2 Days in the Park - Stay in Paris or near Disney?

[BadgerGirl84]

Hi! I'm new to the Disneyland Paris board.

I live in the states and my husband and I are planning a two week trip to Europe. We have never been before. We are going to fly into Paris (CDG) on May 12 and fly out of Munich on May 27. What we do in the time in between is still up in the air, but I definitely want to spend 2 days visiting the Disneyland Paris parks. One day at each park.

We will be renting a flat or hotel in Paris for a few days to see the sights (yes, I know, we would probably need the 2 full weeks just in that city alone to get a TRUE feel for the city). Is it easy enough just to take a train to and from Disney from Paris? From what I can gather, it's an hour train ride.

Alternatively, we could stay the night either on Disney property or at the Marriott property nearby (I have Marriott points). The only negative to doing this is that it would be one more check-in, un-pack, check-out.

Let me know what you would recommend! We just did a one week honeymoon in Walt Disney World and we have another WDW trip planned for October, so being "immersed" in Disney is not needed for this trip.

Thanks!

 

[JDUCKY]

My fiancee and I are wondering the same thing. We're heading in late March for about 10 days. We're probably going to stay on-site in order to take advantage of EMH but I'm wondering if crowds in late March would really make that necessary.

Plus, just not wanting to take a train in from Paris and back to the hotel and repeat/rinse the next day. But, our DLRP nights will follow our first night (which will be in Brussels) so we're kinda hotel-hopping anyway and won't be based for 2 weeks in the same place.

 

[A Small World]

It takes about 40 minutes from central Paris to DLP by RER line A (extension of the metro to the suburbs) however depending where you are in Paris you will probably have to get the metro toget the RER and may even need to change lines so this will add to the time.
If you can stay onsite I think you will find it much easier.

Dont plan one day in each park though as its so easy to park hop- its more like Disneyland California if you've ever been to that park- the 2 parks are literally a few minutes walking distance from each other.