DisneyDining Disney Dining Plan and Reviews

1. Spooktacular Souvenirs Now that the long-awaited Haunted Mansion collection has arrived in Disney World, your experience doesn’t have to stop once you leave the attraction!  Haunt the nearby Memento Mori shop either before or after your Haunted Mansion adventure, and take home some ghostly magic to remember your visit.  The selection in the shop is quite varied, and Disney ...

2. Interactive Hitchhiking Ghosts Just when you think you’re out of the woods and have escaped Haunted Mansion intact, Disney has one more surprise in store.  At the end of the ride, you’ll pass a group of hitchhiking ghosts.  These other-worldly travellers actually have names; Phineas carries the carpet bag, Gus has the ball and chain, and Ezra is the ...

3. Lotsa Leota Lore Did you ever wonder who lent her face and voice to the deliciously eerie Madame Leota, featured in the séance area of Haunted Mansion?  Wonder no longer!  Leota was played by actual Disney Imagineer Leota Toombs Thomas; she also played the small figure at the end of the ride who invites you to “hurry back” and ...

4. Great Hall Ghosts The hauntingly majestic Great Hall scene even captured my grandmother’s attention when she visited the park years ago; I remember her telling me about it when I was a child.  The hall is full of translucent, waltzing ghosts, as well as other spectres, such as portrait ghosts who emerge to duel, and ghostly guests eating a ...

5. Devilish Details Every time we ride Haunted Mansion, we discover something new.  That’s part of the brilliance of the ride; there’s just so much to see, that you’ll only see a portion of the deliciously devilish details the ride has to offer each time.  Staircases to nowhere appear, and glowing footsteps without owners, while creepy shadows and wallpaper covered ...

6. Scary vs Funny Fans of Haunted Mansion will know that there are really two different parts to the ride.  At first, the attraction has a distinctly scary, unsettling vibe; this is where the creaky, breathing doors, eerie organ music, other-worldly séance, and life-like waltzing ghosts appear.  Later, there is a definite element of fun and humor, with ghosts playing ...

7. Ride in Ghostly Style No run-of-the-mill ride vehicle would do for Disney’s Haunted Mansion.  Instead, guests ride in ghostly style in “Doom Buggies”, delightfully oppressive black vehicles that can rotate in any direction, allowing you to experience all that Haunted Mansion has to offer.  Doom Buggies only hold a couple of people, which was intentional – what better way ...

8. A Wickedly Warm Welcome Disney Imagineers sure know how to set the scene for a spooktacular experience.  The moment you arrive at Haunted Mansion, you’ll be ushered into an octagonal room, which then locks, leaving you feeling claustrophobic and trapped, with the other guests.  The room begins to stretch creepily, revealing amusingly morbid portraits on the walls.  Suddenly, the ...

9. Graveyard Giggles The interactive queue for Haunted Mansion is definitely our favorite in Magic Kingdom.  We will even avoid FastPasses+ for this ride, just so we don’t miss a thing!  From the pet cemetery, to the perfectly punny mausoleum, to a musical crypt and a tomb spewing water, there is plenty to keep everyone entertained while waiting to enter ...

10. Globe-Trotting Ghosts Haunted Mansion exists in different lands at five different Magic Kingdoms across the world.  It can be found in New Orleans Square in Disneyland, in Liberty Square in Walt Disney World, in Fantasyland at Tokyo Disneyland, and in Frontierland in Disneyland Paris (where it goes by the name of “Phantom Manor”).  A lighter, merrier version of Haunted ...