For those going June Half term & by Eurotunnel

[tennisfan]

Hi,

Just a bit of advice for those travelling to Disney in half term & by Eurotunnel. My uncle who is a manager for them has said to make sure you get there in time for your booked time as they are extremely busy (fully booked) in a lot of cases, therefore they will struggle to get you on another train if you miss it. Especially going out on the bank holiday

 

[JustJonathan]

Once again re-ignites my fears that the parks are going to be chaotic when we're there!

 

[jothp]

Thanks for posting. Just logged in to view my booking online and they have changed our return crossing and I have double checked and haven't had a notification from them. We only need to be there 10 minutes earlier so it won't make much difference. It seems they have added an extra crossing in that hour.

On the positive side there still seems to be space on the crossings a couple either side of both our outward and return journeys but we might leave a bit of extra time coming back just in case.

 

[ManCityMickey]

I've had at least 3 emails from Eurotunnel, advising us to do the same. It seems they are going to be VERY busy...

 

[Johnny_boy]

EMH all round I think! We certainly noticed the difference last year - went into Buzz just before the end of EMH, park practically empty, came out like a football crowd had just got out it was packed!

 

[cherrymarzipan]

Thank you for posting this. We are another of the June half-termers anxiously anticipating (and adding to) the crowds and would normally be using the tunnel. This time however we are travelling with DFDS which has taken over the Norfolk Line on the Dover Calais route - a bit longer but so much cheaper we thought we would give it a try. Looks like the Paris autoroute will be packed, I shall have fun spotting the GB plates and wondering who amongst them are Dis-board families!

 

[Rachandgarry]

Becoming so much more real now, its only a couple of weeks til we go, wheeeeeeeeeee!!!

We're going on Sat 2nd June by Eurotunnel, and I think I'll put a DLP / DISer sign in our car window (navy blue zafira) so honk if you see us!

Rachel x

 

[Jonjo]

Once again re-ignites my fears that the parks are going to be chaotic when we're there!

That was our conclusion too for this year, so we decided to skip this year and go twice next near.

 

[DLPDreams]

I know two families getting the eurostar but not going to DLRP - albeit they are probably not stopping at Marne la Vallee obviously .

Have their been extra trains put on with it being a school holiday/bank holiday? Are there extra trains running during normal school holidays - say summer? I have no idea as the eurostar is just too far for us to use. If there are just the usual timetabled trains then I suppose that could explain why it is extra busy maybe?

But the families above have also been told that it will be busy. Having said all that, the fact they are going to somewhere else in France indicates that not all Brits are rushing over to DLRP in the Jubilee week (I hope anyway!) .

On another thread we discussed the fact that the hotels are showing full, but many of us agreed that this is probably down to the fact that they do not operate on full capacity when in lower season (and the fact that only England & Wales are off school Jubilee week = lower season).

It can't possibly be as busy as summer/christmas when you have every man and his dog (or child!) off school .

I think it was DLPDaft who said of all the times she has been, she's found May half term the quietest as not all schools off. But, on the flipside, at May half term you don't get 2 bank holidays together usually.... She did say she noticed hotels were often full at that time but the parks did not necessarily reflect that fact - probably due to lower capacity of hotels.

See, I'm talking myself round in circles!

Whatever though, we'll make the most of it and as we are stuck to visits in school holidays, I still think this is going to be the least busy of them this year (apart from perhaps Feb which I wouldn't do as too cold! ).