**December 2025 Check-In Thread**

[BobaFettFan]

Arriving Dec 4, flying out Dec 10.

Staying at the Anaheim Desert inn and Suites.

Don't tell the kiddo! It's a surprise from Grandpa.

The thing I remember most is that hard to get ginger bread man.

Also last time was a cavalcade of getting in line and the ride breaking down so GLOVED FINGERS CROSSED!

 

[alleighboo]

I'll be there! We are staying at The Villas at the DLH (those cutie little pool ones) Dec. 23-29. Just me and my husband!

I booked these a year ago when the 2025 bookings opened. Then my husband suggested we do a trip to Japan and Tokyo Disneyland/DisneySea instead. We did that trip the first two weeks of June and then decided since we still had our reservation for DL...it would be a shame to cancel it...right?? So we're taking our first Christmas time trip to Disney! We usually go during the summer or Halloween, so I'm excited to see the holiday decorations!

 

[BriannaRuth]

Didn't know they had gingerbread men! I assume these would be at places like Marcelline's?

Alleighboo, how was Disneyland Tokyo? I've heard that's one of the best DLs. Doing every DL is on my bucket list! I'm like you, we normally do summer and have done Halloween a few times (one of my daughter has an October birthday), but never Christmas. October has gotten so busy that we've had better luck going in summer. It will be interesting to see how December compares. How fun that you'll be there right at Christmas!

 

[LKing]

Didn't know they had gingerbread men! I assume these would be at places like Marcelline's?

Marcelines is no more. It is now the Wonderful World of Sweets.

The full body gingerbread cookies are sold at Jolly Holiday. There is a schedule and they sell out very quickly.

Here is a thread from last year about the various types of gingerbread cookies at DLR.

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Thread 'gingerbread cookies'

Dec 4, 2024

hi

going to disneyland next week and would like to get one of the famous gingerbread cookies - i thought i read online that the receipe has changed with chocolate on the bottom of the cookies in disneyland and the originals only at grand californian - is this true? and easiest place to get them?

thanks for all the help

cindy

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[BriannaRuth]

Wow, everything you could ever want to know about gingerbread at Disneyland on that thread!

 

[maleficent55]

Didn't know they had gingerbread men! I assume these would be at places like Marcelline's?

Alleighboo, how was Disneyland Tokyo? I've heard that's one of the best DLs. Doing every DL is on my bucket list! I'm like you, we normally do summer and have done Halloween a few times (one of my daughter has an October birthday), but never Christmas. October has gotten so busy that we've had better luck going in summer. It will be interesting to see how December compares. How fun that you'll be there right at Christmas!

They’re also at the treat cart in the lobby at the Grand Californian

 

[B3rlingirl]

Yes, finally Christmas time with my parents… kind of a remix of our last minute cancelled 2019 trip…
so first: running the Honolulu marathon and then on to DL… so I keep on joking we might need a scooter to share depending on how our legs feel after the marathon. (I might need to read up on scooters)

Right now we plan on taking the redeye to lax (I desperately hope united doesn’t move the flight around to much!) and do some shopping at the outlets of orange and then do Disneyland with 4 day park hopper and lightning lane (first time for me and the lightning lane pass) + a character breakfast on our departure day…(sleep is planned afterwards)
I am a bit worried about crowds the weekend before Christmas but it can’t be helped. I can’t move the dates of Christmas or the marathon so we’ll make the best out of it…

I at least plan on doing a somewhat relaxed approach to our park days, but I somehow guess it‘ll become rope drop to closing commando style day like it happened for our last trips, but I do want to take some time soaking in the atmosphere on Main Street…

It will be my last visit for the Holidays for quite some time I guess (I prefer warm summer nights over those freezing Winter evenings), so I’ll want to max out on the experience…
Reading about those gingerbread cookies in the linked thread I guess I‘ll need to sample them all! After all I miss most of Christmas-cookie-time in Germany, so I‘ll have to make up for it! I guess I should have started saving money a couple of months ago…

 

[alleighboo]

Didn't know they had gingerbread men! I assume these would be at places like Marcelline's?

Alleighboo, how was Disneyland Tokyo? I've heard that's one of the best DLs. Doing every DL is on my bucket list! I'm like you, we normally do summer and have done Halloween a few times (one of my daughter has an October birthday), but never Christmas. October has gotten so busy that we've had better luck going in summer. It will be interesting to see how December compares. How fun that you'll be there right at Christmas!

It was amazing! We did 7 days in Tokyo and then did 4 at Disney. I highly recommend the vacation package when you go. It's a little pricier but still soooo much cheaper than the parks here. Tokyo Disneyland reminded me of Disneyland but on a WDW scale. And DisneySea is just completely different from any of the other parks. 100% recommend going!

I'm an October birthday girl too and my favorite holiday is Halloween so I love going during the fall, despite the crowds. My husband is the Christmas guy so I'm excited to actually be there for Christmas. I'm preparing for big crowds and just taking it slow!