Three-day trip to Disneyland with kids for a fairy tale experience
Close to Paris is Disneyland, the entertainment capital, the theme park that will provide the wildest of fun for young and old alike, with attractions that are inextricably linked to the world of Mickey Mouse, Pluto, and Donald Duck. It only takes 3 days to fully experience the Disney world just a stone’s throw from Paris.
Paris is the city nicknamed the Ville Lumière, enchanting with its elegance, monumental squares, and iconic museums and monuments. The city traversed by the Seine River may not seem very child-friendly, so it is only fair that a family vacationing in Paris should please just about everyone, and so there is nothing better than organizing a tour of 3 days at Disneyland: this is one of the largest theme parks in the world, where everything brings back magic and fantasy, including shows and attractions that will leave young travelers, as well as older ones, speechless. Disneyland is the most visited park in all of Europe and covers an area of no less than 22 km².It is only 32 km from Paris and can be reached by car or regional train starting from the Garde De Lyon station or by shuttle or TVG service starting from Charles De Gaulle airport.
3-day trip to Disneyland: it starts from Main Street U.S.A.
Disneyland is not a single amusement park, but consists of two sections: Disneyland Park, which includes most of the area’s attractions, and then Walt Disney Studios Park, which is more related to the world of film and television, obviously Disney-themed.
There is, of course, no shortage of hotels, a golf course and the various cinemas, restaurants and stores all included in the Disneyland Village area, which is also open at night. This area includes, among other things, fantastic musical performances such as Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, featuring a Mickey Mouse as a cowboy, and a food court where you can enjoy great wild-west dishes.
From the large Panoramagique hot air balloon, on the other hand, one can enjoy a spectacular view of the entire Disneyland park all lit up by the evening lights.
The most fairy-tale heart of Disneyland is undoubtedly Disneyland Park, introduced by Main Street U.S.A. It is a colorful boulevard reminiscent of Marceline, the Missouri hometown where animator Walt Disney himself was born. Every day music and colorful floats bring to life cute parades and various choreographies, while Disney characters at all times roam the boulevard approaching children and taking photos with all visitors. To traverse this iconic avenue, as well as to take a tour of Disneyland Park, you can also board the Disneyland Railroad Main Street Station, that is, a characteristic steam train that together with other vehicles such as horse-drawn streetcars, takes all visitors back to bygone historical eras.
Discovering Fantasyland
Serving as the backdrop to Main Street U.S.A. is Sleeping Beauty Castle, part of the Fantasyland area: there is no little girl who will not feel like a little princess upon seeing this fairy-tale manor, an undisputed symbol of Disneyland. Tapestries, tall stained glass windows and the dragon’s lair are just some of the places that hark back to the famous fairy tale.The castle becomes the centerpiece of the Disney Illuminations, which, amid fireworks and light and color shows, greet visitors as the park closes.
In Fantasyland, every attraction is linked to a Disney animated film: think of “Lancelot’s Carousel,” a gem that harkens back to the classic vintage carousel where the horses are as many as 86, beautiful and highly decorated.
Then there is “Alice’s Labyrinth,” where one finds oneself in Wonderland, and “It’s Small World,” where instead one can take a journey through the many landscapes of the planet, from the islands of the Pacific Ocean to the Andes to South America, the ice of Antarctica and the formidable Serengeti.
Among the most fun attractions in Fantasyland is definitely. “Mad Hatter’s Tea Cups.”, inspired by the Mad Hatter from the fairy tale Alice in Wonderland: everyone can celebrate an authentic Unbirthday aboard cups that rotate on saucers that in turn rotate, still revolving around a central teapot.
From Discoveryland to Frontierland
Those who love space adventures cannot fail to immerse themselves in the Discoveryland area, a must-see stop on a 3-day trip to Disneyland. One can, for example, board a spaceship in the “Buzz Light Year Laser Blast,” trying to ward off threats with a lightsaber, or step into the shoes of Captain Nemo and board the submarine Nautilus, exploring the depths at the attraction “Les Mystérs du Nautilus.” Also not to be missed is the strictly 3D interstellar journey of “Star Wars The Adventure Continue”: aboard the Starspeed 1000 you travel among galaxies, stars and warring worlds, being able to choose from as many as 60 different missions.
If there’s one thing Disneyland doesn’t lack, it’s roller coasters: there’s the “Hyper Space Mountain, “ the fastest one in the entire park where you hurtle like in Star Wars, which is rivaled by the “Big Thunder Mountain” inside the Frontierland area. It is, in this case, a wooden roller coaster that traverses a gold mine between quivering rails, thunderous waterfalls, hairpin bends, tunnels and steep descents.
Frontierland cannot miss a ride on the steamboat “Thunder Mesa,” as if you were on the waters of the Mississippi River, but especially a visit to “Phantom Manor.” It is a haunted house where only the bravest can enter, amidst objects that move on their own, paintings that “watch,” holograms that project dancing spectres, roars and frightening screams.
In 3 days at Disneyland you can enjoy the attractions of Adventureland, where visitors can ride the roller coaster Of “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Peril”, travel in Aladin’s Enchanted Passage or visit the lagoon of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” aboard a 17th-century style ship, where scenic effects make the setting truly realistic.
The Walt Disney Studios Park
La Disney Studio 1 is the street that welcomes families to the Walt Disney Studios Park area, and everything is reminiscent of the most classic Hollywood movies, as if it were a movie set: there is also the small Place es Fréres Lumire dedicated to the Lumiere brothers, or the brilliant inventors of cinema, located in the shadow of the great Mickey Mouse in the guise of the wizard of Fantasy.
To visit the behind-the-scenes of Disney’s most famous films, still used today, one must go to The Production Yard area: here one can experience the dizzying descent of the “Twilight Zone Tower of Terror,” in the extraordinary setting of the haunted Hollywood Tower hotel. Through the Studio Tram Tour you visit film sets, even experiencing the phantasmagorical special effects firsthand.
Black Lot is the area dedicated to lovers of stuntmen, car chases and survival games in the middle of Apcalisse: “Armageddon: special effects” and “Moteurs Action” are worth trying.
