Disneyland After Dark events have been introduced for Spring 2023! Star Wars, Throwback, and Princess Nites will happen as a part of these well-liked after-hours occasions. This submit shares particulars and gives commentary about these arduous ticket occasions in California.

In case you’re unfamiliar with it, Disneyland After Dark events are limited-time events that happen after common park hours and have distinctive themes, festivities, character meet & greets, particular nighttime leisure, entry to points of interest with lowered wait instances, and extra.

With every individually ticketed Disneyland After Dark occasion, you get 4 hours of celebration time after the parks near day visitors. Plus, there’s a 3-hour pre-party mix-in on the similar park because the occasion. That quantities to a complete of seven hours park time, minus nonetheless lengthy it takes to verify into the occasion.

Additionally, at every of those occasions, you’ll obtain limitless digital downloads of Disney PhotoPass pictures taken in the course of the celebration, plus commemorative keepsakes together with a memento credential and occasion information map. Parking charges aren’t included within the ticket value.

Here are the main points for every of the upcoming Disneyland After Dark Nites in March via May 2023…

Disneyland After Dark: Princess Nite – March 7 & 9, 2023 at Disneyland

Disneyland After Dark: Princess Nite is an all-new occasion the place adventurous heroines and aspirational hearts unite. Immerse your self on this evening at Disneyland with characters who gentle the world with kindness, braveness, and so forth. With shimmering décor, particular picture alternatives, themed meals and beverage choices, commemorative keepsakes and characters galore, you’ll be able to step into your individual journey of bravery and charm.

Here are occasion particulars for Disneyland After Dark: Princess Nite

• Receive a royal welcome on the Disneyland Train Station that includes Princess Minnie Mouse and Princess Daisy Duck with fanfare trumpeters
• Enjoy an inspiring musical live performance celebrating heartwarming, adventurous heroines together with Moana, Merida and extra accompanied by reside vocalists
• Raise the royal roof and dance the evening away on the high-energy, candy-themed dance celebration at Tomorrowland stage with Vanellope Von Schweetz
• Revel in Tiana’s Southern hospitality and dance alongside to jazz music in New Orleans Square
• Savor specialty menu objects befitting royalty all through Disneyland park, accessible for buy
• Picture your self in picture backdrops impressed by Disney movies like “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Princess Diaries” together with limitless Disney PhotoPass digital picture downloads from the celebration
• Have a ball with pre-party mix-in admission to Disneyland park beginning at 6 p.m., no theme park reservation required

Disneyland After Dark: Throwback Nite – April 18 & 20, 2023 at Disneyland

Don your favourite flashback fashions for Disneyland After Dark: Throwback Nite, an after-hours soiree impressed by the debonair days of the ‘50s and ‘60s.

Take a visit down reminiscence lane to relive Disney’s basic previous with music and leisure that pay tribute to the primary decade of Disneyland park. Mickey Mouse and his associates will sport retro outfits, together with visits from some nostalgic characters, which can make for excellent picture moments!

Here are some further highlights of what you’ll take pleasure in throughout Disneyland After Dark: Throwback Nite:

• Gaze upon “Fantasy in the Sky,” a nighttime spectacular giving a nod to the same-named fireworks show that first illuminated the evening at Disneyland in 1957!
• Do the twist, the mashed potato and bunny hop your method to dance events round Disneyland park with bands and deejays impressed by the period.
• Snack prefer it’s 1955 with treats which are impressed by the park’s early days, made as soon as once more only for this occasion!
• Picture your self in classic picture backdrops of points of interest and posters from yesteryear like Skyway or Autopia, and from timeless Disney movies captured by Disney PhotoPass photographers on the celebration.
• Enjoy after-hours entry to iconic Disneyland points of interest equivalent to Peter Pan’s Flight, Pirates of the Caribbean and Jungle Cruise.
• Enjoy pre-party mix-in admission to Disneyland park beginning at 6 p.m., no theme park reservation required.

Disneyland After Dark: Throwback Nite must be proper up our alley. We love retro occasions, and when the parks pay tribute to their previous. We aren’t alone–there are a ton of nostalgic Disneyland followers, and I’d hazard a guess that this celebration might be well-liked with them.

