On our most recent trip to Disneyland Paris we stayed at Disney’s Newport Bay Club. This vast resort sits on the shores of Lake Disney and is considered a ‘moderate’ level resort. But what are the rooms actually like? We’re sharing all the details so you can decide if this hotel is right for you.

Overview

Newport Bay Club hotel is themed to turn of the 20th Century seaside resorts in the North East USA, particularly in New England. As such the resort boasts a distinct nautical theme. For those who have stayed in Florida’s Walt Disney World resort, Newport Bay Club has a similar look and feel to the Yacht Club resort, but a bit less deluxe!

In its most recent refurbishment (which was a few years ago now to be fair), the rooms were refreshed to add details for Mickey Mouse and the fab five. Newport Bay Club is actually the only one of the Disneyland Paris hotels themed to these classic Disney characters. So for fans of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto, Newport BayClub might be the perfect resort.

Finding your room

Unlike the value resorts (Disney’s Hotel Cheyenne and Hotel Santa Fe), and the also moderately priced but less expensive Sequia Lodge Hotel nearby, Disney’s Newport Bay Club is essentially all in one large building. You might think that will make it easier to find your room, but the truth is anything but!

When it opened, Newport Bay Club was the largest hotel based within one building in Europe. That’s no longer true, but the resort still boasts well over 1000 rooms set over several floors. The hotel is split into 3 sections for guests rooms – the Main Building (the central part of the resort), the East Wing, and the West Wing. It’s worth noting that despite part of the resort being called the Main Building, the East and West wings are still joined on to the hotel and accessible from the inside corridors. There is technically another joined on section on the Western side, the Conference Centre, but of course there’s no guest rooms here.

The guest rooms are split over several floors in the building. There’s two main banks of lifts, one set towards the East Wing, and one towards the West. The main amenities (reception, shop, bar, restaurants etc) are all based in the Main Building on the first and second floors. When it comes to finding your room, it’s worth noting that all the corridors look the same, and it can be a bit bewildering at first. Our tip here is to look for directional signs in the corridors that have room numbers on a map – these are actually placed for fire evacuation but we found it really helpful for finding our room the first time!

Room location wise, we think the Main Building might be the best option as it’s got the best access to the Hotel Amenities, the shuttles to the parks (out the front of the hotel), and the door that leads to the walking path. The West Wing is nearer to the parks but access doors out are limited, you’ll mostly be directed back to the Main Building to exit. The East Wing is probably least desirable for proximity to the parks but it has one big advantage – the pool is in the East Wing so avid swimmers might prefer to be here!

Getting access to your room

When you arrive at Newport Bay Club you’ll receive your Magic Passes. These are multifunctional – they’ll be your room key, park tickets, and keep record of any meal plan credits you may have. Everyone in the group will have one (except infants) so don’t lose them!

One thing to note about Newport Bay Club that’s different to the value resorts is that you don’t have to insert a room key in a slot to make the power work in the room – it just works! I wouldn’t be surprised if that gets changed at a subsequent refurbishment for energy saving reasons but we’ll just have to wait and see on that one.

Note with the Magic Passes is that they are yours to keep, you don’t need to return them to reception on checkout day. Think of it as a free souvenir! (And let’s be honest, those are few and far between from Disney so may as well take advantage).

What’s in the room

The rooms at Newport Bay Club Hotel are a good size and very comfortable. They don’t quite have the amenities of the nearby more deluxe hotels (the Disneyland Hotel and the Hotel New York) but they have pretty much everything you need.

When you enter your room you’ll have either on your left or right (depending where you are in the building) a space which on one side will have your sink. There’s only one sink but there’s a lot of counter space, and cupboards underneath. There’s a good mirror above the sink too that’s pretty well lit. Above the sink to the side is the inbuilt hairdryer and shower plug. Fair warning, it’s not great! If you like to blow-dry your hair you might want to think about bringing your own (with suitable adaptors as needed too).

