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It has been an age since I've done a trip report. My last one was about moving to Orlando. Beyond that is was even longer since I've done an actual trip planning/trip reporting write up.
I'd like to try my hand at reports again, if only to keep track of my planning and excitement.
This is me and Brian. I have lots of prior trip reports in my signature if you'd like to get to know us better. To sum us up we are both major Star Wars and Disney fans. We live about 15 minutes from Disney parks in Florida (I4 permitting).
We have our dog, Sirius. He is getting older (hence the need for reading glasses).
So back to the trip. In late November of this year, so as to take advantage of the Thanksgiving holiday work PTO, we are headed to Europe for almost two weeks.
I've been to Germany and Austria before, and Brian has never been to Europe at all. So this is all pretty uncharted territory for us.
Originally, we were going to take the westbound Disney transatlantic cruise that left from Dover, England for our big trip. It wasn't during a very convenient time of the year, however, and we eventually decided to scrap the cruise portion, expand the days in London and tack on Disneyland Paris!
Then things escalated, as things tend to do when I am involved. We started to watch European theme park youtube videos and decided to tack a day at Efteling theme park onto the trip.
After many ways of trying to work our schedule we came up with the following timetable:
Sun Nov 20 depart Pitt and fly to Amsterdam with a layover at Philly
Mon Nov 21 arrive Efteling, check into hotel, have dinner and early night
Tue Nov 22 day at Efteling, leave late for flight to London Heathrow. Get rental car from airport, find cheap hotel near Heathrow.
Wed Nov 23 Sunrise Stonehenge, Bath for the Roman Bath and spend the night in Bourton on the Water.
Thursday Nov 24 Bourton on the Water, Diddly Squat Farm, return car and check into London hotel.
Fri Nov 25 British Museum, West End show
Sat Nov 26 day of sightseeing around city
Sun Nov 27 later start Harry Potter WB Studio Tour
Mon Nov 28 Leave by train for Paris, check into DLP hotel
Tues Nov 29 DLP
Wed Nov 30 DLP
Thurs Dec 1 DLP
Fri Dec 2 depart Paris airport for home
Even though we live in Orlando, we are leaving from my parents place in Pittsburgh. They will be watching Sirius while we are gone.
We have already purchased our plane tickets and have moved onto solidifying the above schedule. I'll go a little more in depth into each location/day as I post more below.
I'd like to try my hand at reports again, if only to keep track of my planning and excitement.
This is me and Brian. I have lots of prior trip reports in my signature if you'd like to get to know us better. To sum us up we are both major Star Wars and Disney fans. We live about 15 minutes from Disney parks in Florida (I4 permitting).
We have our dog, Sirius. He is getting older (hence the need for reading glasses).
So back to the trip. In late November of this year, so as to take advantage of the Thanksgiving holiday work PTO, we are headed to Europe for almost two weeks.
I've been to Germany and Austria before, and Brian has never been to Europe at all. So this is all pretty uncharted territory for us.
Originally, we were going to take the westbound Disney transatlantic cruise that left from Dover, England for our big trip. It wasn't during a very convenient time of the year, however, and we eventually decided to scrap the cruise portion, expand the days in London and tack on Disneyland Paris!
Then things escalated, as things tend to do when I am involved. We started to watch European theme park youtube videos and decided to tack a day at Efteling theme park onto the trip.
After many ways of trying to work our schedule we came up with the following timetable:
Sun Nov 20 depart Pitt and fly to Amsterdam with a layover at Philly
Mon Nov 21 arrive Efteling, check into hotel, have dinner and early night
Tue Nov 22 day at Efteling, leave late for flight to London Heathrow. Get rental car from airport, find cheap hotel near Heathrow.
Wed Nov 23 Sunrise Stonehenge, Bath for the Roman Bath and spend the night in Bourton on the Water.
Thursday Nov 24 Bourton on the Water, Diddly Squat Farm, return car and check into London hotel.
Fri Nov 25 British Museum, West End show
Sat Nov 26 day of sightseeing around city
Sun Nov 27 later start Harry Potter WB Studio Tour
Mon Nov 28 Leave by train for Paris, check into DLP hotel
Tues Nov 29 DLP
Wed Nov 30 DLP
Thurs Dec 1 DLP
Fri Dec 2 depart Paris airport for home
Even though we live in Orlando, we are leaving from my parents place in Pittsburgh. They will be watching Sirius while we are gone.
We have already purchased our plane tickets and have moved onto solidifying the above schedule. I'll go a little more in depth into each location/day as I post more below.