Our Disneyland Paris trip planning information for 2025 covers information & suggestions for visiting the theme parks in France, plus lodge critiques, restaurant suggestions, trip scores, and theme park itineraries. It’s present information and recommendation, with common revisions primarily based on what’s new & subsequent at DLP and Walt Disney Studios Park. (Up to date October 13, 2024.)
Disneyland Paris is in a time of transition. The thirtieth Anniversary is over and Disney mainly punted on debuting something new for the Summer season Olympics. As a substitute, the Walt Disney Studios Park (WDSP) is at the moment a building zone in preparation for its reinvention as Disney Journey World. Because of this, World of Frozen and Journey Bay have been delayed, and a brand new Lion King Delight Land has been introduced.
Within the meantime, the second gate at the moment generally known as Walt Disney Studios Park is a veritable building zone, with the entrance of the park torn up and building ongoing on the lake, new areas and sights. It will stay the case till mid-2026 when the reimagined Disney Journey World emerges and new additions begin to debut. For the subsequent couple of years, there isn’t something new or notable, other than a few nighttime spectaculars that’ll debut in 2025.
Whether or not you might be contemplating a day at Disneyland Paris–the most well-liked vacationer vacation spot in Europe–as a part of a non-Disney journey to France, or are an enormous Disney fan planning a world journey for Disneyland Paris, this information has you coated. We are going to element all the pieces from inns to eating, and reply the necessary query of when is an effective time to go to Disneyland Paris?
First, a little bit of a primer about Disneyland Paris. Positioned in Marne-la-Vallée, which is definitely a suburb of Paris, Disneyland Paris is about 45 minutes from town heart by practice–and considerably nearer to Charles de Gaulle Airport. The complete resort consists of seven official Disney-themed inns, a number of companion inns, the Disney Village leisure and procuring district, and the 2 parks: Parc Disneyland and the Walt Disney Studios Park.
The resort as an entire of Disneyland Paris is bigger than Disneyland Resort and smaller than Walt Disney World. Whereas we’d by no means advocate visiting France and solely seeing Disneyland Paris, it’s a bona fide trip vacation spot in itself if you happen to needed to make it one. Furthermore, Parc Disneyland is a fully superb theme park, very similar to the unique Disneyland, albeit with far fewer rides. It does have a treasure trove of lovely particulars, seasonal leisure, and rather more.
The truth is, in our Greatest & Worst Disney Theme Parks within the World publish, Parc Disneyland ranks #4, forward of common parks like Disney California Journey and Epcot. It largely scores so excessive due to its magnificence. Earlier than I get forward of myself gushing over Disneyland Paris’ magnificence, let’s cowl the query of when you must go to Disneyland Paris…
When to Go to Disneyland Paris?
In case you have your alternative of dates and seasons for visiting Disneyland Paris, our robust suggestion can be to go to Disneyland Paris throughout spring, fall, or winter, significantly throughout shoulder seasons exterior of France’s peak vacationer seasons. Particularly, we love Christmas at Disneyland Paris (see this Data & Ideas publish), which is a superb time to go to as long as you keep away from Christmas week by way of New 12 months’s Eve.
We sometimes advocate avoiding the months of June by way of August, each due to crowds and up to date warmth waves which have swept over Europe the final couple summers. The one draw back to not visiting in the course of the summer season is lacking the seasonal leisure, which attracts rave critiques. Nevertheless, nothing is well worth the poor climate and crowds.
Talking of which, we discover the climate to be greatest in Paris in April and Might, and late September by way of November. These are essentially the most temperate occasions of the yr, and although it may well snow within the winter, it’s normally not too chilly in mid-November. (Mid-to late December is perhaps pushing your luck, although.)
Christmas is a wonderful time to go to Disneyland Paris and Walt Disney Studios Park for a flurry of further seasonal leisure, and for the attractive decorations throughout the park. Plus, you can not beat the texture of the Metropolis of Paris in the course of the vacation months.
When you’re considering extra long-term, there’s additionally the query of whether or not to go to now or to attend. As mentioned above, there’s actually nothing that’ll debut in 2025, other than nighttime spectaculars, so it actually relies upon upon your time-horizon.
