Disneyland Paris’ thirtieth anniversary celebrations are coming to an in depth this summer season, with a program of commemorative reveals day and night time.
When Europe’s first Disney theme park opened in 1992, it was a part of a wider undertaking that included the event of the brand new city of Val d’Europe, which drew architectural inspiration from Baron Haussmann’s renewal of Nineteenth-century Paris.
The Hôtel L’Elysée Val d’Europe was an integral a part of this grasp plan, opening ten years later subsequent to Walt Disney Studios Park, with a quintessentially Parisian design – elegant stone facades and wrought iron particulars which are much less Magic Kingdom, extra Grands Boulevards.
Now not a Disney lodge, it’s nonetheless linked to the theme park, however offers a cheap and inherently French base from which to expertise Disney.
Place
In Serris, one of many 5 communes of Val d’Europe and a stone’s throw from the Val d’Europe practice station the place the RER trains from Paris Châtelet les Halles arrive on their option to the Marne la Vallée-Chessy terminus of Disney, only a two-minute drive away (direct Eurostar Disney service has been suspended indefinitely, however guests solely have to journey one cease on the metro from Paris Gare du Nord to Châtelet to switch to the RER).
The lodge additionally provides a free, common shuttle service to the park all through the day and night time, which takes 10 minutes.
It is also a stone’s throw from the sprawling Val d’Europe procuring middle and premium outlet village, however you’d by no means realize it – it is hidden in plain sight, the neighborhood’s most evident characteristic being its ethereal class. Bushes, gardens and lakes are ubiquitous.
Realm
Regardless of being considerably faraway from Disneyland, virtually all visitors are right here for one purpose. Nevertheless, it’s rather more laid again than the Disney resort inns – it is a place to return and calm down, catch your breath and revel in good French meals away from the mouse mania.
The rooms
There are 152 rooms, lots of which sleep 4 folks and interconnecting rooms for as much as eight folks, so it isn’t solely appropriate for households, however teams as effectively. The decor is functionally good, the beds comfy and the blackout curtains efficient.
There are 5 wheelchair-friendly rooms, reception desks with a magnetic loop and Braille within the lifts.
The meals and the drinks
The breakfast buffet is sweet high quality, with kid-friendly pancakes and waffles alongside cereals, croissants and extra breads, plus scorching choices.
Restaurant Le George is significantly extra inexpensive than most of the costlier Disney eateries, with a two-course kids’s menu – that includes smaller à la carte parts of dishes comparable to entrecôte with chips or grilled salmon with sorrel and summer season greens – costing €10, and €24 for adults.
The fantastic thing about staying right here is that you would be able to additionally eat at one of many many eating places close by (Korean, Mediterranean avenue meals, pizza, tapas, plus the same old few brasseries), and pack a picnic on the Monop’ or Carrefour supermarkets close by.
What should we do
It’s, in fact, Disneyland. However there’s additionally procuring (the mall has a Sea Life aquarium alongside manufacturers from Adidas to Zara) and Serris has a free open-air cinema in the summertime.
Whilst you can stroll to the parks in lower than half-hour, it is price saving your power by hopping on the shuttle, which stops nearer to the gates of Walt Disney Studios Park than some resort inns.
Right here you’ll discover the brand new Marvel Avengers Campus with its Spider-Man Net Journey attraction and the 57 mph Avengers Assemble Flight Drive curler coaster, along with Pixar themed rides.
On the principal Disneyland Park, the thirtieth anniversary daytime and after-dark reveals and parades finish on Sept. 30, whereas the It is a Small World attraction reopens after renovations in Might and Mysteries of Nautilus submarine reopens later this summer season.
Two-day passes price from £64.50, disneylandparis.com.
You’ll love…
That is undoubtedly a cheap option to go to Disneyland Paris, with all of the magic of the parks and the bonus of actually feeling such as you’re in France. We packed a bag of fruit, croissants, drinks and snacks from the grocery store that stored us going till dinner.
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Lodge L’Elysee Val d’Europe, Serris, Ile de France. Double rooms from €105, rooms for 4 folks from €125, hotelelysee.com
