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The Calendar pages are always being updated with the latest Disneyland Paris planning information. Recent updates include Extra Magic Hours up to July 2010, Monthly Park Hours for the full month of March just ahead and Annual Passport Blockouts right up to the end of 2011.

Meanwhile, the popular Season Dates page, which tries to chart dates for individual shows and parades have been given a bit of a tweaking. Disneyland Paris used to announce these dates far in advance both in brochures and online, but as the theme years take over it’s harder than ever to find out exact dates.

Recently, Playhouse Disney closed for a whole week with no advance warning. So, to avoid any disappointment we’ve removed the “Every Day” tag and will simply leave these tabs as lists of shows and events that should be performing sometime during each month, with only exact start and end dates noted.

This doesn’t so much apply to big events like Halloween and Christmas, the dates for which you can still find on the Further Ahead tab, but the smaller events like Mary Poppins and Sleeping Beauty which just come and go with no warning.

Disneyland Paris launch a brand new official special offer for the UK today, perfect if you’ve been hesitating over that “book” button and fancy a last minute trip before April.

SAVE up to 30% plus ALL Kids Go FREE

Just book before 29th March 2010 to save on selected Disney Hotel packages. The Kids Under 12 Stay & Play FREE offer continues and can be combined with SAVE 30% for even greater discounts.

Between now and the start of April, you can catch the end of Mickey’s Magical Party, the St David’s Welsh Festival, St Patrick’s Day celebrations and all the favourite Disney attractions and entertainment like Disney’s Once Upon a Dream Parade.

Our Special Offers tracker has been updated with the details.

The official attraction closures schedule has been updated again, adding a refurbishment of Big Thunder Mountain from 26th April to 7th May 2010.

Closures & Refurbishments

The only other change is the disappearance of the month-long refurbishment of Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains (Snow White). Cancelled or a mistake?

There’s also no mention of the Castle bridge, although that’s to be expected since Disneyland Paris rarely announce when park elements and structures are being refurbished, only attraction closures.

UPDATE: Though this wasn’t announced anywhere in advance, the current park programme also advises that Playhouse Disney – Live on Stage! is closed from the 8th February with no end date stated. We’ve updated the Season Dates and Closures pages, but have no more info.

Park opening times for the first two weeks of March are now available:

Monthly Park Hours: March 2010

If you’re planning a trip soon, be sure to check out our Special Offers pages, which summarise all the current official Disneyland Paris offers and discounts in a much simpler format.

Park hours for the rest of February 2010 have now been published by Disneyland Paris:

Monthly Park Hours: February 2010

Where the hours used to be published at least 3 months in advance (and in days gone by, a full year in advance), they now appear to publish them only around 1.5 months ahead…

Also note that, according to the latest programme, Thunder Mesa Riverboat Landing and thus the two river boats, Mark Twain and Molly Brown, are currently closed — despite this refurbishment not appearing at all on the official website’s listing.

The next round of Closures and Refurbishments have now been published, taking us to the end of April 2010. There are some unusually long closures pencilled in for the months ahead, including an apparent month-long closure of Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains (Snow White) and an usual (but very welcome) refurbishment of Mad Hatter’s Tea Cups.

Closures & Refurbishments

The big news though is for Studio Tram Tour: Behind the Magic, which closes on 1st March for three whole months, right up to 31st May 2010. This is apparently due in part to the construction of Toy Story Playland, though the closure should also at long last see Catastrophe Canyon and the other worn-out scenes returned to a more respectable state. Sadly, no additions to the much-maligned attraction are planned.

Collapsing in front of the TV over Christmas and booking holidays as New Year’s Eve approaches are national pastimes in the UK, so keep an eye out for a new promotional push from Disneyland Paris starting today and running until 24th January on all the main commercial networks such as ITV, Channel 4 and Five.

They’re promoting the fact that, from 3rd January to 1st April 2010, you can book a 2 night / 3 day stay from as little as £150 per adult based on 2 sharing at Disney’s Hotel Santa Fe, which can be combined with the Kids Under 12 (so effectively all kids) Stay & Play FREE promotion.

