Sounds like you are doing great with the hotel & tickets taken care of! Remind me when your trip is again?
The weekend trip of celebrations sound like a great time away.
I guess I will be living vicariously through everyone on here.. It will probably be 2017 before we make it back to WDW. Hope to start my TR soon!
Thanks! Definitely feels like the trip is a bit more "real" after having the hotel booked and the tickets bought. The plan is to fly out to CA on
October 10th and do a few days in San Diego and then at Disneyland from the 13th to the 17th (wit the 14-16 being park days)
We actually were away for a full week - but the later weekend of the trip was when we had the birthdays
Definitely will be following that TR - and 2017 will be her before you know it
I was going to say that we might just end up celebrating at Disney once Izzy is in school. But then I looked and saw that our district doesn't have the February week off, like when I was growing up. Looks like a more normal schedule of President's Day only, then a Spring Break around Easter.
Here's a few I'm reading now:
Disneyland or Bust: A Mother-Daughter Coastal Road Trip **UPDATE 2/19!!** (Road trip along CA coast (from north), then Disneyland)
The Dry Heat Expedition (Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Disneyland)--UPDATE 2/24 (Road trip from Vegas, then Disneyland)
Somebody's Gonna Pee in a Cup. - I Need To See Everybody's Wristband - 2/13 (Teasers for DL mixed in, but not full TR yet)
And here's a few from my old subscription list:
We had a GRAND trip to Disneyland! March 2014 TR NEW 7/29 p.12 (A Minnesotan! I found this recently and read through, I don't think it's quite finished)
One Happy Dog Family Lands it for Halloween -- 12/29 final post and MVMCP link!!! (Here's an old one, but it's in October and she writes good reports)
Just the 3 of us
almost. Nov '09 TR ~ Update 7/10 (Another old one, unfinished I think, but good for DL with a toddler stuff)
Happy planning!
Oh - and those spring break weeks can get a bot crowded. Maybe could do a long weekend around President's day - you've gotten pretty good at those short trips
Thanks for the suggested TRs to follow - I've jumped in on a few already. I also checked out that tread about Disneyland on the DISdads board you mentioned - it is really good - but a bit dated (no major updates since like 2011). So it is great giving the basics of the parks, etc. and comparing attractions that are at both DLR and WDW, etc. ... but not as good for like current strategies, etc.
Happy belated birthday to you and Olivia! Sounds like a fun little trip you had.
YAY for having the park tickets! It's always exciting to me when you actually make the purchase, even though it was planned.
Of course I've never been to DL and can't offer any feedback on the restaurants. The choices look lovely though!
Thank you Wendy! We did have a nice, if cold, trip!
Definitely nice to have the tickets purchased. Plus, having them paid for now makes it a bit less painful with all the costs we will occur during the trip
Okay catching up.
I like how you managed to squeeze another Disney trip into a Disney free year
Disneyland is like a completely different monster. I feel so lost when you're talking about this stuff. Someday I need to go and I'm sure I'll feel completely overwhelmed.
At least your hotel does look great.
Oh my goodness Olivia is so tiny in that first picture (or she's so big in the second, I suppose).
Wait, when can you start booking dining at Disneyland? Also, more time to look over the many options (there is a lot of them) probably wouldn't hurt.
Oh yeah - I am not really good at doing things "Disney free"
Calling DLR a different animal is right on as in some ways has a bit of familiarity to it, but then so many things are different and somethings you didn't even think about are different
Probably a little of both - that was like an hour after Olivia was born so basically at her smallest - and she has grown up to be pretty skinny so she looks bigger now than she probably really is.
So still working through all the booking dates but generally you can't do anything as far as ADRs, etc. until only 60 days out at DLR (at least from what I could find).
Whaaaat Disneyland! For the 60th anniversary! So much jealousy!
We thought about going but with the other things we have planned it would be so irresponsible to spend that kind of money. I hate being responsible when it means missing out on all the awesome things they have planned, though. I'm still trying to work a way around it.
I can understand feeling overwhelmed by planning a trip for something completely new and different. Sometimes I still feel overwhelmed trying to plan trips to WDW, especially when they involve new people (like planning a trip for 10 people that includes one senior, three middle aged adults, three young adults and three kids under ten).
The downside of Disneyland property hotels is that they are incredibly pricy. The upside is how many good priced hotels are right around the corner.
That Good Neighbor Hotel looks really cute though! And yay for two separate rooms!
I definitely think Park Hopping is worth it for Disneyland, more so than WDW. Mind you, it's great there too, but somehow I feel like I'd appreciate the usefulness of it more at DL.
So many unfamiliar restaurants! I think I'm gonna love planning for a Disneyland trip though. I love the novelty and learning about new things, I would spend so much time reading everything. I mean, I still have things to learn about WDW, but I'm pretty well versed in it so it's not the same kind of feeling as reading around for information for something you know nothing about. I love planning.
Yeah, the 60th anniversary stuff pushed it over the edge for me - definitely felt like, if we were going to do it, this is the year to do it
Sometimes I hate being and adult and having to be all responsible and what not
That's a good point that trips can be new as far as planning for a variety of people - though I feel like with WDW at least I know the things to think about/consider. For DLR sometimes I am not even sure what questions to ask
Planning hotels is very different at DLR (as I realized) and some of the non-Disney hotels are so close to the parks it's almost like more being on Disney Property than some of the Disney hotels are at WDW. I mean, you can't really walk to a park from the All Star resorts but you can from some non-Disney hotels at DLR - so very different
Thank you! We are pretty happy with it and hope that we are able to plan in enough pool time and that the weather cooperates. I just couldn't see not getting park hoppers to at least experience literally walking from one park to the other. Plus this should give us more flexibility with meal selection as we wont' be limited to only one park per day
It is pretty cool reading up and finding all these cool sounding restaurants - the tough park is fitting it into a 4 nights stay ... especially since who knows the next time we will be there so not like WDW where if we don't get to something we know we will be back
I'm looking forward to reading more about your plans for this trip!
Thanks for joining in! I've been enjoying your TR!
We definitely want to check it out at least for drinks (though the apps there look good too). I can definitely see myself talking myself into getting some tiki mugs too. I am very glad they are bringing it to the Poly at WDW as well - though am glad it is going to be it's own variation on it and not just an exact duplicate.
