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Old 10 Jan 19, 05:47 PM  
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When You're the Best of Friends - Glowtini Girls do DLP Jan 2019 - Pre Trip Report

Firstly, confession time, I’ve been dithering over whether or not to write a trip report for this holiday for weeks now.

I’ve been popping onto The Dibb reading other peoples reports and re-reading mine when it occurred to me that OF COURSE I should write a trip report! I find them such a good source of planning info, and obviously they capture all the memories of our trip in one, easy to access, location!

Due to the dithering that has taken place, I’m writing this pre-trip report with just 3 sleeps to go!

This trip to Disneyland Paris is the 4th that my best friend, Anna (Blondie1979 on The Dibb and one 3rd of the Glowtini Girls), have taken without partners and without kids and we can’t wait!

I never miss an excuse to use this photo, now 23 years old! This is the pair of us on our last day at High School in 1996



A little bit of history... the first trip the two of us took sans kids/partners was back in 2016...



This is us before my first ever ride on Tower of Terror

Then in 2017 we met up with Mel (MelanieR on The Dibb and also one 3rd of the Glowtini Girls) during our trip, Mel was in DLP on a solo trip.



Then for 2018 we bit the bullet and actually planned a trip as a threesome and have become the best of friends ever since (hence the title)









This year the now 'infamous' Glowtini Girls are heading back to our happy place to put their stock levels of cocktail spirits and mixers to the the test!

We’re also planning on seeing another familiar face while we’re out there, but you’ll have to wait until the trip report to find out who that is

So…..TO THE PLAN!

This Sunday, the 13th January, I will be leaving home at 4pm precisely to collect Anna from her house then hit the road to Ebbsfleet. Those of you who have read my previous trip reports (found here) will know that we always travel from Ashford. Well due to an issue with our Eurostar returning home in January 2018 which resulted in us not stopping at Ashford and instead being dropped at Ebbsfleet we thought to avoid that in future we would bite the bullet and try Ebbsfleet for a change.

We’re booked into the Gravesend Central Premier Inn (who doesn’t love a Premier Inn!) for the night on Sunday and will be up at the crack of dawn to get the 5.58am Eurostar out of Ebbsfleet International!

We’re due to arrive in Paris Gare du Nord around 9.30am and after negotiating the RER we will arrive in Marne le Vallee around 10.45am and will be seated and eating brunch in Earl of Sandwich shortly after 11am….can you tell we’ve done this before

Once we’ve eaten we’ll then layer up (it’s going to be freeeeezing) and will head to the park to meet Mel in front of the castle!



We are once again staying in the Sequoia Lodge in a Golden Forest room, we honestly wouldn’t do it any other way, but this time we are staying for 4 whole nights, 1 night longer than our previous trip, woo hoo!



In a change to previous trips we don’t have the free half board so we are taking the opportunity to eat in places where we wouldn’t normally, with King Ludwigs being at the top of my list as I’ve never eaten there! We’ll obviously be doing lots of rides and have the Photopass to capture those priceless moments (Tower of Terror I’m looking at you)…



...and of course there will be many, many cocktails!







To say we are excited would be a massive understatement, we booked this trip within hours of returning last year so it has been a very long countdown.

We hope they’ve plumped up the cushions on ‘our sofa’ in Café Fantasia in preparation!



If you can't wait for the full trip report you are more than welcome to follow me on Instagram, rachelpaisley79, or on Twitter rpaisley79, I'll be posting updates each day

And if you follow The Dibbcast on Facebook we’re hoping to do some Facebook Lives (WIFI permitting), and will more than likely be posting updates on The Dibbcast Twitter too. If you’re not following The Dibbcast on Facebook and Twitter….go and do it!

So, we'll see you on the other side, 3 sleeps and counting!

*10 points if you know the film the first line of the trippie title is from*

Next up... Pre-Travel Day
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Hurrah, great news there is going to be a trip report! Have a great time ladies, I am excited to follow along on IG... so lots of photos please!
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Originally Posted by Lisa_Lollipop View Post
Hurrah, great news there is going to be a trip report! Have a great time ladies, I am excited to follow along on IG... so lots of photos please!
Of course! You know me, there'll be gazillions of photos/videos on my Instastory
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Originally Posted by Beaker7929 View Post
Of course! You know me, there'll be gazillions of photos/videos on my Instastory
Wonderful, can't wait already!
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Can’t wait to see you on Monday at the castle! As I’m less organised than you (haven’t even thought about packing yet... ) my pre Trippie will have to wait until Saturday

Need to get my hair done now if we’re doing Facebook live!

Spoiler alert - the familiar face we are meeting is NOT Mickey
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Have an amazing time! Looking forward to hearing all about it.
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Have enjoyed your other DLP trippies so I’m looking forward to another one! I’ve picked up lots of tips ready for my trip in May. We will be at Sequoia Lodge GF too (first time)

I’m now following the Dibbcast on Twitter and FB so I’ll be kept well informed.

Have fun!
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The Fox and the Hound, sung by Pearl Bailey. Bonus point for that?

Have an amazing time, wish we were going!

Pro tip for you: we found somewhere that still does the wonderful chocolate viennois - and it’s indoors in the warm. Victoria’s Home Style Restaurant. It was our first time there. Nice little place.
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Ooh love your trip reports. Will be looking out for updates!
Hope you all have a brilliant time x
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Oh, and you are not late. I'm about to post my pre-trippie ... for last November's trip!
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