Wondered if anyone could help?
I've been offered 2 tickets for Disneyland Paris in October FOC. I've looked into travel and accomodation, although only briefly as I'm at work,and I can't figure out what would be the best way to do it.
I wouldn't mind staying the night somewhere and making the most of a couple of days away. The tickets are only for one day in the actual park so I was thinking of maybe spending the other day in Paris as we've never been.
Has anyone ever done it this way? If so, can you recommend the best way of doing it? Money's tight so the cheaper the better (within reason). It could be our only holiday this year so I'd love to do it. If not I can say no to the tickets for someone else to have.
I will have a good look once I'm home but any advice/tips/experience before hand would be great.
Thanks.
We have just come back after a trip and the Euro Star train is amazing, just over two hour door to door, drops you 50-100 meters from the entrance for both the studio and the main park.
If you are planning to head to Paris after Disney, it a 15 stop train journey of about an hour, with one changover, we did that also 😉
The food and drink are mega expensive inside the resort, from memory, bottle of water was 4 euros, can of coke 6 euros, etc. Meals will not give you much change from £40 a head too!
Resort was amazing and our kids loved it, we have only been to the other one in Hong Kong, which felt much smaller.
Worth stocking up on food and drink before you get there.
Thanks Ski, makes me want to go even more!
Did you stay? If so for how long and where? It'll only be the two of us going. Was the train into Paris expensive? I've seen 2 tickets from the resort to Paris City for 60 euros.
Sorry for all the questions.
this is basically what we did last year but we stayed for two nights - flew to Paris (CDG); took the TGV to eurodisney; did Disneyland the following day then took the train into Paris for the final day; mooched around for a few hours and then train back to CDG and a flight home.
Was an experience (and the young 'un loved it) but I got back feeling like I needed another holiday ! 🙂
Train from Eurodisney to Paris was cheap I think - London tube type prices
I dont think we paid that much for the tickets, would have to check the credit card bill to be sure, but I think 4 singles cost me 40 euros on a Sunday.
We stay in the Disney Hotel for 3 nights, that backs onto the resort itself, my youngest has special needs and cannot walk far, so the train and Hotel was ideal, I know some of the hotels have been getting bad feedbacks for being dated and looking tired, but from the ones we visited, we did not think so.
If you do go, check out the Moteurs Action stunt show at the Studio, that was well worth the wait, great show for all the family.
Ski,Steve, Thank you both. For some reason I never even thought of Flying out and [b]then[/b] using trains. looks like I should be able to do it:-)
Thank you both.
There was a Eurodisney thread recently. I went in March and enjoyed it.
Obvious tip - if you're going for one day, make it a week day!
We drove it - Yorkshire to Dover on the Thursday and stayed at the Premier Inn right by the docks then got the early ferry and were booking into the on park hotel at midday on Friday. Paid for entrance that day and went back in for a full day the day after (which was free as part of a bundle), leaving the park at 5pm on the Saturday and getting the last ferry back. Was in bed for about 3am on Sunday morning.
To be honest I bet if you look at the newspaper/Sky/internet deals I reckon you could do it cheaper than trying to book all the bits separately - the whole lot cost us £110 for 4 people (ferry, entrance to the park for one day, hotel on-site including breakfast) as part of a deal in The Sun. Only extra costs were the second day's park entrance fee and the hotel at Dover (which is very cheap if you book well in advance).
And one day in the park won't be enough - there is loads to see and the queues can be long.
restaurants in the park can be hit and miss and very expensive.
Two exceptions were Annettes (Happy Days burger style joint - dear but very nice and very large portions) and a buffet restaurant themed on Ratatouille where Remy the Rat comes out during dinner to greet the kids. The food at the buffet was very nice and about 25 euros for an adult but eat as much as you want and actually a huge selection. Was the only one I felt like i'd had a proper meal. It's behind the Aerosmith rock n roller coaster.
If you are driving there is a 4star campsite about an hour or so away called Berny Riviere which probably does really cheap out of season deals for a couple of nights.
Added bonus of that site is (if you are a history buff) you can pretty much follow the line of the Western Front all the way back to the ferry if you avoid main roads. Quite an eyeopener the number of cemeteries along the way. The magnitude of it really hits you
Also the Cafe Mickey (opposite the Rainforest Cafe OUTSIDE the park entrance) do nice food (free for under 3s although they get the full child menu - bargain for us as we travelled with three under 3s 🙂
You need to book in advance but all the characters mill around the restaurant and the kids love it.
Ohh, and don't forget to tell them it is someone's birthday (even if it isn't) - all the characters come over and sing happy birthday and give you a cake. A great way to ensure the kids get the attention from the characters.