Uncovering Some Problems Plaguing Disneyland Paris 

An important video for DLP fans and management: this is not a rant, these are facts.

Honestly I've felt like Indiana Jones has been rough for about 15 years. It's very painful and gives headaches. I would say every rollercoaster on the resort apart from crush's coaster needs a full retrack. Crush's coaster needs a second track, to double the capacity. They should have never built that ride in a Disney resort due to the poor capacity.

Not building new rides at a steady pace over the years is biting Disneyland Paris in the butt with a vengeance. Studios is a walled maze currently and the Disneyland Park is a museum at this point. Space Mountain being the last new, additional ride built in 30 years next year is mind boggling. Capacity has become a huge problem. Something like Web Slingers or Dumbo should be rides you have only wait 15 minutes for at most. Instead those rides get insane wait times, doubling, tripling or more. The only way out is Disney building multiple rides at the same time, so that they can open a new one every one or two years. That or something like Tokyo's Fantasy Springs. That third gate might actually help with these problems. Especially as it would be build on the other side of the hotels, effectively splitting the guests over the resort.

The worst thing for me is there's not enough new attractions in the park, also shows are put on only for a short period. The expense doesn't justify going and I can only see it improving if Universal build a large park in the uk

I think the worst problem in Disneyland Paris is premier access. It is so overpriced and for some of the ride queues for eg autopia it only takes you half way through the queue and you still have to wait. I wish fast passes or something similar returned

I went to Disney for two days yesterday. I went there as a child and took my girlfriend there for the magical experience. There were two major downsides for me. First was the food quality and variety and also the enormous amount of guests which makes it almost impossible to move freely through the park. It was packed so badly, people were constantly bumping into us and it was so unimaginably annoying. Besides that, it was amazing and the experience of a lifetime for us! 😍

The genuine lack of thrill rides… yes it’s a Disney park but another major thrill ride is massively required imo

I agree with everything! I visited last month and the cracks really are showing now. The rides are desperately needing to be re-done otherwise I fear a horrible accident is likely to happen. Indiana Jones felt incredibly unsafe riding it. Not to mention the various Disney staff multiple times being so rude to many guests, I was told directly 'Mickey Mouse is a bad boss' from a member of staff....the magic is fading fast in DLP.

I think one of the problems is most food locations closing at 5pm... why is everything closing so early and now we have to walk all the way to the village or eat the most expensive restaurants that stay open till 7pm and are very busy

This video is spot on. In my opinion, the overall main problem that the Paris parks suffer from is *under-investment* 💸 DLP is the ONLY Disney park where park attendance has continually fallen since 2009. It's also the only park which hasn't received a new ride since 2006. Coincidence?🤔

Indy was rough pretty much from the beginning, I hurt my ears so many times on that ride :-) Those tracks should last a lot longer. I mean, Matterhorn Bobsleds were built over 60 years ago, was indeed the first tubular steel rollercoaster ever and as far as I know, never had a complete replacements of the tracks done. I think one of the main problems is that Euro Disney SCA, the original owner of the park only did the most needed repairs, if even that, for a long time until they become almost unfixable unless everything needs to be replaced eventually. Guess what's more expensive in the long run? The Mark Twain is a prime example for this. Disneyland in Anaheim used to have the same problem during the Paul Pressler era, but they turned around now. In my opinion, the same is true for Disneyland Paris, right after when it was bought by TWDC, they started to do lots of much needed renovations and today the park looks much better than it has in a long time. I believe, there is still lots of work to be done, but hopefully, they will get around to fix the rollercoasters soon as well.

Fair and balanced analysis. Thanks for putting out such great coverage of DLP. The park deserves better management, for sure!

