I am thoroughly enjoying my summer, but it is hard to wait for the holiday details come out!! We had to cancel our trip last year, so we are extra excited about this year! I really want to see that GCH gingerbread house. We will be there from Dec. 16th through the 23rd. We'll have to take a day off because those darn hoppers are only good for five days. But, that will give our feet a break. Thank you, Sherry, for all of your hard work. Can you light a fire under those DLR execs to get the news out?
Well, hello, and welcome back, lucysmom!
It's good to see you here for another year of holiday fun! You came back just in time, as I will be announcing the Fifth Annual Theme Week Countdown details in the next couple of days!
Thank you, also, for the kind words!
I vividly remember that you had to cancel the trip last year -- it was due to an unexpected health/dental bill, correct? Let's hope that this year's trip will happen without any sudden bumps in the road!
Your day off can be a day to roam around Downtown Disney and the different hotels, checking out the trees and decorations. I hope that the GCH will have another gingerbread house this year. For the last month or two there has been a rice crispy Castle "cake" in the lobby, but it cannot possibly sit there for another 4 months. Surely they have to put another gingerbread creation there.
Then again, the focus this year seems to be heavily concentrated on the 60th anniversary and all the pageantry and nostalgia that go with it. I would not be surprised -- though I will be disappointed -- if a lot of the expected holiday decorations in the different lands are scaled back. I really hope not, because I love the immersion that the holiday season offers, with trees and wreaths in every shop and restaurant, and themed décor in both parks. It looks as though the Jingle Jangle Jamboree could possibly not come back, which is unfortunate, but Santa will supposedly be back in his little cabin instead of out in the Festival location where the Jamboree was held.
I wish I could bribe, pay off or otherwise coax Disney to reveal all the details to us now -- or at least the basics -- but I think we will end up waiting until September to get the official word on when the holiday season officially begins.
They have STILL not put up the Candlelight Ceremony dates in the place where I usually check for them, and those dates should have been up last week! Those Candlelight dates have to go up so that the choir directors and performers can sign up, begin to prepare, rehearse, etc. Disney also took forever to tell us the Halloween Time and Mickey's Halloween party dates too.
The only thing I know for sure -- officially -- is that auditions were just held for the Christmas Fantasy Parade. So that means it will be back in some capacity, probably as a daytime-only parade (Paint the Night will continue to run at night, I suspect). I am 99.9% certain that Believe in Holiday Magic Fireworks will not happen this year (Disneyland Forever will run for the rest of the year). Haunted Mansion Holiday will be back, with the Hatbox Ghost in place! It's a Small World is expected to be back.
Other than that -- everything is up in the air and a mystery!
), but I used to mainly go to DLR in the summer years and years ago. Every year I'd do a summer trip, despite getting terrible sunburns and getting ill in the heat. I loved walking behind the old waterfalls at the Disneyland Hotel and getting sprayed with the mist! However, at some point or another -- in the mid-'90s -- I realized that the holiday season was much more to my liking! Not only was the weather more reasonable (for me), but there were pretty things to look at, and all kinds of Christmas trees, treats and Christmas music. The holidays have only developed since then, with more themed decorations in more lands, and Haunted Mansion Holiday and all of that.
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