Hello everyone! My family and I will be there May 27-June 3! We're super excited! Last time we were at
Disneyland was Nov 2013. We'll be staying at Paradise Pier for 3 nights and then going to Staybridge Suites by Holiday Inn for the remainder of our stay. It will be our first time staying at these hotel properties so hoping for the best!
Hi! I have never stayed at the Staybridge (or PP for that matter) but have read good thing about it.
What is the PAINT THE NIGHT RECEPTION
i AM VERY CONFUSED about
Dining package..
reception party..
this that
i am getting overwhelmed
I WANT to see Fantasmic, WoC , Paint the night AND together forever.
We will be going from MAY 19 TO MAY 26.. will this be possible???
The dining packages all work pretty much the same (for F!, PtN, and WoC when it is showing). You book the package. After you have lunch or dinner (whichever one you booked) you will get a ticket, like a FastPass for the show. The ticket will have the name of the restaurant and the time you should go to the venue (but everyone agrees that it is better to show up a little earlier than the time stated). When you get close to the venue you will see specific lines for the package chosen - there will be a sign for the restaurant you chose and a CM near/below the sign. You line up until they start letting people into your area. Each restaurant has their own area, the more expensive the restaurant the better the spot.
The PtN reception party is new so no one knows how it will work. From what it sounds like on the Disney site you watch the parade from the Sonoma Terrace. This is an outdoor area next to the Wine Country Trattoria restaurant that has a good view of the parade. If it works like the WoC dessert party then when you book you will have a reservation email with all your info, venue info and what time to get there - this one seems to be an hour before show - so you can enjoy the food and drinks before the parade starts. You sign in with a CM at the door, they take you to your assigned table. A CM will bring you food and drinks, then you just wait for the parade to start.
DCA usually has a pretty big parade route, but PtN has not started yet so we do not know if the route will be the same as they had for their regular Pixar parade. When PtN first started showing (in DLR) it was a madhouse. people would camp for hours to see it. But this was the first time it was showing, it was the 60th celebration, and it was at DLR which has a smaller parade route. Even then I was able to see the parade with no package and no wait. At this moment (with no reviews on the reception) if it was just me and my family I would not book anything for PtN. But we are travelling with a group and some have mobility issues so if they want to do the reception we will.
If money is an issue you don't have to do the packages, F! has FPs, and you can find a spot for the parades/fireworks. If time is the issue (or if this is a once in a lifetime trip) then I would do packages.
Since F! is only showing on the weekends on my dates I will book a package. Like I said - if our group wants the reception for PtN then we will book it. If WoC is available for my dates I will book the dessert party - we liked it and it works for us. Everyone has different priorities, for my group (not me necessarily) it is seeing the shows so we will spend the money there.
The DLR calendar does not have your dates yet, but PtN is set to run every night, WoC will be down for refurbishment starting April 13 until May but no one knows exact date. I called yesterday to book the F! RBT deluxe package and the CM told me that F! will only be running on the weekends the first 3 weeks of May. After that it is considered "Summer season" and it will run every night. For your dates it looks like F! will be showing on the 19th, the 20th, and the 25th. I don't know about the fireworks, the schedule is only out for most of April but it has the fireworks showing every night.