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Contintent: Specific attractions (Disneyland, etc)
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15-05-2011 8:47pm#1
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Testing, testing ...see if this works
Trip to Disneyland ParisGetting the ferry to france (Cherbourg) friday week. Ferry arrives at 4 Sat. afternoon so we wont get far that evening, drive for an hour or so and then go to a camp site for the night.
I was thinking to then drive into Paris early ish on the Sunday morning. Does this sound like an ok idea?
Im thinking the city would be quite on the Sunday, so we can see a few of the sites and then leave.
Would it be hard to find parking for a reasonable sized converted van, close enough to the city centre, anyone done this ina camper before?
Then the plan was to stay in a site near Disneyland sunday night, any recommendations?
We hope to visit Disneyland on monday for a few hours and then get the flock out of there and head south. The kids are small (3 is the oldest) so I think they will have had enough of the "magic" after a few hours.
Any advice on where to get tickets for the resort, should I get them in advance? What is the cost so I can brace myself for the hit? Is it hard to find the parking for campers?
Many thanks.forza rovers wrote: »id probably avoid disneyland if the oldest is 3 far to much hassle for a few hours.I'm tempted to say the same about Disney, kids possibly a bit young and would appreciate it more in a year or two's time. Parking at Disney is grand, there's a motorhome area with showers and toilets, they used to allow overnight parking but check their website for further details.
Buy the tickets on the day is probably your best bet.
We stayed in a campsite about ten minutes from the resort http://www.caravaning-4vents.fr/ nothing special but adequate.
Parking in Paris...not sure, loads of street parking but do a google for Aire de Sevices Paris and see what turns up.Going a similar direction in the next few weeks.
I intend to head for Huttopia Versailles campsite. Can get there without the Paris traffic by approaching paris from the west.
This campsite is a very near a train station, 20 minutes to central Paris and on to Disney by train if you want.
I know that might be more expensive for your family.
Had a look at Aires and none in the paris area so Parking in Paris is something I know nothing about.
Best of luck.Thanks for the tips all.
I think I will consider the Versailles option and the site 10 min from Disney.
My eldest wanted to skip france and got straight to Spain. I am not sure if he knows about the ferry to Santander or if he thinks the van can grow wings fly directly to spain. Anyway, I convinced him to give France a go by playing the Disney card so no backing down now.Overnight parking at EuroDisney see photo attached, select a spot WELL AWAY from the moving walkway (for reasons which will be apparent on arrival) and close to the services block, where you will find showers, toilets and more depending on season. There's also full services FOC.
Sat Nav N48.8767° E02.7870°Hi If you are going to Disney anyway it might be easier to get the train from Disney into Paris. There is one about every 15 mins and no hassle with driving or parking in the city, journey time is about 25 mins. The station is 100m from the entrance to both parks.niloc1951 and RustyNut. Thanks for that info.
I think those are the best options and also what I was origionaly considering.
Sunday, directly to Disney, park van and get setteled. Then train to paris for a look around. Sunday night in carpark. Monday visit the park.
niloc1951, are you sure you can still overnight here, have you done it recently and how much does it cost?Stayed two nights June last (2010), about another 20 'vans there. Can't remember the exact price, I think it was about €12, you pay at a kiosk as you enter the parking complex (see link to Google Earth). Was not approached for further payments even though we arrived early on day one and left late on day three.
Current posts on MHF indicate overnighting is still permitted, AFAIK it's fully official.I was also thinking of a trip this summer to disney and
stumbled across this video, might help.By way of update and thanks to all for your comments.
You can still park your camper and stay overnight at Disneyland, defiantly a good cheap option for visiting Paris. My van is obviously more stealthy than I thought because they charged me as a car, it was the only thing that was cheap.
By the way, anyone who said to stay away from the place all together was 100% right, what a dump, I defiantly won’t be going back. I should listen to advice better, but leasson learned.
Granted my kids were too small for it but still, it should be called Stupid America land, they would have had more fun having a look round Paris city centre. We spent half the time trying to find Mickey Mouse, then realised he was in a different park but would be back for the parade at 5, so we hung around to see him for all of 5 seconds. And my eldest wasn’t happy because he didn’t look like he does in the TV.
Gladly the kids didn’t want to wait in line for any of the rides so we just cruised around in the Sun for the day. I didn’t fancy standing for 50 minutes to sit on a flying elefant.
To top it all our camera got robbed off a table in one of the restaurants. No idea how it happened, there was one of us at the table the whole time, I suppose given the surroundings we let our guard down a bit. Who pays €60 enter fee then robs other peoples stuff. We considered going to the Lost and Found but obviously there was a huge queue for that too so we just got the flock out of the place.connie murphy wrote: »sorry dont agree with you, it was magical. brilliant. went back for a second visit.
not very elegant ...but better than nothing0 -
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