Here we go, the new Frozen attraction has opened at Disneyland Paris on March 29. But to discover it, visitors were unpleasantly surprised by having to wait a long time, very long time.
As you can see in the video at the top of the article, at 11 am, the queue reached up to 240 minutes according to Le Parisien, which is 4 hours of waiting, before dropping to “only” 150 minutes after a temporary closure.
The attraction takes visitors into the icy world of Anna and Elsa, a boat trip with music, river descents, and encounters with the main characters from the classic. It is part of the new expansion of the park “Walt Disney Studio” renamed “Disney Adventure World”. The 2 billion euro project aims to boost the park’s attendance, which is already the top private tourist destination in Europe.
A Lion King attraction
Emmanuel Macron visited the park on March 27 and highlighted that the American group had invested a total of 13 billion euros since the decision to settle in Seine-et-Marne in 1987, leading to the park’s opening in the early 1990s. “1,000 additional direct jobs” will be created by the latest expansion, he said.
At the end of its transformation, this park will “almost double in size”, as Natacha Rafalski, president of Disneyland Paris, mentioned last fall.
Disneyland Paris, which employs around 19,000 employees, remains very discreet about its attendance figures or revenues. But its new attractions should attract more customers, and also make them stay a little longer, with more overnight stays in the region.
The expansion also offers access to other Disney worlds like the movie Tangled but not all work is finished. An attraction themed after the Lion King is set to open as well.
