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November 30, 2015 · 12 Comments

Top 5 Disneyland Resort Holiday Highlights

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Wintertime Enchantment at Sleeping Beauty's Winter Castle

Jolly Holidays spent in “Walt’s place” are a Christmas present you won’t soon forget!  Here are the Disneyland Resort holiday highlights or “gifts” that I found most UNFORGETTABLE:

Top 5 Disneyland Resort Holiday Highlights

1. Attraction Overlays:

–  Haunted Mansion Holiday

Haunted Mansion Holiday
Jack Skellington rules the mansion during Halloween AND Christmas

–  “it’s a small world” holiday

“it’s a small world” Holiday
A world of laughter and a ho, ho, ho

– Jingle Cruise

Disneyland Jingle Cruise
Deck the puns!

You can now add Mater’s Jingle Jamboree and Luigi’s Joy to the Whirl to this magical list of holiday makeovers!

2.  Entertainment jollys:

–    A Christmas Fantasy Parade

Disneyland Holiday Highlights
Santa Claus meets Aurora

–   Disney ¡Viva Navidad!

Disney ¡Viva Navidad!
Feliz Navidad fiesta

–   World of Color – Winter Dreams (Now Season of Light)

Holidays colors

3.  Disneyland Holiday Decorations:

–  Cars Land Holiday Décor

Have a very Merry Carsmas

–   Trees

Including the Buena Vista Street Holiday Tree Lighting!

Decking Disney’s Grand Californian Resort & Spa, Main Street, U.S.A., and Buena Vista Street

–   Sleeping Beauty Castle

And those thousands of twinkling lights come to life at dusk!

Royal Garland

4.  Tinseled Plusses:

– Downtown Disney Winter Village

                                Fractals fill Olaf’s Frozen Ice Rink and nine shopping chalets.                                   (Skating and Ghiradelli’s Hot Chocolate are a given.)

–   Extra, extra, feel all about it!

Disneyland Holiday Highlights

5.  Disneyland Candlelight Processional 

If you have visited Walt Disney World during the holidays, then you KNOW how touching and spectacular this show is. This Disneyland original tradition began the year I was born- 1958! The moving re-telling of the birth of Christ has featured narrators such as Dick Van Dyke, Jimmy Stewart, Kurt Russell, and this year Lin-Manuel Miranda. Unlike the full stage setting at Epcot, this version is held in front of the Main Street Station. AND it is limited to one weekend in December. So time it right!

As a bonus to Top 5 Disneyland Resort holiday highlights I must add in a bonus. Though now a memory, I felt I needed to include wintry glimpses back at Disneyland 60. (After all, the countdown to number 70 is on!)

–  Paint the Night Parade, Disneyland Forever Fireworks, World of Color – Celebrate!

Disneyland 60
Double the yuletide spirit

In the Christmas spirit yet?  I hope the Disneyland Resort will help make your Christmas dreams come true…!
LUV

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  1. Heidi Strawser says

    November 30, 2015 at 4:46 pm

    Oh my gosh . . . I SO want to see Disneyland! I would love to visit during Christmastime – or ANYTIME!

    Reply
    • blogging says

      December 2, 2015 at 3:51 am

      Heidi, you must! And I know you will- Walt would want you to! 😀

      Reply
  2. Kendra Littles says

    December 1, 2015 at 12:10 pm

    I never been to Disney myself and I would love to take my son!!!

    Reply
    • blogging says

      December 2, 2015 at 3:52 am

      Good luck Kendra!

      Reply
    • Kendra Littles says

      December 2, 2015 at 11:29 am

      Thanks!!! Excited to find out who wins !!! #HappyHolidays #DISTherapy #Win

      Reply
  3. Jessica McConnel says

    December 1, 2015 at 6:41 pm

    Oh man this would be so nice to look forward to after the holidays!

    Reply
    • blogging says

      December 2, 2015 at 3:52 am

      Talk about starting the New Year off right Jessica. 🙂

      Reply
  4. Julie Franklin says

    December 1, 2015 at 10:41 pm

    I want to take the family so bad!

    Reply
    • blogging says

      December 2, 2015 at 3:53 am

      I want that for you too Julie!!

      Reply
  5. Karen B. says

    December 2, 2015 at 10:31 pm

    Love Disneyland! This is an awesome giveaway!

    Reply
    • blogging says

      December 3, 2015 at 11:47 pm

      Me TOO Karen! Thanks and good luck!!

      Reply
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    April 22, 2020 at 7:09 pm

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