Disney's Hotel Cheyenne is a hotel located at Disneyland Resort Paris. Designed by architect Robert A.M. Stern (who also designed Disney's Newport Bay Club), it is devised to create the illusion that it is a Western town in the archetypal Hollywood style rather than a single hotel complex.
This is accomplished through façades and other decor inspired by popular representations of the American Old West. The façades feature the names of such Western institutions as "Saloon", "Jail", "Billy The Kid" or "Annie Oakley". It shares an area of Disneyland Resort Paris with Disney's Hotel Santa Fe, located on either side of a man-made river called the Rio Grande. It should be noted that the actual Rio Grande river forms the border between Texas and Mexico. It seems appropriate, therefore, that it separates Western-themed Hotel Cheyenne and Mexican-themed Hotel Santa Fe.
The hotel opened with Disneyland Resort Paris in April of 1992.
Around 1997 the hotel was surrounded by white "desert" sand and the streets were still largely covered in this sand, giving it the feeling of a quiet desert town. A few years later however the streets had been paved and the whole town was surrounded with pine trees, the Tipi's that were located outside the town had no cloth on them anymore and they were reduced to bare wooden frames. there is also a fort on the outskirts of town, which is worth visiting. Before the pine trees were planted, hotel santa fé was clearly visible from this area, because they were only separated by the Rio Grande river.
