Main Street at Disneyland Paris

I and my family paid a visit to Disneyland Paris in February 2020, it was cold, but the park was gorgeous. So in this post, I cover Main Street.

To get to the entrance of Disneyland Park, aka the Magic Kingdom, you walk from your hotel, car, train station or bus to this area at the north end of the resort’s Downtown Disney, then underneath the Disneyland Hotel. To the west is the second gate, Walt Disney Studios Park.

After gaining entrance, it is a very similar layout to the original Disneyland. You walk under the train tunnels and there you are in Town Square on Main Street. Sadly, the trains were not running this day. (Boo!) You can see a small band stand in the middle of the plaza. No flag ceremony here.

While the layout is nearly the same, there are slight design differences. Notice City Hall. It’s in the same place but a different design. By the way, the streets are wet as it had rained over night, and while the skies are clear blue in the morning, we did have cloud cover and wind later in the day.

Unlike Disneyland in California, an onstage presence for where the Trolley Cars are kept is very visible. Because of the inclement weather that is present for a significant period of time (nearly six months) the cars have to be kept in an enclosed building.

Main Street here at Disneyland Paris is all bricks, not asphalt. The Rails for the Horse-Drawn Trolley (not running this day) still run down the middle of the street just like in California. The castle is still called Sleeping Beauty Castle, but it definitely looks more like the one in the Disney animated film “Sleeping Beauty.” Sadly, we could not walk through the castle due to the high winds that day. (See the flag on the building on the upper left!)

One of the entrances to the Emporium. The statues are a little kitschy, but cute. The Emporium is in the same relative location as the one at Disneyland in California.

The Main Street Vehicles are very similar to those found at Disneyland in California, and were running this day.

It is called the Plaza Gardens at Disneyland Paris, but it is in the same location as the Plaza Inn at Disneyland in California. Unfortunately, we did not have time to eat there as we only had the one day at this park.

Here’s a closer view of Sleeping Beauty Castle. You can see how much is looks like the animated film version. We got to this point just as they did the rope drop to open the rest of the park, and we were off.

Main Street at Disneyland Paris has side corridors running down both sides of the street and both are covered, which allows people to stay under cover from the winter time inclement weather and the park to stay open. Winter coats, gloves and hats are the order of the day there. But other than that, it’s like visiting Disneyland in California, only in French.

Want to see photos and read about the French version of Downtown Disney? This is the link.

Here is where you’ll find Part 1 of my visit to the Walt Disney Studios Park.

And here is where you’ll find Part 2 of my visit to the Walt Disney Studios Park.

The next land is Discoveryland, which you can find at this link.

Here is a look at Adventureland.