California has strict smoking restrictions and Disneyland is even tougher, so if you are a smoker and planning a vacation to the ‘Happiest Place on Earth’, you will have to plan a little more to visit the park and be able to smoke in everything. moment. your stay.
Smoking and vaping (using e-cigarettes) is prohibited even in outdoor areas, except in designated smoking areas, which are increasingly rare. However, there are designated smoking areas in the Main Entrance Plaza outside both theme parks and also in some locations within each.
At Disneyland, you can head to Frontierland near New Orleans Square to find a smoking section next to the Rivers of America raft pier or Tomorrowland near the train station. At Disney’s California Adventure, there is a smoking area in Hollywood Land near the city of water next to Monsters Inc. Also, you can smoke in downtown Disney, but it must be at least 50 feet from a store entrance , restaurant or bathroom.
Advice
Since your options for smoking areas are incredibly limited at Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure, it might be best to try to smoke less on your Disneyland trip. You might consider bringing some nicotine gum so you can spend more time with your group enjoying the rides and less time finding a designated smoking area throughout the park.
Ashtrays are available in the smoking areas and are built into the top of the trash cans at Downtown Disney. Disposing of your cigarette butts in other parts of the park could result in a fine or even expulsion from the park – Disney employees take environmental awareness seriously and are not kind to people who litter.
There are no locations or stores within the Disneyland parks that sell tobacco products of any kind, so you will need to pack extra cigarettes before heading to the park if you think you will run out. While some of the hotels at Disney resorts have cigarette vending machines, they are likely to be much more expensive than in the delicatessens or tobacco shops in the area.
Smoking at Disneyland hotels
Speaking of hotels, all three Disneyland Resort hotels — the Paradise Pier Hotel, the Disneyland Hotel, and the Grand Californian — are smoke-free establishments that do not offer smoking rooms.
However, you can smoke at Disneyland Resort hotels in the designated smoking area or by taking a short walk off the premises, although you will have to find a place to dispose of your cigarette butt if you do.
The Disneyland hotel has three smoking areas, one outside the Fantasy, Adventure and Frontier Towers; Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa has one in the outdoor fireplace and one in the Brisa patio, and Paradise Pier has just one at the hotel entrance.
Many other hotels in the area are also smoke-free, which means no smoking anywhere in the hotel’s rooms or common areas, so be sure to double-check when making reservations. There are several hotels in Los Angeles that offer smoking-friendly rooms, but they are a bit further out and can be more expensive as they generally include a cleaning fee with a smoking reservation.
