food IS a theme park
If you go to Disneyland but didn’t take a pic with Mickey Mouse, did you even GO to Disneyland?!
Lamplight Lounge View
The answer is, of course, YES, but getting a fun selfie with Mickey Mouse is kind of important!
Recently, Disneyland Resort announced that it would reopen its theme parks at the end of April.
Disneyland
Although Disney World was able to open in July of 2020, Disneyland has been unable to open because of the strict guidelines the state of California set for theme parks to be able to open. Now, California has released updated theme park reopening guidelines as the biggest theme parks in Southern California prepare to reopen.
There has been a LOT of news about Disneyland Resort in the past few weeks.
Disneyland
Not only is Disneyland reopening next month, but there are also some serious expansion plans in the early phases! Of course, we’ve been stopping by to check out the everyday updates too, so here’s everything new we spotted in Disneyland this week!
Today, Disneyland announced potential plans for a HUGE expansion.
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That may take years to come to fruition, but there’s one new land we know for SURE is coming to Disney California Adventure:Â Avengers Campus!
Disneyland theme parks aren’t fully reopening for another month, but we got some HUGE news out of Anaheim today: Disneyland Resort is trying to expand!
Disneyland
It’s dizzying to dissect everything Disneyland has released information about like theme parks, retail, and parking expansions, and to make sense of all these potential future plans, Disney launched a new website, DisneylandForward.
ICYMI: Disneyland is reopening soon!
Disney California Adventure
While Disney California Adventure is currently open for the ticketed A Touch of Disney event, the rides remain closed until the park’s official reopening on April 30th (Disneyland will reopen then, too!). We’ve been cruisin’ around A Touch of Disney trying all the snacks, checking out the crowds, and even stopping for some photos! But today, we spotted a sign that the rides are getting the spiffying they need so they’re ready to go at the end of the month.
Lamplight Lounge has FINALLY reopened at Disney California Adventure (after a year of being shut down) as a part of the “A Touch of Disney” ticketed event!
Helloooo From Pixar Pier!
Lamplight Lounge has a prime location on the water at Pixar Pier , and their menu mixes highly themed drinks with iconic DCA dishes. Plus, they have a (not-so-secret) secret menu! We previously shared a first look at our experience, and now we’re here to give you all of the details! Let’s cross into the world of Pixar and dive right in!
Listen, it’s hard to get tired of spotting Mickey and Minnie in Disney, but there’s just something extra thrilling about a photo op with a RARE Disney character!
MICKEY!!!
As we’ve been giddily exploring A Touch of Disney at Disney California Adventure, we found the COOLEST photo op ever with an adorably surly Pixar icon!Â
In case you missed it, Disneyland Resort is reopening at the end of April! But before that happens, we got a chance to check out the A Touch of Disney event that let us shop — and EAT — all over Disney California Adventure!
Reunited!
But that’s not all we did — because we also got to reunite with characters we hadn’t seen in Disneyland in over a year (we’re not crying, you are!) AND got to have some fun with new photo ops!
We were at Disney California Adventure yesterday for the first official day of A Touch of Disney — a ticketed food and shopping event that takes us inside a full Disneyland theme park for the first time in over a year!
Pixar Pier
While Buena Vista Street was open to guests for the last few months, this is the first time since March of 2020 where we can explore Pixar Pier, Cars Land, Grizzly Peak, and more! We stopped by Sonoma Terrace to check out their menu, which features return items from California Adventure Food & Wine Festivals as well as a beloved Disneyland dish!
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