Hi everyone! My husband and I recently got back from a very quick 2 night 3 day (but really 1 full day and 2 half days) trip to Disneyland Paris, so you know I have to do a trip report! (If i'm in the wrong forum, sorry - just let me know ). This was actually our third time at Disneyland Paris - isn't it amazing how that "once in a lifetime" trip turns into the first of several? To be fair we really did think it was once in a lifetime the first time back in 2022 but then Trevor changed jobs to one that has him traveling a lot more, and occasionally those travels turn international. Anyways, let's get this party started!
The details:
who: me and my husband Trevor
when: Fri Aug 22 - Sun Aug 24
where: Hotel New York - Art of Marvel
Introductions:
I'm Tiffany, I'll be your ghost host for this trip report. I'm a librarian by education, but I currently do federal records management, since records management is where the pay is (compared to libraries at least ), and I gotta pay for Disney! Favorite princess is Sleeping Beauty, but I also love Mary Poppins and Beauty and the Beast and Rapunzel. Favorite rides at Disneyland Paris: Big Thunder Mountain, Phantom Manor, Hyperspace Mountain, and Pirates of the Caribbean.
My traveling companion is my husband Trevor. He loves Star Wars and Marvel, but has grown to love Disney--his favorite characters are Boba Fett, Vader and Stormtroopers, and on the non-Star Wars side, Grumpy. His favorite rides at Disneyland Paris are Big Thunder Mountain, Hyperspace Mountain, Web Slingers, and Avengers Flight Force (brb, getting a divorce cause Phantom Manor didn't make his list).
Ok, so context for this trip! Trevor's been on a work trip to Germany for several weeks, and he had a three day weekend coming up and so we decided that I'd come out for a week or so to see him and that since we were already in Germany, we may as well go to Disneyland Paris. (I may or may not have done but definitely did a stopover in London to see Evita with Rachel Zegler which was FANTASTIC but anyways). I do want to call out that this was not even my idea - of course I'm on board but TREVOR suggested it. I think that means he's completed his Disney adult transformation? Anyways, since we knew we didn't have days and days, we just decided to go low-key on this trip, doing the rides we love and taking it slow (foreshadowing...). I did book us the fireworks viewing area for our first night, and then I booked us a super fancy dining reservation on Saturday night, but otherwise, completely unbooked! We also decided to stay at Hotel New York for Trevor - we did Disneyland Hotel last time so only fair we do the hotel he likes better this time.
This is definitely going to be a shorter report than my most recent one - definitely way fewer pictures. But honestly still a lot of pictures. And by now, my standard disclaimer: I got burned by the whole imgur pictures not embedding thing, so now I just embed my pictures directly in the posts, but there's a limit of 10 and if you are at all familiar with any of my previous trip reports, I include a LOT of photos. a LOT. So there will be a LOT of posts...sorry!
So Bright and Early - Friday Aug 22, 2025 (part 1)
Friday morning, bright and early, we got up and got ready to take the train down to Paris. Our train was at 6:56 am, arriving in Paris at 10:38 am. It seemed like a good idea when we booked it but getting up at 5 am...woof. Rough! Not our favorite thing. And then I was flying home out of Paris while Trevor was going back to Germany, so we had all my luggage, and so we decided to get an Uber XL. Which didn't show up. For like 20 minutes! We finally just canceled and requested a regular uber and figured we'd hope it was big enough for our luggage. It took nearly 10 minutes to show up which was making me nervous cause I like getting places - especially traveling places - early. We ended up making it with about 10 minutes to spare, which wasn't nervewracking at all. Not at all.
But it was fine - we made it and even had just enough time to grab some egg mcmuffins from the McDonalds in the train station - the one time ordering from the counter was faster! There was a line at the kiosks so i just went to the counter and the lady took my order and handed me the ready made egg mcmuffins - brilliant. I walked up the platform to Trevor just as the train opened the doors for boarding. Phew!
We were very excited to be on our way.
The train ride was uneventful - we arrived in Paris, managed to take the metro and the RER train, and by 11:45 ish, we were at the train station there at Disneyland Paris! We had booked ahead of time the Luggage Express, where you could drop your bags at the train station and they would give you your park tickets, so you could go directly to the park and they'd take the bags to the hotel. With our short time, that seemed like a good option. Though it did take us a little bit to find the Luggage Express counter - since we arrived on the RER and not on the high speed trains, it was a bit less easy to spot than the online directions indicated. But we found it, dropped our bags, got our park bag all situated, and off we went to the parks!
