Since Disneyland opened its doors in 1955, Disney parks have become one of the most sought after and dreamed of destinations by thousands of people around the world.
Until 1983, the only parks (Disneyland and Walt Disney World) were in the United States, but from that year on, Disney parks began to open in other locations.
This is how in 1992 the second Disney park outside the United States and the first and only one on the European continent was inaugurated: Disney Paris.
Since its inauguration it has had a high influx of tourists who every year pass through its doors to marvel at the influence that the Disney world inevitably exerts on everyone.
If one of your wishes is to visit the Disneyland Paris park, here we will explain everything you must take into account so that your visit is pleasant and free of setbacks.
What should you include in your budget to travel to Disney Paris?
When you plan to make any trip, no matter how small, the first thing you should do is start planning it well in advance, especially if you plan to visit a place with a large tourist influx.
Paris is among the five European destinations with the highest demand, so if you plan to visit it, you must plan your trip months in advance (minimum 6); from the plane tickets, through the hotel reservation to the places you will visit.
It is important to be clear about the budget you have, as this will allow you to decide the type of hotel in which you will stay, where you will eat, how you will get around and what tourist sites and attractions you can visit.
When planning a trip, you must take into account the time in which you will be traveling. You must find out in which months of the year is the high season and the low season.
Depending on the season in which you travel, you will have to budget more or less amount of money.
In what season of the year is it better to go to Disney In Paris?
You can visit Disney Paris at any time of the year. However, traveling in each season has its benefits.
Disney parks have the peculiarity that the high season to visit them coincides with the time of school holidays.
The most frequent visitors to this type of park are the youngest in the house and they are always expected to be on school leave to plan this type of trip.
When you visit a tourist destination, you should find out about the weather conditions. So you can know what time of year is the best to visit.
In the case of Paris, the best time of year to visit it is during the summer months: June, July, August and September.
During this time, the climate is more favorable, since there is less rainfall and the temperature ranges between 14 ° C and 25 ° C.
The least recommended months of the year to travel to the city are November, December, January and February, since during this time the temperature drops considerably, reaching a range between 2 ° C and 7 ° C.
The best months to visit Disneyland Paris are May, September and October, since there will not be as many influxes to the parks and you will not have as much waiting time in the lines of the attractions.
A tip that we can give you is that, if it is within your means, visit the park the first four days of the week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (they are considered low season).
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the number of people who attend the park increases notably, regardless of whether we are talking about months of high or low season.
How to get to Paris?
Another thing that you must plan very well for your trip to be successful and pleasant, from the beginning, is the way to get to the city of Paris.
Being one of the most visited cities on the planet, it has different ways and means to get there. It all depends on the place from which you start the trip and the budget you have for it.
To Paris from Mexico
To go to Paris from Mexico, you must take a flight. We recommend that you use the large number of search engines online so you can evaluate which is your best option.
The flights from the Mexico City airport to the Charles de Gaulle airport (Paris), in high season and in economy class, have a price range that goes from $ 871 to $ 2371. The variation lies in the airline and if the flight is with or without stops.
If you travel in low season, prices are from $ 871 to $ 1540.
Air travel is slightly cheaper in low season. To this you can add that occasionally there are certain promotions that could allow you to get tickets at better prices.
To Paris from Spain
If you travel to Paris from any country on the European continent, you have other options beyond an air ticket.
With air ticket
If you are a practical person and what you want is to travel directly to Paris, without setbacks, you can do it by air.
Our recommendation is that you make use of the many search engines online so you can select the option that most appeals to you.
Traveling in low season and departing from Madrid airport to Charles de Gaulle airport (Paris), the cost of the air ticket ranges from $ 188 to $ 789.
If you plan your trip in high season, with the previous itinerary, the cost of the ticket will be between $ 224 and $ 1378.
Travel by train
On the European continent, the train is a widely used means of transport, even when traveling from one country to another.
If you are in Spain and want to venture on a train trip to Paris, there are two routes: one leaving from Madrid and the other leaving from Barcelona.
