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Disneyland 24 Hour Summer Opener Offers All-Night Party On Both Coasts

By Elaine Radford

From the archive: published May 26, 2013, 13 years ago. Details may have changed since.

A much-ballyhooed Disneyland 24 hours all-nighter party on May 24, timed to celebrate the Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial grand opening of summer, drew huge crowds.

Disneyland and Disney California Adventure stayed open for 24 hours straight from 6 AM on Friday until the same hour on Saturday. In Florida, Disney World’s Magic Kingdom Park did the same thing. It was the first time that all three parks had coordinated a 24-hour all-nighter.

The attention-grabbing event, dubbed the “Monstrous Summer All-Nighter,” was meant to promote Disney’s upcoming new film, Monsters University. However, it also gave Disney diehards a chance to party all-night on Disneyland or Disney World properties, an opportunity that they hadn’t enjoyed since a 2012 Leap Day all-nighter in February 2012.

The 2012 event proved to be a logistics nightmare, with the press of crowds forcing Disneyland to shut the gates for hours after a traffic snarl in the city of Anaheim. Disney officials said that the park was full as of 9:30 PM on the Wednesday evening of the event.

This time, Disney fanatics took no chances. People determined to get in actually camped out on Thursday to claim their place in line.

For Disney’s part, they revealed that they’d taken extra steps to work with Anaheim to ease traffic flow. They also asked Disney pass-holders to consider carpooling so that they wouldn’t run out of places for people to park their cars.

Once inside, some people wouldn’t leave, even napping on rides or in public spaces to regain their energy to see out the entire Disneyland 24 hours experience.

Feel free to brag in the comments section below if you too attended the Disneyland 24-hours event.

[Pirates of the Caribbean photo at Disneyland by Featureflash / Shutterstock.com ]

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