We’ve added the details to our Special Offers pages:

New Year Offer

These special offer prices are available until 15th February, so a last chance to visit during Mickey’s Magical Party. Or go a little sooner and you can catch Mickey’s Winter Wonderland show until March and “it’s a small world” Celebration until mid February.

From 2nd April the New Generation Festival begins, with the Kids Under 7 Stay & Play FREE promotion returning.

The latest park schedules are available on the Calendar, taking us right through Christmas and up to 30th December 2009.

Daily Park Schedules

Events during this incredibly busy period appear to be the same as earlier weeks — even on Christmas Day, Santa Claus makes sure he’s back in Disneyland Park to meet and greet at 10am sharp!

If you’re visiting during the first month of the New Year, you’ll be glad to know park opening times for the second half of January 2010 have finally just been published and guess what… they’re exactly the same as the first half. We can see why they took such a long time to be confirmed.

Monthly Park Hours

If, however, you’re not visiting in January or anytime soon but would like to be, then don’t forget that the mad “Up to 55% off” and “All your meals for Free” offers end at Noon tomorrow. The 55% discount offer is available for arrivals on 22nd, 26th, 27th, 28th December 2009 and from 1st January to 7th February 2010. Click through to disneylandparis.com to find out more.

So having 30% sliced off the cost of your Disneyland Paris holiday wasn’t good enough? Free meals not for you? You’re in luck — as the countdown clock to the 15th December cut-off point for those two offers nears, Disney have just upped their game.

From now until noon on next Tuesday, 15th December, they’re offering up to 55% off certain UK bookings for arrival dates on 22nd, 26th, 27th and 28th December 2009 and from 1st January to 9th February 2010. Yes, a huge 55% sliced off your Disney Hotel, tickets and breakfast, scary!

If you’re thinking of starting or ending the year with a little magic, or fancy giving someone (even better – yourself!) a Christmas treat, it looks like now is most certainly the time to book.

Offer page at www.disneylandparis.com

The offer is only available online at www.disneylandparis.com, terms apply.

We’ve updated our Special Offers calendar with the details — you can always find the very latest and only official Disney offers here.

We’re getting closer and closer to Christmas.

The latest park Programme takes us up to 19th December:

Daily Park Schedules

If you’re heading off for some seasonal magic, have a great time!

It’s a bumper Calendar update today, beginning with this week’s Park Schedules:

Daily Park Schedules

Then Extra Magic Hours up to May 2010:

Extra Magic Hours

Hotel pool closures, which were missed out of the Calendar refurb, now have their very own page:

Closures & Refurbishments – Hotels

Whilst another extra page adds Season Dates for events further in the future:

Season Dates – Further Ahead

So now we can keep track of next year’s Summer, Halloween and Bonfire dates without creating several near-empty pages leading up to those months. These useful dates were just announced in the latest brochure, and naturally can’t be found anywhere on the official website.

Finally! The next set of Closures & Refurbishments, covering January and February 2010, have been published by Disneyland Paris…

Closures & Refurbishments

Note to Mickey: There are some people who’ve been checking for these every day with their fingers tightly crossed, others who’ve held off booking until now. You can’t really expect people to spend what it costs to stay at the resort on the mere hope that their favourite ride won’t be closed. If they can be published sooner, publish them sooner.

As it happens, it’s just three from Fantasyland this time — Peter Pan’s Flight and the two other usual suspects.

Park opening times are now available for the first half of January 2010.

January 2010 Park Hours

Once the trail-off of Christmas ends, it’s the usual short hours for both parks.

Extra Magic Hours for March and April 2010 have also been published, so we’ve added those two months to the Monthly pages, complete with colour-coded booking price categories for each day.

You can now find a new set of park schedules on the Calendar, taking us up to 26th November:

Daily Park Schedules

No major changes with the times, but note the inclusion of “it’s a small world” Celebration on the downloadable PDF.