Other Places to visit in Paris with Disneyland?

In my view if you are taking your car do not drive into central Paris, the traffic conditions are scary for someone like me who drives in London. Parking will also be very expensive so stay at Disneyland or somewhere else in the 'burbs and take the RER train into Paris to see the sights, your nerves will thank you for it

We staid for 2 nights, three days too via a true half price deal via NHS Discounts. To be honest, by the end of day 3, we were just filling time in the park.

Travelled on Tesco clubcard vouchers through the tunnel, so managed the entire break for around £250 I think.
I do remember when I tried to book the tunnel tickets, they said they had ran out of the clubcard allocation for that day. But they did have tickets for 1am the following day. We left Paris around around 8pm, got to the tunnel by 11, and they give us an earlier crossing. Hope by half 0030 UK time.


If you stay in the resort hotels, then you get access to the park about 90 mins earlier than people who are not. The resort hotels are more expensive though.

Their buffet breakfasts are good though, and if you mange to sneak a few bread roles and nautella pods to feed the kids while in the queues. We took a plugin cool box to plug into the hotel room so we could make sandwiches for for lunch. *much* cheaper than the junk food in the park.
There's a shopping centre and hyper market about a mile away form the park, so you can buy more supplies, or have a cheaper restaurant meal.

As for other things to do. There's park astrix, north of Paris, but you'll probably be theme parked out. In Paris there's of course the Eiffel Tower, we enjoyed the River boat tours. The art museums may be a bit much for the young kids though. The best place for eating in Paris is in the Latin quarter on (I think) the south side of the river much cheaper than other places, but still only 5 mins walk from the river if I remember.

There's good quality appart-hotels around CDG airport including the E-Tap (I think that's the name) which has rooms that can take 2 adults and 2 children (which is uncommon in France) . It's about 1hr drive from CDG to DisneyLand, so you could do 2 nights in resort then 2 more nights around CDG getting the Metro or train into the center of Paris (You can also get the train from CDG to DisneyLand if you wanted to stay in CDG all the time)

There's also the Nausica centre in Bouloigne, just down from Calais which is well worth a visit. Leave Paris by 8 in the morning on your last day, be there by 1130ish, spend 4-5 hours there before getting an evening shuttle back. (or the dover-bouloign ferry crossing is a possibility too)

Simon_c wrote: »

There's good quality appart-hotels around CDG airport including the E-Tap (I think that's the name) which has rooms that can take 2 adults and 2 children (which is uncommon in France)

Etap tends to have identical rooms to Formule 1, but with a toilet/shower cubicle in the corner. That is, a double bed with a single bunk over it crossways. There may be other designs of rooms though that are different The 2 year old may sleep in a travel cot on the floor anyway!

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Actually, thinking about it, the best place to get good city views from high up is the Montparnasse Tower. It is an ugly office block next to Montparnasse Station, so you can see all the other sights, but not itself When I went there was no queue, relatively cheap, and a reasonably priced (for Paris) cafe at the top.
http://www.tourmontparnasse56.com/

signol