Disneyland Hotel
The Disneyland Hotel is the flagship of Disneyland Paris, a five-star hotel built directly over the entrance to Disneyland Park. It reopened in 2024 themed around Disney royalty, with every room tied to a princess story, and princesses and princes appearing through the lobby. The turnstiles are a minute from the front door.
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Is it worth it?
The flagship five-star, built over the park gates and themed around Disney royalty, at its most worthwhile for a short celebration stay.
The Disneyland Hotel is the flagship of the resort, and the only hotel built directly over the entrance to Disneyland Park. It opened with the resort in 1992 and reopened in January 2024 after a full renovation: the pink Victorian frontage and the Mickey Mouse clock tower were kept and restored, while the interiors were stripped back and rebuilt as a five-star hotel themed around Disney royalty. It holds 487 rooms and suites, each tied to one of eleven princess films.
It sits at the top of the Disneyland Paris hotels, above Hotel New York and well above the rest. It's inside the park itself, so the turnstiles are a minute from the lobby and you can walk back for a nap and return within minutes. Princesses and princes appear through the lobby all day, with shorter waits than in the parks. It also has an exclusive supervised kids' club, a pool and spa and fine dining that works for a parents' evening. The cost is the thing to weigh, and most families meet it by staying one or two nights for a celebration rather than a whole trip.
Book it for
The location at the park gates, the princesses and princes around the lobby and the royal theming in every room.
Best for a celebration
A birthday, a first Disney trip or a princess-devoted child, taken as one or two nights rather than a long stay.
The price
The most expensive hotel at the resort, with breakfast and dining a real extra on top of the room.
Worth knowing
The pool is on the small side and busy at peak, and the two wings make for a long internal walk.
The Castle Club
The top tier, with a private lift into the park and a princess breakfast.
Instead, consider
Hotel New York for Marvel theming, a higher guest rating and a lower price, still inside the park security perimeter.
Quick facts for UK families
A hotel built over the park gates
The single feature guests praise most, and the reason it suits families with very young children.
The hotel is built over and around the main entrance to Disneyland Park, so you walk through the building itself to reach the gates. The turnstiles are only twenty-five to fifty steps from the lobby, with no shuttle to catch and no walk through Disney Village to security. There's a dedicated entrance for hotel guests beside the main turnstiles, and the whole hotel sits inside the park security perimeter, which only the Disneyland Hotel and Hotel New York can claim.
For families with a baby or toddler, the difference shows at nap time. From any other on-site hotel a mid-day return for a nap, a change of clothes or a bag drop means a walk or a shuttle that's rarely worth it with a tired child. Here it's a couple of minutes each way, so you can break the day and come back without losing it. Reviewers with young children name this as the biggest single reason to pay the premium.
The dedicated hotel-to-park entrance can close in the mid-afternoon, and after that hotel guests join the main queue like everyone else. Its daily hours aren't published, so use it early and ask at reception for the day's times.
Around the resortGetting to the parks, Disney Village and the station
Disney Adventure World, the second park, is a two to three-minute walk, faster than from any other hotel. Disney Village, with its shops and restaurants, is a minute or two from the door. The Marne-la-Vallée-Chessy rail and TGV station is about a five-minute walk through the Village, so families arriving from the UK by Eurostar or TGV can reach the front door without a taxi or transfer. The paid Disney Express service can carry your luggage between the station and the hotel so you can head straight into the parks on arrival.
Every guest gets Extra Magic Time, early entry to both parks before they open to the public. From this hotel you can be through the gates within minutes of leaving your room, which makes the early hour easier to use than from anywhere else on the resort. How Extra Magic Time works, and what time it starts for your dates, is in our tickets and passes guide.
The rooms, from Superior to Castle Club
Every room is themed to a princess story; the tier you pick decides the service, the lounge and the park access more than the size.
All 487 rooms and suites are themed to one of eleven Walt Disney Animation princess films, from Snow White to Frozen and Moana, each with its own lighting programme, princess portraits on the headboard and emblems worked into the carpet. The rooms run in three tiers that share a similar footprint, roughly 31 to 41 m² for a standard room, so the real difference between them is the service and the access rather than the space. Which theme you get is allocated for standard rooms, but Castle Club guests can choose their room's princess in the app about a week before arrival and suite guests pick the theme when they book, so a child set on a particular princess can sometimes be booked into her room.
