Most prices below are in Euros. See a currency calculator such as xe.com to get an idea of current exchange rates.

Disneyland Resort Paris (formerly EuroDisney) consists of Disneyland Park, Walt Disney Studios Park, six Disney-operated resort hotels (Disneyland Hotel, Hotel New York, Newport Bay Club, Sequoia Lodge, Hotel Cheyenne and Hotel Santa Fe), a campground called the Davy Crockett Ranch and Disney Village (a shopping and dining district similar to Downtown Disney at the US resorts).

I must admit that I was very surprised to learn how reasonably priced the packages at Disneyland Resort Paris can be, though the current exchange rate doesn't help, if you live in the US. In general the prices are nowhere near what you'd pay to visit Walt Disney World. And remember, the package prices include your passes and breakfast!

In addition, Disneyland Resort Paris offers various seasonal discounts on its hotel rooms, tickets and vacation packages. I list any current offers below.

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Packages

All hotel stays at Disneyland Paris include Continental breakfast (pastries, yogurt, cold cuts, sliced cheeses, juice, coffee). While you can book just "room plus breakfast" and buy your tickets separately, you generally won't save much, if any, money by doing so.

For 2008, Disneyland Paris won't sell US residents a one-night stay at all (it appears UK residents can buy a one-night stay). Given this restriction, US residents who want to stay less than two nights will need to book one of at the very nice nearby hotels or resorts, which offer free shuttle service to the theme parks.

Most people will want to buy at least a Classic Package, which consists of at least two nights' accommodations, daily breakfast, and unlimited entrance to the theme parks, or one of the package specials that run from time to time.

The standard Classic Package includes:

• at least 2 nights / 3 days of accommodation in a standard room in one of the seven Disney hotels

• Unlimited admission* to both Disney Theme Parks for the entire duration of your stay (day of arrival and day of departure included)

• Daily breakfast** at your hotel (can be upgraded to a character breakfast at selected locations, for an extra fee)

* Except for special separately-priced evening special events such as the Enchanted Christmas Ball and the Carnival Party.

** The composition of the breakfast varies according to the hotel category. At Disney's Davy Crockett Ranch campground, you take your continental breakfast back to your cabin.

		Booking Using a Travel Agent By far the easiest and best option is to book through a travel agency that specializes in Disney travel. Several Small World Vacations agents, including the owner, have personally visited Disneyland Paris. I highly recommend contacting them at WDWTravelagent@aol.com if you would like to book a Disneyland Paris vacation. Self-Booking There is online booking but it's very badly implemented. I wouldn't trust my vacation to that system. To book a Disneyland Paris vacation package, I strongly recommend calling the resort in France. There are English-speaking operators to take your booking. From the US, the number is: (011) 33 1 60 30 60 81 Note that the reservations opening hours are limited and they are 6 hours later than EST and 9 hours later than PST.

Specials

MouseSavers.com reader Lisa S notes that sometimes the German Disneyland Paris site has tremendous deals. While the web site is only in German, she says the German phone operators spoke perfect English.

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Kids Under 7 Stay and Play FREE!

For arrivals starting through the entire 15th Anniversary Celebration, kids under 7 years* stay and play FREE. You can book this offer for stays through 6 November 2008.

Kids under 7 years old will be offered FREE hotel accommodation with breakfast (in all hotels featured on disneylandparis.com) & FREE entrance to both Disney parks, so they can enjoy all the birthday festivities.

One paying adult per room booked. Proof of age(s) will be required at check-in. Children under 7 at time of stay.

Non-Disney Hotels

In addition to the official Disney-operated hotels, there are now other hotels that are on-site but not owned by Disney. Disneyland Resort Paris offers packages that include accommodations in these hotels, but MouseSavers reader Willem S points out that "it's better to book them via the web sites of the hotel owners. They have cheaper prices and interesting discounts." Obviously if you book directly with the hotel, you'll have to buy tickets separately.

The hotels and their web sites are:

• Marriott's Village d'lle-de-France - MouseSavers.com readers Danilo & Ann V write, "...we would highly recommend it. It is a Marriott Vacation Club Resort, but they also rent the villas as you would a room at any Marriott hotel." They report that the grounds and the units are beautiful, the staff is very friendly and helpful, and the resort has a free shuttle that goes back and forth to Disneyland and the train station. The resort also offers activities for children and adults, as well as some for the whole family.

• Holiday Inn at the Disneyland Resort Paris - Reportedly an excellent value. Offers family rooms (many of which have bunk beds) that include a kids' corner with TV and video games. There is a "kids eat free" program at this hotel.

