Disneyland Paris advice single parent of 2

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Single parent of 2... Is Disneyland paris doable on your own with 2 young kids aged 8 and 6?

Has anyone been with 2 kids on there on... Did they miss out on a lot of rides? I don't know if I'm better taking a friend along with us.

Thanks.

There are loads of rides which can fit at least 3 abreast e.g. Small World,
Peter Pan’s Flight, Dumbo, carousels, tea cups….. in fact, most of them. The ones that don’t are aimed at older kids and adults. And anyway, there’s way more to DLP than just rides….shows, parades, character dining and character meets, labyrinth, adventure isle, frontier playground… I could go on!

Join “Disneyland Paris for Brits” on Facebook. Loads of info on there and reviews by single parents of their trips.

Small world was dismantled years ago?
is your 8 year old going to want to go on bigger rides?

Have done it on my own with DCs aged 10 and 4. Worried slightly they would need different things but it worked really well and I would imagine even easier if closer in age like your two. 10yo was obvs big enough to be without me (according to their signage your 8yo prob also is - 7yo seemed to be the significant age for this) and 4yo was big enough for everyhing 10yo wanted to do (everything except ToT, space mountain, indiana jones). We fitted three together more often than I'd realised - as well as those mentioned above, we were all together on Buzz, Big Thunder Mountain, parachute drop, slinky dog, flying carpets, star tours, pirates, orbitron... We only had to go separately for Dumbo (7+ allowed to go alone so you'd need to go with your 6yo).

I found it an easy single parent holiday, and was relieved at how very little my two had to compromise on what each individually wanted.

The one thing we might have done differently with a second adult would have been to meet a princess- the queue for that is absurd and really you need to stick an adult in the queue with a book (before it even opens) and send the children off with the other adult til nearly time to go in. Luckily 10yo now too old to be bothered and 4yo didn't know what she was missing out on.

This isn't true... but it is currently closed for refurbishment, not sure when due to reopen.