Euro Disney - best place to book? and any other top tips for me

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I have only ever been abroad once in my entire life...for a weekend.

My children never have. I want to take the children to Euro Disney next year but as it will take me almost the entire time from now till then (sept) save up so i want to make sure we getthe best experiance possible.

so roughly how much should i be expecting to pay? where is somewhere good but cheap to stay? what is worth paying for and what should we just nto bother with?

any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Oh, Ds is 8 and DD 4 btw.

Unlikely to get much change from £500 for accommodation/passes for 2-3 days. There are cheaper places to stay off site but these often don't include passes and it depends if you are driving or dependent on rail/bus. If it is a one off trip, and transport limited, then an onsite hotel is the way to go for experience but probably not the cheapest way.

there are lots of threads if you do a search on here, that are full of info. Really helped me last year, when i took dd. Not a cop out but i have to do the school run/thing now. When you get a chance have a look.

my friend, eandh on here, went last week. She's a bit preoccupied today (works for Bradford and Bingley) but if you search her name you should come up with where she stayed and how much it cost. The cost should be comparable with next year as you want the same time of year. HTH

I'm here!!!! (and because my job is okay phew)

We stayed at Santa Fe (on site) 4 days/3nights for 4 of us (2 adults, 1 4yr old and one 20 month old) was £392 for accomadation including buffet breakfast and park tickets and booked eurostar seperatley that was £180 for direct disney train (although dd2 free as under 4)

TBH 4 days was to long with our 2 children and the only direct train home doesnt leave till 7.30pm so last day was a long day. If we went again 3 days/2nights woyuld be a definate.

We spent £500 but at least £150 of that was stuff for the dd's and didnt need to be spent. most evenings we ate in disney village (rainforest cafe/cafe mickey/planet hollywood) and bills came to 70euros for the 4 of us including drinks (although the dd's share a kids meal as not huge eaters) I took alot of snacky food for them int he day and also acquired a few croissants/pain au chocolats at breakfast (and filled their drink bottles from drinks dispensers) there are cheaper places to eat but we liked all our meals and thought reasonably priced. Once you are in park apart from souveniers, toys, clothes etc tatt and photos there isnt any need to spend money.

We were really pleased with hotel, clean sheets/towels everyday and staff very helpful (dd2 was poorly and they were very very helpful) we were the furthest hotel from the parks and they do provide a free shuttle bus but it was only a 15minute walk and we walked to and from it everyday. if you want to be near the park theres the disney hotel (literraly on the entrance to the park) or new york hotel very close. Cheapest place is santa fe, cheynne (sp) and sequonia lodge (think last one has a pool)

So overall we spent just over £1000 for 4 days but that was spending money, accomadation and travel (excuse typing am quickly doing this from work!!)

Hope that helps!

that's excellent EandH, thank you.

I ws looking t it costing about that much wso glad i haven't under estimated.