Disney Newport Bay Club
Newport Bay Club is Disneyland Paris's take on a grand New England seaside resort: pale clapboard, blue roofs and a white lighthouse, wrapped in a crescent around the eastern shore of Lake Disney. It's the biggest hotel on the resort and the most affordable of its four-star hotels, with a year-round indoor pool, a lakeside walk to the parks and Mickey and friends meeting guests in nautical costumes unique to the hotel.
On this page
- Is it worth it?
- Quick facts
- The hotel
- One building, three parts
- The rooms
- Suites and access
- The Compass Club
- Restaurants and bar
- The Yacht Club
- Bar and snacks
- The Nantucket Pool
- Character meets and play
- Getting to the parks
- Arrival and early entry
- Babies and the day-to-day
- Loves and gripes
- Vs Sequoia Lodge
- Questions
- Photos
Is it worth it?
A four-star lakeside hotel, strongest for families who'll use it as a proper retreat.
Newport Bay Club is the largest hotel at Disneyland Paris and the entry point into its top tier. It's a four-star hotel, priced below the Disneyland Hotel and Hotel New York and above the cheaper on-site hotels, and it gives you the same headline benefits as the two flagships: early entry to the parks, exclusive character meets, an indoor pool and free parking, at a lower starting price. The theming is a grand New England yacht club, designed by the same architect behind Disney's Yacht Club and Beach Club in Florida, and it sits right on Lake Disney a short walk from the gates.
The reason to choose it is the mix of that lakeside setting, an indoor pool families rate among the best on the resort and the four-star perks. The reason to pause is the rooms. The last full refurbishment was a decade ago, and while guests still rate the beds and the theming, they regularly flag tired finishes, patchy maintenance and the odd omission you wouldn't expect at this level, such as few sockets and none with a USB point by the beds. Go in knowing that and it's a characterful base. Expect the finish of a brand-new hotel and you may be disappointed.
Book it for
The New England lake setting, an indoor pool and four-star benefits.
The Compass Club is the upgrade to weigh
A private check-in and a calm lounge breakfast with no booking slot, the thing families who've paid for it rate most.
Best ages
It works across ages: the pool and the lobby character meets for little ones, early park entry for older children who'll ride.
Worth knowing
The rooms show their age, with no fridge and few sockets in standard rooms. Ask for a Main Building room to skip long wing corridors.
Where is it?
The eastern shore of Lake Disney, a short walk or shuttle from the parks, five minutes from Disney Village.
Instead, consider
Sequoia Lodge at a lower price, or Hotel New York for a smarter room a little closer to the gates.
Quick facts for UK families
A New England yacht club on Lake Disney
Pale clapboard, blue roofs and a white lighthouse, wrapped in a crescent around the water.
The hotel is themed as a grand New England coastal resort and yacht club from the turn of the last century, the era when Newport, Rhode Island was the summer address of the American gilded age. It reads as pale-yellow clapboard, white trim and blue-slate roofs, broken up with cupolas, dormers and awnings, and it curves in a long crescent around the eastern end of Lake Disney so the water sits like a bay in front of it. It's the work of Robert A.M. Stern, the architect who designed Disney's Yacht Club and Beach Club at Walt Disney World, and this is the bigger, original version of that idea. An architecture magazine reviewing its 1992 opening called it the most architecturally successful of the resort's hotels, and families who care about staying somewhere with a sense of place tend to agree.
Inside, the yacht-club theming continues in the public rooms: panelled white walls, hardwood floors, model sailing ships and the flags of the clubs that raced in the America's Cup. A white-and-red lighthouse called the Harbour Light stands on the shore at the hotel's point, modelled on a real one at Newport, and it's one of the most photographed landmarks on the whole resort, visible from across the lake and from Disney Village. The lakeside promenade around the water is open to everyone, with ducks, swans and herons on the lake, and it's the route most guests take to the parks. Like every hotel on the resort it gets its own seasonal dress, from a giant Captain Mickey pumpkin out front at Halloween to lights and trees through the Christmas weeks.
