I will be visiting Shanghai Disney next month with my 5-month-old. While there are several attractions with no height limit on the website (i.e. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Pirates, Zootopia), do any of these rides allow for infants to be seated in an adult’s lap/hand-carried? My child cannot sit unsupported as of yet. Thank you!

Hi everyone, I will be visiting Shanghai in end-October, and need some advice to avoid the crowd as much as possible.

I have 4 full days in Shanghai: 31 Oct (Thurs) - 3 Nov (Sun). According to other posts I've seen, it's best to avoid the weekends and that leaves me with 31 Oct and 1 Nov to visit the park.

While 31 Oct is a regular weekday, it's Halloween and I am not sure whether that would mean more visitors coming in to celebrate? Does the Shanghai park usually get significantly busier during the Halloween period?

We will be going to Shanghai on the last week of October. I have seen videos from other Disney parks that they give candies during the Halloween week. Does Shanghai Disneyland do this too?

Also, do you have any recommendations on what rides are unique compared to other Disney parks? Any suggestion is appreciated. Thank you!

Will be in the park on 12/30 and 12/31. Has anyone been there before on New Year’s Eve to know if they do anything special, especially bc it’s not the Chinese New Year?

This is a totally random question, but my friend and I remember differently and so I thought I’d ask. In the Snow White Castle Walkthrough, does a cast member go through it with you? I remembered no, he remembered yes. We went together so one of us is right. I looked up some videos and one had a cast member but that might have just been for the opening/early guests, the others I haven’t spotted any cast members in the group.

Thanks for helping me settle a silly argument!

I’m going mid nov (Thurs & Fri) just a couple of questions;

1. Daft I know, does DPA include the park entry ticket?
2. Is it actually work it?

Hi! I need some advice. My friend and I looking into visiting Shanghai Disney (hopping from Tokyo straight to Shanghai) and just trying to understand what I need exactly for this type of trip, or if there is some type of special travel visa for Japan to Shanghai? If anyone has advice I would greatly appreciate any insight. Thank you!

Any guidance is much appreciated !

Hi everybody, I am traveling to Shanghai next week and i wanted to visit Disneyland with 2 more people, so i am seeing a bundle of 3 package (15% off) but i can see standard tickets is like ¥1209 and select tickets are ¥906… does anyone know the difference between them? I can't really find any info on their website/app

Aloha!

Looking for recommendations for unique must do/ride and eat while there.

Info: My little family (2 toddlers) and I are heading to Shanghai Disneyland Sep 29&30 (right before Golden Week). We’ve been AP at Disneyland and have visited WDW, Disneyland Paris and Tokyo Disney. Would love all the recs and even strategic itineraries.

I'm going to Disneyland Shanghai for a friend's hens, there are 5 of us and we don't want it to be too hectic and jam packed so we're limited on how many rides we will go on. What are the must-go to rides? We are going on a Saturday, do you think it's worth us getting any of the premier accesses?

Would love your opinion on how to go about planning this !

Hello!

My wife and I will be spending a few days at Shanghai Disney next month. We've heard that you can't reserve lunches and dinners in advance - only the day that you are there.. Is this the case? If so, it seems a little odd given Disney's other parks. Any other advice to give me? We'll be staying at the hotel.

We're staying in toy story hotel and fireworks have gone off the last two nights at about 9:30, after the 8pm illumination show. We left the park after the 8pm fireworks tonight because everything said the park closed then. Anyone know what the 9:30 ones are for? Do you pay extra to stay or something?

I'm trying to book my hotel stay through the website but I encounter a problem with creating my account. So when I try to create one it asks for my mobile number, which I filled in correctly, and then after completing the form it says that I should get a text message with my pin-code to complete it. But I never receive the pincode...

I tried to do this with both mine as to my fiancé's devices but no luck.

Doesn't work on PC nor in the app. Anyone got some tips? (I live in the Netherlands).

