After being closed for more than one year, Disneyland park and Disney California Adventure park are planning to reopen to California Residents Only with limited capacity on 30 April 2021.
“Until further notice, only California residents may visit the parks, and in groups no larger than 3 households, in line with current state guidelines. Proof of residency may be required.”
“Per the state guidelines, the name and contact information of each person who purchases a ticket to the parks should be collected for contact tracing purposes.”
Disneyland will be instituting several measures to control attendance.
A Theme Park Reservation System, just like Walt Disney World’s, will be put in place
Only California Residents will be admitted
Disneyland will have the same strict social distancing measures that we’ve seen at WDW, including Character Cavalcades and Pop Ups, and no regularly scheduled parades or nighttime spectaculars which both draw crowds.
The highly popular FastPass and MaxPass services have been suspended.
The Virtual Queue will be back at Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, with opportunities to join a boarding group once in the morning and again later in the day (times to be announced later).
The Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure park, will open 4 June 2021!
As at Walt Disney World, not all Disneyland Resort attractions will be available when they reopen.
Open Attractions
Disneyland Park:
Alice in Wonderland
Astro Orbitor
Autopia
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Casey Jr. Circus Train
Disneyland Railroad
Dumbo the Flying Elephant
Gadget’s Go Coaster
Haunted Mansion
Indiana Jones Adventure
“it’s a small world”
King Arthur Carrousel
Mad Tea Party
Main Street Vehicles
Mark Twain Riverboat
Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride
Peter Pan’s Flight
Pinocchio’s Daring Journey
Pirates of the Caribbean
Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin
Snow White’s Enchanted Wish
Space Mountain
Splash Mountain
Star Tours: The Adventures Continue
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
Surprise Character Sightings
Tarzan’s Treehouse
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room
Disney California Adventure Park:
Goofy’s Sky School
Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: BREAKOUT!
Incredicoaster
Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind
Jessie’s Critter Carousel
Jumpin’ Jellyfish
Luigi’s Rollickin’ Roadsters
Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree
Mickey’s PhilharMagic
Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!
Pixar Pal-A-Round – Non-Swinging
Pixar Pal-A-Round – Swinging
Radiator Springs Racers
Silly Symphony Swings
Soarin’ Around the World
Surprise Character Sightings
The Little Mermaid ~ Ariel’s Undersea Adventure
Toy Story Midway Mania!
Turtle Talk with Crush
Closed Attractions
Disneyland Park:
Buzz Lightyear’s Astro Blasters
Chip ’n’ Dale Treehouse
Davy Crockett’s Explorer Canoes
Disneyland Monorail
Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln
Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage
Goofy’s Playhouse
Jungle Cruise
Matterhorn Bobsleds
Mickey and the Magical Map (permanently ended)
Mickey’s House
Omnibus
Pirate’s Lair on Tom Sawyer Island
Sailing Ship Columbia
Sleeping Beauty Castle Walk-through
Storybook Land Canal Boats
Disney California Adventure Park:
Animation Academy
Disney Junior Dance Party
Frozen – Live at the Hyperion (permanently ended)
Golden Zephyr
Grizzly River Run
Red Car Trolley
Redwood Creek Challenge Trail
Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa
Hotels
Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa will reopen its regular guest rooms on 29 April 2021. Booking availability will open on 15 April.
Disney Vacation Club Villas at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa will reopen 2 May.
Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel and the Disneyland Hotel will reopen at a later date.
Disneyland Dining
Not all Disneyland Resort dining locations will be available either.
There has been no news as to the fate of the Disney Armed Forces Salute at the Disneyland Resort yet!
MDT doesn’t expect a Salute type offer at Disneyland until they either begin allowing those who do not live in California to enter or even when attendance limits are lifted.
In June of 2020 Disneyland announced on their website that they had extended the expiration on Disney Armed Forces Salute Tickets to 16 December 2021.
See: disneyland.disney.go.com/travel-information/ and click on Tickets then look for Military Salute.
MDT expects that Disneyland will belatedly think of the military community after reopening to the entire country, similar to their delayed policy changes for Walt Disney World.
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In July, myself, husband and kids are going to California to visit family and was wanting to visit Disneyland. Would we be considered residence by there standards? I don’t live in California because of the military but am still a California resident. My husband and I still have valid California ID’s. My children under 18 have military ID’s.
Steve,
any idea when/if Disneyland will start up the 2021 Military Salute? We’re going in the middle of JUL since they are opening to out of state residents now.
thanks,
Hello,
In July, myself, husband and kids are going to California to visit family and was wanting to visit Disneyland. Would we be considered residence by there standards? I don’t live in California because of the military but am still a California resident. My husband and I still have valid California ID’s. My children under 18 have military ID’s.
I would say so with you CA ID’s Khristen.
Steve,
any idea when/if Disneyland will start up the 2021 Military Salute? We’re going in the middle of JUL since they are opening to out of state residents now.
thanks,
Hi John,
Thanks for the question.
No news yet…
I’ve just posted my thoughts here: https://www.militarydisneytips.com/blog/disneyland/disneyland-opening-nationwide-and-the-disney-armed-forces-salute/