Disneyland at Christmas/Holiday Season Superthread #5

[AussieNSW]

I am just looking into booking the Holiday time at the Disneyland resort tour and was wondering
Should I book an 11:00am tour or 2pm ?
Should I book for the first day of the holiday season Nov 10th or on Thanksgiving week 22nd Nov ?
Thanks for your help.

 

[grannyminnie]

I am just looking into booking the Holiday time at the Disneyland resort tour and was wondering
Should I book an 11:00am tour or 2pm ?
Should I book for the first day of the holiday season Nov 10th or on Thanksgiving week 22nd Nov ?
Thanks for your help.

Ooo, I've been considering that, but can't make myself pay the amt., on top of the ticket price for the day! On top of that, the tour doesn't seem to include an actual meal in the price of the ticket. That would at least soften the blow!

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

I would do the 2pm tour and during Thanksgiving week. The tour gives you reserved seating of the holiday parade down by IASW and I think there is something extra magical about watching it in the dark with the Christmas lights on the ride as a backdrop. That said, if you are a photo buff, the daytime parade is easier to photograph. I suggest Thanksgiving week because it will be busier, so in my mind you get more bang for your buck when you can bypass those crowds for both some rides and the parade.

I find this tour to be worth every dollar!

 

[grannyminnie]

I would do the 2pm tour and during Thanksgiving week. The tour gives you reserved seating of the holiday parade down by IASW and I think there is something extra magical about watching it in the dark with the Christmas lights on the ride as a backdrop. That said, if you are a photo buff, the daytime parade is easier to photograph. I suggest Thanksgiving week because it will be busier, so in my mind you get more bang for your buck when you can bypass those crowds for both some rides and the parade.

I find this tour to be worth every dollar!

I've think you've convinced me and I'm not even the OP!!

 

[mom2rtk]

I've think you've convinced me and I'm not even the OP!!

I highly recommend it. The only reason we're not doing it is that I don't know that it changes enough from year to year and we did it a couple years ago.

 

[Minnie Sue Oz]

The website has now been updated and shows the Christmas parade up to twice a day depending on the day. The one thing I noticed was the very latest the parade is scheduled is 4:15pm.
Soooooo, could this mean Paint The Night as it can only be at night?! Seems odd that there is no Christmas parade mentioned aftet dark?
We can dream, right?!!!

 

[Abbey1]

The website has now been updated and shows the Christmas parade up to twice a day depending on the day. The one thing I noticed was the very latest the parade is scheduled is 4:15pm.
Soooooo, could this mean Paint The Night as it can only be at night?! Seems odd that there is no Christmas parade mentioned aftet dark?
We can dream, right?!!!

Oh this makes me so excited, even if I'm just getting my hopes up for nothing. I would be so ridiculously happy if they show PTN every night during the holiday season! We'd end up watching it every single night we are there, we just love it so much!

 

[Tinkerbell19672]

Minnie Sue Oz - do you have a link? I can't find it

 

[grannyminnie]

I just noticed today too that the site had been updated with the parade info. I also wondered whether or not that 4:15 parade is in the place of a night one. Still no mention of fireworks for the holidays tho.

 

[mom2rtk]

The website has now been updated and shows the Christmas parade up to twice a day depending on the day. The one thing I noticed was the very latest the parade is scheduled is 4:15pm.
Soooooo, could this mean Paint The Night as it can only be at night?! Seems odd that there is no Christmas parade mentioned aftet dark?
We can dream, right?!!!

Can you give a link to the schedule you are looking at? I've been watching the Disney website entertainment and haven't seen times at all for any parade yet during the holiday season.

 

[JessP81]

The parade times are listed on the daily event schedule under the park hours section

 

[Drcbelle]

From what I saw the parades are only listed on the first 4 or 5 days of the holiday season...I might be looking at it wrong though.

 

[fsjking]

https://disneyland.disney.go.com/calendars/day/2016-11-24/

Parks and tickets drop down, entertainment schedule. It's also the day view tab on the park hours calendar.Has it all the way through Thanksgiving. Not much more info though.

 

[mom2rtk]

https://disneyland.disney.go.com/calendars/day/2016-11-24/

Parks and tickets drop down, entertainment schedule. It's also the day view tab on the park hours calendar.Has it all the way through Thanksgiving. Not much more info though.

Thanks for that! That website continues to just baffle me. I have been watching under "entertainment" here, with not much more than Jedi Training times posted past the end of October:

https://disneyland.disney.go.com/entertainment/disneyland/

 

[Minnie Sue Oz]

So, here's another thought. There's still no parade listed for after 4:15pm. There is always a night time parade.There just has to be a night time parade. Something that needs to be on at night, right?! There are actually two possibilities........Paint The Night .........OR ............The Main Street Electrical Parade.

Now wouldn't that be a nice Christmas present

 

[mom2rtk]

So, here's another thought. There's still no parade listed for after 4:15pm. There is always a night time parade.There just has to be a night time parade. Something that needs to be on at night, right?! There are actually two possibilities........Paint The Night .........OR ............The Main Street Electrical Parade.

Now wouldn't that be a nice Christmas present

MSEP had its last show in the MK 5 nights ago. It probably won't even be there by then, let alone have performers trained and ready to go. I assume it's going to immediately undergo refurbishment to be ready to go sometime in the spring.

My fingers are definitely still crossed for PTN though. I'm hoping they have been working since early September to have it show ready again by the Holiday season.

I'm still a little perplexed though. In the past, I think they have run the Christmas parade at night only during the week, then daytime and night on the weekends. If PTN is only running on "select nights, I would have expected to see some night showings of the Christmas parade on that schedule. It certainly seems like running PTN every night would be unlikely based on what they have said so far.

 

[Minnie Sue Oz]

MSEP has left for Anaheim already. I know it won't be running til next year some time, but it's nice to dream! I really wish they would just release all the Christmas stuff and be done with it!
I'm trying to get my itinerary finished and need to know what's on when!

 

[mom2rtk]

MSEP has left for Anaheim already. I know it won't be running til next year some time, but it's nice to dream! I really wish they would just release all the Christmas stuff and be done with it!
I'm trying to get my itinerary finished and need to know what's on when!

Well, it's not like they've given us much to work with yet, so it's only natural to try and fill in some of the blanks ourselves!

Now I'm starting to wonder if PTN is the only night parade, would the holiday tour get reserved seating for that? I wasn't going to do the tour but might have to give it another thought if that's the case.... See? There I go filling in more blanks!

 

[marivigi]

MSEP has left for Anaheim already. I know it won't be running til next year some time, but it's nice to dream! I really wish they would just release all the Christmas stuff and be done with it!
I'm trying to get my itinerary finished and need to know what's on when!

Amen!

 

[kristabelle13]

I am just looking into booking the Holiday time at the Disneyland resort tour and was wondering
Should I book an 11:00am tour or 2pm ?
Should I book for the first day of the holiday season Nov 10th or on Thanksgiving week 22nd Nov ?
Thanks for your help.

I had to come back to this thread to figure out the answer to this exact question (the 11 or 2pm one)! (and I'd book the week of the 22nd, personally.) last year I did the afternoon one...which was awesome - the parade route was a bit busier so it seemed like it was a good plan to get seating for that time. The tour was incredible- I find Disneyland just lovely at Christmas and to get to hear the stories and get some new info on the minutia was really cool. (Plus there were some pretty great Disers on my tour! )