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The Disneyland Resort, located in Anaheim, California, is made up of three parts: Disneyland Park, Disney's California Adventure, and Downtown Disney. Disneyland Park is the main park, featuring many rides and attractions for people of different ages. Disney's California Adventure is another theme park, designed to be a condensation of the entire state of California. Downtown Disney is a shopping and restaurant district.

See also Disneyworld (in Florida), Disneyland Paris and Tokyo Disneyland.

Contents 1 Understand 2 Get in 2.1 By plane 2.2 By car 2.3 By train or bus 3 Get around 3.1 FastPass 4 See 4.1 Main Street, USA 4.2 Adventureland 4.3 Fantasyland 4.4 Tomorrowland 4.5 New Orleans Square 4.6 Frontierland 4.7 Critter Country 4.8 Mickey's Toontown 5 Eat 6 Sleep

Understand

Disneyland's rides are generally considered classic well-themed dark rides (ex: Pirates of the Caribbean) with the occasional thrill ride (ex: Space Mountain), while California Adventure's rides are more thrill, however there are some family-style rides ("Soarin' Over California"). Cast Members (Disney term for employee) in all sections of the park are very friendly and helpful. The attention to detail throughout the parks is extraordinary.

The two biggest problems with the Disneyland Resort as a whole are crowds and price. The parks are usually pretty crowded, especially during the summer, which leads to long lines for the popular attractions. And everything about Disneyland (at least at the two parks) is expensive: admission, souvenirs, and food, both dining and at snack stands.

Get in

By plane

Disneyland is within driving distance of a number of Southern California airports. The closest airport is the John Wayne Orange County Airport (SNA), which has direct bus service to the Disneyland Resort. Next closest is the Long Beach Airport (LGB), which is one of the smallest (e.g. easiest to deal with) airports in the Los Angeles area. There is no direct bus service between the Long Beach Airport and the Disneyland Resort. The Los Angeles Airport (LAX) is the largest airport in the area with direct bus service to the Disneyland Resort.

Depending on where you are flying from, one of the easiest ways to get to Disneyland is through the Long Beach Airport (LGB), often overlooked by travel information. Although there is no direct bus service from LGB to the Disneyland Resort, depending on the number of people in your party it may be less expensive to rent a car in any case. Interestingly, if you take the main exit from the airport, which is E. Wardlaw Road, eventually it becomes Ball Rd, which runs directly across the north edge of Disneyland itself. JetBlue uses LGB as a hub in the Los Angeles area.

By car

As with much of California, by car is probably the easiest way to get to Disneyland from the surrounding area (or even San Diego, Las Vegas, and Northern California). The Disneyland Resort offers ample parking both for day visitors to the park as well as hotel guests. All of the surrounding hotels offer parking, however, some clearly do not have sufficient parking for the number of overnight guests.

Driving to Disneyland also means braving the Southern California traffic, which at times can be overwhelming. The Disneyland website offers driving directions as do most online map sites. Traveling from the Long Beach Airport to the Disneyland Resort can be done using surface streets instead of freeways, which can be very crowded during commute hours.

By train or bus

Local trains and buses are the cheapest ways to get to the park. Metrolink's Amaheim station serves Disneyland. From 6:30am to 8:45am a free OCTA bus (route 430) will take you directly into Disneyland from the station. That same bus will take you back to the station for free from 3:30pm to 6:00pm. Other than these times line 50, which runs from Cal State University Long Beach to the Orange Mall, services the station and Disneyland every 20 minutes. Other OCTA routes that services the park but not the station are the 43, which runs from La Habra to Downtown Newport Beach every 15 minutes (although you will need to walk ten minutes to get to the park for this route), and the 205 which goes from the Laguna Hills Mall directly into the Disneyland Resort. The latter three routes cost $1.25 per boarding. Greyhound offers service to the park and the City of Anaheim runs a tourist bus service.

Get around

Once in the park, everything it reachable by foot. Disneyland also has pretty good access for wheelchairs and other mobility-assistance vehicles. Outside of the park, a car is again the best way to get around, though many of the hotels and restaurants are just across the street.

