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Disneyland Trip Reports - Pre 2001
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- Time of Year: Holiday Season
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Pre-School, Elementary,
Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Frequent
- Comments: Julia and her family spent
a few days at Disneyland as a pre-celebration of the holidays.
Driving from home was only a three hour drive, but getting to
Disneyland made it seem like thousands of miles. This
is a fun report that covers the McCrone family's trip (including
three kids under the age of 9).
- Time of Year: Holiday Season
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: Offsite (Best Western Courtesy Inn)
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Veteran, Rookie
- Comments: This is a very short report
of Brandon's trip to see the park in it's holiday regalia.
If you're planning a trip during the holiday season, take heed
of his experiences. Crowds will be bad, but the trappings
are lovely.
- Time of Year: Holiday Season
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: Offsite (Fairfield Inn)
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Veteran, Infrequent
- Comments: This is a nicely written, succinct
report, of Tina and Leland's weekend trip to the park.
In addition to Disneyland, the couple visited Medieval Times,
an area dinner attraction, too.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Not Reported
- Resort: offsite
- Accommodations: Not Reported
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Infrequent
- Comments: This is a very short report,
just a few paragraphs, but provides a nice little glimpse of
the magic. Probably the best thing about the report is
Stephen's realization that he could truly enjoy his visit to
the park by just hanging out, with no agenda or goals in mind.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: DLH
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult, Senior
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Veteran, Frequent, Infrequent
- Comments: This is a detailed report covering
Kelly's family's trip to Disneyland. The whole crew stayed
in a couple of rooms at the Disneyland Hotel, and spent three
days or so in the park. The report also includes a detailed
description of Kelly's experience on the "Walking in Walt's
Footsteps" Tour.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Infrequent (but soon to be veterans!)
- Comments: I'll just let Cheryl intro
this one, "Brian - I feel like I know you! I really enjoy
Mouseplanet - I go there daily. This sight keeps me excited
about Disneyland, and is quite informative. This is my first
trip report - I didn't know if I should write one or not, but
finally just did it! Hope it comes through OK; it is a little
long. - See you at the park!"
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: offsite (live in the area)
- Accommodations: n/a
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Veteran
- Comments: This is an interesting report
by a former cast member. The report covers more of the
impressions of the park and it's upkeep than new information
for trip planners, but it's interesting to read just because
of the unique perspective.
- Time of Year: Summer
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: DLPH
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Pre-School, Elementary,
Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Frequent
- Comments: Steve and his family drove
down from the San Francisco area for a quick trip to Disneyland
that also included Universal Studios and Legoland. Steve
provides some great details on the trip as well as some personal
warnings about the Magic Kingdom Club (to join, or not to join,
that is the question).
- Time of Year: Summer
- Travel Method: Plane, Personal Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Standard Rooms
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Infrequent (one previous trip)
- Comments: This report is a summary style
one, with Thea's thoughts about various shows, lands, and so
on. As always, it's fun to read about Disneyland through
the eyes of a WDW veteran (Thea lives in the Orlando area).
There is useful information laced throughout the report, so
read up!
- Time of Year: Summer
- Travel Method: Plane, Personal Car
- Resort: Offsite, DLH
- Accommodations: Relative's Home, Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Veteran
- Comments: David spent his three days mostly
critiquing the uneven maintenance of the park. Even though
sometimes cynical (his word), it's obvious that the magic comes
through. Disneyland is still Disneyland...we all just
have to hope for the day in which the park is maintained like
we deserve it to be.
- Time of Year: Summer
- Travel Method: Personal Car, Rental Car
- Resort: DLH
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Rookie
- Comments: Amy's report covers the Gourley's
honeymoon visit to Disneyland in June. Jason and
Amy spent a week and the report covers the park in detail.
The couple stayed at the Disneyland Hotel, and Amy does a fine
job of sharing their experience at the flagship resort, too.