For all the pieces else coming to Disneyland Paris and Walt Disney Studios Park, seek the advice of our Information to What’s New & Subsequent at Disneyland Paris. That covers the entire initiatives slated for the parks and inns, when you’ll be able to anticipate new sights to debut, resort closures, and refurbishments.
In fact, there’s quite a bit to France past Disneyland Paris and also you also needs to plan your journey dates round when it’s greatest to go to different spots in your itinerary. Town of Paris is our second-favorite metropolis on the planet, and we extremely advocate spending at the very least a number of days there.
As for touring to the remainder of France and inside Europe, we extremely advocate it! We provide intensive journey suggestions in our Final Information to Paris, France over on TravelCaffeine.com, our non-Disney journey weblog. That’s an excellent place to start out planning the opposite days of your trip.
We’ve visited a number of areas in Europe, together with Normandy, the Loire Valley, and Côte d’Azur areas of France. Outdoors of France, we’ve traveled to Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Germany, and the UK.
Whereas we love Disney–and Disneyland Paris–many of those different real-world areas have been the highlights of our journeys. Europe is stuffed with superb locations that go away an indelible mark on an individual. There’s a lot past the parks at Disneyland Paris, and actually one thing for everybody. From historical past to trendy tradition to shady purple mild districts (as a result of we’re so positive Disney followers are into that form of factor! 😉 ), there’s actually one thing for everybody.
If this has you tempted to journey to Europe to see Disneyland Paris and different lasting cultural experiences, or if you happen to had been already planning a go to and need extra information and suggestions, let’s begin planning! (All hyperlinks open in new tabs, so be at liberty to click on away and head down the rabbit gap!)
How Many Days?
Primarily based upon the foregoing, when planning a visit to Disneyland Paris, you shouldn’t simply plan a fast journey to see Disneyland Resort Paris, however also needs to plan on visiting at the very least Paris and one other European metropolis or two. On our first journey, we flew into Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, then spent equal quantities of time in Disneyland Paris and Paris, earlier than taking the Eurostar to London after which flying out of London’s Heathrow airport.
In terms of Europe as an entire, you must go to for as many days as you’ll be able to. The truth of issues is that trip time is finite, and journey is expensive, so most individuals most likely are perhaps per week or so on the holiday. My robust recommendation can be to try to stretch the journey to at the very least 10 days even when that requires saving cash and trip time a bit longer.
How a lot time you’ll wish to spend on every leg of your journey is basically a private query. When you aren’t a Disney fan and are simply going for the sake of your children or as a result of it’s in your listing of highlights close to Paris, my suggestion would most likely be to only go for 1 day, spending it solely at Parc Disneyland, experiencing a number of the greatest sights, and having fun with the ambiance.
If you’re a Disney fan, I’d advocate 3 days at Disneyland Paris. There’s quite a bit to discover in Parc Disneyland, and the park is extremely detailed, so planning on allocating 2 or 2.5 days for that park is advisable. On our journeys to France, we’ve finished as few days as 2 and as many as 5. Two felt like too few, and 5 was too many.
Most individuals can accomplish the Walt Disney Studios park in half a day or a day. There may be an assortment of pleasant sights there, however the park is generally ugly. I wouldn’t downright encourage anybody to skip this park, but it surely’s not going to be the spotlight of anybody’s journey. It’s getting higher, and ought to be a park worthy of the “Disney” identify by 2026.
The perfect a part of Walt Disney Studios Park is the La Place de Rémy mini-land, which is sort of a “Streets of Paris” space primarily based upon Ratatouille. In case your curiosity is piqued on this space, take a look at my Ratatouille: L’Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy Assessment and Bistrot Chez Rémy Assessment. Avengers Campus can be a pleasant addition, though the economic model is extra of the identical at WDSP. Finally, if you happen to solely have at some point to expertise Disneyland Paris, skip the Studios and simply do the Disneyland park.
Along with time for exploring Parc Disneyland and the Walt Disney Studios Park, you’ll want to put aside a little bit of time to discover the inns and Disney Village, too. The inns are fairly cool, whereas Disney Village is a largely dated, unhappy tackle Downtown Disney. The highlights of Disney Village are Earl of Sandwich and 5 Guys, that are nice late night time meals after the parks shut.
