Tiki Room

I've been to Disneyland hundreds of times over the last two decades and have been writing the Funland theme park blog for about four years now. As a result, people are always asking me how to do everything at Disneyland in a single day. The short answer is you probably can't. It can be a struggle for even hard-core fans with military assault-like strategies. The longer answer is there's lots of ways to maximize your time in the park and get on the most rides possible. PHOTOS: How to do Disneyland in a day So in honor of Disneyland's 24-hour Leap Day celebration , here are my seven tips for tackling Disneyland in a day: Tip 1: If you're trying to get the most out of your day at Disneyland , I always recommend arriving just before the park opens in the morning, staying until the park closes at night and taking a long break in the heat of the afternoon at your hotel pool or cocktail bar. It may sound like a long day, but you'll get more done in the first two hours and the last two hours of your day than if you spent 15 hours straight at the park.

I've been to Disneyland hundreds of times over the last two decades and have been writing the Funland theme park blog for about four years now. As a result, people are always asking me how to do everything at Disneyland in a single day. The short answer is you probably can't. It can be a struggle for even hard-core fans with military assault-like strategies. The longer answer is there's lots of ways to maximize your time in the park and get on the most rides possible. PHOTOS: How to do Disneyland in a day So in honor of Disneyland's 24-hour Leap Day celebration , here are my seven tips for tackling Disneyland in a day: Tip 1: If you're trying to get the most out of your day at Disneyland , I always recommend arriving just before the park opens in the morning, staying until the park closes at night and taking a long break in the heat of the afternoon at your hotel pool or cocktail bar. It may sound like a long day, but you'll get more done in the first two hours and the last two hours of your day than if you spent 15 hours straight at the park.

When the sun rises today over the Happiest Place on Earth, the graffiti-etched towel dispenser in the Enchanted Tiki Room men's lavatory will have been replaced. A shroud will cover the yellow water hose and blue pump valve at the Frontier Landing. A new window shutter will hang in the River Belle Terrace. Maintenance is an obsession at Disneyland, but even more so today. Park officials want the Magic Kingdom in tiptop shape because the boss is supposed to stop by.

Proud of your tattoos and bellybutton ring? Flaunt 'em among friends at Club Harness, a Wednesday-night promotion at the Tiki Room in Costa Mesa. The Tiki Room's decor adapts well to the Club Harness transformation. Black cloth draped over the lighting creates a dungeon-like atmosphere, and the cool tiki dude with glowing red eyes fits in.

Proud of your tattoos and bellybutton ring? Flaunt 'em among friends at Club Harness, a Wednesday-night promotion at the Tiki Room in Costa Mesa. The Tiki Room's decor adapts well to the Club Harness transformation. Black cloth draped over the lighting creates a dungeon-like atmosphere, and the cool tiki dude with glowing red eyes fits in.

When the last Jungle Cruise boat docks for the night and lights fade to black on Sleeping Beauty's Castle, the real work begins. At lush Pixie Hollow, gardeners don miner's headlamps as they begin uprooting stubborn weeds. On Main Street, custodians scrape chewing gum off the sidewalk. And over at Mickey's Toontown, painters sand and recoat chipped handrails. Few see it happen, except perhaps for the dozens of feral cats that emerge from their hiding places to prowl the park after hours, stalking rodents.

Harriet Burns, the first woman hired to work as a designer for Walt Disney Imagineering, who helped create and build prototypes for such Disneyland attractions as Sleeping Beauty Castle and the Pirates of the Caribbean, has died. She was 79. The Santa Barbara resident died of complications from a heart condition July 25 at USC University Hospital, said her daughter, Pam Burns-Clair. Burns joined Disney Studios as a set and prop painter for the "Mickey Mouse Club" television show in 1955.

The theme park industry will take a deep breath in 2013 after the launch of several landmark attractions and with more groundbreaking projects on the horizon. The last few years have seen several theme park additions that have altered the industry landscape and set attendance records -- from Cars Land at Disney California Adventure to Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal's Islands of Adventure. The future promises even more theme park innovation in the form of Shanghai Disneyland in China and Avatar Land at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Florida.

PARK CITY, Utah -- About three years ago, Randy Moore, a struggling screenwriter living in Burbank, had an out-there idea: What if he took a tiny camera and, without asking permission, began shooting a narrative movie at Disney theme parks? Moore had been visiting Disney World in Orlando, Fla., with his now-estranged father since he was a child, and he'd also begun taking his two children, then 1 and 3, to Disneyland. He thought that juxtaposing the all-American iconography of Mickey Mouse with a dark scripted tale would be cinematic gold, or at least deeply weird.

Maurice "Muzzy" Marcellino, 84, multifaceted big band musician who was a guitarist, singer, whistler, composer and director. A native of San Francisco, Marcellino began his career as a singer with Phil Harris' band. He eventually started his own orchestra and for 19 years provided the music for Art Linkletter's daytime radio and television show, "House Party." As a composer, Marcellino collaborated with Jimmy Dodd on musical numbers for Disney's original "Mickey Mouse Club."

When the sun rises today over the Happiest Place on Earth, the graffiti-etched towel dispenser in the Enchanted Tiki Room men's lavatory will have been replaced. A shroud will cover the yellow water hose and blue pump valve at the Frontier Landing. A new window shutter will hang in the River Belle Terrace. Maintenance is an obsession at Disneyland, but even more so today. Park officials want the Magic Kingdom in tiptop shape because the boss is supposed to stop by.

Don't miss the Toontown roller coaster, somebody said. Don't bother with Toontown, somebody else said. Don't risk the Matterhorn with a first-grader, somebody said. Don't miss the Matterhorn with a first-grader, somebody else said. "Absolutely," I said. When you tell a Southern Californian that your 6-year-old is about to visit Disneyland for the first time ? and that you haven't been there since Captain EO was fresh from the academy ? the advice comes flowing like the whitewater that I imagine courses down Splash Mountain.

It already seems like 2013 is shaping up as a great year for ride enthusiasts around the world, as a number of new theme parks are planned for Asia and several major attractions are in the works for Europe. > Photos: Best new international theme park rides for 2013 Consider this a tentative and fluid list of new attractions on tap at international parks (outside the United States). A number of oft-delayed projects have been given new 2013 opening dates that could get postponed again, while several recently announced theme parks may never advance past the planning stages.