As a Travel Agent it is my job to ensure that when customers come to ask for my opinion and recommendations that I can give them first hand experience and I have been selling Disney Park tickets for years now and have never gotten round to visiting Disneyland Paris, so when a special incentive was sent around the office for a visit for a bargain price in November I decided to snap it up as an early birthday treat and booked myself into the Newport Bay Club.

The Newport Bay Club is located just 10 minutes walk from the Disney Parks and Disney Village or just jump on the complimentary transport you to your chosen park.

*~*The Newport Bay*~*

Checking in seemed to take quite a while as we entered the queue there was a member of staff halfway through that took your details from you and provided you with your registration form which needed to be completed with your name, address, date of birth, passport number and card details if you wanted to charge items to your room.

We decided to drop our bags and then go to the Disney Studios Park as it was raining and we still had the rest of the day to go and as most of the attractions would be undercover we thought this would give us the most out of our short visit.

*~*The Rooms*~*

As we entered the room it looked very plain, decorated in a nautical theme in blue, white and red. We had one large king sized bed in the centre of the room and at the foot of the bed was the large tv cabinet and drawers for storage. A small table and chair were also in the room that overlooked the Captain Cod Restaurant below.
The bathroom was immediately to the right as we entered the room and was very large with a standard size bath and over head shower and large vanity area with 4 overhead lights that did not appear to work. The safe was in the room but it had been dismantled and was unusable, not ideal when you have travel documents and money to store.
As we were both exhausted from traveling and visiting the park, we decided to have an early night so as my other half got into bed he commented on how the head board was dirty as if a can of coke had been spilt and not wiped down, urgh!
I decided to go in the bath to relax it was at this point I could tell that the plug didn't fit the hole and I had to have a shower instead.
Finally after unpacking our things I climbed into my bed and noticed various marks on the sheets as if they had been dropped in dirt and the dirt had been left to dry, I now wasn't happy.
My partner said we would complain first thing in the morning and try to switch rooms and hopefully it would be a bit cleaner, I agreed and settled down to watch some tv the choice of Disney Channel or BBC World News finally sent me to sleep and after half an hour I was woken up by clanging noises behind our room, great I thought we have noisy neighbours, I tried to ignore it and go back to sleep but the noise kept disturbing me and it was then that I realised behind our room were the elevator shafts and they were in constant use which meant the slightest noise woke me up.
I was exhausted and just wanted to get a good night's sleep after all I had been awake since 4am!!
I woke my other half who told me to pack our things and he would phone reception to get us moved, he knew that if we didn't move I would be a total nightmare and keep him awake.
Reception advised us that they would get someone to come for our bags and change our room, we were moved to a room on the same floor with a lake view, this was far away from the lifts so it was much quieter. Finally a good night's sleep.

Cape Cod is where the buffet breakfast is served and there is plenty of it.
When you check-in you are asked what time you

Pictures of Disney's Newport Bay Club, Marne-la-Vallee

The Bathroom

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The restaurant is nice and feels a much higher standard than those normally found in a 3 star property, however we only ate here for breakfast so am unable to comment on the evening buffet which was better suited for families.

The food offered was pretty expensive and our bill came to €126 for a 2 course meal and a bottle of wine but it was delicious and beats some of the 4 star restaurants that I have previously visited.

For the main course I had steamed cod with vegetables and this was the best fish dish I have ever had at a restaurant it was out of this world. My partner had the Lamb shank which was served with casserole vegetables and the waitress even came to the table first with the lamb to ensure that it was cooked correctly for him before putting it on the plate to be served..very impressive.

For a quick night cap we decided to visit the Captain's Quarters Bar only to find that it was closed for a convention, my partner was most disappointed as he felt that it was a more adult environment to the family bar Fisherman's Wharf and was not looking forward to sharing a room with Buzz'z laser blaster toys that were rapidly following us around like a bad smell and giving me a distinct headache! We decided to have a cocktail there for the very nice price of €10.00 each, the atmosphere to be fair was not too bad and we had a nice seat in front of the window overlooking Lake Disney and the other Disney hotels situated around the Lake and it was really nice that we could sit back and relax in such a nice atmosphere.

The newport bay hotel should be a 4 star hotel, the only part of the hotel that is let down are the rooms they really need to be better maintained for when guests arrive and ensure that every guest gets a similar quality room as the rates to stay are pretty high.