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QUICK GUIDE TO THE TRIP TO DISNEYLAND PARIS BY MOTORHOME

Disneyland Paris by motorhome for Christmas and New Year's Eve. Travel diary and tips for you to plan yours:

• Days: 4 days
• Overnight places: AC parking at the same Disneyland for € 10 a day (without an annual pass € 45 a day or after 13pm on arrival € 40). 
• Total expenses approximately between the 4 of the family: 540 Euros trip to Disneyland Paris in motorhome, calculated round trip (tolls + gasoline approx 300 € from St Pere de Vilamajor (Barcelona) / Tickets 0 because we already had the annual summer passes (777 € if you don't have the magic plus annual passes for three people) / Overnight areas € 40 / Shopping and restaurants € 200 approximately)
• Summary of visits and activities at Disneyland Paris by motorhome:
  • • Disneyland Paris (4 nights)
      
      • New Years Eve at Le Village, dinner at McDonals for € 27, free concerts and fireworks
      • 2 days in Disneyland park
      • 1 day at Studios Park

THE BEST AND WORST OF THIS TRIP

The best of the trip to Disneyland Paris by motorhome:

• Children's enjoyment.
• The decoration and Christmas atmosphere
  Absolute friendliness of Disney workers.

The worst of the trip to Disneyland Paris by motorhome:

• Huge grueling Disney queues for kids and grown-ups
• French tolls, very expensive
• The ferocious consumerism that is breathed in Disney
• The wet cold at Disney that leaves your bones frozen
• The Disney AC area, which is highly upgradeable compared to the parks. There is no need to empty the sewage, they are emptied in the same place as the gray ones, and there is no tap for the specific poti, which makes the tap there is a pig. Also the bathrooms are very very basic.

• General

About Disney tickets:

• • **UPDATE: CURRENTLY DISNEY NO LONGER MAKES ANNUAL PASSES.** For more than three days buy a disney annual pass (They are purchased on the French Disney website, print the provisional to pay only €10 for the AC parking lot and not the normal €45 and part for free dog daycare if this is your case).
  • If you get an annual pass do it with a godfather and you get a 10% discount, that's a paste in those amounts (about 250 euros per pass that costs….). You can find godparents in ac passion or the neverland forum. Then you can sponsor with your pass and if you sponsor 3 each pass they extend the annual pass for 6 more months of validity.
  • If you would like to buy single tickets, sometimes at carrefour.fr they get good offers or here at civitatis there are always offers at -25% that go well ( https://www.civitatis.com/es/disneyland-paris/entrada-disneyland-paris/?aid=8558 ) 
  • El magic plus annual pass It gives many discounts in all the stores and restaurants apart from giving you gratuities in such useful things as children's strollers and kindergarten. Besides, you can go most days of the year without restrictions (except key week in August and Christmas). Be careful if you enter, as it happened to us, on December 31 at night. Discounts are not applied neither in the parking nor in any side of the annual pass, so you will pay the same as without a pass.

About amusement parks:

• • Disney are 2 amusement parks actually: Disneyland, where is the emblematic castle and many attractions, that you can tour in 2 days, y Studios, smaller and where you will find the shows and attractions also very cool. The latter in 1 day you can do it. Think that if you do not have time to do everything, it is because of the large queues and the thousand traps that put you in the middle ... there are more shops and restaurants than attractions ... and very few characters for the children who want to take a picture with him … Is just an example.
  • If you want to enjoy without queues, it is best to go 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., before opening, 2 extra hours for hotels and annual passes. Madruga, you will appreciate it.
  • Avoid weekends at Disney and take advantage of them to see Paris, On Sundays above all there is less traffic and people in Paris, and at Disney it is a burden for people. You can go by train from Disney comfortably.
  • Whenever children do not have school, there is queues at Disney don't think about it anymore.
  • Download the Disney app and plan your days using the Fast Pass that you have in some attractions and you will save a lot of time. Now, to get more money, there is a Fast Pass for other attractions, but the free one for big attractions continues to exist.
  • If you are going to become fotos with all the characters you can give them your mobile or camera to the helpers and they will take your photos, but if you want professional photos get the Photo pass that if you have an annual pass it will also serve you all year round (for € 39 with the discount of the magical annual pass plus we could acquire it).
  • At Disney you can find some souvenir freeSuch as letters given in some establishments or badges when you take photos with secondary characters next to Mickey's 90th birthday cakes or even a cap in a workshop to learn to play the piano that face the space montain.
  • If you like shows, for us it is one of the forts of Disney, they are practically all in the Studios park. Be careful but there is always some filling that lets you down a bit.

About food and restaurants: 

• • Prepare your tuppers with food and enter them without problem to Disney. But look at Tripadvisor restaurants Since there are some 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. In winter the water, if it is outside, outside the bathrooms, may be closed due to frost. With the cold you will want to eat in a restaurant to warm up your body, that will also happen to you ...
  • El Disney's cheapest restaurant is McDonald's in Le VillageEven happy meal is cheaper than in Spain, and with the annual pass you have the same discount.
  • In French restaurants and bars it is very normal to ask tap water as a drink, but the bottled one 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).

On New Years Eve and Christmas:

• • La New Years Eve, Disney makes paying an extra, a special party with a parade and fireworks, the price is not cheap ...n Le Village, there's another party with free concerts and fireworks that same night, a good alternative.

