 27:32
  before you go in after that, just to clarify.
• 27:36
  But yes, that is the Disneyland Hotel and that's one that's
• 27:38
  currently closed. Like you can't go into it.
• 27:40
  All right. Now just looks like this so big
• 27:44
  pink hotel. And you can see there's a lot of
• 27:46
  construction walls around it right now, but there's also some
• 27:49
  beautiful fountains and whatnot in front of it.
• 27:51
  It's actually, I think when the construction walls aren't there,
• 27:54
  there's it's a beautiful place to take photos with your family
• 27:58
  as well. So yeah.
• 27:59
  Very, very pretty. Thanks.
• 28:02
  OK, So let's talk about tickets and kind of how all of that
• 28:05
  works with Disneyland Paris. The first thing I guess that we
• 28:09
  should just mention again is that when you book your resort
• 28:15
  through Disneyland Paris, your tickets are automatically
• 28:18
  included in that. It's not a separate thing that
• 28:20
  you have to select. They automatically give them to
• 28:23
  you. Yeah.
• 28:25
  And but so it looks like depends on where you get them from.
• 28:30
  Right now it's just it's 30th anniversary so it looks like
• 28:32
  this and it says magic pass on it.
• 28:35
  This one I got at the gate. Long story.
• 28:40
  This one if you kind of get your tickets outside of your hotel,
• 28:43
  no wait, this is the H1. This is the non H1 because it's
• 28:46
  printed on the back. As you can see they have all
• 28:49
  your hotel information printed on the back.
• 28:51
  And I'll tell you also what parks you can get into, because
• 28:54
  it's like all the parks included.
• 28:56
  As well. So, and you don't have a choice
• 29:00
  as far as like when you stay at Disneyland or Disney World in
• 29:03
  the US, you have a choice of, you know, you might be staying
• 29:05
  for seven days, but you only want 5 park days.
• 29:08
  You don't have that option at Disneyland Paris.
• 29:10
  They automatically give you those tickets for the length of
• 29:13
  your stay. Yeah, it's a it's it was really
• 29:17
  interesting situation for us because we did buy our first
• 29:21
  hotel that we stayed in the Cheyenne.
• 29:23
  We didn't have a ticket attached to that one because they didn't
• 29:26
  have any ticket packages available for one night.
• 29:29
  So you weren't. So we lost the whole day of the
• 29:32
  parks of our trip because of that, their e-mail error, which
• 29:35
  really stinks. But so we went into the park
• 29:39
  first and we learned. And they we learned as we got to
• 29:44
  the gate, they're just like, no, you have to check into your
• 29:47
  hotel first that has the package and they'll give you your passes
• 29:51
  to get into the park. And I was like, we don't want to
• 29:53
  walk all the way back to New York, right?
• 29:55
  So we're like, is there any way we could do this here?
• 29:58
  And they're like, well, you got to go to guest services.
• 30:00
  So that's how we ended up with, with two passes because we ended
• 30:03
  up having to and then and then it made it complicated when we
• 30:06
  went to check in for a hotel because they're like, what?
• 30:08
  You already have your tickets. Like, you're not supposed to
• 30:10
  have those. And so just go to your hotel 1st
• 30:12
  and check in, because otherwise you're going to create a
• 30:14
  headache for yourself and the cast members won't know what
• 30:17
  you're doing because. It's a thing.
• 30:19
  So yeah, go to your hotel 1st to get your ticket.
• 30:23
  And I will say as far as park reservations go, because I know
• 30:26
  that's a question that people ask because we are dealing with
• 30:29
  those in the US, they do have them in Disneyland Paris as
• 30:32
  well. But when you book the package,
• 30:34
  you don't have to make a park reservation because it's
• 30:37
  automatically done for you because it's linked to your
• 30:39
  stay. But now if for some reason you
• 30:42
  end up with that non connected ticket like Kate was mentioning,
• 30:47
  then that one would need a reservation if you're doing that
• 30:51
  ahead of time. But typically you're going to be
• 30:53
  booking that package with the resort and the tickets and
• 30:55
  you're not going to need to do a park reservation if that's the
• 30:57
  case, right. And it is really interesting
• 31:01
  that the tickets, they don't have any magic bands there, not
• 31:05
  at all. They don't sell them.
• 31:07
  They don't exist. It's like this doesn't exist at
• 31:09
  all. So no magic bands and no,
• 31:11
  there's no digital tickets inside your.
• 31:15
  App. It looks like I think I saw some
• 31:17
  people scanning QR codes to go in.
• 31:19
  I'm pretty sure that might be the annual pass that's there.
• 31:22
  But anybody who has hotel tickets, I showed them my
• 31:26
  tickets show up in my app, but they don't allow me to get into
• 31:29
  the park. So the way that you scan into
• 31:31
  the park, instead of having capsules with like a finger or
• 31:34
  whatever or like, you know, they don't have any of that.
• 31:37
  Instead, it's like the subway. If you've ever been on the
• 31:40
  subway. So you scan, you scan your card
• 31:42
  on like a little pad and it will like read your card that you're
• 31:46
  valid and then the doors open up and you walk through them.
• 31:49
  So that's how you get it. They kind of like the customers,
• 31:54
  just make sure you kind of like have one of these before you
• 31:56
  walk towards them and that's it. So interesting.
• 32:00
  Yeah, it's a different system. And I was like, it's interesting
• 32:03
  to me because they don't have my photo.
• 32:06
  So you I could have handed this to like Jackie if she had showed
• 32:08
  up and then like have a good day at Disneyland and she could have
• 32:11
  just gotten in and had a fun time.
• 32:12
  So a very different system than in the US.
• 32:16
  Not that I did that or would advocate for that.
• 32:18
  No, not at all. But that is interesting because,
• 32:21
  you know, we're so used to they scan a fingerprint or you know,
• 32:24
  that type of thing. That's so yeah, your cards are
• 32:27
  pretty transferable if you want to.
• 32:30
  So OK, it's not a tap style or a turn style.
• 32:33
  I guess it's a tap style. If you think of like you tap
• 32:35
  your card on the thing and then the doors open.
• 32:37
  So I guess it would be a tap style, right?
• 32:41
  Yeah. So no Magic fans the cards.
• 32:44
  And it's interesting that, you know, it gave, we stayed four
• 32:47
  nights, so we were supposed to stay four nights and then it
• 32:49
  would have given us 5A5 day ticket.
• 32:51
  So you could go on the day you get there, you can go on the day
• 32:53
  you leave. But I do recommend staying in a
• 32:56
  Disney hotel there, mainly because the hours are so short
• 32:59
  in those parks. Like it's like 12 hours is all
• 33:03
  you get. So if you are staying in a
• 33:06
  Disney hotel, you get an extra hour in the morning, you get
• 33:08
  that extra magic hour. And I think you really, you
• 33:12
  really need that to maximize your park day.
• 33:15
  Especially considering how I'll just say this now because we're
• 33:19
  talking about how Fantasyland in in Disneyland actually closes an
• 33:23
  hour before the rest of the park and it's a significant portion
• 33:26
  of the park, so you're going to lose time there to explore
• 33:30
  things and whatnot. So, yeah, but that extra hour is
• 33:34
  really nice and it's nice that anyone staying at A at any of
• 33:37
  the resorts has access to that. So kind of like the previous
• 33:42
  extra magic our system that we're more used to at Walt
• 33:44
  Disney World where it's kind of across the board, everybody has
• 33:47
  that extra hour in the morning, which is really nice.
• 33:51
  Yeah. And I will say that not all of
• 33:52
  the resource, not all the Disney.
• 33:54
  Resorts actually have transportation to the park.
• 33:56
  So if you're looking, I feel like one of the ones that was
• 33:59
  more like the campground ones, those ones didn't have any
• 34:03
  transportation to the park. So you either got to drive
• 34:05
  yourself or call it Uber or something, which is not
• 34:08
  necessarily reliable out there. So make sure you you are staying
• 34:12
  close enough to walk or have Disney transportation if you're
• 34:15
  staying in a Disney hotel so I could catch you off, yeah.
• 34:18
  And how far was your walk from the different resorts?
• 34:21
  Did you you did you walk directly to the parks from the
• 34:25
  Cheyenne when you were there? We took the shuttle in so it
• 34:30
  goes to the village. So it doesn't go to like the
• 34:32
  park. So it's like there's like 1 main
• 34:34
  bus stop which is also next to the train station.
• 34:36
  So we took, I took the shuttle, but it was only like a 5 minute
• 34:39
  ride and it's like a 10 to 15 minute walk to the Cheyenne from
• 34:44
  New York. It was probably less than 10
• 34:46
  minutes, maybe like 7 because I just walked through the village.
• 34:49
  It's on literally on the other side of the village is your
• 34:51
  hotel. So, yeah, I it's it's
• 34:57
  interesting because the buses aren't the same as the US
• 35:01
  because we're so used to order, right.
• 35:04
  We're used to this orderly kind of line up, we know kind of who
• 35:07
  was there 1st and we kind of let them go to the front ish, you
• 35:10
  know like that we have that like sense of order.
• 35:12
  They don't do that there. What happened was the bus would
• 35:15
  drop everybody off and then they would.
• 35:17
  Swing around to where they pick everybody else up, up and then
• 35:21
  they would open the three sets of doors and then everybody ran
• 35:24
  towards the bus. Oh my goodness.
• 35:27
  It's like every. Man for himself and you just go
• 35:31
  and some people. Didn't make it on like you just
• 35:33
  like it's it was crazy and the bus wasn't even like stopped
• 35:37
  rolling before. People were like rushing it.
• 35:39
  And I was like, this is chaos and honestly that's just kind of
• 35:42
  the culture there. So there's.
• 35:45
  The people in the UK are very good about queuing, but beyond
• 35:49
  that a lot of Europe. They don't.
• 35:51
  They don't care about queuing. They don't care about.
• 35:54
  Lining up and whose turn is it or cutting?
• 35:57
  That's not a thing. Like, they're just like I want
• 35:59
  to go, so I'm going, good luck to you.
• 36:02
  So yeah, since we're talking about that, I'll just mention
• 36:06
  that that that happens everywhere in the parks.
• 36:08
  So be prepared for people to cut in front of you, to jump into
• 36:12
  the premier pass lines when they're not supposed to.
• 36:15
  It's just like, I don't know, I don't know why it's a thing
• 36:18
  there, but I got really, I got upset by the last night because
• 36:21
  it just happened to me the whole time I was there.
• 36:24
  And some of the queues are like wider when you first enter them
• 36:27
  and then they kind of get narrower.
• 36:29
  So people, I guess. Think that you usually think
• 36:32
  like after you pass underneath the like the sign.
• 36:35
  You're now in line, right? We think that nobody's supposed
• 36:38
  to cross after that. That they don't think that
• 36:41
  they're like, Oh no, this is wide enough and I can still pass
• 36:44
  you because I have room. So I'm gonna.
• 36:47
  By the end of it, I was like holding my ground and I was
• 36:50
  like, excuse me. Tired.
• 36:53
  I was like elbows out. Excuse.
• 36:56
  Me. Don't cut in front of my
• 36:58
  children just because they walk slower.
• 36:59
  No thank you. So anyway, just expect that
• 37:02
  that's going to happen. Oh yeah, Len says Germany and
• 37:05
  Austria were the opposite. Queue is life.
• 37:07
  There are like European countries where it's like you
• 37:09
  queue and you keep order. And then there's ones that are
• 37:12
  like, meh, we'll do what we want.
• 37:14
  So France is one of those, we do what we want kind of places.
• 37:19
  There you go. And now you know.
• 37:20
  And now those of you in the chat that are are planning on a trip.
• 37:25
  Now you know. Get those elbows ready.
• 37:29
  Yes. Yeah.
• 37:31
  So then during the early entry, you've got some notes here about
• 37:34
  kind of the way their early entry works for park guests.
• 37:38
  Yes, there's just this very, we're used to a lot of signage
• 37:42
  in the US parks telling us where to go, telling us like, hey,
• 37:45
  this thing is cancelled or hey, this is closing early.
• 37:48
  Like there's none of that there. Just then just expect that
• 37:51
  there's no signs. So you will guess or ask about a
• 37:55
  lot of things. And every single morning I feel
• 37:58
  like we got in the wrong line for getting into early entry
• 38:02
  because there's no signage. We figured it out by like the
• 38:05
  second, third day. You know, like, okay, there's
• 38:07
  actual lines for this. These are the, like locals
• 38:09
  trying to get in. These are like the, you know, so
• 38:12
  we figured it out eventually. But so often when you get to the
• 38:15
  front of the line, they're like, no, you have to go stand in that
• 38:17
  line and we're like. No.
• 38:22
  So just you're very sure what line you're getting into because
• 38:25
  there's no signage. If there's a cast member around,
• 38:28
  you can ask them and they would. They should know.
• 38:30
  There's just not always a cast member around to ask.
• 38:32
  So sometimes we would send a. Runner to the front of the line
• 38:35
  to like, ask before we got in line.
• 38:37
  We learned to do that. So yeah, just saying it's just a
• 38:41
  different culture, right, right, For sure, for sure.
• 38:45
  So talking just generic general price comparison, because I feel
• 38:49
  like this is something that people are like, what is the
• 38:52
  comparison between the US parks in Disneyland Paris and how does
• 38:55
  that look now? Currently the conversion rate
• 38:59
  euros are fairly close to our U.S.
• 39:01
  Dollar. So that's good for right now.
• 39:06
  So these prices are kind of a general idea.
• 39:09
  I just like I said, I wanted to give you guys a breakdown.
• 39:12
  So if you're looking at just like a one day, one park ticket,
• 39:17
  Disney World, you're looking anywhere from 134 to 159
• 39:20
  Disneyland in California, you're looking 129 to 179.
• 39:25
  A one day one park ticket at Disneyland Paris is $67.
• 39:30
  Yep. So.
• 39:31
  That's that category. Now if you're looking at a
• 39:34
  Hopper Disney World, you're looking at 218 to 237,
• 39:39
  Disneyland California you're looking 194 to 244 and
• 39:43
  Disneyland Paris. For a one day Hopper, you're
• 39:45
  looking anywhere from one O 4 to 150.