It was basically noon, so we were headed to Disneyland to get lunch.
I made us take all the selfies.
Also I assumed that it being noon we'd have no wait at the turnstiles - hahahahahaha. It wasn't a long line, but it was a little line, and of course the people we were behind were confused as to what they were supposed to do - I swear it's like people's first day on earth going through the turnstiles. BUT! We made it in, and off to the Market House Deli on Main Street for lunch! There's nothing like walking down Main Street for the first time on your trip.
It felt like a very crowded day - no idea if it was or not, but it felt like it. It could also have been just the fact that it was 12 noon and everyone wanted lunch all at the same time. We divided and conquered - Trevor got in line for the food and I stalked the area for a table. It was probably a 10/15 min wait for food, but it worked out cause it took me that long to find a table (it was cutthroat!). But we got one outside, enjoying the lovely weather and the music loop and the people watching. And what did we get for lunch?
I got the ham and cheese toastie aka croque monsieur, of course!
This is delicious and it was piping hot. Trevor doesn't like it 'cause he doesn't like melted cheese but he's weird.
Trevor got the Mickey sandwich, which apparently this is the only picture of it I took:
Poor Trevor - this was not good. He wanted the one with ham but they gave him the veggie one instead, which he didn't realize until about 1/3 of the way through (he kept thinking the meat was further in... oops!), and with the crazy line he didn't want to go back to get the right one. And the sandwhich had been made yesterday, so the bread was a bit dry (though it's pretzel bread so Trevor liked that) but everything else was a bit soggy. Poor Trevor! I did try to give Trevor some of the ham from my sandwich but he said no (cheese hater). HAVE PROTEIN TREVOR!
But we did have a dessert: chocolate hazelnut brookie with cream and chocolate.
This was pretty good - I didn't love the actual nuts but the flavor was good, and it was moist not dry. The little Dale was so cute! And yummy.
While we were eating, we were looking at wait times and guys - it was weird! I was expecting Crush's Coaster in Studios to have the longest wait, but the longest wait at the resort was Orbitron (their version of Astro Orbiter) - 80 minutes! Crush's Coaster was 75 minutes. The other big rides were all about an hour, or a bit less, but there were other weird things: Cars Road Tour was 25!!!! Which should never be - that thing has so much capacity, crazy. but only 35 for Remy. We were so confused. Phantom Manor was 15, so we figured we'd go over there after eating (I'd already bought us a Big Thunder Mountain fastpass for 1 pm). Also the Main Street Vehicles were out running, so that was fun to see.
We finished up at around 12:40, so off to Frontierland we went - but first, selfie!
Over at Phantom Manor, the wait time had jumped up to 25 minutes and it looked every minute, if not longer (like the whole queue was full). So, we decided to treat ourselves and bought the fastpass for immediate use, which meant we basically walked on.
Look at the view!
So gorgeous. We even got to see Big Thunder go by, which was awesome except for the bit where the water effects look to have been turned off (where the coaster goes very near the water and the effects make it look like the train goes into the water a bit.
Then we were into the antechamber:
I love this ride!
From Thunder Mesa to Corona - Friday Aug 22, 2025 (part 2)
More Phantom Manor!
I so love this whole theme with the bride and the Phantom...just wish the Phantom wasn't her dad cause #creepy.
So good!
Also Trevor is still not home, so while I have his pictures, I don't have his videos so no hitchhiking ghosts video! I can hear the sadness from here.
We walked around Boot Hill for a minute or two, but then it was time to ride Big Thunder!! There was a bit of a line, but not horrible. And we asked for and got the back row - yay!!
The ride was fantastic as always - seriously, this is the best Big Thunder and it's not even close. The tunnel under the island...just top notch.
This is like my first Disney trip since...probably ever, actually, where I haven't bought the photos. Really though this was a tactical error - we weren't sure if we'd have enough photos to make it worth it, so I figured we'd buy it at the end if we had enough photos. But since we didn't go to the counter to have them add our ride photo to the account, they couldn't find it and so we couldn't buy it. Oh well! Pro tip: if you're not sure if you want to buy it, add it to your account so you have the option. Anyways! I did kind of get Mike Wazoswkied but you can see Trevor pretty good there in the back.