Superior rooms are the entry tier and the bulk of the hotel. They come as doubles, kings and family rooms, the family version adding a sofa bed or fold-out to sleep five plus a baby, and most look over Fantasia Gardens or the courtyard rather than the park. Breakfast isn't included at this tier. Deluxe rooms are the same size with a smarter finish and an animated canopy over the bed, and they add access to the Deluxe Lounge, where breakfast and an afternoon tea are included. Every room has a mini-fridge, a coffee machine, bathrobes and slippers for adults and children and USB charging by the bed, and its television is hidden behind a wall mirror that turns into the screen when it's on. The Disneyland Hotel is the only hotel on the resort with a complimentary minibar. There's no iron in the room, but the hotel runs a laundry and valet service.
| Room | Tier | Size | Sleeps | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Room | Entry tier | 31 to 40 m² | 4 to 5 + baby | The base room, themed to a princess story. Breakfast is charged separately and there is no lounge. Family versions add a sofa bed or fold-out. |
| Deluxe Room | Mid tier | 32 to 41 m² | 4 to 5 + baby | The same footprint with an animated canopy over the bed, plus access to the Deluxe Lounge, where breakfast and an afternoon tea are included. |
| Castle Club Room | Top tier | 31 to 40 m² | 3 to 4 + baby | The premium tier on the top two floors of the central wing. Same size again, with the club lounge and its own entrance into the park. |
| Signature Suite | Suite | 60 to 90 m² | 4 + baby | Five themes, each built around a signature prop. All carry the Castle Club benefits. |
| Princely and Royal Suites | One-of-a-kind | 116 to 206 m² | 2 + baby | The two one-of-a-kind suites, Beauty and the Beast and a Frozen ice palace. Set up for two adults plus a cot, as a special-occasion stay. |
The Castle Club
The Castle Club runs across the top two floors of the central wing as a separate tier with its own service. Guests are met in the lobby by a greeter and taken up by a private lift to a second-floor reception, and the same lift descends to a private entrance into Disneyland Park, so you reach the rides in a couple of minutes without passing through the main gates. The rooms themselves are close in design to a Deluxe room, so what you're paying for is the access and the lounge, not more space.
The Castle Club Lounge looks out over Main Street to Sleeping Beauty Castle. It serves an all-day spread of drinks and an afternoon tea, and in the evening you can watch the fireworks from it with the lights dimmed and the music piped in. The breakfast is the main draw, with at least three Disney princesses visiting the table between roughly half past nine and eleven, and it's included in the rate. Reviewers rate the club near-unanimously worth it for a celebration, with the private breakfast and the fireworks from the lounge drawing the most praise. Castle Club rooms are mostly booked by phone rather than online, and they sell out well ahead for peak dates.
The showcase roomsThe Signature Suites and the two showcase suites
Above the Castle Club rooms sit the suites, all on the Castle Club service tier. There are sixteen Signature Suites across five princess themes, each built around a single centrepiece: Sleeping Beauty's gown that shifts from pink to blue, Cinderella's illuminated glass slipper, a stained-glass snowflake window for Frozen, Rapunzel's Sundrop flower with lanterns that glide past the window and an enchanted rose that glows for Beauty and the Beast. They run from about 60 to 90 m² and sleep four plus a baby.
Two one-of-a-kind suites sit at the very top: the Princely Suite, a Beauty and the Beast suite of about 116 m², and the Royal Suite, a 206 m² Frozen ice palace with its own kitchen and a balcony over the castle. Both are set up for two adults plus a cot and priced as a once-in-a-lifetime stay rather than a practical family room.
Princesses and princes through the hotel
Character meets with far shorter waits than the parks, plus an exclusive kids' club and a makeover salon.
The clearest family reason to stay here, after the location, is how much character time comes with it. Princesses and princes circulate through the lobby during the day, and the same characters that draw ninety-minute queues in the parks can be met here with a fraction of the wait. Hotel guests can book the Disney Royal Encounter, an unhurried princess meet on the grand staircase, in the app up to a week ahead, and princes in royal dress pass through the corridors on their way to the restaurants in the evening. A resident performing duo, La Troupe Royale, breaks into sing-alongs and short royal tales in the lobby through the afternoon, usually joined by a princess, with no booking needed.
Time to yourself, and dressing upThe Royal Kids Club and My Royal Dream
The Royal Kids Club is exclusive to this hotel, and no other hotel on the resort has a free supervised club like it. It takes children from four to eleven for up to two hours a day at no charge, in a royal-library setting with stories, crafts and Disney tablets, staffed by qualified childcare cast. Most mornings it also runs a character meet inside the club until about half past eleven, booked ahead in the app. It gives parents a couple of hours for the spa, a quiet meal or a run at the parks without the children. Slots are limited, so book at reception when you check in.
My Royal Dream is the hotel's makeover salon, turning children from age three into a prince or princess with hair, make-up and a photo session, in packages that run from a hair-and-photo session up to a full gown. A child can arrive at the parks already dressed for the day. For a free option, the Discovery Quest scavenger hunt sends children round the hotel solving clues to spot its hidden details, with a small prize at the end.
