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visit all of the attractions in Which Hotel?
Disney Village®, then you’ll be
pushed to manage it all in under There are six hotels on site, and one in woodland 2 km (3 miles) away.
four days. Locals turn up on a The best hotels are the closest to the Parks.
daily basis from Paris, which is
only 35 minutes away on the Hotel Santa Fe®: basic, small and reasonably inexpensive. The only
RER, but most guests from hotel offering parking immediately outside your room.
further afield will stay in hotels. Hotel Cheyenne®: a Wild West theme hotel, about 17 minutes’ walk
from the Park. Small rooms (with bunks for the kids), a Native
Disney offers several packages American village play area. Inexpensive and a great experience. Kids
for those who wish to stay on love this hotel.
site. These include passes for Sequoia Lodge®: a lakeside “hunter’s lodge”, moderately priced with
the Parks, and accommodation more than 1,000 rooms. Ask for a room in the main building. Rooms
with continental breakfast at the front have great views.
included. All-inclusive packages Newport Bay Club®: a huge, nautically themed hotel on the
can also be booked. lakeside. Moderately priced, this massive hotel has a huge convention
centre, magnificent swimming pool and three floors offering extra
Tickets services for a supplement.
Disney’s Hotel New York®: expensive and business-oriented with a
Tickets can be bought online, large convention centre. An ice-skating rink is available Oct–Mar.
as part of a package or from Disneyland® Hotel: the jewel in the crown. Expensive, but right at
any Disney Store before you the entrance to the Disneyland® Park. Full of delightful touches, such
leave home, or at the Park upon as grandfather clocks and ever-present Disney characters. The Castle
arrival – though this means Club is a 50-room hotel-within-a-hotel. If you can afford it, a week of
queuing. One-, two- or three- decadent fawning and unrestrained hedonism can be yours!
Disney’s Davy Crockett Ranch: log cabins sleeping 4–6 are grouped
day tickets are available. Hopper around a woodland trail, as well as traditional camping facilities. The
tickets allow same-day entry to best choice for family activities with some excellent facilities: the
both Parks. The Paris transport pool ranks as one of the best in Disneyland® Paris.
system RATP also sells tickets
combining RER travel and entry
to the Parks. Once inside, you on-site hotels it’s only a short
can use your ticket to get a fast walk (20 minutes at most)
pass for certain rides with a to the Park gates.
specific time slot to enable
entry without queuing. Money
Getting Around Credit cards are accepted
everywhere within the resort.
Disney provides an efficient ATMs and commission-free
transport system between the foreign exchange are available The runaway mine-train track of Big
Parks and the hotels (excluding immediately inside the Park Thunder Mountain
Disney’s Davy Crockett Ranch), entrances and at reception
with buses on the half hour. In in all the hotels. Advantages include virtually no
summer, a fleet of little open- travelling to reach the Parks, fast
top buses drives slowly around Disabled Travellers passes (ask at reception about
Lake Disney, ferrying guests restrictions) and “early bird”
between the three lakeside City Hall (immediately within entry to the parks on selected
hotels and Disney Village®. Disneyland® Park) has a brochure dates (usually at peak times).
If you’re staying at any of the outlining the facilities for disabled If you stay at a Disney hotel,
visitors, and a Disabled Guest you will be given a hotel ID
Guide can be pre-ordered (free) card which is very important.
from the website. The complex is As well as being used to charge
designed very much with anything you buy back to your
disabled visitors mind and hotel room (and have it delivered
wheelchairs can be hired, but there), it also allows you entry
note that cast members are not to the Disneyland hotel grounds
allowed to assist with lifting early in the morning while
people or moving wheelchairs. they’re still closed to day
trippers (the grounds also act
Staying in a Disney Hotel as an entrance to the Park).
For children (of any age), one
The on-site hotels offer rooms of the most exciting bonuses
at a wide range of prices; of staying in an on-site hotel
Sleeping Beauty Castle, the centrepiece generally, those closest to the is the chance to dine with
of the Park Parks are the most expensive. Disney characters.

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