On visiting Paris from Disney:

• • You can visit Paris without moving the AC from 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 the Disney train to Challes de Gaulle which 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). 
  • To see Paris in one day and without getting too tired, I recommend taking a cruise on the Seine from Trocadero, for 15 Euros you see everything important in a calm and beautiful way (Buy your cruise tickets here at a good price: https://www.civitatis.com/es/paris/paseo-barco-sena/?aid=8558 ). 
  • There is one option that is very good to worry about is to book a complete tour of Paris from Disneyland ( https://www.civitatis.com/es/disneyland-paris/paris-torre-eiffel-crucero-sena/?aid=8558 ). It departs from Disney hotels and includes transportation, a guided tour in Spanish by bus through the most emblematic sites of Paris, ascent to the Eiffel Tower and cruise on the Seine. The truth is that it's very good.

• Specific if you travel with children:

  • Take the strollers you have for your little ones. However, 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 6 years old) so as not to exhaust them. They are rented at the entrance next to the Christmas store. They are rented for 25 Euros the day and if you have the Magic Plus annual pass it will be free.
  • Above all, however, take a chain to tie your car, be it for rent or yours. We have even stolen up to 3 of the rental carts!
  • If you don't want to queue to see Mickey or Minnie, in the Studios park you can reserve a time for the photo with Mickey and also other Toy Story characters, it is much more practical and faster. Now it is reserved with the Lineberty app that you can download on your mobile. Problem, at 9:45 the reservations for the day are opened, and at 9:46 there are already many who have finalized the reservations! You see giving update from 9:43 and give it a quick kick! Another problem, it only admits one reservation per mobile ... so download the app on all the mobiles you have ... In many characters the queues reopen, in the "i" of information it puts you when they reopen, you see giving update at those times and come back to reserve the one that leaves you, that is if you do not have any in line ... It is very good not to queue ... but since everything is a bit overwhelming ...
  • Children under the age of 3 do not pay at Disney, on public transport or almost anywhere in France. We did the annual pass when Anna was 2 years old yet, and this time that she was 3 years old, they haven't asked us for a card or asked, and it was also free.
  • Take some notebooks and pens from home for the autographs of the Disney characters for your little ones (but there they will cost you 12 euros the notebook). Leave the blank next page in the notebook and then hook the photo you take, you will love it.
  • Take along the game consoles, toys or entertainment cards for your little ones, it will be more bearable.
  • If you go to Paris, visit the fair with the children, the distances are very long and you will not enjoy anything if you intend to see a lot. The Seine cruise solution allows you to see almost everything main Paris (Notre Dame, Louvre, Parliament, etc ...) from a boat, which you will love, and take you from the Eiffel Tower itself behind the Champs de Mars. You can buy tickets to the cruise at the Disney Tourist Office, in front of the train station, at the entrance of the park, (€ 37 for the 4 cost) and they will also give you the map of Paris and any information in Spanish.
  • 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 almost noiseless, a relief for many children.

• Specific if you travel with dogs:

  • At Disney there is a day and night kennel for 25 Euros during the day and 25 at night if you like. With the Magic Plus annual pass, the kennel is free, which is well worth it. We only left it for the day. They do not take him out for a walk so if you want him to not hold and burst with pee you will have to come and go to walk him
  • 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 almost noiseless, a relief for many dogs, that even being in the kindergarten they could still hear it.

• Specific if you travel with a motorhome or van:

  • If you arrive that the parking entrance has closed, they let you sleep on the side at the entrance, but you can also do it at the Esso gas station next door without problem.
  • 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. I also tell you that there no one pays the ticket for the day and nothing happens ... they leave you a note that does not reach more ... and at the exit there is no barrier or anyone to control ...
  • In winter the area does not have water for you to fill your tank, because of the frost they cut off the water. You see loaded with water. At the Esso gas station at the entrance you can refill for € 5,40 or bottles from the sink ...
  • The Disney AC parking is very basic, it has toilets (horrible) and showers (horrible) so you see it prepared full of water better. If you shower there, keep in mind that water comes out with pressure and as 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 to shine ... and as in winter there is little sun ... save as much battery as possible, for example, don't leave your heating on while you're away ... At the gas station at the entrance for 5,40 you have electricity for half an hour (I think I remember).
  • Take a wide-mouth hose, otherwise you will not be able to fill water at Disney if you need it, it does not have a thread, it is a fountain tap. That is if it is summer, spring or autumn, remember in winter there is no water.
  • The black waters are evacuated in the gray waters in Disney that is in the bus zone.
  • Disney at the entrance to the parks has a gas station, if you go in winter and you need gasoline for heating or any AC service (5,40 black water and drainage and electricity) they have it, you will not even have to leave Disney.
  • If you go in winter and don't have winter wheels, plan to go on the Lyon road, better than the Orleans one. On the road from Montpellier to Orleans, you will find sections with ice and snow, it is partly heavy as there are continuous ups and downs, apart from curves, going from 1500 meters to 500 and vice versa. It is a beautiful and cheaper road in terms of tolls, but it is hard in winter. Plan the trip well, for Lyon it is 30 km more only and although the toll is more expensive you go along the coast and calmer.
  • In winter in France carry chains wherever you go.