Our last day at Disney Paris went somewhat like we'd expected. The plan from the start was to have one day at the Disney Studios Park, one day at Disneyland Paris, and have a third day to ride anything we'd missed or anything we wanted to ride twice. The real surprise to us on this day was the fact that we spent more time at the Studios Park than we did at Disneyland. With all of the negative reviews we'd read about the Studios Park we expected that we might not even need a full day there, instead we found ourselves spending most of our extra time there.
The morning however was dedicated to Disneyland. This is mostly because of the Extra Magic Hours. The highlight of this morning's Extra Magic Hours was actually moving around the park. When we arrived at the foot of Main Street USA, I discovered a patty wagon parked at the side of the road. I had read that some of the vehicles at Disneyland didn't really have a particular stopping point, but if you saw them parked you could just wave them down. I asked the nice cast member hanging around the patty wagon if we could get a lift. He said "sure" and adventure began. We sat at the back and watched all of the folks walking up Main Street. It was so much fun.
We wandered around the park for a little while, rode Buzz Lightyear's Space Rangers Spin, and then at the gift shop we discovered something we really needed, flipflops. Our next stop on our trip was to Paris, and we had reservations at a Youth Hostel. We forgot to pack our flipflops, and we had been keeping an eye out for them our whole stay at Disney. Finally we found a pair and we were overjoyed. Then things went bad. The person checking us out forgot that we wanted the flipflops delivered to our room. He went through the whole process and handed us our bag.
This was a problem for us since we had plenty more walking around to do that day. We reminded him that we wanted them sent to our room. He said he forgot, and he had to get a manager to see if they could fix it. The manager eventually arrived and he said that since the sale went through, he couldn't do it. He was really rude and we were very unhappy. Our plan was to head over to the studios next, so we decided to visit the customer service office at the front of Disneyland. We explained our story to the nice man there, and he said that this was unacceptable. He then made arrangements for our purchase to be delivered, and then he made our sucky morning turn into a fantastic morning. He told us as an apology for this problem, we could have a Fast Pass for any ride for any ride (excluding a few) in the either park. Since Ratatouille was one of the exceptions, we chose Thunder Mountain.
So we knew we would get a daytime ride on Thunder Mountain later that day. Our next step was to head over to the Disney Studios and get a normal fast pass for Ratatouille, the only other ride we really wanted to ride on a second time. We got the fast pass after about a 45 minute lineup, and hung out at the studios for a while. While hanging out waiting for our fast pass we rode the Slinky Dog ride, checked out the interactive Stitch show, took all kinds of fun picture, and were really reminded how much fun we've had at the Disney Studios Park. Sure there are a bunch of Disney aficionado who really hate this park, but for our trip it was really great.
After our ride on Ratatouille and a great visit to the Disney Studios Parks, we headed back to Disneyland to ride Thunder Mountain. It was as great in the day as it was at night. We then waited in line for the railroad, which had had really long lines every day we'd visited the park. We certainly didn't want to skip this classic Disney attraction, and we were really happy to ride around the park on our last day reminiscing about our fun time at Disney. After our railway adventure we had a bit of a conundrum. We didn't really know what we wanted to do last. There were a few rides we'd skipped, because we just weren't that interested. One such ride was the Autopia.
We thought since we were heading on a road trip right after this Disney adventure that the Autopia would be a little silly. Allison however thought that since she was doing all of the driving for the road trip, it was only right that I drive her around a little bit. We got to our car and the fun began. I don't think we stopped laughing once during the entire drive around the track. It was the perfect last ride on our visit to two really fun Disney parks.
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