michelle1177
Earning My Ears
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- May 13, 2011
We are doing a quick trip August 14-18 and staying at the Desert Inn and Suites. It's been a couple of years since we have been to Disneyland and I am so ready to go back!
I'm glad to hear of your positive experience. No DVC studios available to we are sticking with the Dessert Inn. I figure I'll take our savings and apply them to some extras we wanted to do in our earlier trips but never did, like the WOC dessert party and a character meal.
Thanks to advance planning combined with a lot of luck, I was able to secure a 1 bedroom DVC reservation for this trip. We are not DVC members so it involved having to find a member who had VGC as their home resort who had enough points to rent and who was willing to get online right at 11 months to make the reservation.
Regarding DI&S: The only kind-of downside to staying here is that the breakfast is not the best, although we have not stayed there for a couple of years so they may have improved it since then. The space for breakfast gets pretty crowded and iirc the food was toast, Costco-ish danishes, hard boiled eggs, cereal, oatmeal, muffins, fruit. Since we tend not to eat a lot of carbs at breakfast (nothing against carbs, I love potatoes!) but it is just not how we eat breakfast, we were not overwhelmed with the choices. We ended up grabbing a couple of pieces of fruit and then hitting Starbucks when we got to the park. Oh...and if you like coffee, don't drink the stuff at the hotel. Just don't.
I hope you enjoy the WOC dessert party as much as we did. After doing the dining package a few times we tried the dessert party and it was so worth the $$$! Just being able to sit at a table after a long day at the parks made it totally with it for us.
I saw the news today that Mickey's Mix Magic is ending in June and they are bringing back Disneyland Forever. Any thoughts from those of you who are familiar with both? My kids were excited for Mickey's Mix Magic after seeing some of it on YouTube...
Yay! Booked flights for LAX last night It's my first trip to DL in a few years and a lot have changed!! Especially not that SWGE opens.
I'm planning on staying in Anaheim for about a week and then do 5 days in the parks. But I'm not sure if I should do Disney the start of my vacay (8/13-8/20) or last (8/22-8/29). What would you guys recommend? I haven't been in August before.
Any rumors of when ROTR will open??
I feel like a lot has changed in 3 years, so I have a lot of preparing and research to do.
I know what you mean about planning! I keep trying to get some sort of vague plan together but it all keeps coming back to "we will have to wait and see what happens after GE opens and we know how access is going to be handled". It is driving me crazy.
Y'all!!! I just realized that we never got to see the Disneyland Forever fireworks! Although we visited Disneyland for the 60th anniversary, the night we went to DL Park the wind was so strong they cancelled the fireworks. I'm bummed to miss Mickey's Mix Magic but I'm happier that we are going to see the fireworks we missed three years ago. Also, WOC will be a new show for us. We've watched Winter Dreams (2013) and Celebrate! for the 60th Anniversary celebration, but have never seen the regular show. And I've also never watched the Disneyland version of Fantasmic! (I think it might have been closed for one of our trips.) Everyone tells me it's better than the WDW version so I'm looking forward to that too.
Now if they’d just bring back Paint the Night all would be right in the world (or land I guess)!
The good thing: by the time we go we’ll have great information about all possible GE strategies and pitfalls!This waiting to see about GE is driving me crazy too!
... I'm planning on staying in Anaheim for about a week and then do 5 days in the parks. But I'm not sure if I should do Disney the start of my vacay (8/13-8/20) or last (8/22-8/29). What would you guys recommend? I haven't been in August before...
... Re: earlier or later in August
Pro for 13-20 is you will likely miss the D23 crowds, con is that many schools still on Summer break.
Pro for 22-29 is the opposite, most school except those that go back after Labour Day, con is that you are going at the same time as the D23 crowds.
Some changes to our plans. Looks like we'll just be going for 2 days as my husband was not able to secure more days off during the week I planned and school starts for the kids and I shortly after. We have a longer vacation near Sandiego this summer that includes Legoland and zoos, so this is just to get our Disney fix and end the summer with a bang. I'm just happy we found a time to go.
Change our plans to Desert Inn with check in on Thursday, August 8 and checkout on Sunday the 11th. We're planning for Friday at Disneyland and Saturday at DCA. Two day non-hoppers with max pass. Quite a different experience from having DAPs last year. We might do a character meal before heading home.
Thanks so much!
I have decided to stay in Anaheim (Kings Inn) 6 nights from 8/13 and then go back for another Disney day at 8/21
So excited!!!
Hi, I forgot to check this forum out until now. My family (me, DH, DD19, DD15, & my mom) will be staying at GCH August 14-24. We are celebrating as DD19 graduates HS in June 2019! Looking forward to whatever we can see of SW:GE!I think I've added everyone to the list but please let me know if I have missed you! I suspect that this thread will be getting busier now that the SW:GE opening date has been announced.
As an overall "show," DLF is the superior production, no questions asked. More emotionally connected, more moving, feels more complete as a show. But MMM is fun for the kids and can run with the projections only if the pyrotechnics have to be cancelled. Check out DLF on YouTube -- the music, the pyrotechnic choreography, the whole feel of the show -- I think you'll see what I'm talking about.I saw the news today that Mickey's Mix Magic is ending in June and they are bringing back Disneyland Forever. Any thoughts from those of you who are familiar with both? My kids were excited for Mickey's Mix Magic after seeing some of it on YouTube...
As an overall "show," DLF is the superior production, no questions asked. More emotionally connected, more moving, feels more complete as a show. But MMM is fun for the kids and can run with the projections only if the pyrotechnics have to be cancelled. Check out DLF on YouTube -- the music, the pyrotechnic choreography, the whole feel of the show -- I think you'll see what I'm talking about.