Before you pick a roomOne big building in three parts
Newport Bay Club is one very large building in three parts: a central Main Building and two long wings, East and West. Which part you're in shapes the stay, because the outer wings mean a long internal corridor walk to the lifts before you even start towards the parks, and after a full day that draws more complaints than almost anything else. The single most repeated tip from past guests is to ask for a Main Building room, which puts you nearer the lobby, the restaurants, the pool and the Compass Club lounge. It's a request rather than a room type, so make it at booking and again at check-in. The size has an upside. Rooms here can still be free, including family rooms sleeping six, when the smaller hotels are full. The building also houses a large convention centre, run separately from the hotel, so it can feel busier when a business event is on.
Rooms and suites
Standard doubles are all 27 m², so the wing your room sits in matters more than the category on the booking.
The rooms carry a navy-and-white marine palette, with furniture styled like vintage travelling trunks and a Mickey-shaped ship's-wheel headboard on the beds. A standard Superior Room is 27 m² and sleeps up to four, and the club rooms are the same size, so the extra money buys the wing and the tier rather than more space. Family rooms add a child sofa bed for a fifth, and one room type sleeps six. The table below covers the standard categories; the suites come next.
| Room | Tier | Size | Sleeps | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Room | Standard | 27 m² | 4 + cot | One large double, or two doubles for a family of four. Faces the hotel grounds. The entry-level room. |
| Superior Lakeside Room | Standard | 27 m² | 4 | Two doubles with a Lake Disney view. Most lakeside rooms have no balcony, and balconies aren't guaranteed by category. |
| Superior Room with Terrace | Standard | 27 m² | 4 | Ground floor, with French windows onto a small private terrace. The easiest standard room with a pram. |
| Superior Family Room | Standard | 28 to 29 m² | 5 | Two doubles and a child sofa bed. The sofa bed suits a child rather than a second adult. |
| Compass Club Room | Compass Club | 27 m² | 4 | The club tier, on floors 7 and 8. The same-size room with lounge access and upgraded extras added. |
| Compass Club Family Room | Compass Club | 40 m² | 6 | Two doubles and two sofa beds. The only standard room that sleeps six. |
Every room has air conditioning, a flat-screen TV, a safe, a wardrobe, a kettle, free Wi-Fi and daily housekeeping, and there's at least one UK-style socket. There's no fridge in a standard room, which is unusual at a four-star hotel, so ask reception if you need to keep medication or baby milk cold. There are also few sockets, none with a USB point by the beds, so a small travel multi-socket or a charging brick is worth packing. A cot is free on request, one per room, subject to availability, and with two double beds a family of two adults, one child and a baby fits with a cot added.
Lake-view rooms are worth knowing about: from an upper floor you look across the water to Hotel New York, and some positions catch Sleeping Beauty Castle or the evening fireworks, though exact sightlines vary and aren't guaranteed. Most rooms have no balcony. If you'll mostly be out at the parks on a short stay, the lake-view premium is easy to skip; on a longer stay with more downtime at the hotel it's more worth it. Condition is the other thing to weigh: the last full refurbishment was around a decade ago, and while rooms are kept clean and the beds are consistently praised, guests do flag peeling wallpaper above the beds, air conditioning that can play up, unpredictable shower temperatures and a bath with no full screen.
Bigger rooms and step-free accessSuites and accessible rooms
There are fifteen suites, all carrying Compass Club benefits and free valet parking. The lakeside Resort Suite is 55 m² with a separate living area and a bedroom alcove; the Executive Suite is larger at 64 m² but faces the garden rather than the lake; the Compass Club Suite is a 50 m² lakeside option. Above those, the Vice-Presidential Suite at 69 m² and the top-floor Presidential Suite at 83 m² take the best lake views, the Presidential sleeping up to six with a separate dining room, and the top two suites are booked by phone rather than online. These are spacious family suites rather than five-star luxury finishes.
Accessible rooms come in both standard and lakeside variants, with a roll-in shower and grab rails, a raised toilet, a roll-under sink, wide doorways and emergency pull cords. They must be requested specifically at booking rather than assigned automatically, and accessible connecting rooms are available on request. Connecting rooms for families are on request too, best arranged through the reservations team since which categories connect isn't published.
