Disneyland Resort is celebrating the holiday season with traditional and diverse cultural festivities at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Parks between 12NOV 2021 and 09JAN 2022.
Guests can enjoy a Disney holiday experience with more traditional experience including Sleeping Beauty's Winter Castle, "A Christmas Fantasy" Parade, and snow falling on Main Street, U.S.A., at Disneyland Park. Over at Disney California Adventure Park, park guests can experience Disney Festival of Holidays, "Disney ¡Viva Navidad!" Street Party, and the merry motor-themed holiday décor on Route 66 in Cars Land.
Throughout both parks, guests will see Santa as well as other Disney Characters dressed for the occasion, try sweet seasonal treats and beverages. and shop at their favourite Disney stores for holiday themed gifts. The Disneyland Resort holiday celebration extends to Downtown Disney District and Hotels of the Disneyland Resort with traditional décor and festive entertainment.
Disneyland Park
Guests entering Disneyland will be greeted by a 60-foot-tall Christmas tree on Main Street, U.S.A., decorated with nearly 1,800 ornaments. At the entrance to Fantasyland, the holiday spirit will shine each evening when Sleeping Beauty's Winter Castle begins to illuminate and music fills the air for a wintertime spectacle. Several times a day, guests will again see "A Christmas Fantasy" Parade and some favorite Disney characters and princesses throughout the park, dressed in their seasonal clothing with a few surprises.
As the day comes to an end, guests will witness a magical "snowfall" along with colorful projections on Main Street U.S.A., and the façade of "it's a small world" during the "Believe in Holiday Magic" fireworks show. The finale is a "kiss goodnight" moment from several Disney characters, dressed in their pajamas and waving goodbye from the balcony of the Disneyland Railroad Train Station in Town Square.
Additionally, seasonal transformations will once resonate the holiday spirit at "it's a small world" Holiday and Haunted Mansion Holiday.
Disney California Adventure Park
Guests at Disney California Adventure Park can experience the Disney Festival of Holidays as they discover the sights, sounds and tastes of a diverse season of celebrations, including Christmas/Navidad, Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Three Kings Day. The festivities include live entertainment, shopping for themed merchandise and eight food marketplaces. A team of Disney chefs drew on inspiration from their own unique stories to handcraft some of the festive foods on the marketplace menus.
The celebration continues with "Disney ¡Viva Navidad!" as Disney characters host a street party featuring Mexican folklórico dancers and Mariachis, Brazilian samba dancers and percussionists, giant mojiganga puppets and Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse in their fiesta clothing.
In the Paradise Gardens area of the park, guests will enjoy festive themed cuisine plus live music and performers starting 12NOV and later in the Holiday season, the debut of newly-featured Mirabel from the Walt Disney Animation Studios upcoming film "Encanto." At Pacific Wharf, guests will find holiday-themed menus as well as live musical entertainment. Here as well, younger guests can enjoy craft stations and cookie decorating kits.
At Cars land, Radiator Springs will also be decorated to fit the holiday festivities. Guests can view the snow-covered billboard at the land's entrance as well as the hubcap-studded tree decorating the front of the courthouse. All of Route 66 will sport automotive ornamentation all along, and two attractions will be appropriately themed: Luigi's Joy to the Whirl and Mater's Jingle Jamboree.
Guests of all ages can see Santa Claus in his rustic home at the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail. Adding to the merriment, Mickey Mouse and friends celebrate the season with a party and dance along to the rhythms of the Holiday Toy Drummers several times daily.
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