How to book hotel and purchase ticket separately

[Woodview]

Frozen opens in March

 

[Teamubr]

Frozen opens in March

On the 29th.

j

 

[GenGen22]

I googled this as i wanted to do the same and read you would have to call them to book part of your stay without park tickets.

 

[steve_rob]

I googled this as i wanted to do the same and read you would have to call them to book part of your stay without park tickets.

And even if you did, you probably wouldn't save any money anyway. As explained previously on various threads, we've done the sums and you are better off just taking the tickets that come with the booking and ignoring the day you aren't going to use - it ends up being cheaper than the room only rates.

 

[Bad Pink Tink 2.0]

I googled this as i wanted to do the same and read you would have to call them to book part of your stay without park tickets.

The ONLY reason they have this option is for the Annual Pass people. And having an Annual Pass is the ONLY way it works out cheaper than having the standard hotel and park tickets package.

And even if you did, you probably wouldn't save any money anyway. As explained previously on various threads, we've done the sums and you are better off just taking the tickets that come with the booking and ignoring the day you aren't going to use - it ends up being cheaper than the room only rates.

Americans just cant get their head around this, they all insist on wanting separate tickets and hotel, we should just let them be and stop telling them, but then they will complain about how much money it cost to do Disneyland Paris.

 

[Teamubr]

Americans just cant get their head around this, they all insist on wanting separate tickets and hotel, we should just let them be and stop telling them, but then they will complain about how much money it cost to do Disneyland Paris.

Maths is hard.

I lead data and analytics teams, so I spreadsheet out the options. THIS American buys the package. I also prefer going to DLP. It is half the price of WDW (when staying at a moderate level hotel) for nearly as much fun, even when you include airfare. Now the 4 days I'm spending in Paris is another story.

j

 

[LKing]

Americans just cant get their head around this, they all insist on wanting separate tickets and hotel, we should just let them be and stop telling them, but then they will complain about how much money it cost to do Disneyland Paris.

It isn't that people don't understand, or that math is hard, but that it is a different policy than the other Disney parks. People who haven't previously visited DLP pose the question because they aren't sure if there is another way to make their reservations. Please don't feel obligated to answer questions if you find them repetitive or annoying.

@GenGen22 because of the extra park day, I cut one day off of my DLP hotel stay. The DLP hotels hold bags so we will spend our last day in the parks, pick up our bags in the evening, and stay in a hotel closer to the airport.

 

[GenGen22]

And even if you did, you probably wouldn't save any money anyway. As explained previously on various threads, we've done the sums and you are better off just taking the tickets that come with the booking and ignoring the day you aren't going to use - it ends up being cheaper than the room only rates.

Yeah im just leaving mine as is also. I would prefer to stay on Disney property the whole time.

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

Just wanted to note that a couple years back we went through the trouble of buying the middle night from Expedia or hotels.com in the same category — it was cheaper, I did the math— and it was a nightmare, our room keys weren’t linked to our tickets correctly for on site perks and we kept having to recheck in each day, I want to say maybe 3+ unnecessary (long!) walks to the front desk plus 1-2 hours at the desk and also getting held up for precious 10-15 minutes at rope drop, etc. Cannot not recommend strongly enough!

 

[LKing]

Just wanted to note that a couple years back we went through the trouble of buying the middle night from Expedia or hotels.com in the same category — it was cheaper, I did the math— and it was a nightmare, our room keys weren’t linked to our tickets correctly for on site perks and we kept having to recheck in each day, I want to say maybe 3+ unnecessary (long!) walks to the front desk plus 1-2 hours at the desk and also getting held up for precious 10-15 minutes at rope drop, etc. Cannot not recommend strongly enough!

Thank you! I appreciate you sharing your experience.

 

[Rob Huff]

It isn't that people don't understand, or that math is hard, but that it is a different policy than the other Disney parks. People who haven't previously visited DLP pose the question because they aren't sure if there is another way to make their reservations. Please don't feel obligated to answer questions if you find them repetitive or annoying.

@GenGen22 because of the extra park day, I cut one day off of my DLP hotel stay. The DLP hotels hold bags so we will spend our last day in the parks, pick up our bags in the evening, and stay in a hotel closer to the airport.

We're going to DLP for the first time in June for a couple of days at the end of a trip to Paris. We'll be in Paris Thursday-Monday, then head out to DLP on Tuesday morning to spend Tuesday and Wednesday at DLP. We then fly out of CDG on Thursday mid-morning.