• 39:49
  It's just what they quoted us when we were there for that one
• 39:51
  day and we only had 1/2 day left and they're like, it'll be like
• 39:54
  €100 and we're like, that's not worth it.
• 39:57
  For 1/2 day and they're like. I'd say we'd go swim but.
• 40:01
  Most of the places don't have pools there unless they were
• 40:03
  deluxe, so. Right, which we found out when
• 40:06
  we were doing all that research on those hotels.
• 40:10
  Yeah. So that just kind of gives.
• 40:13
  You that idea? Now let's look at a. 3.
• 40:17
  Day ticket. Just to give you guys kind of a
• 40:19
  more realistic idea, in Disney World a three day ticket is a
• 40:24
  three day single park per day ticket.
• 40:27
  So a base ticket is 4/25 Disneyland California's 360 and
• 40:32
  actually do not offer non hopper options past one day at
• 40:37
  Disneyland Paris. So, so you.
• 40:41
  Have to have a hopper. Once you get past one day, two
• 40:44
  days that you have to have a hopper option because they want
• 40:46
  to make people go into that second park because so many
• 40:49
  people don't want to go into Walt Disney Studios park.
• 40:51
  So that's their way of trying to spread out the crowds just by
• 40:54
  not offering a single park. Yep, exactly.
• 40:58
  So if you're looking at a three day hopper at Disney World,
• 41:01
  you're looking at five O 5 at Disneyland California.
• 41:04
  You're looking around 4:20 at Disneyland Paris.
• 41:07
  You're looking anywhere from 258 to 372, so.
• 41:12
  They their. Tickets are do fluctuate based
• 41:15
  on how busy they're going to be, crowd levels, time of year, that
• 41:17
  type of thing, just like we see in the US So those ticket prices
• 41:21
  when I was looking, I think we're like January ish when I
• 41:24
  was comparing across the board for all three areas.
• 41:27
  So you can see the difference. Now that being that being said,
• 41:32
  there's two parks at Disneyland Paris, two parks at Disneyland
• 41:35
  California, 4 parks at Disney World.
• 41:37
  So some of that price comparison, you know is because
• 41:41
  of that. But overall, your prices at
• 41:45
  Disneyland Paris are not terrible for sure, unless they
• 41:49
  cancel your hotel reservation. Which case?
• 41:53
  That's just all. And do you remember that those I
• 41:59
  pulled out those ticket prices, those are not your package
• 42:02
  prices for Disneyland Paris. And we did mention earlier that
• 42:04
  when you book your resort, those tickets are automatically
• 42:07
  included. I just gave you a ticket to
• 42:09
  ticket comparison because that's the easiest way to compare when
• 42:13
  you're looking at that because the hotels will fluctuate all
• 42:15
  over the place, but that's your ticket to ticket comparison kind
• 42:19
  of across the board. Just to give you guys an idea of
• 42:22
  what that looks like. That's really helpful.
• 42:25
  Jackie, thank you. Yeah, of course.
• 42:28
  OK. So another thing that they do
• 42:30
  have that we also have here, well have had previously here in
• 42:34
  the States for our parks are dining plans.
• 42:37
  The interesting thing about their dining plans that they
• 42:39
  have there is they have a lot more options for their.
• 42:44
  Dining plans than we have seen previously in in the States and
• 42:50
  they do use a physical like meal voucher card.
• 42:53
  So similar to kind of what Kate was talking about with those.
• 42:57
  Yeah, with those magic. Pass cards.
• 42:59
  That's what they utilize for that whenever.
• 43:03
  You go to use it so. They have kind of two options of
• 43:09
  the. Dining plans that you can do and
• 43:11
  then within those two main options are like sub tiers kind
• 43:15
  of the way that it's broken down.
• 43:17
  So they have what they call a full board dining plan which
• 43:20
  gives you two meal vouchers for lunch and dinner and then they
• 43:23
  also give you a breakfast voucher.
• 43:25
  So that's kind of how that plan works.
• 43:28
  And then the half board dining plan gives you one meal voucher
• 43:32
  for lunch or dinner plus a breakfast voucher.
• 43:35
  So they don't look at meals versus snacks versus any of that
• 43:38
  kind of stuff. It's just per like meal
• 43:42
  basically, just because their dining is done quite a bit
• 43:46
  differently in their parks and we'll get to that here in a
• 43:48
  moment and Kate I'm sure has some on that for us.
• 43:52
  But then within the full board and half board, they have 4
• 43:56
  tiers that you can choose from. So from bottom tier to top tier,
• 44:01
  they have, the hotel tier, they have standard, they have plus
• 44:05
  and they have premium and that basically just tells you what
• 44:08
  restaurants you're eligible to use them at.
• 44:11
  So if you book that lowest level hotel option, you're only
• 44:15
  eligible to use that at the hotel restaurants if you book a.
• 44:19
  Standard option, it opens up a little bit more, so you can kind
• 44:21
  of look at all of those on the website if that's something you
• 44:23
  choose to do when it comes to your eating.
• 44:26
  But so they basically have like 8 different options that you can
• 44:30
  choose from when it comes to their dining plans, if that's
• 44:34
  something that you want to do. Yeah.
• 44:36
  And we did when we were researching this, they also.
• 44:40
  So while we're researching like where we should go eat was was
• 44:44
  something that we that Jackie looked into.
• 44:47
  And then I decided to like book my own reservations which was
• 44:51
  silly because I had a million things to do.
• 44:53
  But so Jackie, I got to it late and if you get to it late, it's
• 44:57
  just like Disney World where there's nothing left.
• 44:59
  So book, I think it's 60 days out for them.
• 45:02
  Book 60 days out, like on the button.
• 45:05
  And if you don't, there is a great website.
• 45:08
  You do have to pay for it to get like, the premier access where
• 45:12
  you're likely to get a reservation.
• 45:13
  It's called DLP tables. I signed up for that because I
• 45:18
  was like, OK, clearly you're like, I messed up here and I
• 45:20
  need to like, try to get us some decent reservations.
• 45:22
  So I was actually able to get almost all the things that I
• 45:25
  wanted using that, and I just had to really be on my game when
• 45:30
  the notifications came in to book for my family.
• 45:33
  I do think that if you're not staying at a Disney World
• 45:36
  resort, there must be some sort of issue, 'cause I could only
• 45:39
  have like 2 reservations and it wouldn't let me book more than
• 45:42
  that. So I have to really look into
• 45:44
  that if I'm not sure that's true.
• 45:46
  But I had a really hard time. It wouldn't let me book it until
• 45:49
  I had a reservation. And I thought I had a
• 45:51
  reservation, of course, you know, so I'm like, what is going
• 45:53
  on here? But but anyway, we'll say that
• 45:58
  the the eating situation is is pretty interesting in Disneyland
• 46:02
  Paris. There is no picnicking allowed.
• 46:04
  So if you're a family who packs their lunch into the park or
• 46:07
  your dinner, that's not allowed in Disneyland Paris at all.
• 46:11
  So you can bring your water bottles and whatnot.
• 46:13
  And we did. My kids brought snacks in.
• 46:16
  I think they're not supposed to, but my kids like packed in like
• 46:18
  just a snack in their day bag and nobody said anything about
• 46:22
  it. So I think they probably see
• 46:24
  that quite often with children, but they yeah, no picnicking at
• 46:29
  all. There's signs about it and then
• 46:30
  the restaurants have really bizarre hours, so and.
• 46:36
  Jackie advised me to eat before 6:00 PM and that was great
• 46:39
  advice we made. Sure.
• 46:41
  We started looking early for a place to eat.
• 46:44
  There's not a lot of great food at Disneyland Paris except for
• 46:48
  at their table service restaurants.
• 46:50
  And I think that the culture is that usually and you just sit
• 46:54
  down and have your big meal all together at the end of the day.
• 46:57
  And like, they kind of expect people to almost be done with
• 47:00
  the parks by about dinner time, which is so.
• 47:03
  Different than American culture. We're like, go, go, go, right
• 47:05
  the whole evening. It's kind of like you have a
• 47:07
  leisurely dinner and then you see the show and then you leave.
• 47:10
  And that's like the culture there, right?
• 47:12
  So I think Lem asked me, is it true that every restaurant has
• 47:16
  wine, Every every restaurant has wine or beer or alcohol of some,
• 47:20
  some way? They didn't have that when it
• 47:23
  first opened, but the. Imagineers knew the culture in
• 47:27
  France enough because they've been living there to develop it,
• 47:30
  that they actually installed like places to store wine and
• 47:33
  kegs and whatnot in the buildings because they thought
• 47:36
  eventually they would have to. And sure enough, the people of
• 47:39
  France kind of like, yeah, the people of France kind of like
• 47:41
  revolt. And they're like, what do you
• 47:42
  mean? I can't have wine with my
• 47:43
  dinner? Like, this is just part of life,
• 47:45
  right? So they.
• 47:47
  Do serve alcohol pretty much everywhere throughout the parks.
• 47:51
  And then there's so if if your restaurants are like closed,
• 47:56
  Disney Village is the only place that kind of open light eating
• 47:59
  places. There's a two-story McDonald's
• 48:01
  and there's there's a new like almost like Rose and Crown pub.
• 48:05
  But it's not called that. It's called something else.
• 48:07
  But it just opened up recently that kind of is down there that
• 48:09
  everybody recommends, recommended that.
• 48:11
  When I asked like, where would you eat?
• 48:15
  We didn't eat a lot down there. I think it's a rainforest cafe
• 48:17
  as well. There's my kids ate it like the
• 48:19
  Cool Stop. So they had like Pizza Hut.
• 48:22
  Yeah. They had like that little
• 48:23
  convenience store that we found because we were concerned, not
• 48:26
  going to lie. And we were looking at because a
• 48:28
  lot of the things that I read said that there have been
• 48:31
  instances and it's frequent where people would be standing
• 48:34
  in line at these quick service locations and they would just
• 48:37
  close while there was still a line there and they'd be like,
• 48:39
  sorry, we're closed And it's like.
• 48:41
  Oh man, OK. So it was one of those things
• 48:44
  where like when we looked at at the different places to eat,
• 48:48
  it's like, OK, we're going to look a little bit everywhere
• 48:50
  because we want to make sure that you guys have options that
• 48:53
  you can. Go to, like, we were in the,
• 48:56
  like, Pinocchio Village House restaurant and it was like 630.
• 49:00
  But you think it's like the height of, like, dinner time.
• 49:03
  And they were closing their doors and saying, like, luckily,
• 49:05
  like, Elliot had gotten in with the kids and they were telling
• 49:09
  me you can't order anymore, but he was already in line.
• 49:11
  And I was like, OK, thank goodness we got here in time
• 49:14
  because, yeah, they just close all of the quick service and
• 49:17
  then you can't get any reservations for the table
• 49:19
  service. And then it's like, what do you
• 49:20
  eat? Because you can't picnic, so you
• 49:22
  can eat what what you can eat is.
• 49:26
  Sometimes, like the snack carts will stay open later or you can
• 49:29
  go into Disneyville like, which is super annoying if you're in
• 49:31
  the park and you're hungry. But they do have like crepe
• 49:35
  stands everywhere, so it's kind of like the churros of disease.
• 49:39
  They have like crepes. Where you can get a sugar crepe
• 49:41
  or a Nutella crepe virtually everywhere and they're really
• 49:44
  good, so I recommend those and they do have some.
• 49:48
  Popcorn stands. But their popcorn is a little
• 49:49
  bit different than it is in the US.
• 49:51
  It's not like the pop secret kind of like buttery one.
• 49:55
  It's more like lightly salted popcorn, but was really good and
• 49:59
  the refills for it though were expensive.
• 50:01
  Even if you bought the popcorn bucket, it was like 6 year old
• 50:03
  for a refill. So don't expect like cheap
• 50:05
  popcorn refills there. That's not a thing.
• 50:09
  That's a smuggling baguettes. I have lots of baguettes there.
• 50:13
  It's such a thing. A little too obvious in your
• 50:16
  bag. Yeah, the places that I loved
• 50:19
  eating the most with my family. We loved PIM's Kitchen, I think
• 50:24
  was like one of the best places we ate.
• 50:27
  And it's not like the one in DCA.
• 50:28
  If you're used to PIM's test kitchen, which does have good
• 50:32
  food too, but it has look this giant Oreo cake, that's awesome.
• 50:38
  That's. Kind of like the idea of like
• 50:40
  big and small food, right? Like, just like the one in the
• 50:43
  US, And they have this giant pretzel.
• 50:47
  With Jackie, it's a giant pretzel sandwich special
• 50:50
  sandwich. That's so cool.
• 50:52
  I think it was a burger or something.
• 50:55
  But no, this one was a sandwich. They had also one that was a
• 50:57
  burger that they sliced and then they also had little mini ones
• 51:00
  as well, which is really, really fun.
• 51:03
  But it was this massive buffet. It was a buffet restaurant.
• 51:07
  They did give you a little pretzel that they sent to your
• 51:10
  table and they hung up on the so you're you started your meal
• 51:13
  with a pretzel hanging at your table, which just made me think
• 51:15
  of Jackie because she loves her pretzels.
• 51:17
  I do. Love pretzels.
• 51:20
  And then they have just like giant, they have giant Brie and
• 51:24
  tiny Brie and then they have a whole assortment of just.
• 51:29
  I don't need. It I don't even remember half
• 51:31
  the food I have. Like here's a picture of my
• 51:33
  plate, the little ceviche things.
• 51:35
  They had little mini burgers. They had BBQ pork.
• 51:39
  They had these spring rolls that really good.
• 51:41
  They had, some of them was like really like gourmet food that
• 51:45
  was all just kind of like finger food, esque.
• 51:48
  And then they had, they brought your juice and little they
• 51:53
  called the little beakers and whatnot because it was like a
• 51:55
  lab, right. So it was, it was so great.
• 51:59
  This is and then this is my desserts.
• 52:00
  I have to show you my desserts. So they have this like honeycomb
• 52:03
  wasp cake and. A lemon like chiffon layered
• 52:08
  cake and then there's like a pecan one in the back there and
• 52:10
  a Key Lime Pie. And they were all very European
• 52:15
  flavors in the way that they were very light.
• 52:17
  Nothing was extremely sugary or extremely heavy.
