Anyone else finding prices stupidly high?

[vickiell]

We have also noticed a massive increase in price. No matter what I price up now it’s always cheaper for us to buy annual passes, so we either get a discount for an onsite hotel or we stay offsite (we are a family of 5).
We go every year but last year we didn’t as we could just not afford it.
For this year I have booked the Marne la Vallée stay city apartments, it was £721 for 7 nights in August. It doesn’t actually open until August but they look nice and there is a bus to the parks. We will just buy annual passes.

[mrsbenny]

We usually do 2 nights free offer but I haven’t noticed it recently. Prices have gone up lots , if I don’t get annual passes I think we may book 3 nights through Disney and 1 night at the same hotel through hotels.com using Tesco clubcard vouchers.

[Sarryb]

The prices do seem to have gone up, it's harder to find a good deal.

What I will add though, is if you price up WDW just remember you have to add on park tickets, which depending on the party size, can almost double the price.

Though the price stated was for two weeks compared to 5 nights, so it's shocking really. X

[Gill H]

Originally Posted by vickiell

We have also noticed a massive increase in price. No matter what I price up now it’s always cheaper for us to buy annual passes, so we either get a discount for an onsite hotel or we stay offsite (we are a family of 5).
We go every year but last year we didn’t as we could just not afford it.
For this year I have booked the Marne la Vallée stay city apartments, it was £721 for 7 nights in August. It doesn’t actually open until August but they look nice and there is a bus to the parks. We will just buy annual passes.

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That does look nice but I hate relying on shuttles.

Have you tried the Adagio or Hipark? The Adagio is within walking distance of the RER, and the Hipark is walkable to the parks. I haven't actually stayed at either myself as we are only a couple so don't need the space. We've stayed at the Elysee though, and late at night we've walked out of the park and 15 minutes later been walking into our hotel room!

[vickiell]

They are more expensive and I also like with this one that we can pay when we arrive. We will have our car with us so can drive in as car parking will be free with our annual passes but we prefer getting the buses.

[Peter H]

Prices have gone up since Disney took over. This is no surprise as it is the same in all Disney parks. Remember it is more difficult expensive to run a park in France than in the US. CMs have better pay. Costs are higher. It does seem odd that it is a lot more expensive in the UK. I wonder if the price quoted includes travel.

[MK_club1987]

Originally Posted by Sarryb

The prices do seem to have gone up, it's harder to find a good deal.

What I will add though, is if you price up WDW just remember you have to add on park tickets, which depending on the party size, can almost double the price.

Though the price stated was for two weeks compared to 5 nights, so it's shocking really. X

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Oh yeah I get that you still have pay for park tickets with WDW, I guess I just couldn't quite believe that we could go to Florida, onsite at WDW for 2 weeks for the same price as DLP for 5 nights, if we stayed offsite at WDW then it would be even cheaper!

I absolutely love DLP, I just can't quite believe the prices.

The offsite hotels I have been looking at are the partner ones, so Magic Circus etc, will have a look at a few others in Val'D Europe area.

Will also hold off for new offers when they come out.

[MK_club1987]

Originally Posted by Gill H

That does look nice but I hate relying on shuttles.

Have you tried the Adagio or Hipark? The Adagio is within walking distance of the RER, and the Hipark is walkable to the parks. I haven't actually stayed at either myself as we are only a couple so don't need the space. We've stayed at the Elysee though, and late at night we've walked out of the park and 15 minutes later been walking into our hotel room!

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I've just priced up the Hipark, which came in at £611, I thought great, then when I priced up park tickets (£199.99 for 4 days?! pa, and £182 pc), I could not believe it! That's shocking and would add the price up to just as much as staying onsite (we would need 6 day tickets).

Might have to look at Annual Passes which I'm guessing would be cheaper.

[Gill H]

They are going up on 2 April so we are getting ours now!

[act1980]

I struggle to justify the rise in prices especially when the majority of the hotel rooms haven’t had an update in years. I stayed at the DL Hotel back in 2004 and the rooms are exactly the same now as they were then 😏