Disneyland Paris Christmas hotel advice please

[housemum]

I'm sure this has been covered before in various bits of conversations but I can't see a recent one!

We intend to go as a Christmas break. I have been in the summer hols and stayed at the Hotel Chanteloup which was great if you just wanted a cheap b&b. As we are going at Xmas, I wanted soemthing a bit more special without silly prices (ie not the hotel at the Park entrance!!).

We can't decide between:

Cheap Disney hotel - Cheyenne, as it says they have characters at the hotel - who's been there? When do the charaacters appear and is that worthwhile?

Holiday Inn - rooms look fun and it has a pool if the weather is really bad.

MyTravel Exporers hotel - again it has a pool, has 2 restaurants compared to holiday Inn's 1.

Moderate Disney Hotel - Sequoia Lodge - is it worth the extra? How much do extra do suites cost as they include a VIP fastpass?

Anyone been at Xmas before can give me hints or say how they found it? (DDs are 13 and 3)

Thank you - too many choices are giving me a headache!!

Have been to the cheyanne

Characters are they are supper time and (iirc) in the morning. Cowboy theme is maintained throught....even the bedside light was gun shaped (I kid you not). Famlly room was a double bed and bunk beds in one room, quite a squeeze. Food isn't that good....BBQ etc of an evening not that exciting.

No pool, good if your kids are cowboy mad. Personaly I wouldn't go back, it wasn't bad just not worth the extra to be in a disney accomdadtion IYSWIM.

Hi housemum. What a lovely idea. We went in early March and found it very cold and wet so that may have a bearing on where you choose to stay. We stayed at the on-site Disney Newport Bay Club (3* i think). The plus side of this was that some or all of us (DH, DS1 4yrs, DS2 3yrs, DD 2yrs & me) could pop back during the day for rest, swim, eat McD's in comfort(!). I also upgraded to the Admiral's Floor for only a few quid a night which meant we could order room service breakfast and avoid the morning scrum in the restaurants. Two characters visited the hotel lobby every morning at set times, i'm guessing the Sequoia Lodge must have a similar set up. We found it busy in March, so i would say anything you can do to avoid queues would be worth the extra dosh. THere's a brilliant chatroom, i'll see if i can find it and come back, which is full of advice from disney fans.

Here's the link (I knew I shouldn't have deleted it from my favourites!)

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Thank you - that's given me food for thought.

Thanks for the help - have gone for the Holiday Inn (safe to say it now I've booked the room!!) If anyone else thinking of it, we paid 530 Euros (about £380) for 4 nights in a Kid Suite which has a double bed and bunk beds, the bunk beds are separated in not quite another room, but a partitioned area with a curtain across and there are a couple of chairs and a table. For £80 less we could have booked the smaller room with just the bunk beds curtained off rather than partitioned, and no seating area.

TBH I found it helpful to be able to get away from Disney at the end of the day. You can over do the Mouse! And the pool will be very useful if the weather is poor.

Hi Sheba - did you go before or after Xmas? We're planning for between Xmas and New Year. Have resigned ourselves to queues - our oldest is at secondary school so time off school is pretty much out of the question, certainly for a European holiday. Oh, the days of not having to think about school holidays! Am planning to do Florida when she's in her GCSE year as they take them in May so would take youngest out of infant school for a fortnight (she won't be in the SATS year by then).

I queued for an hour to get on those elephants that go round and up and down on Christmas Day - madness!