First of all, you should know that there are certain periods to avoid : mondays, wednesdays and fridays, either because lots of people want to extend their week-end or because most children do not go to school on wednesdays in France, school vacations and bank holidays. This refers to whole Europe. You must be prepared to negotiate with your children's school or college (and with your boss if you have one...) to obtain one day off out of these crowded periods. This condition is essential if you want to make the most of your day at Disneyland Paris. During winter, it's rather peaceful (October and November, holidays excepted). The other possibility is to come to the park in the summertime after 5 pm (the theme park is then opened until 11 pm). Try to get additional information from Disneyland Paris as usually visitors are given the possibility to purchase a passeport at a reasonable price provided you enter the park after 5 pm (it's called Starnights). They may offer it again this year. We will keep you posted. Anyhow, during the summer you can also benefit from the perfume of flowers. Disneyland Paris is also a magnificent garden. Do not miss the Tinker Bell's Fireworks.

If you have decided to spend the whole day at the theme park, we strongly advise you to take a fastpass as often as you can and start with the most popular attractions : Peter Pan, Big Thunder Mountain, Space Mountain and Indiana Jones, ( be careful if you have young children some of the attractions have minimum height requirements). For these attractions, the Fastpass is now available. It's really great to save some time but you will not really need it when the park is empty. but then around 11 am, take some time to have your lunch since restaurants are crowded around noon and you would then lose a lot of time in the queues. Continue with other attractions such as pirates of the Caribbean, the Robinson's tree house - they are not very far away - Casey Junior, le pays des contes de fées, Mad Hatter's tea cups, or it's a small world. To save some of your time, we advise you to go to the information point on which waiting times for the different attractions are indicated. Do not hesitate and double check with a Disneyland Paris cast member generally standing at the entrance, you will then have a more precise idea of the waiting time. It's up to you to decide what you want to do and you have to watch time carefully because you will see that time is running very fast ! As a matter of fact, at 3 pm starts the parade .You can either choose to see it but in this case you have to find a suitable place in advance, the best place being the entrance of it's a small world from where the parade starts or upstairs in the Mainstreet Railroad Station where the parade ends. If you decide not to see the parade, you can then run to the attractions where there will be far less visitors. Anyway, try to go to a maximum of attractions in the same "theme" as there is a long way to go between two "regions" and you would lose your precious time. Do not hesitate to take short cuts like the two "arcades" along Mainstreet USA. When you are out of breath, do some shopping and have a look at what is around you. It looks real !

Around 6:30 pm if you feel like it, you can go back to the restaurant but be careful, if you have chosen the Walt's, the Blue Lagoon , the Steakhouse or l'Auberge de Cendrillon, do not forget to make a reservation first thing in the morning to be sure to find a place in the evening. After dinner, you can do some shopping or walk through Main Street, before the start of the Mainstreet Electrical Parade. Between 8 pm and 11 pm in the summer we usually enjoy as many as 8 attractions at a time with our two children who are 8 and 12 years old. Around 10 pm in the summer starts the Mainstreet Electrical Parade. It's really great and the music is very lively. Here again, chose your place in advance because right after the parade you will enjoy the Disneyland Paris Fireworks (giant !) next to the sleeping beauty castle. Try to find a place in the heights (on a bench for example) and facing the castle. After the fireworks, the Theme Park closes but you are still given some time to do your last minute shopping in Main Street where the shops are still open. For night birds, there is the Disney Village with its restaurants (we recommend Annette, typically American) its shops, the Gaumont Disney-Village ( cinema with a giant screen in salle 1). You can come back another time if you want to visit the hotels where there are some very good restaurants too.On the lake, you can make a trip on board a pedalo boat or rent a "bicycle car" to go round the hotels.

Last but not least, if you intend to come back several times to Disneyland Paris think of purchasing an annual passport, it's really worth while ! It is the solution we have adopted. If you have young children or disabled people with you, strollers and wheel chairs can be hired in the park.

We hope that you will have so much pleasure as we have visiting the park. And do not forget what is important........ never forget that even if you look like a grown up, in your heart you are still a child. Keep your dreams !!!!