Disneyland Paris/EuroDisney - Questions & Answers

balletshoes

lawley1010 wrote: »

I have just booked to go to DLP in Oct this will be our first time, 2 adults and 2 children. We will be staying at Marriott's Village d'Ile-de-France and wondered if anyone had any experiences staying here, where to eat, anything nearby to do aswell as DLP. Also where is the best place to get tickets into the park, we are staying 7 nights but only need 4 days for the parks. Any advice really on anything would be helpful.

when in October are you going?
For 4 days in the park, an annual pass will be cheaper (if your children are aged under 12) than duration of stay tickets, if you buy them through cemultiavantages.
There are some annual pass blockout dates on 26th and 31st October, can you avoid those days to go into the parks at DLP? If you can, Fantasy annual passes cost just 125 euros through cemultiavantages, and for every one you buy you can buy a child's fantasy annual pass for 35 euros. Theres a joining fee of 20 euros for cemultiavantages, but that gives you a year's membership so you can buy as many annual passes/tickets as you like in that year for the one membership fee.
If you can't avoid 26th and 31st October for visiting the parks at DLP, you will need the Dream annual pass at 159 euros each - but if your kids qualify for the 35 euros passes, that will still be a cheaper option through cemultiavantages, compared with duration of stay park tickets.

eta - heres the link for the cemultiavantages annual passes, you may want to wait a couple of months before buying them, as you usually only get 6 months to change them to permanent annual passes at DLP on your first day there -

http://www.ce-multiavantages.com/404/passeports-annuels-promos.html

lawley1010

Thanks Balletshoes, the site you gave me is in French is there a way to translate to English, also is it ok to buy off this site from UK? I hope so as these are great prices. We are going from 12 - 19 Oct.

balletshoes

lawley1010 wrote: »

Thanks Balletshoes, the site you gave me is in French is there a way to translate to English, also is it ok to buy off this site from UK? I hope so as these are great prices. We are going from 12 - 19 Oct.

I think you can run the site through google translate?
12th-19th will be no problem then, theres one blackout date on 15th, but thats the only date in your trip that would be affected, so the Fantasy passes from cemultiavantages would suit you fine -

http://www.dlrpmagic.com/calendar/annual-passport-blockouts/

yes, theres no problem buying from cemultiavantages while resident in the UK. They send out the temporary passes in the post to you (I think its around 6 euros for the postage).

cdsmiler

balletshoes wrote: »

No you cant do that clare~ because any park ticket you get as part of a hotel package has no individual monetary value (the tickets will have ‘nil‘ or ‘forfait‘ printed on them).

That makes sense, and is what I thought. Thanks!

Clare x

choti

mutley74 wrote: »

did you save much using a French website?

Hi

I haven't bought the annual passes yet. My trip is in August so waiting til June to buy them... I hope the prices don't go up again!

cdsmiler

Me again!

Right, this trick with annual passes and then booking Disney hotels separately for 1 adult and adding another adult/s for the cost of taxes - what about breakfasts? Do the additional adults have to pay for breakfast on top?

And can the trick of adding an extra adult work in the Dream Castle / Explorers / etc? Same question regarding breakfasts.

I was asked by my father in law (we're trying to organise a big family trip - 3 of us (2 adults 1 child) will have annual passes for the trip, 2 adults won't. So we were going to buy two 1 adult 1 room all in packages, and add adults on arrival.) as he was concerned about this trick!

Thanks!

Clare x

balletshoes

cdsmiler wrote: »

Me again!

Right, this trick with annual passes and then booking Disney hotels separately for 1 adult and adding another adult/s for the cost of taxes - what about breakfasts? Do the additional adults have to pay for breakfast on top?

yes the additional guests added at check-in get breakfast too at the onsite hotels.

And can the trick of adding an extra adult work in the Dream Castle / Explorers / etc? Same question regarding breakfasts.

no - because when you book a room at the associated hotels, you are booking per person, not per room (this is whats different at the onsite hotels).

I was asked by my father in law (we're trying to organise a big family trip - 3 of us (2 adults 1 child) will have annual passes for the trip, 2 adults won't. So we were going to buy two 1 adult 1 room all in packages, and add adults on arrival.) as he was concerned about this trick!

Thanks!

Clare x

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking Clare about the associated hotels, usually they are way more expensive to book as a package through Disney because they don't get the big discounted packages like the onsite hotels do.

Typically if you're looking at the associated hotels, the cheapest way to do it is to book the hotel separately through travelrepublic, alpharooms, expedia, trivago etc etc, then buy park tickets/annual passes separately, for everyone.

cdsmiler

Sorry balletshoes, yes that wasn't clear. I was looking at the partner hotels with the 1 adult booking a room thing for just the 3 of us with annual passes for another trip - not for the trip with the in laws. Didn't explain that - I was being lazy. lol

Basically then, the Disney hotels don't REALLY care how many people are in the room or how many people are eating the breakfast?! lol As long as taxes are paid.....

Clare x

balletshoes

cdsmiler wrote: »

Sorry balletshoes, yes that wasn't clear. I was looking at the partner hotels with the 1 adult booking a room thing for just the 3 of us with annual passes for another trip - not for the trip with the in laws. Didn't explain that - I was being lazy. lol

Basically then, the Disney hotels don't REALLY care how many people are in the room or how many people are eating the breakfast?! lol As long as taxes are paid.....

Clare x

the way to look at it is - once you have booked an onsite Disney hotel room, you've booked the room. So you can add people to it up to the maximum of 4 guests aged 3 or over in a standard room (because all the standard rooms take 4 guests). Local taxes are standard in France, and breakfast is per person, so once the extra guests are added to the room, they are entitled to breakfast too.

The associated hotels all have different room layouts, they have rooms for 2, rooms for 4, some have rooms for 5 or more etc, so thats why you need to specify at the time of booking how many people you are booking into the room at the associated hotels.

lady123_2

Hi guys, I've booked a room at Sequia lodge for 4 nights, so I have 5 days worth of tickets.
Can I sell them as I have an annual pass?
I'm going to add my partner and daughter at check in we all have annual pass s.
Thanks