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Thinking of going over to France at Easter to do the whole 'Disney' thing. To make it a bit cheaper we though we would take the tent and stay on a site nearby.

Any suggestions? Nice, clean toilets and showers a must!!!

Hi,

Recently posted something similar and 4 Vents seemed to be very popular for the Disney area. Look at the review section and do a search under Disney.

Des 4 Vents. We stayed there for a week in June this year while we went to Disneyland. Clean, well run campsite with huge pitches. A bit soulless though as most folk just seem to be using it as a dormitory while they went to Paris or the big theme parks. It is wonderfully close to Disneyland.

Disneyland? TBH we all thought it was a total waste of time, and that included my six year old daughter. Since the only reason we went was because my six year old daughter wanted to.....she was pleased that she got to talk to Cinderella, but that was only five minutes out of two days worth of very expensive passes. Yes, it's wall to wall Disney, but if you took out the gift shops (which run into hundreds)  the very pricey food places and the other money making enterprises then youy're left with very little. Even the "big" rides are pretty rubbish, and the queues are dreadful...they can run to an hour or more. And there are very few cheerful Disney characters running around. They walk round with their minders, who keep strict crowd control. You have to join the queue (also can be up to an hour long) and they will only sign official autograph books which, of course, you can buy in every single gift shop. We had two days in disneyland, and deeply resented most of the second one.

By contrast I'd also got two days worth of passes for Parc Asterix using my Tesco vouchers. What a difference! Many more and much better rides (they have the largest wooden roller coaster in Europe, for example), queues were about half the length of these at Disney, there are several live shows, displays, puppets, a circus, food was affordable and very good, the characters were visible and very friendly and while yes, there were quite a few gift shops as well, the souveniers were of a much wider range, better made and very reasonably priced. We were last out both days we went there and would go back again in a shot. It's far better balanced over a range of ages, btw...older kids (my son is 11) would get a bit bored by a lot of Disneyland, buth there were a lot of groups of teenage French kids in Parc Asterix. And as the height restrictions were a bit more generous, my daughter got to go on all but the four biggest rides, including the above massive wooden roller coaster. We went on that one six times, lol. And my son finally persuaded me to go on the giant loop-de-loop corkscrew goodness-knows-how-many-gravities metal roller coaster. It was such fun I went on it twice, back to baxck, and then had to sit down for about half an hour while I stopped wobbling. So if you're camping near Paris, go to Parc Asterix as well. It's about a 50 minute drive from 4 Vents.

Agree totally with Valk Scot did Parc Asterix first this year then went to Disney a couple of days later, my kids (12 & 10) much preferrred Parc Asterix.

They came off the Indiana Jones ride at Disney and their comments were 'Is that it?!'

If you do do both, make sure you go to Disney first

Had the opposite experience. Went to Parc Asterix on an extremely busy Monday in July. Very hot and very very long queues with very little shading. None of the 'big 5' rides had less than a 2 hour queue, so we didn't actually get to ride any of them, as refused to queue so long in scorching heat! No disney style fast passes either and a 6pm closing time, so queues didn't die down. Was very grateful had used Tesco vouchers instead of hard cash.

In contrast Disney a week later had much smaller queues and we made the most of Fastpass and extra magic hours (in hotel for two days rather than tent!). Even without fastpasses the Aerosmith coaster had such short queues we could go on back to back - and loved it! (BTW with 13 / 15 year olds...)

Must agree with jhtgtrt last year we had two days in disney. 12 of us in our group comprising of 6 'big kids' and kids aged 6 to 13 and we had a wonderful time. Second week of hols 8 of us did parc asterix and was mighty glad we paid using tesco vouchers!  It didnt seem a patch on Disney as with Disney it isnt just the rides its the magic of the parades etc plus like what is said above if you get the fast pass tickets it takes away a lot of the queing.

We all stayed at 4 vents which is a fabulous site.  Massive pitches and 10 mins drive from Disney. 

Hi,

We visited Disney last August and stayed at campsite called `Le Parisen`

Its a nice site which has both tents & statics. Toilet blocks were clean, and the extra bonus` are swimming pool which is clean, and even a bit of a club if not at Disney. Staff are welcoming and its about 25 minutes from Disney.

Have just returned again this year, but stayed in a static as we went with my parents.

Only problem we had was the gates to the front of the campsite close at 10.00 at night, so you have to walk to your tent, is a problem with 2 small children who are asleep.

Hope this helps, but if you need anymore info please reply