Disney Sequoia Lodge
Sequoia Lodge is Disneyland Paris's version of an American national-park lodge: a real grove of imported redwoods, a bar built around an enormous stone fireplace and an indoor pool set in its own building in the trees. It stands on the southern shore of Lake Disney, a flat ten-minute walk from the parks.
On this page
- The short version
- Quick facts
- In the woods
- How it's laid out
- The rooms
- The refurbishment
- Golden Forest Club
- Suites and access
- The Quarry Pool
- The Redwood Bar
- The buffet
- Breakfast
- Character meets
- Kids corner and grounds
- Getting to the parks
- Arrival and early entry
- Baby kit and extras
- The verdict
- Vs Newport Bay
- Questions
- Photos
Is it worth it?
A three-star woodland lodge, the cheapest of the resort hotels with a pool, one you'll get the most from in the colder months.
Sequoia Lodge is the Disneyland Paris hotel that feels like a step away from the parks rather than more of them. The other hotels lean nautical, big-city or cartoon-Western; this one is an American national-park lodge in a forest, built in stone, dark timber and firelight. It opened with the resort in 1992, and it's the original of its kind: Disney's Wilderness Lodge in Florida and the Grand Californian both came later, from the same idea.
It's a three-star hotel, priced above Hotel Cheyenne and Hotel Santa Fe and below the Disneyland Hotel, Hotel New York and Newport Bay Club. It has a proper indoor pool. It has the Redwood Bar, the most-praised hotel bar on the resort. It runs its own character meets too, with Goofy or Max in ranger outfits worn nowhere else. The rooms are the one weak point, tired against the handsome public spaces, though a full refurbishment is under way.
Book it for
The woods-and-firelight setting, an indoor pool at the lowest price on the resort and one of the better walks to the parks.
Best in autumn and winter
The fireplace, the forest and the year-round indoor pool all matter most from October to March, outside the summer peak.
Worth knowing
Standard rooms have no fridge and few sockets, and the forest lodges are a fair walk from everything.
The refurbishment
Running from 2026 into early 2027. The hotel stays open, but rooms are being renewed in stages and some parking is fenced off.
The club tier
The Golden Forest Club adds a private lounge and breakfast rather than a bigger room. Worth it only if you'll use the lounge.
Instead, consider
Newport Bay Club for a bigger resort with a smarter room, or Cheyenne and Santa Fe to save money and skip the pool.
Quick facts for UK families
A national-park lodge in a real forest
Around 500 imported redwoods, stone-and-timber buildings and a hotel spread between a main lodge and five smaller ones in the woods.
The hotel takes its cue from the great early-1900s lodges of the American West, the kind built at Yellowstone and Yosemite, in stone, dark timber and weathered green-copper roofs. Inside there are exposed beams, stone walls and heavy craftsman woodwork, and characters barely feature in the public rooms. What you're paying for is the change of mood, from a long day in the crowds to a quiet lodge in the trees, and repeat guests say that's exactly why they come back.
The forest is real. When the resort was built, roughly 500 coastal redwoods were brought in from Italy and the west coast of North America, along with pines and cedars, and planted as proper woodland. Thirty years on the trees are mature, and the paths between the buildings run through real forest rather than across a car park. A man-made beaver dam sits in the grounds for anyone who goes looking. Children tend to notice the scale of the trees in a way they never do a hotel lobby.
Before you pick a roomHow the hotel is laid out
The hotel isn't one building, and which part you're in shapes the whole stay. A seven-storey main lodge faces Lake Disney and holds the lobby, the restaurants, the Redwood Bar, the shop and, on its top three floors, the club rooms and suites. Set back among the trees are five smaller lodges that hold the rest of the rooms, named after western landscapes: Big Sur, Monterey, Sierra, Yellowstone and Yosemite. A sixth building, tucked into the trees, is the pool.
The rooms, and the choice that matters most
Every room is 27 m² and sleeps four, so where it sits in the hotel matters more than the category on the booking.