Looking for some advice. I am in the UK and I am trying to buy park tickets for next week but I am required to set up an account. I enter my phone number correct but haven’t received a text message with a code in to create the account. Has anyone else had this issue? If so how do you fix it?

Edit: To anyone having this issue reach out the staff via the live chat functionality. They were able to help create an account and I had access within 2 hours.

Hi just a quick question, I am planning to buy the premier access for next week. And my parents would like to skip the line for entry so they decided to buy the premier access aswell. But they are not planning to play any rides so they wanted to pass on the premier access to us after entering the park. Is it possible to do that?

Several years back there was a dining spot called Celebration Cafe that is now Toy Story Land. Does anyone know if any parts of Celebration Cafe are still there? Or if the artwork for it was placed anywhere else? It had character illustrations and a mural. Would love to know!

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I have 3 days that I am able to spend over Hong Kong Disney and Shanghai Disney. Which park shall I do 2 days in and which park shall I do 1 day in?

As a side note I have a six-year-old boy who loves Frozen and Moana, eccanto and Baymax.

Unlike the other Disney parks information (in English) is not readily available for Shanghai Disneyland. While this sub offers some great content, and there are blogs here and there that you can piece together information from, diving in deep with the Disney experience is not as easy with this park as it is for the others. Because of that, I've decided to do a brief breakdown of my day at Shanghai Disney from August 7, 2024.

A couple notes, I was traveling at the park with my wife (Chinese citizen) and two children (8 and 6 - by the way, there is ample stroller rentals leading up to the park. You can find double strollers for 100RMB with ease). We had WeChat pay up and running, as well as local Chinese phone numbers. We were staying at near the Bund and only planned for one day at the park. We have also previously been to Magic Kingdom in Orlando.

One thing I enjoy more than traveling itself, is planning to travel. So spending hours researching and understanding the in's and out's of a place is pure joy for me. This is probably why I had no stress checking the Shanghai Disneyland app for the days/weeks leading up to our trip in order to gain an understanding of what the ride wait times would look like leading up to our trip. However, my wife insisted on hiring a tour guide for our day (or at least half of the day). She later admitted that hiring the guide probably didn't improve our day, and when we were looking at Pirates of the Caribbean at 7pm with a 15 minute wait, it was confirmed that my research was more beneficial (self high 5).

As a family of 4, the family pack does not help us as you are limited to 2 adults and 1 child. We considered using two apps in order to navigate this problem, but the savings wasn't worth the hassle. So we ended up with 2 adults and 2 children tickets.

I also realized that the Premier Pass options simply didn't make sense or weren't worth the price. Additionally, I was able to figure out that you can buy Premier Passes for individual rides. So instead of spending a minimum of 435 RMB on a Set of 3 (i.e., Seven Dwarfs, Rex's Racer, Challenge Trails), why not just spend 180 RMB for Seven Dwarfs and wait the 10-30 minutes for the other rides. This also helped us rule out the even larger Premier Passes.

My research led me to believe that if we purchased the Early Park Entry Pass we would be able to complete two of the "must do" rides for essentially half the price. To be honest, this is probably the best advice I can give, but arrive about 45 minutes before you intend to enter the park. So for us, that meant arriving at 6:45am (we didn't).

One of the top attractions that my family was set on getting onto was Soaring over the Horizon. It was really enjoyable for all of us and a nice way to start the day. If my 6 year old daughter wasn't against going on Tron, I probably would have done that first.

Next up we hit Pirates of the Caribbean. On one hand, it was a great decision because as many have said, it's among the best Disney attractions there is. But on the other hand, the wait is almost never long, and you're probably better off waiting until later in the day.

We went to Zootopia next, and while waiting twice for one attraction (Hot Pursuit) is not ideal, this was likely my favourite attraction. One hint, Hot Pursuit is one of two attractions that has a Single Rider line.

At this point my family split as the younger one wasn't interested in Seven Dwarfs. We ended up completing the Honey Pots, Snow White's Storybook, and Dumbo the Flying Elephant while my wife and older did the single rider line for Seven Dwarfs. This is a ride I'd recommend the Premier Pass for if you are dead set on riding it, however, you will still wait a considerable amount of time and the ride itself didn't get exceptional reviews from my family.

