Disney: Paris vs Orlando

[Harmony]

A little off topic for this forum, but I need to get this off my chest.

Last weekend we went to Disneyland Paris via eurostar. Great travelling, so quick and easy. Disneyland a great disappointment and no comparison to WDW. To my amazement we found Disneyland dirty, lacking in staff and what staff we came in contact with unfriendly and grudging with their service. Food was very poor and yet very expensive. [V] Will NOT be going back.

After the wonderful experiences we have had at WDW it was such a shame to have the Disney name connected to such a inferior establishment. The only high point of the weekend was the Wild Bills Wild West Show. Reasonable food and very good show. I look forward to going back to WDW to renew my faith in Disney quality.

[Ruth]

I agree. We were very disappointed with Disneyland paris especially the attitude of the locals to queues[}]It does not cost much more to get to Florida for us from Scotland and I know which I preferThe only redeeming feature was that we stayed in the Disneyland Hotel at the entrance and that was nice

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

We went a few months ago and totally echo this above sentiments. The place was filthy, staff rude and unhelpful, food bad and expensive, everyone smoked...just awful. Several times we had to point out to staff "this is Disney, of course what I am asking is possible" when we were greeted with a gallic shrug and a "tis not possible" [}]

We stayed in one of the better Disney hotels there and even this was bad. The room stank when we arrived and evereything was ridiculously overpriced. We had a meal at the hotel restaurant which we thought would be great but it was basically microwaved frozen meals that had obviously been made off the premises.

The only redeeming features were the rides - especially Thunder Mountain Railroad which was better than the Florida one.

Just got back from Florida again and having been back to the "real" Disney there really is no comparison between the two - Paris is just not magic whereas Florida very definitely is .

We won't be going back to Disneyland Paris!

[Ruth]

Lets hope not to many guests go there first and think all Disney is like this and the journey to Florida therefore not worth the effort

[Harmony]

John and Sarah we're with you 100%. It sounds as if your experience very much a carbon copy of ours.

Your right Ruth. Anyone going to Paris first could be really put off Disney and it really isn't true Disney.

Jeff

[michellemaxted]

I echo all your comments.

I went to Eurodisney last March and one thing I did notice was the the toilets smelt, what is it with European toilets!!!

Also some youths were queue jumping, they were teenagers, and I could have understood it if it was a "real" ride but not when it was one of the kiddie rides, they just looked so silly sat in one of the cars, I seem to recall it was a Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs type ride.

Our hotel was the Cheyanne and the room was very small. The restaurant was chaotic, a buffet style with a free for all as they don't like to queue...

But on the plus side, we found some funny bikes to hire at one of the big Disney hotels, we spent over an hour there riding bikes with mismatching wheels, saddles facing the wrong way, great fun.

[chrisj]

For my little comment as I love to make them

The issue with euro disney is its in France, thats the problem basically.

Anywhere else in europe and there wouldnt be the problem

To put you all at rest we do not judge the real Disney with the french version
were not that stupid

[Carla]

Walt must be turning in his grave whenever anyone mentions Disneyland Paris. [}][}]

What I just can't understand is why the Disney Corporation allow it to operate the way that it does and to be such a poor version of the Florida experience.

Everyone, Europe wide (and the Disney Corp. as well), knows that the Disney Corp. made a TERRIBLE mistake by locating it in France, but they now have to live with that mistake, so surely someone "on high" should sort out the mess. It just seems to get worse year after year.

[zulupete1]

Im glad im not on my own with disneyland paris. We went to orlando 12 yrs ago and the disney experience was just fantastic. It was just how we imagined and dreamed how disney would be. 2 yrs ago we went to paris and were very dissapointed, just didnt have that disney magic, wont go again and the french dont help to make it magical either. Were going back to orlando on the 18th dec this year for 15 nights and just cant wait. one last thing disney is AMERICA to me, so to put it anywhere else is big minus point from the start.

[steph_goodrum]

Even California and the original Disneyland doesn't have the same magic of Orlando, although it is much better than Paris, the only advantage Paris has is that it can be done in a weekend but I personally wouldn't make the trip especially unless I really couldn't get to take children to Florida. We've been to all 3 in the past year. We're off to the real thing next week!