First trip to DLP! Please help

[lalad21]

Hi everyone. well im heading off to disneyland paris in early June and staying in the newport bay hotel suites. There will be four adults and one child(age 5) and we are arriving early on a sunday morning and leaving late on the tuesday night so will be there for three days and two nights. Can anyone please recommend the must sees etc. and any nice recommendations for dinner, lunch and shows? also any tips for us? Thanks a lot!!

 

[Bolanette87]

Hi!!

I recommend for food recommendations, you head for the Restaurant Reviews sticky at the top of the board... This was an invaluable resource to me and my fiancee when we went to DLRP recently!! Personally, I would recommend Cafe Mickey (For a character meal) and the Rainforest Cafe (Big audio-animatronic Elephant- Kids love it!). The Trip Report sticky might help as well....

As for family rides for with your five year old I recommend Peter Pans Flight, Small World, Casey Jnr (Kiddies style-almost-roller-coaster!) and the Storybook boat ride (If the last two are open of course, they close in bad weather.). I also think Buzz Lightyears Laser Blast would be good fun for all of you! A word of warning, the Snow White Ride is meant to be quite scary for young children (I've never been on it owing to a lifetime fear of the hag from it!!) so I would check things like that out on Youtube first (Naughty people using cameras in the rides do sometimes prove useful!! ).

I would also take them to Disney Studios for the characters.... They would see quite a lot of them in here!!

Hope thats been of some use....

Bob xoxoxoxox

 

[jbrowna]

We just returned from 4 days with family, including a grandson age 7, and granddaughter age 4. If you can believe it, their favorite of all was Pirates of the Caribbean! And our granddaughter was terribly upset because she wasn't quite tall enough for Crush's Coaster. But she loved the cars ride (she is a cars fanatic, and will watch the movie every chance she gets). They both also loved the Casey Jr ride. Peter Pan gets awfully crowded, so we only rode it once, but we did Snow White a few times, and neither kid seemed to be bothered. So, what's scary for one kid isn't necessarily scary for another -- I'd advise you to just gauge how your own kid reacts, and go with the flow.

For relatively inexpensive meals, I'd recommend either the Bella Note restaurant in Fantasyland, near Small World (we never saw it crowded), or the Cowboy Cookout Barbecue in Frontierland (it can get really busy, but we thought the food was great, and not too over priced). We also ate at the big counter serve place inside Studio One in the studios, where our kids loved the pizza kids' meal.

Have fun!

 

[Ware Bears]

I'd also recommend cafe Mickey for a character meal. The characters are there at lunch and dinner.