It seems from watching visitor videos that everywhere in the DLRP has construction walls around many of the attractions making the whole park appear as a building site. I estimated that one-third of the rides are closed for refurbishment , the Village is undergoing a major upgrade but not for the better it seems, Avengers campus seems to have taken away the thrill of the old Action Motors, Armageddon (not the best ride but...), Rendezvous des Stars ( a good buffet restaurants at good prices) with the Pym eatery with overpriced themed food. Seeing cast members dressed up as Avengers appear at random times does not excite. No parade in the soon-to-be-renamed Studio Park and many others makes me wonder why anybody would pay the over-inflated prices for two-thirds of the Parks experience. The entrance to the new "Studios" is going to take over a year to complete and from what I have heard on the videos the ambience around the Park has been destroyed by hammering, lorries, cement mixers and the general noise of construction. I will not return to DLRP until Frozen Land is completed and opened (a potential saviour for an otherwise poor DLRP) and the refurbishments are completed.

Honestly 10 euros for a sandwich is about high street prices in London. Ive been more disappointed in the fancy restaurants. Stop doing the set menus.

I don't normally add comments, but the app I have to agree with. On a recent visit, along with other issues, we had problems with food ordering as emails wouldn't work, didn't have enough memory with photos taken and one point, although had completed an order, the app wouldn't show anything so had to repurchase the entire order.

Disneyland paris is the most attended park in europe and also a pretty expensive one. Therefore money shouldn't be an issue. The first problem is that the paris resort seems to have the lowest priority from all parks. China and japan seem to get all the best new stuff, then the american parks are next and the last and least comes paris. What makes this situation more brisant is that Disney is in financial trouble. Well the box office return has dried up and Disney+ is also not a moneymaker. Therefore the parks carry the company. For paris I think the situation will get worse before getting better. Either we get a new ceo that has a soft spot for french culture or something bad has to happen to DLP.

For me, DLP Indiana Jones rollercoaster always seemed a cheap ride for Disney standards. Space Mountain was a masterpiece, when it opened in DLP, in 1992. Same was their version of Big Thunder Mountain. Sorry to see things going downhill this way! ☹️

We stopped visiting DLP back in 2018 because of a lack of maintenance. They have so many little things broken that it's not enjoyable anymore. Also after TWDC buyout ticket prices skyrocketed and totally not worth it. Right now we alternate between Anaheim and Tokyo. With the current exchange rate of yen the Tokyo Disney resort is the cheapest AND best in the world.

Disneyland Paris might be the most beautiful park, but it also has a lot of problems to be solved, like an app and over priced food for example.

And here I am complaining about some of the inconveniences of the US resort apps, but holy crap I am bewildered that the Disneyland Paris app is completely anti-user friendly.

Glad I watched this after coming back from DLP! All the rides were open for us, staff were really nice, no major issues apart from queues later in the day. However, I do agree that the Indiana Jones ride is really rough! It's like Nemesis at Alton Towers (UK) but way more rickety. I'm glad they're maintained a lot but some are evidently looking at being replaced soon. The queues for kiddy rides are scandalous. You can't expect a 5 year old to wait 45 minutes for a 2 minute Dumbo flight! They need more kids rides, duplicate them if need be all over the park. We had the magic hour pass and stayed in the Marvel hotel - check in was like organised chaos though. (Staff were great but it's a crazy system) Don't even get me started on the app... did they even consult a UX specialist?? We were there for just over 2 days. Up at 6:15am every day, used the magic hour heavily, ate earlier than most to avoid more queues and crowds, loved the buffets. Used the plastic pass over the app. Take a phone battery charger with you as well. You will burn through your phone battery like crazy! This was our first visit and we pretty much covered every ride and attraction we wanted to do. There were also a lot of boards up with new things being built so they're evidently trying to build a lot more stuff. Would we go back..? Probably not but we did have a great time. Kids loved it.

The worst thing are the guests who keep coming and pay whatever the rat is asking. Disney gets away with the insane low standards (compared to the price) due to guests and this will only get worse. I can't wait for Universal Studios UK to open and in the mean time for a truly magical experience I go to Efteling in the Netherlands.

