DLP & other sights

princesspwrhr

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I've been promising my teens to take them to Europe after graduation for years- now the time is upon us to actually plan. We will be traveling late June 2016- me, two 17 year olds, a 12 year old and an 11 year old (all girls). Paris has been hit or miss on their wish list -Versailles, the Louvre, and Eiffel Tower have been the only thing on their hit list. Then one of them remembered DLP, lol. We are WDW veterans of over 15 trips so we're not unfamiliar with Disney parks, but we haven't been to Disneyland since DCA opened so the closeness of everything at DLP will be nice.

I'm trying to work out how to do the things they want and DLP in the 3-3.5 days I could allocate for Paris. Would it be better to just stay at a DLP hotel? Is there lift rail or just cab service into the city? With this thrown in I need to now look at different flights- any experience or ideas regarding flying into Paris then Eurostar to London? Or flying into London and taking the train to Paris and then back? Does it even matter? Is it feasible to do the things they want in the time we have? (Trying not to cut out migh of the stuff they wanted in the UK)
 
You'll need a day for Versailles, at least half a day for the Louvre and the ET you can gain time if you book in advance. Dlp really needs 2 days especially in June where it's not high season (but Spain and Italy are already on holidays) and the parks aren't open as late as a month later say

DLP is between 35-50 minutes by RER (like the metro but with fewer stops) from Paris and this is the cheapest option.

You would be better doing an openjaw flight and going by Eurostar between the 2 countries. The travelling will take again half a day at least and you need to add on transfers from the airport/city center and vice versa plus immigration, customs. On leaving France for example you have to be at CDG at least 3 hours before your flight

All this is going to eat into your 3-3.5 days :confused3
 
Thanks- when they started talking about the few things they wanted to do in Paris I had allowed 2 days. My time guesses were about what you suggested, so it's good to know I wasn't that off. Adding DLP threw my estimates out of the window. I'm trying to get them to give me a more narrow list of what they want. The reply is typical teenager- "everything" Apparently cutting out countries was already sacrifice enough. lol

As far as hotels, do you think it would be better to just stay at a DLP hotel the whole time, or split the stay and have a hotel in the city for at least a night?
 
The thing is the more you change hotels the more it is going to eat into your sight seeing time.

I think that either you are going to have to add time on or decide what is the most important as if it's Paris itself and Versailles you are better being based there and coming to DLP for just a day.

Versailles from DLP will take at least 1h40 for example

You need to look at the parks and decided there as well what is really different and what is the most important - Ratouille and Crush are rides that are unique to DLP so good to do, our Fantasyland is thought to be the most beautiful etc

If you plan well and start the day at park opening you can see the highlights of both parks then finish with Dreams and catch the RER back to Paris - It would be a packed, tiring day but lots of people do it :goodvibes
 





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