If you had 4 nights/days at disneyland Paris, how would you spend them?

[WhenMarnieWasThere]

We will be arriving the first day (Friday) at about 5pm (we are travelling via eurostar and could only get the ones with the stop over at Lille).

Then on the Tuesday we are leaving at about midday.

In between we will have Sat, Sun and Mon to do whatever. I'm toying with the idea of going into Paris, but not sure whether that's worth it.

Any advice gratefully received.

What do you mean?
You would spend them at disneyland

We've been to both Paris and Disneyland before and when we went to Disneyland last September, we planned to get the Metro into Paris for the day and do a whistle stop tour of the sights with the DC. When it came to it though and we were actually there, we realised that there was barely enough time to do all the things in Disney that we wanted to and actually for what it was costing us per day to be there, it would be crazy to leave the parks for a day and of course the DC didn't want to by that stage. We went for the same sort of period as you. I think what would have been better would have been if we'd booked a hotel for a couple of nights in Paris first.

You will be surprised at how quickly your time goes. What time of year are you going? If it is at a busy period a lot of your day will be taken up by queuing so you do sometimes need 2 or 3 whole days to get round what you want to do.

I have suspected we might not have enough time to do anything apart from the parks.

A day in each, then, with the third day to spend on anything the haven't seen or want to see again.

They are 10 and 13 and aren't into princesses, so no queuing for characters for us. They might do rides but not sure which til we are actually there.

We had four full days with a three and a half year old actually in the parks, plus one day doing Paris. Four days was just about enough time to do all the rides, and repeat the best rides The queues are pretty bad! Depends what you all like. If we went again, I wouldn't bother doing Paris, just the parks. If you decide you are done with DLP by late afternoon, you can always go see Paris then, and indeed get back into the park for the fireworks.

They are 10 and 13 and aren't into princesses, so no queuing for characters for us. They might do rides but not sure which til we are actually there. Is there anything else to actually do at DLP Maybe I'm missing something, but I thought it was all about the rides and/or meeting and lunching with princesses? At 10 and 13, would they get more out of 4 days in Paris itself?

There are a couple of shows and the parades, but I'm with Avon - why are you going if they don't want to meet characters/go on rides? Better to stay in Paris and go to DLP for a day maybe?

DD1 went with school and had a great time, so I'm not expecting it to be a flow. SIL took her older children and had a great time. I'm sure they will find some of the rides that they DO want to go on when they are actually there. :)