MickeysFavouriteGirl
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- Aug 5, 2010
So, we'd booked the Ebookers deal (5 nights, 6 days at Hotel Santa Fe for a grand total of £221 for 2 adults, 1 child and 1 infant including park tickets!) so this is where the trip report title comes from as it was a super duper bargain!
Saturday 15th March:
We'd finally reached number 1 on the Disneyland countdown chart
The plan was to get up early (having loaded the car up the night before), travel to Chessington World of Adventures for their annual pass holders event then drive on to Rochester Premier Inn. Well..... dh ended up working very late on the Friday so the car would have to be loaded Saturday morning. Saturday morning came, alarm went off at 6am and the children were still asleep. Not being ones to turn down a lie in, dh and I snoozed the alarm and fell back asleep until 8.30am! We then got breakfast, got dressed, loaded the car and set off at 9.30am. Dh then announced he still needed to get fuel and check the tyres (supposed to be done on Friday grrr!!) So by the time we joined the M1 it was nearly 10am as I also had to drop 2 parcels of at our local Collect+. Chessington is a 3hr drive from us, traffic was okay until Bedford then we hit a 4 mile tailback due to an accident between a car and lorry this delayed us by 40 minutes. I made myself comfortable
Ds got very excited as we approached Heathrow, lots of planes landed over us. We were all a bit fed up of being in the car so decided to give up on Chessington and pop into Legoland instead. This was a big mistake. The crowds were huge - worse than last August bank holiday. I kept thinking to myself I really hoped DLP wouldn't be this busy! We didn't manage to get on a single ride, so we looked around Miniland instead and ds bought himself another pen with his name on (seems to be a bit of a tradition while visiting Legoland!!)
We left around 3pm and drove on to Rochester. We popped to an Asda en route to get me some sunglasses (I'd forgotten mine!) and some drinks for the hotel room and train tomorrow. I also stocked up on tissues and tablets as I knew I was coming down with something We arrived at the Premier Inn at 5.30pm, once checked in we added the meal deal - 3 course meal, drink and breakfast for £25 per adult (kids had free breakfast and the childrens meal deal was £5.95) We settled in to our room and went to meet the others who had arrived after us. Rochester Premier Inn is set on the banks of a river, we had a nice stroll alongside it to see all the posh yacht's parked up! This was the view from our window.
There is also a cinema, McDonald's, bowling alley and numerous other restaurants on the same site. It was certainly the most modern Premier Inn we'd stayed at. We went for dinner around 7pm, I had garlic breaded mushrooms, dh had duck parcels, we both had a mixed grill for mains and ice cream sundaes for dessert. The kids had dough sticks, sausage and mash and ice cream. Dh had a pint and I had a glass of wine. All in all the food was good, service very slow but we felt the food was good value for money with the meal deal (the mixed grill was £14.95 alone) We got to bed at 10pm, I pottered a little to ensure tomorrow morning would be smooth running, though by now I was feeling awful. I set the alarm for 6am, I could hardly believe we would be at DLP tomorrow after planning it for so long!
Saturday 15th March:
We'd finally reached number 1 on the Disneyland countdown chart
The plan was to get up early (having loaded the car up the night before), travel to Chessington World of Adventures for their annual pass holders event then drive on to Rochester Premier Inn. Well..... dh ended up working very late on the Friday so the car would have to be loaded Saturday morning. Saturday morning came, alarm went off at 6am and the children were still asleep. Not being ones to turn down a lie in, dh and I snoozed the alarm and fell back asleep until 8.30am! We then got breakfast, got dressed, loaded the car and set off at 9.30am. Dh then announced he still needed to get fuel and check the tyres (supposed to be done on Friday grrr!!) So by the time we joined the M1 it was nearly 10am as I also had to drop 2 parcels of at our local Collect+. Chessington is a 3hr drive from us, traffic was okay until Bedford then we hit a 4 mile tailback due to an accident between a car and lorry this delayed us by 40 minutes. I made myself comfortable
Ds got very excited as we approached Heathrow, lots of planes landed over us. We were all a bit fed up of being in the car so decided to give up on Chessington and pop into Legoland instead. This was a big mistake. The crowds were huge - worse than last August bank holiday. I kept thinking to myself I really hoped DLP wouldn't be this busy! We didn't manage to get on a single ride, so we looked around Miniland instead and ds bought himself another pen with his name on (seems to be a bit of a tradition while visiting Legoland!!)
We left around 3pm and drove on to Rochester. We popped to an Asda en route to get me some sunglasses (I'd forgotten mine!) and some drinks for the hotel room and train tomorrow. I also stocked up on tissues and tablets as I knew I was coming down with something We arrived at the Premier Inn at 5.30pm, once checked in we added the meal deal - 3 course meal, drink and breakfast for £25 per adult (kids had free breakfast and the childrens meal deal was £5.95) We settled in to our room and went to meet the others who had arrived after us. Rochester Premier Inn is set on the banks of a river, we had a nice stroll alongside it to see all the posh yacht's parked up! This was the view from our window.
There is also a cinema, McDonald's, bowling alley and numerous other restaurants on the same site. It was certainly the most modern Premier Inn we'd stayed at. We went for dinner around 7pm, I had garlic breaded mushrooms, dh had duck parcels, we both had a mixed grill for mains and ice cream sundaes for dessert. The kids had dough sticks, sausage and mash and ice cream. Dh had a pint and I had a glass of wine. All in all the food was good, service very slow but we felt the food was good value for money with the meal deal (the mixed grill was £14.95 alone) We got to bed at 10pm, I pottered a little to ensure tomorrow morning would be smooth running, though by now I was feeling awful. I set the alarm for 6am, I could hardly believe we would be at DLP tomorrow after planning it for so long!