Disney’s Enchanted Christmas runs from November 11, 2023 till January 7, 2024 at Disneyland Paris, and options vacation leisure, decorations, and particular meals. This information presents our greatest ideas for visiting France throughout yuletide season at Walt Disney Studios Park, Disney Village, lodges, and Disneyland Paris. (Updated February 28, 2023.)
Before we get to the remainder of the small print and our report on Disneyland Paris at Christmas, we suggest trying out our 2023 Disneyland Paris Vacation Planning Guide (it doesn’t matter what time of yr you’re visiting). Disneyland Paris at Christmas is very similar to Magic Kingdom or Disneyland in California, however with its personal twists. One huge one is the climate! Christmas at Disneyland Paris has climate you’d truly affiliate with winter, and an actual snowfall in late November or December shouldn’t be unusual.
This submit has been up to date with new pictures and data for Christmas at Disneyland Paris, nevertheless it’s value noting that these pictures are from our earlier visits to Disneyland Paris at Christmas, and never this yr. (Obviously, as the vacation season continues to be a number of months away). We’re hoping to move again to France for Christmas 2023, and can replace with no pictures and a report as soon as we do. For now, right here’s what we all know in regards to the vacation season at Walt Disney Studios Park and Parc Disneyland…
At this level, the one factor that Disneyland Paris has formally introduced are the dates of Enchanted Christmas (November 11, 2023 via January 7, 2024). Otherwise, Disney has not revealed another particulars. Our expectation is that the occasion is basically the identical, with Mickey’s Dazzling Christmas Parade virtually sure to return together with different leisure and festivities. Perhaps a stage present and a few decorations will differ.
Last yr, not a lot occurred at Walt Disney Studios Park. Hopefully that’s one of many huge issues that modifications for 2023, and Disney brings again Mickey’s Christmas Big Band. This implausible dwell present featured a giant band orchestra, fast-paced faucet dance acts, and a drum solo by Mickey Mouse. We’d additionally wish to see the Goofy’s Incredible Christmas projection present make a return for Christmas 2023 at WDSP.
On a constructive word, L’Hiver Gourmand will probably return to Walt Disney Studios Park. This winter market consists of fashionable chalets that serve gingerbread, crepes, scorching chocolate, and different scrumptious treats. Four new chalets can be added this yr, with three of them put in for the primary time at Disneyland Paris.
Speaking of which, Disneyland Paris is the guts of the vacation season.
During the day, company can be entranced by the majestic glittering Christmas tree that stands 24 meters excessive as quickly as they step foot on Main Street! With Christmas music, garlands and snowflakes flying within the air… a fascinating environment will envelop the world.
Before we go any additional, let’s set the temper. No, I’m not going to dictate that you just flip down the lights, pour a cup of eggnog, and light-weight the hearth. But I’m not going to let you know to not, both.
I do assume it could “enhance” your enjoyment of the remainder of this submit if you happen to learn and considered it whereas listening to the best Disney theme park Christmas tune identified to mankind: Chante, c’est Noel.
This tune is the unofficial theme tune of Christmas at Disneyland Paris. It was as soon as (apparently) performed throughout a Christmas parade at Disneyland Paris. Then it was performed on the shut of the earlier Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
Now, I believe it’s simply performed again in Santa Claus Village at Cottonwood Creek Ranch. Why it’s not distinguished is past me, as a result of it rocks.
Another spotlight is in Videopolis, the place Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy and Goofy will have fun the magic of Christmas carols a number of occasions a day on stage with the musical present “Let’s Sing Christmas!”
This yr, Minnie may also have a particular shock in retailer for Mickey and Guests, as she’s going to carry out a canopy model of a well-known tune entitled “All I want for Christmas is… Mickey”.
There’s one other nighttime spectacular along with the Disney D-Light drone show, which was designed for the Disneyland Paris thirtieth Anniversary celebration.
Lighting up the sky each night time, company will benefit from the triumphant return of Disney Dreams of Christmas. This beloved nighttime spectacular, which dazzled a technology of Disneyland Paris company, returns extra lovely than ever.
Disney Dreams of Christmas combines fireworks and dancing fountains round Sleeping Beauty Castle set to a seasonal soundtrack. The nighttime spectacular additionally options projections of Christmas scenes immersing company into the wintry worlds of Disney.
The present can be much more dazzling and elevated for the Disneyland Paris thirtieth Anniversary celebration, with new technical enhancements. Sleeping Beauty Castle’s rooftops can be much more glowing because of a brand-new LED expertise that makes it doable to create synchronized results which have by no means been seen earlier than in a Disney theme park.