FastPass

Disneyland uses a time-saving tool called FastPass. You can get a fast pass at most attractions by inserting your Passport (admission ticket) into a machine. The Fast Pass allows you to come back at a pre-determined time (printed on the FastPass) and take a generally shorter line to access the attraction. This works well for very crowded rides, or especially busy times of the day. The FastPass expires after the time period printed on it. Only one FastPass can be had by a park guest at any one time (until roughly the time period of the current one).

See

Main Street, USA

• Disneyland Railroad (transportation)
• Disneyland: The First Magical 50 Years (exhibit)
• Main Street Vehicles (transportation)

Adventureland

• Indiana Jones Adventure (dark ride)
• Jungle Cruise (boat ride)
• Tarzan's Treehouse (Walkthrough)
• Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room (Audio-Animatronics show)

Fantasyland

• Alice in Wonderland (dark ride)
• Casey Jr. Circus Train (sightseeing)
• Dumbo the Flying Elephant (spinner)
• Fantasyland Theater (theater for shows)
• "it's a small world" (indoor boat ride)
• King Arthur Carousel (carousel)
• Mad Tea Party (tea cups)
• Matterhorn Bobsleds (rollercoaster)
• Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (dark ride)
• Peter Pan's Flight (dark ride)
• Pinocchio's Daring Journey (dark ride)
• Snow White's Scary Adventures (dark ride)
• Storybook Land Canal Boats (sightseeing)

Tomorrowland

• Astro Orbitor (spinner)
• Autopia (driving)
• Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters (dark ride)
• Disneyland Monorail System (transportation)
• Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage (submarines, original closed 1998, reopens May 2007)
• Innoventions (walk through)
• Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (3D show)
• Space Mountain/Rockin' Space Mountain (rollercoaster)
• Starcade (arcade)
• Star Tours (Star Wars-themed flight simulator)

New Orleans Square

• Disney Gallery (art gallery)
• Haunted Mansion (dark ride)
• Pirates of the Caribbean (indoor boat ride)

Frontierland

• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (mine train-themed rollercoaster)
• Frontierland Shootin' Exposition (shooting gallery)
• Mark Twain Riverboat and Sailing Ship Columbia (full-sized riverboat and sailing ship travel around the "Rivers of America")
• Tom Sawyer's Island (large play area accessible by motorized raft)

Critter Country

• Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes (canoe ride)
• The Many Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh (dark ride)
• Splash Mountain (log flume)

Mickey's Toontown

• Donald's Boat (walkthrough)
• Gadget's Go-Coaster (rollercoaster)
• Goofy's Bounce House (moon bounce)
• Mickey's House (walkthrough)
• Minnie's House (walkthrough)
• Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin (dark ride)

Eat

• The Blue Bayou is a sit-down restaurant located next to the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction in New Orleans Square serves great food in an atmosphere that is very romantic, especially if you get a seat next to the water, where boats from the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction float by. (The downside is that the restaurant is more expensive.) The Monte Cristo sandwich is especially good.

• Redd Rockett's Pizza Port in Tomorrowland serves pizza, as well as salads and varieties of pasta and is slightly less expensive than other food offerings in the park.

• The Carnation Cafe is a sit-down restaurant located just north of the Emporium on Main Street. The food is quite good and there are no reservations required. It is an outdoor venue and affords a great view of the parades and excellent people watching. This restaurant is moderately expensive.

• The Bengal Barbeque is a food stand located right across the Indiana Jones ride in Adventureland. It serves chicken, steak and vegetable skewers that make for a great snack. There is a very small sit-down area so be prepared to eat the skewers standing up. The skewers run about $4.00.

Sleep

The Disneyland property is home to a few hotels. Like the rest of Disneyland, the hotels are very nice but cost a lot of money. There are many, many hotels and motels in the local area of wildly varying cost and quality.

There are three official Disney hotels.

• Disneyland Hotel
• Disney's Grand Californian Hotel
• Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel.

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