We left our apartment 745am and walked to our local metro stop. We had discussed the possibility of booking an airport transfer, but decided it was ridiculously expensive, and not needed. The metro in Paris is fantastic, and we only had to change once to get to CDG Airport. I was paranoid on the train though as we met a couple on Eiffel Tower tour who were robbed while catching the train from the airport into Paris (poor things, on their first day of their holiday), and lost their passports, money etc - everything important), and it was in their inside jacket pocket. I was like WOW - i can't believe they can get to it so easily. Pretty scary! So since I am SO paranoid we didn't have any issues.
So we got to CDG and through the line for Malaysian Airlines in record time and were then through passport control with 3 hours still to go to our flight. So we wandered about the terminal (pretty sparse space - quite disappointing), and had a snack. We regretted going through passport control so early as the food court was outside of it, and all we had was a few little convenience cafes which only had basic stuff. Also going to the gates was so annoying... they only let you to the gate section 1 1/2 hours before your flight so you have to stand around - there were lots of irritated people!
I did manage to visit "Laduree" which is a famous macaron store over there, and bought some macarons! I love them.... I think I love the little boxes they come in just as much as the macaroons!
Once we finally boarded our flight we were set.
BJ, Isabel and Keenan were sitting together, while Aidan and I were across the aisle in the centre. Aidan had a spare seat next to him and a single guy on the far seat. So pretty good seating really. The flight was 12 hours long so dragged and only Izzy slept (only for 30 mins or so). I read a few books, watched some shows and just tried to get up and move around a lot.
When we arrived into KL we got through pretty quickly and jumped onto the KLIA Express train into KL Sentral train station. It was $40 Australian for all of us - much cheaper than a transfer. We then got a taxi from KL Sentral to our hotel which cost the grand total of $7 Australian - SO cheap! Our hotel - The Parkroyal - is just gorgeous. We are in a family suite which has 2 double beds and a rollaway bed which is perfect for us.
Once we arrived at the hotel (around 9am), we straight away got into bed and slept til around 2pm. It was tough making the kids get up but we knew if we didn't they would sleep all day. We then walked to the local shopping centre (across the road), and had some lunch (Nandos), and bought Izzy some swimmers for the pool from H&M. She left her swimmers at home. After that we headed back to the hotel and chilled out and got room service for dinner later on that night.
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