Best Things To Do In Disneyland Park In Anaheim, CA

We went to Disneyland Park successful Anaheim, California, for 10 days and ne'er ran retired of things to do!

We didn’t conscionable person a mates of household members with us, we had a full unit of 15 radical to beryllium exact!

This ample radical did mean we had to cruise done the apical attractions astatine a slower pace, and adjacent with truthful overmuch time, we didn’t get everything done.

Meeting Mickey Mouse with each my family

At slightest we person an excuse to spell back!

That being said, we did get to acquisition a lot, and decided to stock with you immoderate of our champion things to bash successful Disneyland Anaheim arsenic good arsenic our apical tips for visiting.

Things To Do In Disneyland Park Anaheim

Since Disneyland is separated by themed lands, we’ll beryllium dividing this usher into what to bash successful each zone.

Tomorrowland

Me and Savannah connected Astro Orbitor successful Tomorrowland

Tomorrowland has a futuristic space-aged taxable with a premix of rides that subordinate to what beingness volition beryllium similar successful years to come. Which is beauteous awesome!

This is 1 of my favourite lands due to the fact that it has my 2nd favourite thrust successful it, Space Mountain. It is besides the portion that seems to person the astir thrill rides.

The apical rides successful Tomorrowland are:

• Astro Orbitor: alert astir and astir successful a rocket, and you tin power however precocious you go.
• Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters: sprout aliens to triumph points, and decision Emperor Zurg!
• Autopia: thrust successful a car that goes on a track.
• Space Mountain: a transportation achromatic indoor roller coaster. It goes truly fast, has crisp turns, and abrupt drops. Definitely effort to get up beforehand for the champion experience. When we were astatine Disneyland Park, the Halloween enactment was happening, truthful Space Mountain was Space Mountain: Ghost Galaxy. It’s the aforesaid thing, but ghosts travel aft you.

Space Mountain acceptable for launch!

There are Star Wars attractions similar Jedi training, Star Wars: The Adventures Continue, but we didn’t bash that worldly due to the fact that we don’t similar Star Wars.

Also, the Disney Monorail (that you tin get connected at Downtown Disney® District) and the Disneyland Railwroad stops disconnected astatine Tomorrowland.

Tiana’s Bayou Adventure (Formerly Critter Country)

Splash Mountain

Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, formerly known arsenic Critter Country, is the onshore of Brer Rabbit and his friends. This is my favourite land.

Even though it is 1 of the smallest zones, and lone has 2 rides, it’s inactive truly amusive due to the fact that Critter Country has Splash Mountain!

While you are astatine Critter Country, you person to spell connected Splash Mountain. It is my favourite thrust successful Disneyland! And if it’s a blistery day, you tin chill down by getting soaked!

If you’re unfamiliar with Splash Mountain, it’s a log thrust and it takes you done the adventures of Brer Rabbit.

It was Savannah’s archetypal ever log ride, and she loved it!

The driblet astatine the extremity is beauteous steep, but don’t worry, determination are a mates of smaller drops during the thrust to get you warmed up. I deliberation we got much bedewed connected the small drops than the large one!

Now, let’s speech astir seating. (you’re welcome, present you are going to travel to Splash Mountain each prepared.)

Obviously you beryllium successful logs, which acceptable 7 people. We lone had to instrumentality 2 logs to acceptable our group, alternatively of twenty!

At the backmost of each log, determination is simply a bigger spot that tin acceptable 1 kid and an adult, oregon 2 kids. Also you tin take to beryllium wherever ever you similar connected the log, truthful luckily I didn’t person to spell astatine the beforehand (where you get the astir soaked).

Another thrust successful Critter Country bully for the small kids is The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

To me, this thrust was beauteous boring, but our small relative and Savannah loved it. And, you guessed it, it takes you done the galore adventures of Winnie the Pooh!

Definitely instrumentality the younger kids who aren’t acceptable to bash the bigger rides yet, oregon anybody, since it’s a dilatory ride.

The past attraction is Davy Crockett’s Explorer canoes.

Unfortunately, we didn’t get to bash this experience, since we didn’t person time, but I’ve heard it’s chill due to the fact that you paddle done The Rivers of America.

Also for a snack, lunch, oregon the cheapest meal packages for Fantasmic (more astir that aboriginal on) spell to the Hungry Bear Restaurant.

Critter Country was refurbished into Tiana’s Bayou Adventure successful 2024 and opened successful November 2024. Since the refurbishment, it has added Louis’ Critter Club, a merchandise shop.

New Orleans Square

Meeting the set successful New Orleans Square

This is different onshore we loved astatine Disneyland Park because:

1. You tin devour Mickey-Shaped beignets!
2. You tin accidental hullo to the ghosts and ghouls successful The Haunted Mansion!
3. And, you usually spot Tiana here, walking astir and doing meet-and greets.

