HalloweenTime at DLR Superthread- 9/14-10/31; Mickey's Halloween Party starts 9/28!

[WestCoastMama]

Hi All!
I've been lurking and gathering all sorts of info from this thread. Thank you to all the contributors. Definitely subbing! My family and I are planning a trip (3-4 days) to DLR sometime between Oct. 20-27. My daughter's school has that week off, so we were hoping for less crowds than when we were there the couple of days after Christmas last year. Yeah, I know, we were crazy!

Initially I wasn't considering doing the MHP but after reading all your posts it sounds like a lot of fun! So, eagerly awaiting the dates so that we can finalize the trip. I've seen Disney run deals during the summer for the fall so we're waiting till then to book. Fingers crossed! Also, wondering who you guys like to book with for DLR vacations? Dreams Unlimited? AAA? Straight through Disney? Any perks going one way or the other?

One more thing! I am curious about the Happiest Haunts Tour. Any details would be appreciated.

 

[Staceycs]

Thanks for posting this photo I'm mikey
Wow! Disney never ceases to amaze me! Can't wait for October

 

[I'm mikey]

Also, wondering who you guys like to book with for DLR vacations? Dreams Unlimited? AAA? Straight through Disney? Any perks going one way or the other?

We book our trip with whatever way gives us the best price, sometimes thats been each component separately (park tickets/Hotel), other times its a package deal

We've gotten great deals from Get away today.com




This is the Ray Bradbury Halloween Tree, it is in Frontierland

Thanks for posting this photo I'm mikey
Wow! Disney never ceases to amaze me! Can't wait for October

 

[Sherry E]

Thank you for bumping this, I'm mikey, and for saving the thread from the murky depths of....Page 3!!!!! I cannot have this thread on Page 3 when Halloween planning needs to happen!! That is madness!



sonjaandsue - That is an awesome photo! I love the colors, the perspective, the framing/cropping - I love it all!



WestCoastMama - Welcome! Thank you for joining us and coming out of lurkdom!

 

[pixiemomof3]

Great thread!

 

[ExcitedSam]

Oooh maaaaan! We are leaving Disneyland on the 28 Sept! I didn't even think about Halloween as it was a month away, would have LOVED to go to the party. Here's hoping we will see some decorations at least. We don't really do Halloween here in AUS so it would be an awesome experience.

WAIT!!! OMG OMG OMG!! Just realized we will be back in Anaheim mid Oct!!! Do you need an entry ticket as well as the party ticket or just the party ticket? Must read back now on how to get tickets.

 

[Sherry E]

pixiemomof3 -

Welcome!!! Thank you for joining us!

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Oooh maaaaan! We are leaving Disneyland on the 28 Sept! I didn't even think about Halloween as it was a month away, would have LOVED to go to the party. Here's hoping we will see some decorations at least. We don't really do Halloween here in AUS so it would be an awesome experience.

WAIT!!! OMG OMG OMG!! Just realized we will be back in Anaheim mid Oct!!! Do you need an entry ticket as well as the party ticket or just the party ticket? Must read back now on how to get tickets.

ExcitedSam -

Hello and welcome!

You will definitely see Halloween decorations, even if you end up missing the Halloween party!

The Halloween Time season will inevitably begin on either Friday, 9/14, Monday, 9/17 or Friday 9/21 - we are not sure yet.

As soon as the season has officially begun on one of those dates, everything Halloween-related will be in effect at Disneyland, except for the Halloween party and the party-exclusive events (such as the Halloween Screams fireworks and the character cavalcade).

You will see character pumpkins above the Disneyland turnstiles. You'll see all kinds of fun Halloween window displays, as well as pumpkins perched on balconies, window sills and awnings along Main Street. You'll be able to ride Haunted Mansion Holiday - which is a thorough transformation of the Haunted Mansion ride into a "Nightmare Before Christmas" theme. You'll be able to ride Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy, which is done specifically for Halloween Time. You'll be able to visit the wonderful Halloween Round-Up, which features amazing carved character pumpkins. The Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) display will be set up in Frontierland. You'll be able to eat pumpkin muffins, pumpkin fudge, pumpkin cupcakes, drink pumpkin lattes and buy Halloween merchandise, such as Mickey pumpkin mugs.

Okay, now as for the party...if you come back to Anaheim in October and happen to be there on a Mickey's Halloween Party night (it should most likely take place on every Tuesday and Friday in October, with maybe one of the Tuesdays swapped out for a Monday, and the final party will be on a Wednesday - October 31st, or Halloween night), you will have to buy a separate party ticket for the event. The party will probably begin at 7 p.m. on Fridays, and at 6 p.m. on the other nights, but party guests can enter the park at 4 p.m. or 3 p.m., respectively.

