Last minute DLP planning. Help please!!

[Leanne1977]

We are going to DLP on Jan 31st for 5 days.

This is only my second holiday as my first was to Florida last year.

Firstly, can somebody give me the run down on tipping. Who do we tip, when do we tip and how much do we tip. As i have only been to Florida where tipping is the norm i am not sure about Paris.:confused2

Second question and apologys if i sound stupid but.....

is there anything that i cannot take to Paris with me? I am talking mainly about food stuffs. I was hoping to take peperamis and the kids like strip cheese so wanted to take some of that too. They are both fussy eaters so wanted some snacks as a back up. I don't expect they are strict like the usa but i worry about these sort of things so want to be sure.:confused2

Thanks for any help you can give.:wavey:

[Lisa-R]

Hi Leanne

We went to DLP last summer and once in 2003. Tipping: from our experience, tipping in France/DLP isn't as commonplace as in the US. We tipped around 15% in the onsite restaurants with table service - i.e. the Blue Lagoon which was quite posh. The rest of the time we ate in fastfood places and didn't tip. We left a few Euros in the room for the maid on he day we left. In the US we tipped the maid everyday. I'm not even sure if a room tip is expected, but we did anyway.

Food: I don't know if there are restrictions on what types of food you can take into the country like meat etc - someone may be able to give more info? However, we went Eurostar and took sarnies, drinks, fruit, cereal bars, chocolate and snacks and enough to last 4 days, so quite a lot!! No-one questioned this and our bags were x-rayed at Waterloo, but I can't remember seeing signs about foodstuffs.

In the parks we saw the locals with bags of french bread (I kid you not) plus fizzy pop bottles and no-one blinked an eyelid. We took our snacks and drinks in as we would have done in the US, but not a full-blown picnic. We did see some folks sitting eating sarnies and the like. Overall, I think they are very much more relaxed on food and also very much more relaxed on guests in the parks in general. They allow smoking in virtually everyplace (we even saw smokers in the queues!!!) and no, I'm not anti-smoking brigade and am partial to the odd puff myself! Generally the Europeans seemed to be more laid back - which had it's plus and negative sides.

Hope this helps? Enjoy your trip - have a great time.
Lou