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?

I don't know if you are able to change your booking, but we stayed in a room with a kitchen area (with microwave) in Val D'Europe. We weren't on a budget particularly but I think it worked out cheaper than the hotels in Disney especially as we didn't get a direct train to it (went to Paris first and then got a train to Val d'Europe).

If you can't do that it is probably worth going to Val D'Europe anyway for food as it has a shopping centre with normal price food shops/cafes. I would just eat cold food for a couple of days. I'm sure it will be fine.

May I point out, TheWitTank, that the OP did not post in the travel section asking for money-saving Disneyland tips, but in AIBU about whether to take a slow cooker with her.

It is, therefore, quite reasonable for people to comment on the slow cooker since it's in the flippin' thread title!

Plus people are alarmed that they may book into the OP's hotel room to find egg shells in the kettle, couscous cemented onto the washbasin and a pervasive aroma of lentil casserole.

Yet - and if you read my post, I pointed out its a bad idea about the slow cooker. Absolutely terrible. She's been told that again and again over 8 pages now. I think she gets it.
It's the people being twatty with comments about 'no sane person would go to Disney' and the like. Really helpful and fuck all to do with the original question. The op hasn't said anything about cooking eggs in a kettle. Someone else mentioned that pages back.

I dont think its that arseholey. Have you never been to AIBU before?

Yes, seasoned aibu user. Well used to arseholery. So its nice then to come on someone's thread and insinuate that their holiday is shit and they are depriving their children of culture? Right. Most of the comments have been great and helpful.

Cafe Aggrabah has veggie but spicy and Annette's do a veggie burger (you just turn up don't book) and Planet Hollywood has 3 veggie mains.

Nothing helpful to add here as clearly the OP has got the message about the slow cooker and plenty of other good suggestions have been made. But I'm on the mobile site and have a lovely banner ad at the top of this page advertising DisneylandParis 30% off + free half board for kids under 7. Clearly DLP respond quickly to the threat of slow cookers!!

Oh, I think the holiday is great - no sneering from me there (12 times visitor). Ok, eight pages of slow cooker outrage, but eight pages that have given me a good laugh of a Thursday morning (whoops, it's half past one... must do some work).

Just seen Annette's v expensive and Cafe Aggrabah closed now... or seasonal.

I do know a good friend who's veggie who has 2 boys who goes to Disneyland Paris a lot and I'm sure she pays up for the onsite stuff and they do the supermarche otherwise. But she has never said there's been a problem eating veggie food in DLP.

I'm with you there BrendaB -another frequent Disney visitor here (don't pearl clutch too much cultural vultures, we also do "proper" travelling)! I will admit the eggs/pasta comments did make me laugh! I also need to get off my bum and do something

op, i cant see if you have said which hotel you are in, but most dlp hotels will work on a card system which controls both the lock and electric in the rooms so it automatically cuts off power when you exit the room.
Eating well and cheap can be a bit of a nightmare. We found the earl of sandwich in the village good value and also the garage next to the Santa Fe hotel a lot cheaper for bottled water, crisps and snacks.
I would also say to take with you easy bits like cereal bars, popcorn bags, mini cheddars ect as you can spend a lot of time sitting down (especially if you want a good veiw) and waiting for parades and night shows to start x

Has no one else noticed the post about teapot spouts being stuck up bums in hotel rooms?!

Noooo Closer .

Frankly I'm still boggling about the post suggesting the OP take the slow cooker and a chicken to last the week , along with some Ainsley Harriot cup-a -soups .

This is really entertaining.
Hope you have a lovely holiday OP...

A chicken lasts for one meal in this house. I've never understood how people make it last a week?! Or maybe we are just greedy .
runs for the shower and mouthwash to deep clean after bum hole kettle revelations

The poster suggesting the chicken was taking the piss.

I saw the teapot post and couldnt decide if it really was a thing, or typical MN paranoia about germs.

Well this thread's gone a bit fucking mental eh?

Ok, look, I wasn't 100% sold on the slow cooker idea but I booked this a year ago, just started looking into meal plans as going in a month and all I could find were stories about very limited/no veggie choices for loads of money and I started to get seriously worried about what we were all going to eat. I wouldn't be over the moon about paying £70 a day for an evening meal for 4, but if I was going to pay it, I would like to know that I'm going to have options for actual vegetarian food over and above salad and chips. Even if I was Richard Branson I would balk at paying £350 for 5 days of chips.

Thank you to TheWitTank , WayfaringStranger , IlkleyMoor and other posters who have offered genuinelyhelpful tips. To the smug patronising posters who have assumed all sorts of bollocks interesting things and passed judgement on my cultural and financial choices, do feel free to insert a teapot spout into your back passages and fuck off while you're doing it.

Start putting a "Grub" fund together. Every spare 50 p or whatever and see how far it gets you before your trip. Even if it buys you one meal on one day it's better than nothing.

No-one makes a chicken last a week Wit, but the very reasonable suggestion that it could last more than one meal is usually met with sarcastic piss taking comments about meals containing homeopathic amounts of chicken.

(Also LOVE your user name Ilkley )

sparky - when I'm at my mum's holiday home in France they collect euros/centimes in jars... left behind or whatever... No one appeared to be using them and I stuck them into a change machine at Intermarche or wherever one day.

we found out last time we were there that it paid for all snacks/lunchtime/teas/bottle of water out for a day trip to La Rochelle as it came to something like 15 euros I think...

Dlp are currently offering 15% off and free meal passes. If you upgrade your accommodation, you may week be able to get the deal. And the discount will pay for the upgrade.