QUICK GUIDE TO THE DISNEY TRIP BY MOTORHOME

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This campervan trip to Disney is the first leg of a longer 29-day, 4300 km journey. The second leg takes you through Normandy and Brittany, France.

Days

11 days in July

• • To go to France, you must have the valid DNIs or passports of adults and also children as identification documentation.
  • On the other hand for medical issues you must take the European sanitary card in force, although you should know that in France there is a medical copayment for foreigners in most things. For this reason, and due to various experiences of colleagues, we decided to always carry a medical travel insurance that for the cost it has we are safe and calm. We always take out Iati Getaways insurance, which is designed for family travel in a motorhome or camper, which apart from medical insurance even includes accident insurance for the pets you travel with or even a small theft insurance for the interior of the motorhome. For the price it is really worth it. Without obligation we leave you here a discount of 5% of the insurance What do we tell you in case you want to ask for a budget at a better price.
  • ATTENTION: Update! Currently Disneyland has suspended Annual Passes and there is no option to purchase them. The cheapest option is to buy the 3 or 4-day ticket that they have on the official Disney website, which is this one here.
  • Prepare your tuppers with food and send them without problem to Disney. If not, look at the restaurants on Tripadvisor as there are some for 16 euros the menu but most are 35 euros the menu. The menu at the far west Barbacue restaurant is one of the best that we liked and inexpensive. Besides the drinks are very expensive 4 euros a coffee or a Coca-Cola and the snacks also 5 euros a popcorn or 4 euros an ice cream! Take your drinks and snacks. You can fill your canteens in many sources that there are, in the Disney app you can easily locate them.
  • Avoid weekends at Disney and take advantage of them to see Paris, especially on Sundays there is less traffic and people.
  • Download the Disney app and plan your days using the Fast Pass you have at some attractions and you will save a lot of time
  • If you are going to take photos with all the characters you can give your mobile or camera to the assistants and they will take the photos, but if you want professional photos take the Photo pass that if you have an annual pass will also serve you all year round (for € 39 with the magic annual pass discount plus we could acquire it).
  • You can visit Paris without moving the AC of the Disney car park (which apart you will not be able to enter if you do not have the environmental badge that they require and that you must order online: it must be Euro6). The best option is to take this tour bus that takes you from Disney to Paris and enter to a cruise on the Seine and Spanish guide or take the Disney train to Challes de Gaulle that takes 1 hour and then metro 6 to Trocadero to reach the Eiffel Tower. If you go on the weekend, transport will be cheaper since there is a 1-day card integrated train and metro, take it from 5 zones and for children over 3 years old you have to take the Joune (train 2 adults and 1 child 44,55 , € XNUMX).
  • In Paris to visit it in one day we advise you two things: this full tour with Spanish guide or with a Seine cruise where you will see the city comfortably and quickly with explanations. We did the cruise and we loved it and for 15 euros everything was great.
  • Children under 3 years old do not pay at Disney, or on public transport or almost anywhere in France. Also depending on the time you go, you have free and very practical Free Tours in Paris so as not to miss anything from the hand of a local in Spanish, you can book them here
  • In French restaurants and bars it is very normal to ask for tap water as a drink, but bottled water can cost you 6 euros a bottle. They are also required by law to give it. So remember to always ask, and especially with children if you have all day asking for water, "an cagaf do" (I write it as it is pronounced).

Specific if you travel with children:

• • Take the strollers you have for your little ones. Otherwise, it is very practical to rent seats in Disney for children who are small but not so small as to have a cart (in our case Arnau is 5 years old), so as not to exhaust them. They are rented at the entrance next to the Christmas store. They are rented for 20 Euros a day and if you have the Magic Plus annual pass it will be free.
  • If you do not want to queue to see Mickey, at Studios Park you can reserve a time for the photo with Mickey and other Toy Story characters, it is much more practical and faster.
  • Take some notebooks and pens from home for the autographs of the Disney characters for your little ones (otherwise they will cost you 12 euros the notebook).
  • Take along the game consoles, toys or entertainment cards for your little ones, it will be more bearable.
  • If you go to Paris, visit just with the children, the distances are very long and you will not enjoy anything if you intend to see a lot. The solution of Cruise along the Seine allows you to see almost everything main in Paris from a boat, which you will love. (Notre Dame, Louvre, Parliament, etc...) and they are taken from the Eiffel Tower itself behind the Champs de Mars.
  • A pancake on the Champs de Mars as a meal in Paris or a picnic that you prepare will be a perfect rest and stop option with the children, watching the Eiffel Tower from below in the grass they will live and rest for a while.
  • The Disney fireworks show is noiseless, a relief for many children.

