What is Disneyland Resort?
[[Image:SleepingBeautyCastle.JPG|right|thumbnail|300px|[[Sleeping Beauty Castle]] in [[Disneyland Park]]]] [[Image:GrizzlypeakLeft fxwb.jpg|right|thumbnail|300px|[[Grizzly Peak (Disneyland Resort)|Grizzly Peak]] in [[Disney California Adventure]]]] '''Disneyland Resort''' is a recreational [[resort]] in [[Anaheim, California|Anaheim]], [[California]]. The resort is owned and operated by [[The Walt Disney Company]] through its [[Walt Disney Parks and Resorts|Parks and Resorts]] division and is home to two [[theme park]]s, three [[hotel]]s and a shopping, dining, and entertainment area. The area now known as the Disneyland Resort was developed by [[Walt Disney]] in the 1950s and for over 40 years was known simply as ''Disneyland''. When it opened to guests in 1955, the property consisted of [[Disneyland]], its {{convert|100|acre|km2|sing=on}} parking lot, and a hotel known as the [[Disneyland Hotel (California)|Disneyland Hotel]], owned and operated by Disney's business partner [[Jack Wrather]]. After doing well with the multi-park, multi-hotel business model at [[Walt Disney World]] in [[Florida]], Disney decided to do the same thing in Anaheim and bought a lot of land next to Disneyland. This included buying the Disneyland Hotel from the Wrather company as well as the [[Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel|Pan Pacific Hotel]] from its [[Japan]]ese owners. Disney renamed the Pan Pacific Hotel to the ''Disneyland Pacific Hotel''. After its first publicly known proposal for a second theme park in Anaheim was scrapped, construction began in 1998 on a theme park called [[Disney California Adventure|Disney's California Adventure Park]]; a hotel called [[Disney's Grand Californian Hotel]], a renovation, renaming, and re-theming of the Disneyland Pacific Hotel; and an admission-free shopping and dining area called [[Downtown Disney (California)|Downtown Disney]]. During the expansion, the name ''Disneyland Resort'' was coined to refer to the entire Disney complex, while ''Disneyland Park'' was coined to refer to the original