Disneyland if you hate rides?

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DC school is offering a trip to Paris for students studying French.

A week of sightseeing including a day at Disneyland.

DC (14 yo, ASD) hates theme parks but would love to see Paris, so is keen to sign up for the trip.
Does Disneyland have other stuff to offer if you don’t like fast rides?

Anyone who has been have any specific suggestions of tame rides or other things to do?

They have loads of shops and shows. Even without going on rides, it's still a great place to go!

I was in disneyparis last weekend. If she has a choice, tell her to go to the studios, there are more shows so would be better for her. The main park only had the lion king show and one parade.

There are some slow rides which are lovely - depending on the time of year, it's a good chance to warm up/cool down! Pirates of the Caribbean and It's a Small World are particularly good for this. There are also walk around exhibits, like Nautilus and the dragon in the dungeon.
I definitely wouldn't miss out on a full week of sightseeing if there's just one day spent doing something they're not keen on!

^^ also the view from the Robinsons' Cabin is lovely, as well as the walk around Alice's Labyrinth. Buzz Lightyear is a fun and silly shooter ride, the movements can be a bit jerky - though I get horribly motion sick but only ever struggle with that one if my ride partner spins it like mad!

The steam train around the edge of the park is lovely too. If they want to skip rides altogether, the Hyperion cafe in Discoveryland shows classic Disney cartoons or similar on a loop and you can sit quietly in there indefinitely.

Watching cartoons and shows sounds good! Will google those rides too.

It is at the end of next term, so late July, will probably be hot! Bit short notice, we have to sign up and pay deposit next week, and letter came last day before Easter break, so DC struggling a bit with having to make a quick decision. So any specific information will help.

Agree it would be a big shame not to go on the trip at all.

Does she get DLA or PIP? If so she can access the rides without having to queue.

There are as many gentle/ slow rides as fast ones and plenty of other things to do. They will love it once there.

It might be worth checking if they are all doing Disneyland on the same day - if there's more than one group, perhaps your DC could join another group for the theme park day.

There’s absolutely loads to do without going on any big rides

I run a school trip to Disney, usually different groups splinter off with those who don't want to do fast rides. There's still loads and loads to do. I've been about 5 times now and still haven't seen it all! As others said, don't let one day of Disney put them off a wonderful week.

There lots to do that doesn't involve rides - shows, characters & shops. I prefer Disneyland Park over Studios, especially for a general mooch around, I think it has a nice vibe.

We recently took our 1 year old (turned 2 the day after we got back) and I worried it would be a risk if he turned out to be too young / hate rides so Googled all the other things to do in that scenario. There is so much to do there without going on rides and just being there is magical. It turned out he's an adrenaline junkie and even enjoyed the process of queuing (I'm the same so I see fun times in our future going round all the theme parks) but had he not liked it we had lots planned around the studios and shows/ parades and dining experiences. In the end he wanted nothing more than to queue with his pringles and singing songs and to get hyped up on the rides. Also if they get to stay for the fireworks that was his absolute favourite part and he insisted on watching it on the last night too so he actually got 2 very late nights but his excitement seemed to carry him through without a tantrum in sight. It was brilliant! Hope they have a wonderful time whatever happens x