InsideDLParis has tweeted that tickets can be bought for the Star Wars - La Soiree event on 16th December for £70. Does anyone know if it is a ticketed only event, or if AP holders, Shareholders Club members or hotel guests have free entry?
Experience the awakening at Disneyland Paris® as Discoveryland celebrates the release of one of the most anticipated films of all time. Star Wars Night is one of the best ways to feel the Force on December 16th, 2015. Dress up to show your side and join private after-hours party in Discoveryland with exclusive Star Wars experiences including Meet&Greets with Star Wars Characters, a flight on Star Tours, and many other unique surprises. You will also receive a commemorative lanyard and event badge to remember the night. The Force is strong with this event!
70£ per person (same price applies for all guests, adults and children over the age of three). Free for children under age 3. To access the evening festivities, a special bracelet will be given to valid ticket-holders upon arrival at the Park entrance, starting at 5:30pm. The evening festivities may be changed, postponed or cancelled without prior notice, particularly in the event of inclement weather. Parking is not included in the ticket price (10€ per vehicle as of 4:30pm). No more than 6 tickets per order. Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded, nor can they be linked to any discounts or special offers.
I thought they were going to clear the park, except for event ticket holders, but it looks like they are just clearing Discoveryland - although its not clear how much of it.
£70 seems a bit steep for exclusive use of one land, a lanyard, badge and the other unspecified extras.
Maybe I'm a Scrooge?
I agree A&S&O. I've had my trip booked for 14th-18th December since September, and would have loved to attend this event but it is just far too expensive.
I am hoping that the event doesn't infringe too much upon regular park opening and entertainment on the day.
I think it depends how much you like Star Wars - I mean Inventions is around the same and in my opinion you are mainly paying for the characters. Star Wars characters are much more rare in DLP so I would say if you're a fan then go for it. Plus it says 'after hours' meaning that the park will close earlier than the event I assume.
If it was the same for my favourite character (Stitch) I would pay well over 70 euros but its down to personal budgets etc.
So you don't actually get to see the new Star Wars movie? ???
Other than the info posted above, I can't find any other information about the event.
If the were to show the movie, that would definitely pull the punters in. I wonder how many seats there are in the Honey I shrunk the Audience cinema?
I ran another if these through Google translate. there are also supposed to be surpriser activities and ash. tge official even rubs 8.30 till 12 so after everyone else had left the Park. I was tempted but it would cost my family. 420 pounds! !!!. that's half way to a whole holiday!
more information http://www.disneylandparis.co.uk/events/star-wars-night-at-disneyland-paris/
The Programme
Don a costume to show your allegiance to your favorite side of the force so you can live the part to its fullest! Take home a commemorative ticket – a unique souvenir for lightyears to come. Revel in the excitement of witnessing Discoveryland take on a new dimension with specially designed intergalactic décors, outer space photo backdrops, special appearances from the saga's legendary Characters and constellations of thematic activities.
Special appearances from the saga's legendary Characters
Feel the full power of the Force in the spectacular Star Tours attraction
Bring home limited edition merchandise for your legendary collection
Taste the Star Wars menu at the Hyperion café
Visit the Star Wars make up station to look the part of your dreams
and many other out-of-this-world Star Wars perks await you!
2 exclusive packages are available:
Pack 1 : access to the event + exclusive lanyard adult €70 child €70
Pack 2 : Pack 1 + un collector frame with the movie poster, 2 FastPass for priviledged access to the eligible attractions and more priviledges limited to 600 happy few. adult €123 child €123
Information about the wearing of costumes
Guests are exceptionally authorized to wear Star Wars-themed costumes during this special evening event. However, we reserve the right, at our discretion and at any time, to prohibit certain costumes such as those which completely obstruct vision and/or if we consider the costume/accessories/make-up shocking or inappropriate for our younger guests and their families. You may be asked to remove your mask at the entrance of the event. Likewise, we reserve the same rights for accessories that could be considered dangerous on attractions (e.g. capes, sticks, etc.) or could affect safety or security within the Park. Guests who would like to wear a Star Wars Character costume commit to refrain from posing for photos and from signing autographs.
