Paris? Oui!

Ah yes, it's that time of the year when surely Disneyland Paris needed a visit - again? say it say it, yes again! This time Toby was in for a double treat - Frozen bonkers summer plus Jedi Training Academy was on so long as we could make both queues in time. Could we? Hell yes we could.

Frozen Summer Fever and Jedi Training are both on through the summer. Sing A Long Frozen is on about 5 times a day as is Jedi Training but you need to get a place for it first which means queue at around 10am at Videopolis in Tomorrowland. Worth it to see your young Padawan fight the dark side.

We stayed in a Disney partner hotel for this trip - the Dream Castle, yes it was good and so much better than the Disneyland Hotel if you really hate the bus trips to the park a cab is about 7 euros. Toby's first choice hotel is the Sequoia Lodge. Once full Frozen Jedi state was reached (after 2 days) time to move on to Paris itself....

If going with kids maybe don't stay in a 'hotel' (I use that term loosely) that's above and on a street of bars that are open till 6am. We should have stayed nearer to the Eiffel Tower it would have saved on taxi fares and money spent in cafes while avoiding going back to the room we were trying to sleep in. 

Yep, it was all about the tower.

For me, the top Paris visit was the Natural History Museums, on the way if you walk you might pass Claude Nature (above), a fantastic gem with such a character and wind up merchant! Loved it.

Oh my word... as for the museums.... yes more than one all housed in a stunning park with zoo... breathtaking. More like theatre these are cathedrals of life not a mausoleum, so so cleverly staged. We only did two of the museums but crikey what a pair! I could quite happily go back to Paris and if I didn't get further from the Jardin des Plantes I'd be a happy girl. 

Not a full week there but time enough that's for sure. The city isn't exactly child friendly Toby was walking from 11am till 12pm with not that many stops but not sure how you'd cope with more than one or with one that couldn't. 

He was happy with the Eiffel Tower but would have rather had another day with the souris rather than Ratatouille in the walls of the Paris hotel!