Exporting large banner to pdf in InDesign - awkward way

Some new colleague has just asked me today to help her with exporting a large banner from InDesign CS5 for print.
The  banner is quite huge but InDesign - as well known to most except to  apparently her as a so called "Graphic Designer" - isn't suited for the  production of large banners rather being a text program with the  limitation of 5486,4 mm for each of the two axis.
The  banner that she has to print exceeds this length by far thus she asked  me for help today to figure out a way to export it and send it to the  print shop. It contains two blocks with black color, three text blocks  and a background image covering the whole banner. Resolution is fine for  the purpose of the banner print/material so don't mind this for now.
The important part and question is this...
I  have before had a similar job in my company doing a similar banner with  similar dimensions. However knowing that this would prove impossible to  create in neither InDesign nor Illustrator in those dimensions I decided to basically create it in Illustrator with only  vector graphics and outlined text with half the dimensions in either  axis direction of the real physical dimensions needed. In other words  50% of the physically requested banner size for the final print. I then  exported the Illustrator file to pdf and made an agreement with the  print-shop that they would upscale it to double  the size or in other words back to 100% of the size needed.
This little maneuver was a quick and easy solution of mine to a large banner request.
However  as mentioned the present banner was firstly created using InDesign -  which I think was a bad idea in the first place since I would have  personally recommended and preferred Illustrator - and secondly it  wasn't done with the right physical size for output in mind.
Now  while discussing how to upscale this banner my colleague begun going  into the print-dialogue in InDesign, chosing the "Post Script" option  (of the Post Script driver installed I guess),  then proceeded somehow to Adobe Distiller and started distilling a  version of the banner. The whole thing happened so fast that I can only  roughly recall this much but after the process took place the outcome  wasn't neither satisfying to her (somehow, don't ask me why) nor did it  seem to upscale the file.
I  then paused and looked confused for a second after which I asked her  what exactly she was trying to achieve with this action. The explanation  was - apparently - that this was "a standard procedure in a print shop"  where she had previously worked and that this "somehow was the best way  to export" in a situation like that. I am guessing here whether she  meant the pdf or the solving the actual problem with the banner size.
Anyhow  I then asked how this would make the banner or quality of it (or both  if taking it exactly) LARGER so the banner would resize to - say - 200%  if she was using half of the correct dimension size.
Now  I am always willing to learn something new and I admit that I don't  know everything (who does) but unless something really new has happened  in the last ten years that has given InDesign the ability of upscaling a  banner with the described content (and me having slept a long  beauty-sleep without my knowledge) I don't EVER recall having heard that  a procedure like THIS or ANY procedure in this situation would be  solving the problem UNLESS the banner's image has the double resolution which the  final banner print requires and is subsequently upscaled from 50% to a 100% in the  print shop.
I also guess that the export  -  Ctrl+E for InDesign or Illustrator - which I used the last time generates a  perfectly working pdf in this connection that any print shop would luckily  accept if just the rest is meeting their technical requirements for printing.
Now tell me that I am right because this really sounds odd to me...
Thanks for any input in advance.

Okay, thanks for the input.
So I do understand the answers correctly when I say that my solution and proposal fully works and that distilling is unnecessary when exporting to pdf from either of the two applications since it a) is a perfectly working solution in regards to the print shop and b) holds - largely - the same export settings as when accessing the Adobe PDF printer or Adobe Distiller. Could anybody confirm this with a "correct" or "incorrect"?
If this is correctly understood why all the different pdf export solutions? Is it just to make the options look a bit "bigger" and giving people more options to access the pdf-export settings?
I remember that when a colleague in our previous CS1 suite created a pdf with the Adobe PDF printer and I did the same using the Ctrl+E export pdf option (which were both done from within InDesign) we got two different pdf file sizes (in i.e. kB). Her's was actually smaller than mine. I don't know if this has changed in the newer Adobe CS versions in particular the latter CS5 and honestly I don't know why - except for the settings - there should be any difference. I am not 100% sure anymore since it's been about half a year ago or so but I think to be able to remember that our export settings were similar if not the same (most likely some of the standard settings).
Any thoughts on this one...?

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