Great video. As much as I agree with you on some points, when I went last year, I thought Disneyland Paris was absolutely amazing when I went! The whole experience as a whole was unforgettable, and some of the problems you mentioned (such as the DLP app constantly logging you out) didn't personally affect me and my group. But I do think that DLP has space for lots of improvements. Better food quality, lower food + merch prices, and obviously WDSP. But the resort is still amazing as a whole! 😃

Does anyone know why I can only book a visit to the park until March of 2025? I was planning to go on June but can’t buy tickets right now.

Meh food in paris disneyland are already cheap, Hong Kong's avg price is around 130-150HKD which is around 15-17 euro and our high end semi-buffet cost around 300 HKD which is almost 35 euro 💀

Good video. I love the place but I refuse to go now. They have got greedy with their prices and it just isn't worth it anymore. Much better value can be had elsewhere for families.

Also those Hollywood/Movie studios park was such a bummer: Europeans don’t care (!) for Hollywood themed stuff, and this took away the European element of the whole park appearance

It is a bit of a shame. My visit this month really showed the reliability problems. Big thunder and Space mountain went down many times while I was there - very frustrating being evacuated from queues multiple times. Space Mountain’s Star Wars overlay is also absolutely abysmal, and feels like a something that would be attempted by a small standalone regional park. Lack of staff was also extremely noticeable especially in restaurants and food stalls

I think the Disneyland park could use another new e ticket ride there e tocket rides are only really Thunder Mountian, Hyperspace Mountian(please bring back earth to the moon) Indiana Jones and Pirates Of The Carribean. Another e ticket in fantasyland maybe could really benifit the park.

Two things bother me about DLP compared to the other Disney parks. Firstly, cost. It's just too bloody expensive for the amount of time your their, and if you can afford it, it's much better to spend the extra £££ and go WDW (although, again, that's stupidly expensive aswell) And secondly, the standard and variety of merchandise is, in my view, disgusting. Walk through World of Disney at Disney Springs, and then do the same in Disney Village, and you'll see what I mean. It could be so much more with just a few tweaks. Think it would also benefit from a third gate at some point, although that won't happen anytime soon

Disneyland also recently won the Digital Experience Awards for the best mobile app.😂

Nice video! The comments about the welding repairs to tracks seem to verge on fear mongering. I agree, they are noticeable and chip away at the fantastic theming, but I don’t think that makes them unsafe. Of course, I’m no expert, but I think you should add a caveat in future videos when commenting on safety as that’s an important topic for some. For example, how frequently do other theme parks replace tracks? Does Disneyland have any protocol they follow at other parks? That sort of information helps frame whether or not the tracks are Disneyland Paris are in bad shape, or if the signs of repair are just normal. Anyway, just a nit!

I agree with everything you said. The parks are overcrowded, nothing is working well, looks worn down and the magic is slipping away. We went on a family holiday last month and I thought it was mostly very poor. So sad it has been allowed to get like this.

I agree with everything you said there is also one thing that I'm not a fan of and it's the fact that they changed some of the ride spiels so that they alternate between english and french on each sentence. I get that there are a lot of tourists and it's such a little thing but it still breaks the immersion so much to me... The worst examples being the phantom manor stretch room and the tower of terror boiler room imo

I was there last week and BTM was down multiple times, people had to get evacuated. The biggest problem in DLP though is the people, they just don't understand customer service. Also, while I love the park, I don't love they are trying to make it fit into the one size fits all Disney parks mall. I think Bob Iger has a big role in this and forgets Europe is very different form the states.

Totally agree with everything you mentioned. Well said.

I thought Big Thunder got a retrack few years back when it closed for more then a year? As I remember correctly it just happened right after the Walt Disney company got full ownership

Disneyland paris is showing its age, for the first time ever I have decided not to take my annual trip. Am off to europa park instead !

