Disneyland Anaheim

Disneyland and Downtown Disney entertainment schedule. Disneyland hours 8am to 12am. Disneyland tips from Trip Advisor. Disneyland map. Closed: Haunted Mansion, Astro Orbiter. Birthday button. Play Disney Parks app and Disneyland app. Restaurants with mobile dine walkup availability. Rider switch. Virtual queues.

Transportation

• Monorail, 8am to 12am, stops: Downtown Disney (near Star Wars Depot on the west side), Tomorrowland.
• Disneyland Railroad, 8am to 12am, stops (clockwise): Main St, New Orleans, Toontown, Tomorrowland.
• Main Street Vehicles (inc carriage and jitney), 8am to 2:15pm, stops: Town Square (near City Hall), Central Plaza in front of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle.

Feb 17 2024

• Arrive LGB 8am on SWA. Pick at Hertz. Drive 30 min to Budget Inn, 1042 W Ball Rd (714-535-5524). Check in and register. Lyft to Disney drop off, or walk to Downtown Disney Monorail, or drive to Select Mobility, park, and pick up ECV.
• (Rent wheelchair $15 or ECV $60 east of Disneyland main entrance. Main Street vehicles and train station not ECV accessible; other stations are accessible. Off-site: Select Mobility ($55 free delivery and pick up), ScooterBug ($55 free delivery and pick up), One Stop Mobility ($60 free delivery and pick up), and Dekert Surgical.)
• Monorail to Tomorrowland. Vehicle from Central Plaza to Town Square on Main St. Dropoff bags and coats at lockers behind Market House off of Main Street. Snack at Market House.
• Storytelling at Royal Theatre in Fantasyland, 10:15am, 25 minutes, (11:30am 12:45pm 2:30pm 3:45pm 5pm). Pearly Band in Castle Courtyard, 10am and 10:55am.
• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
• Breakfast at Ronto Roasters. Star Wars Rise the Resistance. Drinks at Oga’s Cantina 12:10 reservation.
• If end with Oga’s, then walk to Fantasyland; if end with Rise, then walk past Davy Crockett’s Explorer Canoes to raft launch for Tom Sawyer’s Island. If time, visit the Island.
• Lunch Tiana’s Palace, New Orleans Square.
• Railroad from New Orleans Square to Toontown.
• Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway in Toontown. Cinnamon sugar mini donuts from Cafe Daisy.
• Celebrate Gospel, Fantasyland Theatre 2:30pm to 7pm. Feb 17 headliner Marvin Sapp.
• Magic Happens Parade, 20 minutes, 5:30pm (and 3pm), starts near It’s a Small World in Fantasyland (and ends at Town Square at the foot of Main Street).
• Snacks at Troubadour Tavern near Fantasyland Theatre and at Edelweiss Snacks (turkey legs, 10:30am to 9:30pm).
• Railroad from Toontown to New Orleans Square.
• Check standby list at Blue Bayou; if not available, dinner at Cafe Orleans, Royal Street Veranda, or River Belle Terrace. Beignets at Mint Julep Bar.
• The Heartbeat of New Orleans – A Living Mural, 5 minutes, projections with fountains and a jazz score on Rivers of America in Frontierland (between Cafe Orleans and River Belle Terrace), 7:55pm, (also 8:55pm, 9:50pm). Queenie and the Jambalaya Jazz Band, 8:10pm (and 9:05pm).
• If time, visit the Adventureland Treehouse, then walk past Indiana Jones and Jungle Cruise to Tropical Hideaway (Dole Whip) and then the Tiki Room.
• SWA checkin at 8:30pm.
• Dessert at Jolly Holiday and setup to watch fireworks from the patio or in front of the Castle or on Main Street across from the Penny Arcade (next to Gibson Girl).
• Fireworks show (with music and projections on the Castle and Main Street), 13 minutes, 9:30pm.
• From Castle, go to the Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough – 8am to 12am (except during fireworks), side entrance near Snow White ride in Fantasyland. Fantasyland classics with reasonable lines: Mr Toad’s Wild Ride, Peter Pan’s Flight, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White’s Enchanted Wish, and then Matterhorn Bobsleds.
• Space Mountain, Galactic Grill (mushroom Philly), Autotopia.
• Railroad Tomorrowland to Main Street.
• Frederick Douglass exhibit at Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln in the Main Street Opera House and the nearby Disney Gallery.
• Railroad from Main Street to Tomorrowland, monorail to Downtown Disney.
• Walk (20 min) or Lyft to Budget Inn, 1042 W Ball Rd.

Entertainment and Food

• Main St – Disneyland Story and Mr Lincoln, Disney Gallery, (Walt’s Main Street Story Tour – 90 min, extra $). Market House (SBux, Impossible breakfast sandwich), Candy Palace (caramel apples), Gibson Girl (ice cream, 3rd scoop deal). Dapper Dans 12:15, 1:20, 2:10, 4:15, 5:05, 6:15.
• Adventureland – Indiana Jones Adventure (urp??), Enchanted Tiki Room, (Jungle Cruise), Treehouse (closed during the fireworks). Tropical Hideaway (mango, strawberry, and pineapple Dole Whip; lumpia, veggie bao), Tiki Juice Bar (9am to 10pm, pineapple Dole Whip), Jackfruit Al Pastor Tacos.
• Frontierland – Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, (Sailing Ship Columbia). River Belle Terrace.
• New Orleans Square – (Pirates Lair at Tom Sawyer Island, 9am to 4:30pm, raft near Haunted Mansion and Tiana’s Palace). Tiana’s Palace, Blue Bayou, Cafe Orleans, Royal Street Veranda, Mint Julep Bar (8am to 11pm, beignets, vegan donut holes).
• Critter Country – (Davy Crockett’s Explorer Canoes, 10am to 4pm). Hungry Bear (11am to 9pm, funnel cake), Harbour Galley (10am to 9pm, same sourdough bowls as Royal Street Veranda).
• Star Wars – Rise the Resistance (8am to 10pm), ((Millenium Falcon)). Ronto Roasters, Oga’s Cantina.
• Fantasyland – Matterhorn Bobsleds, Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough, Royal Theatre, (Alice in Wonderland), (Mr Toad’s Wild Ride), (Peter Pan’s Flight), (Snow White’s Enchanted Wish). Edelweiss Snacks (turkey legs, 10:30am to 9:30pm).
• Toontown – (Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway). Cafe Daisy.
• Tomorrowland – Autotopia, Space Mountain. Galactic Grill (Mushroom Philly).
• Churros at various locations.