Relying upon your stage of curiosity and stamina, seeing these areas can most likely be completed after the parks shut, relying upon what time the parks shut. Throughout my visits, even on busier days, the newest the parks closed was 10 pm; many nights the parks closed as early as 7 pm.
Most Parisians eat late dinners, so lodge eating places are often open till 11 pm or 12 am (with the bars and lounges open even later), giving us ample time to benefit from the inns after our days on the park had been full. Throughout the summer season months, the parks could also be open till 11 pm or midnight, so you’ll have to seek out one other time to go to the inns and Disney Village.
Trip Packages
When you’ve decided what number of days to go to Disneyland Paris, you have to determine whether or not a trip bundle is for you. These work quite a bit like trip packages at different Disney Parks in that they will include a lodge, park tickets, and meal plan, or only a lodge keep.
Most of the greatest reductions for Disneyland Paris bundle these elements collectively. The truth is, to save cash on a lodge, you nearly at all times need to buy park tickets from Disneyland Paris (until you might have an Annual Move). Generally, the low cost will likely be for a share off the room, generally it can embody free a Half Board or Full Board Meal Bundle (extra on this beneath), generally it’ll embody free park tickets, and generally it can embody free nights.
For instance, Disneyland Paris promotions usually embody 30% off a room plus free Half Board eating and purchase 2 nights get 2 nights free at a lodge. (Each promos embody park tickets.) Alternatively, there are lodge reductions obtainable for Annual Passholders of as much as 40% off. All of those reductions are fairly consultant of what’s usually provided.
What additional complicates issues is that completely different variations of the Disneyland Paris web site (e.g. the UK model, Belgium, Germany, and so forth.) supply completely different costs for a similar promotion. I just lately priced out a December journey, and it was ~$120 dearer on the U.S. web site than the U.Okay. web site. Since you’ll be able to ebook by way of any of those websites, no matter the place you reside, it’s greatest to comparability store among the many completely different variations of the location, and ebook the place it’s least expensive.
This could all be fairly difficult if you happen to’re a beginner, significantly given the language boundaries and default currencies on the assorted Disneyland Paris websites. Nevertheless, it’s value it since you’ll save essentially the most cash this fashion. Other than the comparability procuring to get the perfect worth, planning a Disneyland Paris trip is simple as in comparison with a Walt Disney World trip.
Getting There
I’m going to make the belief that anybody studying that is flying to Europe from abroad, not a European driving to Disneyland Paris for a day journey (if you happen to’re driving and in search of recommendation…attempt Google Maps, I assume?). From Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris there are three fundamental choices: TGV, RER, or VEA shuttle.
The TGV is the perfect of those choices, and it drops you off proper exterior Disneyland Paris’ gates. The method could be very easy; head to Terminal 2 and buy a ticket for the TGV at a kiosk within the airport with a vacation spot of “Marne La Vallee Ches.”
This practice takes 10 minutes to get from CDG to Disneyland Paris (it’s actually the primary cease). The caveats listed below are that this practice is considerably dearer (one-way ticket costs fluctuate, however are sometimes $15-30) and there might be over an hour hole between trains. Furthermore, we don’t advocate shopping for a ticket for this upfront as a consequence of flight delays, customs, and so forth.
The Magical Shuttle is the second-best possibility, but it surely stops at quite a lot of inns (assume Disney’s Magical Categorical). Nevertheless, it’s handy and fairly straightforward. Costs for this fluctuate, but it surely’s usually the most costly possibility. You’ll be able to ebook tickets right here.
The RER is the ultimate possibility. This may be time consuming, as it’s a must to go from CDG airport to central Paris and swap strains to go again to Marne-la-Vallee. Each CDG and MLV are exterior Paris, so doing this primarily means it’s a must to backtrack. It’d be like taking a flight from Chicago to Detroit with a layover in St. Louis. Nevertheless, if you happen to’re shopping for a RER cross or your lodge is on the RER line, this can be the best choice. It’s comparatively simple, it simply takes about an hour to perform.