Opposite the sink there’s a storage area – rails with hangers where you can hang up clothing, with a shelf up above. You’ll also find here your in room safe, and there’s another shelf underneath the hanging space, with more room underneath. We found this a great space for storing cases and the like.

Beyond the sink and storage area was the bathroom. In our bathroom there was a shower over a bath, a seat, and then behind the door was the toilet. There was a spare toilet roll next to the toilet. The room also has a trash can, and hanging rails for towels (and you get a good supply of those).

Toiletries wise our room had a bottle attached to the wall of combined body wash and shampoo. There were also little bottles of shampoo and conditioner, with very cute themed Mickey lids! The sink had next to it a bar of soap, and there are glasses here too. The bathroom was separated from the sink and storage area by a door, but there was also a curtain separating the sink and storage area from the rest of the room, so that three people could get ready at once in privacy if you wanted.

Heading into the main bedroom, you have a full length mirror, and then a large TV mounted to the wall with a dresser underneath. The dresser had several large drawers on it so plenty of storage space here! Also under the dresser is a charging point, USB A points and a HDMI port to allow you to connect devices to the TV if you wanted. For the TV itself it doesn’t have many TV channels in English and actually functionality to use things like YouTube was less here than it was in the cheaper Hotel Cheyenne, I guess that’s because Cheyenne was refurbished more recently! So as and when Newport Bay Club gets a room refurbishment that might well change. You can log in with your Disney+ account on the TV though if you like.

Next to the TV and dresser are two chairs, we had one pushed against the wall, and another at a corner desk! This desk also had a mirror overhead, and underneath the mirror a number of power points – including one for UK plugs! That’s handy for folks from the UK but we’d still recommend packing an adapter or EU plug, and a power bank as the number of power points still isn’t enough for a lot of devices (or at least it wasn’t for us but we did have phones, smart watches, cameras and laptops to sort out which probably won’t be the case for most people!)

One one side of the desk there’s a kettle and coffee maker, and on the desk is a box with various coffee and tea bits and bobs for those that enjoy a brew. The Coffee Machine is a Lavazza Blue and take pods if that helps anyone! On the other side of the desk we had two bottles of water and glasses, which were much appreciated.

As you’d expect the far end wall of the room had a large window, which in our case led out to a very small balcony! The curtains here actually did a good job filling the window which isn’t the case at Cheyenne or Santa Fe.

Finally the rooms have two double beds. We found these larger than the beds in both Cheyenne and Santa Fe, and more comfortable too! The beds have a unit in between with the in room phone on it, which you can use to call reception, housekeeping etc. Annoyingly there’s no power points here which makes charging a phone overnight next to the bed difficult.

Finally near the beds is the room thermostat. Word of warning though, it doesn’t do much! Because of French laws on the temperatures hotels can be set to, the temperature is pretty much all centrally controlled. We found the rooms a bit too warm for our liking so if you have space for one packing a fan might not be a bad idea.

For the theming details you can find pictures depicting Mickey and pals in the border around the room. You’ll also find hidden Mickeys in the carpet and on the curtains, and look out for the Mickey’s in the bed headboards too! (I won’t call these hidden Mickey’s because they’re pretty obvious to be fair!)

What are the beds like?

Those long theme park days mean you need a good night’s sleep, so the quality of the beds are important! And we found the beds at Newport Bay Club pretty decent.

The beds are certainly larger than those in Cheyenne and Santa Fe, and the mattress was pretty good quality and comfortable. It was a bit too firm for my tastes but then I’m used to a much softer memory foam mattress so it was never likely to match up to that! The pillows are very soft so worth noting if you like a firmer pillow. (I liked them, Ken would have preferred something firmer). In really good news the beds didn’t make creaking noises every time you sat on them or turned over, which was the case at Hotel Cheyenne, so a big plus for Newport Bay Club there!

A couple of things to note about the beds. All the rooms have the two double beds, which may or may not work for your group depending on the mix of guests you have going with you! Also the beds in our room at least were divans so went pretty much all the way down to the floor, so no real room for storing anything underneath (but room enough to lose things that roll under there as we discovered…)

What’s not in the rooms

The rooms at Newport Bay Club have a lot to offer, but that doesn’t mean they’ve got everything you might need!

