DCA Archive
Our ultimate guide to Christmas 2024 at Disneyland & Disney California Adventure offers tips & tricks for visiting during the holiday season. This provides info about seasonal ride overlays, fireworks, parades, entertainment, parties, decorations, and dates. (Updated January 11, 2024.) Christmas at Disneyland runs from November 15, 2024 through the first week of January 2025.
Our free 2024 Disneyland crowd calendars cover best & worst dates to visit. This helps you choose when to go and days to avoid, as higher attendance means longer lines & wait times at Disney California Adventure and Disneyland. These monthly guides also offer info & tips about special events weather, prices, reservations, and more
This guide to November 2024 at Disneyland offers a free crowd calendar for picking the best days to visit and avoiding the busiest ones during the start of Christmas at Disney California Adventure and Disneyland. Plus, info about weather, new attraction openings & closures, and more. The holiday season is really a ‘tale of two
Our guide to December 2024 at Disneyland offers a free crowd calendar for picking best days to visit & avoiding the busiest ones during Christmas at Disney California Adventure and Disneyland. Plus, what’s new, ride closures, what you should expect from a winter visit to Southern California, and more. As with November, December features highs
This guide to October 2024 at Disneyland features a free crowd calendar for choosing best & worst days to visit during Halloween season, weather, new attraction openings & closures, and more. We also cover info & tips for what’s happening in Disney California Adventure, Disneyland, and beyond. The bad news is that October is a
Planning a trip to Disneyland and trying to determine the best month to visit in 2024? We analyze crowds, weather, seasonal events, park hours, and other factors to rank every month of the year for Disneyland in this post, plus our 3 favorite weeks to visit. It’s been a wild ride since Disneyland and DCA
New Year’s Eve is one of the busiest days of the year at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, as guests crowd the parks to ring in 2024. This guide shares our tips & tricks for enjoying the NYE parties in the parks, watching the fireworks, and avoiding the pitfalls. (Updated December 27, 2023.) Let’s start
Disneyland has announced return dates for Magic Happens parade, Mickey’s Mix Magic and Magical Journeys fireworks, as well as other entertainment and nighttime spectaculars in the first half of 2024. This post covers the full details, plus our commentary about how this will impact crowds and more. Let’s start with the press release from Disneyland
If you’re looking for the best restaurants at Disneyland and California Adventure in 2024, plus standouts in the hotels and Downtown Disney, this list has you covered. It ranks our absolute favorites, including both counter and table service dining, bars & lounges, character meals, themed dining, and more. (Updated December 14, 2023.) This list is
This guide to Disneyland & Disney California Adventure tickets explains how to buy discounted park admission, with money-saving tips & recommended sellers of park admission and where not to buy to avoid scams. We cover potential price increases, deals at grocery stores or from AAA, and pros & cons of Park Hoppers. (Updated December 9,
Sometimes, people behave badly at Disneyland. This covers the types of visitors who have earned the dubious distinction of being the worst types of guests at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. It’s a just-for-fun “top” 10 list that ranks obnoxious behavior, and vents, but shouldn’t be taken too seriously. The reason it shouldn’t be taken