When you’re coming from someplace aside from CDG airport, think about the Eurostar practice, which additionally drops you off proper exterior Disneyland Paris’ gates. We traveled the Eurostar (aka the “Chunnel”) and it was a superb expertise. This can be a nice approach to get to Disneyland Paris if you happen to’re primarily visiting one other main metropolis in Europe. What’s particularly good is {that a} Eurostar station is true in MLV. My assumption is that this was constructed as a part of Disney’s settlement to convey a park to Paris…as a result of there’s no different motive why little ‘ole Marne-la-Vallee would have a Eurostar station.
All of this appears difficult and intimidating at first (at the very least it did to us), but it surely’s actually easy when you perceive the fundamentals.
The place to Keep
Disneyland Paris has seven official resorts, with a wide range of close by “off-site” inns. We’ve a Disneyland Paris Resort Comparability publish that compares and contrasts the inns, providing our suggestions on the place to remain. We’ll cowl a number of the identical floor beneath, however if you happen to’re debating which lodge to ebook, that’s actually the publish to learn.
We’ve stayed within the just lately renovated Sequoia Lodge (click on right here to learn our Sequoia Lodge Assessment) and Resort New York (click on right here to learn our Resort New York Assessment). We’ve additionally stayed at Newport Bay Membership (click on right here to learn our Newport Bay Membership Assessment) and a number of other off-site inns.
Different inns embody Disneyland Resort (the flagship Victorian-themed lodge), Resort Cheyenne (themed to be the ‘streets’ of a Western city), and Resort Santa Fe (designed with a chilly, Southwestern pueblo model). When you had been schooled by Depend von Depend, you most likely observed that I solely point out six of the seven resorts. The final, Davy Crockett Ranch, is a campground situated a bit additional away that I didn’t go to.
Assuming you don’t have a automobile on your go to to France, you’ll have a number of methods to get to and from Disneyland Paris: your toes, taxi, RER practice, or shuttle. The 6 on-site inns can every by accessed by strolling (or shuttle). Disneyland Resort is a few one minute stroll from the turnstiles, Resort New York is ~10 minute stroll, Sequoia Lodge is ~12 minute stroll, Newport Bay Membership is ~15 minute stroll, with Resorts Cheyenne and Santa Fe a tad above the 15 minute mark.
By way of pricing, Resort Cheyenne and Santa Fe are on the low finish of the dimensions, with ascending costs for Sequoia Lodge, Newport Bay Membership, Resort New York, and at last, Disneyland Resort. Nightly charges vary from ~$100/night time for Resort Santa Fe to over $1,000/night time for Disneyland Resort. Common charges for every inns are far and wide relying upon what sort of low cost you’ll be able to rating.
These worth fluctuations could make reserving a Disneyland Paris lodge a bit irritating. Typically talking, we far favor staying on-site moderately than off-site. Nevertheless, we’re not paying over $400/night time for Newport Bay Membership or Sequoia Lodge. Conversely, ~$150/night time makes these resorts a no brainer (we’d even be keen to pay round $200/night time).
Resort New York has reopened after a multi-year closure for a prime to backside redo throughout which era it was transformed to “Disney’s Resort New York — The Artwork of Marvel.”
This new-look resort celebrates 80 years of Marvel storytelling in a typical New York setting, with a up to date Artwork Deco model. Disney’s Resort New York — The Artwork of Marvel is impressed by a New York artwork gallery, paying tribute to town that’s dwelling to many iconic Marvel characters and the artists who created them.
The following resort to obtain a multi-year reimagining is the flagship Disneyland Resort. This iconic property overlooking Parc Disneyland was closed for two years as a part of an formidable transformation at Disneyland Paris. It reopened earlier this yr with a royal theme impressed by Disney princesses.
Along with the room reimagining, the structure of the lodge’s public areas and gear within the rooms have been enhanced. Company will profit from a bigger pool space, an expanded spa, and up to date eating places & lounges. The totality of which is aimed toward incomes Disneyland Resort a five-star score.
This whole refurbishment is the subsequent step in an formidable renovation plan for all Disneyland Paris inns spanning years and greater than 5,700 rooms. The transformation plan demonstrates Disneyland Paris’s ongoing dedication to repeatedly put money into the visitor expertise and enhancing the resort.
