Hôtel l'Elysée Val d'Europe at Disneyland help/other hotel sugestions?

[anna42hmr]

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

 

[malice]

i stayed here on my last trip and rooms were nothing remarkable but our room did have a view of the studios park in the distance. check in was smooth, but lines can be quite long if you happen to arrive the same time a VEA airport shuttle drops off new guests. there was a nice breakfast buffet though a bit pricey, it had a wide selection to choose from. another perk of staying at l'elysee is the the shopping mall across the street including a grocery store, good for stocking up snacks at reasonable non-inflated theme park prices.

extra magic hours is available at hotel l'elysee regardless of where you book the room. just show your room key upon arrival at the entry gate. there's a free shuttle bus that picks up hotel guest just outside and drops off at the transportation plaza at disney village. it runs frequently (a schedule can be requested from front desk) and the journey takes about 5-10 minutes. another option is the Val d'Europe RER station, located across the street and is one stop away from the parks.

 

[anna42hmr]

i stayed here on my last trip and rooms were nothing remarkable but our room did have a view of the studios park in the distance. check in was smooth, but lines can be quite long if you happen to arrive the same time a VEA airport shuttle drops off new guests. there was a nice breakfast buffet though a bit pricey, it had a wide selection to choose from. another perk of staying at l'elysee is the the shopping mall across the street including a grocery store, good for stocking up snacks at reasonable non-inflated theme park prices.

extra magic hours is available at hotel l'elysee regardless of where you book the room. just show your room key upon arrival at the entry gate. there's a free shuttle bus that picks up hotel guest just outside and drops off at the transportation plaza at disney village. it runs frequently (a schedule can be requested from front desk) and the journey takes about 5-10 minutes. another option is the Val d'Europe RER station, located across the street and is one stop away from the parks.

thanks for the reply, i appreciate it, as we only intend to use the hotel as a base and somewhere to sleep, we arent really looking for somewhere "special" so to speak, but more cost effective, clean and practical

you ahve also answered one of my other questions that i just thought of actually, about getting there from the air port, as i cant see this hotel mentioned as a drop off on VEA airport shuttle web site, so i emailed them to ask them if they drop there and waiting a response, as i have been told a taxi from the airpor (charles de gaulle) to there can be anywhere around 60-80 euros one way! givem we will need to get to and from the hotel, thats not going to be cheap!

 

[RonAnnArbor]

Your quickest and cheapest way there is by RER from the CDG -- you'll take the RER B into Paris, and transfer to the RER A

 

[msep003]

if you're looking for cheap hotels . Go to Bussy Saint Georges .

Bussy Saint Georges is only 2 Stations away from Disney and the Cheap and Nice Hotel where i stayed once with friend was Premiere Class .

try this website .

www.premiereclasse.fr

This hotel is 10min walking distance from the station and the price is like 35Euros for one night .

 

[anna42hmr]

thanks for the reply

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

 

[TowerOfTerp]

In the itinerary above, you have one weekday afternoon, two weekday mornings, and a weekend evening at the parks. In my opinion, one and a half weekdays is plenty to see everything at DLP, with time to do your favorites more than once. You're also spending time traveling back and forth from Paris and paying for a room you're not using, when you could just stay in the city before going to DLP.

If you want to arrive on Friday, you could consider staying in Paris for two nights, you'd have 2 full days, and on Sunday you could decide if you want to go directly to DLP or spend more time sightseeing. A few hours Sunday night, all day Monday, and Tuesday morning is more than enough to see the best of DLP. Unless your bags are large, this seems like less inconvenience than all the extra hours of travel.