During the Disneyland Resort’s annual “State of the Resort” event last week, President Ken Potrock announced Cal State Fullerton and Fullerton College would be joining the Disney Aspire program, through which the company picks up the entire cost of a college education for its hourly cast members. The announcement marks a historic expansion of the Aspire program:  due to the ...

Speaking to an online meeting of the Anaheim Democrats Club this January, Anaheim Mayoral hopeful Ashleigh Aitken did not rule out imposing a gate tax if she is elected, telling the Democrat activist group that a gate tax is something the city should look at and not talked off the table as Anaheim recovers from the pandemic. According to a ...

The Sheraton Park Hotel, one of the hospitality icons of the Anaheim Resort, officially commemorated its re-opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and celebration on Tuesday after a multi-million renovation. The Anaheim High School marching band was assembled in the grand ballroom to energize the event, and were followed by a welcome from General Manager Ian Gee. Mayor Harry Sidhu and ...

The Natural Products Expo West is back at the Anaheim Convention Center after a nearly three year hiatus, marking the return of large convention business to Anaheim after a state government-imposed drought due to restrictive COVID-19 mandates. The shows brings together thousands of exhibitors and buyers from the $300 billion natural and organic products industry. There will be an estimated 60,000 attendees, ...

Even after Disneyland re-opened last year, a major missing element was the trams that shuttled excited and weary (depending on the time of day) guests between the Mickey & Friends and Pixar Pals parking structures and plaza connecting Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure. For the last several months, guests had to trudge the two-thirds of a mile distance on foot. ...

The Master Services Council, the union organization representing thousands of Disneyland Resort cast members has approved a 19% pay increase over three years, after rejecting the identical proposal the month before. The Master Services Council unions represent 9,700 cast members who work in eateries and retail shops, and as ride operators and maintenance workers. The union had rejected an identical ...

The Anaheim Hotel, a AAA three-diamond hotel located across from Disneyland® Resort and managed by Wincome Hospitality, is proud to announce the opening of Covid Clinic that provides COVID-19 testing on-property. Located adjacent to the hotel’s lobby, this clinic will be one of six Covid Clinic testing sites and the only one in a hotel, across the City of Anaheim ...

The Downtown Disney shopping, entertainment and retail center will undergo a major, multi-year renovation starting in 2022 – it’s first major re-design since opening in 2001. The popular destination will be re-imagined along mid-century modern architectural lines reminiscent of the booming post-war Orange County where Disneyland was built and launched in 1955. The Earl of Snadwish restaurant, the former AMC ...

The Disneyland Resort will soon take big step toward a return to pre-pandemic normalcy, announcing that popular live attractions Fantasmic, the Main Street Electrical Parade and World of Color will return to the resort in early 2022. The announcement was last week by Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Chairman Josh D’Amaro at the annual Destination D23 event, held last week ...

Last week, Orange County Superior Court Judge William Claster ruled that a 2018 Anaheim ballot measure requiring businesses that receive a city tax subsidy does not apply to the Disneyland Resort, pointing to how Measure L – which was written and placed on the ballot by the Coalition of Resort Labor Unions (CRLU) – defined a tax subsidy. In his ...