Disney Get Better Than This; Kids' Stuff; Take the Family On a Short Break to the Disneyland Resort Paris for Some Thrilling Rides, Bucketloads of Excitement, Some Well-Loved Characters, and All Sans Jetlag

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It's nine in the morning, I am being rattled about in a large tin box, and a robot is shrieking at me in French. I am shaken and confused. I realise that on Disney's George Lucas-designed Star Tours ride a certain amount of bone-juddering is to be expected, and I don't mind the crack-of-dawn approach to beat the crowds, but why the hell is this crazed android speaking French?

Disney is America, Mickey has to be the US's most widely travelled ambassador. Disneyland Paris is surely a US cultural territory, I thought we would be holidaying in France, under American law.

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Disney Get Better Than This; Kids' Stuff; Take the Family On a Short Break to the Disneyland Resort Paris for Some Thrilling Rides, Bucketloads of Excitement, Some Well-Loved Characters, and All Sans Jetlag

Well obviously he's speaking French, we are in France, and frankly I am instantly embarrassed ever to have expected otherwise. But I discover I am not alone when, tentatively I broach the subject with other travellers - just about everyone, it seems, is as misguided as I am. But there are some advantages to being in the French-...

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