Day 13, from Venice to Mikey Paris

Breakfast at the hotel this morning before packing up and heading out to catch our taxi. We debated public transportation to the airport vs. two taxi options, one by land one by sea. We opted for the water taxi.

It was the right choice. Our driver (captain?) came right to San Barnabas Square and picked us up then motored us right to the hotel. Departing Venice on the water was a great way to say goodbye to this city.

The ride took about 30 minutes, half of it through the city and the other half through a neat freeway system through the lagoon to the airport. We got dropped off at a taxi stand which consisted of water taxis jockeying for one of the few passenger piers.

Our hotel said it would be a 10 minute walk to the hotel from the drop off point and so did many signs. It really took around 5 minutes so now we are calling anything that takes less time than expected a Marco Polo 10 minutes (Marco Polo is the name of the airport). We are also calling anything that takes longer than expected a Salzburg 10 minutes due to the long waits for Uber’s.

The flight took us over the beautiful Alps.

We made it safely to CDG Paris and to the CDGVAL train to terminal three where our little IBIS hotel is located. We chose this hotel since we have an early flight back home and since we won’t be spending time anywhere else (this trip) other than Paris Disneyland.

We threw our bags in the room after debating whether we wanted to go to the park and spend the money for 5-6 hours of park time. This was a good choice although it was a bit surreal cruising the canals of Venice in the morning then cruising the canals of its a small world in the evening. We were both sight-seed our though and mentioned as we entered the park that Disneyland would be the only place that could wow us at this stage in the game would be a Disney park.

A whirlwind of rides (Thunder Mountain 3x, Phantom Manor, HyperSpace Mountain, Buzz Lightyear, Small World, Snow White, Pinocchio and a great deal of walking around and enjoying the spacious park took us to around 10:30pm where we decided to call it a night. Pretty good since we started the day in Venice.