• 52:20
  So even though it looks like a lot of frosting, it was all very
• 52:22
  more like either meringue or just like really light flavored
• 52:26
  dessert. So nothing was terribly heavy.
• 52:29
  So I would say if you get nothing else, try to get Pin's
• 52:35
  kitchen if you really like to eat and buffets or your thing
• 52:38
  like just go. It's really good, yeah.
• 52:41
  And that one. Is in Walt Disney Studios park.
• 52:43
  It's in The Avengers campus area and the other place I would
• 52:46
  recommend is the Walt's which is in Main Street, USA.
• 52:52
  And that one is basically themed after Walt Disney.
• 52:56
  So if all the food is Walt Disney's favorites but like
• 53:00
  deconstructed and reinvented into kind of like a gourmet way.
• 53:03
  Because if you know Walt Disney, he loved eating like chili and
• 53:07
  drinking V8 and gravy on everything.
• 53:12
  So he so they this restaurant. I'm trying to find some pictures
• 53:16
  for you guys, but it was just such a fun experience to see all
• 53:20
  of his like family photos on the walls, all the animation things
• 53:23
  that he did and it's very much designed after his style of both
• 53:28
  food and everything else and they had.
• 53:31
  I love this like the the butter of of Disney.
• 53:35
  That's like that's where the name, the name Disney comes
• 53:37
  from. So they have butter that's from
• 53:39
  like the region where his Disney name comes from.
• 53:42
  That is so cool. Tiny little, little.
• 53:46
  Touch that. Like, that's so cool.
• 53:48
  Yes. And I had like the chili, but I
• 53:50
  had it, it was deconstructed. So they gave me like a little
• 53:53
  ceramic thing of chili in the back there that looks like a
• 53:56
  can. And then they had like the rest
• 53:59
  of the chili fixings were kind of like the gourmet part of it.
• 54:02
  So yeah, it was. It's really, really fun.
• 54:06
  It has a lot of little inside nods to things that are in
• 54:09
  Disney history. So if you're a Disney History
• 54:11
  fan, highly recommend Waltz on Main Street USA.
• 54:15
  Yeah. And that was one that you didn't
• 54:17
  get waltz until like last minute for that one, because that was
• 54:20
  one that we were like we need to make sure that you get it and it
• 54:24
  it was. Like.
• 54:25
  Were you on your? Cruise when?
• 54:26
  You got that? Yeah, yeah.
• 54:28
  I was in port somewhere because I couldn't be like on the ship.
• 54:31
  I didn't get signal. So I was like in a port.
• 54:33
  I was like, it popped up and we had, we were like sailing away
• 54:36
  and you have 10 minutes before you.
• 54:37
  I was like, oh. No, but no.
• 54:40
  I got it in time, which was so good.
• 54:42
  And I'll just say the other place I know I kind of jumped.
• 54:45
  Yeah, you're good. I found you.
• 54:49
  I will say, I also I heard a lot of recommendations for Remy's,
• 54:53
  which is really cute place to eat.
• 54:55
  It has little like, looks like little champagne corks and
• 54:59
  things for your chairs and it's it's like adorable, like you're
• 55:02
  shrunk down to the size of the mouse and you're eating and I
• 55:04
  heard really good things about that place but that reservation
• 55:07
  was impossible to find. So that is at the, it's.
• 55:10
  It's at the exit if you imagine. If you're used to seeing the the
• 55:14
  ratatouille, like when you ride in Epcot and you know how you
• 55:16
  get out on the exit, there's just like a big wall there, that
• 55:19
  wall. Was all window looking into the
• 55:21
  restaurant there. So that's where the restaurant's
• 55:24
  located and I didn't get to try it, but people recommended it.
• 55:27
  And then the Coco restaurant that just opened, that's
• 55:31
  actually a quick service meal. If you're not going to do a
• 55:33
  table service, we recommend that one.
• 55:35
  It was actually really good. It was.
• 55:39
  I like. European.
• 55:40
  Mexican food. So don't expect American Mexican
• 55:44
  food, but it has kind of like a Curry flavor to it, and it's
• 55:48
  more sweet. So rather than spicy, that's
• 55:51
  just kind of the way that they do Mexican food over there.
• 55:53
  But they did have churros, and they actually weren't that bad.
• 55:58
  They weren't like Disneyland churros, but they were.
• 56:00
  Edible. And they came with Nutella to
• 56:02
  dip them in. So you know.
• 56:04
  Can't be mad about that, you know.
• 56:07
  So I would, I would recommend the Coco restaurant, but we did
• 56:11
  have, we have a that's where we did click and collect.
• 56:15
  Should we talk about that for a second?
• 56:17
  Let's do that. So when we were looking into
• 56:19
  like do they mobile order, do they not it basically?
• 56:23
  What the all that we could find was that they said yes, we have
• 56:26
  this and they call it click and collect and it's available at
• 56:30
  but like limited locations. I think that's what it said when
• 56:33
  we were looking into it. So we're like OK, well that
• 56:35
  works. It's got to be, you know, just
• 56:37
  in the app like we're used to that Disney does.
• 56:40
  But Kate? Had a very difficult experience
• 56:42
  with clicking collect, yeah, I will say.
• 56:45
  This is what the chores look like.
• 56:47
  The little like use that you would dip into with that
• 56:50
  Nutella. Yeah, so with clicking collect,
• 56:54
  Elliot is. Usually the one who orders our
• 56:55
  food. So he's the one that did this
• 56:57
  and God bless him because he's not like a huge technology
• 57:00
  person, but he did figure it out.
• 57:02
  So we were all expecting, we did order it in the app, the
• 57:06
  Disneyland Paris app, But we were expecting like in the app
• 57:10
  you can go and see your mobile orders or it will like pop up
• 57:13
  and say like say that I'm here. Like all the things that we're
• 57:15
  used to at the Disney parks, like it doesn't do that.
• 57:17
  But it does is it sends an e-mail to your e-mail address
• 57:22
  and in your e-mail address you hit a button that kind of says,
• 57:24
  like prepare my order essentially so.
• 57:28
  It took us a while to figure out that that was where that went,
• 57:30
  because we're like, where did our order go?
• 57:32
  We know we made it and then when we went.
• 57:34
  To go pick it up, the lines were like, super ambiguous.
• 57:37
  There wasn't like great signage. We're like, we know we saw it
• 57:40
  over the window, but it could have been like this line for
• 57:42
  this line. And Elliot asked and somebody
• 57:45
  sent him in like this line. But then there was some people
• 57:47
  like that were at the window saying, like, well, they sent me
• 57:50
  over here, but they shouldn't have been here.
• 57:51
  And it was very confusing. Oh no.
• 57:54
  We did get our food and it was all wrecked when we did get it.
• 57:57
  So it does work, but it's a little bit quirky.
• 58:00
  And I don't think all of the cast members quite know how to
• 58:03
  use it so. So maybe it's a?
• 58:07
  Newer. Thing with.
• 58:10
  What they've. Been.
• 58:11
  Working on there's that, you know how Kate mentioned earlier
• 58:15
  that they're a little behind us technologically.
• 58:18
  There is a prime. Example.
• 58:20
  Yeah. That in the tickets not being on
• 58:22
  the app, which just blew my mind, I was like, well you know
• 58:25
  tickets aren't in our app, right?
• 58:28
  That's great. So, yeah.
• 58:30
  So in terms of food, other places, there's not a lot of
• 58:34
  places that the menus looked about great to us, like and
• 58:37
  Ellie, it's like a huge foodie. So he was like, I don't know, we
• 58:42
  could eat that if we had to. It's kind of how we felt about a
• 58:45
  lot of the restaurants there. Yeah.
• 58:47
  And I kind of warned Kate, but that was the research that I did
• 58:50
  was the food is not good. So I had an orange Kate, like,
• 58:53
  OK, you're going to have to prep Elliot because I knew how big of
• 58:56
  a foodie he was. I was like, you're going to have
• 58:58
  to prep him that it's it's not going to be great,
• 59:01
  unfortunately. No, but luckily we've had those
• 59:04
  table service meals. We had enough.
• 59:05
  And the breakfast at our hotel that was amazing.
• 59:08
  Like he got to start his day with that breakfast.
• 59:10
  Like, I don't usually eat breakfast that often, but he
• 59:12
  went to go get it every day. So he took advantage of that and
• 59:15
  I think that really even things out for him, well, that.
• 59:18
  Works because we weren't. Sure, exactly.
• 59:20
  What breakfast was going to look like going into it with what we
• 59:22
  knew was available and not available.
• 59:24
  So you know, it worked out. I know.
• 59:27
  I don't know. If we would have had much
• 59:29
  breakfast, I think they did have a restaurant that opened up for
• 59:31
  something at the Cheyenne in the morning, but we weren't there
• 59:35
  long enough. There was a Starbucks there.
• 59:37
  So we probably could have gotten something from Starbucks every
• 59:39
  day. But that's financially not
• 59:41
  really a win. And also it's like not
• 59:44
  necessarily the healthiest depending on what you get, So,
• 59:46
  right. Yeah, absolutely.
• 59:48
  Yeah. So that's kind of in a nutshell
• 59:51
  what the dining was like. Sorry, that was a lot but.
• 59:56
  OK, let's talk about something else that we can compare kind of
• 59:59
  across parks and that is the Genie Plus Lightning Lane Fast
• 1:00:04
  Pass system. So Disneyland Paris does have a
• 1:00:08
  system for shortening your your wait time.
• 1:00:11
  They do call it the Disney Premier Access Pass.
• 1:00:15
  And that is, they've got a couple different options on how
• 1:00:17
  they utilize this. So you can use the Access one
• 1:00:21
  option which is a pay by attraction option and the.
• 1:00:26
  Way that that works is they do limit 3 per guest per day.
• 1:00:31
  So if you do that option you only have the ability to
• 1:00:34
  purchase three different rides and they have to be different
• 1:00:38
  rides. You can't purchase the same ride
• 1:00:39
  three times or that type of thing.
• 1:00:41
  It gives you an hour return window, which is what we're all
• 1:00:44
  kind of used to when it comes to those types of things.
• 1:00:47
  And the prices do vary based on the ride.
• 1:00:50
  So this is very similar to the individual lightning lanes that
• 1:00:53
  we're used to in the US parks where the prices range based on
• 1:00:57
  the. The attraction so the euro
• 1:01:01
  prices. Are anywhere from 5 to 13, so
• 1:01:03
  about 5:50 to 1375 S to speak with the USUS exchange rates.
• 1:01:09
  Like I said, the Euros are very close to the US dollar right
• 1:01:12
  now, so that is kind of the first option that they have if
• 1:01:16
  you only want to use it for select number of rides.
• 1:01:20
  Not every ride is included in that.
• 1:01:21
  It is a limited number of rides in the parks that they do offer
• 1:01:26
  that service for. The second option is the Access
• 1:01:31
  Ultimate option which is a pay by day option and you get 1.
• 1:01:36
  Ride per attraction that is included on there, so you're
• 1:01:39
  still only able to utilize it to ride each attraction once.
• 1:01:43
  That does give you the ability to join those queues at any
• 1:01:46
  time, so it doesn't give you a return window like the other
• 1:01:49
  option does. You can just get in those lines
• 1:01:51
  at any point with that pass the price.
• 1:01:54
  For that ranges anywhere from, in U.S. dollars, 95 to 200 per
• 1:02:01
  person per day. And those prices do fluctuate
• 1:02:04
  depending on the crowd level. Yeah, So that price option where
• 1:02:08
  you have to pay per day is very, very costly.
• 1:02:11
  When you look at even just two people going, if you're going
• 1:02:14
  during those busy times, it's going to be $200.00 per person
• 1:02:18
  on top of what you're already paying for your tickets and your
• 1:02:21
  package and all that type of thing.
• 1:02:22
  So those are the two options that they have when it comes to
• 1:02:26
  their fast pass lightning lane system.
• 1:02:29
  And we did not see a lot of people using it like it's not
• 1:02:33
  like a steady long stream of like lightning lane people.
• 1:02:36
  It was like here and there. There was a couple people going
• 1:02:40
  in that side and I did hear one of those guys that tried to like
• 1:02:44
  cut me off in one of the lines was standing behind me and he
• 1:02:47
  was like he was speaking French. But I understand enough that I
• 1:02:50
  couldn't understand what he's saying.
• 1:02:51
  He was just like non-stop complaining about how long the
• 1:02:54
  line was. It was like a 30 minute line.
• 1:02:55
  Like less in the US were like this is no big deal, right?
• 1:02:58
  It's like Thunder Mountain. So we're like, OK, really?
• 1:03:01
  Like he was basically saying, like, I can't believe this line
• 1:03:03
  is so long and how come we can't get that premier access pass.
• 1:03:06
  And like, he was just like going off in French.
• 1:03:08
  And I was like, OK, this guys had a.
• 1:03:10
  Bad day. That's right.
• 1:03:11
  I was trying to cut the line right.
• 1:03:14
  Right. So yeah, so they do have those
• 1:03:16
  options. But like Kate said, it doesn't
• 1:03:17
  seem like it's often utilized. I mean it's a really high price
• 1:03:22
  point. I mean I could understand maybe
• 1:03:24
  the access one if there's a specific ride that like you it's
• 1:03:29
  that ride is the make or break for your your group.
• 1:03:32
  You may decide to splurge and do one you know here or there.
• 1:03:35
  But overall from what I've seen and I think what Kate
• 1:03:39
  experienced, it's it's not really necessary if you kind of
• 1:03:42
  plan your day accordingly. No, there was only 2 lines that
• 1:03:48
  we. Waited in that were extremely
• 1:03:50
  long and one was the crushes coaster line in Walt Disney
• 1:03:55
  Studios park. I think because it's like a
• 1:03:56
  newer one and it crushes coaster.
• 1:03:58
  If you're not familiar with it, it's kind of like.
• 1:04:01
  A less themed Guardians like the one in Epcot where the roller
• 1:04:06
  coaster will like, turn, so it's kind of like you're going on
• 1:04:10
  the. EAC and they're like being spun
• 1:04:12
  in the water and stuff. It's kind of, but it's really,
• 1:04:15
  there's not much of A theme to it.
• 1:04:16
  It's cute and it was fun, but we waited like 65 minutes for it.
• 1:04:21
  Oh gosh. And it was a long line.
