Disneyland Resort#Hotels

{{Short description|Entertainment resort in Anaheim, California, US}}

{{About|the Disneyland Resort in California|the other Disney parks and resorts located internationally|Disney Experiences#Disney resorts}}

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| image_caption = Two icons of the Disneyland Resort: Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Park and the Pixar Pal-A-Round at Disney California Adventure.

| founder = Walt Disney

| key_people = Thomas Mazloum (president){{cite news |last1=MacDonald |first1=Brady |title=Disneyland has a new president in charge |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2025/01/23/disney-appoints-new-disneyland-president-from-cruise-line-division/ |access-date=24 January 2025 |work=The Orange County Register |date=January 24, 2025 |page=A1}}

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| parent = Disney Experiences

| homepage = {{Official website|https://disneyland.disney.go.com/}}

| foundation = {{Start date and age|1955|7|17}}

| location = Anaheim, California, United States

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The Disneyland Resort is an entertainment resort in Anaheim, California, United States. It is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company through its Experiences division and is home to two theme parks (Disneyland and Disney California Adventure), three hotels, and the Downtown Disney shopping, dining, and entertainment district.

The resort was developed by Walt Disney in the 1950s. When it opened to guests on July 17, 1955, the property consisted of Disneyland, its {{Convert|100|acre|adj=on}} parking lot, and the Disneyland Hotel, owned and operated by Disney's business partner Jack Wrather.

After the success with the multi-park, multi-hotel business model at Walt Disney World in Florida, Disney acquired large parcels of land adjacent to Disneyland to apply the same business model in Anaheim. The company purchased the Disneyland Hotel from Wrather in 1988 and in 1995 purchased the Pan Pacific Hotel from the Tokyu Group to become today's Pixar Place Hotel. Land purchases continued through the 1990s and the company now owns {{convert|489|acres}} and has long-term lease rights to develop an additional {{convert|52|acres}}. A major expansion came in 2001 when the property saw the addition of the Grand Californian Hotel, Disney California Adventure Park, and the Downtown Disney shopping, dining, and entertainment district.

History

= Concept and construction =

{{See also|Disneyland#History}}

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Walt Disney's early concepts for an amusement park called for a "Mickey Mouse Park" located adjacent to the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank (presently the site of the West Coast headquarters of ABC). As new ideas emerged, Walt and his brother Roy realized that the Burbank location would be too small for the project, and hired a consultant from Stanford Research Institute to provide them with information on locations and economic feasibility. The consultant recommended a remote location in Anaheim, adjacent to the then-under-construction Santa Ana Freeway. The consultant correctly predicted that the location{{snd}}covered by orange groves at the time{{snd}}would become the population center of Southern California.

Since the location was far from Southern California population centers in the 1950s, Walt Disney wanted to build a hotel so that Disneyland visitors traveling long distances could stay overnight. However, the park had depleted his financial resources, so he negotiated a deal with Hollywood producer Jack Wrather in which he would build and operate a hotel called the Disneyland Hotel across the street from Disneyland.

In 1963, city planner James Rouse, in a commencement speech at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, called Disneyland "the greatest piece of urban design in the United States today."{{Cite web |last=Serratore |first=Angela |date=July 17, 2019 |title=The beauty of the Disney beast |url=https://archive.curbed.com/2019/7/17/20695313/disney-design-architecture-history-michael-graves |access-date=November 14, 2022 |website=Curbed |language=en |archive-date=November 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221114194033/https://archive.curbed.com/2019/7/17/20695313/disney-design-architecture-history-michael-graves |url-status=live }}

