Disneyland Park

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• LC

  Lizzy Carter

  1 day ago
  5.0
  The Happiest Place on Earth! We spent 3 days at Disneyland & California Adventure celebrating my 35th Birthday. I haven't been in 9 years and my boyfriend hadn't been since he was about 10 years old. We had a great time, we visited during the week in early February and there were minimal ride closures for maintenance as well as lines moving quickly. I have always been a fan of Disneyland - growing up in Southern California, I spent many years celebrating my Birthday at the park. We were able to join in Disneyland's 70th anniversary celebration as well as California Adventures Lunar New Year Celebration. The staff and crew members were so friendly and always happy to assist. We stopped by Town Hall upon our arrival to get my "Birthday" badge as well has my boyfriend's Celebratory badge. Disney staff is always amazing at ensuring you feel celebrated on your birthday. The longest line we waited in was for Space Mountain and the wait was only about 40 minutes. I truly felt like a little kid again enjoying the rides and the magic of the park. I absolutely love the corn dogs they sell on Main ST. at the Corn Dog Cart, we also enjoyed many pineapple spears, and other street food on our trip. With additions over the years, and changes - the original Disneyland atmosphere and magic still exists and the new additions and upgrades bring more magic to the park. We will be back in the future, but this visit was one for the books!
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  Janee Stacey

  1 day ago
  1.0
  I’d just like to share a very unmagical visit I had coming to this location. I’m from the state of Florida, so I am very unfamiliar with the processes involved with what you aren’t exactly allowed to bring into this specific park, but being a passholder I go very often at home so I have never had an issue like this. There aren’t any signs leading into the park while you’re trekking the mile into this location since I walked from my hotel, that states what will not be allowed through the security check point. I respect the duty of the security team, and the roles in protecting the public, while visiting the park, but I’d highly recommend at this location training around appropriate things to say to consumers while protecting there experience as well. As a leader, i’m huge on making sure that while my team is doing there job, they’re being highly professional about what verbiage and tone looks like in uncommon situations, and what protecting the consumers experience looks like while, also navigating different circumstances. I was told that a vape in my bag wasn’t allowed into the park, and needed to be thrown out, which I highly respect the security team for looking and making sure appropriate items are allowed in. I apologized letting him know that I wasn’t aware it was at the bottom of my bag, and didn’t know it wasn’t allowed into the park. Being from out of state, i’ve never had this issue in the Florida location because I don’t smoke on park grounds. I also decided not to state that my partner the day before entered the park with a vape in her pocket the day without me, and nothing occurred, she was not stopped. The security officer continued to what felt like target me in a highly critical and unprofessional way about the vape, and to keep things calm and professional I stated that I would just leave my bag back in my hotel. Instead of saying “okay awesome, just don’t consume anything, but we”ll be happy to see you when you get back” He continues to make unprovoked comments assuming my partner and I would consume the vapes on the park grounds, and embarrassingly continues to alienate my girlfriend and I in-front of the entire line of 100 people in security saying “if you decide you want to consume the product, it’ll be the end of your night, you need to step out of this line and we’ll escort you out of the park.” Again, I never let anyone see me sweat, but the entire situation was embarrassing as a black woman, and just felt like the comments where rude, unprofessional, and unnecessary. I left the park deciding that I just wouldn’t return at all because of how uncomfortable and upsetting the entire situation was. A mistake that I didn’t know wasn’t allowed, made me feel highly upset and unhappy about the entire night. I left and spent 2 hours walking out my anger. I was so excited to visit coming from Florida being a pass holder, and being huge about Disney cruise line, I feel as if i'm really familiar around what i’ve been allowed to bring in my bag before. But I was just so excited about the experience, and the magic of this location that I was unaware, so I apologize for not being on top of what was in my bag, I take that responsibility. I just went back to my hotel, upset and confused at how things went so left so quickly. I’d love to just share that, if there could be more signage, or even maybe a little bit more care around not what is being said to each guest, but the way it is being portrayed, could go super far. I’m unsure if he was having a rough night, but I just felt like I was being judged, for something I used for medial reasons. I respect all Disney employees, and the roles they play in protecting us. But, I also have never had a situation like this, that made me feel so uncomfortable and unhappy about returning to this location. I will not return, and I’ll just check this california trip off as loss.
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  Lord Voldemart

  Feb 26, 2026
  5.0
  Look I’ll be honest. I’ve been to theme parks all over the world and I always end up measuring them against this place. That should tell you everything but I’ll keep going anyway. There’s something Disneyland does that nowhere else has figured out. The second you step onto Main Street and you smell whatever they’re pumping through those vents and you hear that music and you see the castle sitting there at the end of the road, something in your chest just opens up. I don’t know how else to describe it. Grown man, been here multiple times, still happens every single time. And it’s the details that get me. Not the big rides, not the fireworks, not the stuff they put on the commercials. It’s the little things. A cast member who stays in character when nobody’s watching. The way the trash cans match the theme of whatever land you’re standing in. The fact that you can look in any direction at any angle and nothing breaks the illusion. Walt was obsessive about that and you can feel it decades later. That obsession lives in the walls of this place. Do the rides deliver? Obviously. Space Mountain still hits. Pirates still has that magic. But Disneyland was never really about the rides for me. It’s about the feeling. It’s about watching someone you love light up over something small and silly and being totally okay with lighting up right next to them. Some people say it’s overpriced. Some people say it’s too crowded. They’re not wrong about either thing. Go anyway. Some things are worth the trouble and this is one of them.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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  Thomas Olson

