Disneyland Paris

Getting there from Britain

This is the part that has changed most, and it is worth settling before anything else.

• The direct train has gone. Eurostar ran London to Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy from 1996 until 5 June 2023, and then withdrew it. Eurostar's own position is that it is not running the service and gives no sign of restoring it. Direct trains still run to the resort from Brussels and Amsterdam on busy weekends, which is easily mistaken for a London service and is not one.
• Via Lille is the only route sold as a single booking: Eurostar to Lille Europe, then a high-speed train on to Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy. Selecting the resort as the destination on Eurostar's own site produces the through ticket, and those tickets open for sale several months ahead.
• Via Paris means Eurostar to the Gare du Nord, the suburban line B to Châtelet–Les Halles, then line A to its terminus at Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy — about an hour from the Gare du Nord, with luggage, across a busy interchange.
• The station is inside the resort. Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy sits between the two park entrances and the entrance to Disney Village, so there is no onward transfer at the far end.
• From the airports the coach is now called the Magical Shuttle, not the name older accounts give, and it still serves both Charles de Gaulle and Orly. It runs roughly hourly rather than every half hour, takes about an hour, and calls at the Disney hotels. From Charles de Gaulle there are also direct high-speed trains to the resort's own station, which is usually quicker. From Orly there is no direct rail link at all.

The second park, and what is new in it

Disney Adventure World opened under its old name in 2002 and was renamed on 29 March 2026, when three new areas opened together:

• World of Frozen, built around a thirty-six-metre mountain with Elsa's ice palace on top, holding a boat ride through Arendelle, a daytime show performed on boats on the bay, character meetings and a tavern.
• Adventure Way, a new avenue into the park with a Rapunzel spinning ride and a run of new places to eat — not all of which opened at once, so dining there is still filling in.
• Adventure Bay, a three-hectare lake that doubles as an open-air theatre for a new evening show using several hundred drones, water screens and fireworks.

The park's older areas continue: Marvel Avengers Campus, which opened in July 2022 with a re-themed roller coaster and an interactive Spider-Man ride, together with the Pixar and animation areas, and a new entrance plaza that replaced the old studio-lot front in 2025.

Still being built, and not to be planned around: a Lion King land with a water ride, begun in 2025 with no announced opening; an Up-themed swing ride listed for 2027; and an Alice-themed attraction returning in 2027.

Tickets, and the end of the free queue-jump

The vocabulary in older accounts — "Passports", a "Hopper" valid on non-consecutive days — is obsolete.

• Tickets are dated. The visit date is chosen at purchase, and a dated ticket needs no separate reservation on top. That is the single most important practical change since the old description.
• There is a one-park ticket, where the park is chosen when booking, and a two-park ticket allowing both on the same day — the entrances are a few minutes' walk apart.
• Multi-day tickets still exist, for two, three or four days, and they include both parks. Whether the days must now be consecutive is not something the reseller pages agree on, so it is worth reading the official conditions rather than assuming the old rule.
• Annual passes come in three tiers, and pass holders generally have to book a slot for a given day even so.

FastPass no longer exists. It was replaced in 2021 by Disney Premier Access, which is paid for. There are two forms: one buys a single fast-track entry to one attraction in a chosen time slot, bought through the resort's app once inside; the other covers each eligible attraction once, with no slots to book, and can be bought a week ahead by anyone who booked a package. Both are tied to a park ticket and cannot be passed on. Anyone without a smartphone can buy at City Hall in the first park or at guest services in the second.

What remains free is the ordinary queue, the single-rider lines where they are offered, and the extra opening hour given to guests at Disney hotels. There is no free virtual queue of any kind.

The rides older accounts describe

Four of them need their dates and names corrected, and two have been rebuilt since.

• Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast is not new. It opened in April 2006. Older accounts have it "launching", which it was twenty years ago.
• Star Tours was replaced. The original closed in 2016 and the present version, Star Tours – The Adventures Continue, opened in 2017, with destinations added since. It is still in Discoveryland.
• Space Mountain has had three identities, and a fourth is coming. It opened in 1995 as a Jules Verne story, De la Terre à la Lune; became Mission 2 in April 2005, which is the version older accounts describe; and has been Star Wars: Hyperspace Mountain since 2017, which is what it is today. In August 2026 the resort announced that from the end of 2027 it will close to strip out the Star Wars theme and restore the original Jules Verne version, with the first score remastered. No closing or reopening date has been given beyond "several months".
• Big Thunder Mountain was substantially rebuilt in 2025, closed from January until June: stretches of track replaced, the scenery dismantled and restored, the water and lighting effects reworked. Anyone who last rode it before 2025 will find it visibly different.
• Pirates of the Caribbean gained characters from the films in 2017 and was refreshed again in the summer of 2025.
• It's a Small World is unchanged and has never been re-themed.

Eating, and some names that have gone

Older accounts recommend two restaurants. One exists and is misspelled; the other never existed here at all.

The Steakhouse — one word — is still open in Disney Village. "Chef Mickey's" is a Florida restaurant; there has never been one of that name in Paris. What older accounts are reaching for is Café Mickey, the character restaurant in Disney Village, which closed in 2020 and has since become a brasserie under another name. It was table service rather than a buffet, so the description was wrong twice over.

The resort's character buffet is now the Royal Banquet, in the Disneyland Hotel — which closed in 2020, was wholly rebuilt, and reopened in January 2024 as a five-star hotel with its dining entirely replaced. Several other Disney Village fixtures have closed for good: the film-themed restaurant and the castle-themed one both went in 2023, and the Wild West dinner show closed in 2020.

With children

Older accounts are right that this is well provided for, and the specifics are worth having. Each park has a baby-care centre — the one in the first park is on Main Street, between the Discovery Arcade and the Plaza Gardens restaurant — with changing tables, bottle warmers, microwaves, high chairs and somewhere to sit, and nappies and baby food for sale. They double as the meeting point for lost children.

Pushchairs can be hired at both parks for a charge. One point of translation: the signage and the app both say "stroller", so that is the word to look for.

Val d'Europe

The shopping centre a short walk from the resort is reached by staying on line A to Val d'Europe, one stop before the resort's own station — a useful detail older accounts omit. The large supermarket in it is Auchan, not the spelling older accounts give.

The ownership claim should go. The centre was built as part of the Disney-led development of the surrounding new town and opened in 2000, but the land was transferred to a property group in 2010, so describing it as part-owned by Disney is out of date. It was substantially extended in 2017 and is now very large indeed.

What is shut at the moment

Worth checking before travelling, because the resort closes things for months at a time:

• Crush's Coaster, in Disney Adventure World, has been closed since September 2026 for a refurbishment of about ten months. A return in the summer of 2027 has been reported but not officially announced. It is the most significant current closure.
• One Disney Village diner has been closed since the start of 2026, with a reopening expected early in 2027, and the rainforest-themed restaurant is closing permanently at the end of 2026.
• Several rides take short closures of a week or two through the autumn and winter, and one of the hotels is being refurbished in phases.

The resort publishes a refurbishment calendar and its app shows live status, and for a trip built around one particular ride both are worth looking at the week before.

The scale of it

The resort opened on 12 April 1992, under the name Euro Disney — it has been Disneyland Paris since 1994, with a spell as Disneyland Resort Paris in between, a name that has been wrong since 2009 and still turns up.

The first park drew about 10.8 million visits in 2025, which makes it comfortably the most visited theme park in Europe and the ninth most visited in the world. The second park took a little under six million — fewer, as it happens, than Europa-Park in Germany, so the European title belongs to the first park specifically rather than to both.