Paris - Disneyland

Paris' Disneyland is definitely somewhere that you shouldn't miss visiting at least during your first trip there.. It's definitely worth your time.

Depending on when you are visiting, the decos might be slightly different.. like during my time, it was the 20th anniversary, so it had special decos, discount to the theme park's entry pass. We are even lucky enough to see the chingay like event at around 1hr prior to the closing of the theme park..

See more about disneyland at my original post: Paris Day 2 - Disneyland Tour

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Paris Itinerary Planning

I've been slacking on my posting for quite some time and I am going to continue it again..

Just to continue my post from here since I stopped at the transport pass.

When visiting Paris, it's best to plan your itinerary well. Because none of the malls or shopping area are open on public holidays or Sunday. As such, you should go to sight seeing places during such period. However, popular sites such as Disneyland has to be visited on a weekday because it would be so crowded with the locals as well if you do visit on Sunday.

This is definitely a short post as the next one would be able Disneyland :)

Also, should you visit during periods where the day time is long and night time is short, especially on public holidays or Sunday, please ensure that you have your dinner or at least order your dinner take away by 7 or 8pm otherwise.. there's a chance, depending on where you stay that there's actually no real food around the area. We got that before during our first trip there as it was a public holiday.. due to the bright sun.. it feels like 6pm even though it's already 8pm... by the time we reach our hotel near the airport.. there was nothing to eat, even the bar at the hotel was closed.. The only option we had and we were lucky to have some coins to buy snacks at the subway station vending machine for dinner.

So do be aware of that. It might be much better now.. but we always make sure we have food, we will do that for all the cities that we visit now :)

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Paris Weekly Metro Pass - The Key to My Unlimited Train Rides..

My Paris trip is mainly from Wed till Sun and I only need a 1 way ticket to the airport on Monday morning. So I decided to buy the Paris Weekly Metro pass as that's quite a lot cheaper than getting a 5 day pass + 1 way ticket. According to what I had read so far, the latest day of the week that you can get the pass is Wed, so even if it's cheaper, you can buy the ticket / topup after Wed. Also, this weekly pass is just flat pass from Monday till Sun last train.

The pass itself cost about EUR $5 and the weekly pass around EUR $39 if I remember correctly. Which is still way cheaper than the 5 day pass which costed about $57. If you ever buy this pass, keep it for the next trip as the card itself is non refundable anyway. Also, I came to realized that the best way to buy a one way ticket, especially if you stay near the airport is via the ticket machine. As I checked with the machine and found out that if I had bought from the machine it only costs about $8+ for 2 pax but because I bought it from them, it's $9.50 per ticket.

Reference: http://parisbytrain.com/paris-metro/ - here's where I got all the necessary information for price comparison.

This pass worked in the exact same way as our Singapore's EzLink card where we tap to go in and tap to leave the station. But not all station exits requires us to tap the card to exit. As visitors, it's best to abide by the rules, although I do observed that a number of their Paris "foreign talents" seems to by pass all the rules and enter station via all the loop holes possible. So keep your eyes open and look around for "interesting" sights.

As they also have many street and train performers around, if you don't plan to tip them for singing songs that we don't even understand, avoid them and look away, as they'll take some cups and walk around the train / bus or wherever they had performs for "tips".

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