Earlier within the day, there’s a first rate quantity of different Christmas leisure. Mickey’s Dazzling Christmas Parade is the opposite “big” factor achieved for Christmas in Disneyland Paris, and it’s a current addition.
Disneyland Paris groups secretly developed this new parade and debuted it final Christmas. Mickey’s Dazzling Christmas Parade consists of 5 gigantic floats, that includes Mickey & Friends, Disney Princesses, Santa Claus & Tinker Bell, and extra characters.
Each of those floats in Mickey’s Dazzling Christmas Parade represents an idyllic Christmas scene with conventional decorations and parade performers can be wearing luminous costumes specifically designed for the event. (Since it’s comparatively new, count on to see Mickey’s Dazzling Christmas Parade in 2023, too.)
There are a number of showings of Mickey’s Dazzling Christmas Parade per day. Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy will open the procession of magical, colourful floats. After them, you’ll see Winnie the Pooh and Friends, Chip & Dale, the Three Little Pigs, and lots of different characters. Of course, Santa will finish Disney’s Christmas Parade on a excessive word from his sleigh!
Mickey’s Dazzling Christmas Parade will ship two distinctive experiences! Its colourful and illuminated floats will have fun the magic of winter, each in the course of the day and at night time. The distinctive theme of every float will immerse Disneyland Paris within the magic and surprise of Christmas.
These floats can be synchronized with Christmas music and can function Mickey and his buddies, together with princesses and Santa Claus. The performers’ shiny costumes, which have been specifically designed for the event, will make it doable to create glowing results on Main Street.
The icing on the cake: characters will gentle up the Christmas tree in Town Square to create much more magical moments in the course of the nightly efficiency of Mickey’s Dazzling Christmas Parade!
Presumably, this implies there received’t be a standalone lighting ceremony for the Christmas tree on Main Street at Disneyland Paris.
Speaking of characters, there are a number that meet of their vacation finery, together with Thumper, Miss Bunny, Stitch, Duffy, and choose Princesses in Town Square and places all through the park. While we like character meet & greets, the strains for these are typically lengthy, so we often skip them.
You can take pleasure in a wintery wonderland in a vacation lodge that’s house to Santa Claus and Mickey Mouse. This is the right alternative for company of all ages to drop off their Christmas letter to Santa and seize the second.
‘Tis the season to eat, drink, and be merry!
Specialty meals and beverage gadgets to bask in can be obtainable all through the Walt Disney Studios Park, Disneyland Paris, Disney Village, and the lodges.
While taking in each second of the vacation season’s choices, it’s additionally the right alternative to do a little bit of vacation buying.
Browse the festively embellished boutiques and cease by La Boutique du Château and Merlin l’Enchanteur, each of that are devoted to the season.
Phantom Manor doesn’t obtain a Nightmare Before Christmas overlay like the opposite Haunted Mansion sights, and Disneyland Paris not does it’s a small world vacation or celebration.
In different phrases, there aren’t any Christmas attraction overlays at Disneyland Paris.
Disneyland Paris’ lands are decked out for Christmas. In normal, these decorations are extra subdued than their US counterparts, with a notable exception: the eating places. Holy cow! Seemingly each single restaurant had uniquely embellished Christmas timber, and its fair proportion of on-theme decorations.
Much like the opposite Disney theme parks, Main Street is essentially the most embellished of any land in Disneyland Paris. Beyond the Christmas tree and Sleeping Beauty Castle icicle lights, there are strands of garland strung from one aspect of the road to the opposite, and lots of store home windows function lovely Christmas shows.
The remainder of Disneyland Paris Resort will get within the Christmas temper, however to not the identical extent. Walt Disney Studios Park has been doing an increasing number of for Christmas, nevertheless it nonetheless doesn’t evaluate with the vacations on Main Street, USA.
The lodges additionally put up Christmas decorations, with Disneyland Hotel being the spotlight. Sequoia Lodge can also be fairly good, and that resort “feels” extra like a Christmas-y place. The remainder of the lodges and the Disney Village had Christmas decorations up, however nothing actually noteworthy.
Overall, a Disneyland Paris Christmas is certainly one thing value experiencing. It’s not as extravagant as what you’ll discover in Disneyland or Walt Disney World, however the unbelievable customary substance of the park compensates for that. There are a handful nice seasonal reveals and the decorations are fantastic, however it could be good for the parade to ‘grow’ at a sooner fee.
Regardless, we actually take pleasure in Disneyland Paris at Christmas, and I’d say it’s the right time for an American to go to Disneyland Paris for the primary time (so long as you don’t thoughts the chilly climate). Nothing is lacking from the park on account of the Christmas season (like Haunted Mansion is “missing” from Disneyland), and there are a variety of Christmas enhancements which might be icing on the cake!
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