• 1:04:23
  And my kids are like, they just hate it now because they're
• 1:04:26
  like, they had to wait for so long.
• 1:04:28
  And I like, don't blame them, but the other one was Peter Pan.
• 1:04:32
  But it could have Peter Pan. Always puts a long line no
• 1:04:35
  matter what park you're in. It just does because it's slow
• 1:04:37
  loading and I feel like it was extra long the day we were there
• 1:04:41
  because it just opened up after a refurb.
• 1:04:43
  So I don't know if it's always that long.
• 1:04:45
  It was extremely long. It was that was another hour
• 1:04:48
  long wait for us and my kids were not happy.
• 1:04:50
  But it's fun. Right.
• 1:04:53
  Exactly. Exactly, exactly.
• 1:04:56
  So yeah, so depending on your budget would depend on whether
• 1:04:59
  or not that's something that you choose to utilize another thing
• 1:05:02
  depending on. Sorry, go ahead.
• 1:05:03
  Did you have more to add about that?
• 1:05:04
  I will just say that the some of the big rides that usually have
• 1:05:08
  long lines in other parks don't necessarily have as long lines
• 1:05:12
  there like Space Mountain because it's a more intense.
• 1:05:16
  Roller coaster that kind of like goes upside down and it's it's
• 1:05:19
  it's more like rock and roller coaster if you're familiar with
• 1:05:22
  that. So not as many people want to go
• 1:05:25
  on it because it's so extreme. So the the wait for it actually
• 1:05:29
  isn't this long, which is good and bad.
• 1:05:31
  I guess, depending on who you are, so right.
• 1:05:34
  Yeah. Well, when that.
• 1:05:35
  Was one of your kiddos top rides?
• 1:05:37
  I'm sure that was very helpful for you guys.
• 1:05:42
  So he was in heaven. But, and I will say too that if
• 1:05:45
  they do have some way that they need to make it up to you to
• 1:05:51
  skip some lines in the park. We did, we were given because
• 1:05:54
  they felt so bad for the hours that I spent sorting everything
• 1:05:57
  else. They did give us a couple of
• 1:05:58
  classes and this is what they look like for being able to go
• 1:06:03
  in the perimeter access line. So they do.
• 1:06:05
  That's just thought it was interesting there.
• 1:06:08
  It's in French and in English and in German.
• 1:06:10
  So there's three languages on it, and they have to write the
• 1:06:15
  number of guests and the attraction.
• 1:06:16
  It's only good for that one attraction.
• 1:06:18
  So it's interesting. It's not digital, you know, like
• 1:06:20
  you think in the US they would just add it to your magic band
• 1:06:22
  or whatever. It's like, right?
• 1:06:23
  It's all paper. It's all paper.
• 1:06:25
  Very different. Yeah.
• 1:06:27
  That is very interesting. Yeah.
• 1:06:29
  No, you're good. So then they do also offer
• 1:06:32
  talking about extra costs to your package.
• 1:06:33
  They do offer their photo pass option as well.
• 1:06:38
  It's very vague the descriptions that they have on their website.
• 1:06:41
  So if you're someone who goes through and purchases it and
• 1:06:43
  gets more information, please share it with us because it was
• 1:06:46
  very hard to find without like actually physically purchasing
• 1:06:49
  it myself. But the cost is approximately
• 1:06:51
  $75 and from what I read, it's good for 10 days for that cost.
• 1:06:56
  So 10 days worth of park days for that $75.00 to utilize that
• 1:07:01
  photo pass. But there doesn't seem to be
• 1:07:03
  like there's not photo pass photographers just like hanging
• 1:07:06
  out anywhere to take your photo. Like there's not a whole stream
• 1:07:09
  right down Main Street. There's not in every little
• 1:07:11
  pocket to take your picture like they might be with the
• 1:07:14
  characters. We didn't.
• 1:07:15
  There was there was there was one of the characters because we
• 1:07:18
  did for one character we went to see and then there's the ride
• 1:07:22
  photos that have a little number on them.
• 1:07:23
  And what I showed you guys is that they have watermarks on
• 1:07:27
  them pretty heavily. So yeah, like I took a picture
• 1:07:29
  of it because I was like I'm not going to buy this package, but
• 1:07:32
  there was a lock on the center and then a whole bunch of
• 1:07:34
  Mickey's over it. So you really can't see much of
• 1:07:36
  your family. So that's how they keep it from
• 1:07:40
  people. Not so.
• 1:07:41
  They have to go and there is actually physical places to go
• 1:07:44
  buy that photo after the ride, like there used to be in the
• 1:07:47
  Disney parks. They'll still exist in
• 1:07:49
  Disneyland Paris. I mean, I kind of love that.
• 1:07:52
  That's a fun, you know, like you think of like going to theme
• 1:07:55
  parks, so you get to like bring the photo home with you, you
• 1:07:57
  know. So I don't mind that.
• 1:07:59
  I think that's I'd like to have the digital as well.
• 1:08:03
  Right. Like, I'd like to have the
• 1:08:04
  digital version as well, because it's just much easier to keep
• 1:08:06
  track of that way. But it's a fun option to have
• 1:08:08
  that the ability to print those in the parks, yeah.
• 1:08:11
  Yeah, it was fun that we didn't buy them because we had enough
• 1:08:15
  stuff to carry. I don't blame you for that.
• 1:08:19
  So yeah, so about $75.00 from what I could see for up to 10
• 1:08:24
  days. So that's your other kind of
• 1:08:26
  extra add on if you choose to with your package deal.
• 1:08:30
  And then I think we already talked a little bit about the
• 1:08:33
  whole package reservation process.
• 1:08:34
  Is there anything else with that Kate that you wanted to add on?
• 1:08:37
  No. Just be be really, really aware
• 1:08:40
  that you for your due date to make sure that you don't miss it
• 1:08:44
  like I did and then have them cancel your whole trip because
• 1:08:47
  that's just awful. So just, you know, be very aware
• 1:08:51
  of that due date on the first e-mail, because their next
• 1:08:53
  e-mail you can't guarantee it's going to land in your inbox.
• 1:08:56
  It went land in your spam. And.
• 1:09:00
  Or. If you're someone that
• 1:09:01
  frequently checks your spam inbox, good for you.
• 1:09:04
  Who does that? I know well.
• 1:09:08
  I even explained to them I was. Like I was also at C the day
• 1:09:11
  that they canceled it. I was literally at C with no
• 1:09:14
  Internet. I like couldn't even get any of
• 1:09:16
  the emails that they sent to my spam folder.
• 1:09:18
  Like saying like you need to pay those in the next 24.
• 1:09:20
  I was on the Disney cruise so I couldn't get it.
• 1:09:23
  So like, even if I had seen it, I couldn't see right there
• 1:09:26
  wasn't. Anything you.
• 1:09:27
  Could have done. About it.
• 1:09:28
  It was a perfect storm. Bad things.
• 1:09:30
  Yes, it was. Shall we talk about some rides?
• 1:09:34
  Yes, let's talk about rides. Yes, this is the fun.
• 1:09:38
  Part of all of the research that we got to do because I.
• 1:09:41
  Watched a bunch. Of point of view videos of rides
• 1:09:44
  and we researched the map and looked at where everything was
• 1:09:49
  and all of that. That's that's that's the best
• 1:09:50
  part in my opinion. So this was the fun part, yes.
• 1:09:54
  So Disneyland Paris, let's talk about that park first.
• 1:09:58
  So I've already mentioned the Space Mountain is kind of like
• 1:10:01
  the rock and roller coaster way more intense and it's actually
• 1:10:05
  not in Tomorrowland because Tomorrowland doesn't exist
• 1:10:07
  there. They have what they call
• 1:10:09
  Discovery Land and Discovery Land is themed after inventors
• 1:10:16
  of the past is basically what it looks like.
• 1:10:18
  I think I have a picture of the Discovery Land.
• 1:10:21
  This is actually based on a a whole land that Tony Baxter
• 1:10:24
  designed for Disneyland but never ended up getting built
• 1:10:28
  there. And so he brought the concept
• 1:10:30
  over to Disneyland Paris. So everything's kind of like
• 1:10:34
  steampunk themed. And they do have like the
• 1:10:37
  Nautilus and Space Mountain has if anybody is a Jewels Fern fan,
• 1:10:43
  they have the Columbia that will like launch you to out to the
• 1:10:46
  moon on top of Space Mountain. So it looks like people are
• 1:10:49
  actually going at that tube on the side of Space Mountain and
• 1:10:52
  looks like they're getting launched into space.
• 1:10:55
  That's so cool. Really.
• 1:10:56
  Fun, Yeah. It's a really unique looking
• 1:10:59
  place. And then they have the Hyperion
• 1:11:02
  airship and they have Vidiopolis.
• 1:11:04
  If anybody, if anybody remembers Vidiopolis and Disneyland, they
• 1:11:07
  have a Vidiopolis there. It's just like a big theater and
• 1:11:10
  they found actually really good tip for families.
• 1:11:13
  If you're looking for a place to sit down in the shade, it seems
• 1:11:16
  like during the day there there's just open.
• 1:11:19
  Seating and they're they play like Mickey cartoons and they
• 1:11:22
  they go between English and French with subtitles of the
• 1:11:25
  other language. I love that.
• 1:11:27
  That's awesome. So my kids, like, I know the
• 1:11:30
  bathroom lines are really long, almost everywhere there.
• 1:11:32
  So there's a bathroom in there. So while we like some of us were
• 1:11:35
  waiting for the bathroom, the other people just sat down and
• 1:11:37
  waited and and we could watch the Mickey cartoons and whatnot,
• 1:11:41
  which was really fun. So that's a great place to get
• 1:11:43
  out if it's if it's hot outside or you just need to get out of
• 1:11:46
  the crowds a little bit and spread out.
• 1:11:47
  There's a lot of seating in there.
• 1:11:49
  It's just a giant theater where nothing's going on.
• 1:11:51
  So that's helpful. Yes, in terms of other rides, I
• 1:11:59
  should mention Space Mountain is also currently Hyperspace
• 1:12:02
  Mountain is the actual deal of the ride itself.
• 1:12:04
  So if you're a Star Wars fan, it's a great one.
• 1:12:06
  It's definitely different than the one that's in Disneyland
• 1:12:09
  when they have that Hyperspace Mountain, so they're not the
• 1:12:11
  same. It is a tough ride too if you
• 1:12:14
  have motion sickness I. Only ran out at once and I was
• 1:12:17
  like, I'm proud. Of you for?
• 1:12:19
  Going out at once though. Tried it and then they do also
• 1:12:25
  have the Nautilus there and. If anybody remembers the
• 1:12:28
  Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, it's not the
• 1:12:31
  submarine ride like we used to have in Disney World, but it is
• 1:12:36
  a walkthrough attraction like they used to have in Disneyland,
• 1:12:39
  where you go inside like Captain Nemo's like Captain's Quarters
• 1:12:43
  and you walk through the ship. And my kids thought it was
• 1:12:46
  really cool and I thought it was fun to go back and kind of
• 1:12:48
  relive that part of Disney history.
• 1:12:50
  So it was a fun. Thing to do if you're waiting
• 1:12:53
  for somebody to go on Space Mountain and you're looking for
• 1:12:55
  something like the Autopia line, can get a little bit long and
• 1:12:59
  see with Buzz Lightyear, that's there.
• 1:13:01
  So we were like, well, we can do this walkthrough and there's no
• 1:13:03
  wait for it. So it's a nice thing to do while
• 1:13:05
  you're waiting. Autopia was pretty much the same
• 1:13:09
  there, and Buzz Lightyear is almost identical to Disneyland,
• 1:13:14
  yes. Disneyland because you could
• 1:13:15
  pick up the the blaster. Other favorite rides there.
• 1:13:21
  Big Thunder Mountain was incredible, that was.
• 1:13:24
  And it looked that way. Like, I remember looking at it
• 1:13:27
  on the map. Like, wait, it's on an island.
• 1:13:29
  That's so cool. There's like water all around.
• 1:13:31
  The ride So this is the 4th Big Thunder Mountain that Tony.
• 1:13:38
  Baxter ever designed and he was like, we're going to make it the
• 1:13:40
  best. And so he did.
• 1:13:42
  It's like it's the whole ride. Like you said, you go underneath
• 1:13:46
  the water to start, so you're like pitch black and you can't
• 1:13:48
  see anything. And then you end up going on the
• 1:13:51
  island and go around kind of similar to the other parks in
• 1:13:55
  the US. But then at the end you go back
• 1:13:56
  under the water and you're like speeding, like full speed in the
• 1:14:00
  pitch black under the water. And it's just, it is so
• 1:14:03
  exhilarating. They also have this place where
• 1:14:06
  the water. Like splashes up and we actually
• 1:14:09
  got like soaked on one of the ones who like.
• 1:14:12
  It splashed everywhere it got. In my eye, I was just like, wow,
• 1:14:15
  there's a lot of. Water coming.
• 1:14:16
  It was like splashed on, but we loved it and my kids, it was it
• 1:14:20
  was everybody's favorite ride. So I'm really glad I got to go
• 1:14:25
  at it multiple times because the first time I went to Disneyland
• 1:14:27
  Paris, I got stuck on it and evacuated from it and I never
• 1:14:30
  actually got to go on the whole thing, so.
• 1:14:33
  I finally. Got to do that.
• 1:14:34
  But yeah, that one's a really great one.
• 1:14:38
  I'd also say the Pirates is if you're like, oh.
• 1:14:42
  I've seen pirates before. It's whatever it's it's like
• 1:14:45
  Disneyland's pirates, except the whole storyline is reversed.
• 1:14:49
  So you go, you kind of start. Out breaking out from the cell
• 1:14:54
  like with a dog with a bone and like you know they're they're
• 1:14:56
  trying to call the dog over with the keys.
• 1:14:58
  That's where it starts, and then, like a cannonball like
• 1:15:00
  hits the. The jail and then you're like
• 1:15:04
  and it's a flooded for it. So you kind of go down a
• 1:15:06
  waterfall because you have like fallen out the side at where you
• 1:15:10
  know the cannon had hit the the thing.
• 1:15:11
  And then this is the only Pirates of the Caribbean where
• 1:15:14
  they actually like see. You, the pirates, see you
• 1:15:17
  because they try to, like, hit your boat with cannonballs.
