kool_kat
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Aug 16, 2008
Hi all,
I have been a lurker on this board since we decided we were going to Paris and going to include a 1 day trip to Disneyland Paris. I'm usually hanging out on the budget board.
Anyways, my husband an I took a week long trip to London last week to visit my dad who is working there, and decided to take the train to Paris for2 nights while there. We were staying in Paris near the Louvre (Hotel du Louvre by Hyatt which I would highly recommend).
I will say that I have only been to Disneyland California when I was three, so my comparison is to Disney World which I know is much larger.
We went on Tuesday 9/6 and the parks opened at 10:00 with EMH at Disneyland Park from 8-10. I read that Disney Village opened at 7:30 so we decided to go early and check that out since we only had one day. We took the metro from our stop to Chatelet stop and then caught the RER A train. We had bought tickets for zone 1-5 the day before and I believe it was a little more than 30 euros for the two of us to get 2 tickets. We had absolutely no trouble riding the train and I would not hesitate to recommend people take the train. I have a little subway experience from visiting NYC, but I live in the suburbs of Knoxville, TN so I am not a city girl, but I had no trouble navigating. It took right at 45 minutes once we got on the train.
Disney Village - even though the website says it opens at 7:30, the shops DO NOT. We arrived about 8:30 and the only thing that was open was Starbucks and maybe another restaurant. We grabbed coffee and breakfast muffin and waited until 9 when a few stores opened. We wandered the stores and I will reiterate there are very few Disneyland Paris specific souvenirs. There was one little section and we saw very little. In fact, it took us almost all day to find an ornament we liked that specifically Disneyland Paris. I know this has been mentioned in other threads, but I wanted to reiterate that so hopefully others won't be disappointed. I will also say that Disney Village was very small. We could walk the whole thing in 5 minutes.
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I have been a lurker on this board since we decided we were going to Paris and going to include a 1 day trip to Disneyland Paris. I'm usually hanging out on the budget board.
Anyways, my husband an I took a week long trip to London last week to visit my dad who is working there, and decided to take the train to Paris for2 nights while there. We were staying in Paris near the Louvre (Hotel du Louvre by Hyatt which I would highly recommend).
I will say that I have only been to Disneyland California when I was three, so my comparison is to Disney World which I know is much larger.
We went on Tuesday 9/6 and the parks opened at 10:00 with EMH at Disneyland Park from 8-10. I read that Disney Village opened at 7:30 so we decided to go early and check that out since we only had one day. We took the metro from our stop to Chatelet stop and then caught the RER A train. We had bought tickets for zone 1-5 the day before and I believe it was a little more than 30 euros for the two of us to get 2 tickets. We had absolutely no trouble riding the train and I would not hesitate to recommend people take the train. I have a little subway experience from visiting NYC, but I live in the suburbs of Knoxville, TN so I am not a city girl, but I had no trouble navigating. It took right at 45 minutes once we got on the train.
Disney Village - even though the website says it opens at 7:30, the shops DO NOT. We arrived about 8:30 and the only thing that was open was Starbucks and maybe another restaurant. We grabbed coffee and breakfast muffin and waited until 9 when a few stores opened. We wandered the stores and I will reiterate there are very few Disneyland Paris specific souvenirs. There was one little section and we saw very little. In fact, it took us almost all day to find an ornament we liked that specifically Disneyland Paris. I know this has been mentioned in other threads, but I wanted to reiterate that so hopefully others won't be disappointed. I will also say that Disney Village was very small. We could walk the whole thing in 5 minutes.
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