What other hotels, campsites and restaurants are in the area?

If you can afford to stay on-site, you won't regret doing so - apart from the convenience, you won't have to leave the magic behind when you return to your hotel in the evening - but if you're on a tight budget, or if you plan to spend more time sight-seeing in Paris and the surrounding area, you may prefer to stay in a local hotel.

If you need a hotel at short notice but can't or don't want to stay in one of the on-site hotels, you can very easily book various cheap rooms in hotels nearby or in Paris via the Seine and Marne Tourist Information office located in Disney Village (Tel +33 1 60 45 71 97). They will charge you FF 20, but for that they will contact the hotel and arrange the booking for you - which is very handy if you don't speak French.

The following hotels are mentioned in the park literature (so bookings should be available via the Disneyland Paris Direct offices) and all are within 25 minutes of the park:

Holiday Inn, Bussy St Georges (three stars)
Air-conditioned rooms with two double beds, satellite TV and marble bathrooms. Features seasonal outdoor swimming pool, gymnasium and sauna (currently "closed indefinitely"). Located 6km from the park, take exit 12 from the A4 motorway, or RER station Bussy St Georges (one stop from the park).

Sol Inn, Bussy St Georges (two stars)
Louisina-inspired decor. Rooms have one king-size and one sofa bed, with cable TV. Cotton Club bar with billiards and board games. Located 6km from the park, take exit 12 from the A4 motorway, or RER station Bussy St Georges (one stop from the park).

Novotel, Collégien (three stars)
Air conditioned rooms with one king-size and one sofa bed, and TV. Outdoor swimming pool in landscaped garden setting. Located about 10 minutes drive from the park, take exit 12 from the A4 motorway.

Novotel, Noisy le Grand (three stars)
Air conditioned rooms with one king-size and one sofa bed, TV and mini-bar. Outdoor swimming pool and terrace. Short walk to local shopping mall. Located half way between Paris and the park, take exit "Noisy le Grand" from the A4 motorway (25 minutes drive), or use RER station "Noisy-le-Grand-Mont d'Est".

Hotel Adagio, Noisy le Grand (three stars)
Stylish, modern hotel with air conditioning, piano bar, health club and sauna. Rooms have one king-size and one sofa bed. Free parking. Located half way between Paris and the park, take exit "Noisy le Grand" from the A4 motorway, or use RER station "Noisy-le-Grand-Mont d'Est".

One possible option would be to stay at the Novotel hotel in Marne-la-Vallée.

Hans Kuis (hans@pi.net) reported that when he tried to make camping reservations for the Davy Crockett Ranch and it was already full, they referred him to the Euro Disney Travel Agency (+33 1 60 43 33 33). The travel agency provided numbers for two campsites within 10 km of the resort:

Parc de la Colline (10km) (+33 1) 60 05 42 32
Leon's Lodge (10 km) (+33 1) 60 43 57 00

John Higgins (jhiggins@iol.ie) stayed at the Parc de la Collin in Summer 1997 and comments: "We had a comfortable mobile home for about 50 Irish Pounds a night and they could not have been more helpful. It is between Disney and the centre of Paris which makes it ideal for those who feel there is more to life (and especially Paris) than the magical Kingdom."

Susan Cressman (Susan.Cressman@ping.be) offered the following advice about staying locally near Paris:

The Disneyland hotels at the park are terrific, but they cost about 4 times the cost of a normal French hotel, even a hotel in Paris, so here are some tips on cheaper lodging.

If you don't have a car: Stay at any hotel in central Paris, near any metro station or the RER line. Bussy St. Georges is on the RER line, one stop from Disneyland, but the hotels there are almost as expensive as the ones within the park. If you have to take the RER, being a bit further away only makes a difference of a few minutes, and it could save you £100!

If you do have a car: Here is a web site with a listing of many hotels in the Disneyland Paris area:

http://www.paris.org/Hotels/Post/hotel.post.77000.html
(Fontainbleau is about 20 miles from Disneyland, Melun is a little closer).

ahi@nada.kth.se offered the following hotel suggestion:

We stayed at Bonfortel Lousiana. They charged 210 FF for a three person room. This is a typical US (or Swedish) style motel, simple but clean. Breakfast was 30 FF extra per person (optional). It takes 15 minutes by car to get to the park. The town of Lagny also has a SNCF rail connection to Paris, which takes about 20 minutes.

Bonfortel Lousiana
Avenue du General Leclerc
Access au 21 rue Jacquard
77 400 Lagny sur-marne
Tel: (+33 1) 64 30 44 88

Gerard de Vries (gdevries@pi.net) suggests:

Au Pavillon Blue. From this hotel it's 10-15 minutes to Disneyland Paris. It has simple, but nice rooms (38 in total) with colour TV, telephone, two double beds and a bathroom and is situated in a small quiet village. The price for a room is FFr 260. I can highly recommend it.

Au Pavillon Blue,
108 Avenue du Général Leclerc,
77330 Ozoir-la-Ferrière
Tel: (+33 1) 64 40 05 56 or (+33 1) 64 40 04 52
Fax: (+33 1) 64 40 29 74

Directions from Disneyland Paris: Get on A4 to Paris, take the first exit direction Villeneuve-le-Comte, then direction Villeneuve-St-Denis. In this village turn right and go straight on until Ozoir. The road on which you enter the village is also the road along which the hotel is situated.

John Hilton (VRUM35D@prodigy.com) recommends:

Two rail stations away from the park (7 minutes by train) there is a chain hotel called "Hotel Premiere Classe" which costs about FF 175. for 1 to 3 persons. In the room you get a double bed and an upper single bed, small corner table and chair, TV/radio with alarm clock, toilet and shower. It's nothing fancy, but it's clean and modern. I stayed there in 1996 and found it very comfortable. Breakfast costs about FF 25 and is very good: coffee, tea, milk, chocolate, bread, toast, brioche, butter, jam, and orange drink - and it's "all you can eat". In some regular hotels in Paris I paid up to FF 50 for just tea, a croissant and a small baguette.

The address is:

Hotel Premiere Classe
Paris-Est Torcy Marne-la-Vallee
Rue Anne-Franck
Marne-la-Vallee
F-77200 Torcy
Tel: (+33 1) 60 17 30 19
Fax: (+33 1) 60 17 47 99

If you want a brochure, write to:

Groupe Envergue
Hotel Premiere Classe
31, avenue Jean Moulin
F-77200 Torcy

Eating outside of Disneyland Paris

Ian Grey (ian@delicolor.co.uk) suggests a couple of places outside the park that you might like to consider for food: "If you go up the RER line one station to Bussy St. George, there are some cafes and a kebab type shop in the square opposite to the station. There is also an Italian there, and two hotel restaurants. If you drive to Bussy, there is a steak house if you take the first left from the highway, go past an office block called Nortel, carry on under the motorway and you will reach it in a couple of minutes. There is a large shopping Mall in Torcy (the next station towards Paris) which also has cafes. Chessy village looked quite interesting, but I haven't dined there. Note that Paris itself is quite expensive."

Note: This section will be expanded in time. Could you perhaps let me know if you stay off-site, and what the hotel or camp site was like (price, facilities, etc)?

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