= 1955–1998: one park, one hotel =

Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955, with a televised press preview event on ABC, and the inauguration drew nearly 30,000 guests on the first day {{Cite web |title=23 Magical, Mind-Blowing Facts About Disneyland |url=https://www.rd.com/list/disneyland-facts/ |access-date=March 1, 2023 |website=Reader's Digest |language=en-US |archive-date=March 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301171945/https://www.rd.com/list/disneyland-facts/ |url-status=live }} Despite the disastrous event, later dubbed "Black Sunday", during which several rides broke down, and other mishaps occurred, Disneyland became a huge success in its first year of operation. The hotel, which opened three months after the park, enjoyed similar success. Walt Disney wanted to build more facilities for Disneyland visitors to stay in Anaheim, but since his financial resources were drained, entrepreneurs established their own independent hotels in the area surrounding the park and hotel to capitalize on Disneyland's success.{{Cite web |title=Hotels near Disneyland |url=https://disneyland.disney.go.com/hotels/good-neighbor/ |access-date=June 6, 2017 |website=Disneyland Resort |language=en |archive-date=July 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701075455/https://disneyland.disney.go.com/hotels/good-neighbor/ |url-status=live }}

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To Walt Disney's dismay, the city of Anaheim was lax in restricting their construction, eager for the tax revenue generated by more hotels in the city. The area surrounding Disneyland became suffused with the kind of tacky atmosphere of colorful lights, flashy neon signs, and then-popular Googie architecture which he had wanted to avoid (and which years earlier had caused the city of Burbank to deny his initial request to build his project in Burbank).{{Cite web |title=City of Anaheim – A Brief History of Modern Day Anaheim |url=http://www.anaheim.net/article.asp?id=216#a1950 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927143924/http://www.anaheim.net/article.asp?id=216 |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |access-date=March 28, 2012 |publisher=Anaheim.net}} The Anaheim Convention Center was built across the street from Disneyland's original parking lot, and residences were constructed in the area as part of the city's growth in the late 20th century. Eventually, Disneyland was "boxed in", a factor which would later lead Walt Disney to acquire a significantly larger parcel of land for the construction of Walt Disney World. The Walt Disney Company gradually acquired the land west of the park, notably the Disneyland Hotel in 1988 following Jack Wrather's death in 1984, the Pan Pacific Hotel (known today as Pixar Place Hotel) in 1995, and several properties north of the Disneyland Hotel in the mid to late 1990s.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

= 1998–2001: planning an expansion =

After Walt's and Roy's deaths in 1966 and 1971, respectively, the Walt Disney Company would go on to achieve success with the multi-park, multi-hotel resort complex business model of Walt Disney World in Florida, which opened in 1971. In the 1990s, Disney decided to turn Disneyland into a similar multi-park, multi-hotel resort destination. In 1991, Disney announced plans to build WestCOT, a theme park based on Walt Disney World's EPCOT Center, mostly on the site of the 15,167-space {{Convert|100|acre|adj=on}} parking lot.{{Cite web |title=The Disneyland parking lot |url=http://www.yesterland.com/parkinglot.html |website=Yesterland}}{{Cite news |last=Marr |first=Merissa |date=October 17, 2007 |title=Disney's $1 Billion Adventure |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119257768823361264 |access-date=October 23, 2009 |work=The Wall Street Journal |archive-date=November 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118110622/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119257768823361264 |url-status=live }} Its estimated cost was US$3 billion, largely due to the cost of land that Disney would need to acquire.

However, the Euro Disney Resort, which opened in 1992, was a financial and public relations burden for the company and Disney was unable to finance the WestCOT project, and it was cancelled in 1995. That summer, Disney executives gathered in Aspen, Colorado for a 3-day retreat, where they came up with the idea for a California-themed park, dubbed Disney's California Adventure Park, a retail district, and hotels. The budget for the project would be $1.4 billion, less than half of WestCOT, achieved by building a smaller theme park only on land Disney owned, focused on shopping and dining and using many off-the-shelf rides, avoiding costly research and development. The parking lot closed on January 21, 1998 to make way for construction. To replace the lost spaces, Disney opened a seven-story, 10,250-space parking structure on July 24, 2000.