The approximate cost of the trip from Madrid to Paris ranges between $ 221 and $ 241.
If you leave from Barcelona, the approximate price of the ticket will be between $ 81 and $ 152.
The train ride is quite long, it lasts on average about 11 hours.
We recommend that you only do it if you fear flying or if you really like this means of transport, since it is a bit tiring and, in terms of costs, you save a little, but to the detriment of your comfort.
Where to stay at Disneyland Paris?
When you come to Disneyland Paris, you have three accommodation options: you can stay in one of the hotels within the Disney complex, in the so-called “associated hotels” or in a hotel that does not belong to any of the above.
1. Disney Hotels
As in other Disney resorts around the world, at Disneyland Paris there are hotels managed by the Disney corporation, which offer you a stay full of relaxation and comfort.
Staying in a Disney hotel is an experience like no other, full of the magic and dream that characterizes the Disney world. At Disneyland Paris there are a total of eight hotels:
- Disneyland Hotel
- Disney’s Hotel New York
- Disney’s Newport Bay Club
- Disney’s Sequoia Lodge
- Village Nature Paris
- Disney’s Hotel Cheyenne
- Disney’s Hotel Santa Fe
- Disney’s Davy Crockett Ranch
These are quite exclusive, so for some budgets they can be somewhat expensive. The price of the stay in these hotels ranges between $ 594 and $ 1554 per night.
Despite how expensive these hotels are, there are certain advantages to staying in them.
First of all, the proximity to the park is a great advantage, since you can save the cost of transportation. In addition, all have a free transfer to the park.
When you stay at a Disney hotel, you can enjoy the so-called “Magic Hours”, which will give you access to the park two hours before it opens to the general public. This means that you can avoid waiting in long lines for certain attractions.
If you travel as a family, especially with children, staying at a Disney hotel is an experience, since they are themed; for example:
- The Hotel Santa Fe follows the theme of the movie «Cars».
- The Cheyenne Hotel is set in the Wild West, with Cowboy Woody ("Toy Story") as the protagonist.
- The Disneyland Hotel has themed rooms like the suite room "Cinderella" (Cinderella) or the suite room "Sleeping Beauty".
When making purchases in establishments within the complex, if you are a guest of a Disney hotel, they can be sent directly to your room and even charged to your account. With this you save yourself carrying packages while you tour the park and its attractions.
2. Associated Hotels
A little further from the park, are these hotels that have free transportation to them. There are a total of eight hotels:
- Adagio Marne-la-Vallée Val d'Europe
- B&B Hotel
- Radisson Blu Hotel
- Hôtel l’Elysée Val d’Europe
- Vienna House Magic Circus Hotel
- Kyriad Hotel
- Vienna House Dream Castle Hotel
- Algonquin’s Explorers Hotel
The approximate cost ranges from $ 392 to $ 589.
If you book your accommodation at a partner hotel from the official Disney website, the cost includes entrance to the park; But if you make the reservation from other web pages (or even at the same hotel), you must purchase the tickets on your own.
3. Other accommodations
In the areas surrounding the park you can also find a wide variety of accommodation ranging from hostels to hotels and apartments. Depending on your selection, you can have benefits such as breakfast included and perhaps park tickets.
There are accommodations for all budgets and possibilities of travelers.
To select the most convenient hotel, you just have to evaluate how much money you have available for accommodation, how you want to spend your days visiting and weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each type of accommodation.
Tickets to Disneyland Paris
To select the tickets and thus access the parks of the Disney Paris complex, you must take into account several things.
The first one is if you want to visit both parks (Disneyland and Walt Disney Studios). The second is how many days you are going to allocate to this visit and, the third, if you are staying in a hotel that does not belong to the complex or is not associated.
If you stay at a Disney hotel, generally the entrance fees to the parks are included in the cost of the room.
Disney parks are characterized by the great variety and quantity of attractions they have, so perhaps a single day is not enough to get to know them in their entirety and enjoy them.
