Davey Crocket Ranch...any advice pls

[RedHairedGirlie]

Hi There

Myself and a friend are taking our kids (2,6 & 9) to DLP and staying at the ranch. Can anyone advise what the cooking facilities are like in the cabins and general seutp?

Planning on doing a Hypermarket shop as I beleive there is one close by and trying to cook some meals at the cabin as opposed to eating out.. or even getting supplies to take pack lunches.

Also wondering about food for a fussy 2 year old. My DD is a very fussy eater to the point that I am going to try and take as much packaged food as possible just in case (frutapura etc). She will eat pasta and some sauces etc so I guess we can stock up on these from the supermarket - again if anyone has any top tips for shopping at the stores and if there is actaully a store reasonably close to the DC ranch (we have a car).

... Oh and one final question.. milk for DD.. she still has morning and evening milk, and I know you can get the same milk in France, its just labelled differently.. can someone confirm what the FF milk is usually known as (one less thing to figure out as my French is very limited to basic school stuff!)

Thanks for any advice..
RHG

Hi! We've been there: it's fine. Cooking facilities are just like in any mobile home: basic, but all you need is there, even an oven. Also there's a barbecue outside. On site, near the pool and shops, there's a mini supermarket. They are used to having UK visitors so have fresh milk. It'll be kept in a chilled section (usually with yogurts etc) and will be bottled, whereas the UHT stuff is just normally on a shelf and in cartons. In France, I've found that FF milk is usually with a red plastic top/label, SS is blue (look for the word demi) and green can be either, but is organic.

For breakfast, you need to go to a little hut where they'll give you a bag to take back to your cabin with croissants, bagettes, butter, nutella, UHT milk plus powder for turning it into Hot Chocolate. x

Opps. Forgot to add that pasturised FF milk is usually labelled "lait-entier pasturize" (my keyboard can't do accents!)

There is a hypermarche on the main motorway as you approach where the ranch is, maybe 2 or 3 junctions before it. I think it's a Carrefour but I'm not 100% certain, it may be the one with the red bird emblem .

The cooking facilities are basic - the fridge is a decent size but there's only a 2 ring hob (which is verrrrrry slow to heat up) and a microwave. Having said that, we catered for a family of 5 with no problem. The hypermarche sells firelighters and charcoal if you want to barbeque but wait and see what the weather is like before you decide .

The breakfast pack is big enough to do lunch as well, especially if you buy some fruit and crisps to bulk it out, or you can buy a box of cereal and use the breakfast pack as your lunch. There was a whole baguette, a brioche and croissant each plus butter, jam nutella, orange juice, coffee, hot chocolate and milk in the packs so it's pretty generous.

You can't collect your breakfast until just before 8am so we gave the dcs a quick bowl of cereal in the cabin, then collected the pack on the way out of the site so we could be in the parc at 8am for when the rides opened. Those extra 2 hours are fantastic for doing the very popular rides without having to queue at all so we made the most of them. The dcs grazed on the breakfast pack as we went round through the morning.

We went back to the ranch at about 2:30 when the dcs were flagging, gave them a top up of healthier foods(!) then took them swimming as the pool is excellent.

They were so knackered that they went to bed at about 6:30pm which was handy for getting them up in time in the morning to get back to the parc for 8am!

Have fun, it's a fab holiday but it is seriously tiring for them and you

Oh I'd forgotten about the OJ for breakfast! I agree with you: the breakfast was generous, and my kids loved the pool too: it was pretty empty in the afternoons. I was sure we had an oven, but perhaps not... H x

I was trying to remember if there was an oven but I'm 99% sure there wasn't in ours. We only had a basic cabin though, the slightly posher ones might have.

It was only because I remember getting Pizza from the supermarket, but perhaps there was one of those funny microwave/oven combos. I don't think our cabin could have been described as posh! It was a great base with good general facilities, but I shouldn't think many visit Disneyland for the Ranch accommodation!

, definitely not. We were hardly in it so it really didn't matter, like you say it's a good base, they're clean and the beds are pretty okay.

I still can't remember about the oven, DH says there wasn't so maybe the microwave is a combo. We bought sausages one night but BBQ'd them.

Someone out there will know........

Many thanks shemademedoit and olihan for the tips, all very useful. Think as DD is usually up by 6am we should be easily able to make the park for 8am.. like the idea of taking the breakfast pack to the park for lunch too, good idea :-)

Hi,
I have not stayed at Davy Crockett Ranch myself, but I do know DLP very well.
Guys here have given you some helpful info, but if you need more I suggest you read reviews of DCR on Trip Advisor as you can pick up a lot of details there. Also ask any questions on the TA Marne La Vallee forum which is mainly for Disneyland Paris.

www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowForum-g226865-i2224-Marne_la_Vallee_Seine_et_Marne_Ile_de_France.html

www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g226865-d564634-r97927456-Disney_s_Davy_Crockett_Ranch-Marne_la_Vallee_Seine_et_Marne_Ile_de_France.html