California Adventure opened on February 8, 2001{{cite news |last=Reckard |first=E. Scott |date=January 14, 2001 |title=The Most Jam-Packed Theme Park on Earth? |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-14-fi-12144-story.html |newspaper=LA Times |access-date=April 13, 2024 |archive-date=October 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015114859/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jan/14/business/fi-12144 |url-status=live }} and was widely panned by critics and early visitors,{{cite web |title=Archived D-I-G Update: 6/25 |url=http://www.mouseplanet.com/archive/update43.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907071755/http://www.mouseplanet.com/archive/update43.htm |archive-date=2012-09-07}} leading to substantially less attendance than expected. One area of significant criticism was that the park was aimed at adults, rather than children and families.{{cite journal |last=Ryan |first=Joan |date=January–February 2001 |title=Disney's Latest Theme Park: California Adventure |url=http://www.viamagazine.com/destinations/disneys-latest-theme-park-california-adventure |journal=Via Magazine |access-date=May 24, 2014 |archive-date=February 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221073410/http://www.viamagazine.com/destinations/disneys-latest-theme-park-california-adventure |url-status=live }} Disney executives later acknowledged that the park offered less value to visitors, with one-third as many attractions and fewer characters than Disneyland, leaving many families to chose to visit the older park instead.The Imagineering Story, Disney+ (2019). Episode 4: "Hit Or Miss"

= 2001–present: Disneyland Resort complex =

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Disney began to quickly make changes to California Adventure, adding A Bug's Land to appeal to families and The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror thrill ride for older guests. In late 2007, the company began a multi-year, $1.1 billion redesign and expansion plan for California Adventure (against its initial $600 million cost to build).{{cite news |author=Richard Verrier and Dave Mckibben |date=October 17, 2007 |title=Disney to fix a major misstep |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-17-fi-disney17-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=April 13, 2024 |archive-date=October 6, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006054616/http://articles.latimes.com/2007/oct/17/business/fi-disney17 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |author=Los Angeles Times Staff Writers |date=October 18, 2007 |title=Disney looks home for renewal |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-disney18oct18,0,1723646,full.story |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20090228211212/http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-disney18oct18,0,1723646,full.story |archive-date=February 28, 2009 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |quote=The company moves to transform Anaheim's resort district in the image of the popular Walt Disney World. But critics remain skeptical.}} The most drastic changes to the park included a complete overhaul of the main entrance, the construction of a new Cars Land and the addition of the World of Color nighttime show. Additionally, many of the park's off-the-shelf rides were either removed outright or re-themed to have more of a focus on Disney and Pixar characters. Construction was completed in 2012.{{cite web |title=Big changes set for Disney California Adventure – Around Disney : The Orange County Register |url=http://ocresort.ocregister.com/2010/12/20/big-changes-coming-to-disney-california-adventure/64914/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223172407/http://ocresort.ocregister.com/2010/12/20/big-changes-coming-to-disney-california-adventure/64914/ |archive-date=December 23, 2010 |access-date=2010-12-21}} The redesign and expansion of the park saw attendance rates increase dramatically.{{cite news |author=Sarah Tully |date=June 4, 2013 |title=Going to California Adventure? More visitors are |url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/adventure-511301-california-disney.html |work=OC Register |access-date=April 13, 2024 |archive-date=January 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110091117/http://www.ocregister.com/articles/adventure-511301-california-disney.html |url-status=live }}

In August 2015, it was announced that Disneyland Park would receive a 14-acre Star Wars-themed land scheduled to open in 2019.{{Cite web |last=Glover |first=Erin |date=August 15, 2015 |title=Star Wars-Themed Lands Coming to Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resorts |url=http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2015/08/star-wars-themed-lands-coming-to-walt-disney-world-and-disneyland-resorts/ |access-date=September 17, 2015 |website=Disney Parks Blog |archive-date=August 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150815230427/http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2015/08/star-wars-themed-lands-coming-to-walt-disney-world-and-disneyland-resorts/ |url-status=dead }} It opened on May 31, 2019. Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge is home of two attractions, Millennium Falcon – Smugglers Run, and Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance.