• Radisson SAS Hotel at Disneyland Resort Paris - Great for golfers, as it is located on Golf Disneyland. This hotel is adjacent to the Disney parks and Disneyland Resort Paris Convention Centre.

• Explorers Hotel - Themed hotel that is supposedly the home of Sir Archibald de Bacle, the "famous" (fictional) explorer. Apparently Sir Archie spent a lot of time at sea; the hotel decor has a nautical motif. There are standard rooms ("Crew Quarters") that sleep 4, 6 or 10 people; minimally upgraded standard rooms ("Officer's Quarters"); and 2-bedroom, 2-bath "Captain's Quarters" that sleep 6.

• Kyriad Hotel - Warning: this hotel chain's web site can be difficult to navigate and it provides minimal information about the location. To locate the correct property, search for a hotel in Magny Le Hongre.

• Vienna International Dream Castle - This castle-themed hotel is quite upscale. There are some family rooms with a king bed plus bunk beds. All rooms are non-smoking.

• Hotel l'Elysée Val d'Europe - A bit further away from the parks than some other hotels in the area, but offers shuttle service.

Ticket Discounts

Advance Purchase Discounts

• Disney Store - If you are in Paris before you go to Disneyland Resort Paris, check on the ticket prices at the Disney Store on the Champs-Elysées. They frequently offer special deals.

• Online Advance Purchase - You can pre-order tickets at a discount. This offer is available only in advance through the Disneyland Resort Paris web site. (The link goes to the US version of the site. Different offers apply for the UK site.) The cheapest online special offers are for dated tickets, meaning the ticket will be valid only for a specific date you choose in advance.

Annual Passports

Be sure to see below for Annual Passport information and discounts!

Half Board Meal Plans

Half Board Meal Plans offer up to a 15% saving in a variety of restaurants in the whole Resort. They are pre-paid meal vouchers valid at a variety of restaurants throughout the Resort for packages bought at a Disney Hotel (except the Disneyland Hotel). They're designed to help you budget your stay with savings of up to 15%, and give you the peace of mind that everything is pre-paid.

You get one voucher per night stayed (for example a 3-night stay would include 3 meal vouchers per person) and each voucher is good for a lunch or dinner. Since breakfast is already included in the room rate, this gives you "half board."

Half Board Meal Plans come in 2 levels:

• Half Board Standard gives you the flexibility to lunch or dine in up to 7 restaurants throughout the Resort including Disney's Hotel Cheyenne, Disney's Santa Fe Hotel, and Disney's David Crockett Ranch for €19 per adult and €9 per child and per night.

• Half Board Plus gives you even more flexibility. You can lunch or dine in up to 14 restaurants throughout the Resort including Disney's New York Hotel, Disney's Newport Bay Club and Disney's Sequoia Lodge Hotel for €24 per adult and €10 per child and per night.

Upgrade: You can upgrade your Half Board Plan to gourmet restaurants, the legendary Disney Character Dining, and Buffalo Wild West Dinner Show.

For full details, click here.

Extra Magic Hours

Through the 15th Anniversary celebration, when you book a package in one of the Disney Hotels or at Hotel l'Elysée Val d'Europe, you can enjoy extra time in Disneyland Park on certain days of the week!

Specific areas of Disneyland Park will be available to you either 2 hours before regular park opening or 2 hours after scheduled park closing, so you can enjoy easier access to selected attractions - even some of the most popular ones. On certain dates, Disneyland Park may be replaced by Walt Disney Studios Park.

Currently this offer is available through 30 September 2008.

Parking

If you are staying at one of Disney's official hotels at Disneyland Resort Paris, parking at the theme parks is free (of course, you can take the buses or walk, too). If you are not staying onsite, the daily parking fee at the theme parks is €8.

Annual Passport Discounts

There are three types of Annual Passports at Disneyland Resort Paris: Francilien, Fantasy and Dream. All three offer various discounts in addition to admission. Those discounts are good enough that they may justify buying one Annual Passport for someone in your party, even if this will be a one-time vacation at Disneyland Resort Paris.

Unfortunately the Annual Pass information on the official Disneyland Resort Paris web site is hard to find and apparently only listed in French. The best resource in English for all the details on Annual Passes is an unofficial site called DLRP Magic. This site also has information about how to purchase an Annual Pass.

Be sure to see below for information on additional savings when buying Annual Passports for multiple family members!