I'm not sure who they're targeting with this event. Locals with APs (who have the advantage of easily going there last minute), if they're Star Wars fans, will already have plans to see the film that night (unless they're able to go earlier in the day). And fans who are further away and need to make travel plans will probably need a lot more than a couple of weeks notice....So I wonder who'll be going, people who've already booked a trip on those dates?
I have to admit, if they had made the event around a screening of the film, followed by meeting all the characters, doing Star Tours and enjoying an evening in Discoveryland, I may have seriously considered taking time off work and travelling to DLP for the event. I'm sure it will be a nice little event, but it does seem over priced for having only Discoveryland available (I hope at least all rides in the area are open) and for spending most of the evening queuing to meet Darth Vador or R2D2. Besides, I already have plans for that evening, I'm going to see the new Star Wars movie ;)
If there were clearer details I would be interested...
IE: Photos and details of all perks included in the price (how big is the poster & frame? what lanyard? Is there a badge or bracelet as previously mentioned or not?) and those not included (WHAT exclusive merch is available? How much will it cost?)
As it is right now, I have no idea whether it is worth the €123 price.
IF it included a screening of the film, park ticket for entry to the whole park all day, and the poster, badges etc were decent, then I'd book the day off work right now and start looking at travel costs immediately. As it is, there are too many unknown factors...
[EDIT] I've just checed the site, and its not 70 and 123 Euros - its £70 / £123 ! Even steeper... and you only get access to the park from 5:30pm onwards...
Is anyone able to email DLP and ask if there are AP, Hotel Guest or Shareholders discounts on the tickets?
Quote from: samuelvictor on November 25, 2015, 03:56:00 PM
If there were clearer details I would be interested...
IE: Photos and details of all perks included in the price (how big is the poster & frame? what lanyard? Is there a badge or bracelet as previously mentioned or not?) and those not included (WHAT exclusive merch is available? How much will it cost?)
I wonder what will happen to the unsold "exclusive" merchandise, lanyards etc.?
Quote from: A&S&O on November 25, 2015, 04:21:43 PM
Is anyone able to email DLP and ask if there are AP, Hotel Guest or Shareholders discounts on the tickets?
With an AP you get a discount. Hotel guest will not get any discount and shareholders I don't know.
I guess same thing as with the tickets for the Halloween party.
I would imagine unsold things would either go to the stores or to the staff shop.
I would either ring or email and ask about the event in more detail. They must know by now what exactly is going to happen.
New information according to http://dlrptoday.com
"A third package also includes tickets to an IMAX 3D screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, in its original language, at midnight in Disney Village, plus a Disneyland Paris hotel stay and park tickets. This is bookable only via the booking hotline on 08448 008 898 (UK, Monday to Friday 9.00am – 8.00pm, Saturday 9.00am – 6.00pm – Sunday 10.00am – 5.30pm; Calls cost 5p per min from BT landline, other networks may vary) or 0825 300 500 (France, 0,15 €/min). Car parking is not included, but has a special rate of €10 for ticket holders after 4.30pm."
Now, a midnight 3d IMAX screening of the film, plus all the other stuff? THAT I'm interested in. I imagine the prices will be very high though, so unless I get a big Christmas work bonus I imagine I won't be able to afford it (unless I go myself without the wife and kids! :P nah I'd never get away with that :-X )
Price for the 3rd package is 700€
For anyone interested package prices have been reduced!!! The price is now 49 pounds for the base package, 70 pounds for the package with 2 fastr passes and special poster or OR 61 for the higher package with cinema ticket for the midnight screening. Weird its actually cheaper with the cinema ticket. Also special guest bona get (the actor) , death Vader (character) and Chewbacca (character) some sort for storm trooper display...... It looks really good. Fearsome from Disneyland Paris. Co. UK under things to do-events
Hi Polarvixen, thanks for this info... I'm a little confused, I can't find the new info on the site? Where are the new prices? It seems to think that you can only book the third package if you do it with a hotel package etc? I'm looking at http://www.disneylandparis.co.uk/events/star-wars-night-at-disneyland-paris/
first off apologies for my atrocious predictive text when I write. second details were on disneyland Paris. co. uk then things to do- events. I phoned up for the prices and added it to my booking
Ah ok thanks. Yes that's where I was looking but there weren't prices other than the £49 one. I may well phone them up and ask then - I'm due to be paid a lump sum in the next week so may well get there after all... :D
Annoyingly I got paid 2 days too late! :'( However, I still managed to take my kids to see the film on the first day and I've gotta say we weren't disapointed! ;D
So did anyone actually go, and was it good? Worth the money? Of course, I'll be a little jealous, but I'm curious! ;) ::)
There were lots of people in costumes waiting to get into Discoveryland, and even more making their way there as we were leaving on Wednesday night. So, it seems it was popular.