- Time of Year: Summer
- Travel Method: Plane
- Resort: DLH
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary, Teen,
Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Infrequent
- Comments: This is a very, very, very
short report on Kelli's trip. Since I don't have many
reports with comments about the Disneyland Hotel, though, this
is worth reading for that information alone!
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service (Anne's
answer was "Two planes, two trains, one taxi, two shuttles,
two streetcars and a tram!", but that doesn't fit into
my standard listed response options, so I whittled it down.)
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Infrequent
- Comments: Anne and Drew visited Disneyland
for a long weekend. It had been quite awhile since they'd
last visited, so they thoroughly enjoyed visited the park.
The Campbells frequently visit WDW (although they live in California)
but rarely get to Anaheim.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Frequent, Infrequent
- Comments: It's always fun to read the
reactions of someone that is experienced at either Disneyland
or Walt Disney World when they visit the "other" resort.
This report is no exception. Sue is probably the senior-most-veteran
of WDW visitors (other than someone that lives in Kissimmee
or Lake Buena Vista) of all the folks I know. Her views
on Walt's original park are entertaining!
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Pre-School, Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Frequent
- Comments: This is a description of my
own family's trip to Disneyland. Barb and Allan joined
me on this trip, actually a business trip with some Disney time
tacked on. We stayed at the Best Western Park Place Inn
while we were in Anaheim. This was Allan's first trip
to Disneyland, and it was a lot of fun with him since DL blows
WDW's MK out of the water on great attractions for kids.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: Offsite (Candy Cane Inn, Anaheim)
- Accommodations: Deluxe Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Frequent, Infrequent, Rookie
- Comments: KrisAnne and her friends Rebecca
and Monika enjoyed three days at Disneyland. The report
is a play-by-play one that describes the trip well.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Infant, Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Veteran, Infrequent, Rookie (the baby)
- Comments: Julia calls this report "Disneyland
with a 3 month old. It's a very short report, but can
be valuable if you're a traveling family with very little ones
in tow.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Not Reported
- Resort: DLH
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Rookie
- Comments: Stephen and his wife spent
a little time at Disneyland on the side of a business trip.
Although they've been to WDW several times, it was the first
trip to DL for the Banks. Stephen makes several interesting
observations about the Disneyland Hotel and the park.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: None (local)
- Accommodations: n/a
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Frequent, Rookie
- Comments: A week after a week long
trip to WDW, Tom visited Disneyland, so you can read his reports
"back-to-back" if you'd like.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: DLH
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Toddler, Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Infrequent
- Comments: This is a great report on a
three day visit to Disneyland by Ken and his family. Besides
providing a great play-by-play of the trip, Ken's report is
filled with heart-warming (at least to this dad of a toddler)
anecdotes about the park through the eyes of his two children.
- Time of Year: Summer
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: ffsite
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Infant, Elementary,
Teen, Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Veteran
- Comments: Lindy, a veteran WDW trip report
writer, provides her first report (to this site, anyway) of
a trip to Disneyland. Along for the trip was Lindy's sister
and four kids. This is a fun report, one that covers a
lot of detail of the park...and from the perspective of having
several kids in tow.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Veteran
- Comments: John provides a great, if short,
trip report of his time at Disneyland. It has some great
observations of the park and his opinions on some of the things
that are going on in Anaheim.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Pre-School, Elementary,
Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Veteran
- Comments: Becky and her family took a
very unusual multi-day trip to the park...now they're hooking
and Becky says that " We will not go back to driving up
and back in one day ever." The family had a wonderful
trip and thoroughly enjoyed the extra time to shop and just
take the park in at a reasonable pace.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Shuttle Service
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations: Standard Room
- Ages Represented in Group: Teen, Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Infrequent
- Comments: Josh and his dad spent three
days in the park in late April. They had snacks in every
part of the park, enjoyed the attractions, and even got in a
"Walking in Walt's Footstep's" tour! This is
a report that is very informative, and fun to read.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Holiday Inn at the Park
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Veteran
- Comments: This is the documentation
of my own 1999 solo trip to Disneyland. It was a rerun
to my trip last April, but I had a wonderful time with the West
coast ADDers and tons of time just absorbing the atmosphere.