The older and my wife decided to go to Tron next, and we purchased the Premier Access for them. During this time I was able to score over 800,000 pts on Buzz Lightyear.

We almost timed it perfectly to watch the Frozen: Sing-a-long Celebration, but were about 5 minutes late for the first performance and ended up wasting 45 minutes waiting for the second show. As neat as the show was, the fact that it was 100% in Chinese really took away from some of the enjoyment.

Lunchtime at Pinnochio's. We had two adult pizzas and a kid pizza. The Brisket Pizza was delicious!

After lunch we noticed a short wait to meet Mickey, so that's what we did. The wait time for Mickey never exceeds 30 minutes, so keep that in mind (at Magic Kingdom, the wait hit 2hrs with Genie+).

We sort of wandered around aimlessly at this point because we were hot, tired, and had gotten to most of our checklist. That landed us at Voyage to the Crystal Grotto, which I mistakenly thought would be similar to Under the Sea - Journey of the Little Mermaid. Instead, it was a slow boat tour outside.

Something that ended up being an unexpected highlight of the day was Eye of the Storm: Captain Jack's Stunt Spectacular. While the dialogue was in Chinese, this was an extraordinary show and something I'd definitely want to catch again.

It was a bit after 7pm and with nothing on our wish list we headed to find a viewing spot for the end of day festivities. I would suggest waiting until the later show as between the reserved spaces and the hoards of people, the viewing areas weren't the best - especially for a 6 year old. Also, Tron got down to about a 20 minute wait at one point during the show.

We took a victory lap on Buzz Lightyear (I just missed a mill!) and decided to call it a day.

Shanghai Disneyland is easily done in one day with a bit of prep work, as in finding out which rides and attractions you are most interested in.

Our guide honestly was not overly helpful except informing us about the single rider lines.

For families, the family washrooms are almost always available and are incredibly clean.

Food, while expensive by local standards, is on the cheaper side for Disney parks, and is more abundant. You can also pack a backpack full of water and snacks to help for some of the waiting times.

This turned out longer than I expected and while there are things I would do differently, I think this is a pretty good representation of a very busy (early entry passes sold out) day at Shanghai Disneyland.

Has anyone specifically foreigners (non-resident) traveling inside China ever got their WeChat pay or Alipay rejected inside the park? Just wondering if I need cash inside the park.

I am planning a one day trip to Disneyland Shanghai on September 7th while I wait for my 10pm flight home. Does Disneyland have a place I can store my luggage while I’m in the park and I can pick up at the end of the day when I leave for my flight?

Hi all! I will be visiting Disneyland November 26 & 27 as a family with 3 young kids 2yo, 5yo & 7yo. We will be staying at the Disneyland Hotel so will be able to enter the park 1 hour earlier. I read online that off-peak doesn't really apply to Disneyland. My question is, being that it is supposedly off-peak in November, will the rides still be crowded and we would still have to queue for at least 30mins for Zootopia or the popular rides? If so, would it be a better idea to get the premier access passes so we don't have to queue at all and have better seats for fireworks/parade or is it not necessary? Asking because it is really difficult to queue for long with 3 young kids.

May I ask if anyone has been to Zootopia recently specifically this week or last week. If so, what was the wait time for the entrance and what time did you arrive?

I booked my tickets through Klook and Klook contacted Disney but Disney said they cannot make any changes on the system for my order.

Have you guys seen anyone with wrong passport number successfully enter Shanghai Disneyland?

I have asked Shanghai Disneyland reservation center and they said they do not guarantee but it could be possible and I should not repurchase my ticket immediately.

Hello!!

Please could you help me understand when the tickets for December 31st are released? I am not from Asia so I cannot register on the official website so I have to buy it through KLOOK, but the question is when is the best time since they are not yet available, or by what other means do you recommend getting it?

Thank you so much