Off-Website Lodging
We’ve stayed at a number of off-site inns in Val d’Europe, which is the primary cease from Disneyland Resort Paris on the RER A line. Combining the time it takes to stroll from Disneyland Paris to the RER station (3 minutes), the time it took on the practice (5-Quarter-hour, relying upon the practice schedule), and the time it took to stroll from the station in Val d’Europe to our lodge (3 minutes), you might have a few 25 minute commute, at worst. A number of of those inns are additionally inside strolling distance of Disneyland Paris (25-35 minute walks, relying upon the lodge).
The entire city of Val d’Europe is comparatively new, having been master-planned together with Disney. It has a Celebration/suburbia vibe to it, however with conventional French stylization. Whereas it doesn’t have the identical historic attract of the quaint villages in France, it has its personal trendy appeal and isn’t too cookie cutter. All of that is to say that the inns of Val d’Europe are most likely stable choices if you happen to don’t wish to pay the insane costs of Disneyland Paris inns.
Typically, these inns in Val d’Europe might be booked for $75-150/night time, which makes them (sometimes) cheaper than Disneyland Paris on-site inns. You can too stroll from a number of the inns to Disneyland Paris (Hipark Serris is the lodge closest to the parks, for what it’s value), which is rather more handy than taking the RER, we expect.
An alternative choice, significantly if you happen to’re spending time elsewhere in France, is Airbnb…
We’ve a publish that discusses our Ideas for Utilizing Airbnb in case you’re unfamiliar with the service. We’ve used it a number of occasions in Europe, together with a few occasions in Paris. It’s a cheap different to a lodge, and good as a result of it additionally means that you can dwell like a neighborhood, whether or not which means performing some laundry midway by way of your journey or simply going to the market to get recent produce (and cheese…AND WINE!) to arrange you personal meals.
Apart from that, the most important upside is worth. Yow will discover generally discover offers on inns in Val d’Europe, however offers on good lodging are much less frequent in Paris (correct) or different cities. The worth proposition of renting your individual condominium or flat is considerably better than reserving a lodge.
We’ve had some actually nice Airbnb experiences all world wide, and wouldn’t hesitate to make use of it once more close to Disneyland Paris, or anyplace in Europe, for that matter.
Off-Website v. On-Website?
For us, the Disney on-site lodge expertise isn’t simply concerning the room. All issues thought-about, the Disney inns we’ve stayed in at Disneyland Paris are nicer general than the off-site inns. Other than worth, the one upside to the Val d’Europe inns is getting extra spacious suites and multi-room villas.
Past being immersed within the Disney bubble, there are some perks to staying on-site at Disneyland Paris. The massive ones are being inside strolling distance of the parks, Further Magic Hours, profiting from the Full or Half Board Meal Plans, and unique character meets.
By far, the most important of those is the Further Magic Hour perk. Company staying within the Disney-owned inns are in a position to enter the parks 2 hours earlier than most of the people to expertise choose sights each morning. The primary hour of Further Magic Hours is mostly fairly lifeless–it’s straightforward to get completely empty pictures of Most important Road, and you may expertise sights like Peter Pan’s Flight with minimal waits.
When you do determine to remain on-site, my unscientific suggestions for inns can be: Resort Cheyenne (worth), Sequoia Lodge (average), or Disneyland Resort (deluxe). Resort Cheyenne had a enjoyable really feel to it and no pretenses of being artfully designed, doubtless making it a lodge children would get pleasure from. Sequoia Lodge has theming is harking back to a Nationwide Park lodge, besides with Frank Lloyd Wright inspiration oddly discovered all through the structure.
When you’re occupied with reserving a Disneyland Paris trip bundle, you must know concerning the varied Meal Plans the on-site inns supply. These are generally bundled into packages for “free” or obtainable as an add-on.
That is considerably just like the Disney Eating Plan at Walt Disney World, besides it makes use of pre-paid bodily vouchers. Disneyland Paris provides Full and Half Board Meal Plans: the Half Board plan consists of 1 meal voucher for lunch or dinner, plus a breakfast voucher. The Full Board plan consists of 2 meal vouches for lunch and dinner, plus a breakfast voucher.