We did speak to one woman the following day who'd attended with her family. She said it was very overpriced, but I don't think the event was aimed at her.
We went great highs and massive lows for us sadly. The event itself.... Crowded and amazing. loads of activities. Loads of things going on. Theming was fantastic. They'd done a brilliant job with the night itself. Sadly for us.... Communication was terrible. When we checked in on the Tuesday at hotel we were given tickets that looked like normal park passes and told here are your tickets. On the wed night we were leaving cafe Hyperion before the event started and my 16 year old daughter went to take our 6 year old son who has asd to the toilet. We arranged to meet outside the cafe where we would then wait to enter. We waited and waited.... Wondering where they'd gone but didn't have phones with us to get in touch. Staff start telling us we have to leave and we try to explain that we have to wait for her or wont have a chance of finding her and show or tickets for the event. Only to be told these aren't the proper tickets and what we have to do is go to the park entrance at which point we'll get a wrist strap. So my husband waits behind and I take baby and two others sons who both have special needs back to the entrance. We approach a cast member who send us to a table where they are giving out the wrist straps and promised lanyards no sign of pins or posters though. The table says no we have to leave the park and ree enter. So we walk towards a exit gate. Less than a metre away that cast member shuts the door and says we have to walk to the exit at the other side. By this point I'm getting exasperated and boys are thoroughly confused. So we walk around through crowds and ree enter. Only to have yet another battle because even though I have the tickets they don't want to give me the wrist straps for my family members who aren't there. also still no pins out posters and no one seems to know anything about them. Making it back to thindiscovery land entrance I find my hubby and daughter. Turned out she'd been told toilets were closed and sent to ones on main street but then they wouldn't let her back in to discovery land to get to us so she'd been waiting outside. Parade of star wars characters runs and and is very cool..... Then you have thousands of people trying to enter that tiny discovery land entrance. It was a real bottle neck crowd.... And no disabled entrance and no cast members who cared. When id booked tickets id had them check we could definitely use my son's pass and assured that we could. So we hung back for thirty minutes and went in with the last of the crowd. Sadly for my 6 year old it was just too much by this point. We tried to meet Chewbacca but he was now in complete shutdown so I had to leave with it the youngest while hubby and older two who were going to the cinema stayed. I went and complained at city hall not because the event was bad although you didn't get the freebies mentioned on the website or by the Disney call centre when booking but because of the terrible communication. All they'd have had to do is tell us when they gave us the tickets the day before: you need to leave the park and ree enter. This isn't your official ticket but you trade it in. And the whole situation could have been avoided. City hall sent me to another room at the entrance to get the promised poster...... Where I was asked for our tickets . showing them I was told theses weren't the proper tickets. Apparently other commemorative tickets has been issued. So I asked them to check the booking under my name.... To be told that I hadn't paid for the premium package which I argued of course and then questioned how we had cinema tickets without the premium package and was told very rudely by an arrogant woman we didn't have cinema tickets.... Weird as my daughter did have the cinema tickets and used them to enter the cinema later that night!
Summarizing the event was brilliant but the cast members largely didn't know anything about how things were going to proceed or what was happening and weren't able to answer questions. Glad that half my family enjoyed it in the end but sad that out three tickets costing nearly £150 got us less than an hour's entertainment and an awful lot of stress purely because of poor communication
What a story ...
Now, if a CM could explain what point there is in leaving the park and enter again? That's just absurd!
Wow polarvixen :o Thanks so much for sharing the story with us - sorry you had such a confusing time, it sound quite poorly organised. Did you get all your posters and badges in the end? If I had been paid on time we would have all travelled to France for just one night especially because of this event, which would have cost us around £700 in total - would NOT have been amused if we'd missed anything or not got the promised gifts... ???