My Disney Diary- Day 1 (Day 87)

I thought I'd give you all a run through of what I did on my Disney holiday. I think this will be a nice thing to look back on in years to come so I can remember my trip. I went to Disneyland Paris for 5 days with my best friend Lydia and we truly had the best time.

Day 1- Monday 21st March
For us Monday was all about the travelling. We went out on the 5:25pm flight to Paris Charles De Gaulle from Birmingham airport. We spent the day packing and checking we had everything before going to the airport. It was really strange being alone in the airport. Neither of us had ever traveled alone before and it was scary having to drop our bags off and get through security and on to the plane. It was a strange day. There were air traffic control strikes going on in France which meant lots of flights that were going to and from France as well as across French air space were being cancelled. We just hoped and prayed that ours would leave and it would leave at the right time!

We were in luck! After going to get some food at the airport we boarded our plane and took off with only a ten minute delay. We were so excited to be in the air and on our way to Disneyland Paris. The flight only took around 45 minutes before we landed and carried on with our journey. When we got to CDG it was like a maze to get out of. We must have gone down about 4 flights of stairs before getting to a monorail to take us to baggage claim. Our bag came off pretty quickly so we could go and find our shuttle bus. Now we had paid for a shared shuttle bus but because there was no body else going into Disney at that time we got the whole bus to ourselves which was pretty cool. The shuttle driver was waiting for us at arrivals with a sign with my name and he led us to our shuttle.

After about 40 minutes we got to our hotel. We were staying in the hotel Kyriad which is one of the Disney partner hotels. A partner hotel is one that is not on Disney property but is officially endorsed by Disney and you can even book through the Disneyland Paris website (although we found it better to book separately). The partner hotels are usually cheaper and have free shuttles to the Disney parks which is one of the major draws. It took us a while to check in just because we got to the hotel at the time when the fireworks had finished at Disney and the shuttles were just getting in so the reception area was packed. We managed to check in and find our room which was lovely. We were lucky enough to get a corner room so we had a big long corridor and plenty of extra space. We had two single beds which were super comfy. The rooms were clean and there was plenty of hot water. The hotel also had free unlimited wifi so after we finished telling our families we had arrived, catching up on our social media, checking out maps and planning our first Disney day we decided it was time to get some sleep so we could get up early for the next day.

So day one was a success, get ready for day 2!

Talk to you tomorrow, Chloe xx