How to pay for things at Disneyland Paris

trish.2rd

Hi, we are off to Disneyland Paris at Easter staying at hotel sequoia Lodge, and it is our first trip overseas as a family. I am looking for some advice on what is the best way to pay for things - travellers cheques - do they still accept them, Euros or pre-paid debit or credit card. Any advice will be very welcome.

Thanks in advance.
Trish :j

balletshoes

trish.2rd wrote: »

Hi, we are off to Disneyland Paris at Easter staying at hotel sequoia Lodge, and it is our first trip overseas as a family. I am looking for some advice on what is the best way to pay for things - travellers cheques - do they still accept them, Euros or pre-paid debit or credit card. Any advice will be very welcome.

Thanks in advance.
Trish :j

Oooh exciting family holiday :j!
I wouldn't take travellers cheques, its a rubbish exchange rate at DLP.
I use a combination of euros and debit/credit card.
At the onsite hotels you can register a credit card when you check in, then charge everything (souvenirs, restaurant bills etc) to your room. This means there is only one transaction fee taken from your credit card (from recollection its when your bill comes to around 350 euros, so you might have 2 transactions and 2 transaction fees, depending on how much you spend).
I've also used the atms at DLP with a debit card, only really adviseable if you're going to withdraw a fairly large sum of money, not little dribs and drabs, because of the transaction fee. But if you do it this way, you get the bank exchange rate, not the tourist rate. You will also get the bank exchange rate if your register your credit card with the hotel and charge to your room.

Hope this helps ,

sandsy

We used our Post Office Travel Money card when we were there.

jrs200

Cash and debit cards and on a very rare occasion we have used a credit card too.

Gorgeestwo

We're off there on Sunday and are taking Euro's and one of the Thomas Cook prepaid card's, will use our debit card if we need to, have a feeling we might lol
Hope you have a fantastic time.

bigblackdog

if its any help , we were there on saturday , my number one above all other tips is ...........take your own grub , the stuff they serve is really disgusting , have fun

trish.2rd

Hi - would love to hear from you if you have any tips on DLP when you return.

Trish

trish.2rd

Where did you travel from - we are going from Scotland for 4 days - can you buy food outwith the parks nearby ?
Thanks
Trish

balletshoes

Trish you'll get loads of great information and advice on this thread -

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/527819

and there are a fair few other DLP forums around, like DLPinfo, DISboards, DLRPMagic etc etc