• 1:15:20
  That's awesome. Yeah.
• 1:15:22
  So there's also a really cool scene where a pirate's actually
• 1:15:26
  swinging above you. And Audie animatronic is like on
• 1:15:28
  a rope and swinging above your head, which is pretty neat.
• 1:15:32
  A lot of the center of it is exactly the same as the ones
• 1:15:34
  that you know, or I wouldn't say exactly exactly, but very
• 1:15:37
  similar to what you know. But then at the end there's a
• 1:15:40
  second drop because they said they wanted the the explosions.
• 1:15:48
  At the end of the Disneyland version, there's this one where
• 1:15:50
  these, like super drunk pirates are like taking shots at these
• 1:15:55
  barrels of explosives, but it never actually explodes.
• 1:15:58
  But this one, the second drop is at the end because the barrels
• 1:16:02
  actually do explode and then you go down after they explode.
• 1:16:05
  So, so fun. Yeah, you end up in the pirate,
• 1:16:07
  the Ghostly grotto at the very end, and you see Jack Sparrow in
• 1:16:11
  the chair and it's all really interesting.
• 1:16:12
  So if you're a pirate's fan at all, just go on that one, it's
• 1:16:15
  pretty cool. And then I also say Phantom
• 1:16:20
  Manor, probably. One of my favorite rides there,
• 1:16:24
  bar none. It's so different than the
• 1:16:26
  Haunted Mansion. It does have a stretching room,
• 1:16:28
  but it's a totally different storyline.
• 1:16:30
  I could talk for hours on this, so I'll just stare you back.
• 1:16:34
  I'll say I have. I take it.
• 1:16:37
  I'll show you some of my merch for this.
• 1:16:38
  Just just for this one. So Phantom Venal is so cool,
• 1:16:43
  Yeah? So this has shows the phantom
• 1:16:47
  with I'm showing a lounge fly that has the phantom with
• 1:16:50
  Melanie Ravenswood who's the bride in front of them and he's
• 1:16:53
  kind of like standing behind her.
• 1:16:55
  The Phantom's actually her dad by the way, who like did away
• 1:16:58
  with all of her suitors. And so you see on the bag here's
• 1:17:01
  the names of all of her suitors which are actually puns for
• 1:17:04
  based on how they died. Like very clawed.
• 1:17:07
  He was clawed by a bear saw your bottom was on a like a log that
• 1:17:14
  they sent through a mill. Like this is how her dog like
• 1:17:16
  did away with this one. Yeah.
• 1:17:20
  Ignatius, Iggy. Night.
• 1:17:23
  Gosh, I'm trying to remember that one.
• 1:17:25
  That one I'm. I'm blanking on.
• 1:17:26
  And then Captain Rowan D falls. They sent him over a waterfall
• 1:17:30
  in a rowboat. Oh ignite.
• 1:17:32
  It's ignite Iggy Night. So he is an explosive stealer
• 1:17:36
  And then he ended up in an explosion in big Thunder
• 1:17:39
  Mountain. So all of the things in Thunder
• 1:17:42
  Nice are all tied together including Phantom Air And I love
• 1:17:45
  how it says non ominous more we are which means not everything
• 1:17:49
  dies, which is so not so cool. It's got Madame Leo on the back,
• 1:17:53
  but the most annoying part is they put QR codes.
• 1:17:59
  Why would you so funny? So when you scan it, does it
• 1:18:02
  take you to their Birch website where you can buy things?
• 1:18:05
  Actually this. QR.
• 1:18:07
  Code goes to like special digital downloads that you can
• 1:18:11
  use for your phone and things like that.
• 1:18:12
  So it just it has something on it.
• 1:18:14
  But I was like, I don't want to wear it on my laptop forever,
• 1:18:17
  right? That's an interesting choice, an
• 1:18:20
  interesting merchandise choice. It also has a little the
• 1:18:24
  stanchion box also looks stanchion box zipper.
• 1:18:27
  How cute. And I also have this key.
• 1:18:31
  These are. I'll tell you what they're like.
• 1:18:32
  Attraction merch is my favorite, but I have this key that is the
• 1:18:36
  Phantom Manor and it has the little little gargoyle on the
• 1:18:41
  gargoyle. They also had these for the
• 1:18:44
  Tower of Terror as well and it says Ravenswood Estate on it,
• 1:18:48
  which is just hard to see but so the little keys you can get
• 1:18:52
  very. Cool.
• 1:18:53
  It's really fun. Oh yeah, I have this too.
• 1:18:55
  This one's actually. One of my giveaways for my
• 1:18:56
  subscribers, but just little Phantom Manor with.
• 1:19:02
  Oh, and it spins. Oh, that's so cute.
• 1:19:03
  Yeah. Anyway, so I love the It's just
• 1:19:08
  really fun to go on. It's creepy, though, so if you
• 1:19:11
  have Littles, that might get scared.
• 1:19:14
  Just be aware that this is not like the Disney US Parks.
• 1:19:18
  It's a very scarier storyline. It has this really spooky The
• 1:19:22
  Phantom is kind of a creepy dude.
• 1:19:24
  So, you know, maybe either. Use your best judgement for your
• 1:19:28
  littles. If you're you know, maybe if you
• 1:19:30
  feel like comfortable watching the watching ahead of time on
• 1:19:33
  what it's about, if it helps them at all to know the bride
• 1:19:38
  is, it is not a scary one. She's a good person and she's
• 1:19:42
  trying to get you. She tries to help.
• 1:19:45
  She's trying to. Get you out so that you can
• 1:19:47
  escape, so you can always say that she's throughout the whole
• 1:19:50
  ride trying to help you out. But it also looks like she was
• 1:19:54
  trying to get her the whole time.
• 1:19:55
  So just, you know, yeah. My favorite thing.
• 1:19:58
  And those of us that follow Kate on her own personal Disney
• 1:20:01
  Cicerone account got to see she she wanted a little bit of live
• 1:20:04
  streaming while she was there. And my favorite thing about
• 1:20:07
  Phantom Manor is in that the loading area, they have that big
• 1:20:11
  huge staircase with the bride and it's just beautiful.
• 1:20:16
  I know. Isn't it wild?
• 1:20:18
  Yeah, it was. You know, hard to see on live
• 1:20:20
  stream to the extent, but like what I could see every time, you
• 1:20:23
  know, you took us on there I think twice when you went live
• 1:20:26
  and I was just like oh this is this is really cool.
• 1:20:30
  It is. I was bummed that my signal
• 1:20:32
  didn't work better on there because I wanted to show more of
• 1:20:34
  it. But it is what it is, you know?
• 1:20:35
  You can't control that. It's like I'm in France with my
• 1:20:39
  US phone, So what can I expect? There's not not much.
• 1:20:41
  You can. Do when it comes to whether or
• 1:20:43
  not the Wi-Fi holds through Phantom Manor, that's so true.
• 1:20:47
  I was trying to see if I could find a picture, show it real
• 1:20:48
  quick, but I don't think I have it.
• 1:20:50
  I do have a really great picture of Big Thunder Mountain though.
• 1:20:53
  I can show you guys hope that's so, buddy.
• 1:20:55
  Yeah, so yeah, go to Phantom Manor.
• 1:21:00
  Just be aware that it's it and there's there's a whole back
• 1:21:03
  story. To it.
• 1:21:03
  That's really complicated and I don't want to get into it here
• 1:21:06
  because it's it'll take a long time.
• 1:21:07
  Eventually we'll have to do a district episode about Phantom
• 1:21:10
  Manor and then you guys can get some more information about it.
• 1:21:12
  But plug for Distri, which is Kate's other podcast that she
• 1:21:16
  does with our good friend Kirk from Walrus Walrus Karp.
• 1:21:19
  I can't talk tonight apparently, but distri with Kate and Kirk.
• 1:21:23
  So if that is sounds like something you want to hear more
• 1:21:25
  about or you're interested in Disney history, they've got all
• 1:21:29
  sorts of good stuff over on that podcast, so check them out for
• 1:21:31
  sure. Yes, we did a 16.
• 1:21:33
  Part episode on The History of the Haunted Mansion.
• 1:21:35
  So perfect first BP season and other things to know about the
• 1:21:40
  Disneyland Paris Riots. There's no Jungle Cruise, which
• 1:21:43
  is a little bit disorienting if you're like it's always an
• 1:21:46
  anchor for the parks for me. But they did have adventure land
• 1:21:49
  where you could explore. It's a lot of walking and a lot
• 1:21:52
  of climbing, so if it's like if you're physically challenged.
• 1:21:56
  Or really tired. It's maybe not the place to hang
• 1:21:58
  out in a lot, but for my kids, they thought it was great.
• 1:22:01
  It was like forts and tree houses.
• 1:22:03
  They had the Swiss Family Robinson tree house there, lots
• 1:22:07
  of places that caves to kind of climb and explore and they also.
• 1:22:11
  Had a really great playground that's like pirate ship themed
• 1:22:15
  that is kind of hard to find. But it's the if you find the
• 1:22:21
  pirate ship and you find kind of like the back end of the pirate
• 1:22:24
  ship, it's kind of near there. So my kids didn't want to leave
• 1:22:27
  it. So that's a great place to let
• 1:22:30
  them run around a little bit and it is made close where they can
• 1:22:33
  only go out one way. I was just going to say that if
• 1:22:35
  I remember from what I was reading, that area is a little
• 1:22:38
  is mostly enclosed, that particular area Now the tree
• 1:22:40
  houses and the caves and that kind of stuff are not.
• 1:22:43
  So be sure to stick with your kiddos on there, But if you're
• 1:22:47
  in that little playground area that is mostly enclosed, yeah.
• 1:22:50
  If you need a place to let them run around while you may sit,
• 1:22:53
  that's a good one. Anna's asking.
• 1:22:56
  We did. We have a list.
• 1:22:57
  Of Single rider lines, right? Do you remember some of the
• 1:23:00
  other ones I'm trying to remember?
• 1:23:04
  Let me I will find it while you chat about the next little
• 1:23:07
  section here. I know that I have.
• 1:23:08
  There are a few. The Fantasyland rides in
• 1:23:12
  Disneyland Paris are very similar to the Disneyland
• 1:23:14
  versions. Or at least the Disneyland
• 1:23:16
  versions as they were, you know, 15 years ago.
• 1:23:22
  So the Snow White was more like Snow White Scary Adventures, if
• 1:23:25
  you remember that in Disneyland. So it's a little bit more
• 1:23:28
  intense. It has very creepy trees that do
• 1:23:31
  kind of try to get you and there's a lot of jump scares
• 1:23:33
  from the witch. I loved it because I missed that
• 1:23:37
  version. I do love the current one that's
• 1:23:39
  in Disneyland, but I love that version of it.
• 1:23:41
  So it's kind of like going back in time to go see it.
• 1:23:44
  Peter Pan's almost identical. There's not much change except
• 1:23:47
  for the end of Peter Pan is a little, slightly different, but
• 1:23:51
  it's in they. They also had two seater galleon
• 1:23:55
  ships too, so they had two rows in their galleon ships rather
• 1:23:58
  than one. The small world is is worth
• 1:24:02
  seeing. It's gorgeous from the outside.
• 1:24:05
  It's similar to Disneyland, except that has a cover where
• 1:24:09
  you load and unload is all covered because it does rain
• 1:24:11
  there a lot more. And then inside they have a lot
• 1:24:14
  of characters and dolls that are not the same as any of the other
• 1:24:16
  Disney parks. But Joyce Carlson, who worked on
• 1:24:19
  all of them, she also worked on that one as well.
• 1:24:23
  So there's a there's a lot of tradition there as well as new
• 1:24:26
  things. So that's fun.
• 1:24:28
  And I have one more fantasy line, right And then you can
• 1:24:30
  tell us about the single writers, but the the Pinocchio
• 1:24:34
  is almost almost 100% identical, except there's all the words are
• 1:24:38
  in French. So it's kind of fun to see that
• 1:24:40
  instead in terms of like what's written And then if anybody has
• 1:24:45
  been following Distry for a while and watched our Pinocchio
• 1:24:47
  episode. I had read on the prop list that
• 1:24:51
  there was a salt box that was somewhere in that scene and I've
• 1:24:54
  been trying to find it for years in the Disneyland version and I
• 1:24:57
  finally found it in Disneyland Paris and it actually says
• 1:25:00
  saltbox on it. And I was just so excited I.
• 1:25:04
  Was like yelling at my family. Like, look, there's the saltbox.
• 1:25:08
  Whatever, mom. It was interesting.
• 1:25:10
  Place, you know like they all got the all the donkeys in there
• 1:25:12
  get shipped off to the salt mine.
• 1:25:14
  So it's kind of like a reminder of like what could be if you're
• 1:25:17
  not, you know, don't do what you're supposed to do.
• 1:25:20
  So anyway, very excited about the Saltbox.
• 1:25:26
  So Anna, to answer your question about Disneyland, we'll we'll
• 1:25:29
  chat about these ones just for now.
• 1:25:31
  We'll get into Walt Disney Studios Park here in a moment.
• 1:25:33
  But Hyperspace Mountain is the only single rider line in
• 1:25:38
  Disneyland park, so that is the only one there that has a single
• 1:25:42
  rider line option for you. Thanks, Jackie.
• 1:25:45
  Do you want to talk? We're going to head over to Walt
• 1:25:47
  Disney Studio Park. Sorry, I didn't have that pulled
• 1:25:50
  up in front of me. Yes, I can't.
• 1:25:52
  Sorry, I'm popping back. And.
• 1:25:54
  Forth between SO for Walt Disney Studios Park, which is the
• 1:26:00
  second park at Disneyland Paris, there are four single rider
• 1:26:04
  lines, Crushes, Coaster, the toy soldiers, parachute drop, RC
• 1:26:10
  racer, and the Ratatouille ride. So those are your options.
• 1:26:15
  Over at Disney Studios Park, I will mention that from my notes
• 1:26:20
  that I found the. Crushes coaster.
• 1:26:24
  Single rider line is terrible. Everywhere I read said do not,
• 1:26:28
  do not, do not ever use it because it will be longer than
• 1:26:31
  your normal cue. So terrible.
• 1:26:37
  Yes. So keep that in mind whenever
• 1:26:42
  you are planning for that. That one.
