The Trip that was never meant to happen!

[jazzluvva]

Cast

Me - Chief planner 42
Johanne -DW 43
Dominic - DS10
Fraser - DS6

Itinary

• mon 2/8 - a.m drive to London, park somewhere central, (poss Park lane or West End), afternoon in big London to do as we please, leave around 6pm for overnight hotel -PREMIER INN (Maidstone hollingbourne)
• Tue 3/8 - 7.20am Eurotunnel Crossing, then foot down, checkin around 12.30 - i hope! , Afternoon & Evening in Disneyland park closes 11pm.
• Wed 4/8 - Studios Park first thing, maybe heading back to other park after lunch. Leave around 5.30-6.00pm to catch 9.50pm Eurotunnel, then overnight in PREMIER INN (hollingbourne).
• Thu 4/8 - Drive back to Hull, via Woburn Safari Park

Costs

• £134 - 4x1day park hopper tickets (2A, 2C)
• £90 - (E100) 1 night @ Kyriad DLRP
• £58 - 2 nts @ Premier Inn Maidestone
• £12 - Woburn Safari Park (£62 less £50 Tesco contribution, used £12.50 in vouchers)
• FREE - Eurotunnel sameday/overnight Crossing (£58 funded by £14.50 Tesco Vouchers)
• PLUS Diesel, Tolls, London C Charge & parking

As the title says, because of our Big First Orlando trip in October, our week off during the school hols was all about doing things on the cheap, so DLP was never really a consideration. The idea was to drive to London for a day or so, with a trip to legoland or alton Towers on the way back home using 2 for 1, or Sun vouchers. We always had some 1 day hoppers to use up, but i didnt think the chance wud arise, not for one day anyway, i already knew our Hull-Zee ferry was too dear, and i didnt want to drive, but then i got thinking... If i'm driving to London, then i'm nearly halfway there! , then i seemed to remember I could use Tesco vouchers for Eurotunnel, i looked at that and found i could get a Freebie 'Sameday/overnight' Crossing - so i could go early one day & come back late the next, Johanne didn't take much convincing, but I still wanted to do more than one day, so i needed the cheapest 1 day hopper i could find (Ebay) Magic e-ticket, and found a deal on Kyriad's own Website fro one night, (so no parking fee's, transfers included, bar, nice bed - sorted). Then Looked for cheapest & closest UK overnight hotels to the Eurotunnel terminal, got same hotel each way for £29 a night. For the journey home I didnt just want a long drive so we're breaking up the journey by calling into Woburn Safari Park. We considered doing some other Attractions - Howletts, Paradise Wildlife Park, but settled for Woburn as Johanne preferred to get some miles behind us. The kids still don't know, Dominic has discovered the 'New Generation Festival'Trailer on Youtube & watches it constantly, but the Dominic still thinks we're just going to London to 'visit Parks and see Towers' (YES - FREE! ), so looks like we'll just have to tell them on the tuesday morning!