April Park Plan Suggestions

[AKVFamily]

We are squeezing in a DL trip Wednesday April 13- Friday the 15th. I expect this will be a busy Spring Break time. We will likely arrive around noon Wednesday, and leave Friday afternoon. How would you suggest scheduling our first parks of the day (we will park hop)? Thanks in advance!

 

[magsnwonderland]

We'll be there the same days and it's our first trip to DL so I don't have advice that anyone should listen to (lol) but we're starting day 1 in DL since it's our first time there.

 

[clb79]

We are squeezing in a DL trip Wednesday April 13- Friday the 15th. I expect this will be a busy Spring Break time. We will likely arrive around noon Wednesday, and leave Friday afternoon. How would you suggest scheduling our first parks of the day (we will park hop)? Thanks in advance!

Since you are only in the parks for one full day it changes what my normal strategy would be. One thing to keep in mind is you can't hop until 1pm anyway so you will have limited time to hop on Friday depending on how early you leave in the afternoon. It would really depend on which rides are most important to you where you want to start on both of your mornings.

 

[clb79]

We'll be there the same days and it's our first trip to DL so I don't have advice that anyone should listen to (lol) but we're starting day 1 in DL since it's our first time there.

With a 3 day ticket (and 3 full days) we always start and end with Disneyland, so we do DL, DCA, DL. We feel like we can get more accomplished and checked off the list with the morning crowds at DL since there are more attractions and people are spread out more. We also feel like one morning starting in DCA is enough to get a head start and make sure we can get all of our must do attractions in over there. Just like my response to the original poster though, it really depends on what rides are priorities for you in both parks though.

 

[magsnwonderland]

With a 3 day ticket (and 3 full days) we always start and end with Disneyland, so we do DL, DCA, DL. We feel like we can get more accomplished and checked off the list with the morning crowds at DL since there are more attractions and people are spread out more. We also feel like one morning starting in DCA is enough to get a head start and make sure we can get all of our must do attractions in over there. Just like my response to the original poster though, it really depends on what rides are priorities for you in both parks though.

Thanks! That's our plan based on everything I've seen.

 

[MD Disney Fans]

Same here, first time visit to DL from 4/16 to 19.

Alternating our 4 days between parks. Plans are hit be there early each day and hit what we can with focus on the rides that we can’t hit in FL.

We didn’t do park hoppers but will instead use genie+

Any advice is welcome.

 

[smartlabelprint]

Same here, first time visit to DL from 4/16 to 19.

Alternating our 4 days between parks. Plans are hit be there early each day and hit what we can with focus on the rides that we can’t hit in FL.

We didn’t do park hoppers but will instead use genie+

Any advice is welcome.

in 4 days you should be able to ride everything you want. My advice is to get hoppers, depending on the makeup of your group. We will be in the parks about 4 hours a day with a DAS instead of genie+. But if you get genie+ you’re only allowed one ride of each attraction. If you get genie just 2 days you can probably get all of those attractions done on those days.

 

[rndmr2]

We are going in April as well. We leave the day you get there. We are doing a week, Wednesday to Wednesday with 4 Park days, park hoppers and Genie +. I figure we would take our time to try to see/do as much as we can. I also didn't want to rush, rush and wanted some down time. Since this is a vacation from my very crazy hours, stressful job. That said we are doing Thursday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday as our park days. We have a concert to go to on Friday and plan regular sight seeing (and the WB studio tour) on Saturday because I figured that would be a high crowd day. Still trying to learn about Genie+

 

[gelatoni fan]

Typically, I would concentrate major rides with long lines at the beginning and end of the day when the lines for them are shorter. Assuming you don't get Genie+, that means saving most Genie+ attractions for the beginning and end of the day and focusing on smaller attractions or attractions with single rider when you arrive at noon.

If starting at Disneyland, I'd probably focus on things that close early or have significantly different lighting in the day vs night. So things like Main Street Vehicles, Pirates Lair, Jungle Cruise, Storybook Land, Mark Twain + Columbia, etc. You could also do whatever else happens to be short in Fantasyland. I also recommend doing Autopia at this time because the wait time can be grossly underestimated at the beginning and end of the day as they aren't running all the tracks. Last time, I waited 39 minutes when it was posted 10 minutes towards the end of the day. Star Tours may have an OK wait time when you're done with Autopia or be a good way to start if you really want a "thrill" ride as soon as you get into the park. Single Rider Matterhorn or Splash Mountain could be other thrill ride options.

If starting at California Adventure, I would probably start with Animation Academy to see if there's anything to draw, do Turtle Talk and Philharmagic. Then, I'd do single rider Racers and the other cars land rides if they're short. After, I'd do single rider Incredicoaster and whatever is short on Pixar Pier.