Disneyland Paris/EuroDisney - Questions & Answers

shoe*diva79

Anyone recommend the best place for a Euro Disney late deal? Leaving on 10th or 11th Nov for 2 night?

balletshoes

shoe*diva79 wrote: »

Anyone recommend the best place for a Euro Disney late deal? Leaving on 10th or 11th Nov for 2 night?

last minute.com? Trivago? Laterooms?

lolamancity

Evening MSE'ers... normally i'm a bit of a holiday nerd if i'm honest, but my expertise lays with Ibiza and Majorca - DLP is a whole new kettle of fish for me and i'll admit to struggling to getting my head around it, mainly on account of being bobbins at geography and having no geographical awareness, and i've never been to France... chuck in some life changing head spinning unexpected recent pregnancy news and the subsequent worst ever morning sickness, i'm not even finding a place to start at the moment! Any help would be much appreciated.

So... as i'm pregnant, the latest i can holiday will be mid-March 2013 - i've found return flights for £104 pp (will be 2 adults, and my 4yo) from Manchester, which is much more reasonable than i expected. I really doubt driving would be a realistic option for me at that point of beached-whale resemblance with a very easily bored 4yo - it's just too long a drive.

My next issue is the hotel. I had grand plans of one of the all singing all dancing hotels with 12 million themed swimming pools and 19foot beds, i remembered staying in when i was younger at DLFlorida, but it seems it's not the same at DLP As i'll undoubtedly be in the middle of moving house at the time, i need to keep costs to a minimum, but, also greedily, this will be our last holiday for quite a few years, so i'd love to give my son a blast before his comfy little world is upturned by a sibling he won't be prepared for, so was thinking swimming pools and wall to wall Disney characters! Am i right in assuming that even though the hotels have much heftier price tags, with the cost of the DL park entrance for 4 days, it would be cheaper overall to stay in an actual Disney hotel as park entrance is included? A few people have told me to stay outside the park in one of the cheaper but more-for-your-money hotels, but i can't do that if the cost of park entrance is astronomical. SO which is the better option??

I have looked roughly at hotels from 18th March 13 for 4 nights and the only realistic priced Disney hotels are the Santa Fe and the Cheyenne. The reviews for both are a bit from what i was expecting for Disney hotels. Am i just expecting too much, or is there somewhere better other than Trivago/Expedia to look for the other higher rated Disney hotels for more reasonable prices?

Is 4 nights for the 3 of us do-able for a budget of about £700? (that's inc the £320 flights, so say £400 for a hotel for 4 nights?)

Huge thanks in advance
(if anyone ever wants advice about Ibiza, give me a shout )

balletshoes

lolamancity wrote: »

Evening MSE'ers... normally i'm a bit of a holiday nerd if i'm honest, but my expertise lays with Ibiza and Majorca - DLP is a whole new kettle of fish for me and i'll admit to struggling to getting my head around it, mainly on account of being bobbins at geography and having no geographical awareness, and i've never been to France... chuck in some life changing head spinning unexpected recent pregnancy news and the subsequent worst ever morning sickness, i'm not even finding a place to start at the moment! Any help would be much appreciated.

So... as i'm pregnant, the latest i can holiday will be mid-March 2013 - i've found return flights for £104 pp (will be 2 adults, and my 4yo) from Manchester, which is much more reasonable than i expected. I really doubt driving would be a realistic option for me at that point of beached-whale resemblance with a very easily bored 4yo - it's just too long a drive.

My next issue is the hotel. I had grand plans of one of the all singing all dancing hotels with 12 million themed swimming pools and 19foot beds, i remembered staying in when i was younger at DLFlorida, but it seems it's not the same at DLP As i'll undoubtedly be in the middle of moving house at the time, i need to keep costs to a minimum, but, also greedily, this will be our last holiday for quite a few years, so i'd love to give my son a blast before his comfy little world is upturned by a sibling he won't be prepared for, so was thinking swimming pools and wall to wall Disney characters! Am i right in assuming that even though the hotels have much heftier price tags, with the cost of the DL park entrance for 4 days, it would be cheaper overall to stay in an actual Disney hotel as park entrance is included? A few people have told me to stay outside the park in one of the cheaper but more-for-your-money hotels, but i can't do that if the cost of park entrance is astronomical. SO which is the better option??