There are 4 completely different tiers to every of those Meal Plans obtainable, escalating in worth and what’s included. On the lowest finish of the spectrum is the Resort plan, which incorporates breakfast and dinner at your lodge solely. Commonplace provides you a alternative of 5+ buffet eating places. Plus supplies entry to fifteen+ buffet and desk service eating places. Premium is accessible at nearly each desk service restaurant in Disneyland Paris, together with character meals.
The underside line with these Meal Plans is that they could be a actually good worth if you perform a little analysis and ebook costly eating places. For instance, although the Premium Plan is $100+ per individual, per night time, doing day by day meals at locations like California Grill and Auberge de Cendrillon might quantity to a day by day worth of over $150. Identical goes for the decrease tiers.
Alternatively, if you happen to select an costly plan and find yourself doing largely counter service meals, there’s the potential for dropping some huge cash every day on the Disneyland Paris Meal Plans.
Our final take is that the Meal Plans are an excellent possibility if eating is a vital a part of your journey and you propose to do your analysis forward of time to find out the place to eat (and make reservations ~60 days upfront). If eating isn’t so necessary otherwise you don’t intend upon doing the analysis, skip the Disneyland Paris Meals. There’s one massive motive for this…
The reason being that a number of the meals at Disneyland Paris is just not excellent. On condition that that is France, you’d anticipate Disneyland Paris to have some stellar eating choices. Sadly, expectations right here don’t comport with actuality. Eating places at Disneyland Paris aren’t that good and aren’t that “French.”
The excellent news is that eating has been enhancing in the previous few years, and we’ve had some good meals at Walt’s – An American Restaurant and Captain Jack’s. However, we’re nonetheless cautious about Disneyland Paris eating, as we’ve had hit and miss success within the ast.
We’ve since tried out many different eating places at Disneyland Paris, some good, some actually unhealthy. The final pattern is in the direction of enchancment, which is unquestionably reassuring. For critiques of particular person eating places, learn our Disney Restaurant Critiques (scroll to the Disneyland Paris part). We even have a Information to Consuming at Disneyland Paris for many who wish to exit after the parks shut!
If you wish to keep away from disappointment, we’d advocate approaching eating at Disneyland Paris from the attitude of experiencing eating places with cool themes. Our High 10 Themed Eating places at Disneyland Paris publish ought to assist with this.
That is how we have now approached eating there, and it has labored fairly nicely. The 2 eating places at which we ate the primary time, Walt’s and Captain Jack’s, had been lovely, and well worth the expertise, even contemplating the meals. Walt’s has an analogous really feel to Membership 33 at Disneyland, and Captain Jack’s overlooks the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, very similar to Blue Bayou at Disneyland.
Counter Service meals are usually okay. It’s about what you’d anticipate from common counter service eating places at Walt Disney World or Disneyland. On the whole, the choices aren’t adventurous, however moderately, are stereotypical theme park meals. A number of pizza, burgers, salads, and fried meals.
This isn’t essentially a nasty factor, as portion sizes are giant and costs aren’t out of line (by regular Disney requirements). As well as, the design of many of those eating places is actually spectacular. Toad Corridor options extra element than all of Mr. Toad’s Wild Experience at Disneyland, and serves some fairly good fish & chips, too.
By way of parts, the one portion measurement that will likely be smaller in Disneyland Paris is soda. There are not any free refills in any restaurant (that is typical of Europe) and soda sizes basically are a lot smaller. So, if you happen to’re a Coke addict, a visit to Disneyland Paris would possibly show expensive!
Though inferior to what you’ll discover within the metropolis of Paris, Disneyland Paris snacks are stable. We extremely advocate the Cable Automobile Bake Store on Most important Road. Not only for its sweets, but in addition as a result of it’s a fantastically designed, intimate location.
One factor to say so that you simply don’t get too excited whereas planning particular locations to eat is that Disneyland Paris usually closes a few of its eating places relying upon crowds. This has been an enormous difficulty in the previous few years, and judging by the calendars printed to date, it can stay an enormous downside all through the remainder of this yr.
