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    (1/30/12) New construction pictures taken all over the Disneyland Resort have been posted to DisneyGeek this week. Check it out.
    (1/25/12) Guests to Disneyland and WDW may notice things getting more hairy this week. Management has relaxed grooming standards for Cast Members to allow them to grow (MORE...)
    (1/11/12) The Anaheim GardenWalk… the troubled neighbor to the Disneyland Resort has gone through bankruptcy and is now up for sale and seeking a new owner. (MORE...)
    (1/9/12) A new huge resort-wide photo update has been posted to DisneyGeek this week.

Resort Rehabs - The following information is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate.
Disneyland Hotel Never Land Pool - NOW CLOSED through Summer 2012

General Resort News - (1/30/12) New construction pictures taken all over the Disneyland Resort have been posted to DisneyGeek this week. Check it out.
    (1/25/12) Guests to Disneyland and Disney World may notice things getting more hairy starting this week. Management has relaxed grooming standards for Cast Members to allow them to grow beards and goatees. (Moustaches were already legalized a few years ago). That said, you wont pass through Frontierland and think you’ve just been loaded onto Splash Mountain by the ZZ Top guys anytime soon, as the new regulations still require a well groomed look with a maximum length of a quarter-inch.
    (1/11/12) The Anaheim GardenWalk… the troubled neighbor to the Disneyland Resort has gone through bankruptcy and is now up for sale and seeking a new owner. While the property is going to be a unique opportunity for someone, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Disney also put in a bid for it, given how close it is to the existing Disney property as well as to the land Disney owns down the street earmarked for a possible third park at some point in the future.
    (1/9/12) A new huge resort-wide photo update has been posted to DisneyGeek this week.
    (11/28/11) Our friends at DisneyGeek took a tour around the entire Disneyland Resort, camera in hand, on Black Friday. Check out the latest photos of the various construction projects going on at the Disneyland Hotel, Cars Land, and inside Pirates freshly reopened from a rehab, as well as all the Christmas décor.
    (11/22/11) Original D has posted a new photo update of pretty much the entire Disneyland Resort this week. Check it out.
    (11/14/11) DisneyGeek is back with another massive photo report from the entire Disneyland Resort. Check it out.
    (10/31/11) The DisneyGeek crew took a photo tour around both parks and the hotels this week. Click here to make the jump and check it out.
    (10/24/11) All new construction pictures taken all around The Disneyland Resort (including both theme parks) can be found at DisneyGeek this week. Check it out.
    (10/10/11) All new construction and status pictures taken all around the Disneyland Resort have been posted to DisneyGeek this week.
    (9/19/11) A huge construction report from all around the Disneyland Resort can be found at DisneyGeek this week. Check it out.
    (9/8/11) A new trip report from the Disneyland Resort can be found this week over at Orlando United.
    (9/6/11) A large construction update from all around the Disneyland Resort can be found at DisneyGeek this week.
    (8/4/11) I’ve been given some very interesting information that could seriously affect the way to visit the Disneyland Resort in the future after Cars Land opens at California Adventure. For those who don’t frequent the SoCal parks often, the Disneyland Resort has been given a rather interesting problem to deal with as the sheer number of locals who are passholders has soared to all new heights… and these numbers are only expected to increase to even bigger numbers once Cars Land opens.
    The impact of having such a huge passholder base has actually raised the daily attendance levels at the Disneyland Resort to the point where they really do not have much of an ‘off season’ at all. Previously slow off-season Fridays afternoons now find the parks packed to the gills with passholders who drop in during the second half of the day for some Friday night entertainment with friends. With enough passholders to pack both parks… the problem becomes worse during special big performance events like World of Color, where the passholders from both parks use their park hopping perks, to decent in mass together to the nighttime show.
    While Walt Disney World will never have the passholder problem that Disneyland has due to the massive difference in local population levels, WDW also really doesn’t have the park hopping problems with their four parks as they are spread out, making park hopping a major event for a WDW guest. For the average Disneyland passholder, Park Hopping is the norm, allowing them to treat the two Disneyland Resort theme parks as one giant theme park playground, as switching between parks is as simple as a short walk across the esplanade.
    To help combat the park hopping problem, the Disneyland Resort is apparently looking into many options. To control the ‘day guest’, they may tack on a high premium cost to the 1-Day Park Hopper ticket option. In fact, they may go so far as to remove it from the list of tickets on the board entirely, and only sell it when a guest asks for it. (Kind of like ordering a 4x4 from In-n-Out.)
    To combat the passholder problem however, they are said to be seriously considering removing the option of Park Hopping at all from the Deluxe, Select and SoCal annual passes, leaving it only as an option for those willing to pay top dollar with a Premium Annual Pass. Another option for the lower passes, is to still allow for park hopping to take place, but you’ll have to pay an upcharge fee for it… every time you do it, to be charge automatically to whatever credit card you have on file for your monthly payment plan.
    (7/29/11) One of the big secret additions to the Disneyland Resort this summer may be one of Disney’s biggest hits… and it’s not even in one of the theme parks. I’m talking about Trader Sam’s, the new Tiki Lounge added to the Disneyland Hotel overlooking the new monorail themed pool area. The awesome lounge features themed drinks and is part Tiki Room, part Jungle Cruise and the spiritual successor to the beloved Adventure’s Club from Pleasure Island in Orlando. I can’t do the review justice myself however, I’ll have to hand over the reins to Rick West from Theme Park Adventure who seems to find himself in Trader Sam’s weekly according to his tweets. Check out his fantastic detailed review of Trader Sam’s that also includes an interview with WDI’s Kyle Barnes who worked on the project.
    (6/24/11) According to the official Disney Parks Blog, some major changes will be coming down the pipe that may forever alter the 50-year tradition known as Grad Night. Disney reports that for Grad Night 2012 guests will be given a park hopper pass and allowed to travel between Disneyland and California Adventure during the night as well as a special private showing of Fantasmic! that will kick off the event.
    Unfortunately, things are planned to take a turn for the worse in 2013, as the event will move entirely over to California Adventure for the night, which will include a private showing of World of Color, and the new Cars Land by then.  While California Adventure is a fine park now in it’s own right, I just don’t’ think it has the attractions capacity to handle the massive Grad Night crowds the way that Disneyland does.
    This all may sound a bit familiar to those who followed the demise of the Walt Disney World Grad Night event, which came to an end this past May. A couple of years before WDW decided to call it off, they too tried an attempt to move Grad Night to another park… Disney’s Hollywood Studios starting in 2009. On the surface this sounded reasonable at first as the Studios had the more teen friendly rides like Twilight Zone, Rock ‘n Roller Coaster, Star Tours, Fantasmic and the new Midway Mania. The park also has the best assortment of venues available for use for special concerts. Despite it all… it just wasn’t Grad Night without being at the Magic Kingdom, and the Grad Night was moved back to the Magic Kingdom the very next year.
    Now is the Disneyland Resort planning on making the very same mistake? By 2013 California Adventure will have a lot to offer teens for sure: Twilight Zone, Little Mermaid, Midway Mania, California Screamin, Goofy’s Sky School, Soarin’ and the massive Cars Land. But will it be enough, and will the market simply just accept that Grad Night is no longer across the way at Disneyland anymore? If I had to guess, I’m thinking the double-park aspect of the 2012 season may be Disney’s way to properly judge this very reaction, by giving the teens an open choice between the two parks to see where the attendance lines are split. They can always change their mind on 2013 at that point.
    (6/13/11) Disney has announced that ticket prices went up officially as of yesterday. The bottom line for Disneyland Resort is that 1 Day park passes are now $80 for adults and $74 for children (3-9). The new Annual Pass prices are: $199 for SoCal Select, $269 for the SoCal AP, $379 for Deluxe and $499 for Premium. The complete list of prices from 1 to 6 day passes with and without Park Hopping can all be found here.

