Mickey Le Mouse (Disneyland Resort Paris)

Member Name: Tupps

Product:	Disneyland Resort Paris
Date:	06/07/09 (78 review reads)
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Advantages: Near to the UK; easy to navigate

Disadvantages: Smaller than Florida; weather not as good!

INTRODUCTION

Disneyland Resort Paris, formerly known as Euro Disney, consists of 2 parks: the main Disney Park with the castle (Sleeping Beauty's) and the Disney Studios park. The studios park is very similar to the one in Florida and last year opened the Tower of Terror. The main Disney Park is smaller than its Floridian counterpart and has 5 themed lands as opposed to 7 in Florida.

MAIN STREET USA

Here you will find the Walt Disney Railroad, an old fashioned train that goes around the whole park, horse drawn carriage rides and plenty of shops. At the top of Main Street is the Sleeping Beauty Castle.

FANTASYLAND

Rides here include It's a Small World (with probably the most annoying song ever) Peter Pan and the Dumbo Flying Elephants. It's A Small World is a boat ride with models "singing" It's A Small World in just about every language possible. You'll be singing it for weeks. Peter Pan is a gentle ride over London where you fly off to Neverland and the Dumbo Flying Elephants just go round and round and round, slowly. I've been on once and was very sick when I got off! This area is geared towards very young children.

FRONTIERLAND

My favourite ride is located here: Big Thunder Mountain. This is perfect if you like a thrilling ride but do not like going upside down! This ride is fast, twisty and throws you about enough without being too scary. I love it. Another popular ride here is Phantom Manor, a ride through a haunted house. Many people I know think this ride is exceptionally boring but the effects are very good.

ADVENTURELAND

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Peril is here if you like the big scary rides. This is a proper roller coaster which goes upside down, forwards and backwards. I didn't go on this so can't say what it's like. Pirates of the Caribbean is here too and this has always been one of Disney's most popular rides, even more so since the films. I don't know if this has been updated to include Captain Jack Sparrow like the Florida version, but if it hans't it probably will be before too long.

DISCOVERYLAND

Rides here include Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin, where you have to shoot targets, Star Tours, which is a Star Wars based simulator complete with R2D2 and C3PO, Space Mountain and a great 3D show called Honey I Shrunk the Audience. Here, you don 3D specs and watch a show where the audience "you" gets shrunk; all kinds of funny things happen and you can see people in the seats in front of you trying to dodge whatever's coming out of the screen.

WALT DISNEY STUDIOS PARK

This is a smaller park than the main one but still has some good attractions. The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith is here along with the newly opened Tower of Terror. There is also a Backlot Tram Tour which shows you various film props, backlot scenery etc.

DISNEY VILLAGE

A scaled down version of Florida's Downtown Disney, this is the place to find all your restaurants and shops, located right by the 2 parks. Restaurants include The Rainforst Cafe (a Disney franchise) and a themed dinner show called Buffalo Bill's (a wild west type show with horses, cowboys etc.)

Disneyland Paris is a great place to visit for maybe 3 days. I don't think you'd need any more than that. The on site hotels are very good and have shuttle buses to take you into the parks. We stayed at the Sequoia Lodge which was a 3 star. Like all of the hotels, you often see Disney characters in the dining room when you're having breakfast or dinner. The hotel also had an on site shop for any last minute bits and bobs but this hotel does not have a pool.

This place is also good if you're a Disney addict and want a bit of a fix! You can pop over to France in a couple of hours from the UK - you can't do that with America!

Summary: A great way to get a few days of Disney