The jewel of Disneyland Park in Paris, is the Sleeping Beauty Castle.
Around the castle, according with their timetable, you can find the princesses awaiting to sign your autograph books, to greet you and let you take photos with them.

The princesses rotate every 15 minutes, more or less. So, don’t be too dissapponted if (like me and my daughter) you are waiting in the large queue to see Snow White, and almost as your turn is comming, she goes and Cinderella come to continue with the session. We already had Cinderella’s autograph and photo taken with us, so we waisted our time, and my poor 3 and a half year old daughter was very dissaponted. (In my opinion, very bad organization).

Talking about the castle, it must be said the magic surround it, it’s absolutely beautiful. Underneath the castle, there is the Dragon’s Cave. A real scary articulated dragon awaits down there to scare the little ones of the family, is a must visit.

Going through Sleeping Beauty Castle into Fantasyland

You can go to the top of the castle and enjoy the magnificent view from up there , honestly I didn’t go in my visit, it was cold and rainy so I didn’t particulary fancy getting more wet. Inside the castle is beautiful, up the lovely wooden staircase you will find pictures representing the story of Sleeping Beauty, and sleeping coats of armour snoring away. Downstair there is a fantastic shop where to buy all kinds of gifts and souvenirs from the Disneyland Park.

The pink stone castle looks like a real medieval building. The attention to detail in every corner of the park makes you transport yourself to an imaginary land of princes, princesses and dragons.

Through the Sleeping Beauty Castle you will walk right into FantasyLand.

FantasyLand

Next to the Slepping Beauty Castle there is the Aladdin & Jazmin exotic Palace. Depending on where you are you will be listening to different music that provides the right atmosphere for each part. The music around FantasyLand is all very romantic and soft, magic almost.

In Fantasyland, there are many different places you would like to see, visit Peter Pan, Pinocchio and Gepetto, Alice of Wonderland, Dumbo, Is a small world after all and many more…

See below a photo gallery of the interior of the castle

The interior of the castle, staircase going to the second floor.	Motiv of the stained glass windows telling the story of the brith of Sleeping Beauty. You can admire the detais of the seiling, seiling lamp and the interior of the sleeping beauty castle.
Motiv of the beautiful seiling of the castle, as you can see the attention to detail is amazing.	Close picture of the stained glass window show above.
The bad witch motiv in this beautiful satined glass window.	Another taken of the complete stained glass window found in the second floor of Sleeping Beauty Castle.
Look and see the faboulous building found in the other side of the castle.	Fanstasyland Jack and his magic beans.
The dragon who lives in the dungeon of the castle, scary!

When you walk into Disneyland Park, magic surrounds you. Is like steping into a fairytale and become part of it. There are many places to stop for a coffee, or a hot chocolate, and so many thing to do and see that you will need to get organized before hand, so you will not miss any of the fantastic shows or the faboulous parades:

In the hotel, the information channel on the TV, will give a brief guideline of the top ten things not to miss when you are visiting Disneyland Paris, do watch it! You can even choose from a large selection of languages, so sure would be your if english is not your main language. All of this, of course if you are staying in one of the Disneyland Resort Paris Hotels. When you check into your hotel, the concierge will give you all the maps of the parks, with timetables of shows, attractions and if you are lucky and is included in your package the free entrance tickets and fastpass .

Visiting Disneyland Park

Inside the Disneyland Park, there are five different areas to enjoy, Adventureland, Frontierland, Main Street USA, Discoveryland and Fantasyland, they are all very different, decorated with different themes, but all equally superb!

Take the real steam train for a trip around the park, you can choose wich stop to take to start exploring.

It is highly recommended to plan your day ahead. If you are going on a high season, like summer, reserve your ticket on your arrival. Organize your day ahead with the programme, which tells you all timetables of the shows, parades, meeting hours and places with the Disney Characters… Also will tell you the type of rides there are available, an orange circle for the big thrills, a blue circle for family adventures and the pink circle for the more relax experiences for the little ones.

You also need to know that with the same ticket, you can visit the other park, Walt Disney Studios. located right next to Disneyland Park, even though is not as big as the first one, it offers a great amount of fun activities and rides, good amount of shops and restaurants too. There is here three new rides, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, the Crush`s Coaster and the Cars Quatre Roues Rallye.

And finally, safety in the park and information points

As soon as you get inside Disneyland Park, you will find the City Hall on your left, at MainStreet USA. There you can find find information brochures, bookings for restaurants and activities, etc.
The safety considerations are well taken care off. Of course is your responsibility to watch your children all the time, to comply with all safety notices and regulations. Also to be aware that some attractions might not be suitable for everybody, take into account that small children might be very frighten, consider the minimum height or age requirements and also the health conditions. There are several attractions you should not go on if you suffer from high blood pressure, heart, back or neck problems, motion sickness or other conditions that might be aggravated by going into this adventures. As well as that, for your own safety, they strongly recommend you to keed your arms, heads, feet and legs inside the vehicles of the rides.
Also notice that children under one year old should not go into any attractions.

There are a lost and found office (the place to go if you lose your children), Bank cash dispensers around the park, Baby care children and lost children, first aids, toilets, currency exchange, guest storage, strollers and wheel chair rentals (very practical), and of course toilets and information points through out the park. You can find the symbol that will direct you to this places.