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Disneyland Paris
Has anyone been?
I'm still perusing holiday ideas for when I go see BF in May, and thought this could be fun.
If you've gone, was it a good experience? Did you go with a park/hotel deal and book flights seperately?
I expect it will be too expensive, but thought I'd take a look anyway. I think it would be really fun.
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Re: Disneyland Paris
I went back in October for Halloween. It was really crazy busy. Not sure if it was because of the holiday, but I think it was.
From what I understand you can get much better deals if it's booked from the UK, so if you do it, have your bf book it. He should be able to find good package prices. We stayed in Paris and it was an easy enough trip to get there.
I didn't think it was that expensive. I've been to Disney in Orlando a ton, so maybe I'm just used to high prices for theme park stuff? I don't know. I felt like the prices we paid for food were comparable to the prices for food in Paris. It seemed like the restaurants all had the full menu where you had to order meal, dessert, drink. Less a la cart than the Disney World in Orlando. There were some souvenir-type things that I thought were cheaper than in Paris, but they all had mickey on them of course.
I wanted to book the hotel there, but thought it was just too expensive and didn't want to switch hotels with a one-year old.
I went and LOVED it! But I was ten so no wonder I loved it. My mom and I stayed at the Cheyenne resort, it was entertaining and the rooms where clean, as far as I can remember. Although I'm sure much has changed/improved since then.
I remember Main Street, Aurora's Castle, Alice's labyrinth (lovely!), Captain Hook's ship and underground boat ride... It was fun!
We took DD back in November and stayed the Sequoia Lodge. It was overall a good experience. It was pretty cold when we were there (not too surprising for November) and I didn't find it too busy at that time of year.
Because we had a two year old with us, I was glad we stayed at a Disney hotel since it was very convenient to get to and from the park.
It was expensive, but that is to be expected when going to Disneyland.
I absolutely love Disneyland Paris. Haven't been in a few years but heres my two cents:
I went in September, and then in March a couple years later. No queues whatsoever. Really nice time to go.
I like Paris much much better than Magic Kingdom in FL. For comparison, the Paris castle you can go into, and downstairs for the dungeon and dragon. There's a Christmas shop inside the Paris castle. (I've heard that Magic Kingdom are creating castles for each princess now though). Magic Kingdom is roughly the same size as the Paris park, and much more expensive.
Disneyland Paris has its own metro station. You can buy a day ticket and head into the city... it was around 7.50 euros in 2008.
Their studio park is smaller than universal in FL, but has the same sort of stuff and a nicer feel imo.
Even if you go for like three days, it's so absolutely different that its like a real holiday. All the hotels, all the little buildings... it's really nice and quaint.
I always got the Disney brochure from one of the travel agents (I think usually Thomson) and just bought a deal from there. In 2008 we got 3 nights, 4 days, flight, accomodation/breakfast, park tickets for about ?350pp. Eurostar was much more expensive (but an experience if you fancy it). I've stayed at Sequoia Lodge (three star) and bah... can't remember the name. The naval/ship themed hotel, which is a higher three star rating (and was the 2008 one). Both are about a (nice) 10 minute walk from the parks around a nice big lake you can go boating on.
Hope this helps.
Apologies for the wall of text...