Skyegirl1999
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 11, 2016
We just finished day 1 of our two days in the parks and I wanted to post some quick impressions. For context, we live by Disneyland in CA and visit 6+ times a month, so the original Disneyland is “home.”
1. Many parts of the parks are gorgeous. The castle! Ahh, it puts ours to shame, so beautiful and the stained glass windows and THE DRAGON. I may just live with the dragon and never go home; we visited three times today. When I think of Disneyland Paris, I’m going to think of that castle first.
2. The reports of smoking and trash were really overblown! I guess if I hadn’t read up in advance maybe I’d feel differently, but I was expecting to be surrounded by smoke and trash all day, and I... wasn’t.
3. Having said that, the maintenance and customer service isn’t what it is at the American parks. We expected as much, and it wasn’t a major issue, but it was noticeable.
4. Big Thunder Mountain is awesome! We want to ride it again tomorrow.
5. Two days is going to be just right for us. If we’d just had one day, we’d have missed out; three days would be overkill considering that downtown Paris is so close and there’s so much we want to experience there.
Ok, I have more to say when we’re done, but thanks to everyone who has posted advice and feedback here; it’s been super helpful! Hopefully we don’t get too rained out tomorrow.
1. Many parts of the parks are gorgeous. The castle! Ahh, it puts ours to shame, so beautiful and the stained glass windows and THE DRAGON. I may just live with the dragon and never go home; we visited three times today. When I think of Disneyland Paris, I’m going to think of that castle first.
2. The reports of smoking and trash were really overblown! I guess if I hadn’t read up in advance maybe I’d feel differently, but I was expecting to be surrounded by smoke and trash all day, and I... wasn’t.
3. Having said that, the maintenance and customer service isn’t what it is at the American parks. We expected as much, and it wasn’t a major issue, but it was noticeable.
4. Big Thunder Mountain is awesome! We want to ride it again tomorrow.
5. Two days is going to be just right for us. If we’d just had one day, we’d have missed out; three days would be overkill considering that downtown Paris is so close and there’s so much we want to experience there.
Ok, I have more to say when we’re done, but thanks to everyone who has posted advice and feedback here; it’s been super helpful! Hopefully we don’t get too rained out tomorrow.