• 1:26:44
  I do know the other ones. I don't have a ton of
• 1:26:47
  information about that particular single rider,
• 1:26:49
  although you did mention that your son used the one for
• 1:26:51
  Hyperspace Mountain and was fairly successful with that one
• 1:26:54
  for what it sounded like. Yeah yeah, that one worked
• 1:26:58
  perfect. So in terms of Walt Disney
• 1:27:02
  Studios park like I said this this parks a little bit like a
• 1:27:05
  budget Hollywood Studios slash like what California Adventure
• 1:27:08
  used to be before it got revamped.
• 1:27:10
  So it's like they're doing their.
• 1:27:13
  Best to fix it. I think is where we're at, but
• 1:27:16
  it's not 100% there. It's a it's getting there.
• 1:27:21
  They have a really great like ratatouille rummy area that is
• 1:27:26
  all themed very much. It's similar to the one that's
• 1:27:29
  in Epcot. It's just not as big.
• 1:27:31
  It's a smaller area, but the food and the wine is great
• 1:27:35
  there. So if they're looking for some
• 1:27:37
  good eats, that's a good place to visit during the day.
• 1:27:39
  If they're like snack carts that are there, they have a whole
• 1:27:41
  bunch of them and. There's a really good store
• 1:27:44
  there too for Birch as well. Like I said before, the crushes
• 1:27:48
  coaster, we already kind of talked about that.
• 1:27:50
  It has extremely long waits. And I know, like in my touring
• 1:27:54
  plan that Jackie gave me, she helped me organize my day.
• 1:27:58
  She was like get there first during early entry, which would
• 1:28:01
  have been great, But my family was running late that day and
• 1:28:04
  that's partially why we had a super long wait because we
• 1:28:06
  didn't get there and by the time we got in, it was halfway
• 1:28:09
  through the magic hour in the morning and it was already the
• 1:28:13
  180 minutes. Wow.
• 1:28:16
  And we were like, well, we're going to go do something else.
• 1:28:21
  I also would have done that. So, yeah, yeah, so.
• 1:28:26
  Then there's also a cars area and like a Toy Story Playland
• 1:28:31
  area, but I'm going to say it's really good for little kids.
• 1:28:34
  So if you're like you've got Littles that you're traveling
• 1:28:37
  with, that's where you want to head.
• 1:28:39
  The only thing that I'd say that it's probably for bigger kids
• 1:28:42
  would be like the RC racer ride, which is basically like a big U
• 1:28:47
  that kind of like goes down and up and down now, kind of like
• 1:28:49
  with pirate ship rides at carnivals.
• 1:28:51
  Like, it's like that, except it's a car.
• 1:28:53
  So they also have like the pretty cool because it's a giant
• 1:28:57
  RC car. Like, it looks identical to the
• 1:29:00
  movie. So like, looking at photos and
• 1:29:02
  videos, I'm like, oh that's so cool.
• 1:29:05
  We ran out of. Time to go on it, my son.
• 1:29:06
  Really wanted to go on it, but we ran out of time, so I didn't
• 1:29:09
  actually go on. We did Tower of Terror in the
• 1:29:11
  time that my mother-in-law and daughters did.
• 1:29:15
  All of those areas, pretty much. So we did Tower of Terror, which
• 1:29:19
  was weird because the sound shut off like halfway through.
• 1:29:22
  Oh, and Tower of Terror has it's heavily themed to just the
• 1:29:27
  little girl, which is really creepy, like instead of like the
• 1:29:31
  whole family and they all kind of disappear.
• 1:29:32
  They are kind of there, but it's like her like talking to you in
• 1:29:37
  French. Oh.
• 1:29:39
  It's. Creepy.
• 1:29:40
  Oh, that's really interesting. So it's different than the US
• 1:29:47
  parks in that way. It's a little scarier I think
• 1:29:49
  and my son didn't like it, so I'll go if we go back on it.
• 1:29:55
  But yeah the the cars area if. You're used to radiator springs.
• 1:29:59
  Just go in with really low expectations.
• 1:30:01
  Like, just lower your. Expectations.
• 1:30:07
  That's awful, but it's true. It's cute.
• 1:30:10
  There's some cute photo opportunities.
• 1:30:12
  There's a very cute little tiny cars ride.
• 1:30:15
  The the Butte is like this big and like everything's very small
• 1:30:20
  and it's just it's sad. It's a little sad and they did
• 1:30:24
  have like a a tour, like a like a.
• 1:30:27
  It was like a what a backstage tour, like back lot, back lot
• 1:30:31
  tour, but they can like converted into a cars theme and
• 1:30:37
  I was. I was sending pictures to to
• 1:30:41
  Kirk and Lem and I was just like, what is this?
• 1:30:43
  Because I was like this is. Weird.
• 1:30:46
  And it's basically like, here's a giant wrench, here's the
• 1:30:49
  Eiffel Tower that made or made out of like oil cans.
• 1:30:53
  And then and then you're in this like Canyon where there's like
• 1:30:56
  water coming at you and fire and all this stuff, which is really
• 1:30:58
  cool. And then it's like, and then
• 1:31:01
  there's some random cars on the side and now you're done.
• 1:31:03
  It was. It was not worth a walk over to
• 1:31:07
  where it is because it's like the end of that whole walkway
• 1:31:11
  that starts at like the Ratatouille area.
• 1:31:15
  So yeah, yeah, it was. That was something.
• 1:31:18
  Yeah, that was one like. Looking at it, I'm like, well,
• 1:31:20
  I'm not exactly sure what this is.
• 1:31:24
  I don't think it was when I was on it.
• 1:31:29
  That makes sense, I think. It would be good for, you know,
• 1:31:32
  like. Toddlers.
• 1:31:34
  Maybe it's like a smoothing tram?
• 1:31:37
  There's a few things on the side to look at here and there and
• 1:31:41
  that's. About it so.
• 1:31:43
  I don't know if I'd recommend that.
• 1:31:44
  I would say The Avengers campus area is similar to the one in
• 1:31:49
  DCA in that it's a it's. Small, but it does have some
• 1:31:53
  things in it, and it's heavily themed.
• 1:31:55
  I did not see as many characters as there were in DCA.
• 1:32:00
  Like, they're out everywhere in DCA.
• 1:32:03
  This one was kind of like there. Were shows that were scheduled,
• 1:32:07
  They showed, they showed up and they had the Hero Training
• 1:32:10
  Academy. Did you want to talk about that
• 1:32:11
  a little bit? I had to talk about it for a
• 1:32:13
  long time, yeah. So the Hero Training Academy,
• 1:32:17
  the way that they marketed is basically like you get to go
• 1:32:20
  into the, you know, The Avengers headquarters that Tony Stark
• 1:32:24
  built and have an experience with and an Avenger is basically
• 1:32:28
  what they do and it is through a virtual queue.
• 1:32:31
  So they do, I think 3 drops of virtual queues throughout the
• 1:32:34
  day, which is interesting. Because a lot of that type of
• 1:32:37
  thing, you you, there's no way to know ahead of time what time
• 1:32:40
  it's going to be. So you just have to check in the
• 1:32:42
  morning and you can kind of do some research on like what looks
• 1:32:45
  like it's going to be like 11/2. And 4 You know that type of
• 1:32:49
  thing, so. It was kind of interesting in
• 1:32:54
  that respect, and CBI agree. We also thought it was going to
• 1:32:56
  be more like a Jedi training experience, but it was not.
• 1:33:00
  It was just a meet and greet with a with a superhero.
• 1:33:03
  So they have two different options that you can choose
• 1:33:05
  from. They have an option that is like
• 1:33:07
  a guaranteed meet and greet with a particular character.
• 1:33:11
  So when Kate and her family were there, it's just the IT was
• 1:33:15
  Spider Man was the option. In the past they've had like
• 1:33:17
  spider Man and Iron Man as like the set option.
• 1:33:21
  So you basically get a virtual cue to have like a one-on-one
• 1:33:25
  experience you know or like just your party experience with that
• 1:33:29
  particular character. Or you can do the second option
• 1:33:32
  which is like a random character.
• 1:33:35
  So it just depends on who they have available and the list that
• 1:33:38
  I found online was very random as far as who.
• 1:33:44
  Who you could meet in the mystery side.
• 1:33:47
  So Kate's family opted for the Spider Man.
• 1:33:51
  Oh, you only had Spider Man as the option.
• 1:33:54
  So it's just like, hey, here's Spider Man.
• 1:33:56
  We're like, OK, guess we're meeting Spider Man.
• 1:34:00
  So from what I saw, it was supposed to be two different
• 1:34:03
  options, but and maybe it depends on staffing and the.
• 1:34:06
  Day and what they have available and who's who's there and all
• 1:34:10
  that. Type of thing.
• 1:34:12
  So yeah, it's just basically kind of like a more personalized
• 1:34:15
  meet and greet. So yeah, it's just you can,
• 1:34:18
  like, choose. Your pose, like, they kind of
• 1:34:19
  tell you like, oh this is like how you're gonna, you know,
• 1:34:23
  interact and you're gonna choose your pose and all stuff.
• 1:34:24
  But really it was just like we had to tell them what language
• 1:34:27
  we wanted, cause Spider Man was to speak French or English, then
• 1:34:32
  my kids were like, how come Spider Man has a French accent?
• 1:34:36
  So, you know, if you're from the US, maybe be prepared to explain
• 1:34:39
  that, yeah. He said.
• 1:34:42
  We're in front, so you know, yeah, it was fun.
• 1:34:49
  I think that it was worth it, especially if you are Marvel
• 1:34:53
  fans. I don't think my kids were like,
• 1:34:56
  yeah, you know they they could kind of take or leave character
• 1:34:58
  meet and greets, which makes me mad.
• 1:34:59
  But but it's just the case with my kids so well.
• 1:35:02
  And they because you like you mentioned, they don't have as
• 1:35:04
  many characters out and wandering.
• 1:35:06
  That's one of the best ways to interact with the Marvel
• 1:35:08
  characters there because they don't have a bunch of just meet
• 1:35:11
  and greets out and available for people to do like you would
• 1:35:15
  usually see in Avengers campus in Disneyland.
• 1:35:17
  Yeah, it looks like they did have a few scheduled shows but
• 1:35:20
  every time we were in Avengers Campus we didn't see any of
• 1:35:23
  them. We did see like some giant car
• 1:35:26
  like running through it. We did go on the roller coaster
• 1:35:30
  that was there, but, but it's funny because when my son got
• 1:35:33
  off of it, he said Mom that felt.
• 1:35:35
  Just like rock and roller coaster.
• 1:35:37
  And I laughed because I was like, I'm pretty sure it's just
• 1:35:39
  retrofit over rock and roller coaster.
• 1:35:42
  So he could like tell that he could watch the same, which I
• 1:35:46
  thought was so funny that they had.
• 1:35:48
  It's a really neat coaster, but it is a little bit extreme if
• 1:35:52
  you are. It was a lot like I was like,
• 1:35:55
  I'm done what and done with that.
• 1:35:56
  I can't do that again. But my 8 year old was brave and
• 1:35:59
  she went on it. So her she survived, She got a
• 1:36:04
  little. Bit scared, but she she decided
• 1:36:06
  to go so. Yeah, other things they have in
• 1:36:10
  The Avengers campus area, they've got web slingers, which
• 1:36:12
  is pretty much identical to the one in DCA, except that what's
• 1:36:18
  his name? The actor that plays that is it.
• 1:36:21
  The is. Which version is?
• 1:36:23
  That is it the old Spider man or the.
• 1:36:27
  Anyway, the actor that plays Spider Man is dubbed over in
• 1:36:30
  French, so it's actually quite funny because.
• 1:36:32
  You could tell he's not speaking it because I know what it's
• 1:36:34
  supposed to be like. So the Tom Holland, Tom Holland,
• 1:36:38
  yes, yes. Tom Holland, thank.
• 1:36:41
  You what he looks like I can't. You know, think I knew it was
• 1:36:44
  Tom something. I was just like, I'm just
• 1:36:45
  totally drawing a blank. So yeah, Tom Holland was there
• 1:36:49
  just like he is in DCA, but they dumped over.
• 1:36:52
  So. But the ride experience was
• 1:36:54
  identical and I already knew how to get a really high score
• 1:36:57
  there. So if you're listening to this,
• 1:37:00
  you can impress whoever's with you and get a high score for.
• 1:37:05
  Let's make sure Kirk doesn't hear this because I want to beat
• 1:37:07
  him when we go there. But all.
• 1:37:10
  Of all of the spider bots that are like lit up, so the ones
• 1:37:14
  that are red or green or blue, especially the gold ones,
• 1:37:18
  concentrate on those more than anything else and then just try
• 1:37:20
  to get as much as you can. That's how you get a really high
• 1:37:23
  score. We got like high score of the
• 1:37:25
  day in our vehicle and my daughter did almost as well as I
• 1:37:28
  did. So I was like, yay.
• 1:37:30
  So yeah, yeah, every time I go there, little side note, if I'm
• 1:37:35
  by myself and I'm like get put in with other people.
• 1:37:38
  If there's ever like gamer guys that are like younger than me
• 1:37:42
  and I always like beat them every time.
• 1:37:44
  And then they just like, look at me and I'm like, well.
• 1:37:49
  Sorry. Just saying.
• 1:37:51
  So anyway, that's too funny. Though, yeah, so Web Slingers is
• 1:37:55
  there. You already talked about the
• 1:37:57
  running area and that's pretty much the park.
• 1:37:59
  There's like a part where you walk in that has a couple stores
• 1:38:01
  and restaurants and it's funny because they have the Brown
• 1:38:04
  Derby there, but it's like a burger place, like a quick
• 1:38:07
  service burger place. Not really.
• 1:38:10
  Like the Brown Derby we know in Hollywood Studios.
• 1:38:13
  So yeah, and this park is. Very small.
• 1:38:16
  Like when you look at the overall footprint in the map, it
• 1:38:19
  is very small. Like you think of like I'm
• 1:38:22
  trying, I don't even know. I guess you think of like
• 1:38:25
  Hollywood studios being. A smaller park, but like it's.
• 1:38:30
  What maybe happened? Hollywood studios in Hollywood
• 1:38:33
  studios without like Galaxy's Edge.
