St Pancras International, London

As with all holidays, it all comes to its end. In the morning of our trip back to the UK, Poj made sure he went to his favourite rides at the hotel lobby. We also went back to the Disney Village for Papa E's birthday lunch and for a little Disney shopping. It is a good thing that the hotel allows their guests to leave their luggage in a secure room even after checkout and that allowed us to enjoy our last morning in Paris. 

Here is Poj at the hotel lobby while we wait for the shuttle bus back to the train station. He's excited to go home at this point and to play with his own toys =) But it was already late when our train arrived in London. We decided to stay in a budget hotel a few yards from St Pancras Station for the night. I took a photo in the morning and thought that it was an interesting building.

  

Here are photos of the St Pancras International Station. 

The St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel

And next to the St Pancras International is the Kings Cross Station made popular for being the station where the Harry Potter series, Hogwarts students depart from.

This station was newly renovated. It looked really beautiful inside. I specially love the details on the ceiling. The whole place looks modern and spacious. 

And soon it was time to catch our train back to Southampton. Here are my boys tired after all that travelling. And sweet little Poj still wanted to sit on Papa E's lap even when there were a lot of empty seats on the train =)

Thanks Paris for another lovely short holiday...

Disneyland Paris

This is a long post & packed with photos, please bear with me. The rain on all the days that we were in Paris was on and off, including our Disneyland day. Hence why we were not able to do as much as we did the first time we were here. But hey ho, we're already here and we tried to make the best of the day.

One of the things that I love about the whole place is the attention to detail. Even from the park's entrance you can already feel that they are celebrating their 20th anniversary (the golden cake that the hippo was holding has a number 20) as well as all the colourful banners everywhere made the place feel a lot more celebratory and inviting.  

The Disneyland Hotel 

We started off by catching the train that goes around the park. Passengers can get off at any of the stops or you can choose to stay and get off on the Main Street. We chose to stay to have a quick tour of the whole park. 

We were a bit early, as you can see here everyone was gathered outside the castle waiting for the park to officially open.

You can choose to walk from here or ride one of the free cars that collect visitors from different pick up points. Poj was in the mood to walk so that's what we did. You could see the different Disney characters scattered around the park, ready to greet and meet. Poj is only starting to know the characters and was not that interested.

There are a lot of different rides for both the young and the young at heart. There are also a long queue! 
There's also a ferry ride that we tried before. A lot of restaurants can be found across the park as well as gift shops. 

The park was open until 11pm. The Disney Magic parade was at 5pm and the anniversary light show was at 9pm.

Happy 20th Anniversary Disneyand Paris!

Poj may be young to remember all of these but he had fun on the day. And even when it rained heavily in the middle of the day, we still had a good time. Pero syempre, buti na lang libre lang ang tickets namin, hehe.

Hope you guys could check out these YouTube videos. The first one is the Disney Magic on Parade and the second video is the 20th Anniversary Light Show and Fireworks.  Poj loved the light show and kept saying "amazing" after every set and every time the fireworks go off. =)

Disney Village

I'm sorry if it's taken me so long to update. Things have been hectic not to mention ang pagatake minsan ng katam, hehe....


Our train arrived in Paris late afternoon. There was a free bus shuttle to the hotel right outside the train station. The same train station is within the Disney village. So after checking in to our hotel (I blogged about the hotel, here) and freshening up, we rode the shuttle bus back to the Disney Village.

The Disney Village is situated just outside Disneyland. There are a lot of restaurants here, Starbucks coffee shop and several Disney shops where you can buy everything Disney! 

Unfortunately most of the restaurants offered baguettes, burgers and fries. I wished there were more choices coz if you're here for a few days you are bound to get fed up with the food. Luckily the hotel's restaurant serves a good variety of food.

At this point, Poj was tired from the trip and excited as he was to roam around a bit more he looked tired and cold after a while so we went back to the hotel. 

Apologies, this series is getting longer than I intended.... I'm now sorting the photos for the next one. =)