If you’re impatient like me, the wait at bag check is excruciating. If you arrive right at park opening, you could wait 30 minutes or more, depending upon the season. On busier days, if you arrive at bag check under an hour in advance of park opening, you could be waiting 15 minutes at bag check. We like to arrive at the bag check line about 70 minutes before park opening because this is almost always early enough to beat the crowds and breeze through. All of these friction points can be significant and stress inducing, and you eliminate 3 of them just by staying at a hotel within walking distance. While Disneyland is much more compact than Walt Disney World, its crowd flow infrastructure outside the parks is noticeably worse, and this has become a more pronounced problem in the last couple of years. This “arrival” point of clarification is significant, as many first-time visitors don’t realize there are 2-5 points of friction to the arrival experience: Southern California morning rush hour traffic, lines to get into the parking structure/lots, parking tram lines, bag check lines, and turnstile lines.ĭo not underestimate the lines or congestion in any of these scenarios. If you’re staying far off-site, driving and parking, it could mean leaving your hotel two hours in advance. Down the street a bit farther? Plan to leave your room 80-90 minutes early. If you’re at a hotel directly across the street, this means leaving your hotel 75 minutes before the published park opening time. I don’t disagree with this advice, but I’d clarify what “arrive” means–be through bag check and standing in the Esplanade (the area between Disneyland and Disney California Adventure) an hour before official park opening time. Conventional wisdom is to arrive an hour in advance. When you should leave your hotel to arrive at Disneyland for rope drop is a pretty common question. With that said, let’s take a look at how rope drop plays out in Disneyland… yelling, “WE WANTS THE DOUBLE DOUBLE!” (A joke I’m recycling from my Magic Kingdom rope drop post since it’s actually more relevant to Californians.)Īccordingly these tips only apply to non-Extra Magic Hour/Magic Mornings days. We have been known to say, “we’re rope dropping In-N-Out Burger,” which is really just us banging on their door at 10:20 a.m. Rope dropping things has spread beyond the realm of Disney parks, too. In addition to rope drop being a time, it’s also a verb (“we’re rope dropping Mr. If it’s easier, just think of “rope drop” as “first thing in the morning” at Disneyland. However, since the turnstiles usually admit guests before park opening, Disney fans have demarcated the two times with the ‘rope drop’ term. It’s simply when the lands and attractions officially open, which is synonymous with the published park opening time.
First of all, let’s address what rope drop is for the Disneyland first-timers. Rope drop at Disneyland is an experience that can be enjoyable or miserable, depending upon how you prepare for it.
(See our Guide to Genie+ and Lightning Lanes at Disneyland & DCAfor more on how this complicated paid FastPass works.) More significantly, Disneyland has replaced FastPass with a paid alternative, with is pretty similar to MaxPass. Extra Magic Hour and Magic Mornings are (temporarily?) not happening, meaning that this park opening strategy applies every day of the week. Then there are the many operational changes. That changes the rope drop dynamic, as many guests are drawn deep in Disneyland to Star Wars land. Substantively, the new land, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, has opened along with its two attractions, Millennium Falcon Smugglers Run and Star Wars Rise of the Resistance. ( Updated November 1, 2022.)Ī lot has changed in the last couple of years. In this post, we share strategy and rope drop tips for California’s busiest theme park, including what time to arrive, which attractions to prioritize, and more.
Arriving to Disneyland early in the morning, before park opening is essential to an efficient day.
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