DLmama
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 10, 2012
We had an amazing, exhausting trip! It was such a whirlwind only being in the parks for a day and a half, but that's better than no days! 
We arrived on Friday around 3pm after a 7 hour drive from Nor Cal. We stayed at the Anaheim Discovery Inn, which was the smallest hotel room I've ever seen. 
Since we were only using the room to sleep and shower, it was fine. We took the monorail from DtD to TL, then took a full circle tour on the railroad to see the new route. We decided not to get Max Pass on this day since we'd arrived later in the day and would get it for Saturday since we figured we'd be there for the whole day and it'd be more crowded. We had the Fantasmic! dining package at RBT at 6pm, so we pretty much stayed in the Adventureland/Frontierland/NOS area. Loved RBT! We had an amazing server who made the experience even better. Around 8pm, we grabbed our spot for Fantasmic! and had a great view! I think we were maybe 3 or 4 rows back from the railing near where they'd set up the rope for a walkway in the center area. It wasn't the most comfortable sitting on the ground for so long, but I'd rather do that than stand the whole time. After Fantasmic! we stayed for the fireworks and stood at the railing. RDCT is my absolute favorite fireworks show, but that's not my favorite view of them. It's not bad, but I definitely prefer to watch it from the hub if given the choice. We also ended up catching the late MSEP right across from the teacups. We walked up maybe 10 minutes before it came through and stood right behind the people who were seated on the curb. We got back to the hotel around 1:30am and fell right to sleep.
Saturday, we actually got the park around 9am. Grabbed Starbucks coffee and beignets from Jazz Kitchen on our way through DtD. We had decided to try Max Pass, so bought that through the app as we were walking to the parks. LOVED it!
It's so nice to have the option to book FP from your phone! We really loved having that option at WDW, so were pretty excited to try it out at DL. I don't think we got enough photo pass pictures taken, but it's nice to have the ones we did get. I think it actually makes us walk more though. We rode everything we wanted, most more than once. I lost count how many times we actually rode BTMRR and we never waited longer than 20 minutes for any ride. We had MSEP dining at BB, which was amazing! The viewing area was almost empty for the parade, which was really nice. We sat on one of the circular benches while waiting and then stood for the parade itself. Got back to the room around midnight, totally exhausted and sore, but it was all worth it!
I even rode Mission Breakout and hated every minute of it.
For the record, I hated ToT too. Just don't like the free-fall rides. But, I really wanted to see the new theme since I enjoy Guardians of the Galaxy. We got Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf. I'm glad I never have to do that again. 
After the ride, we got in line to meet Groot, which was fun. The CM working the line was awesome! We ended up only spending about 5 hours at CA Adventure and the rest of our time was spent at Disneyland.
We arrived on Friday around 3pm after a 7 hour drive from Nor Cal. We stayed at the Anaheim Discovery Inn, which was the smallest hotel room I've ever seen. Since we were only using the room to sleep and shower, it was fine. We took the monorail from DtD to TL, then took a full circle tour on the railroad to see the new route. We decided not to get Max Pass on this day since we'd arrived later in the day and would get it for Saturday since we figured we'd be there for the whole day and it'd be more crowded. We had the Fantasmic! dining package at RBT at 6pm, so we pretty much stayed in the Adventureland/Frontierland/NOS area. Loved RBT! We had an amazing server who made the experience even better. Around 8pm, we grabbed our spot for Fantasmic! and had a great view! I think we were maybe 3 or 4 rows back from the railing near where they'd set up the rope for a walkway in the center area. It wasn't the most comfortable sitting on the ground for so long, but I'd rather do that than stand the whole time. After Fantasmic! we stayed for the fireworks and stood at the railing. RDCT is my absolute favorite fireworks show, but that's not my favorite view of them. It's not bad, but I definitely prefer to watch it from the hub if given the choice. We also ended up catching the late MSEP right across from the teacups. We walked up maybe 10 minutes before it came through and stood right behind the people who were seated on the curb. We got back to the hotel around 1:30am and fell right to sleep.Saturday, we actually got the park around 9am. Grabbed Starbucks coffee and beignets from Jazz Kitchen on our way through DtD. We had decided to try Max Pass, so bought that through the app as we were walking to the parks. LOVED it!
It's so nice to have the option to book FP from your phone! We really loved having that option at WDW, so were pretty excited to try it out at DL. I don't think we got enough photo pass pictures taken, but it's nice to have the ones we did get. I think it actually makes us walk more though. We rode everything we wanted, most more than once. I lost count how many times we actually rode BTMRR and we never waited longer than 20 minutes for any ride. We had MSEP dining at BB, which was amazing! The viewing area was almost empty for the parade, which was really nice. We sat on one of the circular benches while waiting and then stood for the parade itself. Got back to the room around midnight, totally exhausted and sore, but it was all worth it!I even rode Mission Breakout and hated every minute of it.
For the record, I hated ToT too. Just don't like the free-fall rides. But, I really wanted to see the new theme since I enjoy Guardians of the Galaxy. We got Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf. I'm glad I never have to do that again. After the ride, we got in line to meet Groot, which was fun. The CM working the line was awesome! We ended up only spending about 5 hours at CA Adventure and the rest of our time was spent at Disneyland.
We always looked for the good one.
