VIDEO: Full Ride POV and Queue Tour of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Disneyland

Join us, as we experience Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Disneyland Resort ahead of the attraction’s official opening in November.
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Full Ride POV
Today, as part of Magic Key previews, we were able to ride Tiana’s Bayou Adventure ahead of its grand opening on November 15. Park passes for Disneyland Park are completely sold out on the ride’s opening day.
The attraction, which is inspired by “The Princess and the Frog,” takes over for Splash Mountain which closed on May 31, 2023.
With most walls now down around the attraction, we were able to get a look at the Tiana’s Bayou Adventure sign and Ray’s Berets. The sign is virtually identical to the sign at Magic Kingdom.
Once through the touchpoints that begin the line, guests will enter the Main Entrance at the newly themed millhouse. The building is yellow with blue doors.
One of the first things you’ll see upon entering the building is a warning sign. It reads:
Attention! Fifty Foot Plunge Ahead! Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is a turbulent flume adventure with high speeds, heights, and sudden drops and stops! You may get wet!
Next to the warning sign is a corkboard with advertisements for cooking classes, a Mardi Gras celebration, and more.
Next, guests can choose either the standby or Lightning Lane line. Signs indicate where each is located.
After choosing, they’ll enter a room with a huge fireplace and lots of pictures.
There is also a dedicated single rider queue. The single rider line for Splash Mountain routed guests through the attraction’s exit.
Next to the single rider queue entrance, a fence separates guests from a workshop full of antiques and more.
Back in the room with the fireplace, the walls are loaded with black-and-white photographs of Tiana and her family. There are also some newspaper clippings, such as the one above which features a picture of Louis and the headline, “Local Gatore Shares Love of Jazz With Crescent City.”
Above are more of the framed photographs and clippings featuring Tiana, her parents, and Naveen.
Guests will then head outside for a period before climbing stone steps to another building.
Once at the top of the stairs, you can look to your right and see the attraction’s exit. There are shipping crates, as well as some colorful posters on the wall of the building.
We then made our way inside to the kitchen.
Someone’s been cooking beignets. A fresh plate sits next to a bowl of dough. More dough is on the countertop and sliced into squares.
The walls inside the kitchen feature framed photographs, awards, news clippings, and magazine covers honoring Tiana.
Upon exiting the kitchen, we get another warning about the fifty-foot plunge ahead. Next to the warning are more black-and-white photographs.
Once outside of the kitchen, you can get a look at the garden part of the queue that wasn’t being utilized today.
Themed signs continue to warn guests as they continue through the queue. The one above reminds guests to mind their heads as they make their way through low ceilings.
This sign reminds guests “salt mines reserved for seasoned veterans.”
This rusted sign reminds guests to watch their step as high falls are approaching.
The final rusted sign leaves guests with a pun before entering into the next part of the queue.
As guests get closer to the attraction, a video plays reminding them to store their personal items at their feet.
We then made our way through the cavelike salt mines and finally to the loading area.
Guests are given one last chance to exit the attraction.
Above the loading area, an old-school pulley system has lifted a pallet of crates into the air.
It’s finally time to board. Unlike in Walt Disney World where guests sit two in a row, riders at Disneyland sit one person in each row of the log.
A sign reads “A Celebration of Family and Friends of New Orleans” as the ride gets underway.
Tiana is there to greet us as we make our way up one of the ride’s first inclines.
At the top of the incline is a “Tiana’s Foods” sign. The slogan reads “Everybody’s Welcome!”
We made our way past a signpost with five directional signs. While the main office, break room, test kitchen, and children’s garden are behind us, a makeshift sign for a “shortcut to the bayou” points to the direction we’re going.
Louis peeks underneath an overturned cart of pumpkins.
We make our way past the Tiana’s Foods water tower. The tower reads, “Never, ever lose sight of what’s really important.”
We then made our way down into the bayou, where Louis greeted us.
A couple of musical critters played a tune.
Now that we’re the same size as Tiana when she turns into a frog in “The Princess and the Frog,” the frogs playing drums look to be the same size as us.
Louis and Tiana greet us from beneath a couple of lily pads.
As we make our way up the final drop, Mama Odie sends us a message.
She’s even waiting for us near the top of the drop.
After the fifty-foot plunge, we join a celebration with characters original to the film and the ride.
Tiana sings while Naveen plays a ukelele.
Louis is also there dancing alongside a bunch of critters.
Mama Odie greets us once again at the end of the ride. She sits next to a plate full of beignets.
Join us for our full-ride POV of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Disneyland Park below.
If you plan on riding Tiana’s Bayou Adventure on one of the Magic Key preview days, be sure to secure your spot in the virtual queue as soon as it becomes available. On the first day of Magic Key previews, the virtual queue was fully booked in seconds.
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure opened at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World on June 28, 2024. Check out our side-by-side comparison of that version of the attraction and Splash Mountain.
What do you think of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure? Are you excited to finally ride it at Disneyland? Let us know in the comments.
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