chunkymonkey
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 27, 2009
PTR Update 7/14 - Disneyland Trip - Not the news I was looking for.
So in anticipation of our Disneyland Trip from Sept 5 - 9, I'd been booking my ADRs and getting ready to get some park plans in place. It's so hard when they haven't released park hours yet. I've also heard news that the parks will open later on those days, so while at WDW I'm used to a 9am or 8am opening, at DLR they are saying for late Aug/Sept it may be 10am to 8pm or something like that. Hmm, that is interesting. That means EMH won't start before 9am. That gives us some time to book some breakfasts before the parks open. I was hoping the park would be open earlier because coming from the East coast we'll be up really early and would get geared up, ready to go by 7am. Imagine how much we'd get done! But since official hours will not be released for our dates for another week I can only wait to see before I start scheduling additional meals.
There is also some very bad news regarding ride closures...it looks like Hyperspace Mountain will be closed for our trip. I mean, pretty much ALL of our trip. There was an official notice about the new Halloween festivities for DLR, and one of them is Ghost Galaxy, all starting on Sept 9th. This means they will need to change the interior overlay of Space Mountain from the Star Wars theme to the Halloween theme. I've asked around the DL boards and they said it usually takes 4 days to do so, which puts it at 9/5 for the start of the closure. I'm really upset by this because Hyperspace mountain was one of the reasons I was determined to book a DLR trip this year. SAD!! There is no official notice as to Hyperspace Mountain's eminent closure, but most likely that is when it is going to happen. I guess I should have known and going the week of labor day was kind of risky. But nonetheless I am really sad about this. We arrive in California 9/2 but wasn't planning to be in the parks until 9/5 and just for a half day at that, it would really hinder our plans to switch everything around.
The only thing that may be possible is if the ride is still open on labor day itself (9/5) then maybe we can catch it. That will mean leaving DH's parent's house really early in the morning, drive about 2 hours to Anaheim and make 9/5 a full park day. Not a big deal, but that means we spend less time with DH's parents.
OR
I could shift our days so that we're visiting DLR first and then spend time with DH's parents at the end of the trip, but this poses some challenges as all our hotel bookings have to be shifted. It would cost more as weekend rates cost more. Also Chunkysis's flight does not arrive until the afternoon of 9/5, so she'd either have to pay to change her flight to a few days earlier, or she'd keep her flight and have a few solo days at the end of the trip considering DH and I would have used up some days of our park hopper. This plan just doesn't make sense cost and scheduling wise. Bummer.
Also I have heard that the end of Paint The Night is 9/5 as well. We have the Paint The Night dinner package at Blue Bayou booked on this date. It is not offered on any date after 9/5 so I we will probably only get to watch it once. So I think I will keep the package after all as that night might be super crowded once people know it's the last parade.
Sooo. No Hyperspace Mountain, no Paint The Night for the rest of the trip, no Halloween celebrations...seems like DLR will be a ghost town when we are there.
I am going to go cry in my Star Wars pillows now ...Waaaaah.
So in anticipation of our Disneyland Trip from Sept 5 - 9, I'd been booking my ADRs and getting ready to get some park plans in place. It's so hard when they haven't released park hours yet. I've also heard news that the parks will open later on those days, so while at WDW I'm used to a 9am or 8am opening, at DLR they are saying for late Aug/Sept it may be 10am to 8pm or something like that. Hmm, that is interesting. That means EMH won't start before 9am. That gives us some time to book some breakfasts before the parks open. I was hoping the park would be open earlier because coming from the East coast we'll be up really early and would get geared up, ready to go by 7am. Imagine how much we'd get done! But since official hours will not be released for our dates for another week I can only wait to see before I start scheduling additional meals.
There is also some very bad news regarding ride closures...it looks like Hyperspace Mountain will be closed for our trip. I mean, pretty much ALL of our trip. There was an official notice about the new Halloween festivities for DLR, and one of them is Ghost Galaxy, all starting on Sept 9th. This means they will need to change the interior overlay of Space Mountain from the Star Wars theme to the Halloween theme. I've asked around the DL boards and they said it usually takes 4 days to do so, which puts it at 9/5 for the start of the closure. I'm really upset by this because Hyperspace mountain was one of the reasons I was determined to book a DLR trip this year. SAD!! There is no official notice as to Hyperspace Mountain's eminent closure, but most likely that is when it is going to happen. I guess I should have known and going the week of labor day was kind of risky. But nonetheless I am really sad about this. We arrive in California 9/2 but wasn't planning to be in the parks until 9/5 and just for a half day at that, it would really hinder our plans to switch everything around.
The only thing that may be possible is if the ride is still open on labor day itself (9/5) then maybe we can catch it. That will mean leaving DH's parent's house really early in the morning, drive about 2 hours to Anaheim and make 9/5 a full park day. Not a big deal, but that means we spend less time with DH's parents.
OR
I could shift our days so that we're visiting DLR first and then spend time with DH's parents at the end of the trip, but this poses some challenges as all our hotel bookings have to be shifted. It would cost more as weekend rates cost more. Also Chunkysis's flight does not arrive until the afternoon of 9/5, so she'd either have to pay to change her flight to a few days earlier, or she'd keep her flight and have a few solo days at the end of the trip considering DH and I would have used up some days of our park hopper. This plan just doesn't make sense cost and scheduling wise. Bummer.
Also I have heard that the end of Paint The Night is 9/5 as well. We have the Paint The Night dinner package at Blue Bayou booked on this date. It is not offered on any date after 9/5 so I we will probably only get to watch it once. So I think I will keep the package after all as that night might be super crowded once people know it's the last parade.
Sooo. No Hyperspace Mountain, no Paint The Night for the rest of the trip, no Halloween celebrations...seems like DLR will be a ghost town when we are there.
I am going to go cry in my Star Wars pillows now ...Waaaaah.
