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WWYD? We have a pre planned trip to Disneyland Paris Saturday?

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30andtired · 15/11/2015 17:50

More of a WWYD Grin

Planned trip with DP, DD, DS, and DParents. Flying and staying in one of the Disney hotels, won't be leaving the resort except for journeys from and to the airport.

We've never been before, it's a massive treat for the DC and DPs.

Will lose our money if we don't go. But can't really put a price on our families lives.

Torn between, it's done now so security will be even higher so it will be fine, and not a chance am I risking it.

WWYD?

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Topseyt · 15/11/2015 21:12

I am currently in Paris because I have been visiting my student DD1 this weekend. She is on a year abroad as part of her course and living in Montmartre.

I go home tomorrow. I'll be honest and say that I am glad I have been here as I would have been more worried just talking to her by WhatsApp, FB messenger or phone than actually being with her.

Security at the Disney park is pretty tight anyway as others have said (went many years ago). It will be even tighter now.

If it is open I would definitely go.

Without wishing to be flippant in any way, I think that people cancelling trips is just the sort of thing the terrorists wanted to achieve. Lets not let them win. Just be vigilant.

Paris is a lovely city, not a place to avoid like the plague. These attacks could happen anywhere. UK towns and cities are not immune either, but we can't spend our lives avoiding them all just in case.

You may even find it slightly quieter than usual. Go. Have a great time. Your kids will love it.

Anaffaquine12 · 15/11/2015 21:17

I would go. We went just after the last attach in January. We are going again in April.
The scary thing with these attacks is they could literally happen anywhere anytime. Unless we all plan to never leave our homes again then I don't think anywhere is completely safe.
Be prepared that there will be armed police/army checking bags but it won't take away from the magic, imo.

Floralnomad · 15/11/2015 21:23

We are going to DLP on Sunday , we are very regular visitors and it wouldn't cross my mind to not go . Equally we were in London this week and will be in London again next weekend ,all at touristy places - life's too short to worry about what ifs .

ForalltheSaints · 15/11/2015 21:26

Go.

I have four relatives in Paris (unharmed) and they along with others in the city would be glad if you did, I am sure.

ThatsNotMyHouseItIsTooClean · 15/11/2015 21:28

We're due to go a few days after you, OP. To be honest, I'd rather not go. Disney is such a western concept that I feel it could be an obvious target. But I live on the edge of London, commute in to the city a few times a week & so does DP and have various trips with the DC into London over the Xmas period, the same as we have done regularly over recent months. I know it was crass in the circumstances of whoever it was, but it is true that more people are killed in RTAs than were killed on Friday night and I go in the car with the DC almost every day. In summary, provided nothing changes (eg FCO or DLP advice) we will be going.

Unreasonablebetty · 15/11/2015 21:30

I would probably not go,
As in the daily mail- I know most people hate it!!
But in the daily mail there was an article saying that there was four people in a Citroen heavily armed heading to Paris as of yesterday afternoon, they'd have made it there by now but that alone puts me off.

Then there's the fact that someone said one of the airfrance flights had a bomb on, and the flight was brought down- it did continue its flight After checks--- but for me this is proof enough that in the day after the attack that security hasn't been stepped up enough to make sure 100% that the flight was safe.

Then of course there's the fact that they said this is just the start, which isn't the strongest of arguments... But combined with the first reason I said. There's no way.

I do however see it completely differently if you were going by Eurotunnel. That's right outside of Disney. I've heard the airport is an hours drive from Disney.

It's not the actual park that worries me, it's travelling around that's an issue in my eyes.

We were supposed to be going to France on the 7th January for four nights. I don't think it will happen now.

Tram10 · 15/11/2015 21:31

Just be prepared that people in Paris are extremely jittery and nervous at the moment.

Watching the news tonight and there was a stampede at one of the memorials in Place de la Republic, no on knows what happened, but they think a cracker or a car backfiring. It was scary to see people that terrified, running in all directions, taking refuge on the floor in restaurants.

That is an aspect I had not considered TBH.

DixieNormas · 15/11/2015 21:54

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Topseyt · 15/11/2015 21:56

Yes, there were a number of false alarms today, including Place de la Républic.

It is understandable, and as someone who lived in London during more than one IRA, bombing campaign, it almost invariably happens.

I would still go on a pre-booked trip to Disneyland Paris though. It is notoriously tight on security.

I travel home on Eurostar tomorrow so will have to be at the Gare du Nord. No choice. I shall just be vigilant, do as directed and go about it as I otherwise would.

LuluJakey1 · 15/11/2015 21:58

I flew to New York just after 9/11. Very, very high security. Felt very safe.

Unreasonablebetty · 15/11/2015 22:10

They've bombed Syria this evening... That seals the deal for us. No France for the foreseeable future.

Dowser · 15/11/2015 22:27

Definitely go. I flew to America 10 days after 911.

There was an armed air Marshall on board. My husband overheard a conversation between a non working stewardess and a working one. Nobody else knew.

BishopBrennansArse · 15/11/2015 22:32

The alert level there is the same alert level for the UK. There is no difference.

I'd go.

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30andtired · 15/11/2015 22:38

Well the fact France have just bombed Syria definitely throws a spanner into the works.

I guess I'll be deciding Friday and see how the week pans out.

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Dowser · 15/11/2015 22:41

Anyone could have planted a bomb in Milton Keynes shopping centre today. It was heaving. There would have been hundreds of casualties.

This threat is everywhere in the western world. Life has to carry on as normal.

Candypops14 · 15/11/2015 22:49

I wouldn't go, I wouldn't be able to relax and would be on edge

DrGoogleWillSeeYouNow · 15/11/2015 22:55

Not now I wouldn't.

France are bombing Syria as we speak and there was panic and chaos earlier after some kind of false alarm/loud bang.

Not my idea of a fun or pleasant trip.

TurnOffTheTv · 15/11/2015 23:04

France have been bombing Syria for weeks. It's only reported heavily now because of the attacks.

DixieNormas · 15/11/2015 23:12

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ElizabethG81 · 15/11/2015 23:16

I'll be going in a few weeks time, unless it's closed or the government is advising not to go.

Floralnomad · 15/11/2015 23:18

All those people saying they wouldn't go do you not plan to go to any shopping centres / bars / restaurants for the rest of your life ?

Dowser · 15/11/2015 23:31

Exactly Flora. It would have been the easiest thing in the world to have chucked a grenade into the shopping centre today.

The cinema tonight etc

We only hear of the bombs. No one ever says I was at meadow hall shopping centre today, it was great. No bombs!

I was at the man united football match the other day. Had a fab time. No one came out with a gun and shot everyone in sight.

Was at the Albert hall the other night. Thoroughly enjoyed the show and it was even better because a suicide bomber didn't come on stage and blew himself up and e eryone else around him.

DixieNormas · 15/11/2015 23:59

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GiddyOnZackHunt · 16/11/2015 00:13

I would probably be in a tizz but go. The security checks stopped single men entering the Stade de France. A single man attempting to enter DLP? Who goes to DLP as a single adult man? Or a group? Even if an innocent man rolls up, he's going to be subject to special scrutiny.
Getting anything on a plane from the UK is unlikely. And the same from France right now.

GiddyOnZackHunt · 16/11/2015 00:15

Dixie DH has to go to London for work. It isn't negotiable. Many people don't have the luxury of changing plans to go to London.