Disneyland and Paris Visite Pass

Before we left for Seattle, I received the Disneyland Paris tickets and the Paris Visite passes in the mail. I was pretty surprised because they only took a couple of days to get here from France. Disneyland Paris is celebrating their 20th Anniversary ( Just like Jill and I) this year. They've add a new nighttime show that looks really cool. You can check it out here if you want. They had a promotion for the two parks (Disneyland and Walt Disney Studios) for one day at 25% off. It was amazing there were different prices depending on the site I visited - US Disneyland Paris site vs UK Disneyland Paris site vs the Pairs Info (official Paris Tourism site). The official tourism site ended up being the best deal.

Also we got the Paris Visite pass which allows 5 days of unlimited travel using the Metro (Subway), RER (train) and buses throughout the Paris area. This will include transportation to Disneyland, which is in the farthest travel zone that we can go. It also will allow us to get to Versailles, which Rylee wants to visit. The Visite pass will also allow us to get back and forth from the Eurostar to the hotel. I'm hoping that we won't need to pay for any other form of transportation while we're there. In things I read, it might not be the cheapest way to go but I didn't want to have purchase individual tickets especially right after we get there. I think it's going to be intimidating enough just to get around. I just wanted one less thing to worry about.

It looks like most of the museums are free to kids under 18. There is a pass called the Paris Museum Pass that I haven't decided if I'm going to get. We'd be able to get into some the the main attractions, the Louvre, Notre Dame, Arc de Triomphe, and the Palace of Versailles to name a few. I'm not sure if it would be worth it. The biggest attraction to me would be that it would allow us to bypass some of the lines. I can always pick one up when we get to Paris but I'll have to think about that a little bit. I'm not sure how many of these things we'll be able to see. We get to Paris on Wed before noon and leave on Sunday at about 5:00 PM. During this time, one day will be spent in Disneyland and most of another day will be in Versailles. That gives us one full day and two half days for sightseeing. At least the day we get there, the Louvre is open late so we might be able to spend some extra time there.