Fact Sheet: Holidays at the Disneyland Resort

 

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Holidays at the Disneyland Resort returns from Nov. 15, 2024, through Jan. 6, 2025, with classic traditions and new family favorites for guests of all ages. With iconic entertainment offerings such as “World of Color – Season of Light,” merry attractions like “it’s a small world” Holiday, festive fun across all three hotels and so much more, the holiday spirit flows throughout Disneyland Resort with plenty of intricate details during this especially enchanting time.

Disney California Adventure Park

• The live entertainment for Disney Festival of Holidays features an extensive range of genres, including mariachi, jazz, klezmer, Latin pop, fusion, reggae, polka and more.

• Seven Festive Food Marketplaces appear across Disney Festival of Holidays, featuring 16 new menu items and highlights such as sticky toffee pudding macaron, al pastor pork and pineapple slider, and chilaquiles carnitas torta.

• Guests entering Disney California Adventure Park will spot a 50-foot-tall Christmas tree with vintage-style ornaments, keeping with the theme of Buena Vista Street – which is inspired by Los Angeles as it appeared when Walt Disney arrived in the 1920s.

• “World of Color – Season of Light” lights up the 3.5 acres of Paradise Bay, as more than 1,200 fountains bring the show to life. This show also features more than 120 characters from 30 Disney and Pixar animated films, including Joy and Sadness from Pixar Animation Studios’ “Inside Out.”

• A whimsical “Snowcar” greets guests at the entrance of Cars Land in Disney California Adventure Park, before guests enter Radiator Springs to witness a spectacle of lights and holiday décor decking the streets for the “haul”-idays.

Disneyland Park

• Each evening, more than 25,000 twinkling LED lights on sparkling “icicles” and shimmering snow-capped turrets illuminate Sleeping Beauty’s Winter Castle.

• Embellished with nearly 1,800 Victorian-inspired ornaments and 100 oversized faux candles, a 60-foot-tall Christmas tree lights up Main Street, U.S.A.

• The annual gingerbread display in Haunted Mansion Holiday* took Disneyland Resort chefs more than 240 hours to create. Standing at 5 feet tall and 6 feet wide, Dr. Finkelstein and his assistant, Igor, have brought their own Gigantic Gingerbread Zombie, Lil’ Franky, to life in this year’s creation.

• 50,000 lights illuminate the façade of “it’s a small world” Holiday, with an additional 350,000 mini-lights brightening the trees, hedges and animal topiaries surrounding the attraction. Thousands of additional lights adorn the nearby shops and food kiosks.

• The Plaza Point holiday shop on the corner of Main Street, U.S.A., allows guests to personalize ornaments for purchase and watch artistry in action, as cast members hand paint names on ornaments.

Downtown Disney District

• Filled with 12 decorated ornaments hidden throughout Downtown Disney District, the all-new Chip and Dale’s Ornament Trail pursuit allows guests to search for hidden ornaments from Nov. 22 through Jan. 1, 2025.**

• This year, Downtown Disney District features many seasonal foods and beverages, such as the egg nog churro from California Churro, gingerbread cannoli from Naples Ristorante e Bar and holiday buñuelo from Tiendita.

• Disney’s support of the Marine Toys for Tots program began over 75 years ago when Walt Disney and his animators designed the original Toys for Tots logo. Today, guests and cast members can join the Disney Ultimate Toy Drive supporting Toys for Tots by donating new, unwrapped toys at collection bins located at World of Disney, Star Wars Trading Post and retail shops inside the Hotels of the Disneyland Resort.

Hotels of the Disneyland Resort

• Inspired by candies and pastries, a gingerbread replica of Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel and Spa once again graces the hotel lobby this year. This year’s creation features Chip ‘n’ Dale in their pajama attire seen in Mickey’s Holiday Pajama Party Breakfast and Brunch at Storytellers Cafe.

• Pixar Place Hotel features 31 uniquely decorated trees celebrating 10 Pixar films. Over 6,500 ornaments were used to decorate the trees throughout the hotel, including 1,192 custom ornaments created by resort enhancement computer artists and each glittered by hand.

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