Qe are now one month away from Europe 2019. Things have been tweeked, Alton Towers was dropped. It is still Memorial Day Weekend to the weekend after July 4th(a Thurs).
On the Theme Park end
Disneyland
Tibidabo
We have stays booked at:
Port Aventura on opening day of Hotel Colorado Creek. Hope the toilets flush. Room comes with breakfast buffet and Express passes.
Europa Park at the new Kronasar Hotel.
A cottage on a lake at Puy du Fou
A park view room at Hotel Ling Bao at Phantasialand. This was their Sunday One Night Special, two days of tickets for 4, breakfast buffet for all and a single use Express Pass for each person both days in park. We also get 1 hr of ERT after the park closes on Taron and Raik. Sadly it looks highly doubtful FLY will be done by July.
And finally, we have a Tree House room with Breakfast buffet booked at Efteling. Two big bottles of their own Blond Ales are ordered to be waiting on me.
I have about a 5 day gap between Puy Du Fou and Phantasialand. The thought is we would fly to Copenhagen and hit Tivoli and back before Phantasialand. I have found out that Copenhagen is the most expensive place to stay this trip, I can get much more value for my points elsewhere, but Tivoli. The airfare is dog cheap, EasyJet with upgraded seats and two cabin bags for 4 is under $200 and the flight to Brussels is covered under my Excursionist perk via United with SAS with about 100 bucks in taxes. So, $25 bucks for a nonstop Copenhagen to Brussels. If I can't decide to swallow the hotel prices, we will fill in the gap with more days in France before taking a train to Brussels. I have to poop or get off the park on this, it the only days not booked, stay wise.
I have some wiggle room to squeeze in a couple of other parks, I depends on the Wife really. Walibi Holland and Toverland or Moviepark are possibilities.
The Daughter and I are hoping taking a side trip to Holiday Park just for Expedition Ge Gorce during our stay at Europa. Hopefully The Wife and son(neither coaster nuts) will let us do it while they hang at Europa.
Our first time to use teains as travel has us during the Eurostar(London to Paris), the Freccas (Rome to Florence, Florence to Venice), Eurocity (Venice to Munich via Brenner Pass) and Oui TGV (Strasbourg to Nantes). We'll use the local/Regional trains at Cannes to get to Eze, Genoa to visit Cinque Terre, Naples to get to Pompeii and to get around in Paris/Rome/Barcelona.
On the Culture/History docket
London Tower
Westminster Abbey
British Museum
Camden Market (hotel is very close)
Changing of Guards
Churchill War Rooms.
Sunset Inner Circle tour of Stonehenge/Salisbury /Bath
Cotswolds
Eiffle Tower
Louvre/d'Orsay
Paris Catacombs
Versailles
Gaudi sights in Barcelona
Roman ruins near Tarragona
Pompeii
Vatican
Colossium tour at Night
Accademia, Uffizi, other in Florence
St Marks and Doge Palace Venice
Glockenspiel in Munich, Hofbrau House for bier
Some of those famous Castles, just driving by
D Day sites, Utah and Omaha Beach, Ste.Mere Eglise, point du Hoc, American Cemetary
Bayeux Tapistey
Mont St. Michel.
Anne Frank House
That museum in Amsterdam
Kinderjik Windmills.
6 weeks, we'll either get divorced or start planing our Asia Grand tour for about 3 to 4 years out.
I'll.post a link to my Facebook page and set my updates to public to share the pics.
Thank goodness for the wonder that is Wifi Calling to stay in touch back home for free. We got an unlocked Galaxy S6 we'll get a sim card for Europe to have some data for Google maps and what not.