Specific if you travel with dogs:

• • At Disney there is day and night dog daycare for 25 Euros during the day and 25 at night if you want. We just left it for the day. They don't take him for walks, so if you want him to stop bursting with pee, you'll have to go back and forth to walk him.
  • On the greenways, remember that if your dog goes with you, put hydrating cream on his paws before and after, but he will burn on the piece of asphalt there is.
  • If you want to visit churches, museums or do an activity like going to the beach, dogs are probably prohibited, in few places they are accepted in France or none better said, except on the terraces of restaurants and some inside if you have a small dog (this is not our case ).
  • If it is not hot we leave it with all the skylights open inside the AC and as the AC can always be in the shade, but if it is hot remember that you should never leave it alone in the AC.
  • Remember to put your name and your phone (with 0034 in front) permanently on your dog's collar, you never know if it can escape in an oversight and even if it has a chip, the international data exchange system does not work.
  • Remember to make the international passport for your dog, you just need to have up-to-date rabies vaccinations and pay for it and your regular vet will do it for you at the moment. Always take it with you, at the Disney dog ​​daycare they will ask you every day.
  • The Disney fireworks show is noiseless, a relief for many dogs, that even being in the kindergarten they could still hear it.

Specific if you travel with a motorhome:

• • You should know that between November 1 to March 31 in 48 departments of France, including those bordering Spain, it is mandatory to carry chains (at least for the two driving wheels) or winter tires. that chains and / or winter tires are better for motorhomes, here We leave you an article that we talk about from our experience in our motorhome. Finally I leave you here, an article on recommendations of what you should never do in the snow in a motorhome.
  • Disney parking is paid daily in the bus parking (behind the toilets and showers) at only one ticket office (Mr. Angel's 8 hahaha) and if Angel is not there (he is not there many days) you will have to go to the dog kennel to buy it which is just before the entrance to the park at the end of the parking lots. If you don't buy it when they play they'll leave you a piece of paper inviting you to buy it, I didn't know anyone who would fine him or anything for not doing it ...). You cannot buy the ticket from one day to the next, a bit of a hassle, you must buy it the same day. Remember with an annual pass they are € 10 but it will be € 40 to pay.
  • The Disney ACs parking lot is very basic, it has (horrible) bathrooms and (horrible) showers, so you can see it prepared full of better water. If you shower there, keep in mind that water comes out with pressure and like a fine sprinkler that hurts the little ones and that it is difficult to rinse the soap, apart from there is absolutely nothing to leave your things, just a hanger on the door, take a bucket or a bag with everything so it doesn't get wet. There is no electricity for your AC at Disney, so batteries are full and if you have a hob wait for the sun. Take a wide-mouth hose, otherwise you won't be able to fill water at Disney if you need it, it doesn't have a thread, it's a fountain tap.
  • The black waters are evacuated in the gray waters in Disney that is in the bus zone.
  • The Chalabre area is free and with electricity as a stop on the road is great, like the one in Orleans that 6 euros a day or 10 two days with electricity is super good. In Treginac it is only 1 euros per night and 2,5 approx services if you need water or electricity, free drains and perfect place.
  • Disney at the entrance to the parks has a gas station, if you go in winter and need gasoline for heating, you will not even have to leave Disney.

THE TRIP TO DISNEY BY MOTORHOME IN DETAIL

DAY TO DAY

Day 9: Disneyland

Today we arrive at around 9 am, we leave Max at the kennel, we buy the parking ticket there, since today Angel (the one who sells the tickets in the bus area for the ACs is not there). Today is the Studios park. There is less agglomeration of people, or is it Monday or because it is the Studios park but it shows, in general there are fewer queues. We booked an hour with for the photo with Mickey, who by message to the mobile let you know when you can go (leaving you 1 hour, great). And while we go riding to attractions until lunchtime we take out the macaroni tupperware in a shade and ale more than at ease. Then we bought some ice cream for dessert. We see the Mickey Magician show, we totally fall in love, it's a show 10
For children and adults, it is well worth going to see it. Then we go to see the interactive show of Stich (there is not in Spanish only French and English, but the children loved it anyway and something they took for sure). And finally we see the spectacular car shows and the Super Heroes show that although we also liked less (they do it only in French and English, a pity that there are not in other languages ​​to learn a little something, there is a lot of Spanish ...).

Day 10: Disneyland, last day.

 

The queues are worse than any day and the crowds are quite unbearable… we take it easy. We take a cart like every day for Arnau (and thank goodness because that way we don't get too tired) and in one of these crowds at the entrance where we are submerged, someone addresses me in Catalan, we looked at each other and an ex-partner of mine from job! how small is the world or how big Disneyland!

We go to the area that we have not seen yet, that of Peter Pan, we take their fast past ... incredible people there ... we do nothing that we do almost at lunchtime and we take out the sandwiches. We see Snow White in the Palace of the Princesses, that actually to our surprise after an hour and a half in line there was only one princess, I think they should make it big or in the app ...

And after Buzz Light Year and photos with Donald, we said goodbye to Disney with the final prize. The final prize is that my children every day of their stay at Disney according to their behavior had at the end of the day from 0 to 5 Euros accumulated
for the last day buy-be a souvenir hehehehe so as they behaved quite well they bought their deserved gift and so no day they asked for anything 🙂

Day 11: Disneyland - Quiberville (Normandy)