As if on cue.... :animwink:
Haunted Mansion at Disneyland is actually closed for just
16 days to install the Holiday show, and around
12 days to remove it.
The Holiday install rehab this year is September 8th - 23rd. That happens to be about the slowest time of the year as well when it comes to attendance, short of rainy days in January/February, so it works well.
If the "facts" being repeated by Cast Members to other Cast Members on backstage, internal tours are that it takes a
month of closure on each end of the Holiday show for Disneyland, then I would be very leery of any type of "fact" that is being given by the tour guides. The tour guide you had doesn't have their facts straight at all. :lol:
Tokyo Disneyland also does a Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay as well, and it's
fabulous. The Holiday closure rehab is
15 days in Tokyo this year: August 25th - September 9th. (They start "Halloween" earlier in Japan).
The
It's A Small World Holiday install/removal rehabs have a similar timeframe. A bit over two weeks to install it in late October/early November, and a bit under two weeks to remove it in early January. They do Small World Holiday in Tokyo and Anaheim very similarly, and it's also fabulous.
Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy has a two week install rehab this September for its inaugural year at Disneyland, mainly for tweaks and testing, but the strong rumor is that in following years that new show has been designed to install/remove in just a couple of days.
Not trying to be confrontational, just trying to get the real "facts" out there. Dates on a calendar don't lie, but tour guides giving a backstage tour can sometimes exaggerate a bit.