The Disney Hotel Santa Fe is a hotel at

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. It is designed by

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-based architect

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, whose other work stands mainly in the

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, to evoke the atmosphere of a

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in Santa Fe,

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with its typical

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architecture. Surrounding the buildings is a desert-like environment in which cacti and decorative neon have been placed to further emphasise the

ern theme. A

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screen is permanently displaying characters from the ''Cars'' franchise, and an intentionally derelict neon sign stands at the entrance. It shares an area of Disneyland Paris with Disney Hotel Cheyenne, located on either side of a man-made river called the ''Rio Grande''. The hotel opened with the ''Euro Disney Resort'' in April 1992. On 26 July 2022, Disney rebranded all their onsite hotels by dropping the

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. This meant the name was changed from Disney's Hotel Santa Fe to Disney Hotel Santa Fe.

Trails

The rooms are divided over several buildings (pueblos) in a number of so-called 'trails':
10-18 Trail of Artifacts
20-33 Trail of Water
40-49 Trail of Monuments
50-58 Trail of Legends Since the grand renovation of the hotel and with the adding of the Disney-Pixar Cars theme the trails are called Luigi, Mater, McQueen and Sally respectively.

Trivia

* Another example of recreated Southwestern

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architecture can also be found in the

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: the ''Fuente del Oro'' restaurant in

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displays massive adobe-style walls with protruding wooden beams and deeply inset windows.

References

Santa Fe Hotels established in 1992 Antoine Predock buildings Hotel buildings completed in 1992 {{France-hotel-struct-stub