Disneyland Hotel is the flagship hotel of Disneyland Paris Resort. It’s one of the few Disney hotels that looks directly into a theme park, and the one in Disneyland Paris that is closest to both parks. It’s also by far the most expensive hotel at the resort, and was recently fully refurbished. In this post, we’ll review our recent stay at Disneyland Hotel in Disneyland Paris Resort!
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Booking and Price
Disneyland Paris has a complicated booking system that only allows you to book packages online, you can’t book room-only rates directly via the Disneyland Paris website. This might not be a problem for most guests, but it does have a few drawbacks, one in particular related to this specific hotel.
There are a few reasons you might want to book a room-only rate through Disney. Maybe you found discounted tickets at a good price. Maybe it makes sense for you to get a Disneyland Paris annual pass.
But for Disneyland Hotel in particular, you might want a split stay. Because of its high prices, it can make a lot of sense to just spend part of your visit here, spending the other nights at a more reasonably priced Disney hotel.
For a visit years ago, I was a passholder and so needed a room-only rate. For my most recent visit, I did a split stay with Hotel New York—Art of Marvel, so a typical hotel+ticket package didn’t work for me.
When it comes to room-only rates, you have three options.
Call
Use a third party site (Expedia / Booking / Orbitz)
Work with a Travel Advisor
Years ago, I booked Disneyland Hotel (Paris) on Orbitz with no problem. (Note: I’ll sometimes use the awkward “Disneyland Hotel (Paris)” to remind you that I’m not talking about Disneyland Hotel at Disneyland Resort in California.) This trip, I decided to just work with my trusty travel advisor, Lauren Quirk of Travel with Character LLC.
Because of the structure of my trip (one night at each hotel, three days in the park) and the oddities of the Disneyland Paris pricing structures, it wound up making sense to book this hotel as a hotel + 2-day ticket package for $1082.90. The two-day ticket cost around $200 for those days, meaning my nightly hotel rate was around $882.90.
For a little more analysis, I pulled some rates for October 9 to 11, 2024 (random nights that I assumed would have availability). Here’s the nightly rates on Booking.com:
Disneyland Hotel - $961
Hotel New York - $589
Newport Bay Club - $516
Sequoia Lodge - $446
Hotel Cheyenne - $410
Hotel Santa Fe - $351
And here’s the total cost of a 3-Day / 2-Night package for two adults with tickets from Disney:
Disneyland Hotel - $2191
Hotel New York - $1396
Newport Bay Club - $1250
Sequoia Lodge - $1100
Hotel Cheyenne - $1012
Hotel Santa Fe - $885
If you compare these, you get that (more or less) the package price is $200 + 2 nights at the Booking.com rate. The bottom line is that you’re looking at somewhere in the $750 to $1000+ range for a night at Disneyland Hotel at Disneyland Paris.
Disneyland Hotel (Paris) Location
Besides being the most “elegant” of the Disneyland Paris hotels, Disneyland Hotel is most noted for its location. The hotel is situated above the entrance to Disneyland Park, which makes it the hotel nearest to the two parks. It will still take 2 or 3 minutes to walk over to Walt Disney Studios Park.
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By comparison, Hotel New York—Art of Marvel is about 7 minutes from Walt Disney Studios Park and nine from Disneyland Park. Disney’s Hotel Cheyenne is about 15 minutes from the parks (these are through Disney Village in the above map).
The other perk of the location is the entire hotel is within Disneyland Paris security. Guests coming from the other hotels will have to pass through security to enter Disney Village, while guests at Disneyland Hotel are already on the secure side (you’ll pass through security when you arrive, obviously).
Disneyland Paris is not located in central Paris, and its hotels are not a great base for visiting Paris. However, you can easily get from Disneyland Paris to Paris by train if you’d like.
If I’m being 100% honest and 100% me, there is one downside to the location. You actually have to go out of your way about ten minutes (roundtrip) to get to Starbucks.
The parks serve machine-brewed instant coffee beverages—so no, you can’t “just get coffee in the parks.” That is, this isn’t a “Starbucks” thing, it’s an “any quality coffee beverage” thing. (Okay but it’s also a Pumpkin Spice thing because we’ve had multiple visits in October #CapitalBforBasic.)
Disneyland Paris Hotel Perks
All Disney hotel guests at Disneyland Paris get access to Extra Magic Time (aka Extra Magic Hour)—an exclusive bonus hour at the start of the day.
This is a fantastic perk, though it won’t justify staying at the Disney hotels on its own. Really, you’re paying for the convenience of being close to the parks, and for the Disney atmosphere. At Disneyland Hotel specifically, no amount of perks can justify the price—you’re paying for this YOLO, stunning, at-the-entrance-to-the-park experience.
Disney hotel guests are the only guests who can book reservations at the two restaurants inside Disneyland Hotel—La Table de Lumiere and Royal Banquet Restaurant. Guests at the “Deluxe”, “Castle Club”, and Suite levels get more perks, like lounge access.
Arrival, Lobby, and Check In
If you took the RER A train from Paris or the TGV train from CDG airport, you’ll be coming from Marne-la-Vallée—Chessy station. I arrived from CDG via TGV at about 8:50AM.
You can talk a bus from the station, but it’s also only a three minute walk (exit the station, head right toward Disneyland Park), plus time to get through security (who are very used to dealing with luggage). There’s also a Disney Express check-in service at the station that you can book in advance.