• 1:38:35
  Like if you took Galaxy's Edge off, it'd probably be about that
• 1:38:38
  size. Yeah, it's not.
• 1:38:40
  So. Not not big.
• 1:38:41
  Not big. So, yeah, Kate, you guys only
• 1:38:44
  really spent one full day there when you went.
• 1:38:48
  Yeah, at least not even. I think we did like till about
• 1:38:53
  late afternoon. Like tea time.
• 1:38:56
  Like it was like, I'm going to tea time.
• 1:39:00
  And then I stuck around. I did a couple things in the
• 1:39:02
  park and then I did. I went over to Disneyland Paris
• 1:39:04
  for the rest of the day. So we didn't actually end up
• 1:39:07
  going to see the show there, although I heard it was really
• 1:39:09
  cool with the drone show for Marvel.
• 1:39:11
  And yeah, my family was just showed out because of which is
• 1:39:16
  what kind of leads us. Into our next topic, the shows
• 1:39:20
  are actually really spectacular, the drone shows in particular
• 1:39:23
  because I'm pretty sure they can't fire off fireworks into
• 1:39:26
  the sky like they can in the US. Like I think it's probably
• 1:39:29
  prohibited and that's why they came up with another idea,
• 1:39:31
  because they do shoot fireworks from the castle, but they can't
• 1:39:35
  like launch them in the sky and set them off I think.
• 1:39:37
  So instead they have these amazing light shows.
• 1:39:41
  They're all done with programmed drones.
• 1:39:43
  But if you haven't seen it, go see it because it's amazing what
• 1:39:47
  they do with them making them look like fireworks and stars
• 1:39:50
  and lighting them up a childhood music.
• 1:39:51
  It's incredible. So I like that more than their
• 1:39:55
  fireworks show. It was like a 10 minute show.
• 1:39:59
  They had like a Disney 30th anniversary which is ending at
• 1:40:02
  the end of September. So that one's going to be done
• 1:40:05
  probably when anybody goes here. But I hope they replace it with
• 1:40:08
  another one that's equally as impressive because those are
• 1:40:11
  fantastic And that one was just 10 minutes before the fireworks
• 1:40:16
  show. It's just a 10 minute drone show
• 1:40:17
  and then the fireworks. So the downside of the show is
• 1:40:21
  that Disneyland Paris is they have the shows right at park
• 1:40:25
  closing. And that means that every single
• 1:40:29
  person in the park is on Main Street, USA or in the Hub all at
• 1:40:33
  the same time. There's nowhere else for them to
• 1:40:35
  be unless they're like finishing up rides and then they go there
• 1:40:40
  and they don't have crowd control.
• 1:40:41
  If you're familiar with Disneyland, because it's a
• 1:40:43
  really small space, they have a lot of massive crowd control.
• 1:40:46
  Like you go in, doesn't matter if you're trying to get to New
• 1:40:49
  Orleans Square. You have to go all the way
• 1:40:50
  through Tomorrowland And like around like they tell you, like
• 1:40:53
  this is the path that you go to get through here, to get to
• 1:40:56
  here. They don't have any of that.
• 1:40:57
  There's no paths. There's no way to get anywhere.
• 1:41:02
  The only thing you can do is if you're trying to get out of the
• 1:41:04
  park, they do have a Main Street USA instead of just the main
• 1:41:08
  thoroughfare on the. Other side of the shops, there's
• 1:41:12
  what they call an arcade, so it's like a covered walkway with
• 1:41:15
  like back door entrances to all the shops and that is on both
• 1:41:18
  sides of Main Street USA. And that is your access to get
• 1:41:22
  in and out of the park when there's any show going on.
• 1:41:25
  Otherwise you are not getting down Main Street at all.
• 1:41:28
  Period. Now, does that count for like
• 1:41:30
  the parades and stuff that you guys experienced as well?
• 1:41:32
  Because I know a lot. Some of that, those parades have
• 1:41:35
  a fairly large draw when it comes to crowds.
• 1:41:37
  Yeah, and that show that they do.
• 1:41:39
  That's kind of like in the Hub too.
• 1:41:42
  Just aim to go at the outside of the Main Street and then you can
• 1:41:48
  go down and get in and out that way.
• 1:41:49
  So I'm glad that they have those, because otherwise there's
• 1:41:52
  no way you could get around there in the arcades.
• 1:41:54
  The arcades are spectacularly designed.
• 1:41:57
  They have these beautiful mosaics.
• 1:41:59
  They're gorgeous. They also have like.
• 1:42:03
  These they show like the history of inventions, like one side
• 1:42:06
  shows the building of the Statue of Liberty and the other ones
• 1:42:11
  I've shows that history, the Ferris wheels is like actually
• 1:42:13
  some history in there and learning.
• 1:42:15
  So, yeah, so. Yeah.
• 1:42:20
  So there's no real crowd control, just being really
• 1:42:22
  careful if you're somebody who you know.
• 1:42:25
  You need to get out of a crowd fast.
• 1:42:26
  You're not going to get out of that crowd fast at all, so be
• 1:42:29
  very careful with that. And especially if you get panic
• 1:42:31
  attacks or claustrophobia or anything like that, just maybe
• 1:42:34
  try to stay on the outskirts as much as possible.
• 1:42:38
  And I would line up early. I feel like an hour beforehand
• 1:42:41
  people were already, like, clogging up that area where you
• 1:42:44
  couldn't, like, jockey for a position.
• 1:42:46
  When we got out of that, it was like we all held hands to make
• 1:42:50
  sure that we didn't lose anybody, 'cause we were just,
• 1:42:52
  like packed in, like started to eat and salt, trying to get out
• 1:42:54
  at once. So oh, that sounds awful.
• 1:42:58
  Yeah, it's not great. So, yeah, so that's that's
• 1:43:03
  that's the situation with the show.
• 1:43:05
  So just be careful. We often suggest you shows one
• 1:43:08
  night because of that because it was just too intense for our
• 1:43:10
  family. And again, they close
• 1:43:13
  Fantasyland an hour before the rest of the park to prepare for
• 1:43:16
  that show, so which I feel like. We did not know like.
• 1:43:20
  I feel like going into it, that was not in anything that I read
• 1:43:23
  or any of the research that I did.
• 1:43:25
  So when I saw that on your notes, I was like.
• 1:43:27
  What? Yeah, it wasn't.
• 1:43:29
  It wasn't even just like a portion of Fantasyland, like in
• 1:43:33
  Disneyland. It's just the couple rides
• 1:43:35
  behind the castle. It's literally everything in the
• 1:43:37
  back of the park because they clear the back of the park.
• 1:43:39
  So it's all of the rides in Fantasyland, which is like
• 1:43:42
  almost half the park they close. All right, so we already talked
• 1:43:47
  about how people do not understand or respect cueing, so
• 1:43:50
  we've already covered that looking at my notes.
• 1:43:53
  Here and how Fantasyland closes. Oh, another thing though,
• 1:43:58
  talking about safety with crowds.
• 1:44:00
  If you are someone who is pregnant or might be pregnant
• 1:44:05
  when you go or have somebody traveling with you who is
• 1:44:08
  pregnant, bring your latest doctor's report showing your
• 1:44:12
  pregnancy. And you can show that, I think
• 1:44:15
  at your hotel and also at guest services.
• 1:44:17
  And what they'll give you is something that's called like a
• 1:44:19
  pregnancy, like a wristband, and they'll attach it to your wrist.
• 1:44:22
  And they might write the size of your party if they need to, but
• 1:44:26
  it allows you and I think four other people to go with you.
• 1:44:30
  And what it is, is basically they just treat pregnant.
• 1:44:34
  Moms like really well, which is so.
• 1:44:37
  Great. So that's awesome.
• 1:44:39
  Any. Ride that is safe for a pregnant
• 1:44:42
  person to go on. So it's not a lot of rides
• 1:44:44
  because a lot of them have lap bars and those they're
• 1:44:46
  disqualified. Like you can look there's an
• 1:44:48
  accessibility map that will have little signal symbols next to it
• 1:44:52
  and it'll say like no pregnancy or like pregnancy advise.
• 1:44:55
  This could be dangerous depending on like your
• 1:44:57
  trimester, you know, anything that has those red symbols on
• 1:45:01
  it, you can't go on. Essentially they won't let you,
• 1:45:04
  but anything else you can actually use it kind of like a
• 1:45:07
  DAS Pass where you can go in the disability, like you can go
• 1:45:11
  either in the premier access line or you can go in the exit
• 1:45:15
  and on that like accessibility, like chart, it'll actually tell
• 1:45:20
  you where to go as well. But that is so handy for that.
• 1:45:25
  But it's also will let you skip the lines for character meet and
• 1:45:28
  greets and it gives you a special viewing location that's
• 1:45:31
  not crowded for parades and for those night time shows.
• 1:45:35
  So I mean, yay for the pregnant ladies, right?
• 1:45:39
  Like that's awesome. Well, and you gotta think that,
• 1:45:41
  you know, Disneyland Paris also does have their equivalent of
• 1:45:44
  the the Das Pass and it's you know, very similar in that
• 1:45:47
  respect of what we're used to and all of that.
• 1:45:50
  But that is a phenomenal offering.
• 1:45:53
  That they have for for families and for women who are expecting
• 1:45:56
  to go like, yeah, it's. Really.
• 1:45:59
  Hard to be pregnant in the parks, you know?
• 1:46:01
  And I I think it's like like they finally, somebody
• 1:46:03
  recognizes that they're like these women already can't go on
• 1:46:06
  most of the rides here and they're probably hot and tired
• 1:46:09
  and their feet hurt their back. Like let's give them something,
• 1:46:12
  help them out. I think it's just really
• 1:46:15
  wonderful. So it's really nice that they
• 1:46:17
  have that offering for people. Yeah.
• 1:46:20
  One of our last things is just to show you guys just a little
• 1:46:22
  bit of the merch that I got, which I'm already wearing one of
• 1:46:25
  them. This is the ears.
• 1:46:27
  They have these wonderful collections that are kind of
• 1:46:29
  like the attraction collections and this one is some small
• 1:46:34
  worlds ears. And they're both double sided as
• 1:46:37
  well, but it really plays on the like the sun and the moon theme.
• 1:46:39
  There's just one moon. One.
• 1:46:41
  Golden Sun. And so this is my lounge fly
• 1:46:46
  which also. Has that Sun and Moon, which is
• 1:46:48
  a really heavily themed in Disneyland Paris and has the
• 1:46:52
  numbers and the little soldiers strumming on the sides.
• 1:46:56
  It has the little fabric flags, which this one actually drives
• 1:46:58
  me nuts because it gets zipped into the top all the time.
• 1:47:01
  So but it's so cute. It's that it's a small world on
• 1:47:05
  the back as well and this is definitely one of my most
• 1:47:10
  favorite lounge flies they've ever gotten.
• 1:47:12
  And inside is very much Mary Blair kind of like geometric as
• 1:47:15
  well. So yeah, I thought.
• 1:47:17
  That was very cute. I've already showed you guys the
• 1:47:20
  Phantom Manor Lounge Fly and then I did get.
• 1:47:26
  This one is part of my sub giveaway for this month, but
• 1:47:29
  it's a big Thunder Mountain key chain, But it's a Thunder Mesa
• 1:47:34
  and has the little goat on it. Too as well, and very little.
• 1:47:40
  I love that. That's awesome now.
• 1:47:42
  And I. Didn't get a ton of things
• 1:47:45
  because I got I got that necklace that I forgot to bring
• 1:47:47
  up here, but Oh my gosh. I mostly got books guys, because
• 1:47:51
  this is what I get. Shocker.
• 1:47:55
  And Elliott insisted. I got the art of Disneyland
• 1:47:57
  Paris. So this really shows a lot of
• 1:47:59
  the, like, concept art and everything behind it.
• 1:48:04
  And then I got these books that are for the 30th.
• 1:48:07
  I haven't eaten at Oklahoma yet, but I got the Collector
• 1:48:11
  Collector's edition for the 30th anniversary and they have these
• 1:48:15
  beautiful bindings on them and then Inside is like stories and
• 1:48:19
  concept art from Disneyland Paris for pirates and space and
• 1:48:23
  also one for Phantom Manor And it says very cool and it's both
• 1:48:29
  in front and English. I did open them up when we were
• 1:48:31
  there. There was an open one, but I
• 1:48:34
  envision A distorian's lounge soon where you maybe showcase
• 1:48:38
  some of that, Yes, that artwork that you found in those books.
• 1:48:43
  Because I feel like a lot of us would love to see what's about.
• 1:48:47
  Yes. I just haven't even had a chance
• 1:48:49
  to open them. And it did get like a big
• 1:48:51
  Disneyland tech fun map as well. It's obviously not open either.
• 1:48:55
  And then I got some ears I showed you guys.
• 1:48:58
  The Big Giant banner this year, Disney to fix the classic
• 1:49:01
  banner. They had that for Disney World
• 1:49:03
  recently too. So now I have both.
• 1:49:06
  And then that's fighting. Hold on, hold on.
• 1:49:09
  Here we go. And then I got ears.
• 1:49:11
  So I have the easiest, the easiest memory.
• 1:49:13
  But I also got the Disneyland Paris Gold 30th ears.
• 1:49:17
  So it features the castle in the center with some stars and then
• 1:49:20
  it's gold and then it does say Disneyland Paris on the side.
• 1:49:23
  And these were all. Discounted because it was the
• 1:49:25
  end of the celebration, so they're all vertical, gone off
• 1:49:28
  and. Then I got these ones as well
• 1:49:31
  that are just really pretty, kind of like iridescent white
• 1:49:34
  bow and then these purple blue sequence as well, a new one
• 1:49:39
  pretty. I actually have a second pair of
• 1:49:41
  ears for this that I'm going to give away as myself giveaway as
• 1:49:44
  well. So I love those ones.
• 1:49:46
  Those ones are really pretty. Yeah.
• 1:49:49
  So that's. Mainly what I got.
• 1:49:52
  Besides Elliot getting this wonderful Disneyland Paris mug
• 1:49:56
  from Starbucks, so was you. And yeah, then my kids got
• 1:50:01
  stuff, but it's all tucked away in their rooms, so I'm not going
• 1:50:03
  to go dig through all those things they have.