Yes, you heard maine right. Mickey-Shaped beignets. It’s a thing. Whoop Whoop.

They aren’t arsenic bully arsenic the originals successful New Orleans, but they inactive are beauteous good. Now you don’t person to hold to eat successful New Orleans to effort one, conscionable person 1 astatine Disneyland!

One of the apical rides successful this onshore is Haunted Mansion Holiday, a classical Haunted Mansion thrust that’s Jack Skellington-themed.

It was beauteous cool, particularly the stretching room. The Haunted Mansion was done up for Halloween and Christmas portion we were there.

Haunted Mansion

It was re-themed to The Nightmare Before Christmas. We lone did this acquisition erstwhile due to the fact that we each thought it was a spot boring. We heard the archetypal mentation is better.

Adventureland

This is simply a jungle-themed portion filled with exotic stories and chaotic rides! It’s decidedly a portion that’s catered to each ages, though it’s not precise big.

A item of Adventureland is the Adventureland Treehouse, which is simply a elephantine treehouse filled with quirky rooms and imaginative play areas.

Another attraction worthy checking retired is the Enchanted Tiki Room to spot the audio animatronics, spell connected a Jungle Cruise to spot “wildlife” and bask the thrilling Indiana Jones Adventure ride.

Fantasyland

Fantasyland is the onshore wherever fairytales of Disney princesses and princes travel to life. It’s wherever you volition find the iconic Disney Castle, spot princesses travel to life, and acquisition tamer rides catered to younger kids.

Our kids were excessively aged for this land, truthful we conscionable wandered through, but if you person kids beneath the property of 6, they’ll astir apt bask this zone.

Some of the apical rides successful this onshore are:

• Peter Pan’s Flight: a gentle dilatory thrust based connected the classical Peter Pan story. On this ride, you sail done Neverland connected a gangly ship.
• Snow White’s Enchanted Wish: a communicative thrust wherever you travel Snow White arsenic she tries to evade the evil Queen.
• Dumbo the Flying Elephant: thrust successful a flying elephant and get an aerial presumption of the park.
• Mr Toad’s Wild Ride: A go-kart track.
• Matterhorn Bobsleds: a amusive rollercoaster with a mythical monster story.
• Storybook onshore canal boats: a gentle vessel thrust connected a river.
• King Arthur Carousel

Frontierland

While Tomorrowland takes you into the future, Frontierland takes you to the past. It has a Mark Twain theme, and is designed to transport you backmost to crook of the period America.

My favourite thrust successful this portion is Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, a rollercoaster that takes you astir cavernous cliffs and steep boulders connected a haunted runaway train!

In Frontierland, you tin committee the Pirate’s Lair connected Tom Sawyer Island and thrust the Mark Twain Riverboat (a steamship), oregon sail connected an 18th-century vessel.

It’s besides wherever you tin ticker the signifier show, Fantasmic! wherever Disney heroes and villians conflict it out, starring Mickey Mouse!

Fantasmic! Light Show

Fantasmic!

This is what you person each been waiting for, the Fantasmic airy show! You tin get tickets for this amusement separately to your introduction ticket.

We went online and got 1 of the cheapest meal deals, a 3-course repast bundle from Blue Bayou Restaurant. From $30, you get a tasty and steadfast meal and reserved seating for the show.

The seats wherever beauteous good, we were adjacent to the front.

The amusement was awesome, and I decidedly urge it. The lights and peculiar effects wherever truly bully too. My favourite portion was Maleficent arsenic the dragon. That’s each the spoilers I’m giving you.

Watch our Fantasmic highlights successful our video astatine the bottommost of this blog post!

Fantasmic!

There are 2 shows of an evening. I urge the archetypal show. You tin past bent astir to ticker the Fireworks implicit the castle over.

They person a fewer airy displays happening connected the stream astatine the aforesaid time.

Mickey’s Toontown

ToonTown

Toontown is an “animated land” wherever everything is made to look animated. It’s rather cool, arsenic each your photos extremity up looking similar cartoons!

Some of the apical attractions successful Toontown are Donald’s Duck Pond, Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin, Chip N Dale’s GADGETcoaster, Goofy’s How-to Play Yard, and visiting Mickey and Minnie Mouse’s houses.

This portion is catered towards younger children and toddlers, and our girls are a spot aged for this country now.

But we did privation to spot Mickey’s House. We waited astir an hr to conscionable Mickey wrong his house. It was worthy it though, due to the fact that determination was worldly you tin interact with passim the house.

And astatine the extremity we got to conscionable the 1 and only, Mickey Mouse. Mum was blessed we met Minnie Mouse astatine the quality meal due to the fact that determination was nary mode she was waiting for implicit an hr for her successful her house.

We besides saw Goofy, Donald, Daisy, Minnie and Pluto astatine Toontown. It is wherever they unrecorded aft all!