1 day ticket
If your visit is on time and you can only dedicate 1 day to it, we recommend that you purchase the single ticket that covers the 1-day visit. This entry can be: 1 day – 1 park or 1 day – 2 parks.
According to the date, there are three types of days: those with the highest influx (high season) are known as Super Magic, those with intermediate influx are called Magic and those with little influx (low season) are called Mini.
Depending on the date you travel, the cost of the ticket varies:
Super Magic: 1 day – 1 park = $ 93
1 day – 2 parks = $ 117
Magic: 1 day – 1 park = $ 82
1 day – 2 parks = $ 105
Mini: 1 day – 1 park = $ 63
1 day – 2 parks = $ 86
Multi-day ticket
You have the option to choose between 2, 3 and 4 days. The season in which you will travel is not taken into account here.
What we recommend from here is that you spend 3 days to visit both parks. However, here we will propose the three alternatives:
2 days ticket – 2 parks = $ 177
Ticket 3 days – 2 parks = $ 218
Ticket 4 days – 2 parks = $ 266
What to eat at Disneyland Paris?
Disney Hotel Guest
If you are staying at a Disney hotel, you can hire one of the food services that they offer.
There are three meal plans: Standard, Plus and Premium.
All include buffet breakfast at the hotel where you stay. For the rest of the meals, you have two options: Half Board (Breakfast + 1 meal per person and booked night) and Full Board (Breakfast + 2 meals per person and booked night).
Below we will explain what each of the three meal plans covers:
Standard Plan
This is the simplest and cheapest plan. It is valid in 5 and up to 15 restaurants in the Disney complex. It includes:
- Buffet breakfast at your hotel
- Buffet lunch / dinner at your hotel or at the restaurants in the parks and Disney Village
- 1 Refreshment with the meal
If you contract this plan under the half-board mode, you must pay the amount of $ 46.
If you hire him with full board, the price is $ 66.
Plan Plus
It is valid in 15 and up to 20 restaurants in the complex.
It includes:
- Buffet breakfast at your hotel
- Buffet lunch / dinner or with table service with a set menu at your hotel or at the restaurants in the parks and Disney Village
- 1 Refreshment with the meal
If you purchase this plan under the half-board mode, the payment you must make is $ 61 and, if it is full board, the cost is $ 85.
Premium plan
It is the most complete and accepted in more than 20 restaurants in the Disney complex.
It includes:
- Buffet breakfast at your hotel and / or with Disney characters.
- Lunch / Dinner buffet or with table service fixed menu and "a la carte" at your hotel or at the restaurants in the parks and Disney Village.
- Meals with Disney characters
- 1 Refreshment with the meal
This plan in the half-board mode costs $ 98 and with full board, $ 137.
Associate Hotel Guest or others
If you are a guest at any of Disney's partner hotels, you cannot access their meal plans, so you must eat on your own in the park's restaurants or nearby.
There are three categories of restaurants at the Disney complex: budget, mid-priced, and expensive.
Cheap restaurants
They are, in general, fast food restaurants that do not have table service, but the food is removed at the counter.
In these restaurants, the approximate cost of a meal ranges from $ 16 to $ 19. Meals in this type of establishment include a main course, dessert and a drink. Occasionally a salad or French fries.
The type of food served is usually hamburgers, hot dogs, pizzas, among others.
Mid-priced restaurants
To eat at most of these restaurants, you must make a reservation before you come to the park.
This group includes some of the buffet-style restaurants and others that have an “a la carte” menu. The cost of a meal in these types of restaurants is between $ 38 and $ 42.
The variety of restaurants of this type is wide. Here you can taste Arabic and Italian food, among others.
Expensive restaurants
It is important to remember that if you want to eat at one of these restaurants, you must make your reservation in advance.
This includes restaurants with an "a la carte" menu and those to eat with the Disney characters.
The gastronomic offer of these restaurants is wide: American, international, French, as well as exotic food.
