ANAHEIM – Just days before the park is set to begin major construction, Disney is once again offering Southern California residents discounted tickets to its Anaheim theme parks.

Beginning today, for $149, a customer gets two visits by May 26 – going to Disneyland twice, Disney California Adventure twice or each park once.

A one-day, one-park ticket is $99. Typically, the cost is $185 for two days at the same park or once at each park. A normal one-day park hopper ticket, which allows the guest to go to a second park the same day, is an additional $56.

The discount is only for residents with a ZIP code of 90000 to 93599, which covers the stretch from the Mexican border to Palmdale. Residents in Northern Baja California in Mexico are eligible as well.

This year’s discounted tickets are up about $10 higher than last year’s.

The discount announcement comes five days before Disneyland, on Monday, starts major construction that will close a large portion of the park.

The Disneyland Railroad, the Mark Twain Riverboat, the Fantasmic! light and fireworks show, and several other attractions on the Rivers of America are closing for more than a year during construction of a 14-acre “Star Wars” land in the northern part of Frontierland.

Other attractions – the Big Thunder Ranch Barbecue restaurant, the petting farm, and Big Thunder Jamboree – will close permanently.

Though a portion of the park will be off-limits during the promotion, the park is still celebrating Disneyland’s 60th anniversary through September; also, Season of the Force, a “Star Wars” overlay of Tomorrowland, is expected to continue until the summer.

Disneyland began offering discounted rates for Southern California residents in 2003 to fill the park during the non-peak months, January to May.

The only time Disney skipped the discounts was in 2013, after opening the immediately popular Cars Land in Disney California Adventure.

The tickets must be purchased by May 19 online or at Disney stores, some supermarkets and the parks’ ticket booths.

There is a period when the tickets are not good: March 20 to April 2, apparently when the two theme parks expect a crush of guests and when children are out of school for spring break.

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