Access to Disneyland Hotel was tightly controlled while I was there (due to the recent, extensive refurbishment of the hotel), so I had to show my reservation information to be let into the hotel. As the hotel sits above the park entrance, you’ll be walking amongst regular park guests on the way, and the hotel entrance is not located in the center of the building (which is a park entrance)—go to the far right side for the hotel door closest to the lobby.
The hotel lobby is quite stunning. Most of the hotel offerings—stores, restaurants—are located a short walk from the grand lobby. There was a storytime held for kids at one point during my visit.
There was a short line when I checked in (photo below is from a different time), but there was a Cast Member working it to make sure guests with small issues could be sent quickly on their way. Altogether I spent 15 minutes in the hotel for check-in and dropping off my bags.
Check-in itself was a great process. The Cast Member was exceedingly friendly and showcased her ability to work with guests who were completely new to Disneyland Paris. There was a lot of “welcome to the Magic!” about the interaction. It’s possible that still happens sometimes at Disney World, but I don’t see it much because I usually rely on online check in there.
My room wasn’t ready (expected, given the time), so I headed right out the door to Disneyland Park. I was able to take advantage of Extra Magic Time by showing my room key, and I used the exclusive entrance for Disneyland Hotel guests (right outside the same door I used to get into the hotel).
Superior Room at Disneyland Hotel (Paris)
I returned later in the day, when the room was ready. I was booked in a Superior Room, the lowest tier of room at the hotel. Let’s start with a video of the room:
I’ve been spoiled by the number of new hotel rooms I’ve stayed in recently, but I have to say I think these new Disneyland Paris Hotel rooms do a good job of integrating elegant design into a functional room.
The room screams “elegance” through patterning on the carpet, wallpaper, and bed runner. I much prefer hard floors, but it’s a debate I don’t usually win. There is plenty of surface and closet space, though.
While I generally prefer the simpler patterns of, say, the new Mary Poppins rooms at Grand Floridian, the patterns in this room give it a little extra pop that makes it feel special.
The amount of seating in the room is excessive, but the small table also serves to fill space in this slightly awkward layout. The TV was nicely hidden within mirror on the wall.
Slightly awkwardly, the bed for the third person folds out right beneath the TV, so I don’t imagine you’d want to watch TV after bedtime.
Here are some closer looks around the room. The mini-bar was complimentary, and the coffee was probably better than most of what you’d find in the parks. There were outlets on either side of the bed.
The bathroom is fully behind a door, with the toilet behind a subsequent door. The vanity area is spacious enough. This room had only a shower, and toiletries were bulk size.
I wasn’t blown away by these new rooms, but they definitely fit within the top tier of Disney hotel rooms. Is this what I’d expect paying $1000 for in a lot of places? No. But Disney hotels always come with a bit of an inflated price. I think these rooms clearly are a step beneath the best rooms Disney World has to offer, but they get the job done, in elegant fashion.
Amenities at Disneyland Hotel (Paris)
Let’s quickly cover the rest of the hotel. Disneyland Hotel has two restaurants and a bar. All three are located on the 2nd floor around a foyer (not the hotel lobby). It’s not hard to find them from the lobby—just go up some stairs and then cross the footbridge.
The two restaurants are La Table de Lumiere and Royal Banquet Restaurant, both are character meals, and both are—as of this update—exclusive to guests of any Disney hotel (formerly just Disneyland Hotel). The bar is Fleur de Lys.
Food is frustrating business across Disneyland Paris resort. The hotel documentation indicated there was room service available, but I couldn’t find a menu and didn’t have the time to ask for help with that specific issue. In general, if you’re looking for quick service food, you’re going to have to go to the parks or Disney Village.
Royal Collection Boutique is the hotel store, offering various vacation essentials and a good lineup of branded merchandise.
I paid a quick visit to the fitness center one night and found it adequate (which, for me, means it had a treadmill). It was a bit warmer than I would have liked, though.
I haven’t yet had a chance to check out the resort’s pool or kids club. Those will have to wait for a future visit with Zoe.
Conclusions — “Is Disneyland Hotel (Paris) worth it?”
I’ve now stayed at four of the Disney hotels at Disneyland Paris, plus an offsite Airbnb. While I was happy to see Disneyland Hotel get a much needed refurbishment—and while I think it was a very good refurbishment—the bottom line on the hotel hasn’t changed. This is a good option for one or two nights on a once-in-a-lifetime trip, but staying here any longer won’t be worth it. If you want ~the Magic~ and you’re visiting for a short time, then this splurge certainly drops you in the middle of it.
This is sort of a cop-out. Disneyland Paris resort as a whole only needs two, or maybe three days. This stay for me was two nights—an early arrival with a full day in the parks, a full day in the parks, and a late departure with a full day in the parks. It was plenty.
If you take a longer trip, not only will the parks probably not offer enough to fill it—but none of the hotels will offer enough to fill it, even Disneyland Hotel. Sure, you can slow down with a few table service meals, but there’s no Stormalong Bay here. Disney Villages is no Disney Springs (nor does it have to be).
For some added context, I personally prefer Hotel New York—Art of Marvel. I much preferred its aesthetic, and it’s only a short walk from the parks. That hotel has lower prices than Disneyland Hotel, but even if it didn’t, I’d prefer it. You’re losing the “YOLO” feeling of having a hotel that sits at a park entrance, but from basically any practical perspective, Art of Marvel wins the day.
But I left Disneyland Hotel excited to return some day. I left feeling like I couldn’t wait for Zoe’s first stay there—to walk right out of the hotel to the park gate. You don’t get much more Disney bubble than the combination of Paris’s Disneyland Hotel and Disneyland Park. It’s maybe worth it to be tucked away in that Magical bubble, even if just for a night or two.
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