Any guests who do not have separate party tickets will have to leave Disneyland park before the party begins. So if you wanted to visit Disneyland earlier in the day and go to the party that night, you'd have to have a separate ticket or Hopper for Disneyland, and then also the party ticket.

If you choose to not attend the party, you can go over to California Adventure, which will still be open!

If you have an Annual Pass, are a Disney Vacation Club owner or have a Disney Visa Card, you will most likely be able to buy discounted tickets starting in late May or early June, all the way up until right before the parties start, until the discounted tickets sell out (which won't be for a while).

If you don't have any of those memberships, you can buy non-discounted tickets at the regular prices (which will be somewhere in the $50 range, but I'm not sure exactly what the price will be this year) starting in July or early August.

There are "day of event" - or "same day" - tickets sold at the Disney ticket booths for those last minute party goers, but those tickets will not be discounted and may even end up being a couple of dollars extra!

 

[ExcitedSam]

Thanks Sherry. We will have already been to Disneyland so would probably just go for the party, so all we'd need is a prty ticket then?

We will be back in Anaheim from the 9th to the 14th, but having driven from Phoenix on the 9th the girls might not be up for the party that night, which is a Tuesday.

I do not have an AP or anything so will have to wait until general public tickets go on sale. I'm so excited to be able to experience Halloween in the US, even though we won't be there for the actual day.

Will be keeping an eye on this thread for details for sure!

 

[canadian_ehngel]

I'm in love with this thread! We're heading to DL/DCA October 15 for 7 nights (6 days of amazing Disney bliss)! So we'll be arriving on a Monday (we will be staying at the hotel... possibly checking out Downtown Disney that evening... NO parks that day) afternoon, maybe evening, leaving on a Monday. From the past years, it sounds like we'll get 1, maybe 2 party days. And I just want to make sure... the party is at DL, NOT DCA? Are there any festivities happening at DCA? Does DL normally close earlier on the non-party days? If so, what time, according to the past? Do they do fireworks on non-party nights?

 

[MommyLove]

I just booked our trip today for the week of Oct 21st!! I'm so excited I can hardly stand it! Now to start stalking all these October/Halloween threads!

 

[GrandBob]

WAIT!!! OMG OMG OMG!! Just realized we will be back in Anaheim mid Oct!!! Do you need an entry ticket as well as the party ticket or just the party ticket? Must read back now on how to get tickets.

Thanks Sherry. We will have already been to Disneyland so would probably just go for the party, so all we'd need is a prty ticket then?

Yep, you got it right, ExcitedSam. You can just buy the party ticket, and that will get you in, even without a park ticket! Actually, it gets you in 3 hours before the party starts, so you can do some of the park early too! The party typically starts at 6 or 7pm, so the party ticket will get you into Disneyland at 3 or 4pm. Have fun!

-Bob

 

[PixiDustDears]

We went to the party last year. I thought I would share some pictures...

Decorations:

 

[PixiDustDears]

Characters:

And the Candy from the party (2 kids and 2 adults worth)

 

[BELLEDOZER]

My fav shot of the Haunted Mansion last Halloween. Notice the ghost in the right hand corner trying to blow out the candles....

 

[LV Disney Fan(atic)]

So much wonderful information and great pictures! After many trips to DL over the years DD and I are finally going to go to the Halloween party for the first time this year - she'll be heading off to college in 2013 so it might be our last chance for a while (although I've been trying to get her to consider schools in the LA area - no ulterior motives here ) Can't wait!

 

[Elk Grove Chris]

Some pics from last October:

 

[I'm mikey]

Fantastic pics everyone.

 

[monkey30]

I see WDW has released dates, any news on DL yet?

 

[Sherry E]

I see WDW has released dates, any news on DL yet?

Erin -

You mean dates for the Halloween Party? I was just on the Disneyland website - and specifically, on the Annual Pass section - about 1 hour ago, and I saw no mention of party dates.

However, the site was running as slow as molasses and my PC locked up. There is a big AP contest happening now for a sneak preview of the new California Adventure (including Cars Land and Buena Vista Street) on June 11th, and I suspect that thousands of people were entering at the same time so things were freezing up.

So there could have been info in another section of the AP site that I didn't see yet. But I think that, more likely than not, the party dates will sneak onto the AP section in the next few weeks. And then we really will just get confirmation of what we essentially already suspect the dates will be. It's not too hard to narrow down the dates of the Halloween season and especially the party - it's just a matter of whether or not Disneyland makes any slight changes to their schedules and whether the party will start on 9/28 or 10/5.

 

[I'm mikey]

halloween date's released on disney website

September 14 through October 31, 2012

http://disneyland.disney.go.com/events/halloween-time/