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8 Jan 19, 10:30 AM |
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Gone all Goofy
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The First Family Trip - 1st-7th January (Day 1)
Hi all,
I really enjoyed writing trip reports in the past, so thought I'd give it another go! We are a family of three. Me (31), my wife (32), and our son (2). This was my sixth trip, my wife's fifth, but our first since having our son. The trip was originally meant to go ahead in April, but due to a rather over-amorous anniversary night away in August, three is becoming four at the very start of May, so we decided to bring it forward to January so that my wife could still walk without waddling too much, or risk having our second child's place of birth as 'in an alleyway somewhere in Frontierland'! We decided against delaying it as our son is 3 in April, and of course becomes a chargeable guest at that time. Plus - we weren't too keen on taking a new baby and a 3yo to Disneyland Paris! This was always going to be a challenging holiday. A 5-month pregnant lady, a 2y8m old who has just belatedly started his terrible two tantrums. More of that later! Day 1 - Tuesday 1st January 2019 We are based in Yorkshire, so decided that getting to London for the 10:14 Eurostar on the 2nd January would be too much of a rush in the early morning. For that reason, we travelled to London on New Year's Day, arriving at King's Cross at about midday after a fairly uneventful 2 hour journey. I managed to get a wonderfully cheap deal on the Premier Inn across the road (St Pancras) for around £50 a night, which by London standards is a steal. After checking in, we wandered into London, deciding to take our son to the London Transport Museum at Covent Garden as a fun pre-Disney thing to do. We all enjoyed it. It was busy, and he started getting a little tetchy, so we only perhaps spent 1.5 hours in there, but it was worth doing. We used the 2-for-1 train ticket offer, so all three of us got in for £17.50 in total. After this, we wandered down to the river to take in the views. London has never been my favourite place. I'm very much a country boy, but in short bursts it's an enjoyable place to walk around. I'm always pleased to get out though! We returned to our hotel quite early, I walked to King's Cross for a guilty pleasure of mine (Five Guys), and our son was tucked up in bed for 7:30 with the promise of "meet Mickey Mouse" tomorrow. He hadn't stopped talking about it for a week before. So cute. So ended our first day of the trip, albeit still in the UK. The next big test would be the Eurostar experience, but that comes on Day 2! Edited at 10:35 AM. |
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9 Jan 19, 11:26 AM |
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Looking forward to reading along with this one. We are going for our first family trip with our daughter who will be 18 months in March so im interested to see what you can realistically fit into a day with a little one.
Congratulations on the pregnancy btw, very exciting |
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9 Jan 19, 01:31 PM |
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Gone all Goofy
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Glad it'll be of use. Days 4-7 will be posted very soon! Lots more useful information for you hopefully!
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11 Jan 19, 11:25 PM |
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Ahh looking forward to reading the rest of this one. We took our little boy around that same age - it was a wonderful experience!
We go with our, now 4 yr old, son and 1 yr old daughter next month. We'll let you know how that goes for your next trip :lol:
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12 Jan 19, 09:55 AM |
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Great start!
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12 Jan 19, 09:56 AM |
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12 Jan 19, 12:22 PM |
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12 Jan 19, 02:24 PM |
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