Family turn up at airport 'head to toe in Disney gear' to find dream Paris trip cancelled

An intensive care nurse was devastated when she turned up at the airport 'head to toe in Disney gear' with her family only to find their flight to Paris had been cancelled. Kelly Matthews had saved up thousands so she could take her son Noah, nine, and her mother Mandy to Disneyland, but had to call the entire trip off at the last minute.

Kelly, from Saundersfoot in Pembrokeshire, hoped the surprise trip would be an opportunity for her to spend some with her family abroad after a tough couple of years working through the pandemic as an intensive care nurse at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen. The holiday had already been rescheduled once due to coronavirus travel restrictions.

She said she spent about £2,000 on the holiday in total. The family stay were supposed to be staying in a hotel near the Disney resort between May 26 and May 29, Wales Online reports.

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Before travelling to Bristol Airport for their easyJet flight, Kelly checked for any delays on the app. But it wasn't until she checked again once she'd arrived at the airport she found out the heartbreaking news that their flights had been cancelled "with no reason".

Kelly, 35, said: "It was cancelled in the time it took us to get from west Wales to Bristol, and just four hours before it was due to take off. We tried to get on another flight but they were all fully booked; we tried to see if we could get to Paris from a different airport but it just wasn’t possible.”

Kelly and her family were left with no choice but to head home from the airport back to Wales on a long journey which involved getting caught up in horrendous traffic near Cardiff caused