• 1:50:05
  Claimed it and it's not coming back.
• 1:50:10
  So yeah. So that was, in a nutshell,
• 1:50:13
  Disneyland Paris. I love it.
• 1:50:16
  Yeah, it is a lot. Overall, I feel like the the
• 1:50:19
  planning process for me on my end of things was a little
• 1:50:23
  intimidating. Just like I said at the
• 1:50:24
  beginning, kind of not knowing what what we were going into and
• 1:50:28
  trying to do my best to make sure that Kate and her family
• 1:50:31
  were prepared to navigate the parks and have the best trip
• 1:50:34
  that they possibly could. So I think we did great.
• 1:50:37
  I think there are some things we just couldn't anticipate.
• 1:50:40
  Oh, like one thing that I didn't mention that is a really
• 1:50:43
  critical thing for you guys to know is that I.
• 1:50:47
  Smoking is huge in France. Everywhere, literally
• 1:50:50
  everywhere. Everybody smokes everywhere.
• 1:50:53
  And so in the parks, they're still smoking, they're still
• 1:50:55
  smoking sections, but people pretty much just smoke wherever
• 1:50:59
  they feel like it. So we're like sitting down to
• 1:51:02
  eat. And there's like people not in
• 1:51:03
  the restaurants but outside like smoking next to us.
• 1:51:05
  And, like, it really got to my kids, 'cause they're just not
• 1:51:08
  used to it at all. And then after you leave the
• 1:51:11
  park, everybody lights up. So as you're walking out of the
• 1:51:15
  park, you're walking into this massive amounts of cigarette
• 1:51:17
  smoke. So.
• 1:51:19
  If you have asthma or you have any like sort of lung condition
• 1:51:22
  where cigarette smoke will aggravate it, please be aware of
• 1:51:26
  that before you go because it's almost impossible to get away
• 1:51:28
  from except for indoors. So yeah, so I would say that was
• 1:51:34
  good to know. I would, I would say overall
• 1:51:35
  that that wasn't expected. And there was a couple other
• 1:51:38
  things that I was just like, this is just culturally super
• 1:51:40
  different that we wouldn't have known.
• 1:51:42
  But I think that the information I have that you had on eating
• 1:51:46
  and everything was so great and it really helped a lot so.
• 1:51:51
  I did have a. Question.
• 1:51:52
  Were there food? Easy, easy choices for for
• 1:51:55
  children in Paris? You're down at Disneyland Paris.
• 1:51:59
  There's all kinds of stuff for kids.
• 1:52:02
  There was pizza and hot dogs and burgers and my a lot of kids.
• 1:52:05
  My kids had chicken fingers a lot.
• 1:52:09
  There was a lot of chicken everywhere.
• 1:52:10
  There wasn't as much Mac and cheese as there was in the US
• 1:52:12
  Parks, just because my son's, like, obsessed with Mac and
• 1:52:14
  cheese. And Paris itself.
• 1:52:19
  There's Parisian food, so yeah, there's there's stuff for kids
• 1:52:22
  to eat. But my kids didn't like baguette
• 1:52:24
  bread, so that became a challenge that we had to go to
• 1:52:27
  the grocery store and get stuff for them.
• 1:52:29
  But there's lots of great food in France, so yeah.
• 1:52:32
  I've got a. Question on my side.
• 1:52:33
  How much French did you speak? And versus, like, how much
• 1:52:36
  English did the cast members at the Zeeland Paris speak?
• 1:52:40
  Let's see. I I speak just a little bit of
• 1:52:46
  French. My husband speaks a little bit
• 1:52:47
  more. You don't need to know any
• 1:52:49
  French really to go to Disneyland Paris, if that's your
• 1:52:52
  only destination. You probably should know a
• 1:52:54
  little bit more. If you're going into Paris, the
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  city, most people probably speak a little bit of English.
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  It's enough to get by. But we you don't need any for
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  Disneyland Paris. Pretty much everybody there
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  speaks English. I think we ran into the only
• 1:53:09
  person who didn't speak or didn't speak English was the
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  person I had to call to fix my reservation.
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  They spoke Portuguese only, so they spoke Portuguese to the
• 1:53:18
  person who spoke. They spoke French also and then
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  it it was a thing. So but.
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  Yeah. No, almost all the cast members
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  are, they just speak English. They just like a requirement and
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  it's almost all the signage is in English and French, so it's
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  not like menus and stuff. You won't have a hard time at
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  all. It's very easy.
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  They knew that there would be a lot of people coming to this
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  particular park. The Imagineers knew that when
• 1:53:44
  they designed it. So they specifically designed
• 1:53:46
  the park to not lean into language so much to tell the
• 1:53:49
  story as like things people could visually recognize.
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  That's why Pirates of the Caribbean is a gigantic
• 1:53:55
  fortress, because then you see that they're like, oh, that's
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  the pirate ride, right, If you think of the US parks.
• 1:54:01
  You might not know it's a pirate ride from the outside, because
• 1:54:03
  it's like Disney World kind of looks.
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  Like an old Spanish building. And then Disneyland just looks
• 1:54:08
  like part of New Orleans Square. So they might specifically made
• 1:54:12
  everything to look like a creepy old haunted house.
• 1:54:15
  This looks like a pirate thing. Like they made it so that it's
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  accessible to anybody who speaks any language by using visual
• 1:54:22
  visuals rather than signage. I think that's why we didn't see
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  so much signage, but you're like, oh wait, now that makes
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  sense. But we could use a little bit of
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  signage, even if it's in multiple languages, to say it
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  anyway. Just a suggestion.
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  Just. But yeah, no, it was it.
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  You don't need to speak French much, but I do recommend
• 1:54:43
  learning a little bit, especially if you're going to go
• 1:54:46
  anywhere besides. But it's just it's just polite
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  to try to speak their language. They will probably speak English
• 1:54:52
  back to you because they'll recognize that you don't speak
• 1:54:54
  their language. But it's good to try.
• 1:54:57
  I feel like I did need it when I was in Paris.
• 1:54:59
  There were some things that you'd have to navigate around to
• 1:55:02
  understand, like even just like the word exit and things like
• 1:55:06
  that. Getting off the Metro, like you
• 1:55:07
  need to know those kinds of things.
• 1:55:10
  My kids thought it was funny that I said so tea, so tea.
• 1:55:12
  And I was like, okay. Hey, they're learning your They
• 1:55:17
  did. They did.
• 1:55:18
  They learned some French. We want to.
• 1:55:22
  End with our new segment, we're going to start on our show.
• 1:55:27
  Which is exciting. So this is the first installment
• 1:55:30
  of our new segment that we're going to do to end our podcast
• 1:55:34
  episodes and it is Ask the Moms. So this is just kind of a
• 1:55:38
  general Q&A that we're going to use to end our podcast episodes.
• 1:55:43
  So we are going to be reaching out to our listeners and our
• 1:55:48
  followers and you guys can always send in questions for
• 1:55:51
  this via our Discord or send us a message on any of our social
• 1:55:54
  media platforms. All those links on how to
• 1:55:56
  contact us are in our bio here on our Mom St. side and some of
• 1:56:00
  them are also in Kate's bio on her side as well if you're
• 1:56:03
  looking for the Discord or things like that.
• 1:56:05
  But our question this segment, this episode is how do I find
• 1:56:11
  showtimes for fireworks or night time shows for my trip?
• 1:56:17
  So I feel like this is a little bit fitting because we talked
• 1:56:19
  about that a little bit with Disneyland Paris, but let's kind
• 1:56:22
  of give. A general low down on how this
• 1:56:26
  works. So two different.
• 1:56:29
  Ways that you can find the times if you're looking day of very,
• 1:56:35
  very easy. It's on your app, yeah.
• 1:56:38
  So if you're in Disney World, it's on your My Disney
• 1:56:40
  Experience app. If you are in Disneyland, it's
• 1:56:43
  on your Disneyland app, and if you are in Disneyland Paris, it
• 1:56:45
  is on your Disneyland Paris app. All of those do have that
• 1:56:50
  information available to you. I know that on the Disney World
• 1:56:53
  and Disneyland app, if you're looking for a specific show,
• 1:56:56
  it's probably easiest just to search it in their search bar
• 1:56:59
  kind of on their Disneyland Paris.
• 1:57:02
  It's like right on their home screen of their app, which is
• 1:57:05
  really, really nice. From the homepage it says like
• 1:57:08
  it'll show show the park hours for today.
• 1:57:09
  This is in the My Disney Experience app.
• 1:57:11
  And then you just click on today's showtimes and then it
• 1:57:14
  will populate an entire list and show you everything that's
• 1:57:17
  available pretty much in in every park.
• 1:57:20
  And you can click on the If you click on the specific event or
• 1:57:24
  specific show, then it will give you more details about who it's
• 1:57:28
  for and if there's a Showtime. This one says happily ever
• 1:57:32
  after. There's no showtimes today.
• 1:57:34
  And so it'll just tell you if it's happening or not and if So,
• 1:57:37
  what time? Yeah, now if you're looking for
• 1:57:40
  it in advance. So if you're someone who's going
• 1:57:43
  in a month and you want to know what time happily ever after
• 1:57:46
  it's going to be or what time you're, you know if you're
• 1:57:49
  going. Especially if you're going
• 1:57:51
  during like party season, when you're going during Halloween
• 1:57:54
  parties and Christmas parties and you want to make sure that
• 1:57:56
  you get to see that particular show.
• 1:58:00
  You would. Want to use just the basic
• 1:58:01
  website on the on your browser? So again, whatever park you're
• 1:58:05
  visiting, head to that website, soeitherdisneyland.com or Disney
• 1:58:11
  World. And then my suggestion for you
• 1:58:13
  is again, just to use that search bar.
• 1:58:15
  And then from there, it's going to pull up the ability for you
• 1:58:17
  to select the date that you're looking for and it'll give you
• 1:58:20
  showtimes. Now I will say Disney World, I
• 1:58:22
  know typically doesn't do showtimes more than about two
• 1:58:26
  months, three months in advance. But.
• 1:58:31
  And I know that Disneyland Paris, it's hard to find it
• 1:58:34
  ahead of time. We ran into that problem when I
• 1:58:36
  was looking at like virtual cues and showtimes and that kind of
• 1:58:39
  stuff. A lot of their stuff is just day
• 1:58:40
  of you can get the general just if you kind of Google it and
• 1:58:44
  look at what other people have said previously.
• 1:58:46
  But Disneyland Paris is definitely a double.
• 1:58:49
  Check it the morning of because you want to make sure.
• 1:58:51
  That you've got it right. But for the US parks, typically
• 1:58:54
  when you look on the website, you're able to search for
• 1:58:57
  whatever show it is or if you don't know the name of the show,
• 1:58:59
  you can look under the park category for whatever park
• 1:59:03
  you're going to be in for that night.
• 1:59:05
  I will say too, I've mentioned this before that I've used
• 1:59:08
  touring plans for years and they do a really great job giving you
• 1:59:13
  the all the information for all the parks and all the shows and
• 1:59:16
  they'll even do like predicted showtimes even if they're not
• 1:59:19
  true yet. To give you kind of an idea when
• 1:59:21
  you're planning of this is probably the show that will be
• 1:59:24
  happening and likely the time that it will be at and then they
• 1:59:27
  fill it up as soon as Disneyland like releases their calendar.
• 1:59:29
  They absolutely like firm that up and make sure that it's
• 1:59:32
  correct. So I found touring plans really
• 1:59:35
  helpful for looking ahead, especially for showtimes and
• 1:59:38
  whatnot. And those subscriptions to
• 1:59:40
  touring Plans are fairly inexpensive and it's an annual
• 1:59:43
  subscription, I believe. Is that correct, Kate?
• 1:59:46
  Yeah. And it's, it's different for
• 1:59:48
  Disneyland and Disney World and they're two different
• 1:59:50
  subscriptions. Disneyland's a little cheaper
• 1:59:51
  than Disney World just because Disney World's a little bit more
• 1:59:55
  robust. I guess I would say it's a
• 1:59:57
  little bit more updated, but if if I want to say it's around 14
• 2:00:02
  to $17.00 per year, it's not that much, especially if you're
• 2:00:05
  going more than once or you're going for a long trip and you
• 2:00:08
  just need help planning. I think that's it's it's worth
• 2:00:10
  the cost in my opinion. Especially if you're not used to
• 2:00:14
  planning a Disney trip. It's so helpful.
• 2:00:17
  Yeah. And we've talked more about
• 2:00:18
  touring planes when we talked about like our One day
• 2:00:20
  itineraries and our Genie Plus episodes.
• 2:00:22
  If you want more information about that, you can hop back
• 2:00:25
  into our. Previous episodes and find it
• 2:00:27
  there. Yes, we are not sponsored by
• 2:00:29
  touring Planes yet. Maybe.
• 2:00:35
  But I do like them a lot. Yes, very true.
• 2:00:39
  So, yeah, so. Thank you for submitting
• 2:00:42
  questions for our Ask the Moms segment.
• 2:00:45
  And like we mentioned that it's going to be something we're
• 2:00:47
  going to do our best to end every podcast episode with so
• 2:00:52
  coming. Up next we are talking character
• 2:00:55
  dining. So is it worth it?
• 2:00:57
  What are your options? What kind of food do they have?
• 2:01:00
  All that type of stuff will be coming up.
• 2:01:03
  So if that's something that you want more information about when
• 2:01:07
  it comes to character dining options and we will definitely
• 2:01:10
  be talking about as and giving you as much information as we
• 2:01:12
  can about those, but with that. Thank you guys so much for
• 2:01:15
  joining us for tonight's Disneyland Paris episode of
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  Monster USA. If you've got more questions or
• 2:01:21
  something we didn't answer, please feel free to reach out to
• 2:01:24
  us. Like we mentioned, you can
• 2:01:25
  always find our information in the link in our bio.
• 2:01:28
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• 2:01:31
  You can find us on the Walrus Cart Pocket and Discord that we
• 2:01:35
  have a channel on. And you can always e-mail us at
• 2:01:39
  Mom St. usa@gmail.com as well, and we hope you'll have a
• 2:01:42
  wonderful evening. Thanks.
• 2:01:44
  Everybody for hanging with us. We love you guys.
• 2:01:46
  Have a great night. Bye guys buddy.