This may be very irritating for planning functions, and enjoying the “what’s open as we speak?” sport whereas within the park is equally irritating, because the indicators up indicating which eating places are open differ from spot to identify. You usually don’t know what is open till you stroll as much as a specific restaurant.
To make issues worse, even the restricted slate of eating places that’s open usually closes earlier than 5 pm. Because of this strains for dinner on the 2-3 eating places which can be open into the night hours are ridiculously lengthy. We’ve heard frequent experiences of friends ready 45 minutes for a (horrible) burger at Cafe Hyperion. Don’t make that mistake.
One of many best methods to keep away from this difficulty is to pack snacks and eat dinner in Disney Village. There are a number of good choices there which can be all open late, together with Earl of Sandwich, McDonald’s, and 5 Guys. All of those eating places are akin to their U.S. counterparts.
Earl of Sandwich is our favourite choose; it serves many of the identical sandwiches because the Earl of Sandwich areas in the USA and within reason priced. It’s positively disappointing to be in one of many world’s biggest meals cities and eat at U.S. chains after the park closes, however sadly, that’s the unhappy actuality of eating at Disneyland Paris.
Our over-arching suggestion for these with finite journey budgets can be to save lots of your cash for eating within the metropolis of Paris and eat on a budget in Disneyland Paris. It’s possible you’ll wish to give at the very least one desk service meal a attempt earlier than adopting this technique, although.
What To Do
We’ve discovered that most individuals go to Disneyland Paris for two days, and if that’s your plan, our 1-Day Disneyland Paris Park Itinerary and 1-Day Walt Disney Studios Park Itinerary present step-by-step touring plans for “good” days in every of the parks. In case you have 3 days or extra, merely discover at a leisurely tempo in these further days.
Moreover, we have now suggestions for purchasing Disneyland Paris tickets in our Disneyland Paris Ticket Ideas & Data publish, which covers the place to seek out low cost park tickets, and the professionals & cons of getting an Annual Move versus shopping for single day tickets (it’s a better name than you would possibly assume!). Keep in mind that if you happen to’re staying on-site at a Disneyland Paris lodge, there’s an excellent probability your bundle will embody park tickets.
Then there’s the sights. Chances are high you’ve visited a Disney theme park a while in your life, and you’ve got an concept of what sights are value experiencing. The largest variations in Disneyland Paris are park design, structure, and stage of element. Most of the sights are very comparable basically nature to their US counterparts.
When you’re focused on growing a technique for sights or determining which to do and which to skip, take a look at our Disneyland Paris Sights Information and our Walt Disney Studios Park Sights Information. These guides have scores for each attraction in Parc Disneyland and WDSP, and our suggestions for doing them.
On the whole, Disneyland Paris excels as a result of it provides quite a bit to discover and wonderful execution on theme. A die-hard Disney fan will discover variations in lots of sights from the US variations, making each attraction a worthwhile expertise. An informal visitor will most likely discover that many sights are “precisely the identical” as their US counterparts.
No matter the place you fall in that spectrum, you’ll benefit from the particulars and design if you happen to decelerate to get pleasure from them. That’s what we strongly advocate doing, and that’s how we consider Disneyland Paris is greatest loved. Spend a while within the retailers on Most important Road, wander by way of the eating places, and search for clues concerning the backstory.
What About Upkeep?
When you’ve finished any analysis into Disneyland Paris, you would possibly’ve already learn horror tales concerning the park’s maintenance. Traditionally, it has been so unhealthy that we’re dedicating a complete part on this information to the subject. Fortunately, this isn’t almost as massive of an issue because it as soon as was. By and enormous, upkeep at Disneyland Paris is now near on par with the U.S. Disney Parks.
A dramatic refresh to your complete resort referred to as “Mission Sparkle” has revitalized a number of common sights and full lands. That is completed within the parks and is now persevering with with the inns.
Fortunately, Disneyland Paris has already turned a nook by way of upkeep and refreshing the park. Now, we’re seeing the entire exhausting work and refurbishments repay, and Disneyland Paris is glowing in consequence. Let’s simply hope it stays that method!
