dlp help - Hôtel l'Elysée Val d'Europe at Disneyland help/ot

[Guest]

hi

in my seach into disney hotels for next march i have several hotels in mind, and found this one, (and revewis seem ok and is the cheapest one so far)

i note on the disney site, although they are not a disney hotel you can get extra magic hours at this particular hotel, does any one know, is this only if you by a disney package from disney or would it be the same if i booked the trip via expedia and tickets via disney?

also what is the transport like to dlp from this hotel as its not on site, and what are peoples opinion of the hotel

other hotels we are considering is disneys santa fe and, explorers and kyriad, however this one is the cheapest and we dont really anticipate spending much time at the hotel, we are staying for 4 nights in march next year

[sarahc]

Don't know if you know this but if you book through Disney, the Disney hotels include park tickets so you may find that they actually work out cheaper, particularly when combined with their 'kids under 12 stay, play and travel free' offer?
I can only comment on the Explorer's which is overall a good hotel with some great facilities for the kids! It also has a free shuttle bus to the parks which runs every 10-15 mins all day!

[Guest]

Originally Posted by sarahc

Don't know if you know this but if you book through Disney, the Disney hotels include park tickets so you may find that they actually work out cheaper, particularly when combined with their 'kids under 12 stay, play and travel free' offer?
I can only comment on the Explorer's which is overall a good hotel with some great facilities for the kids! It also has a free shuttle bus to the parks which runs every 10-15 mins all day!

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thankyou for the reply, i appreciate it

we have worked out the costs booking through disney and booking seperatly, even including the tickets into it seperatly and it is coming out cheaper, i suspect this is because disney is automatically pricing up 5 day park tickets, which we dont need as we are intending on spending at a day in paris itself, and the time of march we are going, disney have 4 day ticket for the price of 3, if this offer was not there, i am not sure if it would be cheaper elsewhere, but so far it is

thanks for the suggestions about the swimming pool at explorers, we are both adults that are going (26 years old) so the free kids places are not needed

[sarahc]

Ah, well I would go with that then. The Elysee is at Val d'Europe which is a great place for shopping and is also right on the rail link to DLP and Paris so if the shuttle bus is a little irregular you could always catch the train. It wouldn't be free like the shutle though!
A couple of sites which may be worth a look are dlrpmagic and dlpfoodguide

[Guest]

thanks for the links, they look great, will take a propar look at that later today, many thanks

[Guest]

i have had a suggestion from a friend as well, who has also suggested as we internd to spend a day/evening in paris, that we could get a cheap hotel in paris (a couple i have found on expedia for around £50-£70 for the nights, not bad really considering it will only be an extra £25-35 each, including Hotel d'Amiens, Lyon Bastille Hotel, Le Havane, Hotel Monte Carlo ) and suggests what they did when they went to disney the same lengh of time we did (4 nights, with almost 5 full days as the flights we are looking at land in paris on the arrival day at 9.10 am and the flight departs on our last day at 6.45pm) and what they did, instead of packing, had the disney hotel booked for all 4 nights, (as the price they got when booking was not much differrent doing 4 nights vs 3 nights, ) they left their bags at the disney hotel and took a small back pack with clothes to wear the night they were in paris, and left the rest of their stuff at the disney hotel

how they worked it out was

Friday am - arrived in paris, went straight to hotel, checked in and dropped off bags, went to one of the parks for the whole day
sat am - got train from hotel to paris itself, checked into paris hotel spent saturday day (sightseeing in day and night in paris (they went to moulin rouge and an evening cruise on the seinne)
sunday am - couple hours sight seeing then had lunch and got train back to hotel in disney land
sunday afternoon - spent afternoon at one of the parks
monday - at parks and then shopping later on then back to disney for some wild west show?
tuesday - at park for a few hours, then went to collect bags to get train to airport to catch the flight

what are peoples opinion on this, do you think we could manage it, myu friend did, but dont know if that was a fluke or not, they did say they were exhausted when they got back though

[SandyW]

We stayed in this hotel last year. Good position,used the RER station across the road to get to DLP -takes 3 minutes.

Good secure car parking at hotel. Rooms are a decent size. Service OK. Didn't eat there, so can't comment about that.

We did get extra magic hours because we were staying at the hotel - you showed your room card with your park ticket to enter the parks.

[Guest]

Stayed in this hotel a few years ago and it was fine. Clean, friendly and well placed near the station. With regards to book direct or independently I don't know if you are aware but you can book up to 2 'extra nights' with a Disney package. These nights are at a cheaper rate as they don't include park tickets. E.g. you can stay 5 or 6 nights and have park tickets for 4 days (any days suring your stay). Extra Magic hours only apply when you book direct with Disney. Whatever you end up doing - enjoy!

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