One thing that’s missing in the rooms is a fridge – despite there obviously being a space for one in one of the cupboards under the sink. Fridges in European hotel rooms aren’t all that popular, and onsite at Disney you’re really looking at club level rooms in the hotels to find a fridge there. If you have medication that needs to be refrigerated you can store it at reception, or keep it cool in something like a FRIO pack (we used these to great effect). The rooms do also have ice buckets and there are ice machines if you’d like to cool any drinks etc. Drinks can be bought in the resort shop. But don’t buy any food items that need to be kept refrigerated as sadly you won’t be able to!

There’s also not a microwave in rooms, although again they’re not that common in European hotel rooms. There are microwaves available in the onsite restaurants if you need them (note that they’re really there for baby food, I’m not sure how the staff will take it if you start heating up a ready meal or something. If you try it let me know!)

Also as noted above, despite there being some plug outlets and USB ports, the amount of charging points in the room is unlikely to match the demand for the number of devices we have nowadays, so a charging bank to allow you to charge multiple devices from one plug socket is a great idea here. We did also hear a couple of folks complaining that the charging from the USB port in the room was ‘painfully slow’ – we’re not sure if that’s typical though or those guests just happened to have a glitchy USB A port!

Also as noted above, the temperature in the rooms is mostly controlled by reception so the thermostat isn’t all that helpful really, and there are no fans in the rooms. Maybe bring your own if you’ve got the space!

Room views

The rooms at Newport Bay Club tend to look out either over the front or back of the resort.

Those at the front will have views of the porch and parking, as well as the landscaping here. Our room actually looked out this side, we were almost directly above the entrance doors. We were worried about potential noise from the hustle and bustle outside but we really didn’t notice anything! (We do bring a white noise machine with us though so that probably helped).

On the other side of the building rooms overlook Lake Disney, with views across towards Disney’s Hotel New York and Disney Village. These views can be stunning. They might also cost you more money as Disney can charge extra for Lake View rooms, so a heads up on that!

Rooms on the West Wing may also look over a bit of the conference centre, and in the East Wing look towards the pool.

Would we recommend it?

In a nutshell, yes. Newport Bay Club has a lot going for it – a cute theme, decent rooms and good proximity to the parks.

There are some things that make us wary of this resort though – one is room location. We lucked out and got a room in the main building so we were pretty centrally located. If we’d been at the far end of the East Wing we might be saying something different! For anyone with mobility differences we’d recommend requesting a Main Building room so you’ve got decent proximity to the lifts.

We’d also probably bring a fan with us next time to combat the less effective air conditioning, but that’ll depend on the time of year and your mileage may vary!

The rooms could use a little bit of modernisation here and there (particularly with the number of power points) but these are minor and easy to work around. Once Sequoia is done with its refurbishment in 2026, I’d expect either Newport Bay Club or Santa Fe to be next on the refurbishment schedule, so the rooms will probably get a glow up then. But in the meantime the rooms are nice and comfortable. Also this might be a unique to us and other crazy vloggers out there but I loved having the desk here for sorting videos at the end of the park day – much easier on my back than sitting on a bed as I had to do in Santa Fe and Cheyenne!

Our only other slight quibble with Newport Bay Club is the price, it’s the third most expensive of the onsite hotels so isn’t affordable for many. But the location and amenities might make up for that, and we love the Mickey Mouse touches. For us we prefer the outdoorsy vibes of Sequoia Lodge, but that’s entirely a personal taste point and is nothing against Newport Bay Club at all.

If you’d like to learn more about Newport Bay Club we have a couple of videos on our YouTube channel. You can watch a room tour:

And we also have a full resort tour so you can see all the hotel amenities!

If you’d like to compare Newport Bay Club to the two value resorts you can find blogs about the rooms at Cheyenne and Santa Fe. We also have room tours from both Cheyenne and Santa Fe on our YouTube channel, and full resort tours of Cheyenne and Santa Fe too!

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