Disneyland Paris' 25th - Day One

So, I have been putting off writing this for a while now!
Mostly because I didn't write any notes for our first day for some reason!

So, from what I can remember -


We were up pretty early in the morning - around 2am I think! Our flight was just after 6am so we headed off to get to the airport by 4am.

The baggage drop off queue was pretty long, but we got through security pretty quickly and were soon in departures getting something to eat before our flight.

The journey was pretty uneventful, and we rushed through to the immigration desks - now, I know, you're on holiday, take it easy, but no! If you're flying into a major airport you should rush to these desks for a good place in the queue. We were one of the first from our flight to reach the queues, and, despite still being able to access the EU queue right now, we were stood in that line for around an hour!

Once we were through we grabbed our cases and rushed off to the Magical Shuttle which was there ready and waiting to take us to the Disneyland Hotel. The reactions of everyone on the bus when we pulled into the DLH was amazing, I felt kind of awkward getting off because everyone was looking at us and the other couple who were getting off here.

The check in queue was pretty short and we were told our room would be ready in around 20min if we wanted to wait for it - well, it was ready now they just wanted to check if our medication fridge had been taken up before we went in - 50minutes later we went back to the desk to see if it was ready because we were getting pretty sick of waiting.

The CM took us to our room, there was no fridge at this point (it was brought up later while we were in the parks), our room was the one right next to Princess for a day and we had a pretty good view of the park entrance.

So we'd waited for the room so I could put my medication in the fridge - which obviously wasn't there, and maybe put on some shorts - but our luggage hadn't been brought up yet either. So after wasting a little over an hour we rushed out into the parks - there was a entrance point like, six steps from the hotel, it was amazing being so close!

Our first point of call? Hakuna Matata!
I really wish I was eating there right now.
It's the only place we had our main meals at the entire time, I was just so happy it was open every day, it's been a while since I visited in high summer season.

We spent the rest of the afternoon doing some shopping, riding rides and taking all of the 25th anniversary decorations in. I think I still preferred the Main Street decorations from the 15th anniversary, but i'm so glad there wasn't another stage on Central Plaza!

I really didn't write any notes for this day so i'm not sure which rides we went on - i'm pretty sure the new Pirates of the Caribbean was our first ride.

Going through my Instagram posts, I know we definitely camped out on Main Street for the parade with a nice souvenir bucket of popcorn before we headed off to Hakuna Matata again for dinner and to take my medication before taking our space for Illuminations. We possibly rode Phantom Manor in between those and I know we were on our way to use our Hotel Fastpass at Buzz Lightyear's Laser Blast when we discovered half of the park had already sat down for illuminations three ours before the show!