Located 20 mi/32 km east of Paris near Marne-la-Vallee, this European park featuring Mickey and company opened in 1992 (it was then called Euro Disney) with the intention of duplicating the successes of similar parks in California, Florida and Japan.
By the late 1990s, Disneyland Paris was ranked as France's top tourist attraction—more popular than the Louvre—and it maintains a top-ranking position today.
The vast majority of the park is just like Disneyland or Disney World in the U.S., including Fantasyland, Frontierland, Adventureland, Discoveryland and Main Street, U.S.A., with little variance from their U.S. counterparts.
The park has a golf course and a variety of resort hotels (one is the Hotel Cheyenne, a complete stage-set of a frontier cowboy town with saloon, hardware store, bank and dance hall). A Rio Grande meanders through the area. For visitors on a budget, there's Davy Crockett Ranch (campsites and cabins).
Outside the park, Disney Village offers live music in an attractive setting. Disneyland Paris is reached via the RER, a suburban train line from central Paris.
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