Disneyland Paris on a budget?

We did Eurostar and stayed in an AirBnB in Val D’Europe, it’s a 5 minute train to the park on a v frequent basis, loads of people do the same. We had breakfast at home, made sandwiches with stuff from the supermarket. You can take in drinks and sandwiches/snacks, just not a massive picnic.

No, you are unlikely to get a good deal now I’m afraid, there will be huge demand for train and plane tickets to Paris at the moment and people doing the park before Christmas. A weekend is also always going to boot up the cost. He’s 8, he’s surely old enough to understand that even if something is for his birthday, he doesn’t have to have the actual thing on the day. Plan ahead for off season Jan/feb.

Meant to say a lot of the character meals etc will also probably be booked up as they can be booked way in advance.

First week of December this year? Unfortunately you'll be paying a massive premium for everything if you're trying to book it now to travel in a couple of weeks.

If you are willing to go the same sort of time next year, you're in the perfect window to get a real bargain (at least as far as DLP) is concerned

In would plan ahead for next year. Booking now for next month if you want a Disney Hotel will be hugely pricey. On their website you can see the price ranges for dates.

DLP don’t do any kind of last minute deals - the further away you book it’s usually cheaper. If you want to stay in a Disney hotel, look at the cheapest ones, as the main Disney hotel and marvel are very very expensive. If not, there are lots of partner hotels that you can still book that can also be cheaper.

Join one of the DLP Facebook group, loads of tips on there.

When we were there about ten years ago you couldn’t get fresh milk - UHT only which is popular in France. Next one we went I took chilled and frozen one pint bottles which got us through a few days. DS loves milk and wouldn’t touch UHT. But we were driving so could take it plus loads of other snack stuff.

We’ve stayed in the hotels a little further out. You don’t get the early hour but the shuttles go to them. They were cheaper than the early hour hotels.

That’s way too expensive. Our entire holiday (for three) in the school summer holidays only cost £3k. For that, we got the following:

Flights with underseat bags
Parking at airport
Apartment in Torcy for 4 nights (It’s 10 mins from DLP)
3 days at the park
2 sit down meals in the park
2 sit down meals in Torcy
Approx €120 on food which we had for breakfast/dinner/lunch in the parks
Various mocktails/cocktails/cider
Approx €250 on Disney merch at the parks
€65 on the photo pass at the park
Train to and from Torcy
Train to and from DLP (€12 per person per day)

I think that just about covers it.

When are you planning on going OP? I can get a 3 night (which will be 4 day park ticket) trip in school Christmas holidays for just over your £2k.

Depends when you book. Disneyland Paris website has a tool that shows the cheaper times to book. I've just booked 4 nights for Jan 2026 and for 2 adults and 2 children have paid £1000 - could have done cheaper in a cheaper hotel or offsite. Haven't booked travel yet but looking at around £400 for flights.

We just went last week.

We paid £430 for 1 night in Newport bay (for 2) of us plus park tickets for 2 days. The prices for hotels really fluctuate, booking way ahead is the way to go. Eurostar was about £180 into Paris and £5 pp each way out to Disney.

I actually didn't think food was too bad as long as you accepted fast food. £17 for a meal for two in McDonalds. €11 for a (large) hotdog. Sit down meals were more expensive.

You could take snack type stuff to have for breakfast and then just make sure you have water bottles to refill.

I took my daughter in feb, just the two of us and we are in Scotland. I booked directly with Disney and got 3 nights/4 days including flights/cheyenne and 4 day park tickets for around £800. If def say look at off season, I did take my daughter out of school for 2 days but we don't have fines so not sure how that would work out. I've been looking at deals for the 4 of us to go next year and I've seen similar deals for £1800-2000 so it def can be done cheaper.

Really? I presume you are looking to go in school holidays though. Or in December? There are some very good deals on outside of peak times but potentially might mean being a bit naughty and skipping a day of school

Eurostar is much cheaper and there's currently 30% off if you book through Quidco (kicking myself as I booked last month!)

There's loads of air bnbs locally to the park which you can stay in or non Disney hotels which run shuttles to the park so you don't need to book a Disney one with the added price tag!

I'm going next week and on love holidays for a flight, hotel and transfers were £1100 Monday-Friday and the tickets were £546 for 3 days for 3 people (2a and a child) and we're taking £1k spends but reckon you could do it on less so that's only £2700 for 4 people (one child is under 2 so free at disney).

It's definitely doable on a budget - now if only I could figure out how to get walt disney world cheaper

Yes absolutely don’t book a package, cost everything up separately.

Get the ferry if you can, stay at Davy Crocket. It's a nice easy drive from Calais - the trickiest bit is finding Davy Crocket.

That seems very expensive! Is that a package? Look at flights through Skyscanner and book a hotel in Paris, rather than on site. It’s less than an hour on a direct metro train from the city centre and when I went a couple of years ago I think day passes were less than £100 pp.

Oh and I didn't find the food as expensive as everyone had led me to believe. The sit down restaurants are pricey (but have lovely theming) but places like Bella notte do pizza and pasta at a reasonable price, I certainly didn't find it any worse than prices at theme parks in the UK.

Also the earlier you book the better, they don't really do last minute deals so if you look for the furthest dates away the price will likely come down.

We've done eurotunnel 4 nights, 5 days staying at Newport bay with meals for £2.5k in the summer hols so I'm sure you can find a better deal.

are you planning on going soon? That will be ramping up the cost. Could you go in a few months instead? It’s a lot cheaper in Feb than Dec.

You don't have to stay on site in Disney

we went last month we stayed off site in the dream castle hotel for four nights three days in the parks. The hotel had a free shuttle to and from the park every day throughout the day. We flew with Transavia had never heard of them but they were the cheapest. There were five of us and we got it for £3500 for everything hotel, flights and tickets