In January 2017, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror closed and was replaced with Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout!, which opened that summer.{{cite news|url=https://abc7chicago.com/tower-of-terror-closes-guardians-the-galaxy-ride-at-disney-twilight-zone/1508281/|title=Tower of Terror to close for 'Guardians of the Galaxy' ride|website=abc7chicago.com|date=September 12, 2016|accessdate=November 1, 2024}} In October 2017, Disney announced a new Pixar Pals parking structure for the resort, which includes a 6,500-space parking structure, and a new transportation hub, which opened in July 2019.{{Cite web |last=Glover |first=Erin |date=October 25, 2017 |title=Parking and Transportation Improvements Coming to the Disneyland Resort |url=https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2017/10/parking-and-transportation-improvements-coming-to-the-disneyland-resort/ |access-date=October 25, 2017 |publisher=Disney Parks Blog |archive-date=October 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026110636/https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2017/10/parking-and-transportation-improvements-coming-to-the-disneyland-resort/ |url-status=dead }}

In March 2018, it was announced that A Bug's Land would close in September 2018. It was replaced by Avengers Campus on June 4, 2021.{{Cite web |date=June 13, 2021 |title=Here's how to get in Disneyland's Avengers Campus without waiting in a 4-hour line |url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/heres-how-to-get-in-disneylands-avengers-campus-without-waiting-in-a-4-hour-line/ar-AAL2x0H |access-date=June 14, 2021 |website=MSN |archive-date=June 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614235805/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/heres-how-to-get-in-disneylands-avengers-campus-without-waiting-in-a-4-hour-line/ar-AAL2x0H |url-status=live }}

In April 2019, Disneyland announced that Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway would be coming to Disneyland in 2023. The attraction was built behind Mickey's Toontown in a former backstage area and opened on January 27, 2023.{{Cite web |title=Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway to Roll into Disneyland Park |url=https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2019/04/mickey-minnies-runaway-railway-to-roll-into-disneyland-park/ |access-date=May 6, 2019 |website=Disney Parks Blog |language=en-US |archive-date=August 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200817163420/https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2019/04/mickey-minnies-runaway-railway-to-roll-into-disneyland-park/ |url-status=dead }}

In January 2024, Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel officially reopened as Pixar Place Hotel.{{Cite web |last=Zachary |date=2024-01-30 |title=Pixar Place Hotel Opens at Disneyland Resort, Celebrating the Artistry and Whimsy of Pixar Animation Studios |url=https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/pixar-place-hotel-opens-at-disneyland-resort-celebrating-the-artistry-and-whimsy-of-pixar-animation-studios/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=The Walt Disney Company |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2024-02-15 |title=Is Disneyland’s new Pixar Place Hotel worth $500 a night? |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2024/02/15/is-disneylands-new-pixar-place-hotel-worth-500-a-night/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Orange County Register |language=en-US}}

= Future expansion and proposed DisneylandForward project =

Disney announced plans to build a fourth hotel at the resort in 2016, slated for an opening in 2021.{{Cite news |last=Pimentel |first=Joseph |date=June 7, 2016 |title=Disneyland Resort plans another luxury hotel |url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/hotel-718500-disneyland-city.html |access-date=December 29, 2016 |work=The Orange County Register |archive-date=August 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809151537/http://www.ocregister.com/articles/hotel-718500-disneyland-city.html |url-status=live }} In August 2018, the hotel was placed on hold indefinitely because of a dispute with the city of Anaheim.{{Cite web |last=Martin |first=Hugo |date=August 16, 2018 |title=Disney promised a luxury hotel and Anaheim offered $267 million in tax breaks – but a growing feud has plans on hold |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disneyland-hotel-subsidy-20180815-story.html |access-date=August 23, 2018 |website=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=August 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822214742/http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disneyland-hotel-subsidy-20180815-story.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=August 16, 2018 |title=What's next for Downtown Disney, now that the hotel project is on hold? – Orange County Register |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2018/08/16/whats-next-for-downtown-disney-now-that-the-hotel-project-is-on-hold/ |access-date=August 23, 2018 |website=Orange County Register |archive-date=August 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823210305/https://www.ocregister.com/2018/08/16/whats-next-for-downtown-disney-now-that-the-hotel-project-is-on-hold/ |url-status=live }} The project was cancelled in October 2018 when the Anaheim City Council removed tax incentives.{{Cite web |date=October 11, 2018 |title=Disneyland Cancels Luxury Hotel Plans After Tax Incentives Removed Despite Being Exempt From Anaheim's $15 Min. Wage |url=https://www.nbclosangeles.com/local/disneyland-cancels-luxury-hotel-after-anaheim-scraps-tax-incentive-deals/ |access-date=June 1, 2024 |website=NBC Los Angeles}}

