Disney Hotel Cheyenne
Disney Hotel Cheyenne is a hotel at Disneyland Paris in Marne-la-Vallée, France, built as a small town of the American Old West. It opened on April 12, 1992, as one of the hotels that opened with the resort, then called Euro Disney. It was known as Disney's Hotel Cheyenne until the resort dropped the possessive from its hotel names on July 26, 2020.[1][2]
History
Cheyenne was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, who also designed Disney Newport Bay Club. Instead of a single hotel block, Stern laid the hotel out as a frontier town in the Hollywood image of the West: a main street and side streets lined with wooden facades, false-front stores, a saloon and a fort, so that walking to a room feels like walking through a town after dark.
The hotel opened with Euro Disney in April 1992. A complete renovation between 2015 and 2017 redecorated the rooms around Sheriff Woody and Jessie from the Toy Story films, in the style of Woody's Roundup, the fictional television show within Toy Story 2. The refurbishment also raised the hotel from two stars to three, the rating it still holds.
Layout and theme
The hotel's 1,000 rooms are spread across fourteen low-rise buildings, each named for a figure of Western legend or history, among them Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Calamity Jane and Butch Cassidy. The buildings have only ground and first floors, and the streets between them carry the town theming: wooden boardwalks, wagons, cacti and signs for the bank, the saloon and other frontier institutions.
Inside the rooms, the West is retold through Toy Story: cowhide-pattern bedspreads, lamps in the shape of cowboy boots, horseshoe mirrors and friezes in Woody's colours. Regular character appearances by Woody or Jessie in the hotel reinforce the link, and Cheyenne is now commonly described as the resort's Toy Story hotel, even though its streets remain a general Western town rather than a film set.
Dining and amenities
The main building contains the Chuck Wagon Café, a buffet restaurant serving breakfast and an all-you-can-eat dinner in a barn-like dining room, and the Red Garter Saloon, a bar with a stage and Western entertainment. There is also a Starbucks coffee shop in the hotel. Cheyenne has no swimming pool and no club level, which helps keep it among the least expensive of the Disneyland Paris hotels.
The hotel stands across the man-made Rio Grande river from Disney Hotel Santa Fe, and the two share the same walking route to the parks: about fifteen to twenty minutes on foot along the river to Disney Village and the park entrances, or a few minutes by the free shuttle bus.