We got off the ride at 1:45, and it was time to head over to Fantasyland: DLP was having a Music Festival, and as part of that, Flynn and Rapunzel came out and danced, and that sounded like fun, so we were heading over to catch the 2:15 show.
This was the area, but I made a tactical error - off to the right they had seating for adults and kids, but I figured we could just stand and have a closer view. I mean, I guess we did have a closer view but everyone was standing in front of us so despite getting their like 25 min early, our view wasn't great. Oh well! The people in front of us were sitting when we got there and made the decision, but then they got made to stand up closer to the time. Dang.
It was still fun - Flynn and Rapunzel danced to most of the songs from the movie, and they interacted with the kids and played hide and seek, and just were super fun to watch.
That's Rapunzel hiding behind the umbrella.
And at the end they posed for pics all around, so even we got a good pic:
So yea, a fun show, just a shame I made the wrong decision about not sitting down. Though standing there on the fence meant that Trevor got to adopt some kids - one of them pushed in front of him to stand against the fence, and then another, and then another, and then even the mom tried to push in front of him but Trevor didn't let that happen. LOL
Next up, Hyperspace Mountain! I'd bought the fastpass, cause treat yo'self. We weren't gonna wait in no lines! Well, except for the short line for chocolate covered strawberries! As we were walking over to Discoveryland, they had food stands up by Small World and one of them had chocolate-covered strawberries which is my favorite DLP treat.
Delicious.
Oh, I'd also gotten us a virtual queue spot to meet a Marvel superhero over in Walt Disney Studios, and that was coming up soon so we figured after HyperSpace Mountain we'd head over to Studios to meet the character.
As we walked up the fastpass stairs for HyperSpace Mountain, we got a semi-good view into Lightspeed Lounge:
See the stormtroopers up there? That's the Lightspeed Lounge. We were on the fence about trying it - you'll have to see how tomorrow goes! (Foreshadowing.... )
Space was a pretty short fastpass wait - I just don't like how early the fastpass line merges with the regular line. But it was only about 5/10 minutes.
Though when we got assigned a row, I couldn't fit! I've definitely gained weight in the last year so Trevor and I had a system where he wouldn't strap in until he pushed on my harness to make me fit, but even with him pushing it didn't work! I didn't think I'd gained enough to not fit on the ride so that was not my favorite thing. But they had me get off and then they put me in row 9, which I guess must be a larger seat or something, because then I did fit. Phew!
Such a fun ride.
As we got off, it was time to head over to Studios to meet a superhero! Though as we walked out we saw people on top of Space Mountain, which was kind of odd - I assume maintenance of some sort? Kind of ruined the forced perspective illusion LOL.
So off we went to Studios. Honestly we'd ridden every ride in Disneyland that we wanted to except Pirates, so we were feeling pretty good.
I do love the ride posters you pass on the way in and out of the parks.
Over at Studios, we enjoyed being able to walk through the backlot/building/whatever you want to call it instead of being funneled off to the side by construction walls. Over at the Superhero Training Facility, they must have been backed up or something - we ended up having to wait 30 minutes. Crazy! But who did we get?
StarLord!
This was a pretty good meet and greet - we talked about his songs (and he even sang some of them!).
Superhero pose!
Talking and laughing.
It was fun - I just wish they handled the logistics better so you didn't have to get a virtual queue and then still wait 30 minutes.
But, once we got off, Flight Force was only 10 minutes so we decided to ride that! It ended up being more than 10 (about 15/20 minutes), but not bad. And then we got the second row, which was cool.
So fun! It was 4:30 when we got off - the only other thing we had planned was wanting to be at the fireworks viewing area at like 9 pm, for a 10:40 show (i wanted to get a front row spot so we could sit down. ), so we had a while yet. What to do next!
Ooh I've been hanging out for this one! Here and very much looking forward to ALL the photos!
And nevermind Trevor not picking Phantom Manor as a favourite... not liking melted cheese may be grounds enough for divorce if you ask me
I'd either totally forgotten about the chocolate-covered strawberries or not realised they were available last time. Definitely going on the list for treats to try!
). This was actually our third time at Disneyland Paris - isn't it amazing how that "once in a lifetime" trip turns into the first of several? To be fair we really did think it was once in a lifetime the first time back in 2022 but then Trevor changed jobs to one that has him traveling a lot more, and occasionally those travels turn international. 
Anyways, let's get this party started!
Oh well! The people in front of us were sitting when we got there and made the decision, but then they got made to stand up closer to the time. Dang.