Family Discounts on Annual Passports

You can save 20% when you buy annual passports for a family of five or more. The passports must all be purchased from a ticket booth at the Disneyland Resort Paris theme parks at the same time, for persons in the same family who are all living at the same address. You must present ID for all members to prove that you are the same family.

MouseSavers.com reader Amy O writes (in July 2007): "Disneyland Paris is currently running a promotion where kids under 7 are free. The Disney rep at the ticket counter at the park could not honor the free one-day pass for kids since we didn't stay at a Disney hotel, but instead offered free annual passes for our 2 kids under 7 if we purchased adult annual passes at any level. We were originally going to buy one-day/one-park tickets for our family (46 euros/adult and 38 euros/child) and instead purchased 2 adult basic annual passes (89 euros each with some blackout dates) that are good at both Disneyland and the Paris Studios park for a year and received 2 kids passes free!" I'm not sure if this is standard policy or if Amy just got lucky. In any case, it's worth inquiring!

MouseSavers.com reader Marcus reports in May 2008, "We saw your site a few days ago before going to Disneyland Paris and saw your note regarding Amy O’s free child passes. We bought annual passes last year and were going to do the same this year. We told the rep. we wanted 3 passes (one for each of myself, my wife and our 3 year old son [who was free last year]). I mentioned there was an offer on whereby under 7s are free (referring to the hotel offer but not mentioning hotels as we weren’t in one of theirs) and she immediately said yes there was and that his pass was free and gave him the same pass as my wife which was a more expensive one – mine was just the cheapest pass as we can use hers for merchandise discounts and car parking etc., we didn’t need 2 of these. She did not, however, mention this until I did so it is possible this is a standard offer if you ask for it. So, thanks for this tip and it may be worth updating this on your site."

Stockholder Discounts

Stockholders in Euro Disney SCA (the company that owns Disneyland Resort Paris) can join the Shareholder's Club, which provides an extensive list of discounts including 15% off most tickets and Annual Passes, 10% off hotel rooms, 15% off at most table-service restaurants in the parks and hotels, 15% merchandise discounts and more.

Each morning from 9 am to noon, Shareholders Club members can quietly start their visit with a light Continental breakfast at "Salon Mickey," at the entrance of Disneyland Park. Members are also invited to private events such as film screenings at the theme parks.

If you own at least 20 shares of Euro Disney SCA, a two-year membership in the Shareholder's Club is free; if you own at least 5, but less than 20 shares, the cost is €30 for a two-year membership. (Note that as of 12/3/07, the stock was consolidated so that 100 shares became 1 share, making 5 or 20 of the new shares equivalent to 500 or 2000 of the old shares.) The stock is sold on the Paris and Brussels stock exchanges under ticker EDL.PA and can be purchased through many US brokers. Some discount brokers don't carry it.

Trip Reports

• My friends Ann and Danilo V wrote a travel blog about their experiences with taking their 5 children to Europe in Summer 2007. They visited Disneyland Resort Paris in addition to independent travel through France, Switzerland, Italy and Spain as well as a Disney Mediterranean cruise (10 nights roundtrip from Barcelona) followed by a 14-night Transatlantic cruise on the Disney Magic. To read the Disneyland Resort Paris portion of their blog, start here.

• MouseSavers.com reader Kevin M sent this short report of his visit in summer 2006:

  "I recently returned from Disneyland Paris where my wife and I spent 6 days on property. We used it as our base and traveled out from there. We had an excellent time.

  In case you are not aware, the Sante Fe and Cheyenne hotels have no air conditioning. The New York has circulating air, but it does not cool the room. The other three have A/C in the rooms only. The lobbies and hallways are not air conditioned in any of the hotels, except maybe the Disneyland Hotel. We found this out when we checked in at the Santa Fe on a 90 degree day. There are not any screens on the windows either and they do have bugs. We quickly upgraded to the Newport Bay Club.

  The best way to get to Disney from the airport is the shuttle bus which is advertised on the Disneyland Paris website. It's 16 euros per person and drops you right at your hotel. The train is cheaper, but much more inconvenient and less direct."

• Click here to read an extensive trip report, with photos, written by my husband and me about our April 2003 trip to Paris and Disneyland Paris.

More Information

Obviously, the best place to start is the Official Disneyland Resort Paris Web Site.

There are also four unofficial sites that offer information in English about Disneyland Resort Paris:

• DLRP Magic - very comprehensive site in English

• Disneyland Paris - The Internet Guide Book - extensive site in English and German

• ClickMagique.com - mainly photographs (text available in English or German)

• The Disneyland Paris Guide - a non-commercial, general overview site

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