Celebrate the Lunar New Year at Disneyland California Adventure Park from January 20 – February 15, 2023!

This celebration brings together the traditions of Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean cultures for wishes of luck and prosperity for the Year of the Rabbit.

Don’t miss Mulan’s Lunar New Year Procession honoring family, friendship and the potential for a fortune-filled new year.

Live entertainment will take place at the Paradise Gardens Bandstand throughout the day. A new Hurry Home nighttime water show will be featured at Paradise Pier. Check your Disneyland app for showtimes.

Sample a variety of Asian-inspired dishes prepared with a Disney twist at marketplaces throughout the park.

– Bamboo Blessings – new!
– Wrapped with Love – new!
– Lucky 8 Lantern
– Prosperity Bao & Buns
– Red Dragon Spice Traders
– Longevity Noodle Co.

Catch a photo with the Disney characters dressed in colorful Lunar New Year inspired attire and partake in the many crafts and activities. Stop by the Lucky Wishing Wall located in Paradise Gardens to add their own special message of hope, health and happiness for the upcoming year. Of course, there will be plenty of merchandise for your shopping pleasure as well.

Come join in the fun! I wish you a happy and healthy year!

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More Disneyland California news! It’s been quite the week of announcements!

The French Market Restaurant in New Orleans Square at Disneyland park will be reimagined into Tiana’s Palace!

Tiana’s Palace, with its peach-colored walls and fancy green wrought-iron balconies, will open later this year, followed by Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, the thrilling attraction that will open in Disneyland park in 2024.

The new Tiana’s Palace restaurant will offer authentic New Orleans flavors inspired by Tiana’s friends and adventures in this quick-service style restaurant.

The menu at Tiana’s Palace will expand on many of the current favorites served in the location, explore seasonal flavors and, of course, offer some New Orleans classics.

While Tiana’s Palace is not a character dining location, guests may find Tiana in New Orleans Square.

The current French Market Restaurant and Mint Julep Bar will be closed beginning February 17, 2023, and will reopen as Tiana’s Palace (alongside Mint Julep Bar with its famous mint juleps and Mickey beignets) later in the year. No word yet on whether biegnets and mint juleps will be available elsewhere during this closure, but I would think so. I’ll update here if I hear anything else.

As always, feel free to contact me if you want to chat about planning your Disney trip.

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In addition to all of those Disney World announcements yesterday, there were many upcoming changes announced for Disneyland in California as well!

Starting February 4, 2023, guests with Park Hopper tickets will be able to begin hopping at 11am.

Also starting Feb 4th, all ticketed park guests will receive complimentary PhotoPass digital downloads of attraction photos.

Disney will also significantly increase the number of days – nearly two months’ worth over the coming year – that will be offered at the lowest-priced one-day, one-park ticket at $104.

Magic Key passes will be available for sale more times during the year as inventory becomes available. Check the Disneyland.com/MagicKey site often for pass sale dates and availability.

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Incase you missed it, Disneyland will be the epicenter for the Disney company’s 100th Anniversary Celebration in 2023, so there will be many events related to that throughout the year.

New nighttime shows for both parks, World of Color – ONE and Wondrous Journeys will be coming soon, along with the return of the Magic Happens parade.

The Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway ride will open January 27th. Then, the rest of the redesigned Toon Town area will open March 8th.

From Jan 20 – Feb 15th, there will be Lunar New Year festivities in California Adventure Park.

They are also offering a 3-day SoCal Resident weekday ticket for $73 per day through May 25th.

So many new things are coming to Disneyland this year! This is a good year to go! We just did a fun trip to Disneyland this past December. Feel free to contact me if you want to chat about planning a Disneyland trip.

In honor of Mickey’s and Minnie’s birthdays today, Disneyland Resort has announced the official reopening date of Mickey’s Toontown in Disneyland Park in California. It will reopen on March 8, 2023!

Mickey’s Toontown is undergoing an ambitious reimagining, and will reopen with some all-new experiences for families and young children to have more opportunities to play together inside Disneyland Park.

The reimagined Mickey’s Toontown will provide open, grassy play spaces and interactive play areas for everyone to unwind, starting with CenTOONial Park, the first space guests will see when they enter the land.

In addition, you can step inside Mickey’s, Minnie’s, Goofy’s, and Donald’s houses for additional interactive fun.

Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin will return, where Guests can board Lenny the Cab and spin through the streets and alleys of Toontown as they follow the adventures of Roger Rabbit.

Climb aboard Chip ‘n’ Dale’s GADGETcoaster, where Mickey’s Toontown’s favorite tinkerer, Gadget Hackwrench, has created a one-of-a-kind, fun-sized coaster for the town’s tiniest citizens.

Two new places will satisfy your appetites in the land: Café Daisy, where acclaimed culinary expert, Daisy Duck, serves up diner classics at her sidewalk table eatery; and the Toontown Farmers Market at Good Boy! Grocers, a friendly roadside stand, offering grab and go drinks and treats.

It will also be home to the new attraction, Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway! Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway will open sooner, on Jan 27th, when the Disney 100 Years of Wonder Celebration comes to life at Disneyland Resort!

Feel free to contact me if you want to chat about planning a Disney trip.

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The holidays begin today at Disney! Let’s see what Disneyland in California has to do offer. The celebration runs from November 11, 2022 – January 8, 2023.

The Christmas Fantasy Parade will take place at Disneyland Park each day, usually at 3:30pm and 6:30pm, though check your app for the latest showtimes. Your favorite Disney characters will join Santa Claus for a merry musical celebration down Main Street, U.S.A. Gotta love those toy soldiers too!

Some rides, including the Haunted Mansion, “it’s a small world”, Mater’s Jamboree, and Luigi’s Rollicki’ Roadsters, will have holiday overlays.

Of course, there will be holiday decorations all over the parks and resorts too. Sleeping Beauty’s castle will be extra shimmery!

Don’t miss the nighttime shows! Disneyland Park will have the “Believe…In Holiday Magic” fireworks and California Adventure Park will have the “World of Color – Season of Light” spectacular.

California Adventure Park will host the Festival of Holidays, a celebration of diverse cultural festivities with music, food and fun from the traditions of Christmas, Navidad, Hanukkah, Diwali, Kwanzaa and Three King’s Day.

Of course, there will be plenty of other holiday foods and seasonal merchandise around both parks.

For more details, visit the Disneyland Holidays page.

If you want to chat about planning a Disney trip, feel free to contact me. We’re in the midst of planning a trip ourselves for the holidays! Hope to see you there!

Happy Holidays!

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The “Main Street Electrical Parade” and “Disneyland Forever” fireworks will be ending their limited-time runs on Sept. 1, 2022 over at Disneyland in California. Catch them before they end!

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.