???? - New Resort Hotel(s) - In Development - (2/12/08) Blue Sky Disney brings up the subject of adding two more hotels to the Disneyland Resort in the future. In addition to the rumored hotel plans for the Simba lot (next to the Paradise Pier hotel) they also claim that the hotel project along Harbor Blvd that we heard about last year was still in the works. The update mentions that it would provide a nice dramatic visual theme to those traveling down Harbor and serve as a portal to everyone entering the Disneyland Resort Esplanade area in the same fashion of how the Disneyland Hotel in Paris works placed over the park’s main entrance.
    (3/19/07) Rumors are running wild about all kinds of possible hotel development projects at the Disneyland Resort. In addition to expanding the Grand Californian, renovating the existing Disneyland Hotel and possibly building a new hotel, we’ve also heard a couple of rumors concerning the future of the Paradise Pier hotel. Proposals have been apparently drawn up for several options for the site ranging from renovation all the way to demolition to build a completely new and themed resort on the property. We’ve also heard that the Del Coronado style concept that was mentioned for the site along Harbor may actually be moved to the parking lot next to the Paradise Pier hotel instead. From memory, I seem to recall seeing plans from back when DCA was under construction showing off the Downtown Disney parking lot as the site for a future “Magic Kingdom” themed hotel as well, but it looks like they don’t’ want to risk closing that lot for the time being.