It has brought in 250 million animation lovers and is Europe's busiest tourist attraction but as Disneyland Paris celebrates its 20th birthday today its crippling debts mean it is not an entirely happy one.Despite charging its 15.7 million annual visitors an average of £51 to get in and meet Mickey Mouse and friends it has been revealed the park near Paris owes a staggering 1.9 billion euros.
And the financial outlook is no fairytale with its bosses saying it will take at least 12 years to pay off the mountain of debt.
Its popularity overshadows the 8.4 million visitors who go to see the Mona Lisa at the Louvre annually and the 6.6 million who climb to Paris' iconic Eiffel Tower.
But Disney's risky decision to build its European park in an area often hit by cold and wet winters may not have paid off as it posted an overall loss of 55.6 million euros last year. Read More
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