EuroDisney

[BobbyRach]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has been to EuroDisney and any recommendations as to hotels etc?

We have been to Disneyland and Disneyworld prior and have decided last minute that Eurodisney may be good in September this year!

Also we want to go to the Eiffel Tower in Paris can you do a day trip there from Disney?

thanks so much!

 

[cola]

They stopped calling it Eurodisney quite a while ago, it's Disneyland Paris Parks or something like that now.

It's about 45min-1hr train trip into Paris, sorrt of like Ipswich to Brunswick St and just as salubrious. There are also lots of tours available from DLP, for a price. The only place getting to is easier from DLP than from Paris is the airport - there is a 10min glitzy express train right from DLP to the CDG airport , it's fantastic. DLP is pretty much east or Paris.
If you want to go to Versailles, it's pretty much west of Paris, so as far away as you can get.

I stayed a few days in Paris, and a few days at DLP (New York Hotel) DLP was a bit cheaper than Paris, but it is a long way out, and I wouldn't want to get the train in the evening. There are multiple entry web pages into the disneylandparis website which control your language and the discounts you see. It is worth checking the different country websites for different discounts. I found the Ireland and Belgium ones usually had the best discounts (.ie and .be) but the UK site (.co.uk had some). It is worth juggling your dates around and trying different country sites, it's quite crazy the differences a Sun-Tue on the uk site vs a Mon-Wed on the ie site can have. You also have to remember, DLP is pretty much a drive to resort for many countries, so they don't have to plan well in advance, discounts are usually not available well in advance (more than 6 months) wherever you book.

 

[Aust]

I was in Disneyland Paris just last week, for one and a half days (we took the Eurostar from London, then took the train to Paris itself for a few days).

We stayed at one of the Disney hotels, Sequoia Lodge. It's one of the mid priced hotels and reminded me of a lesser version of the Grand Californian. We liked it, room very comfortable, and about a 10 minute walk to the parks. Hotel New York is more expensive but you'd only be saving yourself less than 5 minutes walk. The Disneyland Hotel is beautiful and located over the entrance to Disneyland but is very very expensive.

Be prepared for much less variety in places to eat (both in the parks and in Disney Village, like Downtown Disney) compared to Disneyland in California (I haven't been to WDW). And the food is very expensive also.

When planning our trip I believe I read on the Disneyland Paris website that you can do day bus trips to Paris itself for sightseeing. Or you could take the train, it's about a 45 minute journey. (We had an additional 30 minutes added onto that lining up to buy tickets!). Depending on how much you want to see in Paris it would make for a long day travelling by yourself. And the train system can be scary at night. (Have to say I wasn't a fan of Paris in general, I felt quite unsafe some of the time, especially on and around the metro, but a bus trip to sightsee would have been ok).

 

[Teaspoons]

We're going to have our first Disneyland experience in Disneyland Paris this October we're going for 4 days on our way home from 3 weeks in England.
I booked through the English website last October and got 2 nights/2 nights free which was about £1000 for Hotel New York. (Expensive, but ok in my eyes for 4 days/nights, I wouldn't pay it for just 2!)
We are arriving from London on the direct Eurostar on Friday afternoon, we are going to do a day trip into Paris on the RER on the Saturday, then Sunday/Monday in the parks, and flying home to Perth from CDG on Tuesday.
As per above there are 2 days trips you can do organised by Disney but its pretty straight forward to catch the train into Paris, we're going to pre-book tickets the Eiffel tower for 10am opening, then do a HOHO bus tour around the city. I want to go to Laduree and that's about it - we really are only going to have the tiniest taste of Paris this trip but our focus is Disneyland not Paris itself. (We thought it'd be foolish not to see it all though)
The Disneyland Paris section of the forum is brilliant for information

 

[gogo65]

Just a word of warning about per booking Eiffel tower tickets in advance. I recently bought tickets online for May, my friends wanted the 8pm time slot, I got on at exactly 6pm Sydney time, 8am Paris time 3 months in advance, kept pressing refresh, by the time I had finished the transaction there was only 2 time slots left, so get in early and book!
When I prebooked our tickets in 2011, it was nothing like this, I'm not sure if they have reduced the number they sell, or it is just getting popular to prebook ( well worth preboking otherwise wait time averages 2-3hours), or whether they will release more tickets closer to the time.

 

[BobbyRach]

Thanks so much everyone for the helpful information! We haven't booked yet so better get onto it - last minute decision to go! I have been to Paris before and the only thing my nephew wants to see is the Eiffel Tower so that is all we are going to be doing there! Thanks for the advice about pre-booking tickets for the Eiffel Tower as well - better start looking at that too!!

 

[Teaspoons]

Thanks for the heads up on Eiffel Tower tickets GoGo - I've put the date 3 months out in my calendar!!

 

[zanzibar138]

We spent 5 nights at DLP last year. We stayed at one of the off-site good neighbour hotels in Val d'Europe (Hotel l'Elysee). The hotel was great - clean, modern, spacious rooms - I've heard many of the Disney hotels are well past due for renovation. I forget exactly how much it was now, but I think it was about AUD$100 per night for 3 of us, so much better value than any of the Disney hotels. There was a free 10 minute shuttle bus, or if you didn't want to be restricted by that, there was a train station directly across the road which is just one stop to DLP for a very reasonable price.

Another reason we enjoyed being off site was because food was much cheaper and better outside the parks. We were just across the road from a big shopping centre with some great restaurants in it, and plenty of other eating options in the area. The area was great, we never felt uncomfortable walking around, even late at night.

Paris is very easy to get to on the train (although it's a long-ish journey). If you just want to see the Eiffel Tower you should be able to get back well before dark. Having said that, we did catch the train at night a few times, but within Paris and only for a couple of stops. It did have a bit of a dodgy feeling about it.

 

[gogo65]

Thanks for the heads up on Eiffel Tower tickets GoGo - I've put the date 3 months out in my calendar!!

Your welcome!!