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The Polurrian Bay Hotel  On Friday 20th July, just as the schools had broken up for summer, we decided to be a bit spontaneous and book a very last minute weekend away. We could only go for one night and didn't want to travel too far, so Cornwall seemed the perfect option. An hour and lots of searching later, we found that the Polurrian Bay Hotel near Helston had a room available. Having got a bit over excited I almost forgot to check whether the hotel was accessible. Bad news, no lift, and the only room available was on at least the first floor, if not the second. I immediately felt defeated as I couldn't see how we could do it. After talking it through with Mr S, speaking to a helpful lady on reception who had advised we could leave Miss S's wheelchair wherever convenient downstairs, and the fact there was a disabled parking bay right outside the hotel reception,  we decided to go for it and MAKE it work. This perhaps should have been our first clue that our gut...

Disneyland Paris There’s no getting away from it, we are Disney fans. In fact, I would go as far as saying we are a little Disney mad. We’re not one of those families that walk around the parks in full matching Disney clobber...we haven’t taken it quite that far, but pre-kids we had a couple of visits. Once to Disneyland Paris and on another occasion we managed to get an extremely cheeky, very cheap, last minute deal out to Orlando. Mr S spent his 26 th Birthday in Magic Kingdom being sung ‘Happy Birthday’ to (VERY loudly) by a large American Disney employee…he didn’t thank me for that one! Master S has also been a little spoilt having visited both Hong Kong Disneyland and Disneyland Paris (twice!) before Miss S arrived. Master S has been a huge Mickey Mouse fan since his first trip at 9 months old!  We had managed to keep this trip a secret from the children. All our planning and booking was done in ‘code’ when they were around which they didn’t manage t...