The rooms split between the quieter forest lodges out among the trees and the main building by the lobby, and they cost the same. The near-unanimous advice from families who've stayed is to ask for a room "near hotel facilities", meaning the main building, and to ask again at check-in. The forest lodges feel more secluded, but the walk back to the pool, the restaurant and the bar is longer than you expect at the end of a full day with a tired toddler.
| Room | Where | Size | Sleeps | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Room | Forest lodges | 27 m² | 4 + infant | Two double beds, forest or garden view. The quietest rooms, and the longest walk to the pool, restaurants and bar. |
| Standard Room near facilities | Main building | 27 m² | 4 | The same room by the lobby, pool and restaurants. The one to ask for with young children. |
| Standard Lakeside Room | Main building | 27 m² | 4 | A Lake Disney aspect. Trees can screen the view on lower floors and in summer; upper floors are clearer. |
| Golden Forest Club Room | Main, floors 5 to 7 | 27 m² | 4 | The club tier. The same-size room with a mini-fridge, an iron, turndown and lounge access added. |
| Golden Forest Club Suite | Main, floors 5 to 7 | 55 m² | 3 adults, or 2 + 2 | The one suite type: a bedroom and a living area with a small kitchen, plus bathrobes and slippers. |
A standard room has two double beds, air conditioning, a TV, a safe, a wardrobe, tea and coffee with an espresso machine, free Wi-Fi and daily housekeeping. Two things catch families out. There's no fridge in a standard room, though reception will lend one for medication if you ask, and the sockets are few and not beside the beds, so the tip nearly every past guest repeats is to pack a small travel multi-socket adaptor. There's no iron either, unless you're in a club room or a suite.
The lodge rooms are officially Bambi-themed, though in the older rooms that shows only as light woodland detailing. Lake-view rooms are worth knowing about: from an upper floor on the lake side you can watch the Disneyland Park fireworks from your window, though on lower floors and in high summer the trees can screen the view.
A renewal, lodge by lodgeThe 2026-27 refurbishment
The rooms have long been the weak point, and a full refurbishment began in January 2026 to deal with exactly that. It's being done in stages while the hotel stays open, with work kept to daytime hours. The five forest lodges are being renewed first, into new themes drawn from Bambi, Pocahontas and Brave, with the refreshed rooms due from early 2027. The main building, the club rooms, the lobby, a restaurant and the pool building follow in later phases that Disney hasn't dated yet. The wood, the stone and the woodland feel are staying, with lighter, brighter rooms. If you're booking before early 2027, expect a pre-refurbishment room and some fenced-off parking, and if a brand-new room is what matters most, factor in your dates.
The club tierThe Golden Forest Club
The Golden Forest Club is the hotel's club level, on the top three floors of the main building. It's the same room as a standard one, so the money doesn't buy space. It buys a private lounge and the service around it: a separate, calmer check-in desk, a mini-fridge and an iron in the room, turndown at night and the lounge itself, with all-day soft and hot drinks, a private buffet breakfast and an afternoon snack spread. The lounge sits by the front entrance rather than the lake, built around a decorative tree hung with golden lanterns, next to the Redwood fireplace. Families with young children rate the private breakfast as the biggest gain, since it's calm and needs no booking slot, unlike the main restaurant with its morning queue. What it doesn't add is any ride-skip perk, and the lounge is closed on your departure day. Most families who've done it say it's worth paying for the lounge, not the room, and only if you'll actually use it. Out at the parks from morning to night, you'll get less from it than the price suggests.
Bigger rooms and step-free accessSuites and accessible rooms
There's one suite type, the Golden Forest Club Suite, at 55 m², with a bedroom and a living area with a small kitchen, bathrobes and slippers and all the club benefits. It sleeps three adults, or two adults and two children, so it suits a small family wanting more room rather than a large group. Accessible rooms come in every category, built as a larger connecting pair with a roll-in shower, grab rails, a bathing seat and a wheelchair-height peephole; the pool building itself isn't wheelchair accessible, and Disney doesn't provide hoists. Connecting rooms for families are available on request but not guaranteed. Accessible and connecting rooms are best booked through Disney's reservations team or a specialist agent rather than online.
The Quarry Pool
An indoor pool the two cheaper hotels don't have, and the most-praised bar on the resort.
The pool is the practical reason a lot of families choose Sequoia Lodge. The two cheaper hotels nearby, Hotel Cheyenne and Hotel Santa Fe, have no pool at all, and Newport Bay Club has one but costs more. It sits in its own building among the trees, a two-minute walk from reception, themed like the rest of the hotel in stone and timber with big windows onto the woods, and reviewers regularly call it the best-themed hotel pool at Disneyland Paris.
It's an indoor heated pool joined to an outdoor section that opens in the warmer months, so you can swim from inside to out without leaving the water. There's a small, fast waterslide and a waterfall children love to swim behind, plus a whirlpool, a steam room and a sauna. Lifeguards are on duty, towels and lockers are free, there are family changing areas and there's even a swimsuit vending machine for the kit you left at home. It's open from around 7am to 10pm and free to hotel guests with the MagicPass, and the fitness room next door runs afternoons and evenings in winter and longer hours in summer.
