This evening I made the reservations for my daughter's and my trip to Disneyland during Thanksgiving week: round trip on the train, three days in the park.
I haven't been to Disneyland since 1987 or so. I'm at least as excited as my daughter is!
I was there last summer for a day at the tail end of a business trip. Some more stuff to let you know:
There are security checks at all of the entrances. If you cross from one park to the other, or visit Downtown Disney, you'll have to go through them again.
All the popular rides allow you to take a "reserve" ticket for a guaranteed space, but that time might be as long as two or three hours away. Still, if you have the time(I didn't) it's a good way to *not* be standing in line.
The ticket counter opens before the gates do, and at least on the day I was there, the gates opened earlier than published. I had the interesting experience of being on Main Street with *no one* there but the staff. I took an almost-empty train around to New Orleans Square and walked directly into the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Carribbean, had a five-minute wait for the log ride, and then would have started using express tickets if I had not had other plans.
If you visit the watch shop on Main Street there's a Disney backgrounder who paints designs to be reduced onto watch faces. You don't have to buy the watches, but it's kind of cool to watch.
You'll no doubt find the Disney Princess store in the MAgic Castle environs ;)
The New Orleans Cafe in Downtown Disney sells bags of hot beignet from the lunch counter, sort of huge hot donuts coated with sugar or cinnamon. Very tasty, though there were so many in the bag I was trying to give them away to people on my way back through the park.
I second the carrying of snacks. Almost everything on the grounds is expensive and requires standing in line.
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It's going to be a lot of fun!
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There are security checks at all of the entrances. If you cross from one park to the other, or visit Downtown Disney, you'll have to go through them again.
All the popular rides allow you to take a "reserve" ticket for a guaranteed space, but that time might be as long as two or three hours away. Still, if you have the time(I didn't) it's a good way to *not* be standing in line.
The ticket counter opens before the gates do, and at least on the day I was there, the gates opened earlier than published. I had the interesting experience of being on Main Street with *no one* there but the staff. I took an almost-empty train around to New Orleans Square and walked directly into the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Carribbean, had a five-minute wait for the log ride, and then would have started using express tickets if I had not had other plans.
If you visit the watch shop on Main Street there's a Disney backgrounder who paints designs to be reduced onto watch faces. You don't have to buy the watches, but it's kind of cool to watch.
You'll no doubt find the Disney Princess store in the MAgic Castle environs ;)
The New Orleans Cafe in Downtown Disney sells bags of hot beignet from the lunch counter, sort of huge hot donuts coated with sugar or cinnamon. Very tasty, though there were so many in the bag I was trying to give them away to people on my way back through the park.
I second the carrying of snacks. Almost everything on the grounds is expensive and requires standing in line.
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Thanks for the other tips. We'll probably do some scoping out of "Secrets of" and "Hints for" type books and websites between now and then too.