The restaurants and character dining
Four venues, from a royal-couple character dinner to a quiet fine-dining room for a parents' evening off.
The hotel has four dining rooms, and character meals sit at two of them. La Table de Lumière is the fine-dining character dinner, set in a Beauty and the Beast ballroom. Three royal couples visit each evening, Belle and Prince Adam always among them, and it's the only meal at Disneyland Paris where the princes appear alongside the princesses. It's a two-hour set-menu dinner that a princess fan will love but the very youngest may find long, and the theming and the couples draw more consistent praise than the food. The Royal Banquet is the character buffet, where Mickey and friends appear in royal costume at lunch and dinner, though not at breakfast. It's a grand, noisy room and a good fit for a celebratory family meal, but the buffet leans heavily on seafood and fussy young eaters can struggle, so an early sitting helps.
La Forêt Secrète is the quiet fine-dining room, an enchanted-forest setting with no characters and a tasting menu, and it's the one to book for a parents' evening off or a couples dinner. Some tables see the castle and the fireworks, so ask for a window seat when you book, which is by phone with a deposit. The Fleur de Lys Bar is the all-day cocktail and champagne lounge, with an exclusive house champagne and children's mocktails served in the same royal bottles, so a toddler can have a fancy drink while you have a cocktail. It also puts on a formal afternoon tea that anyone can book, hotel guest or not, from about a day ahead. Character dining books out early, so reserve La Table de Lumière and the Royal Banquet as soon as your window opens. There's no quick-service counter or grab-and-go café in the hotel, and the nearest Starbucks is about a ten-minute round trip. In-room dining runs all day and right through the night, and you can pre-order breakfast the night before by hanging a card on the door, which helps if you're up early with a toddler.
The morning routineHow breakfast works by room tier
Breakfast depends on your room, not on a single hotel breakfast. Superior guests aren't included, and either add the Royal Banquet buffet as a paid extra or eat elsewhere, and there are no characters at that breakfast, so it isn't the princess meal some families expect. Deluxe guests have breakfast included in their own lounge, without characters. Castle Club guests get the princess breakfast in the club lounge, included in the rate, with at least three princesses at the table. If a character breakfast matters to you, it's a Castle Club feature and it isn't sold separately to other rooms.
The Crystal Pool, the spa and the lobby
An indoor pool and a Clarins spa under a glasshouse roof, and a lobby worth arriving early to take in.
The Crystal Pool and Health Club sits under a glass-and-iron roof modelled on a Brussels royal greenhouse. There's an indoor heated main pool, a children's splash pool with fountains, a hot tub, a sauna and steam room and a fitness suite that's open around the clock. Lifeguards are on duty in pool hours, roughly 7am to 10pm, and towels and lockers are provided. It's for hotel guests only. It's on the small side for a five-star hotel and fills with children through the afternoon, and one reviewer found the water cooler than expected, so mornings are the quietest time for a swim.
Alongside the pool is the Disneyland Hotel Spa by Clarins, with four double treatment rooms for couples and a range of treatments; children's treatments run from age six. The spa takes non-residents by appointment as well as hotel guests. Spa prices are set by the operator and change, so treat them as a premium extra and check current rates when you book.
The themingThe lobby, the chandelier and the hidden details
The lobby is the first thing you walk into and worth a few minutes before you head out. Its centrepiece is a Bohemian crystal chandelier with a model of Sleeping Beauty Castle at its heart, hanging the length of the room to the mezzanine above. That mezzanine holds fifteen hand-built dioramas that recreate the layered-glass technique Walt Disney used to give early animation its depth, each showing a scene from a Disney or Pixar film. The rotunda beyond is finished in royal blue with a crown-shaped seat at its centre, and the carpets carry princess emblems if you look down.
There are seven confirmed hidden details worked into the hotel by its designers, and the free Discovery Quest scavenger hunt is a good way to send children looking for them. The hotel also has Story Keepers, cast members stationed around the building who point out the design references and talk you through the theming at no charge, running Thursday to Sunday and booked at reception. A signature scent runs through the lobby that reviewers remember, and there's a candle and a room spray of it in the boutique if you want to take it home.
Baby kit, parking and the day-to-day
Cots and baby supplies, free valet parking and the practical bits for a family arriving with young children.
For a baby or toddler, a cot comes with a fitted Disneyland Hotel sleeping bag and bed rails are free on request, both delivered quickly. Baby essentials like nappies, formula, baby food and sun cream can be bought at the hotel boutique, and pushchairs can be hired at the concierge. Babysitting can be arranged through the hotel for an extra charge, so ask the concierge for the current rate. Accessible rooms are available in each tier and are best booked through Disney's team rather than online.