Meeting the characters from your favourite Disney movie, book, oregon amusement astir the parkland is thing we each privation to do. The characters are truthful existent to beingness (I mean phantasy life) and springiness you truthful overmuch clip and attention.

Even Mum was a spot smitten. (Be definite to talk to Gaston. He was hilarious – Caz).

Tips For Meeting Your Favorite Disney Character!

• Instead of conscionable taking pictures with Mickey Mouse oregon Donald Duck, you tin get their autograph! You tin bargain autograph books successful galore stores astir the Disney parks, including Downtown Disney. All the kids successful our radical did it and it made our Disneyland acquisition that overmuch better.
• Get the Disneyland app truthful you tin spot wherever your favourite characters mightiness be. You’ll find the characters successful the onshore their stories beryllium too. E.G. Captain Jack Sparrow tin beryllium recovered successful Adventureland/New Orleans adjacent the Pirates of Caribbean ride.
• Try a quality breakfast, truthful you tin spot a batch of characters astatine once! And you don’t person to enactment up, you conscionable hold for them to travel to your table. We did the Minnie Mouse meal astatine Plaza Inn, and the buffet meal is bully too.

Meeting Minnie Mouse astatine our quality meal astatine the Plaza Inn

• Look retired for schedules, truthful you tin get to the quality you privation to spot earlier the lines get big.
• Go spot the much fashionable characters first. You can’t get accelerated passes for them truthful champion to bash them earlier the queue gets excessively big.

The hilarious Gaston

When we went to spell conscionable the princesses, we got each dressed up. I was Jasmine, Savannah was Belle, and our relative Brooklyn was Elena of Avalor.

It was amusive to conscionable the princesses we were dressed up as!

While our parents wherever waiting successful enactment with our autograph books ready, we watched the Rapunzel show, truthful we weren’t bored waiting successful line.

That’s 1 bully happening astir The Royal Hall successful Fantasyland. There is usually a amusement on.

Get Your Disney Merch!

An implicit indispensable for your travel to Disneyland is to get Mouse ears. You conscionable person too. It isn’t the aforesaid without rocking a brace of Minnie oregon Mickey ears.

Savannah and I got the Rose Gold ears. In my opinion, they are gorgeous. Anything Rose golden is gorgeous.

Mom got the Millennial Pink ears. They are beauteous too. Dad conscionable got boring achromatic Mickey Ears.

Mum and Dad

I had my eyes connected the Rose Gold backpack for the full 2 weeks. It’s sooo pretty. But ma didn’t fto maine get it due to the fact that it was excessively costly (like $80!!)

She relented connected the Rainbow Spirit Jerseys, which Savannah and I present deterioration each the time.

Rocking our Spirit Jerseys

Two stores I would urge for Disney Merch, ears, autograph books, and much are:

1. World of Disney (Located astatine Downtown Disney)
2. Elias & Co. ( Located astatine California Adventure Park)

Elias & Co. is my favourite store. It’s truthful big, and has tons of awesome worldly including walls of Rose Gold bags that I didn’t privation to fto spell of.

For those who emotion radical Disney T-Shirts that marque a statement, cheque retired these ideas. 

Watch a Parade

There are ever parades astatine Disneyland, and they are ne'er the aforesaid each clip we visit. When we visited, determination was the Pixar Play Parade, and it was truthful overmuch fun!

It was astatine Disneyland Park for Pixar Fest, and featured floats and characters from Pixar movies specified arsenic The Incredibles, Toy communicative and more. Another chill feature, the floats person jets that sprout h2o astatine you! We sat astatine the beforehand and got beauteous wet.

There is besides chill themed music!

The parades are usually themed, e.g. ghouly ones for Halloween and Christmas ones implicit the Holiday season. Click here to spot what parades are happening erstwhile you visit!

Finish your time with the Disneyland Fireworks

We watched the firework amusement called: Remember…Dreams travel true!

This is an awesome firework amusement that goes for 16-minutes. Watch Tinkerbell alert implicit the castle, fashionable Disney characters stock their “wishes”, and astonishing fireworks.

But sadly daddy didn’t get immoderate bully photos worthy sharing. The euphony and fireworks are astonishing and I decidedly urge it. The amusement takes spot connected prime nights only.

And I volition person a Halloween enactment fireworks blog station coming soon!

Ride the Disneyland Railroad

I urge the archetypal happening you bash is to spell connected the Disneyland Railroad (an authentic steam-powered train) that takes 18-minutes to spell astir the full park, stopping astatine antithetic lands on the way.

Instead of walking everywhere, you tin conscionable instrumentality the train!

It wasn’t conscionable a boring aged bid ride. On the bid you spell done tunnels that person displays successful them. One was adjacent the Grand Canyon! Another 1 was dinosaurs.

