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?

This is a wind up surely??

1. If you are skint, Disney is the worst possible place to go
2. Housekeeping will turn off crock pot
3. Disney means crap eating
4. Just eat around everything. Yes you will overpay like mad. Welcome to Disney!

I think I luffs this thread

My DC are good eaters and despite being on their feet 12hrs a day they actually ate very little. We put it down to excitement, we took them to Inventions and they just ate bread and yoghurts (DP ate their share I reckon), most expensive yoghurt ever!
You'll be fine with just food from the Auchen, maybe topped up with snacks from the parks. It's not all hideously expensive, the mickey cookies are 1€99 for two which isn't that bad and we found Annette's in the village to be very good value, they have a 20€ set menu and the portions were huge.

Is anyone else thinking of Alan Partridge, when he stayed in the Norwich travel tavern? A kettle for cuppa soups and pot noodles, the kettle and mini fridge combined and bingo! You've got jelly. He smuggled in a microwave, you could go that OP, just make sure the hotel staff aren't alerted by the loud 'ping'.

Surely the room will already have a kettle?On our last holiday I got very productive with a kettle... I made egg sandwich's by cooking the egg in the kettle and curry and rice using boil in the bag rice and heating the whole jar in the kettle.
I cooked pasta too (although that was a pain -but heard if you used a orange net its easier?) and heating a sauce jar in the kettle afterwards.. For veg I did stuff that tastes alright with water poured on like sweet corn, French beans etc.

PLEASE tell me that this was your own kettle and not the hotel one?

If it was the hotel one, that is beyond rank - I would hate to be the next person staying in the room, making tea out of your eggy bean water. Bleugh.

Don't forget also, if you're from the UK, you'll get a hell of a lot more euro for your £ so may not work out as expensive to eat out. Please don't take a slow cooker on holliers.

The supermarket everyone has mentioned is spot on and will provide you with plenty of options. Take packed lunches! Didn't spot where you're staying but realistically you ought to have picked somewhere self-catering, thus saving money and food worries! I went as a teen and we were hardly rich, we did packed lunches and snacks and I assure you I had as fabulous a time as every other person there and I wasn't constantly on a junk food come-down

I thought this thread was by the crowd cooking slow cooker poster
Anyway OP - we recently survived four days on the French Riviera on a tight budget (holiday was a gift) - you can eat very well and fairly cheaply from the supermarkets and the bread, cheese, salad and local wine are superb.

if your having the breakfast buffets take a couple of tupperware pots with you in your rucksack for the day and fill them with stuff from the buffet. As for liquids the fountains are good or buy some little bottles of water/ fruitshoots over here and take them with you and chuck them in your back pack too. A slowcooker is just dangerous surely? And if you stay for any of the light parades at night time you could risk over cooking/ burning anything you have in there. Also save the space for souvenirs

Unfairest I hope you've got flame retardant clothes on because some MNers are very pearly clutchy about breakfast buffet good takers!

**food not good

Was just going to say the breakfast thief police will be out in force soon.

When we stayed at the Santa Fe last Halloween on some of the breakfast tables it was like a production line, someone buttering, someone layering cheese etc. They limit the meat now because of the brekkie meat thiefs. I took some of the pain au chocalats though.

I think the maids would unplug the cooker, I am convinced they stole my favourite socks, so you may find your whole evening meal missing.

OP I would not take the slow cooker, my kids may as well be vegetarians as they are the fussiest things going, anyway we survived on bread and chips. We had a good value meal at Annette's diner and the rainforest cafe was lovely. There is always McDonalds and Buzz pizza is good value.

We also stocked up at the supermarket at Val de Europe.

There's a huge hypermarket less than 10 minutes drive away -or there's a (free I think) shuttle bus from outside eurodisney or it's one short stop on the train.

It's one of those hypermarkets that you can spend ages wandering around (dc enjoyed it as much as some of the Disney rides).

Thera also a huge shopping centre with the odd restaurant dotted through plus a food area with lots in, all significantly cheaper than eurodisney.

Take a decent cool box and stick a bag of ice in it in lieu of a fridge and it will be fine to keep most veggie stuff for a good couple of days, then request a kettle from the concierge (kept especially for those pesky British guests!) and you'll be sorted.

Enjoy your stay!

Wtaf would anyone sane go to disney land Paris or worse Florida.

Op your kids would have loads more fun camping in Wales.

Amd you could afford to eat out too.

The website is crap for info, bit if you have a look onTripadvisor they have a forum for Disney Paris with lots of lovely Disney obsessed posters on there who will give you lots of advice on best places to eat and the best deals.

We took loads of snacks, things like cup-a-soups, porridge pots that you just add hot water too, peppermi (obviously no good for you). And of course don't forget to pack a couple of bottles of wine for the evenings, alcohol is even more expensive than the crap food.

Hopefully here is a link to the the forum www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowForum-g2079053-i21935-Disneyland_Paris_Seine_et_Marne_Ile_de_France.html

I've never heard of anything so ridiculous in all my life.

I have never been to Disneyland but I wouldn't rely on having a kettle in the room. French hotels and homes generally do not.

The water fountains in the parks weren't working last week btw. I bought big bottles of water from the esso garage and refilled with those.

Don't do a meal plan. Euro is far weaker now and it's just restrictive.

We ate at billy bobs buffet twice (loved this as huge salad bar, rice, potato gratin, wraps, hard boiled eggs, puds etc) and Agrabah (defo no meat stock on the couscous). The diamond shaped baklava was to die for.

Also ate at cafe mickey for breakfast, Earl of Sandwich, Lucky Nugget and Auberge. All very good indeed.

Food at the studios wasn't great.

Ooh, and didn't bother with hotel breakfast - we bought it from Starbucks or used porridge pots that we took with us rather than face the bun fight in there. It opens at 8am meaning you can breakdast in the pros during Magic hours.

We always eat in the shopping centre when we go because as a family of 5 we can save over €100 a day by doing so. Also the restaurants in the centre are lovely.

Gosh some people on this thread are nasty.

OP I think you can see from the thread that taking a slow cooker is not the way to go.
I have no experience with disney but I think you should be fine if you can get to a supermarket, as long as you wont be going when it's roasting hot, things like bread, cheese and prepacked pasta salad type stuff should be fine.
I have booked holidays before and found myself skint and having to be very careful with my budget when the time comes.
It's only for a few days, even if they end up surviving on junk to keep them full up, it wont do any harm.

Enjoy your holiday

at posters suggesting gas camping stoves.

THEY ARE OUTDOOR THINGS ONLY AND VERY DANGEROUS INDOORS!!!!!! People have died from using them inside tents. Terrible suggestion.

Slow cooker won't be allowed unless perhaps you are self-catering. Hotel would definitely confiscate it (at best).

Restaurant buffets or supermarket are the way to go. Don't eat in the park itself. Go out to the village just outside, which is more reasonable.

Have a great holiday, and stop worrying. Nobody who has gone to DLP has ever starved to death yet.