I agree with everything in this video. I go to Disneyland Paris a few times the last years and the rides are mostly old and boring. I basically skip them all nothing worth queuing for. I personally don’t care for animatronics like piartes or the whole Toy Story land is incredibly basic and appeals to kids with no thrill rides at all. Or the rides have just had a slap of paint and called something new and that’s incredibly boring as well. It feels like Disneyland Paris doesn’t matter at all they stuff the crowds in and want us to pay top dollar for the worst experiences. One of the last times I went the fountain outside it’s a small world had the biggest crack and leak in it. It was so unlike disney to let something so broken be on show like that.

How well is the paris park actually doing? There is so much high quality competition in europe that in many ways is better then disney for a fraction of the price. Not sure major investments will make sense for the parks at this point.

Let's hear it

I will disagree with one part of this for sure....Your complaint about having to re-enter card information each time you place an order through the DLP app for food. This is a safety feature, in a park that is well known for having issues with pickpockets, I am glad that they wouldn't have the ability to lift my phone and then go on a food spending spree in every restaurant at the drop of a button like it seems you can do with the Disney World one. Is it annoying....yes. But its much much safer.

Hyper space mountain need way more investment to make it a true star wars ride. Right now its a low investment make over, but not really. I feel that with not too much investment the acrual ride in the dark could be a more star wars experience. Now its mostly dark.

I knew it, I freaking knew it

Indiana Jones is so true i love the queue and theming but the ride ist just horrible it needs a retrack and different trains with other restraints. Big Thunder yeah the downtimes get more and more and it really needs a retrack aswell. I think they are afraid to close the coasters for a really long time because lets face it havinf Big Thunder or Space Mountain be closed for year(s) i really do not know how long a retracking takes Big Thunder would take a lot of time because of the River. Prices for food yeah it is horrible but quality wise I never had a bad one. Let it be in the buffet restaurants or quick service like Cowboy Cookout or Café Hyperion The app yeah it is fucking hell

Disney should have NEVER build this park in France! Most Europeans speak englisch but only a few speak french. A lot of the cast members in Disneyland Paris don't speak an other language , they only speak french.

I've only heard bad things about DLP food. Better off eating in the village.

Food prices for me

Park's garbage, we often went there with my family but when we started going to other parks, Disney didn't stand the comparison at all. And it's even worse nowadays with all the rebranding that killed the themings. Just go to Parc Asterix, Nigloland, Europa park, Futuroscope. Those are actually good parks, Disney is garbage.

They should destroy Indiana Jones and replace it with Indiana Jones the Ride that was originally planned for the opening of the park.

Disney is a corporation and as long as enough people go there every day, no big changes will happen because they would invest too much money. You attract visitors through new attractions and not through an improved ride experience of the old attractions, in the end the money always wins

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I have to say i disagree with most of these. No one expectes Disney to be cheap price wise, on ticket or food. The rides are as rough/smooth as most at any other large parks - Alton have just retracked Nemesis so it can easily be done in large parks to much fan fare. Premierr Access is the worst - free hotel fast passes were amazing and actually did shorten the queue. The seasons being mostly the same just tweaked is exactly why we keep going back for Xmas, we love it and want more of what we loved not something hugely different that we have no connection too.

Disney World in Florida with its six parks is cheaper than Disneyland Paris. DLP is just one and a half parks. DLP has become a huge rip-off. The management there are literally taking the mickey out of its customers.

Oh come on, you’re just nagging.

Indiana Jones rough what ? Me and my Girlfriend rode it atleast 20 Times and never felt any part where it could get rough while Riding it. Also many of my friends never mentioned something about the ride being rough. The only Rough ride imo in DLP is Avengers Flight Force in the back but its a FUN kind of Rough.

Its is 100% still worth going. Nothing else compares. You all think there are alternatives but there isn't. Go to Disneyland or don't go on holiday.

jep, DLP is the worst Disney Park in the world. Lack of everything :/