  Feb 24, 2026
  1.0
  This rating and complaint is not about Disneyland Park itself. However, it is a complaint about Disneyland’s process of confiscating goods at the front gate as well as how my children’s situation was handled today. My children — my son and daughter — went to Disneyland today with their school on a charter bus. We live in Riverside County. Their bus dropped them off at Disneyland and then left, meaning they did not have their own transportation or access to a car. Both of my children brought collapsible chairs with them due to knee and leg injuries. My son has a chronic knee condition called Osgood-Schlatter disease, and my daughter currently has pronated ankles, which cause extreme foot pain as well as shin splints. Both of them have great difficulty standing for long periods of time. They brought these miniature collapsible chairs with them so they would not have to stand in lines for extended periods throughout the day. They would be able to periodically sit in the lines. We could not afford Genie+ passes or other line-skipping services either: hence, the reason for the collapsible chairs. However, when my children arrived at the front gate, the guard informed them that their collapsible chairs were not permitted in the park. He told them they could either take them back to the hotel or return them to their car. My children explained that they did not have a hotel or a car, because they were dropped off by a bus, and their school bus had already left. The guard gave them no other options to retain their belongings and were therefore required to surrender their chairs at the gate. We had just purchased my daughter’s collapsible chair last night on Amazon. It was brand new. My son brought his used chair from home. We were unaware that these items were not permitted. After this happened, and after sometime reviewing Disneyland’s policies, I did confirm that chairs are listed as prohibited items. However, in cases involving a medical condition or a physical disability or physical need, reasonable accommodations should be considered and permitted. What harm will it do to allow a person to use a small chair/stool in line? Both of my children went to City Hall inside Disneyland and made a formal complaint. The only solution they offered was to rent a wheelchair for $80 plus give a $20 deposit. It does not make sense for Disneyland to confiscate my children’s property, dispose of perfectly good items, and then require them to pay a significant fee for a wheelchair, which they cannot afford anyway. City Hall told my children that all seized goods are thrown away and are compacted in a trash compactor. They were told they could not pick them back up. This was a very frustrating and upsetting experience. My children were denied the ability to bring in what they needed to physically support their disabilities throughout the day and are now experiencing unnecessary pain as a result. This situation has caused undue stress on their legs and unnecessary discomfort. For guests who cannot afford Genie+ or wheelchair rentals, they should be permitted to bring their own reasonable support items related to their medical needs. I intend to escalate this matter to management and request appropriate compensation and action. Gate staff should take into consideration guests who have legitimate physical limitations or medical needs and those guests should not be denied. Shame on Disneyland for doing this to anyone, especially teenage children and not providing these people with other options prior to getting to the front gates.
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  Matthew Hill

  Feb 23, 2026
  5.0
  There is a pilgrimage site in Anaheim where multiple generations arrive from lands far and away, clutching strollers, camcorders, and the faint, stubborn hope that time might briefly loosen its grip. Above the entrance hangs a modest bronze promise: “Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy.” It is not a suggestion. It is an instruction. The Boomers approach with the reverence of archivists. They remember when tickets came in books, perforated like sacred scripture. They remember the first time they saw Mickey Mouse not on a flickering television set, but in the flesh, towering and silent beneath the California sun. For them, the park is less an amusement destination and more a preservation chamber. The past is lacquered, repainted nightly, and set to cheerful music. Even the horses on Main Street seem to trot at the pace of 1959. The Millennials arrive differently. They carry smartphones like divining rods. They once sprinted through these same gates sticky with cotton candy; now they consult wait-time apps with the weary precision of air-traffic controllers. They remember the animatronics from childhood as nearly alive. They return and discover the pirates are smaller than memory, the mountains less vertical. Yet when the boat drifts into darkness and a familiar song begins, something inside them stands at attention. The child they were does not leave. They simply wait in line. There is madness here, yes. You will stand in a ninety-minute procession for a three-minute descent through a man-made mountain coated with artificial snow. You will mortgage minor portions of your dignity for a photograph with a space smuggler or a princess who has rehearsed kindness to a near-superhuman degree. The sun will scorch. The stroller will get lost. Someone will cry over cotton candy. And yet. When the fireworks fracture the night above a castle that has never known war, the Boomers feel the echo of postwar optimism, that strange American certainty that tomorrow will be shinier than today. The Millennials feel the hum of a simpler decade, when problems could be solved with a FastPass and a turkey leg. For a few minutes, they stand shoulder to shoulder, illuminated by synchronized explosions, their faces equally upturned. The sign was correct. You do leave today. Not permanently. Just enough. Disneyland is absurd. It is orchestrated nostalgia sold at premium pricing. It is engineered whimsy maintained by unseen armies in tunnels below your feet. But it is also a rare arena where grandparents, parents, and children agree—without negotiation—to believe in the same illusion. And in that shared delusion, carefully queued and meticulously swept, there is something almost holy. We know the magic is constructed. We will continue to come anyway.

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