Disneyland Paris - Frontierland

Frontierland is one of the many themed lands in the Disneyland park in Paris. The theming of this land is based on the American Wild West in the 1800's, Frontierlands are historically home to Cowboys, Saloons and of course the infamous Gold Rushes. If you have visted other Disney Parks around the globe you'll notice that in Disneyland Paris Frontierland is located in the area where you would usually find adventureland. This is the largest Frontierland out of all the Disney Parks, the background story is that the town of Thunder Mesa was founded to support the mining of Big Thunder Mountain. Every Halloween this land is converted to Halloween land! Where ...  Read the complete review

Frontierland is one of the original five themed areas set up in Disneyland Paris, and the idea itself was thought of by Walt Disney. In the centre of Frontierland is a large river, around which steam boats go taking visitors on a very slow journey to see the sights. I have never experienced this as both times I have been to disneyland it has been very cold and the thought of being out on the river might have been too much! It does look like a lovely journey though. In Frontierland is Big thunder moutain rollercoaster, in the style of a runaway train. As far as I know they have these at most disneyland sites. The ride is probably the main attraction ...  Read the complete review

Disneyland Paris is divided into 5 different parks, Main Street USA, Adventure Land, Discovery Land, Fantasy Land and also Frontier Land. They are all themed differently and have their own themed rides and shops and other attractions. Frontier Land is a wild western themed land in the Magic Kingdom Park, it holds some great attractions including amoung the most famous in the park Big Thunder Mountain rollar coaster which takes you through a old mineing rail road and The Phantom Manor ghost train which takes you through a story about a wife and groom who dont quite make it to the alter and haunt the house for eternity and also a lovely old style steam boat ...  Read the complete review

Frontierland is supposed to feel like you are in the old west during the time of the gold rush. There is a river running through frontierland on which are two 'Old Orleans' type paddle steamers that you can go for little trips on. In the Middle of the river/lake is a section of the areas main attraction - Big Thunder Mountain - this island is reached by hurtling through underground tunnels which eventually come up on this island surrounded by water. The ghostly phantom manor attraction is in this area, it is basically a very sophisticated and upmarket ghost train, it tends to scare the heebie-jeebies out of little ones though so be careful! If you happen to visit in ...  Read the complete review

The rides I would say not to miss here are Big Thunder Mountain which you can get a fast pass for and if it is really busy you will probally have at least one hour before you need to go back, which is what happened with us. In that time we stayed in Frontierland and went firstly to the Phantom Manor and we also had time to do the riverboat, aboard the Molly Brown. The riverboat cruise around the river which fills the centre of Frontierland was very relaxing, we were lucky enough to get a seat on the back of the boat! They have wonderful detail around the lake to keep an eye out for; a little house with a dog, rats swinging on a tree... wont spoil it all for ...  Read the complete review