In this town, we call
home, everyone hail to the pumpkin song!
Disneyland Paris is my second home and
Halloween must be my favorite season around, although it’s head to head with
Swing into Spring. Disneyland Paris is taken over by all things evil, spooky
and pumpkin-ish from October 1st till November 1st. I’ll
take you along on my not-so-scary day last sunday discovering this year’s
Halloween season.
Wake me up before you
go-go
My random mornings usually consist of 5 alarms
and 4 snoozes, but not on Disney days! My alarms sounds at 4.30 on the tunes of
‘How deep is your love’ by Calvin Harris. My love for Disney is VERY DEEP (just
saying haha). One hour later I’m ready to go after doing my make-up and picking
out my outfit for today. I hit the road but OMG it’s blinded, but not by people
or cars, all I can see is fog… Fog everywhere, yeah it’s Halloween season after
all… The travel to Lille Europe station takes me about 15 minutes longer thanks
to these weather conditions, but I’m still fairly early for my train. Off with
my 7.17 train as usual and a good hour later I’m in my magical place!
I almost have a little run towards the park as
it has been almost 3 months since I visited my favorite place on earth and
hurrying in I immediately run into my friend Remy (hiiiiii if you’re reading
<3).
Also this Halloween Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Pluto, Chip and Dale
in their classic outfits are meeting hotel guests and annual pass holders
around Main Street during the Extra Magical Hours from 8 till 10. I decide to
skip Mickey and Minnie at the Boarding House, but I do join Donald’s queue
around Town Square which takes me about 15min to meet him and he was his most
energetic self as usual! The photopass pictures (the ones with me in it) turned
out amazing! Thank you so much to the photographer! I took some pics of Donald
by himself reigning over Main Street and had a little trick or treat with
Chocotoffs for Halloween and I got some candy from him in return. The line for Goofy and Pluto was also
fairly short, so I paid them a visit too… At their meet I bumped into my friend
Mai and her daughter Yuzu, who brought me the most amazing present from Tokyo
Disney Resort (Thank you again if you’re reading <3).
After that it was enough meeting characters for
now, as I had to renew my annual pass (hellow april 2017) which usually takes a
while. I saw my friend Alexis there (hiiiii to you also <3) I joined the
queue around 9.30 for the office to open at 10.00 which cut down on the waiting
time, so I was able to walk out again around 10.20
Oh Mickey you’re so
fine (you’re so fine you blow my mind! Hey Mickey! Hey Hey!
Mai and Yuzu already went in line to meet
Mickey in his new Halloween outfit from 11.00… I joined them after getting my
annual pass and we were second in line. We striked some silly poses, had a
little photoshoot and the obvious trick or treat as it should.
We also bumped into this little monkey while wandering through Adventureland
Everyone have some
fun! Vive la vie!
Then it was time for one of my favorite moments
in a Disney day! Parade time! For 3 years now, Disneyland Paris has its own
Halloween cavalcade aka Mickey’s Halloween Celebration (La Célébration
Halloween de Mickey). It’s a very cute harvest / autumn themed parade with the
most amazing theme song ever! Here you can see picture of the 3 cavalcades. The
first and third one go from Fantasyland to Main Street, the second one goes the
other way around. I bumped into my besties Bert and Alizé (hiiiiii <3) and
Bert and me continued our journey together.
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| Goofy loves watching the Cavalcade |
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| Thank you for saying hi (twice), silly scarecrow! |
Well…. What have we
here?! Visitors?!
After the last cavalcade has passed, it’s time
to prepare for the brand new Villain show ‘It’s good to be bad’ featuring 10 to
12 of our favorite villains dancing on stage and meeting guests afterwards.
Every day there are 4 to 8 shows, depending on the day of your visit. I hadn’t
been able to resist watching a video on YouTube to know what to expect and I
knew I was gonna love it, but OH MY GOD! It is fabulous in real life! All
villains are dancing their evil heart out! There are actually 6 different
version of the show starring a different villain as the lead of the show, there’s
a Maleficent, Dr. Facilier, Cruella, Evil Queen, Gaston and Old Hag version.
Today we saw 6 show, with 4 different ones (doubling on Dr. Facilier and Evil
Queen). Queen of Hearts and Frollo actually do not stay around to meet guests
afterwards, and Maleficent meets guests at the Castle Courtyard. We decided not
to bother meeting any of the villains (for now), because we’d rather have good
spots to take pictures of the show. The first three shows are before the parade
and afterwards we went to meet Maleficent in her Courtyard.
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Celebrate the magic!
It was time for parade after the little meet up
with the Mistress of all Evil and it was magical as always.
The cards! The cards!
The cards!
We ended up taking a good spot for the last 3
villain shows right after parade and just chatted away until the start of it. I
must say this, this show is breathtaking by dark! And in the end I got to meet
Gaston and I was literally fangirling after he said I looked pretty *blush*
My train home was to
leave at 20.52, so after the last show I hurried into the boutiques to collect
some souvenirs for me and my parents. With my turbo-shopping engine on I ended
up picking up everything I wanted at the
moment in about 45 minutes and arrived 10 early for my train (that ended up
being 40 minutes delayed *bah humbug*). I’ll add pictures of the merchandise to
next week’s tripreport because YES I’m going back next Sunday to have some more
fun in the fall! I can’t wait to meet up and brunch with my friends Emma and
Kyra!
I hoped you enjoyed this tripreport!!
Boo to you!
Xx
Gaëtane
P.S.; If you are not annoyed by the amount of pictures, find even more here: Flickr Albums
