to take a slow cooker to Disneyland Paris?

[ElizaPickford]

Ok, that sounds a bit odd, but here's the thing, we're going and the whole family is veggie (and now skint.) I couldn't justify spending nearly £70 a day on meal vouchers, and it looks like Disney and France in general have different ideas about what constitutes being vegetarian. (One of the veggie options in one restaurant was fish and chips, and one of the best veggie restaurants apparently uses meat stock for veggie dishes.)

If we just pay as we go, I think we're looking at £15 each for chips and salad. It's crazy expensive, and I don't want to pay through the nose for the kids to eat crap for almost a whole week.

Soooooo... I was thinking if I took my slow cooker, we could at least have baked potatoes when we get back at night? And maybe couscous if I take the kettle? I can take some fresh stuff with me although we'll have no fridge so that will be limited, but just trying to figure out if this is a socially unacceptable thing to do, and whether I run the risk of burning down the whole hotel when the euro-adapter blows up my slow cooker.

Or any other tips for not starving to death/going bankrupt while there?

You are on holiday. In a country famous for food.You will have access to the freshest bread cheese etc..What are you thinking of woman??!!! Enjoy your holiday.No one will starve.

It does sound miserable. I'd rather eat bread and butter than a slowly steamed potato.

Will you have transport?

DisappointedOne Where did you eat, and what sort of veggie food was on offer?

The reason I got a bit despondent was that apparently Agrabah was the best place for vegetarians to eat, but someone said that they use meat stock to cook the veggie dishes, which didn't leave much to eat, and I just have images of us all paying a fortune for salads and bread rolls and beign really hungry the whole time.

I wouldn't expect the OP would be asking if she were staying in self catering anyway?

I was veggie when I went to Disneyland Paris. It was fine. Food is really overpriced but that has nothing to do with being veggie tbh. There's a Rainforest cafe by the entrance which does veggie burgers and a few sandwich shops. Also ate pizza and pasta onsite and found a service station type shop nearby which we walked to and bought boxes of salads, sandwiches, snacks etc. I also think the hotel management might say having a slow cooker in your room is too dangerous / smelly.

I can't believe people go on holiday and eat pot noodles and mess about boiling rice in kettles! Why?!

If the room keys are credit card style the electricity goes off in your room when you are out anyway. You need to put the key in the electromagnetic holder to switch the electricity on in the room.

Also I used to live in France and speak French, and I remember that whatever you ordered or however nicely you asked it would come sprinkled with tuna or tiny bits of bacon.

The buffets are gorgeous food, not overpriced at all Especially if you do them as part of a meal plan

No the veggie options aren't fantastic but you're not going for long. And the fast food pizza are good. I happily used to do pizza at lunch and buffet in the evening. Cafe Agrabah in the main park has awesome food, lots of cous cous and rissoto and to the uneducated eye had the best veggie choices.

No kettles and fridges do not come as standard in most Disney hotel rooms

Thank you kinky you reminded me to look. We're going at the weekend and just needed one meal to plan so we will be going to the buzz lightyear pizza pasta place. Perfect!
I'm also taking lots of filler snacks like crisps and breakfast bars. Dc usually eat healthily so for one weekend they can survive on junk.

You're in France, stop at a supermarket and stock up on bread, olives, salad, fruit etc. There's a very small supermarket at the train station at DLP and I've heard there's a bigger one a stop or two away on the train.

Buffet breakfasts at our hotel were all you can eat, so eat a big breakfast and it'll probably see you right through until late afternoon. Bring some porridge pots, cereal bars, squash, packet stuff you can make with hot water etc too. Meals were expensive on site (we had half board vouchers and that was plenty) but it's a holiday so do treat yourself to a meal or two out if you can. Some of the restaurants are a nice experience, especially for kids, and DD still talks about eating in the Blue Lagoon.

We were there for 5 days and spent an afternoon (it was raining) drying out in the hotel, so plenty of time to pop to the supermarket for supplies if you're there a week.

TBH if you wanted to go self-catering you should have booked the Davy Crockett Ranch (it's self-catering) and then popped your slow cooker on there.

I expect the smell of a slow cooker in the hotel room all day will probably out you, you don't want to be evicted from the hotel you've paid a fortune for.

Agrabah does loads of amazing vegan salads with pulses and lentils, it was fantastic.

Room service will definitely remove a slow cooker. Also, based on our room at Sequoua Lodge, there are hardly any plug sockets in the room and they're really awkwardly situated. They will give you a kettle if you ask at reception.

Fill up on lovely cheeses, breads, pastries, fruits, yoghurts etc at breakfast, make some sneaky cheese rolls for lunch, get dinner in Disney village vs in the park, go back in for fireworks. Take your own drinks, those are the killers, € wise.

Slight tangent but how rubbish is the website? I've got bored of trying to find out the price of Meal Plans after downloading lots of random pdfs that DON'T have that info on them after all. It's nuts that you have to google and get the info off someone else's website!

Food made in a hotel kettle? Fuck. That.

Sorry OP but I have to ask - surely you would have investigated food options/prices etc before booking the holiday??

Maybe circumstances changed and they don't have the money they did when they booked?

I have visions of OP and her poor children huddled round the slow cooker of an evening, eating boring baked potatos and a scraping of cous cous if the're lucky, like a scene from Charlie & the Chocolate Factory with their cabbage soup.
All the other children at DLP will be stuffing themselves on Macy D's, Pizza and Chips, ice cream. All the fun things children associate with holidays.

Small camping gas stove? Also, we have used a Lakeland egg cooker in a hotel. One of my more bonkers purchases but it has paid off!

Blimey, all right takemeup

Yanbu. Take the slow cooker, buy a chicken, that should stretch to all meals for the week.

You can also get some Ainsley Harriot cup a soups in Aldi, easily made in a hotel room.

Bon vacances!

takemeup Yes, poor deprived children of Eliza at DISNEYLAND!

"Small camping gas stove?"

No. It is a fire hazard and a CO hazard. Absolutely no. It will be confiscated.

Never ever use a camping stove inside. It can kill you.

at a week of chicken.

You are mummy pig!