Disneyland Paris - what's the cheapest way to do it?

[MsDemeanor]

Thinking about going for just one night over the summer with two children under seven. It seems as if you can get a room or two (self-catering) plus access to rides for around £300 but my computer is playing up and won't let me access cost of package including travel, which we'd ideally do on Eurostar from London. I suspect this really whacks up the cost.
Does anyone have any idea of how much this is as a package, and ideas of how to do this as cheaply as possible?
Thanks!

We did it in April and it cost us £800 for hotel and eurotunnel. We drove all the way...
Before you fall over, that was for 4 nights/5 days...
Having never been to Disneyland florida I thought Paris was brilliant.
The only thing I'd say is that I don't think 1 night/2 days is enough...sorry!

I don't think there's much between eurostar and tunnel apart from the obvious, tolls were about £20 each way and obviously fuel costs have to come into it...
Where are you thinking of staying?

Thanks - thinking of staying in an aparthotel and all sleeping in one room is really a recipe for disaster in our experience, as one of the kids cannot sleep with other people in the room!!
This is also why we are thinking of just one night, as it lets us cut our losses if none of us gets any sleep. Why wouldn't it be long enough? Thinking of arriving early one day and leaving lateish on the next.

We arrived teatime on the Sunday and it was Wednesday morning before we were actually sure that we had seen everything! Seriously we did the train ride on the Tuesday evening cos we were knackered, and ended up seeing bits of the park which we didn't even know existed!

It is massive (although I'm sure someone will be along in a minute to say its not as big as Florida...) and I really didn't appreciate that until I got there...

You will be surprised how you cope with out sleep when Mickey and Minnie Mouse are involved!!!!

I realise we probably wouldn't see that much of the park, but surely the kids could go on a hell of a lot of rides in that time?
And I am worried about the cost - especially as although the children would love it, not sure what's in it for me!

Not sure anyone can do it on the cheap to be honest, especially with kids of school age cos it is automatically more expensive in school holidays!

You will be suprised at how much you love it...both myself and DH said that we would have gone before we had dd if we had known how much we would have enjoyed it!
I know loads of couples who have gone without kids and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

The one way to save money is to take your own food. The food in the park is literally "fast food" and we got really bored of it by the Monday so we made rolls up in the morning from the hotel and took lots of crisps etc in the car.
Most things are expensive in there and to be fair we spent a fortune.

But I will always say that it was worth it...

Hiya, anyone else any ideas. DD is completely convinced we are going...!

Hello Morning People!

the park isn't that big at all - I think 2 full days would do it if you are there from start to finish. We had disney-fatique by the end - went feb half term for 3 days - but our kids were younger (6,3,1) at the time.

have you any coach companies around your way? there's one that advertises in our local paper for 2nights 3 days for 179 per adult 99 per child! haven't braved it yet but am hoping to go next december when dd is 5 and my mum will be 60, going for girly weekedn just us girls!

i'd think going by eurostart for 2 days 1 night seems a waste of travel time, try and do at least 2 nights if you can, same travel cost only one extra room cost!

How much did it cost all together, with travel?

was very cheap for us - we didn't pay for the dds at all (all under 7s were free including passes and hotel) maybe £400 for 4 days 3 nights. kept waiting for the catch but it was really that cheap

Wow! That is cheap. How did you do it? Did you drive there or Eurostar?

do you drive?

we went on a campsite close to disneyland paris. we went for 10 days here amazingly cheap

We went at feb half term for 5 days/4 nights it cost about £1000, using expedia to book the hotel, and independant company to book the park tickets and direct with Eurostar for the train tickets.

Eurostar is cheaper the longer in advance you book it.

We stayed in a 4 star hotel (The Dream Castle), but found it very noisy. The people next door to us were French and we could hear their conversation word for work albeit we couldn't understand it. My dc couldn't sleep until their dc went to sleep and next door were early risers too.

Food is hideously expensive, so if you do go try to pack as much picnic stuff as you can.

Hi custardo, thanks so much for that. Seems if we go early sept we could stay for four days for under £300! Is it nice? It looks nice? Also does anyone know how much it costs to enter the park if you aren't booking a Disney package? (I think the Keycamp villa things look much nicer than the Disney hotels actually - looks like Centerparcs)

Sorry, missed some posts. Thanks for all information.

This is who we booked park tickets through - prices at the side. You can just wait and buy them at the park gates, but the queues were miles long for them.

I am so grateful for your help everyone. Will show dh the keycamp site and the online booking for Disneyworld.
What's keycamp really like? It looks nice.

croix du veux pont is ok, the resteraunt is a pile of wank - don't bother wasting your money.

usually great with kids , kids activities entertainment etc.

and when i have been before - if you are not confident driving to eurodisney - you can pay to go on a coach from the site! wotht asking about.

we paid on the door when we got there.

if you are going
PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE check out parc asterix

it beats the shit out of eurodisney

It looks pretty - but it is all rollercoasters? We are all rollercoaster wimps!
Dh loves driving abroad - bizarre macho thing but good as I don't like it.

Am feelign quite excited about this now...

another tip - go to the reps tents - go in all of them - they dont mind! they all have leaflets on whats going on in the area - this is always our first port of call.

the reps tents usually have games and adult books for if its wet.

the evening entertainment at la croix is not so good although the site itself is pretty good. The evening entertainment is limited to pants bingo and a quiz - but this usually depends on the enthusiasm of that particular years reps.

there are a couple of fast food places on site too

here is the website of the site itself}

dont forget to check out all the other camping websites - they will prob be more expensive but you get to see more pictures of the site

the pool can be covered over on wet days. there is a slide and a jacuzzi too.

also google images!

parc asterix has some rollercosters but is equally good fro smaller children.

although i dont mid fast rollercoasters i can only do medium core stuff as the others give me a headache.

its worth it - its where the french go - so the onsite 'fast' food places are usually gorg baguettes etc. instead of shitty hanburgers

I think our evenign entertainment would be something to eat and a bottle of wine to be honest. Don't care about that. I like that it's self-catering. Yes, french fast food is so much better. Appreciate all the tips. Have emailed info to dh!

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we go with these - so much cheaper ina tent

if your seriously looking for the cheapest