Get ready for a throwback to your high school grad night! It’s a reunion party celebrating the last 6 decades. On select nights in June, this separately ticketed Disneyland After Dark event invites you to remember the fun, reunite with friends and get a little nostalgic in California Adventure.

During this event, you can enter the park at 5pm PT (official event hours are 8pm – midnight), without park reservations, enjoy attractions with shorter waits, see characters in their graduation attire, dance the night away at a dance party, nosh on nostalgic eats, take commemorative photos against retro backdrops, and much more.

Join the fun on June 23, 28 and 30, 2022. Tickets for this event will go on sale April 28, 2022 after 12pm PT. Chances are, they’ll sell out fast, so buy as soon as they’re available.

For more details, check out this Disneyland page:

• Disneyland Grad Nite Reunion

If you want me to help plan your Disneyland trip, feel free to contact me. We plan to go over there later this year.

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For a quick overview of the Disneyland parks and resorts in California, check out this e-brochure.

• Disneyland e-brochure

It will be kept up to date on this site, so you can always return to this link for the latest information. Just bookmark the link. Don’t download it.

Exciting News!!

On April 22, 2022, the “Main Street Electrical Parade” and “Disneyland Forever” fireworks spectacular will return to Disneyland park, and “World of Color” will return to Disney California Adventure park. “Fantasmic!” is preparing for its return to Disneyland park on May 28, 2022.

Upon its return, the “Main Street Electrical Parade” will be celebrating its 50th anniversary. In honor of this milestone, there will be exciting new elements, including a new finale with scenes from stories such as “Encanto,” “The Jungle Book,” “Raya and the Last Dragon,” “Aladdin,” “Coco,” “Mulan,” “Brave,” “The Princess and the Frog” and more.

“Main Street Electrical Parade” and “Disneyland Forever” will be available for a limited time at Disneyland park. When “Disneyland Forever” fireworks spectacular comes back on April 22, it will run weekends only (Friday through Sunday). “Mickey’s Mix Magic” will present its high-energy, projections-only show during the week (Monday through Thursday) until late spring. At that time, “Disneyland Forever” fireworks will then run nightly in the summer. “World of Color” and “Fantasmic!” will return to their regular schedule upon reopening. Check your Disneyland app for showtimes.

Hopefully, you can catch these nighttime shows when they return!

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The California Adventure Food & Wine Festival at Disneyland’s California Adventure Park is starting on March 4, 2022 and will go through April 26, 2022. This will be a celebration of California’s incredible bounty with vibrant cuisine, entertainment and more.

There will be outdoor food and drink kiosks, cooking demonstrations, mixology classes, live entertainment, activities for the little ones, and of course, plenty of merchandise.

During this festival, the Soarin’ ride will have a limited time return to Soarin’ Over California! Be sure to catch that!

For details on this festival, view this Food & Wine Festival page:

• Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival

This festival may be shorter than the one at EPCOT, but there are still many unique things to explore. Let me know if you want me to help you with your Disneyland trip.

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Southern California residents can purchase a special 3-Day weekday ticket with admission to 1 park per day (no hopping) for as low as $67 per day. They are valid for select days from Jan 3rd – May 26, 2022, subject to park reservation availability. You need to live in zip codes 90000-93599, and provide proof of residency, including valid government-issued photo ID, for purchase and admission.

For specific details on this offer, read this Disneyland SoCal Offer page.

Last November, Disney announced that the entire Toontown area in Disneyland, California will be renovated to “feature new play experiences, as well as open, grassy play spaces for everyone to unplug”. Yesterday, they finally gave the specific date when it’ll be closing for this renovation work – March 9, 2022.

It will reopen approximately Spring 2023, no exact date yet on the reopening. However, it will reopen with the new Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway ride, like the one at Disney World.

If you want more details on what the new Toontown will be like, check out this article from Disney Parks Blog:

• Mickey’s Toontown at Disneyland Park to be Reimagined with New Experiences, More Play and Interactivity for Young Families in 2023

So, if you want to visit Toontown one last time in its current state, go before March 9th!

Grad Nite festivities will be back at California Adventure park in Disneyland Resort in California! On select nights in May and June 2022, Class of 2022 high school graduates, can celebrate with access to rides, foods, photo ops, and more with other graduates in this after hours party.

Dates for the 2022 parties are:

May 13, 14, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 31

June 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17

Registration is now open. There are 3 ticket options ranging from just access to the party to access to both parks during the day as well.

Grad Nite is a very popular tradition for many California high schools. You may want to plan around these dates if you’re not participating.

For more details about this event, visit the Disneyland Grad Nite page.