What to Pack
The gadgets on our Distinctive Disney Packing Listing will likely be useful in any of the Disney theme parks. Particular to Paris, one factor you will want is a voltage converter. We extremely advocate this BESTEK Moveable Journey Converter with a number of shops. Yow will discover cheaper ones, however they are going to be bigger, heavier, and take up invaluable actual property in your suitcase.
One other factor we advocate, significantly if you happen to plan on touring internationally past France, is buying a pocket MiFi unit. For years, we rented these when touring, till we did a little bit of analysis and found they’re pretty low cost to buy.
I purchased this Huawei 4G LTE Cellular Wifi Hotspot after which bought an affordable (~$40 Orange Vacation) 10 GB SIM card at a Relay retailer in Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport once we landed. In case you have an unlocked telephone, you’ll be able to simply put the SIM card straight into that, however we favor the MiFi unit in order that we will join a number of units. We discover this to be a extra environment friendly technique when touring internationally.
If you’re going to be staying in a number of inns throughout your European trip, we extremely advocate packing cubes or compression luggage (I favor the cubes) for group. You’ll be able to learn extra of our “carry-on philosophy” and which kinds of luggage we use right here. Severely, that is actually vital if you happen to’re going to spend time on the rails or strolling by way of Europe. A lot simpler than dragging round a ton of baggage!
When packing, additionally needless to say the local weather of Paris is just not the identical as that of Orlando or Anaheim. Paris has legit winters, full with snow and all. When you’re visiting any time from October by way of March, you must pack for cooler climate. Our Packing for Disney in Winter Information is a begin, however in the course of the top of winter, you want actually heat garments for a lot of days.
Different Knowledge
It ought to come as no shock that Europe doesn’t use the US greenback as a foreign money. You’ll be able to order euro out of your financial institution previous to your journey, however withdrawing from an ATM is the higher and simpler route as long as your financial institution doesn’t cost exorbitant charges. It didn’t was once the case, however now that is sometimes the higher possibility.
Ideally, you’ll have a chipped bank card and can use that for the overwhelming majority of your purchases. Chipped playing cards make worldwide journey a breeze as a result of they largely get rid of the necessity to deal in money (apart from from road distributors and different “older” retailers that don’t settle for money). We used chipped bank cards all through our journey and simply carried a bit of money that we nearly by no means used.
Shifting on to a different necessary “difficulty” for many individuals: smoking. Whereas Disneyland Paris’ web site will lead you to consider that smoking is simply allowed in designated areas, the fact is that individuals smoke in each out of doors space. That is half and parcel of European tradition, and one thing to bear in mind if smoke bothers you.
Free wi-fi web is now obtainable all through Disneyland Paris and Walt Disney Studios Park, the Disney Village, and all resort inns. This can be a comparatively new improvement that roughly coincided with the rollout of the official Disneyland Paris app. There’s additionally free WiFi on the Disney Village McDonald’s and Earl of Sandwich, and many of the off-site inns.
The bogs at Disneyland Paris are all extremely superior prototype “SMRT-1” units that characteristic facial recognition, and can greet you by saying, “How do you do, sir/m’am?” It’s customary and applicable to reply to this by saying, “I’m nicely, how are you?” It isn’t thought-about impolite to say no to reply to any of the bathroom’s further dialog.
Simply kidding on that final tip…though it’s a international nation, it’s not a international universe! When you can navigate the US parks, you’ll be high quality in Disneyland Paris!
For essentially the most half, this could cowl all the pieces you want for planning for a visit to Disneyland Paris. I replace this information usually primarily based on modifications in Disneyland Paris (and I’ve a Disneyland Paris Annual Move burning a gap in my pocket, so I plan on making one other return journey quickly), so relaxation assured that the knowledge right here is present. With that mentioned, when you’ve got any unresolved questions, please be at liberty to ask within the feedback.
When you need assistance planning your Disneyland Paris trip past this, we advocate contacting an skilled (no price), Approved Disney Trip Planner, which can even aid you discover the perfect offers. Wish to see extra pictures or examine Disneyland Paris in agonizing element? Take a look at our “Impressions de Bricker” Disneyland Paris Report, which covers our go to in the course of the inaugural Disneyland Paris Half Marathon, or our Disneyland Paris twentieth Anniversary Journey Report, which covers our first go to to Disneyland Paris!
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