The Compass Club
A private lounge, a calm breakfast and a separate check-in, for a fairly modest premium over the standard rate.
The Compass Club is the hotel's club level, on floors 7 and 8, the highest standard floors with the best lake and garden views. The room is the same 27 m² as a standard one, so what you pay for is the service around it. That starts with a private check-in at a separate desk away from the main queue, which guests praise more than any other single part of it, with a text to your phone when the room is ready. The rooms add a Nespresso machine, a mini-fridge, bathrobes and slippers on request, an evening turndown with chocolate coins on the pillows and softer beds, small comforts that add up over a few nights.
The centre of it is the lounge, an art-deco space near the lobby styled like a cruise-liner saloon, with animated portholes and a star-lit ceiling. Breakfast runs there through the morning as an all-you-can-eat spread with no booked slot, from pastries and fresh fruit to eggs, bacon and pancakes, and it's consistently described as far calmer than the main restaurant. That's the part parents of young children rate most, since it takes the stress out of a busy breakfast with a tired child. A late-afternoon tea follows with cakes, sandwiches and cut fruit, the exact window shifting by season, and soft and hot drinks are free in the lounge through the day. There's no evening meal service beyond the afternoon tea, so dinner is still at the restaurants. The consensus from UK families who've done both is that with the Compass Club a good stay becomes an excellent one, chiefly through that breakfast and the check-in, and it pays off best for families who'll actually spend time at the hotel.
Every restaurant and bar
A buffet, a table-service restaurant and a lake-view bar, with no character dining at any of them.
The main dining room is Cape Cod, an all-you-can-eat buffet in a bright, liner-styled room of blue, white and gold. It serves breakfast and dinner only, with no lunch, and the breakfast is the same spread served at the Yacht Club during the morning. Breakfast covers the sweet and savoury range, from pastries, pancakes and fruit to eggs, bacon, sausages and cold meats; dinner runs to fish, roast chicken, pasta, pizza and stews, with a children's station of nuggets, mini burgers, pasta and chips, plus a chocolate fountain and an ice-cream machine for pudding. It's a format that suits young children well, since there's no waiting for courses and fussy eaters can be fed quickly, and there are high chairs. It gets noisy at peak sittings, so the side sections are the calmer place to sit. Given the hotel's size, standard-room guests pre-book a breakfast time slot through the Disneyland Paris app or at reception; Compass Club guests skip that and eat in the lounge. Cape Cod takes the Half Board Plus and Full Board meal vouchers if you've added a meal plan to your booking, and the resort's kitchens can prepare allergen-adapted meals with notice, so flag any allergies when you book.
A dinner without the childrenThe Yacht Club
The Yacht Club is the hotel's table-service restaurant, open for dinner only, and it's one of the better spots on the resort for a parents' evening. The room evokes a 19th-century sailing ship, all dark panelling, brass and yacht models, and the cooking is New England with a Mediterranean touch: scallops, clam chowder, mussels and seafood linguine alongside steak, chicken and a vegetarian pasta, with a dedicated three-course children's menu. The Captain's Table by the window seats seven and is the spot to ask for at sunset for the lake view. It's worth booking ahead through the app, since covers fill, and it's worth confirming it's open on the day, because it does sometimes close on quieter dates. Reviews run a little below the buffet's and reflect inconsistency more than poor cooking, with the cod and the apple tart the most consistently praised.
A drink and a biteThe Captain's Quarters bar, and food between meals
The Captain's Quarters is the hotel bar, a quiet, nautically styled lounge with views over the lake and a full list of cocktails, wine and beer plus sandwiches, salads and pastries. It's open to families through the day and makes a calm spot for a late drink once the children are down, staying open into the small hours. Beyond the three venues there's no quick-service counter, bakery window or poolside kiosk in the hotel itself. For something in between, the kiosks along the Lake Disney promenade and Disney Village, about five minutes on foot with a Starbucks of its own, cover the gaps. Room service is available at extra cost, breakfast for any room and dinner for Compass Club rooms only, and otherwise the in-room options stop at the kettle.
