Travelling Time: 1h 30min (RER B d'Antony (Zone 3) to Chatelet les Halles, RER A to Marne-la-Vallée (Zone 5) (take note: 2 branches!!))

Fees: Transport: 40FF (tarif jeune valable pour une journée, samedi, dimanche et fêtes au lieu de 100FF). Entrance Fee: 170FF (saison basse)

Welcome to the World of Mickey!

We left the school at 9h and arrived around 10.45 with a crowd! It's winter break in Paris and families abound for Eurodisney! We even spotted Dieudonné, a French comedian who is running for the presidency.

Down Main Street where several shops selling Disney paraphernalia. Destination: the enchanted pink and blue castle at the end of the street. Fantasia.

Flying elephants, a merry go round and a joyous Disney ditty greet us. We head for Peter Pan's Flight, the FASTPASS attraction in Fantasy;land. With the magnetic entry ticket, machines churn out coupons with periods of 1h.. Return during that interval, enter by the FASTPASS entrance and the wait is 15 mins or less. Only condition is: a ticket can only be obtained after the first time indicated on previous tickets.

Onward to Adventureland to kill the time. We queue up the traditonal way for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom but it breaks down while we're almost at the end of the queue. Too bad. We pass and face the Pirates of the Carribean after being warned that all voyagers have to prepared to get wet!

While waiting for Peter Pan's Flight, M. Dieudonné and his family pass before everyone in the queue. How interesting!

We grab a ticket for Big Thunder Mountain in Frontierland and we're hungry! The set lunch at Pizza Outpost includes a pepperoni pizza, orange juice and a doughnut for 60FF which is very reasonable. We get serviettes with Winnie the Pooh too and we eat accompanied by the ever joyful ditty!

Back to Indiana Jones to try our luck. Yup, it's back in shape and we get a ticket for 1h later. Too bad if we had eaten too much. We commence the afternoon with Big Thunder Mountain, a visit to a gold mine at harrowing heights. That ain't nothing yet. In the Temple of Doom, we're brought upside-down in a wagon, backwards!

Ok, time for some calming activities. How about the haunted Phantom Manor with 999 phantomes and sorcerors? In the queue from which the Indiana Jones is clearly visible, a boy remarks that the people are screaming even though it's hardly frightening. Kids nowadays are demanding, eh?

Up to Discovery Land. While waiting for our turn at Space Mountain, we travel in time in the Visionarium with Jules Verne. At the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900, he meets Mr. HG Wells, author of The Time Machine, and the former remarks on the impossibility of such an idea. Probable perhaps, but certainly not impossible, according to Mr. Wells. Mr. Verne is soon whisked away to the future, where he finds himself in front of a TGV, the high speed French train, in submarine, among honking cars along the Champs Elysees and on a runway with Gerard Depardieu, a renowned French actor, and Air France in the background.

We do Space Mountain twice. Great fun with its steep angles and photos of our shell-shocked faces are shown on the screens on the exit! Between the 2 rides, we voyage in space with a Space Tours simulator where we spent the most time waiting in the day. Finally, we get shrinked by Mr. Wayne Szalinski, the star of Honey, I shrunk the audience!, not forgetting the 3D glasses, the feeling of mice running through our legs and the sneeze of his giant dog (yup, he goofed that up while blowing us back into our normal size) on our faces.

We can’t end the day without the sweet dreams of Fantasyland so we return to do a last tour in Gepetto's workshop, accompanied by Pinnochio and clockwork. And abracadabra! Time to leave!

I forgot to mention that the toilets are impeccably clean and huge, like most of the attractions, although the entrances look miniscule!

With the immaculate décor, each world is a world of its own. My favourite: Discoveryland although Adventureland is a close second.

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