Booking online through French website?

Started by littlebitofpixiedust, October 16, 2015, 03:14:37 PM

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littlebitofpixiedust

Hi, the current offer on the French website is better value than UK one. Includes free kids under 12 instead if free under 7s.

Has anyone booked with their UK debit card and had any problems? Am I able to do so? Thanks in advance! It's a saving of £100 per room if we go so £200 in total as need 2 rooms so worth doing if it is possible  ;D

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haribosmum

I read somewhere on here that you could also book through the phone and ask for a different countries offer?  I don't think I'm imagining it!  :-[
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stifle

Quote from: littlebitofpixiedust on October 16, 2015, 03:14:37 PM
Hi, the current offer on the French website is better value than UK one. Includes free kids under 12 instead if free under 7s.

Has anyone booked with their UK debit card and had any problems? Am I able to do so? Thanks in advance! It's a saving of £100 per room if we go so £200 in total as need 2 rooms so worth doing if it is possible  ;D

I've done this; no problems at all. You have to put in a French address but they don't actually post anything as it's all emailed. I in fact put in my UK address with UK after the town. No issues at all.

Do bear in mind most UK banks will charge you around 3% for making purchases in foreign currency unless you are with one of the better ones such as Metro Bank or have a card allowing free foreign purchases such as Halifax's Clarity card.

littlebitofpixiedust

Thanks for the info/links guys very helpful in my upcoming planning can always rely on the expertise of my fellow DLP fans  :)

01wdw04

New to the forum, currently planning my trip for early Jan, and getting wildly different deals looking at different countries' sites.

It's worth shopping around, as not only the French website but many other European ones have different offers, depending on when you're travelling. The Dutch site has the same Winter deal as the UK at the moment, but 25% off + 1/2 Board, rather than only up to 20% off, saving me £100 on my trip. Spain has up to 2 days + nights free in January. France has up to 35% off in Feb. Belgium had 40% off at one point! And from what others have said, these EU-country offers should all be available to UK-based fans as well.

Would be good to have the different offers collated somewhere for easy comparison!
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littlebitofpixiedust

Hi there  :D considering your new your clued up on the offers by the sounds of it, Thankyou.

I havnt booked anything as of yet as already booked and paid for February 2016 but I've been playing around with the different websites and comparing offers. Not really sure why DLP has different offers for different country's? Especially if part of Europe I'd be interested to know the answer  ???

Mintcar

I'm going to book through the Dutch site for our Christmas break as the exchange rate is also in our favour, it brings the price down to affordable for the 'cheapie'  getaway we're doing.  Thanks for t he tips - I'm going to just fill the form in with my UK address after having read these posts!!!

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01wdw04

Quote from: littlebitofpixiedust on October 18, 2015, 07:37:40 AM
Hi there  :D considering your new your clued up on the offers by the sounds of it, Thankyou.

I havnt booked anything as of yet as already booked and paid for February 2016 but I've been playing around with the different websites and comparing offers. Not really sure why DLP has different offers for different country's? Especially if part of Europe I'd be interested to know the answer  ???

Thanks! Actually bit of a DLP regular, just new to the forum!

Don't quite know either why they have so many different deals, but I imagine it helps drive up business if they have a 'new' offer on every month, and having each deal expire in a month forces you to get on with booking!

Mintcar's point about a favourable exchange rate is also very true.
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arvidbux

The EU is investigating the practice DLP is using. So it might change in the future.

QuoteThis goes against Europe's 'single market' rules that aim to ensure all customers across the European Union can access the same deals and prices for goods and services

http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/29/news/companies/disneyland-paris-ticket-prices-europe/
http://qz.com/467200/disneyland-paris-is-charging-hundreds-more-to-visitors-who-speak-different-languages/

Mintcar

I've just booked on the Dutch site and followed Stifles instructions re: the address.  Worked for me and I got an instant confirmation.  Haven't had an email confirmation just yet, but I only did it 2 minutes ago!!!

With the favourable exchange rate we've also upgraded from the Santa Fe to the Newport  ;D
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01wdw04

Quote from: arvidbux on October 21, 2015, 12:48:07 PM
The EU is investigating the practice DLP is using. So it might change in the future.

QuoteThis goes against Europe's 'single market' rules that aim to ensure all customers across the European Union can access the same deals and prices for goods and services

http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/29/news/companies/disneyland-paris-ticket-prices-europe/
http://qz.com/467200/disneyland-paris-is-charging-hundreds-more-to-visitors-who-speak-different-languages/

I guess their argument would be that technically all customers across the EU can access all these deals, even if it's not advertised as such. Equally, different markets have different needs; French daytrippers will want different deals to British families going for a week.
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rebecca20

I booked with the French website - if the worst happens you can still sue in the English Courts (I'm a lawyer if you hadn't guessed  ;D )
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I am considering make a list of all the domains that can be used for DLP from an English computer - So far I'm up to M named countries and the only issue I'm having is with Malta.
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