The Nantucket Pool
An indoor-outdoor pool with a climb-on ship children love, and the character meets and play corners around it.
The Nantucket Pool is one of the hotel's real strengths and a common reason families pick it. The indoor section is heated and open year-round, which matters at a European park in spring or autumn, and a themed sailing ship sits at one end that children can climb up onto as a viewing deck. It's a photo spot and a play focus rather than a water-play structure, so there are no jets, sprays or slides, and if a slide is what your children want, Sequoia Lodge and Davy Crockett Ranch have them and this hotel doesn't. There's a shallow children's paddling pool and flotation devices to borrow, big windows onto the lake, a whirlpool and changing cubicles with free towels and lockers. An outdoor pool opens in the warmer months, joined to the indoor part by a water channel you can swim through, and it closes for a maintenance window in early autumn, so check the official dates if that's when you travel. Access is with your MagicPass, and the pool building's lake-facing windows aren't frosted, so the pool is visible from the promenade outside.
Characters, play and rainy daysCharacter meets and rainy-day corners
The hotel runs its own character meets in the lobby, and they're a draw in their own right. Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pluto appear in nautical outfits worn nowhere else on the resort, against a lighthouse photo backdrop, and because it's open to hotel guests with no park ticket the queues are far shorter than the ones in the parks. That makes them especially useful on arrival and departure days. There are morning and evening sessions, posted at check-in and on the app, with the queue building around half an hour before each. For downtime there's Little Captains' Corner, an indoor play area near reception with cartoons, games, toys and an arts-and-crafts table where a parent stays with the children, and a coin-operated games arcade whose hours and cost are worth checking at reception. The gym, sauna and steam room round out the wellness side for adults, with an under-16 advisory against the sauna and steam room.
Getting to the parks by walk, bus or boat
A flat lakeside walk, plus a free shuttle bus and a free boat.
Newport Bay Club isn't the closest hotel to the gates, since the Disneyland Hotel and Hotel New York both sit nearer, but the walk is a pleasant part of the stay rather than a chore. It runs along Lake Disney and through Disney Village and takes about fifteen minutes at an easy pace, flat, pedestrianised and well-lit the whole way, with Disney Village around five minutes in. There's a free shuttle bus too, roughly every 15 to 20 minutes, at about eight minutes end to end, and a free boat from the hotel's own jetty that children tend to love. The boat is the most characterful option, though its jetty can involve steps, so the bus or the walk is easier with a pram. Most families end up walking at opening and closing, when the bus queues build quickly, and taking the bus in bad weather or with a very tired child.
Checking in and early entryArrival, the MagicPass and early entry
Reception is open around the clock, check-in is from 3pm and check-out by 11am, and you can check in on the Disneyland Paris app in the days before you arrive, with a text when the room is ready and luggage stored for early arrivals and late departures. Every guest aged three and over gets a MagicPass, a single card that works as your room key, your park ticket, your pool pass and a way to charge things around the resort. Newport Bay Club uses a card key rather than the phone-based digital key found at the two flagship hotels. As a hotel guest you also get Extra Magic Time, early entry to both parks before they open to the public, currently from around 8am, though the exact time moves by season, so check the app for your dates. It applies to every room, standard or Compass Club, on every day of the stay.
Babies, parking and the day-to-dayBabies, toddlers and the day-to-day
For a baby or toddler, the hotel lends a fair amount of kit free on request, subject to availability: a travel cot with adapted linen, a baby bath, a bottle warmer and steriliser, bed rails, a potty and a training seat. High chairs are in both restaurants, and Bay Boutique, the shop by reception, stocks baby food alongside Disney merchandise, hotel-only nautical pieces and postage stamps, and it's where anything you buy in the parks can be sent for collection back at the hotel. Nappies, formula and sun cream aren't confirmed as reliably stocked, so it's safest to bring your own. Babysitting is arranged through Baby Prestige, the resort's contracted childcare partner, who can sit in the room or take children into the parks; contact them directly on +33 1 47 36 64 52 for pricing and availability. Parking is free for hotel guests, with your MagicPass as the permit and free electric-vehicle charging bays; valet parking is chargeable for standard rooms and free for Compass Club rooms and suites. Wi-Fi is free throughout, if patchy in the rooms, and there's a paid laundry service rather than a self-service one. If you're arriving by Eurostar, the Disney Express service can take your labelled bags from the station to the hotel so you go straight to the parks, at a small per-person charge, booked ahead. There's no first-aid room in the hotel itself: first aid is handled in the parks and around the resort, and reception will point you to it if you need help.
