Magic Kingdom

Exploring The Magic Kingdom
The Theme park’s 138 acres are divided into five Theme Lands:
Main Street USA, Frontierland, Adventureland, Fantasyland and Discoveryland. Disney, however, Disney has ensured that nothing is left to chance, from the smallest detail in planning to the largest construction, everything tells a story.

Frontierland
From the Central Plaza, this is the first land you encounter, a musical, visual and live action recreation of America’s Wild West. Entry is through Fort Comstock’s imposing wooden gate and fort grounds, in which children can pretend they’re winning the West all over again, mainly by dropping their sticky lollipops on the heads of unsuspecting passers by.

Attractions: Big Thunder Mountain, Phantom Manor, Critter Corral, Disneyland Railroad, Pocahontas Indian Village, Rustler Roundup Shootin' Gallery, Thunder Mesa Riverboat Landing, Legends of the Wild West.

Shows: Chaparall Theatre - Mickey's Winter Wonderland.

Restaurants: Silver Spur Steakhouse, The Lucky Nugget Saloon, Last Chance Cafe, Fuente de Oro Restaurante, Cowboy Cookout Barbecue.

Shops: Tobias Norton & Sons - Frontier Traders, Bonanza Outfitters, Eureka Mining Supplies and Assay Office.

Adventureland
Inspired by tales of swashbuckling Pirates and Daring Adventurers in Exotic Places, in Adventure land you can experience wild rides and amazing audioanimatronic productions and then explore the mysteries of Adventure island, an experience all of its own. Watch out for the wobbly barrel, the fantastic rope suspension bridge and the maze of dimly lit caves!

Attactions: Pirates of the Caribbean, Adventure Isle, Pirates' Beach, La Cabane des Robinsons, Indiana Jones Temple of Peril, Le Passage Enchante d'Aladdin.

Restaurants: Blue Lagoon Restaurant, Colonel Hathi's Matata, Cafe de ia Brousse, Captain Hook's Galley, Restaurant Agrabah Cafe.

Shops: Indiana Jones Adventure Outpost, Le Coffre du Capitaine, Les Tresors de Sheherazade, La Girafe Curieuse.

Fantasyland
It’s an unusual person who doesn’t immediately feel a sense of warmth and security in this, the most magical of the lands. With their usual impeccable sense of design, the Imaginers have modelled the buildings (including the castle) on the animated features in the Disney © stable. If you have very young offspring, let them try their hand at removing the Sword in the Stone, between the castle and the Gallopers.

Attractions: Le Pays des Contes de Fees, Casey Jr le Petit Train du Cirque, Les Pirouttes du Vieux Moulin, It's A Small World, Disneyland Railroad, Alice's Curious Labyrinth, Mad Hatter's Tea Cups, Dumbo the Flying Elephant, Peter Pan's Flight, Le Carrousel De Lanceltot, Pinocchio Fantastic Journey, The Dragon, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, La Galerie de ia Belle au Bois Dormant, The Castle of Sleeping Beauty.

Shows: Castle Theatre - L Noel de Mickey Show, The Train Station Theatre.

Restaurants: Auberge de Cendrillon, Pizzeria Bella Notte, Au Chalet de la Marionnette, Toad Hall Restaurant, March Hare Refreshments, The Old Mill, Fantasia Gelati.

Shops: Merlin L'Enchanteur, La Boutique du Chateau, La Chaumiere des Sept Nains, La Confiserie des Trois Fees, Sir Mivkey, La Bottaga di Geppetto, La Petite Maison des Jouets.

Discoveryland
Dedicated to man’s technological achievements and dreams, the entrance to Discovery land appears to thrust its way upwards from the earth. Here the theme is travel through Space and Time and, in the process, the dreams, ideas and works of Jules Verne are celebrated, as are those of Leonardo Deviancy and HG Wells. Video polis, the Park's largest cafe, also hosts the best shows.

Attractions: L'Arcade des Visionnaires, Le Visionarium, Orbitron Machines Vocantes, Autopia, Les Mysteres du Nautilus, Space Mountain, Honey I Shrunk The Audience, Star Tours, Disneyland Railroad, Buss Lightyear Laser Blast.

Shows: The Legend Of The Lion King.

Restaurants: Cafe Hyperion, Buzz Lightyear's Pizza Planet Resaurant.

Shops: Constellations, Star Traders, Lightspeed Photography.

Main Street USA

Main Street is Walt Disney's © idealised idea of a small-town, Victorian America. The Main Street traffic includes horse-drawn rail cars, old double-decker buses, an antique fire engine, a Keystone-cop style paddy wagon and a vintage car, which together tell the story of the evolution of transport. These form part of a working transport system, which moves visitors between the Town Square and the central hub of the park near Sleeping Beauty's Castle, beneath which a Dragon lurks. Here is the Central Plaza, the point from which paths radiate to the other four lands. The Castle itself acts as a landmark throughout the park, enabling guests to find where they are when Aunty Edna has just walked off with the only copy of the map. The Park's pathways are an adventure on their own and offer both dry and open routes between Frontierland, Adventureland and Fantasyland. The guests rarely discover some of these, so intent are they on getting to the castle they can save a great deal of time. Watch out for the path that runs from the main entrance to Fort Comstock, past the toilets and towards Adventureland. This route offers cover and a fabulous example of the imaginers' best work, where they imperceptibly change from Frontier America construction to Arabian and Central African thatching.
As you enter Main St, you pass beneath Main St Station from where you can ride a nineteenth century 'steam' engine around the park. En route, you pass through a Grand Canyon Diorama, a visual depiction of the Canyon from dawn to dusk. The train also stops in each of the other lands from where you can explore. Trains run every ten minutes but boarding in the lands is sometimes prohibited before midday. Beneath the station are lockers where, for a small cost, you can store valuables and bags. (Currently suspended owing to the security risks)

Attractions: Liberty Arcade & Tableau, Disneyland Railroad, Horse-Drawn Streetcars, Main Street Vehicles, Discovery Arcade.

Restaurants: Walt's American Restaurant, Plaza Gardens Restaurant, Market House Deli, Casey's Corner, Victoria's Home-Style Reasarant, The Coffee Grinder, The Ice-Cream Company, Cookie Kitchen/Cable Car Bake Shop, The Gibson Girl Ice-Cream Parlour.

Shops: Emporium, Plaza East & West Boutique, The Storybook Store, Ribbons & Bows Hat Shop, Harrington's Fine China & Porcelains, Dapper Dan's Hair Cuts, Disney & Co, Disney Clothiers Ltd, Disneyana Collectibles, Town Square Photography, Broadwalk Candy Palace, Main Street Motors, Lilly's Boutique.