Disneyland Paris Tips

- Take your own teabags, coffee sachets or squeezy squash tubes. Water, cold or hot, is free in all of the cafes and restaurants in the parks.
- Try to go in the week instead of a weekend if you can. Particularly out of the school holidays, the park is twice as busy at the weekends, and queue times can top 90 minutes.
- Pack a lot of layers. The weather is incredibly indecisive, and can change several times a day.
- Avoid taking a bag if you want to skip queues into the park. The entrances are manned with scanners, but if you are bag-less you can skip the queues.
- If you ask, all the restaurants have gluten free bread, and some have gluten free cakes and biscuits (and they're always free).
- If there's a particular ride you want a fast pass for, get that first thing. The fast passes are free but allocated on a first come first serve basis, with a limited number per day. Some of the popular rides (Peter Pan's Flight and Thunder Mountain) can be out of Fast Passes by lunchtime.
- Food is expensive and not healthy either, but you can take food in. If you have any specific dietary requirements or you're trying to eat healthily it's worth taking stuff with you, since 99% of the restaurants only serve burgers and chicken nuggets.
- Book a table for your first night there, or you'll struggle to get a table anywhere. If you're staying over a Saturday night, book for that too, it's the busiest night in the park.
- Download Disney App for wait times, meet and greets, and closure information.
- Pick up a map at the entrance, even if you don't think you'll need it, it's hard to get them elsewhere in the park.
- Magic hours are great for meet and greats but not for rides! Only Discoveryland and Fantasyland are open and not all the rides are open within those areas.

- Comfy shoes are a must!

Walt Disney Studios

Today I thought I'd chat to you about the general park experience at Walt Disney Studios, the Park adjacent to Disneyland which is more Disney themed. 

Disneyland Paris Hotel New York

 I'm one of these people who likes to research the crap out of every aspect of my holidays before they happen, I like to know all about the hotel, the area, the food, the activities. It's partly an anxiety thing, I'm an anxious traveller, and the more I know about where I'm going, the better I feel, but it's also a fear of missing out thing! I don't want to miss something important!

Disneyland: The Park

Here it is, the first in a series of posts all about my Disneyland Paris experience! I've thought long and hard about the best way to do this, I know a lot of you are just interested in a general show and tell, but a lot of you are also in the details too. So, I've decided to split it into a few post, The Disneyland Park experience, The Walt Disney Studios Experience, The Disneyland Hotel New York Review, Eating at Disneyland and then a general tips/best bits post. Hopefully, this will cover everything you guys want to see! If there's anything I've missed that you'd like to know, just let me know!