Parking is free for hotel guests, and valet parking is free too, which is unusual, with charging bays in the hotel car park. Your MagicPass works as room key, park ticket and a way to charge things around the resort, and purchases made in the parks can be sent back to the hotel to collect rather than carried. Wi-Fi is free throughout. The boutique itself, the Royal Collection, is a luxury and character shop rather than a general store, so for everyday odds and ends the concierge is the place to ask. It keeps late hours, opening in the evening once the parks wind down.
Loves and gripes
The praise is consistent, and so is the one big reservation.
What guests love is steady across the reviews: the location above all, the character density in the lobby, the renovation and cast members who go out of their way for photos and small kindnesses. Families with princess-devoted children and those travelling with very young ones rate it most highly, and the 2024 rooms and lobby win over guests who knew the older hotel. The grumbles are just as steady. The price is the dominant one, and the extras on top of the room come to a lot for a family of four. The pool is small and busy at peak, the two wings make for a long internal walk and park-facing rooms can catch the sound of overnight cleaning in the park.
The money questionThe premium, and when it's worth it
This is the most expensive hotel at Disneyland Paris by a clear margin, and the value case doesn't rest on the room. It rests on the location, the character access, the theming and, at Castle Club level, the extras of that tier. Most guests use it as a one or two-night celebration stay rather than the base for a week: arrive, take an evening in near-empty queues, use both days of park access and move on, since a longer stay gives less back for the premium. Prices swing hard by season, and a shoulder-period date makes the premium easier to justify. UK families can book direct with Disney or through an ATOL-protected UK operator, and Disney runs seasonal offers at some dates, so it's worth comparing both; how the UK booking routes and offers work is in our tickets and passes guide.
The other flagship optionHow it compares to Hotel New York
The hotel families most often weigh against it is Hotel New York, The Art of Marvel, the next tier down and the only other hotel inside the security perimeter. In aggregated guest scores Hotel New York rates marginally higher, and it costs noticeably less for the same dates. Its Marvel theming works better for older children and mixed-age families. The Disneyland Hotel wins on the location right at the gates, on the princess theming and on the lobby character meets. It comes down to your children's tastes and the budget. Choose the Disneyland Hotel for a princess-led celebration at the park doors, and compare Hotel New York for Marvel theming, a strong guest rating and a lower price.
Questions parents ask
A few things families check before booking, plus the official links and when this guide was last checked.
Can you eat at the hotel restaurants without staying there?
Mostly, yes. La Forêt Secrète and the Fleur de Lys Bar are open to anyone, and the Royal Banquet character buffet opened its lunch and dinner sittings to all guests and day visitors. La Table de Lumière takes any Disneyland Paris hotel guest, though guests of this hotel get an earlier booking window. The exception is the two lounge breakfasts: the Deluxe Lounge and the princess breakfast in the Castle Club Lounge are only for guests in those room tiers.
Is the Castle Club worth paying up from a Deluxe room?
It depends on what you want from the trip. A Deluxe room already covers breakfast and an afternoon tea in a private lounge, but without any characters. What Castle Club adds is the characters at breakfast, the park access straight from the club and the castle view in the evening. Reviewers rate it worth it for a celebration and a minority don't. If those extras matter to you it's worth the step up; if you mainly want breakfast sorted, Deluxe does that for less.
How far ahead should you book the character meals?
As early as you can. The Royal Banquet and La Table de Lumière are among the most in-demand bookings at Disneyland Paris, and guests of this hotel can reserve them when they book the room, ahead of the general window, roughly three months out for La Table de Lumière and two for the Royal Banquet. La Forêt Secrète is booked separately by phone on a French number with a non-refundable deposit, and its fifty-five seats go quickly.
Is there a meal plan at the hotel?
Yes, and a Premium Meal Plan is exclusive to Disneyland Hotel guests, giving flexibility across the hotel's restaurants including the character meals. Your MagicPass carries any plan vouchers along with your park tickets and room key, and it can charge purchases back to the room. Whether a plan saves money depends on how your family eats, so price it against the à la carte cost for your party before you add it.
Do the suites work for a family, or are they for couples?
It splits by suite. The Signature Suites come with Castle Club service and suit a small family marking a milestone. The two showcase suites, the Beauty and the Beast Princely Suite and the Frozen Royal Suite, are couple-scale, better for two adults on a special occasion than for a group.
Disneyland Hotel photos
A closer look at the hotel, from the pink Victorian frontage over the park gates to the ways into the park, the lobby and the royal theming. The full set lives in the hotel's own photo gallery.
Useful links
- Disneyland Hotel: the official hotel page for rooms, dining and live prices.
- Hotel New York, The Art of Marvel: our guide to the hotel families most often compare it with.
- Tickets and passes: how Extra Magic Time, the MagicPass and UK booking work.
- Disneyland Paris with little ones: our guide to the resort, its parks and getting there.
Last updated 8 July 2026.