There's no minimum height posted for the slide, so check at the pool if you're visiting with very young children. The shallow edges suit paddling, though there's no dedicated toddler splash zone, so ask the pool team if you have a non-swimmer with you. The pool closes for maintenance for a couple of weeks in mid-January 2027, worth checking on the official page if your dates fall then.
The heart of the hotelThe Redwood Bar and its stone fireplace
The Redwood Bar and Lounge is the hotel's signature: a warm, log-cabin room built around an enormous pass-through stone fireplace with a real fire, deep leather sofas and armchairs set around the hearth and the lighting kept low. It's the feature guests praise most, with plenty going back every evening of their stay. It opens from late afternoon, with cocktails, wines, mocktails including a banana-infused house one, hot chocolate for the children and light food throughout, from charcuterie and cheese boards to toasted sandwiches and pastries. There's an outdoor terrace over the lake for warmer evenings. It isn't adults-only, so it works with children early on, and once they're in bed it's the calmest place on the resort to wind down. The hotel's character meets happen in the open space right behind it.
The buffet, and how dinner works
One all-you-can-eat buffet served in two rooms, with a raclette station in winter.
The hotel's main dining is an all-you-can-eat buffet, served across two connected rooms in the main lodge. Hunter's Grill is the larger, livelier room and Beaver Creek Tavern is the quieter one alongside it. They run the same menu and you're simply allocated one when you book, so the choice between them is about atmosphere, not food. Beaver Creek has a history of closing at quieter times, so if the calmer room matters to you, it's worth checking it's open for your dates. Dinner runs from around 6pm: a cold buffet of charcuterie and salads, hot dishes like grilled chicken, ribs and salmon, a roast carved at the table and a dessert table. There's a children's counter of nuggets, fish, pasta and vegetables for younger eaters. In the colder months it adds a raclette station of melted cheese and potatoes, the only DLP hotel buffet to do it and a draw for winter stays. High chairs are available. There's no dedicated character dining, though characters do sometimes pass through the buffet at breakfast or dinner.
The morning routineBreakfast, and the morning crush
Breakfast is the same buffet and it isn't included in a standard room rate, so you add it to the booking, take a half-board plan or eat elsewhere. Half-board is the plan most families settle on if they're eating at the hotel across several evenings. The thing to plan around is the morning crush: between 8am and 9am the wait can run 30 to 45 minutes, so it's better to arrive before 7.30am or after 9am. Golden Forest Club guests skip all of that with their private lounge breakfast. For something lighter, the Redwood Bar serves food from late afternoon and the Northwest Passage shop by reception carries snacks and drinks. There's no quick-service counter or poolside kiosk, and no room service.
Character meets in ranger outfits
Hotel-only character meets, an indoor play spot for wet afternoons and a forest to explore.
The hotel runs its own character meets, and they're one of the reasons to stay here. Goofy or Max appear in national-park ranger outfits made for this hotel and worn nowhere else on the resort, with Minnie, Daisy, Donald and Eeyore also turning up in the same ranger costumes. They meet in the open space behind the Redwood Bar, morning and evening, and because it's hotel guests only, the queues are far shorter than the ones in the parks, which helps a lot with a toddler. Max Goof in particular is a rare meet at Disneyland Paris, so for a family with a Goofy Movie fan it's a real draw. The day's characters and times are posted at reception and on the app.
Rainy days and the groundsThe kids' corner and the grounds
For wet afternoons or a wind-down before bed there's the Little Prairie Kids Corner, an indoor play spot in the main lodge with colouring, cartoons, video games and a giant Connect Four. It needs a parent with you, since it isn't a supervised club, but it's a handy place to let children run down while one of you sits in the bar next door. Otherwise the draw is simply the grounds: the forest paths, the lakeside and the hidden beaver dam are worth a wander, and children who like exploring get a lot out of the sequoias themselves. There's no outdoor playground or bike hire.
Getting to the parks: the lakeside walk or the shuttle
A flat, pram-friendly walk by the lake that most families come to prefer to the bus.
Sequoia Lodge is the third-closest hotel to the park gates, after the Disneyland Hotel and Hotel New York, and about five minutes closer on foot than Newport Bay Club. The walk runs along Lake Disney and takes roughly 10 to 15 minutes at an easy pace, with Disney Village about five minutes in. It's flat and pram-friendly the whole way, and most families come to prefer it to the bus.
There's also a free shuttle, shared with Hotel New York, roughly every 15 to 20 minutes from early morning until late, and longer in summer. It's useful in bad weather and with very young children, though it gets crowded when the parks close, which is exactly when the lakeside walk is at its most pleasant. If you're arriving by train, the Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy station is about ten minutes' walk, and the Disney Express service can take your luggage from the station straight to the hotel so you can head to the parks on arrival.
