Breakfast served in hotels is a fairly simple affair – but there’s plenty for everyone.
One video we watched before we went to Disneyland Paris made me excited as it contained hot sausages, eggs, bacon – the works. But our hotel served a contiential breakfast instead: cold ham and salami, cheese cubes and cereals. Crossiants, pain au chocolat, toast and rolls completed the offering. It’s all fairly rudumentary, but given that the hotel needs to turn tables around quickly to seat everyone, it’s understandable.
How it works
When you check in, you can collect vouchers for each day of your stay. Each voucher has a corresponding time for you to take your breakfast, with 15-minute slots from 7am to 10am. Simply take the voucher with you and wait to be shown to your table. Once seated, a Cast Member will write the number of people dining on the paper tablecloth and you’re free to go and get your food. You can help yourself as much as you like.
Drinks machines
Most people head to the drinks machines located near the main food areas – but at the sides of the room are additional machines with much shorter queues. They dispense juices or hot drinks and mugs/glasses are next to them.
Should you take your lunch from the breakfast bar?
Many advice websites for Disneyland Paris talk about taking rolls etc out of the dining room for you to enjoy for breakfast. There was even a newspaper article in 2013 where a spendthrift detailed how he put ham down his socks to smuggle it into the park! (Warning – this links to the Daily Mail’s website). There are signs that ask you, for hygiene reasons, not to remove food from the dining rooms. The sign is a bit of a nonsense as that’s not a good reason. But there’s certainly a moral dilemma here: you paid for breakfast, not breakfast and lunch. You do see some people piling plates high with rolls and meats which then quickly disappear into rucksacks and staff must be aware that all this is going on – but there is also the opportunity to buy properly made sandwiches at the railway station and in a nearby supermarket. So, yes people do but Disney ask you not to.
