Mickey Visit Disneyland This Week – 5 Ride Closures Starting, 4 New Restaurants Open, and More

Welcome to Mickey Visit Disneyland This Week! Each week I and the Mickey Visit team will share the essential information for your visit and unearth offerings and tips you could easily miss completely. There's so much going on at the Disneyland Resort each week that isn't shared in any one central place today.

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My name is Gavin Doyle. I started writing about Disneyland online when I was 13 years old and now 13 years later Mickey Visit is a top source for planning tips for Disneyland, Disney World, Disney Cruise Line and beyond. Each week I and members of my team including Lindsay Brookshier and Emily Midgley will work together to bring you the most essential Disneyland information. This is our FIRST edition so if you have any thoughts on what would make it better PLEASE comment below. I am really excited about what this can become and the community we can create together.

Here's how this will go. We'll give you our “one big thing” to watch out for, important dates this week, deeper look at key news, crowd predictions, operating updates, and more. Plus, be sure to comment below guessing where our image of the week is. This is your one-stop resource for everything happening at Disneyland the week of January 6, 2025.

One Big Thing – Jolly Holiday Bakery CLOSING For Refubishment Will Have Big Impact

We mention below in our refurbishments section, but the impacts of this closure make this our one big thing of the week. The Jolly Holiday Bakery is closing for a refurbishment starting this week (see all coming closure dates below). No end date has been announced.

This is one of the key quick-service restaurants in Disneyland Park. It has the widest selection of quick-service breakfast foods at Disneyland and it stayed open past park closing with the ability for guests to mobile order past official park close.

For breakfast, I personally enjoy the croissant with scrambled eggs. Expect this closure to increase demand for the Breakfast Ronto Wrap in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and the Breakfast Chimichangas in Frontierland.

Quick tip – You can mobile order from the Downtown Disney Starbucks using the Starbucks app. This is another easier place to grab a coffee and comparable breakfast options.

We're also curious if another location will take up that responsibility of being open late and past park closing but nothing else is as centrally located.

We don't yet know if the closure will cause the entire seating area to be closed off or just the restaurant portion. If the seating area is closed, that will greatly impact the Plaza Inn seating across the way and the Tropical Hideaway seating in Adventureland.

The very popular, though not as good the last time that I personally tried it, Raspberry Rose Macaron from Jolly Holiday is going to be available at the Gibson Girl Ice Cream Parlor starting on January 8, 2025. Good news for fans of that item, but bad news for those hoping this would be a short closure. I would take this as a sign of a longer closure.

Jolly Holiday is also a key spot for the special event food for Disneyland Sweethearts' Nite which is coming up. No word on where the food for that event will shift. We have our eyes peeled for all of those foods to be released.

Now, on to the rest of the key updates for this week and news from last…

Important Disneyland Dates This Week

These are the important dates looking ahead to this week. In this section, we'll share key things like tickets going on sale for special events and key new offerings.

• The last day of the Christmas celebration at Disneyland is today, January 6, 2025.
• The new premium Cafe Orleans Fantasmic! dining package is debuting this week on January 10, 2025! This is one of our favorite Disneyland restaurants, so we're excited to see this added to the lineup of locations offering dining packages. You can see more details on the menu for this in our original announcement of this new Fantasmic! dining package. We were originally a little worried that this would replace an existing Fantasmic! package option, but it looks like all are still being offered at this time.
• The Disneyland Lunar New Year foods guide was just released. There will be six different marketplaces in Disney California Adventure celebrating Asian cuisine. The Lunar New Year celebration starts on January 17, 2025. Click that link to get our FREE printable of all the foods.
• The Disneyland restaurants are releasing new seasonal menu items after the end of the holiday celebration. Disneyland will often release bigger food guides for seasonal events during the year but will quietly roll out new or seasonal menu items at other times of the year. These new menu items will be available starting January 8, 2025.
• New Disneyland merchandise has been released to replace all of the Christmas merchandise that is being taken down.
• Magic Key Annual Passholders get 50% off the purchase of Lightning Lane Multi Pass from January 6, 2025 – January 31, 2025. Typically pass holders get 25% off the purchase of the add-on.
• Magic Key Annual Passholders get $2 popcorn refills January 8, 2025 – February 19, 2025 when they purchase a special stitch popcorn bucket.
• Magic Key Annual Passholders can take a special Disney PhotoPass Magic Shot with a complimentary digital download from January 8, 2025 – January 31, 2025. Shot is available at the walkway from Tomorrowland to Matterhorn Way from 5 pm-10 pm Monday-Thursday and 5-8 pm and then 10 pm to park close Friday-Sunday.
• Magic Key Annual Passholders can pick up a special pin-trading set featuring Disney characters and also take photos with Disney characters at a limited-time PhotoPass location in the Starcade near the Star Trader in Tomorrowland. This will be popular on the first days that it is offered and they may run out of the pin sets.

Disneyland News in the Last Week

This section will be our brief summary of the news and key happenings from the past week (plus a little more as we come out of the December end-of-year period).