In March 2021, Disney announced a new project for the resort called DisneylandForward. This proposal is designed to change the city of Anaheim's zoning rules so that Disney can build more theme park space for both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. Proposals have included building more space where Pixar Place Hotel and the surrounding parking lots on the west-side of the resort currently reside. Rumors have surfaced that a new version of a mixed-use Disney Springs would be built near the Toy Story parking lot.{{Cite web |date=March 25, 2021 |title=New plan at Disneyland calls for squeezing in more rides, restaurants and shops |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-03-25/disneyland-forward-proposal-shops-attractions-parking-resorts |access-date=January 26, 2022 |website=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126153007/https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-03-25/disneyland-forward-proposal-shops-attractions-parking-resorts |url-status=live }} In May 2024, DisneylandForward received final approval from the Anaheim City Council.{{Cite web |last=Tapp |first=Tom |date=May 7, 2024 |title=Disney's $1.9B DisneylandForward Plan Gets Final Approval From Anaheim City Council; Major Changes Set For Walt's Original Park |url=https://deadline.com/2024/05/disneylandforward-final-approval-anaheim-1235908052/ |access-date=May 8, 2024 |website=Deadline |archive-date=May 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240508023709/https://deadline.com/2024/05/disneylandforward-final-approval-anaheim-1235908052/ |url-status=live }}

Location

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The Disneyland Resort is located several miles south of downtown Anaheim, in an area branded by the city as the Anaheim Resort near the border of neighboring Garden Grove. The resort is generally bounded by Harbor Boulevard to the east, Katella Avenue to the south, Walnut Street to the west and Ball Road to the north. Interstate 5 borders the resort at an angle on the northeastern corner.

Not all land bordered by these streets is part of the Disneyland Resort, particularly near the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and Katella Avenue, and along Ball Road between Disneyland Drive and Walnut Street. Disneyland Drive cuts through the resort on a north–south route and provides access to the Mickey & Friends Parking Structure, Downtown Disney, and the three hotels. Magic Way connects Walnut Street to Disneyland Drive just south of the Mickey & Friends Parking Structure and provides access to the parking structure, Disneyland Hotel, and Downtown Disney.

Special off-ramps from Interstate 5 combined with a reversible flyover over the intersection of Ball Road and Disneyland Drive permit access into and out of the Mickey & Friends and Pixar Pals parking garages during peak morning and evening traffic times.

Public transportation is provided by Anaheim Resort Transportation with services to Anaheim's Arctic Station which offers connections to Greater L.A.'s Metrolink regional rail.

Facilities

The Disneyland Resort includes two theme parks, three hotels owned by Disney, along with a shopping, dining and entertainment complex.

= Theme parks =

  • Disneyland, the company's first theme park and the only one built by Walt Disney, which opened on July 17, 1955.
  • Disney California Adventure, a theme park based on Disney's interpretation of California, which opened on February 8, 2001.

= Shopping, Dining, and Entertainment =

  • Downtown Disney, a {{convert|15|acre|adj=on}} outdoor shopping, dining, and entertainment district with approximately 30 venues, mostly operated by third parties that pay rent to Disney.

= Hotels =

The Disneyland Resort includes three company owned and operated hotels with approximately 2,400 rooms, 180 Disney Vacation Club villas, and {{Convert|180000|sqft}} of conference meeting space.

