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So a few weeks ago I went to Fenwick’s Santa’s Cinema on the Rooftop. This year the department store is hosting Santa’s Grotto on the Rooftop where children can visit Santa and the elves.

New for this year they have added a cinema which shows The Snowman, the theme for their famous window this year, when Santa’s Grotto is open. On Friday and Saturday nights up until Christmas the cinema is showing a range of classic Christmas films.

On our recent trip to Disneyland Paris we stayed at Disney’s Hotel New York. It is a 4 key rating much like Disney’s Newport Bay Club Hotel we stayed in on our first trip (you can check out that review from earlier in the year.) We had this high on our list as a place to stay so we couldn’t wait!

So I’ve just returned from another amazing trip at Disneyland Paris!! I can’t believe I can say this was my 2nd visit of the year and this time I got to experience my first Disney Park event!

I thought I would do a review on the Halloween Soirée event as it only happens one night a year, the 31st, at DLP and it’s always good to know a bit more.

Once again it’s been a while since I’ve been writing blog posts this time it’s down to having one of the best and busiest summers of my life. Recap below..

So many of you probably know from my blog and social media (sorry not sorry for overload!) that I had my first trip to Disneyland Paris this month. It was an amazing trip made even better by staying at the parks Newport Bay Club Hotel.

The hotel is the biggest onsite and is based around a New England and nautical theme. So while that’s is specific character or film theming it has hints of the iconic Steamboat Willie cartoon and obviously Donald Duck. All of the main classic characters are incorporated (will explain further down.)

© Laura Merritt, 2018. (own photo)

I am beyond excited about the fact I have had my first ever nonetheless Disneyland Paris Trip! I love all things Disney and always have so this has been my dream. I went to Walt Disney World when I was 3 with my grandparents and cousins for the millennium celebration, but I was so young.

This trip was a girls Disney trip making it extra special!

I love planning trips anyway but this trip was so magical to plan and look at every detail! Since it was my first trip I found it really helpful reading blogs/watching vlogs in helpful things so thought I would do one too!

© Laura Merritt, 2018. (own photo)

We might be at the end of the month but right at the beginning of it I went with my Mam to the see Torvill and Dean’s Dancing On Ice The Live Tour at the Metro Radio Arena. I was so excited to see it after loving the TV series since it began.

I can honestly say it was one of the best shows I have ever seen and I do tend to see a lot. There was everything you could want from a show like this.

So you may have seen on social media platforms I handed my dissertation in and am now on the home stretch to graduation..eek!

This means I haven’t really had time to do a focused post so thought I would just tell you a little bit on what I did it on as it is a subject I am passionate about. Also with the most recent events of the whales beaching in Australia it was even more relevant to talk about the issue.

I was looking at ‘How the British press portrayed events of whales being affected by climate change within the newspaper industry over the last decade.’

So if you know me or read my last post you’ll know I visited New York last August. Obviously I posted pictures and shared my travels on social media and the main things people commented on was how it looked like we had an amazing time (we did!) and how they couldn’t believe how much we had done.

People kept saying ‘can I take you with me on my trip’ or could I plan it for them, so I got the idea of narrowing it down to 10 ways to help you have the best trip.

Before I get onto those just a bit of background. I’m lucky that my trip in 2017 with my mam and dad for my 21st Birthday was my second having previously visited in 2013 with my grandparents and cousins.

So because it was my second trip I knew exactly what I wanted to do and when I was determined to make it so we could all have the time of our life.

Ok enough chit chat, it was hard to narrow down and it may be a bit wordy but sometimes you’ve just got to haha anyway .. here’s my top 10 tips in no particular order…

So i have wanted to do a blog post about this since I took the tour on my visit to NYC last August and 5 months later I’ve finally got round to it!

This was my second visit to the Big Apple and was hoping to do a tour that was something different to what I had done on my last trip and at the same time really experience New York. We (I took the trip with my parents) had family visiting NY a few months before us so it was very handy to hear about their trip to help with ours!

They told us of this great pizza tour they had done with A Slice of Brooklyn Tours … I heard pizza and was sold!