Disneyland/Camping

More about where we were staying by Disneyland/Paris. We took all our bedding out of the motor home and hired a mobil-home which had three tiny bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen/lounge room. This was much better than five of us trying to sleep in a motor home.

Three years ago I took Emma, Jackson and Isabel to Disneyland in the motor home and we stayed in the motor home area of the car park. Disneyland encourages you to stay overnight there, and it costs $20 per night which is not cheap. Then they cut off the water, and block off the waste disposal area between the months of November and April, in case the water freezes in the pipes. When you think how much you pay for everything there and the profits that are made by Disneyland this is very unsatisfactory but then much of Disneyland is one big rip off anyway. The night we stayed there Emma was kept awake with the constant announcements in many languages about remembering where you parked the car.

So we decided to stay in a camping ground close by. Interestingly there are no services or camping grounds close to the Disneyland complex. We stayed at Camping Club Le Parc de Paris, Villevaude in the Marne le Vallee, 17 kms from Disneyland and 25 km from Paris. We also had dinner at a Casino restaurant in a shopping centre on the way home. Dinner at the restaurants outside Disneyland were extremely busy, long queues and very expensive.

Still we did have a fun day and we all enjoyed the rides, parade and shows. The only mishap was Walter falling over twice, and he had had nothing to drink either. No major damage done, thank goodness, just slightly sore ribs and bottom.