Disney Adventure World is open at Disneyland Paris

This weekend was the big weekend, the Walt Disney Studios Park was renamed to Disney Adventure World and The World of Frozen finally opened. It’s been quite a journey over the years, but here we are!

In this week’s newsletter:

• 🎆 Let’s take a look back at the Grand Opening of Disney Adventure World.

• ☃️ An appraisal of World of Frozen’s opening week including, yes, that Olaf moment.

• 🛏️ DVC have changed their points rental rules. What does this mean for you?

Last weekend Disneyland Paris held a media event that saw the opening of Disney Adventure World. This means that the second gate in Paris has officially been renamed and you’ll no longer hear the second park being referred to as the Walt Disney Studios Park.

You can watch highlights from the opening ceremony right here:

Then, the following day, Disneyland Paris did a cute opening ceremony to say goodbye to the old name, and hello to the new. Guests entered the park with the Earfel Tower adorned with the Walt Disney Studios Park name, and with the old Front Lot background music playing, before Spider-Man revealed the new name:

Walt Disney Imagineering also hosted a panel discussing the new World of Frozen with some insights from the film team, and those imagineers involved in the land’s creation:

And that’s it, you can now go and freely enjoy Adventure Way and the World of Frozen. We’ll obviously be talking about these expansions for years to come but these are now very real and physical places that no longer exist purely around Disney’s marketing hype - they live and breathe by the guests. There will be tweaks made to the areas as we learn guest habits, but what the imagineers have done is pretty stunning.

With a new land, and a new attraction comes new crowds, and this week has been no different. It’s no secret that during the annual pass holder previews, Frozen Ever After struggled to remain operating for a large period of time which led to concerns around how it might cope with its opening day - which was a sell-out.

The short answer is, that it has indeed suffered from some pretty significant downtimes all week, but it’s also true to say that each day is slightly better than the last. In fact, on Wednesday, April 1st, the attraction had no downtime at all.

What does this tell us? Well, firstly, the Imagineers and Operations teams are figuring out the issues pretty quickly. This bodes well for the coming years. Secondly, the attraction is very popular, but it can also handle a lot of guests each hour. When the attraction suffers downtime, it seems to face a near constant two hour line. But when the attraction operates well, this falls significantly. In fact, on April 1st, the wait time hovered between 60-80 minutes pretty much all day, and even fell to a cool 20-40 after 7pm.

The caveat to this is that, right now, Disney Premier Access is only turned on if you have the Disney Premier Access Ultimate pass. For the one shot, we would probably expect this to be turned on within a week or so. This will have an impact on wait times, but what that is will depend on how many are sold, how many are available and crowds on the day. It is something we’ll monitor for future discussion.

My advice for accessing World of Frozen is to not rope-drop it. Crowds seem to be heading directly there and it gets quite long lines, very quickly. In fact you’ll likely find yourself in a long line to just enter the land. It seems from around mid-morning you’re more able to access the land immediately and towards late-afternoon Frozen Ever After begins to quiet down. If you have multiple days, perhaps skipping Cascade of Lights on one night is your best option to walk right on the attraction.

By now, you’ll have seen it. The walking Olaf had a bit of a malfunction earlier in the week and fell.

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The Olaf animatronic at Disney Adventure World has had its first public malfunction. (Source: magictourclub/TikTok)

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It’s an unfortunate incident that seems to have gone viral worldwide. Since then, Olaf has only made appearances as part of the A Celebration in Arendelle show. It’s hoped that he will return to greet guests in the land but we’ll have to wait and see what happens here.

Over the past few years, Disney Vacation Club has been attempting to limit people profiting from their membership. On March 31, 2026, Disney revised their Disney Vacation Club terms. Whilst I have linked to the full legal text, here’s the main point Disney is trying to address:

The purchase of an Ownership Interest should be based upon its value as a vacation experience or for spending leisure time, and not considered for purposes of acquiring an appreciating investment or with an expectation that the Ownership Interest may be rented or resold. Ownership Interests are offered for personal use and enjoyment only and should not be purchased by any prospective Purchaser for resale or as an investment opportunity or with any expectation of achieving rental income, capital appreciation, or any other financial return or valuable benefit, including any tax benefit.

Essentially, DVC points are yours to use for your own vacations and you should not be making an income from it. In practice, if you are primarily using points for your own vacations and renting points periodically, nothing really changes. However, if you are purchasing a DVC membership in order to run a commercial business, you will now be stopped from doing so.

Disney also, in this document, define what is a red flag to them in determining how you are using your membership:

• Frequently booking overlapping stays

• Creating more than 20 reservations in a year which are not used by the member.

• Doing marketing or promotional work on Disney property

• Selling a majority of your points rather than you using them.

Most members are Disney fans and frequent guests, you have nothing to worry about. And if you do fall foul of these new rules, the document does say that Disney will first issue warnings, should violations occur a 24 month penalty period comes into effect which may see restrictions placed on your account.

These restrictions seem quite limited, but are clearly designed to restrict your usage in a way that allows Disney to verify the identity of the person staying in the room. For example, one restriction is a ban on using online check-in, or only permitting booking in the owners name, stopping online bookings or only permitting bookings at your home resort.

Renting points is still allowed, and buying rental points is allowed. But just with a few new caveats.

• Wall-E and Eve are meeting guests in the Pixar Place Hotel in the Disneyland Resort. These visits will take place throughout April as part of Earth Month.

• Busses in the Disneyland Resort have been saved following the decommissioning of the ART Network in Anaheim. The new operator went into effect on April 1, 2026 and is the same operator who currently runs the Cast Shuttle service for the resort.

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