Disneyland Paris: the Snow Queen zone gets an opening date

Visit Arendelle and experience new adventures alongsideElsa and Anna... That's what Disneyland Paris has in store for you with its brand-new Snow Queen themed zone, currently under construction at Walt Disney Studios (future Disney Adventure World). This new zone will plunge you into a unique universe, for the ultimate in immersion. And at the 2024 edition of D23, the Disney fan convention, Josh D'Amaro, head of the Experiences division, announced an opening date... See you in 2026 to discover the beauty of Arendelle!

Presentation of the construction site in the Lake and Snow Queen areas:

A new zone that has shown up episodically, since Bob Iger announced the extension in 2018. We had to wait until September 9, 2023, on the occasion of Destination D23, to get a last glimpse of the construction site, showing the progress of work on this new zone. A zone that had already been revealed through construction plans, made available to the public in February 2020 and shared by our OutsidEars colleagues on Twitter. These plans already gave us a glimpse of the area and the location of the various spaces.

What does this new Snow Queen zone have in store for us?

So, as announced, there will be a restaurant, an attraction, two stores and a "Meet & Greet" (a place where you can meet various Disney characters) where children and their parents will be able to meet their favorite princesses. And we now know a little more about these different areas: the restaurant will be a fast-food restaurant with a queue and seating for 250. As for the "Meet & Greet", our colleagues at OutsidEars have also given us some information, namely that the queue will be reduced. And with good reason: you'll need to make a reservation to meet the princesses, via the Lineberty service.

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On the store side, according to a December 2019 issue of the "Recueil des actes administratifs", this first store could logically be 173m2 in size, and would be accompanied by a 62m2 kiosk. As for the attraction, there's no official information from Disneyland Paris, but our colleagues atOutsidEars, like those at Walt Disney World News Today, confirm the rumours that are circulating, namely a boat ride, an improved version of an attraction already existing at EPCOT, in the Norwegian pavilion: Frozen Ever After. Visitors are invited to board a boat and relive the adventures of Elsa and Anna in 10 emblematic scenes (12 including the embarkation and disembarkation), all with a fall (or even more), just like in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction.

Note that this attraction is also under construction at Hong Kong Disneyland, in a similar version to the Parisian Snow Queen zone. We can't wait!

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