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Disneyland Paris => Disneyland Paris Trip Planning => Topic started by: Spacepilot on June 11, 2016, 09:00:06 AM

Title: Dates school holidays?
Post by: Spacepilot on June 11, 2016, 09:00:06 AM
I'm trying to plan for 2017 and thought about going end of summer, because Pirates will be open again, and I probably can avoid the school holidays that way.

So my question is, when are they and which country has the biggest impact on the number of visitors, France and UK?
I read the french holidays are from 08-07-2017-30-08-2017? Is this accurate?
What about the UK holidays or the ones form other countrys?

Thanks for your help :-)
Title: Re: Dates school holidays?
Post by: juttawdw on June 11, 2016, 10:21:09 AM
The Netherlands it's July 8th till september 3th. 2017
Title: Re: Dates school holidays?
Post by: nathalie on June 11, 2016, 10:22:30 AM
Belgium July 1st till August 31st.
(the official dates, every summer, every year)
Title: Re: Dates school holidays?
Post by: Zee79 on June 11, 2016, 10:33:38 AM
English holidays usually are from about the middle of July until 1st September, some schools nay have training days extending this. Scottish often go back end of 2nd week in August because they start round about the beginning of July.
Title: Re: Dates school holidays?
Post by: norhel on June 11, 2016, 11:46:59 AM
For Norway it's from the middel of June to the middle og August.
But according to the official reports I've seen from DLP, Norway don't have any big impact in DLP.
At the news website at http://disneylandparis-news.com/en/key-figures/ (http://disneylandparis-news.com/en/key-figures/) it looks like UK and France is the biggest visitors to DLP.
Title: Re: Dates school holidays?
Post by: dlpowl on June 11, 2016, 10:03:41 PM
We always go the 2nd or 3rd week of September and it's wonderful!  All the kids are back at school (uk as well as Spain, France, Germany etc), the weather is still gorgeous but the parks are nice and free flowing.  Queues are short and we find it very stress free. 
Title: Re: Dates school holidays?
Post by: Spacepilot on June 13, 2016, 07:46:30 PM
Thank you so much for all the replies.  :)
Title: Re: Dates school holidays?
Post by: billy on June 14, 2016, 12:34:20 PM
for Spain its around 23/24th june till 12th sep. we always go away the last week of june regardless of where we go as it is always the cheapest time before the real summer time starts and there are less people.
Title: Re: Dates school holidays?
Post by: ZoeG on June 14, 2016, 01:08:54 PM
Scottish term summer holiday is 26th June - 17th August!