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Pirates of the Caribbean in Adventureland

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Pirates of the Caribbean

Reviews (9.38 Stars)

  • Don’t miss this!
  • May frighten some

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  • Indoor boat ride through a spectacularly immersive Audio-Animatronic pirate story with 2 small flume drops.

  • Opening Date

    12th April 1992

  • Attraction Type

    Water flume dark ride

  • Location

    Adventureland,
    Disneyland Park

  • Duration

    10 minutes

  • Capacity

    22 Guests per boat,
    40 boats

  • Category
  • Family Adventures
  • Wait Times
  • Short
  • Who’s it good for?
  • Children 3-7
  • Children 8-12
  • Teens / Young Adults
  • Adults
  • Seniors
  • Overview
  • Video

Overview

Drink up me hearties, yo ho!

Set sail on a spirited moonlight voyage through the balmy lagoons and seaside forts of the Caribbean, as a band of villainous pirates stage a full-scale attack on an overwhelmed fort.

The last attraction to be personally supervised by Walt Disney before his death, Pirates of the Caribbean opened in 1967 at the original Disneyland in California. Twenty-five years later, this version at Disneyland Paris refined and redefined the entire experience, reorganising the story and bringing every Audio-Animatronic and every special effect bang up to date.

However, whilst this version has the advanced technology of the 1990s, it steered clear of the Jack Sparrow-orientated film tie-ins added in California and Florida in 2006. Therefore, what you see here is the attraction just as Walt originally intended it.

From the jolly theme song to the crashing flume drops, to the disorientating and wonderfully atmospheric queue line, this attraction is not only one of the very best at the park – nor the resort – but one of the greatest themed attractions in the world. Drink up the atmosphere — it only gets better each time.

Trivia & Fun Facts

  • Features a cast of 119 state-of-the-art Audio-Animatronics characters, including 55 animals and 12 skeletons!
  • The two duelling swordfighters are unique to the Parisian version of the attraction and were the most advanced figures of their kind ever created when the attraction opened.
  • In the other international versions of the attraction, guests take a drop first to send them “back in time” to when pirates roamed the Caribbean. This was originally a necessary step to get the boats beneath the railroad tracks to the huge showbuilding beyond the berm. In Paris, the Imagineers took the chance to reorganise the story from the start to use the drops simply as plot points.
  • Approximately 30,000 individual pieces of treasure, affixed by hand by the Imagineers, can be seen in the Dead Man’s Caves finale.
  • Find on Photos Magiques

Helpful Tips

  • Large boats with a capacity for up to 20 people mean Pirates in Paris rarely has a queue of over 15 minutes. Its position right at the back of the park also means you can often acheive the dream of a Disneyland “walk-on” most mornings and evenings.
  • If you take advtantage of Extra Magic Hours, wait by the Fantasyland/Adventureland gate (near Peter Pan’s Flight) at 10am and you’ll be first in line for the attraction.
  • Related to this: Blue Lagoon Restaurant, Le Coffre du Capitaine, Le Comptoir du Capitaine
  • You might also like: “it’s a small world”, Phantom Manor

Important Advice

  • Not recommended for children under 1 year old. Features two short indoor flumes, one after the prison scene, another after the burning town.
  • Transfer from wheelchair required.

Video

More from Adventureland…

    • Attractions

      • Pirates of the Caribbean
      • Indiana Jones et le Temple du Péril
      • Adventure Isle
      • La Cabane des Robinson
      • Le Passage Enchanté d’Aladdin
      • La Plage des Pirates

    • Other Locations

    • Closed & Replaced

      • Indiana Jones… A l’Envers!
      • Adventureland Bazaar
      • Explorer’s Club Restaurant
      • Aux Epices Enchantées
      • L’Echoppe d’Aladdin
      • La Reine des Serpents
      • Le Chant des Tam-Tams

    • Restaurants

      • Blue Lagoon Restaurant
      • Agrabah Café Restaurant
      • Colonel Hathi’s Pizza Outpost
      • Restaurant Hakuna Matata
      • Café de la Brousse
      • Captain Hook’s Galley
      • Coolpost
      • Le Comptoir du Capitaine

    • Boutiques

      • Le Girafe Curieuse
      • Les Trésors de Shéhérazade
      • Le Coffre du Capitaine
      • Indiana Jones Adventure Outpost
      • Temple Traders Boutique

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