This is a bit late, but thought I'd post a little something about our 1st trip to DLRP.
We went to DLRP (last minute trip) the last weekend of May. Drove up from Brussels on Saturday for 1 night.
Day 1 - Saturday:
We departed right after lunch and the drive took us 3 hours. There was one toll we paid at 12-13 euros.
Checked in at Citea Torcy. We booked this through bookings.com a couple of days before our trip. We paid 81euros for a one bedroom / living room / kitchenette with a microwave and refrigerator. We have 2 small children so the larger space was quite nice. This room was very, very basic (reminded me of a motor-home). But, this is what we expected and we did not mind. The rooms were neat and clean which is important to me.
After a short nap, we went to Disney Village. Had dinner at Planet Hollywood. I printed out a coupon from this link:
http://www.planethollywood.com/partners/VisaProgram_2008-2009/
which gave us 10 euro's off our meal. You have to pay with a visa card, but what a significant deal. Minimum purchase is 20 euro's, which you will have no problem meeting when you eat here. I heard meals were expensive, but wow -- I was quite surprised to see a children's meal at 13euro's each. (We are from the US, so I still do the US conversion thing so that's $20 US per kid!). Anyways, my 2 kids ended up splitting an adult meal which was less expensive.
Parking at Disney Village was about 4-5 euro's.
We had some rain on this day, but not a problem with our umbrella's and raincoats.
Day 2 - Sunday:
DLP!! : ) We got to the park a little before 10am. Went straight to the Guest Relations Window (to the right side as you are approaching DLP). Paid for one Francilien pp and a Fantasy pp (with free children promotion) and got our temporary passports in exchange.
Went straight to the Annual Passport Bureau (no lines!) and got our passports straight-away in about 20minutes.
**A little disappointed, however, when I found out I could not get reimbursed for the parking I paid that day. I was under the impression that they would reimburse me for this. I was told that they don't do this anymore? Parking was 8 euros.
We spent the whole day at DRP. We had a wonderful time!! Previous Disneyland USA fans and passport holders, we were not dissapointed w/DLP. In fact, we can't wait to go back again for a longer duration. We feel that there is still a lot more for us to see plus want to check out the Studios. The weather was perfect--warm, no rain, and longest wait was 30 minutes for the Pirate Ride. A perfect day. We ate fast-food lunch and dinner since we were on a tight schedule. With the PP discount, the meals for 4 were about 20euro's total for family of 4 for each meal. (We had our own water bottles with us).
We left the park around 7:00pm, because we had a 3 hour drive home.
I'll try to write more later, but am pressed for time...
Looking forward to more DLP memories!!
We went to DLRP (last minute trip) the last weekend of May. Drove up from Brussels on Saturday for 1 night.
Day 1 - Saturday:
We departed right after lunch and the drive took us 3 hours. There was one toll we paid at 12-13 euros.
Checked in at Citea Torcy. We booked this through bookings.com a couple of days before our trip. We paid 81euros for a one bedroom / living room / kitchenette with a microwave and refrigerator. We have 2 small children so the larger space was quite nice. This room was very, very basic (reminded me of a motor-home). But, this is what we expected and we did not mind. The rooms were neat and clean which is important to me.
After a short nap, we went to Disney Village. Had dinner at Planet Hollywood. I printed out a coupon from this link:
http://www.planethollywood.com/partners/VisaProgram_2008-2009/
which gave us 10 euro's off our meal. You have to pay with a visa card, but what a significant deal. Minimum purchase is 20 euro's, which you will have no problem meeting when you eat here. I heard meals were expensive, but wow -- I was quite surprised to see a children's meal at 13euro's each. (We are from the US, so I still do the US conversion thing so that's $20 US per kid!). Anyways, my 2 kids ended up splitting an adult meal which was less expensive.
Parking at Disney Village was about 4-5 euro's.
We had some rain on this day, but not a problem with our umbrella's and raincoats.
Day 2 - Sunday:
DLP!! : ) We got to the park a little before 10am. Went straight to the Guest Relations Window (to the right side as you are approaching DLP). Paid for one Francilien pp and a Fantasy pp (with free children promotion) and got our temporary passports in exchange.
Went straight to the Annual Passport Bureau (no lines!) and got our passports straight-away in about 20minutes.
**A little disappointed, however, when I found out I could not get reimbursed for the parking I paid that day. I was under the impression that they would reimburse me for this. I was told that they don't do this anymore? Parking was 8 euros.
We spent the whole day at DRP. We had a wonderful time!! Previous Disneyland USA fans and passport holders, we were not dissapointed w/DLP. In fact, we can't wait to go back again for a longer duration. We feel that there is still a lot more for us to see plus want to check out the Studios. The weather was perfect--warm, no rain, and longest wait was 30 minutes for the Pirate Ride. A perfect day. We ate fast-food lunch and dinner since we were on a tight schedule. With the PP discount, the meals for 4 were about 20euro's total for family of 4 for each meal. (We had our own water bottles with us).
We left the park around 7:00pm, because we had a 3 hour drive home.
I'll try to write more later, but am pressed for time...
Looking forward to more DLP memories!!
but it was disappointing about the parking not being refunded.
