Hi guys, i know this seems really boring but does Disney/Yummy Jobs refund our travel expenses for the face to face thing?? They arent that expensive, i found a bus for £20, but i'd ideally like to get a plane/train which would be another 12 pounds or so, add that to a hotel room and it mounts up! Anyone got any idea? Cheers, Dan
No they don't. If they had to pay for the 200 at least people every time and every country, then they'd be paying out an awful lot of money!! It's one of those things we just have to accept, I'm afraid! Charlotte x
They definately don't dan, its up to yourself to fund your trip & accommodation if needed. I paid out about £100 for my day in london with accommodation. However if you get in disney pay for your one way ticket, which you pay for once arrived and they will reimburse u with that money upon completion of your 12month contract. hope that helps xxx
Thanks Guys, I thought i'd give it a shot, most graduate schemes im looking at seem to refund travel expenses for people who get to face-to-face interviews. But I guess for disney they are only getting 1 year out of you so it's probably not worth it! Looks like the national express it is then ;D This topic can be locked now if you want
So when you guys are accepted you have to pay for your own plane fair over to Orlando and Back again (at the end) but Disney will give you back that money as long as you complete your contract with them?
I think that's right....or you just buy a one way ticket and they give you the money back at the end.....any way it's done, you get some money back at the end so long as you stick out your contract til the end....but who'd be crazy enough to leave early!?!? I've looked up hotels for anyone who's interested....and from what people have said (and pictures I've seen online) the Novotel West is the closest (and looks very nice! all spacey and blue!)....think I'll be going there...I think room prices are pretty reasonable for central london but seeing as there seem to be loads of us, maybe we could pair up and share, thus cutting the cost....just an idea! 2 months, how exciting...must get a suit soon!! (and a hair cut, and new shoes, and new bag.....) Ellen xxxx
lol i thought that too! If you like I don't mind checking out a few hotels and recommending some to you guys )seeing as i'm down here anyway) x You're best bet is to stay outside of London City centre, i.e. Croydon or somewhere. It'd be soooo much cheaper and its really easy peasy to get into London from there. ;D Let me know guys if you need any help or ideas on anything
Well I'm definately going to stay at the Novotel if its the closest. There is no way I wan't to be trying to find my way around London the morning of my interview. I'll be so worked up as it is and the underground scares me If anyone want's to share a room I'm quite willing to share. I suppose the interview will be on a friday - if so I think I'll come down and stay Thursday and Friday nights and go back home on late saturday. I'm going to do some serious shopping and I think I'll go and see a show in the west end. I don't know how expensive train travel is from where you all live but from Manchester to london it's around £60 return! It's actually cheaper to fly but I think I'll be getting the National express as its only £2 return! I can't wait till February -I'm so exited!
I know what you mean about the Underground. It's not that uit's scary it's just sooo stuffy and all fake air and i hate it down there. I much prefer to walk or bus it somewhere I think my lack of liking for the underground stems from the first time i went to london on my own, it was to meet my dad from work and i got lost under there and ended up walking for about two hours trying to get out again! :-\
Poor you! The thing I really hate about the underground is the escallators! They are so high I think I'm going to fall down one when ever I get on one - I'm not particularly good with hights which, considering I want to be an Air Hostess isn't a good thing I've been on the subway in new york at rush hour. That was fun ;D I had about $500 in my pocket and the guard was telling everyone to be careful as there were pickpockets on the train. Needless to say I didn't take that much money on with me again.
lol x Yeah there is always the way you have to walk around clutching on to your bag for dear life. Then some poor innocent sod bumps into you by accident and you launch a mase spray attack on him I just feel like a lemming as well though, its just everybody travelling in the same direction, at the same pace, with the same expression on their faces. It's like a scene from some really naff futuristic si fi movie where the government has taken over the world and our lives are no longer our own Errr, ok, no more pepsi for me today i think! lol x x Imagination taking a life of its own there
I LOVE London, never been to New York but I'm sure I'd love it there too!! I love the fact that you can just job on the underground, it make the city soo much smaller than it actually is!! Me and my mum where there last weekend (went to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Brilliant by the way!! Well worth the trip! And I got to see Steven Gatley, I was such a huge fan of his when I was 10!! Cant wait for Mary Poppins!) and I love the culture and everyone one going about their business and in the same place but all thinks and talking and doing different things! Kerry Damn! I haven't even had Pepsi and Im rambling!! I think the Christmas spirt is starting to work its magic on me!!
I don't hate London, just the underground, (Urgh!) I'll agree with you about the city having loads of culture and it's a wonderful place. I love the way you feel walking round London, maybe it's just the fact that you know your surrounded in so much history. It's tres cool!
I used to have a massive tube phobia! Whenever i used to go there on my own the tube stopped randomly, or i was running late, and its a running joke that i got nosebleeds a couple of times!! Now i dont mind it too much, i dont mind the whole walking like lemmings thing. And i once dragged a huge suitcase froma hotel on 80th street in NY to the bus station on 34th street using the metro! Never again! I've found a bus for £5 return from Newcastle so may get that- make the whole trip £35 which aint too bad!
No, I live in Durham, it's about 15 minutes from Newcastle. It's cheaper to book tickets on the bus from Newcastle though for some reason, even though its further North than Durham
Cool 8) My mum moved up to Gateshead in April I'm going to see her at Christmas, it'll be the furthest north i've ever been! (I think its north of Scarborough isn't it?)
Hey! Sorry its taken so long to reply to this. Gateshead is way north of scarborough! I remember when i came up to durham passing leeds, york, leaving North Yorkshire, etc and wondering just how north we were!! I think its about an hour south of Scotland!
