What would be an acceptable amount to give dd for trip to Disneyland Paris?

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Shes going with school tomorrow and they have to take money for lunch and dinner plus fopr souvenirs.
I have just told her not to buy us anything, or her grandparents!! (she was planning on it).

So how much would you give for 2 days of lunch and dinner, plus a little something for them? I thought maybe £15 per meal, but then I thought that was ridiculous, but I dont want her to be short

Here's is what I posted when I came back from DLP - god memory is so rusty!

By Fimbo Tue 04-Mar-08 16:41:01 Add a message | Report post | Contact poster
We didn't bother with the character meal, I don't think my ds (4) would have been up for that. He was happy to queue for his picture with Mickey but that was all. Although friends have done it and thought it was good.

The Wild West thing costs an arm and a leg (as does all the food on site!!), I think it may have been something like £65 (yes pounds!) for an adult, although you do get a free stetson hmm.

The best place to queue for Minnie is at Walt Disney Studios - much shorter queue, as I don't think people realised what the queue was for until she arrived! I think she was there just after it opened at 10.

Also if you do go to Walt Disney Studios make sure you had for the "Cars" ride first - it is one of the newer rides and we queued for ages.

The tram tour is a must - be prepared for a surprise, but thats all I am saying.

My dd (9) enjoyed a pizza in the shape of Mickey at the Backlot in Walt Disney Studios (best pizza all holiday according to her!).

The place to eat that ReadySalted is thinking about is called Annette's and is at the start of Disney Village. It was nice but just your bog standard fare really of burger and chips etc. The kids meals come on a frizbee for them to keep. It heavily advertises the fact that the waitresses are on roller skates and we felt a bit cheated as they weren't but we went at lunch time, so maybe they do in the evening.

If all else fails there is also MacD's!!!

If you go Videopolis in Discoveryland when the parade is on at 4pm, you can pick your seat before the Lion King show comes on at about 4.30/5.00. The food in there is okish and they have a serve yourself salad bar.

Don't have meals in your hotel. It cost us £140 for 2 meals i

Yes, buggylovinmum - we got wise to the fact that if you went about 3/4hrs before the show came on, you could eat and pick a decent seat! We watched it 2/3 times.

WEewent in dec so it was fairly quiet, we went there twice as well!!

If your dd gets a choice of where to buy food then there is a few hot dog stands around the park, which would probably be enough for lunch, especially for a child.

Maybe you could send her with a few bags of crisps and some fruit that she could keep in her bag, whenever we go on holiday we tend to have a big breakfast and dinner and skip lunch.

Agree with TheDevilWearsPrimark - a school trip to Disneyland is bonkers... and shocking.

We took quite a few drinks and snacks with us from home. Capri sun apple juice as an example. Also take water bottles to fill up, there are water fountains in the park.
We went just after Xmas so we took the remains of the kids' selection boxes with us, it saved us a fortune in buying treats etc.
Fresh fruit and veg hard to come by in the park, though a few days won't kill you.

It seems quite common place now Anna, my dd is going to High School in September and one of the YR7 trips is to Disneyland Paris.

already explained reason for trip further down thread.
But even if it wasnt for that I wouldnt mind, beats going to the local Welsh Folk Museum for the 900th time

nope, sorry, still shocked - the idea of going to Disneyland because it's a good place to learn about St David is just tbh.

There's got to be something between 901 visits to the same museum, and doing such an unbelievably expensive and culturally useless trip.

I think a school trip to Disneyland sounds fab. For some families it means their dc will get to experience something fun they may not be able to afford if they had to pay for the whole family, and it may not be that cultural, but the children will develop social skills and independance.

And learning should be fun, I think a lot of children would learn more about St David if they were in a fun environment like Disneyland.

My DD's school does a trip in the second year of primary school (English Year 3) where all five parallel classes go to castle in deepest France for 12 days and do horseriding plus lots of cultural excursions and learning activities that can only be done in the countryside. It costs 720 euros which is a lot of money but I will willingly pay it when the time comes because the trip is so well thought out and so educational. And it is notorious with parents for the huge change for the better in their children when they return.

Why take the children to Disneyland when there are lot of options for a really educational trip...

kslatts, learning should be fun, I absolutely agree. But a school IMO should be teaching children how to get fun out of things that are a little bit more opaque to the outside eye, but which build your knowledge, your intelligence, your problem-solving, your ability in some way and your experience of a richer range of life and its possibilities. Going on a theme park ride is fun, but that's pretty much it, there is no learning involved IMO. Social skills and independence - in what way? Riding on a coach with their friends, probably not speaking a single word of French, deciding which rides to go on first but probably having to troop around in groups, passively consuming a Disney version of culture? I may sound like an old dinosaur but I don't want my child anywhere near that as a school experience tbh.

So, off the top of my head, why not take the children to walk a longish chunk of Offa's Dyke, predict the flora and fauna to be found there and compare with the reality, followed by hot chocolate and ghost stories back at the bunkhouse? Why not take the children to St David's Cathedral, maybe do a project around it on cities, Athenian city states, who was/is a citizen, what makes a city, which towns in Wales have applied to be cities? Pembrokeshire national park, following a map, exploring a cave looking at geology, followed by making a fire and cooking shrimps? Snowdonia and a bit of climbing/stargazing? Learn how to fish? Riding, as Anna says? Tracking a section of the Wye? Even just a project on daffodils - botany, poetry, different varieties, then choosing some to plant, maybe as a guerilla garden? A project on national days - learn to sing a few different national anthems, the reasons why different countries have chosen those days? Presumably St David has a burial place, or other places associated with him, that the children could visit?

I would be very angry tbh if a teacher wasted time on this trip at ds's school.

This is where my DD's school trip will be based.

Disneyland isn't a patch on this, IMO.

Its Mrs Bucket! She's alive!

The OP is struggling to make up enough cash to send with her DD for meals. You chip in with your e700 trip in a Chateau...very helpful. Classy lady...

Hope your DD enjoys it OP.

yeah, hope she has a ball!!!