"Mic-key-Mouse! Mic-key-Mouse!" The chanting starts on the tram before you can see the Disneyland gates. Excited children pull their parents along like a tugboat in the harbour. Picture-taking starts before people get inside the gates. The words over the Disneyland entry tunnel read, "Here you leave today and enter world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy." As they pass through that tunnel, children stop whining and grumpy parents are transformed. It's Disneyland, and after fifty years, it's still the Happiest Place on Earth.

For first time visitors to LA, a trip to Disneyland is as important as visiting the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and probably much more fun. The entrance of Disneyland is meant to look like a red carpet because Walt wanted to give his guests the red carpet treatment.

Experience the magic of Fantasyland, Tomorrow land, Main Street U.S.A and much more at Disneyland® Park. And see the magic of the classic Disney animated movie come to life in "Disney's Aladdin - A Musical Spectacular," created exclusively for Disney's California Adventure(tm) Park. At Disneyland® Park and Disney's California Adventure(tm) Park, you and your family can make magical memories that will last forever!

Disneyland California is most certainly a land of enchantment where children and the young at heart find that dreams really do come true. Disneyland Park is a seamless blend of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Smiling train conductors, marching bands and the clip-clop of horse drawn carriages bring you back to carefree days. You can also rocket through the galaxy, meet a mermaid or trek through the jungle. Laughter is always in the air, with friendly smiles all around. The secret to Disneyland is its ability to change yet, remain the same. As Walt Disney said "Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."

With 22 shows, rides and attractions the 55-acre park is very different in design and concept to Disneyland. Highlights include a 120-foot-high wonder wheel churning around a gigantic metal sun face, and eye-catching, high-speed rollercoaster, a granite mountain peak shaped like the head of a Grizzly Bear and a "Golden Gate Bridge" with Disney monorails speeding across. The bridge is part of a kinetic entranceway resembling a giant picture postcard overlaid by 11.5-foot high letters spelling CALIFORNIA.

Entering the park though you go through Sunshine Plaza the portal to all the major areas of Disney's California Adventure park, the Sunshine Plaza is also a prime location for guests to rest or catch a parade. As you walk down the plaza you’ll hear classic Californian tunes pumping out, which will you’ll humming all day long! Those tunes build up the atmosphere of the park, and a very relaxed one it is, unlike the rushing atmosphere at Disneyland across the way. Maybe due to the small amount of rides or due to the large open and themed spaces but you’ll find the park very relaxing, and very different to Disneyland. The plaza's centrepiece is a 50-foot-tall sun (sitting atop a perpetual wave fountain), which glistens during the day and is lit by a dazzling spectacle of red, orange and yellow lights at night. At night the Plaza gets very busy, and full of people sitting and watching the magical “Disney’s Electrical Parade.” This long parade features all your favourite Disney characters and puts them on brightly light floats covered in colourful blinking light bulbs. Trains and Dragons are just two of the different things, which these lights turn the floats into. The parade is a big long however and mainly there for kids, but its rather stunning to see.

Grizzly Peak is truly a slice of California’s natural resources -- representative of Yosemite and the California Redwoods; this eight-acre mini-wilderness contains a number of hiking, climbing, and exploring opportunities for those seeking adventure. The main attraction within this area is Grizzly River Run, an adventurous raft ride through the Grizzly River. You climb up on in your raft on a large lift to the top of the mountain, which can be seen throughout the park and is recognizable with the top of it looking like a howling wolf. You don’t have much time to admire it from the ride as you start careering you way down the mountain, and encountering some vicious rapids, and drops which all play their part in soaking you! The finale however is a large spinning drop, which means as you splash down everyone gets soaked! Getting wet isn’t a problem in the Californian heat, and I couldn’t think of a more exciting way to get wet than this

Paradise Pier is the ultimate beachfront amusement zone decked out in spectacular lighting and elegant graphics associated with the heyday of the great amusement park piers. With California Screamin' a rollercoaster featuring a loop around Mickey Mouse's head! The Sun Wheel, King Triton's Carousel, Golden Zephyr, Mulholland Madness, Orange Stinger and Maliboomer Paradise Pier is ride-tastic!