It was a dream holiday to Disneyland Paris for a Nailsea family with five children even if the journey home turned into a bit of a nightmare.

Friends and local businesses had rallied round to send little Logan Marsh who was born with a rare type of acute myeloid leukaemia on a trip of a lifetime with his four siblings and parents Craig, aged 34, and Sarah, 30.

A special Logan’s Wish fund was set up and supported by Tesco Nailsea to pay for the holiday which should have been from Tuesday to Saturday, July 21-25.

In little over eight weeks the fund raised £3,000 for the special four day stay.

It was decided dad Craig would drive the 434 miles via the Euro tunnel because of all the necessary medical paraphernalia needed to keep Logan well.

It proved a major undertaking especially adding the luggage for seven plus two pushchairs and taking out comprehensive travel and medical insurance.

But with Chloe, 11, Oscar, nine, Toby, seven, Logan, four and one-year-old Harlow all safely aboard it proved an uneventful road trip out and an exciting first few days on the fantastic Davy Crockett Ranch, a 15 minute ride to the main Disneyland Paris activities.

But said Sarah it was on route back to this base on day two of the holiday that the family Toyota broke down despite spending more than £1,000 fitting a new head gasket and radiator to ensure the car was roadworthy prior to the trip.

A caring Disneyland Paris stepped in and moved the family to a hotel within walking distance of the centre and the RAC were contacted about getting the car repaired.

But this is when they got the bombshell as French mechanics valued the car at £1,000 and the repairs at 2,500 Euros – nearly £2,000 at current exchange rates.

It was announced the car wasn’t worth repairing.

The RAC did agreed to pay for the rail fares home but when no train could be found via the Euro tunnel they said the £250 bill for the boat ferry would have to be borne by the Marsh family.

And that’s when their troubles just escalated.

It became an epic test of endurance with missed trains and several re-bookings of the boat ferry, taxi dashes and long walks in the rain while all the time the added anguish that Logan’s meds were running low.

There were paperwork complications to sort with initially the RAC saying they had the wrong bank card invalidating their insurance, then the taxi arrived at railway station a few minutes late and although the train was still standing on the platform they were forbidden to board which led to another overnight stay.

The second attempt was also nearly thwarted when station staff couldn’t find their RAC booking and they were going to be stopped travelling again.

Sarah Marsh said: “At one point we only had five minutes to run to a platform on a busy rail station with the bags, buggies and five children – it became extremely stressful.

“I cannot fault Disneyland Paris they went above beyond anything I could have of wished for but at the station staff were so unhelpful with other passengers pushing and no common courtesy.

“We did manage to keep smiling for the children but at times we felt like the McCallister family in the Home Alone film about a trip to Paris.

“The dash at Calais was horrendous – the older children pushed the buggies while Craig and I juggled the luggage and it was pouring.

“Logan doesn’t maintain his body temperature well and he was crying with the cold.”

The family arrived home two days late at 3.12am on Monday, July 27, via three French train changes at Lille, Flanders and Calais.

The stay at Disneyland Paris was everything the family hoped for and more but not the journey home.

Sarah described Disneyland Paris as ‘awesome’.

Despite the horror of the journey home Sarah maintains it was a trip of a lifetime.

She said: "I'd do it a million times over look for the joy Disneyland gave all my children.

"I've never cried so many happy tears and I actually went to bed tired out happy."

The latest update is the RAC is asking for £811 ‘repatriate’ the car and £17 a day to ‘store’ while the Marsh’s get the additional finance together.

Friend Sarah Davis had coordinated the fundraising appeal and actually did a trial run by road to Paris to check there wouldn’t be any unforeseen problems for the family.

She said: “This little boy has been through more in his short life than most of us could imagine going through in a lifetime yet he is one of the funniest, loving, happy children you could hope to meet.”

Logan’s long term prognosis is unknown.

Because of damage caused by chemotherapy and other life-saving treatments every night Logan has to be connected to a ‘feeding tube’.

But he remains funny and resilient and most days he has been well enough to attend his Church Lane pre-school.

Next term Logan is due to start at ‘big’ school another milestone his family or the doctors never thought he would make when he was born.

Although the future is still uncertain his family are determined to focus on the here and now and making memories like the Disneyland Paris adventure.

Sarah Marsh is a stay-at-home mum who also runs a small face-painting business called Sarah's Spectacular Smiles and dad Craig works at Kingshill Church School at Pound Lane.

While Sarah Davies who is married to Ryan, a customer experience manager, and runs Country Craft Cakes an online store selling non-edible gifts for small people and their parents.

Whatever the outcome and even if the RAC relent with the extra charges the Marsh family have incurred many more out-of-pocket expenses that could reasonability be expected.

Therefore the online fundraising account is still open at http://www.gofundme.com/loganswish.

A big thank you if you feel you can help and to Nailsea photographer Leah Bingham Hill for the lovely family pictures.

STOP PRESS: Late on Tuesday afternoon this week an RAC spokesman contacted by www.nailseapeople.com said: “The RAC would like to apologise to the Marsh family for all the difficulties they experienced in getting back to the UK after their car broke down in France.

“As it was not possible to provide the family with a hire car due their circumstances we made arrangements for them to travel back to the UK by train.

“Unfortunately this did not go smoothly due a booked taxi turning up late, resulting in them missing their train, and then the following day there was difficulty making a connection in Lille on their rearranged train journey which led to them missing their planned ferry.

“As a gesture of goodwill the RAC would like to reimburse the family for the £250 ferry crossing and related re-booking fees.”

Sarah Marsh said: “It is good news that the RAC is now covering the ferry tickets home.

“We now just have to pay to get the car repatriation and storage which means we have to find another £731 which is a massive amount for us to find.”

Sarah Davies added: “I still feel they should contribute to the repatriation costs as they have refused to get a second opinion on the costs for the car.”

Most of the unresolved dispute centres on the cost of the repairs which differ greatly from the estimate given in France to one quoted by a UK garage and whether the Marsh family should have to pay any repatriation costs - see clause right.

Below is how we reported the story in December 2014.

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