This article shall finish off my series of comparisons between the Fantasylands of the Disneylands closest to my heart (California and Paris) by looking at the shops found in that Land. The shops in the Paris Fantasyland are La Bottega di Geppetto (Geppetto's Shop), La Boutique du Chateau (The Castle Shop), La Chaumiere des Sept Nains (The Seven Dwarfs' Cottage), La Confiserie des Trois Fees (The ...

It's when she's perched at the top of a five-storey watery descent that my daughter and I both have epiphanies. In the nanosecond before descent, she realises just how profoundly angry a little girl can possibly be with her dad and I realise that she will still get that angry despite me bringing her to Disneyland. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Taking our seats on Disneyland's famous Splash ...

Disneyland guests are dancing down Main Street, U.S.A., with Mickey Mouse and the gang in a high-energy show that celebrates spring at the Disneyland Resort. The party rocks with a new street show, revs up with a new dining experience and swings for six full weeks with Disney's California Food and Wine Festival. Valuable ticket offers and vacation packages add a big bonus to the new entertainment, making ...

Nobody does fun better than Walt and his successors. She lost her stuffed puppy somewhere between the Enchanted Tiki Room and Tomorrowland. Too much ground to cover and thousands of people meant the search was futile -- we retraced our steps, but no puppy. To us, her parents, it was just another toy, but to our three-year-old daughter, the lost black-and-white stuffy was cause for ...

Disney's newest princess, Princess Tiana, will make her Disneyland debut on Friday as part of a new show, "Tiana's Showboat Jubilee!" featuring characters from the upcoming animated film "The Princess and the Frog." Billed as a rousing, colorful procession with a jazz-filled Mardi Gras theme, "Tiana's Showboat Jubilee!" begins with festively dressed, bead- tossing revelers leading Disneyland visitors ...

I end up in this hotel in Orange County whose name refers to two trees for no apparent reasonthere are no trees around, only parking lots, enormous empty parking lots. I have no idea what to do with nine free hours in front of me and no car. Every attraction is at least four miles away; even if I wished to rent a car I would have to walk five miles in the opposite direction from all the attractions, which ...

PRINCESS TO PIRATE: The shiny ringlets are perfect curled. The tiara is perfectly set. And the dress? It's all sparkle and glitter and color and dazzle. We're talking about the Disney Princess here, of course; "tiara" and "sparkle" were perhaps the obvious giveaways. She's such the mythical character that little girls and their grown-ups regularly visit Disneyland's Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique to be ...

If I could live anywhere, I would live in The Haunted Mansion, like all year long," director Guillermo del Toro said last year at Comic-Con while discussing his upcoming film featuring Disneyland's iconic haunted house. And he's not alone. Hollywood is full of filmmakers and talent who are addicted to Disneyland, which opened in 1955 and now averages 40,000 visitors a day. Zachary Levi, Gwen Stefani, ...

Who cares if it's hot? Certainly a pint-sized princess doesn't when she's busy getting bejeweled and bedazzled. Despite the Southern California summer heat, 4-year-old McKenzie Reyes was all smiles, decked out in the sumptuous long-sleeved, floor-length green Princess Merida dress, a tiara in her hair and sparkles on her fingernails. Princess Merida, for the uninitiated, is the newest Disney ...

You can tell autumn is at hand at the Disneyland Resort not by the weather or even by the Halloween decorations, but by the return of park refurbishments. Two small rides are closed in Fantasyland, the circus train and storybook boats. But the closure that will hurt during Halloween Time is the Indiana Jones Adventure, which part employees told me wouldn't be back in operation until early ...

In the land of Disney, princess always reigned supreme. However, though Sleeping Beauty's Castle, the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique and those ever-popular princesses may get a lot of the attention, Disneyland and California Adventure offer a pixie dust-less world for the guys in your life too - all in time for Father's Day in June. Cars Land Route 66 comes to life for plain-old cars and animated ...

While it may be the ''Happiest Place on Earth,'' Disneyland, in Anaheim, California, is definitely not the cheapest place on Earth. A single, one-day ticket to the Magic Kingdom in 2024 starts at $104, with prices fluctuating depending on the time of year and demand. Once you factor in fare for the whole family, as well as meals, hotels, transportation and souvenirs that are ...

Disneyland continues to make crowd management adjustments to Galaxy 's Edge queues outside the wildly popular cantina and the lightsaber and droid building shops that have drawn hours-long lines during the opening days of the new Star Wars themed land. Modest crowds overwhelmed the new 14-acre land on opening day as fans who waited overnight to be the first visitors faced snaking queues that ...

You may have to get up mighty early if you want a seat in Oga 's Cantina because the wait list for the Galaxy 's Edge cocktail bar could be full in less than an hour when the reservation-only period ends for Disneyland 's new Star Wars land. Touring Plans, which uses big data and statistical analysis to calculate daily crowd sizes and ride wait times at theme parks, estimates that the Oga 's ...

Question: Are there more Stormtroopers running around the Death Star, or moons in a star field, or nuggets of Jedi-based wisdom in Yoda's brain, or people who'd like to visit Oga's Cantina at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge inside Disneyland park? That's a riddle as tough as a Bantha is soft. But one thing is true: A lot of people out there are eager to enjoy a beverage ...

Standing at the Disneyland gates at 8:30 on Friday morning, we heard a sound in the distance. A sound no one had heard in more than 400 days: a long, friendly whistle, followed by the chugging of a steam train engine. A rousing cheer erupted from the thousands of people waiting in line. The Disneyland railroad emerged from the trees and pulled into the Main Street Station. Some ...

I've been talking about writing this story for years but until today, the eve of my youngest daughter's 13th birthday, it felt disingenuous. Now that I officially have two teenagers, and have experienced all of these phases, I feel I can share what I have dubbed the "five stages of Disney" with parents. The first is obviously the baby stage. I remember thinking what on earth ...

There I was, sheepishly skulking up to the counter at the creature stall in Disneyland 's Black Spire Outpost, asking the cast member whether I, a fully formed adult, could have one of the “Star Wars” scavenger hunt books that are clearly for kids. She kind of smirked at me as she handed it over, but in a nice way, like she could see how silly I felt and was commiserating with me. Called ...

The Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique provided countless unforgettable memories for young children visiting Disneyland and Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom for years, but it was closed during the coronavirus pandemic. The boutiques will finally be re-opening on Aug. 25 at both resorts, Disney Parks announced on June 28. Disney began taking reservations on Thursday. The Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutiques ...

Frequent Disneyland visitors will tell you that any slow season of the past is virtually non-existent today. Visitors who tire of days standing in long lines for short rides are often pushed into paying for Genie Plus, which adds even more money to an already expensive day at the park. The good news, however, is that Disneyland Resort offers plenty of attractions that aren't rides to pass your precious ...

Disneyland and Disney California Adventure are filled with various attractions, restaurants and retail shops that make for a magical visit, at least for the part of the visit where you aren 't in line. For Disneyland Resort fans and first-time visitors who want to enjoy the park more and spend less time standing in line, here are some attractions and experiences that typically don 't have long ...

Hundreds of yellow rubber ducks decorated to look like Spider-Man, Maleficent, Madame Leota, Kermit the Frog and even Donald Trump waded around the It 's a Small World waterway in the annual Disneyland Duck Races. The 2023 Disneyland Duck Races around the Small World canal were held on Friday, July 7 before the Anaheim theme park opened to the public. The loop around Small World ...