Details

• * Ronto Roasters – breakfast and lunch / dinner wraps.
• River Belle Terrace, Frontierland, casual, brunch 11am to 4pm, dinner to 8pm. Brunch menu includes biscuits and gravy, Cuban sandwich, summer squash. (Royal Street Veranda, New Orleans Square, 8am to 10pm, quick service. Menu includes waffle cristo for breakfast; sourdough bread bowls with clam chowder, corn chowder, or vegetable stew.)
• * Lunch Tiana’s Palace, New Orleans Square, fast casual, 10am to 9pm. Menu features lemon filled beignets, veggie and traditional gumbo, muffuletta, shrimp and grits, po’boy, cornbread, glow cube.
• Dinner Cafe Orleans, New Orleans Square, casual, 4 to 9pm. Menu includes squash and farro risotto, jambalaya, gumbo, Monte Cristo, plant-based creme brulee. (If open, Blue Bayou, 11am to 10pm, upscale. Menu includes prime rib, plant-based pasta.)
• Jolly Holiday Bakery Cafe, 8am to 12:15am. Menu includes desserts to eat on the patio with a view of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle.
• Parade 3pm and 5:30pm, 20 minutes, starts near It’s a Small World in Fantasyland and ends at Town Square at the foot of Main Street.

Nearby hotels

Prices don’t include room tax.

• Budget Inn, 1042 W Ball Rd, Anaheim, CA 92802, $139 plus hefty room tax, 0.8 mile north of Downtown Disney Monorail Station. Booking #691395666, $162.63, cancel before Feb 15.
• Harbor Motel, 12812 Palm St, Garden Grove, CA 92840, $120, 3 mile south of Downtown Disney / 2.3 mile south of Disneyland dropoff.

Downtown Disney

LIVE! Stage Apollo Bebop (neo-soul and hip hop), 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, and 9:30pm. World of Disney store, 9am to 1am.

Food

• Black Tap
• Ralph Brennan’s Jazz Kitchen
• Naples
• Salt & Straw

Feb 18th 2024

• 35 to 45 minute drive from Disney to Rose Bowl.
• Tartine Bakery Pasadena, 277 W Green St, 1.5 miles south of Rose Bowl. 8am to 4pm.
• Sinoh Go Tour and event features. 9am to 5pm. Stadium Concourse start. (South – Gate A; North – Lot K.) Pickup L and XL t-shirts.
• Leave Rose Bowl by 6:30pm. 20 minute drive Rose Bowl to BUR. Refill gas. Drop off car at Hertz.
• Fly SWA to OAK at 8:30pm.

Sinoh Go Tour

• * – shiny possible
• 10km eggs – Pachirisu*, Chatot*, Carnivine*
• Rotom puzzle
• Party Play for Regi encounters
• White-Striped Basculin encounters on routes
• Friday through Sunday pokestop spinning special research for a Spiritomb encounters
• 1/2 hatch distance, 6 special trades, 1/2 trade stardust, 9 daily free raid passes, more shinies

On the Hour

• Regular thirty-minute raids starting at 9am and then every hour concluding at 4:40pm.
• 5-star raids: Palkia and Dialga including shinies but not the signature attacks
• Sinoh of interest by habitat: Entangled Ruins – Pikachu* wearing Dawn’s hat; Seaside Metropolis – Pikachu* wearing Dawn’s hat, East and West Sea Shellos*; Bubbling Mire – Pikachu* wearing Lucas’s hat; Mountain Hot Springs – Pikachu* wearing Lucas’s hat
• Unown* S, I, N, O, and H attracted to regular incense.

On the Half-hour

• Special (space-time anomaly) thirty-minute raids and additional Hisuian wild pokemon starting at 9:30am and then every hour concluding at 5pm.
  • 5-star raids: Origin Forme Palkia* (Spacial Rend) and Dialga* (Roar of Time)
  • 3-star raids: Hisuian Decidueye*, Typhlosion*, and Samurott*
  • 1-star raids: includes Rowlet*
  • Hisuian of interest by habitat: Entangled Ruins – Pikachu* wearing Akari’s kerchief, Kleavor*; Seaside Metropolis – Pikachu* wearing Akari’s kerchief; Bubbling Mire – Pikachu* wearing Rei’s cap; Mountain Hot Springs – Pikachu* wearing Rei’s cap, Avalugg, Wyrdeer
  • Unown* H, I, S, andUH attracted to regular incense.

Millie’s Cafe, Pasadena – three miles east of the Rose Bowl. Brunch with lots of vegan options; more limited lunch menu but includes a veggie reuben and vegan shakes as well as regular milkshakes. Open 8am to 3pm. Can order online.

Tartine Pasadena – 1.7 miles south of the Rose Bowl. Open 8am to 4pm. Pastries, bread, quiche, and sandwiches. Delivery available.