DeterminedOne
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 25, 2004
Thanks for nothing American Airlines!
Although I had zero desire to ever go to Disneyland, we were celebrating my niece's 18th and high school graduation.
She spent her 16th at Disneyland and wanted to go again. I decided to tag along this time. It was a short, three night trip for me while the rest of the fam ventured through LA for the remainder of the week.
The idea came about at Thanksgiving while my sister and niece were visiting from San Antonio. We planned to make the trip in June, but come February my sister casually mentioned they had changed the trip to March.
30 days to plan a Disney trip. Say whaaaaat???
To complicate matters, I didn't know ANYTHING about Disneyland ...
Although they had traveled there before, they aren't the "planning" type, and just winged everything. (Thus the last minute decision to change the trip to March ...)
The panic set in! I didn't know if I could get the time off from work. A last minute flight to California was going to be out of sight. (And it was. $420 smack-a-roos.) Where would we stay? How would we get to where we would be staying? Does Disneyland have Magical Express? What about ADR's? So many questions ...
I hung up the phone and jumped on the DIS Disneyland forum. It wasn't nearly as useful as regular Dis ...
But ...
The Unofficial Guide to the rescue!!
Although I had zero desire to ever go to Disneyland, we were celebrating my niece's 18th and high school graduation.
She spent her 16th at Disneyland and wanted to go again. I decided to tag along this time. It was a short, three night trip for me while the rest of the fam ventured through LA for the remainder of the week.
The idea came about at Thanksgiving while my sister and niece were visiting from San Antonio. We planned to make the trip in June, but come February my sister casually mentioned they had changed the trip to March.
30 days to plan a Disney trip. Say whaaaaat???
To complicate matters, I didn't know ANYTHING about Disneyland ...
Although they had traveled there before, they aren't the "planning" type, and just winged everything. (Thus the last minute decision to change the trip to March ...)
The panic set in! I didn't know if I could get the time off from work. A last minute flight to California was going to be out of sight. (And it was. $420 smack-a-roos.) Where would we stay? How would we get to where we would be staying? Does Disneyland have Magical Express? What about ADR's? So many questions ...
I hung up the phone and jumped on the DIS Disneyland forum. It wasn't nearly as useful as regular Dis ...
But ...
The Unofficial Guide to the rescue!!
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