Loves and gripes
The praise is consistent, and so are the gripes worth knowing before you book.
What guests love is steady: the nautical theming and the lakeside setting, the Compass Club, the pool and its ship, the walk to the parks along the water, the comfortable beds and the lobby character meets. The gripes are just as steady, and nearly all trace back to the rooms rather than the hotel around them: tired finishes and patchy maintenance a decade on from the last refurbishment, few sockets in standard rooms and long corridor walks for anyone in the outer wings. Guests also feel the buffet is a touch pricey and the price overall a little high for the room condition, and the shuttle gets crowded at park closing. Most of that is the reason to choose your wing with care and to weigh the Compass Club, and none of it stops the hotel being a characterful base for families who go in with their eyes open.
The choice next doorHow it compares to Sequoia Lodge
The comparison UK families weigh most often is Newport Bay Club against Sequoia Lodge, the woodland hotel next door, because it's really a decision between the two tiers. Sequoia Lodge is a three-star hotel and cheaper, with a pool that has a waterslide and a fireside bar, and its rooms are being refreshed. Newport Bay Club costs more and adds the four-star benefits: the exclusive lobby character meets, the lakeside setting, the year-round pool and the Compass Club upgrade path. So it comes down to whether those extras and the lake are worth the higher price to you, set against Sequoia Lodge's lower cost, its slide and its cosier feel, and Newport Bay Club's room condition, which is the current question mark over an otherwise easy recommendation.
Questions parents ask
A few things families check before booking, plus the official links and when this guide was last checked.
Which room suits a toddler?
A Superior Room with Terrace if one's free, since the ground floor and French windows let you get a pram in and out without waiting for a lift. A cot goes in free on request, one per room. It's not worth paying up for a lake view on a toddler's account, as most lakeside rooms have no balcony and a napping child won't see much of it. The request that makes the bigger difference is a Main Building room over the outer wings, so the walk to the lifts stays short at the end of a long day.
Is the Compass Club worth paying for?
It buys the service, not a bigger room, so the maths turns on how many mornings you'll really eat at the hotel. A rough rule: two or more relaxed hotel breakfasts across the stay and it tends to pay off; out at dawn and back after dark every day and it won't. There's no dinner served in the lounge, only the afternoon tea, so it is a breakfast-and-check-in upgrade rather than a board one.
Do we need park tickets to use the pool or meet the characters?
No, both come with the room. Your MagicPass opens the pool, and the lobby character meets are free to any hotel guest, so you can use both on a check-in afternoon or a check-out morning with no park ticket in play. The meets run in morning and evening sessions, posted at check-in and on the app, with the queue building about half an hour before each.
Can we get an evening out once the children are in bed?
Yes, more so than at most on-site hotels. The Yacht Club serves a table-service dinner worth booking ahead, the Captain's Quarters bar stays open into the small hours for a quiet drink, and Disney Village's own restaurants sit a few minutes' walk along the lake. For a proper night out, in-room babysitting can be booked directly on +33 1 47 36 64 52, and the sitters will either stay in the room or take older children into the parks.
Newport Bay Club photos
The lakeside exterior, the lobby, the rooms, the Nantucket Pool and the character meets, all in one place.
Open the Newport Bay Club photo gallery →Useful links
- Disney Newport Bay Club: the official hotel page for rooms, dining and live prices.
- Disney Sequoia Lodge: our guide to the woodland hotel families most often compare it with.
- Tickets and passes: how Extra Magic Time, the MagicPass and UK booking work.
- Getting to Disneyland Paris: reaching the resort from the UK by Eurostar, air, road and Disney Express.
- Disneyland Paris with little ones: our guide to the resort, its parks and getting there.
Last updated 8 July 2026.
