Festival of Pirates & Princesses

Choose your side, are you a Princess or a Pirate?

Who Will You Choose? Are You a Princess or Arrrrrre You a Pirate?

Guests were able to embark on an enchanting fairy tale or a buccaneering adventure at the Festival of Pirates and Princesses from 19th January to 17th March 2019. This vibrant, interactive bounty bursting festival had the biggest gathering of royalty and rapscallions!


Disney Pirate or Princess: Make Your Choice

Guests were ready for the spectacular interactive Disney Pirate or Princess: Make Your Choice, a Disney Princess and Pirate-filled promenade sweeping through Disneyland Park. If your duty is to defend the royalty of Disney Princesses, you could sing and dance alongside the likes of Rapunzel, Snow White and Ariel.

If the Pirate's life is more for you, you could perfect your arrrr and sea leg swing with Jake, Peter Pan, Wendy and a rowdy crew of acrobatic rapscallions.

Jake and a Pirate themed float sweeping through Disneyland Park.
Fairy tale quest or swashbuckling voyage? The choice is yours!

Hoist the Flag, Mateys!

You could learn how to be a real rapscallion with a legendary Pirate! Do you have what it takes to Hoist the Flag, Mateys and join the infamous crew of buccaneers?

Shipmates of all ages were invited to jump onboard this fun-filled, interactive experience with Captain Jack Sparrow, the most legendary pirate to ever sail the seas! He was looking for a new crew for his next quest, so guests had their largest arrrr and their sturdiest sea legs ready!

Learn to be a real rapscallion with a legendary pirate!
Learn to be a real rapscallion with a legendary pirate!

Princess Promenade

Guests could get their tiaras at the ready for Princess Promenade! Every day was wonderfully royal, as the likes of Sofia the First, Elena of Avalor and some regal performers graced Disneyland® Park with an enchanting Princess Promenade. Guests kept their eyes peeled as they witnessed a very special guest and her royal entourage.

Get your tiara at the ready for Princess Promenade.
Tiaras at the ready for Princess Promenade.

Pirate & Princess Character Encounters

Dreams come true with these fairy tale and swashbuckling encounters! Guests could feel like royalty and arrrrrr like a true rapscallion with these fairy tale and swashbuckling encounters that the whole family could treasure forever and ever. Guests had their widest smile ready because they were invited to meet Belle, Aurora, Rapunzel or other Disney Princesses in real life amid the palatial surroundings of Princess Pavilion.

And if Pirate plundering and never growing up is your thing, guests could perfect their limp and shake hands and hooks with the jolliest of buccaneers, and some surprise scallywags, in front of Pirates Beach. Shiver-ya-timbers!

Young guest meets Belle in the Princess Pavillion.
Dreams come true with these fairy tale and swashbuckling encounters.

Become a Princess or a Pirate!

You were able to grant your little Princess and Pirate's wishes with some dress-up and face-painting fun they'll never ever forget, at places like Disneyland® Hotel and Sir Mickey's Store. Young royals in waiting became the fairest in the land when they had their makeup perfected and their hair styled just like their beloved Disney Princess.

Budding buccaneers could get their face painted and look shipshape, wearing seafaring garb fit for Cap'n Jack Sparrow himself. Princess gowns awaited at the likes of La Chaumiére des Sept Nains and Pirate outfits were unearthed in shops such as Le Coffre du Capitaine.

Treat your Princess to a makeover at the Princess Pavilion.
Become a Princess or a Pirate!