I hope you enjoy the report!
- Time of Year: Holiday Season
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Veteran
- Comments: Pat and his sister Lori visited
the park (and Universal Studios) during early December to enjoy
the holiday season. Besides describing their time in the
two major parks, Pat also describes the new California Adventure
park that is being built just South of Disneyland.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Frequent
- Comments: Paul was able to visit Disneyland
briefly while on a business trip out on the West coast.
He made a comment in the introduction to the report that he
had read my own trip report from last Spring when I also went
West and visited Disneyland alone. He seemd to be
surprised that I was "sad" at visiting Disneyland
by myself....actually, I missed Barb and Allan very much, but
I still had a wonderful time. Paul did, too, and
it's obvious from the wonderful time he had. I'm sure
he'd agree that it's better with the family than alone, though...since
he's planning to visit again with them in a few years.
(Sound like alot of us will be in Anaheim in the summer of 2002,
huh Paul?)
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Personal Car, Plane
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Veteran, Infrequent
- Comments: I've combined a couple of
different posts that Joy wrote, one on a day at Disneyland -
the other on her impressions of Knott's Berry Farm (just in
case Knotts is in your plans, too). The report includes
alot of fun details and useful information if you're planning
your own upcoming trip.
- Time of Year: Summer
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: offsite (at a relative's house)
- Accommodations: n/a
- Ages Represented in Group: Teen, Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in Group:
Veteran
- Comments: A group of online Disney chatters
had a simultaneous DL/WDW meet in the summer of 1998, and Angela
wrote a brief report on the visit. This is a play-by-play
report, and describes the day trip well.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: Anaheim Maingate
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Veteran
- Comments: Patrick and his sister Lori
spent a few days at Disneyland to celebrate Lori's college graduation.
Pat's report, as usual, has alot of fantastic information for
the DL visitor including road reports (remember the incredible
amount of construction going on?), a review of the Anaheim Maingate
motel, and lots of tidbits about the park itself.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: We stayed at my sister-in-law’s
house
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Veteran
- Comments: Mark and his wife Gina spent
a fun day at the end of May at Disneyland. Mark
reports on many of the park's old favorite rides, but also about
the new vistas in Tomorrowland!
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Desert Inn and Suites
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary,
Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Virtual Rookie -- it had been years (but WDW Vets)
- Comments: Judy provides a taste
of the new Tomorrowland, Fantasyland, and the wonderful experience
of visiting Disney's original park. Particularly helpful
for trip planners is the lists of hints and tips and favorite
attractions that Judy provides to summarize the report.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Disneyland Hotel
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Rookie (but WDW Vets)
- Comments: Julie visited the West
coast on a business trip and took her husband along so they
could visit Disneyland during the excursion. The report
is a fun one, comparing Disneyland and the Disneyland Hotel
to their counterparts in Florida.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Holiday Inn at the Park
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Veteran
- Comments: This is the documentation
of my own solo trip to Disneyland in April. I took the
"Walking in Walt's Footsteps" tour on Saturday, met
up with some of the West coast ADDers, and spent tons of time
just absorbing the atmosphere. I hope you enjoy!
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Holiday Inn, Fullerton
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Veteran
- Comments: This is my own report on my
March 1998 trip to Disneyland. As usual, this is a verbose,
play-by-play style report with a lot of details. I hope you
find it entertaining and helpful as you plan your own West coast
visit.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Airplane and Airport
Shuttle
- Resort: Quality Hotel Maingate
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Veteran
- Comments: Alan took one of his patented
blitz trips to the park in Mid-February. He met up with some
friends and family during the weekend visit. This is a shorter
length report, but Alan gives some helpful information about
the park.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: Howard Johnson
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Veteran
- Comments: Patrick and his sister spent
a few days in a pre-Christmas visit to the Happiest Place on
Earth. The report covers alot of detail on the time the two
spent in the park.