I have looked roughly at hotels from 18th March 13 for 4 nights and the only realistic priced Disney hotels are the Santa Fe and the Cheyenne. The reviews for both are a bit from what i was expecting for Disney hotels. Am i just expecting too much, or is there somewhere better other than Trivago/Expedia to look for the other higher rated Disney hotels for more reasonable prices?

Is 4 nights for the 3 of us do-able for a budget of about £700? (that's inc the £320 flights, so say £400 for a hotel for 4 nights?)

Huge thanks in advance
(if anyone ever wants advice about Ibiza, give me a shout )

if you were looking a month ago, you'd have been able to get the Sequoia Lodge just about in your budget for your dates (Disney had a 40% off offer on). The offers right now are not great.

I don't think, from what you've described, you're going to be happy outside the Disney bubble , so the Sequoia Lodge, if a good offer comes back, would fit the bill I reckon. So I'd hold off, I wouldn't book anything right now (except your flights if you think the prices may increase on those). Avoid a Saturday flight/check-in date if you can, as thats the most expensive day of the week to check in at DLP.

At DLP, your hotel, park tickets for the duration of your stay, and breakfast each morning, is included in the price.
You can visit any of the onsite hotels (including the Disneyland Hotel) to meet the characters, have a drink, a meal, visit the gift shop etc, you don't have to be staying there to do this.

snaphappyone

Thanks for your reply Balletshoes. Will think about Sequoia Lodge then, sounds nice. Have plenty of Tesco vouchers in hand as we are coming round to the idea of taking the car all the way. At least we won't have the rubbish Eurostar boarding panic in Ashford with 3 little ones, luggage and a buggy if we do. Will hang on for a 40% offer to book the hotel.

Will be back with more questions when I have pondered a bit more.

cdsmiler

lolamancity - congratulations on your pregnancy!

Where will you be driving from? We used tesco vouchers to pay for the tunnel, drove from London (stayed with family the night before!) down to DLP with a 2 1/2 year old and it wasn't too bad at all! Also, you can take as much luggage as you like, and bring back whatever goodies you like too! lol

schofield8883

Any one know of any cheap day tickets? Thinking of going over on ferry day trips thank you!

lolamancity

balletshoes wrote: »

if you were looking a month ago, you'd have been able to get the Sequoia Lodge just about in your budget for your dates (Disney had a 40% off offer on). The offers right now are not great.

I don't think, from what you've described, you're going to be happy outside the Disney bubble , so the Sequoia Lodge, if a good offer comes back, would fit the bill I reckon. So I'd hold off, I wouldn't book anything right now (except your flights if you think the prices may increase on those). Avoid a Saturday flight/check-in date if you can, as thats the most expensive day of the week to check in at DLP.

At DLP, your hotel, park tickets for the duration of your stay, and breakfast each morning, is included in the price.
You can visit any of the onsite hotels (including the Disneyland Hotel) to meet the characters, have a drink, a meal, visit the gift shop etc, you don't have to be staying there to do this.

You are wonderful :T Thanks for your reply. Think i'll just have to grow some patience and hope for a 40% deal some time soon! Just had a quick look at the Sequoia and it is out of budget at the moment - just my luck to have missed any discount! Where's the best place to hear about discounts and are they quote often? through the Disney website directly, or do websites like Trivago offer cheaper prices? Hoping the flights stay at £100 each until there's hotel deals to be had

Thanks again!

balletshoes

lolamancity wrote: »

You are wonderful :T Thanks for your reply. Think i'll just have to grow some patience and hope for a 40% deal some time soon! Just had a quick look at the Sequoia and it is out of budget at the moment - just my luck to have missed any discount! Where's the best place to hear about discounts and are they quote often? through the Disney website directly, or do websites like Trivago offer cheaper prices? Hoping the flights stay at £100 each until there's hotel deals to be had

Thanks again!

Keep checking the offers on the official DLP site, sign up for Voyage Prive DLP offers too (its free to sign up and occasionally they have great deals) and yes, keep checking trivago.

toadhall

Hi all, we (two teenagers and hubby and me) are going to the Magic Circus hotel on the 29 - 31 Oct with 2 free sky tickets +2 extra for the 30th. Is there anything we should know/do/ not do? The girls don't know we are going and I'm getting excited now
We are driving and ferrying, two weeks today