  • Disneyland Hotel, the resort's original hotel built by Jack Wrather which opened on October 5, 1955, and was purchased by Disney in 1988.
  • Pixar Place Hotel, a hotel themed to artwork created by Pixar Animation Studios. Opened in 1984 as the Emerald of Anaheim, operated by the Tokyu Group and later named The Pan Pacific Hotel Anaheim,{{Cite news |last=Galante |first=Mary Ann |date=May 25, 1989 |title=Tourism/leisure Time |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-05-25-fi-904-story.html |access-date=August 27, 2016 |work=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=January 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170124082227/http://articles.latimes.com/1989-05-25/business/fi-904_1_emerald-leisure-time-travel-industry |url-status=live }} the hotel was purchased by Disney in December 1995, for a reported US$36 million, and renamed the Disneyland Pacific Hotel.{{Cite news |last=Vrana |first=Debora |date=December 12, 1995 |title=Disney Acquires Pan Pacific Hotel in Anaheim |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-12-fi-13269-story.html |access-date=April 2, 2010 |work=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=March 23, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323064441/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-12-12/business/fi-13269_1_disneyland-pacific-hotel |url-status=live }} As part of the 1998–2001 expansion of the resort, it was re-branded as Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel.{{Cite book |last=Sehlinger |first=Bob |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781118277591/page/42 |title=The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2013 |last2=Kubersky |first2=Seth |last3=Testa |first3=Len |date=2013 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-27759-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781118277591/page/42 42] |url-access=registration}} The lobby and convention/banquet facilities had undergone several renovations since the re-branding, most notably in 2004 and 2005. It officially reopened as Pixar Place Hotel on January 30, 2024.
  • Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, based on the Craftsman style of architecture of the early 1900s, which opened on January 2, 2001.

Ticket prices

Approximately 60,000 people visited the park on Disneyland's opening day, July 17, 1955,{{Cite web |title=Disneyland Attendance Info – The Disneyland Linkage |url=http://www.scottware.com.au/theme/feature/atend_disparks.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214083556/http://www.scottware.com.au/theme/feature/atend_disparks.htm |archive-date=February 14, 2012 |access-date=May 11, 2015}} when park admission was priced at $1 for adults and 50¢ for children. This did not include access to rides and other individual attractions; attraction tickets could be purchased separately for 10¢ to 35¢.{{Cite web |title=A Year By Year Comparison of Disneyland Tickets & Prices |url=https://www.jansworld.net/DL_Tickets.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518100311/https://www.jansworld.net/DL_Tickets.html |archive-date=May 18, 2015}} Single attraction tickets were permanently eliminated in June 1982; access to all the park's attractions were included in the price of park admission.

Admission prices have greatly increased since the gates first opened, due in part to inflation, the continuing construction and renovation of attractions, and the addition of a second theme park, Disney California Adventure. {{As of|2020|01|17|df=US|post=,}} one-day "Park Hopper" tickets, allowing entry to both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, are priced from $154 to $199 for adults, and from $148 to $191 for children.{{Cite web |title=Theme Park Tickets – Disneyland Resort |url=https://disneyland.disney.go.com/tickets/ |access-date=January 17, 2020 |archive-date=January 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200116111457/https://disneyland.disney.go.com/tickets/ |url-status=live }} Now in the year 2025, Disneyland ticket prices start at $104 for a one park ticket.{{Cite web |date=2024-10-09 |title=Disneyland raises ticket prices with increase that breaks through $200 barrier |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2024/10/09/disneyland-ticket-price-increase-breaks-through-200-barrier/# |access-date=2025-04-13 |website=Orange County Register |language=en-US}} Visitors can also purchase one-park tickets and multi-day tickets.

In addition to daily tickets, in 1984 an annual pass (called an "Annual Premium Passport") was introduced granting daily entry for a year at a time for $65 for adults and $49 for children. Currently annual passes (now called the "Magic Key") range in price from $399 to $1,339.{{Cite web |last=Bloom |first=Tracy |date=August 3, 2021 |title=Disneyland launches 'Magic Key': What to know about the new annual pass replacement program |url=https://ktla.com/news/local-news/disneyland-launches-magic-key-what-to-know-about-the-new-annual-pass-replacement-program/ |website=KTLA 5 – Los Angeles}}{{Cite web |last=MacDonald |first=Brady |date=August 3, 2021 |title=Disneyland Magic Key replaces annual passholder program |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2021/08/03/disneyland-magic-key-replaces-annual-passholder-program/ |website=Orange County Register |access-date=August 3, 2021 |archive-date=August 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803204433/https://www.ocregister.com/2021/08/03/disneyland-magic-key-replaces-annual-passholder-program/ |url-status=live }}

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