Disney's Hotel Santa Fe
You already know that Claudia and I are huge Disney fans and for New Year's Eve 2006/07, we decided to go to
Disneyland Paris again. This time we took our car and after a long 10 hours drive we arrived at Disneyland in the late afternoon. Again we chose
Disney's Hotel Santa Fe, because last time it was really fine and we enjoyed our stay there a lot. We had to spend the first night in a hotel near Disneyland, because in the
Santa Fe wasn't a room available.
Like last time we stayed in the Santa Fe Hotel again. The room was nice, clean and it was quiet all the time. This time we got a newly refurbished room near the main building with the restaurant, reception, shop and bar.
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| Hotel Santa Fe |
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| Hotel Santa Fe |
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| Hotel Santa Fe |
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| Hotel Santa Fe |
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| Our Room |
First Day in the Parks
Saturday - December 30th 2007
After we had breakfast we left our hotel and drove to Disneyland and checked in. Our room wasn't ready and so we headed over to the parks. Of course Disneyland Park was first.
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| Disneyland Hotel at the Entrance of the Disneyland Park |
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| Sleeping Beauty's Castle |
First we paid a visit to Fantasyland, since it's my girlfriend's favorite land, and rode several rides there, like it's a small world, Dumbo and Mad Hatter's Tea Cups. Unfortunately the weather wasn't that good we had to buy some rain ponchos, which tore very soon.
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| It's a small world |
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| It's a small world |
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| Mad Hatter's Tea Cups |
A "must do" on every trip is to visit the fantastic dragon beneath Sleeping Beauty's Castle.
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| Sleeping Beauty's Castle |
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| Entrance to the Dragon |
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| Dragon beneath the Castle |
Around noon we had a reservation at Auberge De Cendrillon, one of the best and most beautiful restaurants at Disneyland. I ordered the Salmon with Risotto and Claudia had the Chicken in the Pot. Both dishes were very good
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| Auberge De Cendrillon |
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| Auberge De Cendrillon |
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| Salmon with Risotto |
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| Chicken in the Pot |
After lunch it was time for the other lands. First stop was Phantom Manor followed by Big Thunder Mountain in Frontierland, before we did a boat tour through Pirates of the Caribbean.
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| Adventureland |
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| Frontierland |
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| Storybook Land Canal Boats |
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| Storybook Land Canal Boats |
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| Storybook Land Canal Boats |
In the afternoon we went back to the hotel, because our room was ready. We checked out the hotel shop and afterwards we returned to Disneyland Park where we had some hot coffee to warm up again. It was very cold and rainy, sometimes it even snowed. Since it was already evening, we were a bit hungry and decided to have dinner with hot dogs at Casey's corner. Afterwards it was time for Buzz Lightyear's Laser Blast and Space Mountain in Discoveryland.
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| Space Mountain |
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| Buzz Lightyear |
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| Sleeping Beauty's Castle |
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| Casey's Corner |
The highlight of our first day was Disney's Fantillusion Parade. It was for the first time that we had seen a nighttime parade at Disneyland and Fantillusion was wonderful.
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| Fantillusion |
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| Fantillusion |
Afterwards the park closed and we did some shopping at Disney Village and had some drinks at the hotel bar.
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| Main Street USA |
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