Based on everyone's advice, it seems clear that we should book a room+tickets package for our two days. We haven't settled on the hotel yet -- this is a special trip for our daughter and she's likely to choose Sequoia Lodge, construction and all -- but while we'd love to stay at a DLP hotel on Wednesday night before heading to CDG, we really don't want to pay for a third day of tickets on a day where we won't be going to the parks at all while we'd love to stay at DLP on Wednesday night so we don't have to move hotels. Ugh.

It seems like the options are (i) swallow the big extra cost of the third day of park tickets (bleh), (ii) stay offsite and lose access to the extra magic hour in the morning (sad), (iii) book the one-night, two-day package through Disney, then move to an offsite hotel for Wednesday night (inconvenient), or (iv) maybe book the one-night, two-day package through Disney's site, then use a third-party booking service to book the second night at the hotel so we can (hopefully) stay? I highly doubt that DLP and Expedia/Booking.com will play nicely with each other and we'll probably end up having to move rooms anyway, which defeats the entire purpose of trying to stay.

Am I missing an alternative? And if one of the above options is the best choice, is the move from DLP property to a different spot in Val d'Europe easy enough to make it worthwhile?

I've been to WDW and DL so many times that I feel quote confident with both of those, but man, I am unsettled here. Thanks!

 

[Bad Pink Tink 2.0]

We're going to DLP for the first time in June for a couple of days at the end of a trip to Paris. We'll be in Paris Thursday-Monday, then head out to DLP on Tuesday morning to spend Tuesday and Wednesday at DLP. We then fly out of CDG on Thursday mid-morning.

Option 1
Tuesday : Arrive Disneyland Paris, check into Sequoia Lodge
Half park day
Sleep Sequoia Lodge
Wednesday : Full Park Day
Sleep Sequoia Lodge
Thursday :
Wake up in Sequoia Lodge
Breakfast in Sequoia Lodge with option to go to the park during early opening depending on what time you need to be at the airport.
Travel to Charles De Gaule Airport
Get on airplane

Option 2
Tuesday : Arrive Disneyland Paris, check into Sequoia Lodge
Half park day
Sleep Sequoia Lodge
Wednesday : Half Park Day
Travel to Charles De Gaule Airport
Check into airport hotel
Sleep at airport hotel
Thursday :
Wake up in airport hotel
Get on airplane

 

[Teamubr]

I would compare the price of a hotel near CDG and factor that into the cost. With the hotel packages, the ticket price seems like the smallest part. The other factor is missing the night time show on Wednesday night if you check out on Wednesday and move. If you are going after March 29th, you will be able to see the new show in Disney Studios/Adventure World. From the sneak peaks, it looks pretty impressive. (Think Illuminations/Luminous from Epcot).

I'm a big night time show person, so that would be the decision maker for me.

j

 

[imbelle]

I would compare the price of a hotel near CDG and factor that into the cost. With the hotel packages, the ticket price seems like the smallest part. The other factor is missing the night time show on Wednesday night if you check out on Wednesday and move. If you are going after March 29th, you will be able to see the new show in Disney Studios/Adventure World. From the sneak peaks, it looks pretty impressive. (Think Illuminations/Luminous from Epcot).

I'm a big night time show person, so that would be the decision maker for me.

j

In theory, would you be able to check out of a DLP hotel Wednesday morning, stow your luggage at the DLP hotel, spend the day at the parks until after the night time show, then pick up your luggage and take a taxi from the DLP hotel to the airport hotel? You might not get optimal hours of sleep but as long as you can get a taxi that late at night, it could be doable?

 

[Rob Huff]

In theory, would you be able to check out of a DLP hotel Wednesday morning, stow your luggage at the DLP hotel, spend the day at the parks until after the night time show, then pick up your luggage and take a taxi from the DLP hotel to the airport hotel? You might not get optimal hours of sleep but as long as you can get a taxi that late at night, it could be doable?

I think that this plan is going to carry the day. And if we take a late-morning flight instead of an early-morning flight, we might just move to a Val d'Europe hotel for our last night to make the end of the park day on Wednesday more palatable.

DVC is easier than this. But I do appreciate that DLP uses the hotels exclusively to fill the parks. Such is their prerogative. And they surely know the Western European tourist market better than me!