Mom and my aunties connected Disneyland Railroad

We did a afloat loop astir the parkland and past stopped disconnected astatine New Orleans Square. We wanted to bash a afloat loop first, truthful we could spot each the lands and get excited astir what we’d acquisition astatine Disneyland.

When you archetypal locomotion into the park, marque definite to look retired for the Fire Dept. When you find it, look up to the 2nd level. In the model determination is simply a airy – that was Walt Disney’s Apartment.

While the parkland was being built, helium wanted to enactment and ticker implicit the construction. When the parkland opened helium watched his guests determination into the park.

The airy is ever near connected to support his tone wrong the park.

Tips for Visiting Disneyland Park, Anaheim

Walking on Main Street U.S.A. successful Disneyland

Get the Disneyland Resort Park Hopper Ticket

In lawsuit you’re wondering “10 days successful Disneyland! That’s crazy!” Well, the crushed for this is you tin get a 10-day Disneyland Resort Park Hopper Ticket, which allows you to spell astir each the parks wrong the Disneyland Resort – not conscionable Disneyland Park.

Honestly, it’s great. If you person a large radical similar america and we inactive didn’t get everything done successful each parks, you mightiness request it.

You tin spell successful Disneyland Park connected the greeting 1 day, spell determination else, and travel backmost astatine nighttime to ticker the fireworks oregon Paint the Night Parade, and you tin person remainder days. Then you won’t beryllium rushing and exhausted the full trip.

Get Disneyland Lightning Lane Passes

I emotion the Lightning Pass successful Disney due to the fact that they prevention you a ton of clip queuing, for lone a tiny further cost.

You tin besides get the paid add-on to your summons called Genie+, which is disposable connected the Disney App, Genie.

Meeting Donald Duck successful Disneyland

You tin bargain a Lightening Pass for 1 thrust (single pass) oregon you tin get a multipass which allows you to skip the enactment erstwhile connected each attractions.

You bash request to publication your slot connected the thrust though, which tin instrumentality the spontaneity retired of your day, but if you’re abbreviated connected time, this is simply a immense clip saver.

You besides get deals connected thrust photos.

Join the azygous rider line

Another mode to skip the lines is to enactment up successful the azygous rider line, this means you tin capable a spot by not sitting with your family.

We wanted to enactment unneurotic truthful didn’t bash this, but we tin spot however it would beryllium a bully thrust strategy if you’re connected a fund and don’t privation to fork retired for the Lightning Pass.

Disneyland Accommodation: The Disneyland Hotel

View from our country astatine the Disneyland Hotel

We stayed astatine the Disneyland® Hotel for 1 nighttime arsenic guests of the hotel.

We spent the time hanging retired astatine the pool, and going connected each the h2o slides, which was beauteous fun. Except for 1 portion erstwhile a kid peed successful the main pool.. yummy… not. (that’s 1 happening they don’t archer you astir the happiest spot connected Earth, right?)

The coolest happening astir our edifice room, was that connected a partition connected apical of the beds was the Castle, and if you flick a switch, the lights travel connected and euphony plays. That portion was cool.

It was besides amusive to spot characters successful the lobby, retired the beforehand of the hotel, and astir the excavation area.

Meeting Minnie and Goofy astatine Disneyland Hotel

We danced with Goofy retired the beforehand of the hotel, and playing with young kids astir the pool. We besides walked astir the lobby with spot and dale, and met Minnie astatine her kitchen.

Accommodation adjacent Disneyland, Anaheim

Our abrogation rental

Staying astatine a Disneyland Resort Hotel tin beryllium a precise costly mode to acquisition Disneyland. To trim your Disneyland costs, see staying astatine a edifice adjacent Disneyland.

You tin find hotels wrong walking, oregon shuttle autobus distance.

We besides urge renting a Disneyland abrogation home. We rented 1 that slept 9 radical and was lone a 10-minute locomotion from Downtown Disney.

It was awesome and the champion mode to acquisition Disneyland with comfort, abstraction and a cheaper price.

Here are a fewer of our Disneyland accommodation posts to assistance you decide:

• Best hotels adjacent Disneyland California
• Hyatt Regency Orange County: A Disney Good Neighbor Hotel
• Why You Should Consider a Disneyland Vacation Rental vs. Hotel
• Check retired these Disneyland accommodation and summons packages

Final Thoughts

So arsenic you tin see, determination is simply a batch of lands, which means tons of rides and entertainment! And don’t hide the parades and shows.

Also you conscionable characters, and person to sojourn each the stores. You conscionable person to.

So yeah, determination is LOTS to bash and astir of america person small time, truthful we anticipation this usher helped you to program your sojourn and prime retired immoderate of your apical things to do.

My favourite lands are Tomorrowland, New Orleans Square, FantasyLand, and Critter Country. What’s yours? Tell america astir your acquisition successful the comments.

Disneyland California Video

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