You have an hard choice to make. The
Disneyland Park (the Magic Kingdom style park) is really beautiful and has all the charm of a real Disney Park. And when you'll go there will be the 25th anniversary celebrations. The Disney Studios one is quite ugly, instead. It was made in a hurry and with a low budget and it certainly shows. But a lot of the attractions unique to DLP are in the studios. So what to buy? One park ticket or a parkhopper? Hard choice with just one day.
The unique attractions in the Studios are:
- Ratatouille: the whole land is very nice themed and the attraction is quite special.
- Cinemagique: nice show (expecially if you love the cinema)
- Mickey and the magician: beautiful show
- Crush and Coaster: a spinning roller coaster. Be ready to rope drop it because it has low hourly capacity and it has long lines all day every day. It's not very intense but avoid it if you suffer from motion sickness. Mad tea party meets Big Thunder Mountains
- Armageddon: not worth your time
- Toy Story Playland: a collection of not so special carnival rides, but it's nice to check it out
At the Disneyland Park not to be missed:
- Big Thunder Mountains: the best version in the world, just reopened after a lenghty refurb and it looks spectacular
- Phantom Manor: similar to Hunted Mansion, but a darker tone and a different finale
- Indiana Jones roller coaster
- Space Mountains: much more intense than the US versions
- Nautilus walkthrough
- The Castle walkthrough and dungeon
- Alice's labirinth
in addition to all the classics, many of which are different enough to be worth experiencing if you have the time(PoTC, Buzz, Pinocchio and Snow White as they are not in WDW anymore)
The two parks are 5 minutes walk away from each other so it's very easy to parkhop.
Yes they still have the paper FP (little trivia: they were first introduced in Paris before the US), the return window is only 30 minutes and it's enforced.
Be ready to stay until the end because the night show is great. At least, Dreams was great, starting in March there will be a new show called illuminations for the 25th.
Restaurants are a hit or miss (a lot of times a miss). It's quite ironic that a park in France, known for its good food, has mediocre restaurants. My favorite is the Cowboy Cookout BBQ as a quick service and Agraba Cafe as a sit down buffet (food is a bit adventurous, the Plaza Garden is a more traditional buffet). Walt's is the best sit down restaurant... probably, I've never dined here. The Blue Lagoon has a charming atmosphere (it's inside the PotC ride).
Look on the official french website for the "Magic" tickets, you can save A LOT compared to the crazy gate prices, expecially if you visit during the week (which is a smart idea anyway).
You can easily reach the resort using the RER A, it's a 45 minutes ride from the city center.