Disneyland Paris & child allergies

[mumsiemoo2]

Hey,

looking for some advice- heading to Disneyland Paris soon with DH and DC 5 & 16 months.

DC 16months has severe egg allergy, gluten allergy and cows milk protein (although we are doing the milk ladder and she is beginning to tolerate milk, stage 3 of ladder so far).

my question is, where can we eat? Any restaurant recommendations we are staying in a Disney hotel, breakfast is included, she will happily have fruit or beans if cooked breakfast, hoping they might have some gf bread too.

i am also wondering what food we can travel with? We are flying uk- Paris. We have booked one suitcase and then will have hand luggage. What can and can’t I travel with, in suitcase and hand luggage? Wanting to take snacks and maybe so baby food for her just in case no options are available due to her combination of allergies.

thanks for reading! Feeling super anxious about this now it’s getting closer.

you can't take food apart for a small amount for consumption during the journey.

I have twins whom have allergies. Not been to Disney with them so have no reccomendations of restaurants. But when we flew to Italy when they were 11 months I ordered lots of baby pouches and snacks to collect from boots airport departures. On boots website you can do a click and collect order to collect from boots (air side) in most UK airports. On their website I spent hours clicking on each food option and reading the ingredients before adding to my order. So this could be a good back up to have with you. I also took a couple of baby bottles filled with oat milk through security with me too.

After brexit , between the EU and UK apply standard international traveling restrictions for food.

I'll simplify them a bit:
No meat/fish/milk/eggs and products from them, no fresh fruit, vegetables, nuts and other plant stuff.

It's allowed to take up to 2kg (alltogether) of baby powdered milk, baby food and medically required food, if it is in unopened branded packaging and doesn't require refrigeration before opening
https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/carry/meat-dairy-animal/index_en.htm

The goal is preventing spreading illnesses and pests, so in general noone cares about reasonable amount of processed sealed snacks, for example pouches are ok.

The chances of the luggage of a family heading for Disney being searched for contraband food items are homeopathic, and the worst that would happen even in that vanishingly remote contingency is that they would take the food off you. And if you were to tell them that it's for your allergic DD they might not even do that.

But in any case I would expect the hotels and restaurants at Disneyland Paris to be absolutely on the ball when it comes to allergies. France in general has improved a lot on this in the last 10 years (although it's still some way behind the UK in allergy awareness) and Disneyland gets a huge number of visitors from the UK who will have higher expectations. The standard list of 14 food allergens was an EU initiative in the first place.

Every Disney restaurant has an allergy folder. When you sit down ask for it and it’ll tell you the ingredients for each dish (including buffets). The staff will also walk you around the buffets and show you which items are good for your child.

we found them really good for allergies!

We stayed at the Newport on a b&b basis with my dd who is dairy free. There was plenty she could eat and we also chose to eat there one evening and no issues. It wasn't the biggest range, and I was a bit annoyed at the time ( 2022!) So hopefully it's improved a bit.

We’ve taken food in our suitcase. For DS, I took mini cartons of Alpro growing-up milk, rice cakes, oat cakes, peanut butter, raisins etc…
For children under 2, you get special allowances for hand luggage. Normally you can’t take ice packs through security but you can if you claim it’s for them. Most recently, I took an insulated lunchbox with plant-based Babybel and dairy free Petit Filous for DS.
There is a supermarket just one stop up on the train if you wanted to grab extra food from there. It is attached to a big shopping centre and has a pretty big "sans gluten" section.

Thank you all so much! This has been super helpful. I’m hoping we may have completed the milk ladder before we go so that might be one less thing to worry about. Boots click & collect fab idea. Also alpro growing up milk minis would be perfect too. Thanks everyone! ☺️