The price range is from $ 48 to $ 95.
Cheaper option: bring your food
Fortunately, Disney parks allow entry with certain foods, so you may bring some things like snacks, fruits, the odd sandwich and water.
If you want to save as much as possible, you can decide on this option and spend the day in the park eating snacks and small sandwiches.
We recommend that you allocate part of your budget to eat about two days in the park, since there are many culinary options, very delicious, so it would be a sin not to try them.
How to get around DisneylandParis?
Another element that you should consider when you go on a trip is how you are going to move from one place to another once you arrive at your destination.
To talk about transportation, the first thing is to know where you will stay. If you do it in one of the Disney hotels or in one of the associated hotels, the transfer to the parks is free. If this is your case, you should not worry about transportation.
To Disneyland from Paris
Train ride
If you are in the city of Paris, the easiest and cheapest way to travel to the Disneyland park is by using the RER (Reseau Express Regional) train.
For this, you must take the line A train, specifically the A4, which will leave you at the Marne la Vallée stop, which is very close to the park entrance. The first train leaves at 5:20 and the last at 00:35.
The cost of tickets is approximately $ 9 for adults and $ 5 for children. The journey takes an average time of about 40 minutes.
Depending on the area of Paris in which you are staying, you must locate the closest stop and go to it so that you can board the train and make the connection to the A4 line which is the one that will take you to Disneyland.
Special package Ticket + Transportation
Through the official website of Disneyland Paris, you can purchase a pack special that includes entrance for one day (it can be to a park or both) and the transfer to these from the city of Paris.
If you want to visit a single park, the cost of this pack is $ 105. If you want to visit both parks, the price you must cancel is $ 125. With this transfer you arrive early to the parks, spend the whole day there and at 7:00 p.m. you return to Paris.
Rent a car
A very comfortable way to travel is by renting a car for your transfers. Despite the comfort it offers you, it carries extra expenses that may not fit into your budget.
The average daily cost of renting a car in Paris is $ 130. Of course, this depends on the type of vehicle you want to rent.
To the price of the car you must add the cost of fuel, as well as the cost of parking in the parks and anywhere else you visit.
This option is not highly recommended, if you are traveling on a budget.
How much does a week trip to Disneyland Paris cost?
To answer this question and give you an idea of how much you can spend for a one-week stay, we are going to differentiate according to the type of accommodation and the city of origin.
Stay at a Disney Hotel
Airplane ticket
From Spain: $ 400
From Mexico: $ 1600
Accommodation
$ 600 for 7 nights = $ 4200
Transport
Without cost
Foods
With Disney Standard Meal Plan: $ 66 daily for 7 days = $ 462
Without meal plan: about $ 45 daily for 7 days = $ 315
Entrance fees to the parks
Ticket 4 days – 2 parks: $ 266
Weekly total
From Mexico: $ 6516
From Spain: $ 5316
Stay at an Associated Hotel
Airplane ticket
From Spain: $ 400
From Mexico: $ 1600
Accommodation
$ 400 for 7 nights = $ 2800
Transport
Without cost
Foods
Without meal plan: about $ 45 daily for 7 days = $ 315
Entrance fees to the parks
Ticket 4 days – 2 parks: $ 266
Weekly total
From Mexico: $ 3916
From Spain: $ 5116
Stay in other hotels
Airplane ticket
From Spain: $ 400
From Mexico: $ 1600
Accommodation
$ 200 for 7 nights = $ 1400
Transport
$ 12 daily for 7 days = $ 84
Foods
Without meal plan: about $ 45 daily for 7 days = $ 315
Entrance fees to the parks
Ticket 4 days – 2 parks: $ 266
Weekly total
From Mexico: $ 3665
From Spain: $ 2465
Here is an estimated cost of how much a week of vacation at Disneyland Paris would cost you.
Now it remains for you to evaluate your possibilities and your budget to start planning this dream trip to the City of Light, to know, among other places of tourist interest, Disneyland Paris. Come and visit it! You will not regret!
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