Help me get from Amsterdam to Eurodisney by train

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We're going to Amsterdam at the start of July, and want to go to Eurodisney for a couple of days, so travelling from Amsterdam to Marne-la-Vallée on Monday 7th July. 2 adults, 2 kids (8&10).

We wouldn't mind stopping off in Brussels for a couple of hours to break the journey.

It seems that we can go Amsterdam to Brussels on Eurostar and then on to Paris on inOui.

I'm a bit confused by the train booking, though. Some are saying "Not available" - I'm not clear whether that means "No seats left" or "Booking hasn't opened yet". There also seem to be quite a few different booking sites - any recommendations for the best one, or even advice on the differences between them?

Also pricing - are there any travel cards or anything we can get to make things cheaper, or is it not worth it for a one-off journey?

Any tips from someone who's used to this kind of travel?

Have a look at seat61.com

Rome2rio is also good search tool for this.

I'd also just book Amsterdam to Paris Gare du Norde (with a stop off in Brussels if you decide to do this) as it appears to be much cheaper (£30-50 showing for 7 July) vs £95+ to Marne-la-Vallée including a ridiculous extra hop in Paris (I've learned that they do this from travelling from Leeds to 'outer London' - the cost for a ticket to somewhere like Heathrow is far more expensive than just booking to Kings X and then getting on the tube).

When in Paris, the final leg to Marne-la-Vallée is just a 'turn up and go' local train which will cost a few Euros PP. It also gives you flexibility if you want to spend time in Paris.

look at all the sites

trainline is good for european international travel as well.

ns international (dutch national train organisation)

SNCF (french national train org) www.sncf-connect.com/en-en/

Belgium www.belgiantrain.be/en

the Thalys (belgian fast train) is now absorbed by eurostar on the amsterdam/brussels route.

brussels is beautiful - absolutely worth spending some time there.

Raileurope.com is my favoured European train booking site.
If it's the French leg showing as unavailable I think it's because they haven't opened their bookings for the summer yet.

For InOui - direct Brussels to Marne La Vallee - the tickets are not on sale yet - normally 3 months in advance. I would definitely take a direct train and not change in Paris. From Amsterdam to Brussels - if you use the Eurocity, under 12 s are free - but there is a reduced ticket price (not free) on the Eurostar.

Thank you all, this is really helpful! @MissAmbrosia what's the difference between Eurocity and Eurostar?

eurocity is the 'normal' intercity train. not high speed.

Yes Eurocity is the "normal" train - you can't reserve seats. It has speeded up though recently and i think is 2 hours.