- Time of Year: Summer
- Travel Method: Plane
- Resort: Friend's Home
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary,
Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Veteran
- Comments: This report covers alot about
visiting DL with kids. As former Passholders, the Kerr family
certainly qualifies as veterans, but this trip was a return
after not visiting the park in about a year. The visit was limited
to one day in the park (they did ALOT of stuff in that single
day) and an evening at the Disneyland Hotel later in the week.
- Time of Year: Summer
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Resort: Disneyland Hotel
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Veteran
- Comments: Andy's report covers alot
of details about the hotels, the park, and Light Magic -- Disneyland's
newest nighttime spectacular parade.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Infrequent
- Comments: Tim and Charlene visited the
park in the midst of a West coast business trip. Tim considered
the trip a preliminary to the trip the family is planning to
WDW in the next few years with their son Alex.
- Time of Year: Winter
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Veteran
- Comments: Steve and his brother, David,
went to DL mostly to see "America the Beautiful",
the older circlevision presentation. Of course, as long-time
veterans of the park, they made quite a trip out of the visit.
The report is full of hints and tips that, if followed, can
greatly enhance anyone's visit to the "Happiest Place on
Earth."
- Time of Year: Holiday Season
- Travel Method: Personal Car
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Frequent
- Comments: Joseph Lum and his "SO"
visited Disneyland the day after Christmas. Good report of the
day's goings-on.
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Infrequent
- Comments: Disneyland, September of 1996.
We stayed at the Holiday Inn Anaheim Center again. We spent
part of five days in the parks on this trip.
- Time of Year: Summer
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Disneyland Pacific Hotel
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary,
Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Infrequent
- Comments: Janet's report on her family's
trip to Disneyland included
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Unknown
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Elementary,
Teen, Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Infrequent
- Comments: L Williamson took her two
Godchildren (ages 13 and 9) to Disneyland in May. Besides describing
the trip, this report includes some useful hints and tips at
the end.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane
- Resort: Disneyland Hotel
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Infrequent
- Comments: Laura's brief report on her
trip to Disneyland included
- Time of Year: Fall
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Infrequent
- Comments: Disneyland again, in September
of 1995. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Anaheim Center again on
this trip. This is a much longer report than the ones of the
previous trips.
- Time of Year: Summer
- Travel Method: Unknown
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Rookie
- Comments: Ed Vawter, a fellow Disney
Vacation Club member and America OnLine user, wrote this report
of his trip to Disneyland in August 1995. The information that
Ed provided turned out to be very useful as I planned my trip
to Disneyland the following month.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Infrequent
- Comments: In August 1994, Barb and I
visited Disneyland again. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Anaheim
Center on this trip, after our less than thrilling experience
at Maingate the previous time. Holiday Inn Anaheim Center is
a keeper! It's a very nice hotel, close to the park, with hourly
shuttle service...and as a Holiday Inn offers Priority Club
Points (a major issue for me).
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Infrequent
- Comments: Another business trip took
me to LA in the Spring of 1994, and Barb and I were able to
spend some time at Disneyland again. This time we stayed at
the Holiday Inn Maingate.
- Time of Year: Spring
- Travel Method: Plane, Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Adult
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Infrequent, Rookie
- Comments: In 1993, Barb and I were able
to spend some time at Disneyland after a business trip to Southern
California. This brief report covers most of the details. We
stayed at the Holiday Inn Buena Park on this trip.
- Time of Year: Summer
- Travel Method: Personal Car, Plane,
Rental Car
- Resort: Offsite
- Accommodations
- Ages Represented in Group: Misc.
- Disneyland Experience Represented in
Group: Infrequent
- Comments: This short report covers general
impressions and thoughts about my first few trips to Disneyland.
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