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 to cut the queue on arrival, with luggage stored for early arrivals and late departures. Every guest 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. As a hotel guest you also get Extra Magic Time, early entry to both parks about an hour before they open to the public, on every day of your stay, standard or club. The exact times shift by season, so check the app or our tickets and passes page for your dates.
Baby kit and the day-to-dayBaby kit, parking and other essentials
For a baby or toddler, the hotel lends a good amount of kit free on request, subject to availability: a travel cot with a fitted sheet and a baby sleeping bag, bed rails, a baby bath, a potty, a training seat, bottle warmers and a kettle for the room. High chairs are in the restaurants, there are changing tables in the restrooms, and the Northwest Passage shop stocks baby food alongside nappies and sun cream, some of it kept behind the counter, so ask. That shop is also where the souvenirs are, a range themed around the American West and the national parks rather than the usual castle merchandise, and it holds a Disney PhotoPass station where you can pick up your park and ride photos. Babysitting can be arranged through the concierge for an extra charge.
Parking is free for hotel guests, with 16 free electric-charging bays at the hotel and more at the parks for a charge. If you shop in the parks, you can have your purchases sent to the hotel shop to collect rather than carry them around, as long as you spend over a set amount before 2.30pm. Wi-Fi is free throughout, though it can be patchy in the outer lodges. There's no self-service laundry, only a paid hotel service. There's no first-aid room either, so reception is the starting point for anything medical, with the staffed Baby Care Centres in the parks for daytime needs.
Loves and gripes
The praise is consistent, and so are the gripes worth knowing before you book.
What guests love is consistent: the atmosphere and sense of place, the Redwood Bar, the pool and the lakeside walk. It's regularly picked as the best mix of value and character among the Disneyland Paris hotels, and it's a hotel for autumn and winter, when the fire and the forest matter most and the woodland setting suits the resort's Halloween and Christmas seasons. The grumbles are just as consistent. The standard rooms were dated and short on sockets before the refurbishment, there's no fridge below the club tier, the forest lodges are a longer walk than expected, the breakfast queue is long at peak and the air conditioning can struggle in high summer. Most of those ease off in a main-building room, and outside the summer peak if the budget allows.
The choice next doorHow it compares to Newport Bay Club
The comparison families weigh most often is Sequoia Lodge against Newport Bay Club next door, the other lakeside hotel at a similar level. The consensus from guests who've stayed at both is that Sequoia Lodge wins on atmosphere, on its pool and bar, on being a few minutes closer to the parks and on price. Newport Bay Club has the smarter room, with better beds and towels, and it feels bigger and busier if that's what you're after. So it comes down to character, cosiness and value at Sequoia Lodge, against a larger hotel with a smarter room at Newport Bay Club.
Questions parents ask
A few things families check before booking, plus the official links and when this guide was last checked.
Which room should we book with a toddler?
A standard room "near hotel facilities", which puts you in the main building rather than the forest lodges. It's a request rather than a guaranteed room type, and it costs no more, so make it when you book and again at check-in.
Is the Golden Forest Club worth paying for?
Only if you'll use the lounge. A short two-night stay might give you just a couple of lounge sessions around your park days, so the private breakfast, all-day drinks and calmer check-in pay off for families who build in slower mornings back at the hotel, and add up to little for those who leave at opening and get back after the fireworks.
Will the 2026-27 refurbishment spoil our stay?
Probably not, and the real question is whether to book now or wait. The renewed rooms aren't due until early 2027, so a stay before then means an older room while the work goes on around you. If a brand-new room matters most, hold out for 2027; if the setting, the pool and the bar are why you're going, there's little reason to wait.
Does it have a pool, and is it any good?
Yes, and it's the main reason to choose it over Cheyenne and Santa Fe. It's indoor, heated and well themed. Entry is free with your MagicPass, and the only date to watch is a maintenance closure in mid-January 2027.
Can we get a drink once the children are in bed?
Yes, and for a lot of guests it's what makes the hotel. The Redwood Bar is open into the evening for a drink and light food, and it's a shorter walk back from the main building than from the forest lodges, worth remembering if you want an easy evening once the children are down.
How long is the walk to the parks?
Most families walk it and end up preferring to. The free shuttle is the better call in bad weather or with a very young baby, but the lakeside route beats waiting for a bus at park close, when the shuttles fill up. Either way you're at the gates inside about a quarter of an hour.
Sequoia Lodge photos
The woodland setting, the lobby, the Redwood Bar and the Quarry Pool, all in one place.
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Useful links
- Disney Sequoia Lodge: the official hotel page for rooms, dining and live prices.
- Disney Newport Bay Club: our guide to the lakeside 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.