However, I can’t say something about this will get me excited. I take pleasure in Fantasy within the Sky, however at this level, it feels very very similar to ‘interim fireworks’ between everlasting nighttime spectaculars. I’ve seen it many instances earlier than and–until introduced with a particular vacation tag–it actually doesn’t maintain a candle to fashionable nighttime spectaculars. That’s particularly true when distinction towards the distinctive Wondrous Journeys.

As for every thing else, it simply strikes me as stuff that Disneyland used to do on a regular basis or throughout milestone anniversaries. I perceive it’s not potential to resurrect extinct points of interest for a celebration, however there’s gotta be one thing greater than picture ops and fireworks.

Star Wars Nite – May 2, 4, 8 & 11, 2023 at Disneyland

Disneyland After Dark: Star Wars Nite would be the final Star Wars extravaganza, filled with galactic enjoyable on 4 separate nights at Disneyland in May 2023.

Highlights of Star Wars Nite embrace:

• An superb pyrotechnical spectacle that may illuminate the skies with the “Star Wars: Celebrate the Nite” fireworks present illuminating the skies above Disneyland. This pyrotechnic spectacle is ready to the highly effective music of Star Wars movies.
• Prepare for Captain Phasma and her Stormtroopers in the course of the March of the First Order in Tomorrowland, as they seek for a Resistance spy.
• You might encounter vacationers throughout the galaxy like Tusken Raiders and Jawas.
• Get able to grasp a lightsaber! Attend the Lightsaber Instructional demonstration, the place you’ll be taught to deal with a lightsaber via a collection of elite strikes, positive to deliver out your interior Jedi!
• Picture your self in dynamic picture backdrops that includes a number of the galaxy’s favourite heroes and villains, captured by Disney PhotoPass photographers on the celebration.
• Explore themed snacks equivalent to galactic churros and different out-of-this-world sweets!
• Begin your journey with pre-party mix-in admission to Disneyland park beginning at 6 p.m., no theme park reservation required.

A restricted variety of these Disneyland After Dark tickets will go on presale for Magic Key holders starting February 21, 2023 (no sooner than 9 a.m. PT) on Disneyland.com.

On February 23, 2023 (no sooner than 9 a.m. PT), tickets will go on sale to most people and are topic to availability. Those “no earlier than” instances actually are correct–the digital queue seldom begins on time, and as a substitute opens when Disneyland will get round to it.

Star Wars Nite has a number of potential, particularly if it provides one thing particular or distinctive to Galaxy’s Edge, or brings uncommon and distinctive meet & greets. The thought of a Star Wars fireworks present can also be engaging, and that was all the time an enormous hit at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Of course, it’ll come right down to execution–the earlier Star Wars Nite struck me as a money seize to make the most of Star Wars Celebration on the Anaheim Convention Center.

In any case, I’m not sufficient of a Star Wars fan to plop down $150+ to attend a Star Wars celebration. So from that perspective, it actually doesn’t matter what I consider this occasion–I’m not the audience.

To me, what’s most outstanding about Disneyland After Dark is that it seems like an inferior paid substitute for the free Annual Passholder nights that used to happen previous to the Diamond Celebration. We attended a number of of these, and all the time had a blast.

That’s in all probability an enormous cause why even Disneyland After Dark: Throwback Nite doesn’t sound notably interesting to me. I’ve attended the free model of that occasion, and it supplied greater than what’s marketed for the $129+ celebration. Of course, instances have modified significantly since then.

The demand for all issues Disney is exponentially increased than it was ~8 years in the past. I perceive that, and don’t begrudge the corporate monetizing these occasions and charging regardless of the market will bear. As I’ve written repeatedly, I’d be keen to overpay for tickets to a 90s Nite that leans closely into nostalgia for the Disney Afternoon and gives substantive leisure from that period.

I simply need one thing that delivers a satisfying quantity of bang for buck, and none of those strike me as becoming the invoice. To every their very own, although. I’m positive the 2023 Disneyland After Dark occasions might be enjoyable for individuals who decide to attend.

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YOUR THOUGHTS

Are you excited for the return of Disneyland After Dark in 2023? Disappointed about one other particular occasion, or suppose it’ll be a worthwhile “value add” of leisure? Which of those “Nites” do you suppose appears to be like prefer it has the perfect lineup? Do you agree or disagree with our evaluation? Any questions? Hearing your suggestions–even if you disagree with us–is each fascinating to us and useful to different readers, so please share your ideas under within the feedback!