Disneyland Paris & Food | Character dining at Disneyland Paris | Sunday Brunch at the Disneyland Hotel

Brunch: making morning drinking seem classy since forever

Who hasn’t yet dreamed of a fancy character experience with good food and nice drinks? Well, I’m sure I have! And as dreams are made possible at Disneyland Paris, the Sunday brunch at Inventions is the place to be for any characterloving foodie.

She works hard for the money

Before I burst into my neverending love song for this brunch experience, I will mention the price first. As you’ll see on the pictures, all the fancy food and loads of characters are amazing, but it comes at a certain price. The price for a brunch is €70 euros per person for adults (update january 2017) and 34 euros per person for children. On special occasions, prices per adult can go up to 89 euros, like on Easter, Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year (and others). Included in this price are unlimited access to the buffet, one glass of Champagne (fruit juice for children) and character hugs until your little heart is filled with love. The restaurant is open from 1pm till 3.30 for the brunch. Now this is out there, we can move on with the real magic!

I’ll see you when you get there, if you ever get there

People often wonder if you can just burst into the Disneyland Hotel if you want to eat there. Well YES and NO! NO, because it is fairly impossible to get into the restaurant to eat without a reservation made at a certain time. And YES, because the Disneyland Hotel is open to everyone. You don’t have to sleep there to go in and have a stroll through the Victorian themed lobby and the hotel shop.

If you don’t know where to go, then it doesn’t matter which path you take

The restaurant is easiest to access by the side door to the Disneyland Hotel. If you stand in front of the hotel from outside the park, you just have to go all the way to the right and take the door there, which leads you directly into the lobby. On the other hand, if you’re coming from inside the park, exit through the left hand side and you’ll reach the same door. Once inside,  take a moment to appreciate the smell of the Disneyland Hotel. If you’ve never been, this will be the weirdest thing. If you’ve already been inside: fistbump! You know what I mean! To get to the Inventions restaurant, you can take the elevator (the restaurant and bar are indicated on the buttons) or take the staircase all the way up. Then you have to take the glass walkway corridor over the entrance to the parks and pass the hotel boutique into a smaller lobby. Here you find the bar, and two restaurants, so into Inventions you go…

Eat all the food in the world

The food formula at Inventions is a stuff-your-face all-you-can-eat buffet. The buffet consists of 4 main parts: cold starters and soup, seafood, warm main dishes and dessert heaven. Everything is set out really nicely and if it doesn’t look delicious anymore because too many people touched the food, it is replaced by fresh delicious stuff. Also be sure to look out for the ice sculpture in the seafood part. You can pick anything you want and don’t even have to take your plate back to the buffet, you can always take a fresh plate. Just be sure you eat everything you picked out, because throwing food away is such a waste. The food is actually different on every brunch, because it is also adapted to the theme of the brunch, which I’ll talk about in the characters part. I’ll let the pictures speak for itself now, be sure to have at tissue at the ready for if your mouth starts watering.

 

  

   

This was the buffet on November 29th, 2015:

Step inside the storybook

Now on to the characterside of the brunch, which is actually the main part for me. Every brunch is themed and all character outfits are adapted to the given theme. The presence of certain characters is never sure, only Mickey and Minnie are for sure there to welcome special guests according to the theme. The character interaction is always great and they take a lot of time at each table. I’ll give an overview of all themes and characters outfits that I’ve been to since I started doing the brunches in October 2013, so you have an idea of which characters usually attend.

London brunch (October 27^th, 2013)

Mary Poppins & VIPs in the Main Street outfits

Cinema brunch (November 24^th, 2013)

VIPs in Stars ‘n Cars outfits

Note: the outfits for the Cinema brunch have changed in the meantime, but these might also randomly appear in the Cinema themed brunch

Chinese New Year brunch (February 2^nd, 2014)

Mulan & VIPs in Chinese outfits

Inca brunch (March 2^nd, 2014)

Kuzco & VIPs in Aztec outfit

Note: This theme was only held once, although I hope they’ll bring it back

Alice in Wonderland (April 20^th, 2014)

Alice in Wonderland characters & VIPs in flashy spring outfit

Note: this brunch is usually held every year on Easter

Aristocats brunch (April 21^st, 2014)

Aristocats & VIPs in French outfits

Halloween brunch (October 31^st, 2014)

VIPs in outfits of Mickey’s Trick or Treat in the Street show

Aristocats brunch (November 23^rd, 2014)

This is the only brunch I did twice, and I was lucky enough to see Daisy there in a pretty outfit

Oriental brunch (February 1^st, 2015)

Aladdin & VIPs in 1001 nights outfits

This brunch is also held with other outfits for Aladdin and VIPs in a more streetrat way

Spring brunch (March 1^st, 2015)

Mary Poppins & VIPs in the Spring Cavalcade outfits

Cinderella brunch (April 12^th, 2015)

Cinderella & VIPs in fairytale outfits

Safari brunch (May 10^th, 2015)

VIPs in Adventureland outfits

Farmer brunch (October 11^th, 2015)

Three little pigs & VIPs in farmer outfits

Also on a seperate blogpost, because I've redone this brunch later on:

Orient Express brunch (November 29^th, 2015)

VIPs in special Orient Express outfits

Brunches I attended in the meantime...
Click on the pictures to view seperate blogposts about brunches I attended after I wrote this blogpost

I hope this post has brought a little magic into your Sunday

Love,

Gaëtane