• The new Parkside Market food hall with four new restaurants has opened in Downtown Disney with four new dining locations. You can order food from any of them while seated upstairs in the new bar. In the photo above you can see the direct view to watch the monorail glide by from this mid-century modern haven. See more photos and details on Parkside Market dining.
• The new Haunted Mansion store, “Madame Leota’s Somewhere Beyond” is now open. This shop inspired by Madame Leota offers a selection of merchandise including apparel, accessories, home decor, and more themed to the Haunted Mansion and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
• Magic Key blockouts after the holidays have now all been lifted. The last part of December into the start of January is considered one of the most crowded times of the year at Disneyland and even the highest-tier Inspire Key was blocked out from December 21 through January 3.
• The popular CRISLU Disneyland marquee necklace was restocked. This is a promising sign that we will continue to see restocks of this popular necklace even if this restock is already sold out before you read this. You can read about the popularity of this Disneyland necklace with Disney adults.

Disneyland Operational Updates

• Disneyland and Disney California Adventure park hours are being reduced this week as we move out of the holiday season. Disneyland Park now closes at 10 pm during the week and the Disney California Adventure closes at 9 pm most nights. The weekends maintain the longer park hours.
• The last showings of A Christmas Fantasy Parade at Disneyland are today, January 6, 2025 for the final day of the holiday celebration. Disneyland has not yet announced the parade that will be offered after this. We know that for the 70th anniversary celebration (click here for details), Disneyland will be bringing back Paint the Night and Better Together: A Pixar Pals Celebration starting in May 2025. We really hope that we at least get a cavalcade before the debut of the new shows.
• Tonight is the last showing of “Believe…In Holiday Magic” fireworks and World of Color – Season of Light. Moving forward the World of Color – One show will return every night along with the Mickey's Mix Magic projection show. Fireworks will be shown along with the projection show Friday-Sunday. Fantasmic! will also play on the weekends.

What We're Thinking About This Week

• Emily is excited that the Galaxy Parfait is back on the Galactic Grill menu as a seasonal offering after the holidays. This Disneyland dessert is just as much fun to look at as it is to eat (but it will turn your mouth blue)!
• Lindsay enjoys Jolly Holiday late at night when utilizing her evening Disneyland touring strategy. She's curious to see what takes that spot and hopes that the closure doesn't stretch on too long. Other late-night options right now include Ronto Roasters and Galactic Grill but, no other place allows Disneyland mobile order past park closing like Jolly Holiday does.
• Gavin is feeling wistful about the holidays ending at Disneyland but looking forward to lower crowds during these next two quiet weeks ahead of MLK weekend.

Where In Disneyland Is This?

Can you tell where this is from at the Disneyland Resort? Hint: it's one of our favorite quiet spots. Comment you answer below and we'll reveal the spot next week. Some weeks this game will be harder than others.

Disneyland Crowd Calendar This Week

In our Disneyland crowd calendar this week, we anticipate that crowds will be winding down after the stretch of “Massive Crowds” ratings from the end of the holidays. You can expect mostly average or below-normal crowds this week. You can see our rating of all upcoming dates in our Mickey Visit Disneyland Crowd Calendar.

New Disneyland Ride Closures This Week

During this earlier part of the year after the holidays, we always see routine refurbishments and ride closures both to remove holiday decorations and to clean up attractions during this slower period.

• The Disneyland Railroad will be closing for refurbishment starting January 13
• The Disneyland Monorail closed today on January 6 for refurbishment
• Jolly Holiday Bakery Cafe is closing on January 7 for refurbishment
• Haunted Mansion Holiday will be closing for refurbishment on January 7, 2025 to return from its seasonal overlay to the original Haunted Mansion.
• Grizzly River Run closed for refurbishment today on January 6, 2025
• Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind closed today on January 6, 2025

You can see the other Disneyland closures on the calendar and reopening dates listed in our list of scheduled Disneyland ride refurbishments.

What Else Disney We're Watching

Each week we'll share some of our favorite information and fun content from across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube in an effort to spotlight some of the great creators who work so hard to share details from Disneyland.

A quick question for you if you don't mind commenting you're thoughts below – Should we embed the videos here or just include them as bullet points? Do you watch videos when they are embedded as they are below or do you always click over to the actual platform to watch them?

First, I love this video from Bridget @californiadisneybliss reviewing the Drinking Chocolate at Cafe Orleans. A really unique, fun dessert!

 

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Here's a look at the new handicapped process getting onto Haunted Mansion now that the ride has reopened from @GothicRosie. I appreciate the photo and the details.

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Finally, a look at one of the drinks from the new Parkside Market from our friend Chad @FoodatDisneyland. He does a great job capturing food from the parks.

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Heads up! Reservations Open for Disneyland Dining / Park Reservations

For any trips before the below dates you should be considering booking park reservations and dining reservations.

• Today is the 60-day window for Disneyland dining reservations for March 7, 2025.
• Today is the 180-day window for making Disneyland theme park reservations for July 5, 2025. This applies to most non-Annual Pass tickets.
• For Magic Key Annual Pass Holders, the 90-day window from today to make theme park reservations is April 6, 2025.

See our top tips for getting Disneyland dining reservations and the best Disneyland restaurants we would recommend.

Disneyland Lightning Lane Cost This Week

• Today, the Lightning Lane Multi Pass service costs $36 if you purchase it when you arrive.
• For the two Lightning Lane Single Pass rides, the cost is $23 for Rise of the Resistance and $19 for Radiator Springs Racers.

This is pricing already winding down a bit from last week. Last week on Friday, January 3, 2025, during peak holiday crowds, Lightning Lane Multi Pass cost $39 per guest.

You can see our guide to Lightning Lane Multi Pass at Disneyland for our expert tips on making the most of the service.

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