Can you hear the traffic?

[DCWarrior]

I've only been to Disney World but started looking at the possibility of heading west to experience Disneyland Resort. I knew there was all sorts of stuff built all around DLR (hotels, restaurants, etc.) and that's why Walt wanted to make Disney World and make it bigger. But, in the little bit I've looked into going to DLR, it really really seems that it's packed into the hustle and bustle of Anaheim. I'm just wondering, can you hear the traffic and noise of outside the parks while you are in the parks??? Does it take away for the " being taken to a different place" feel that Disney parks are supposed to be? I'm sure it's fun and magical and I really want to take my family to experience the different attractions and feel, but does the outside world being so close creep in just a little?

 

[theluckyrabbit]

DL (and later DCA) was well planned. Walt understood the magic of being immersed in a place away from the outside world. When you enter DL, you leave the outside world behind. The landscaping and architecture are so well designed, you might be startled if you see or hear something from outside. DtD goes over a busy street, and you don't even know it if you don't look. Don't worry about it -- let the Disney magic sweep you away!

 

[Speechphi]

When you're in the parks? No. Traffic is not loud enough to be heard in the parks.

 

[ilovedisneymm]

Yes it does feel odd. While I don't recall being able to hear traffic inside Disneyland but I do recall the noise and cars and traffic two feet outside the main gate. Disneyland is very small in comparison and some areas feel more carnival like than Disney like. For example, the Dino area in AK that makes me feel like I'm at a traveling carnival and I just want to leave as quickly as I can.
Well Disneyland has a very large area that is traveling carnival like. It just doesn't feel like Disney.
Just my two cents.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

...Well Disneyland has a very large area that is traveling carnival like. It just doesn't feel like Disney.
Just my two cents.

Which area?

 

[poppinspal]

I'm a life long WDW person who just got back today from their first Disneyland trip.

You won't hear street traffic in the parks or downtown Disney. I was also pleasantly surprised by how immersed you could become in the parks! I'd been warned not to expect the WDW type immersion so maybe I'd set my standards low but I felt away from the world in the parks. Also having the two park entrances right across from each other helped, I could hop from one to the other without seeing a street, hopping on a bus, passing a Hess gas station or McDonalds. I enjoyed it in a different way from WDW.

 

[cdatkins]

You dont notice it at all unless you are on a very tall ride like California Screamin or Tower of Terror.

 

[johde]

Which area?

I was wondering as well. I don't remember anything at Disneyland that rises (or falls as the case may be) to the level of Dinoland. The closest thing I can think of is over at DCA in a Bugs Land.

 

[TheLanes]

You dont notice it at all unless you are on a very tall ride like California Screamin or Tower of Terror.

Can't hear anything but the ride from those two

 

[Indiana Scott]

I've never heard anything form outside the park, not even a horn blast.

 

[theluckyrabbit]

I was wondering as well. I don't remember anything at Disneyland that rises (or falls as the case may be) to the level of Dinoland. The closest thing I can think of is over at DCA in a Bugs Land.

And the whole atmosphere in Bugs Land is intentional -- since the bugs were part of a flea circus!

 

[bumbershoot]

When you're in the parks? No. Traffic is not loud enough to be heard in the parks.

I agree.

And the whole atmosphere in Bugs Land is intentional -- since the bugs were part of a flea circus!

Exactly! And therefore it's wonderful. It's also FABULOUS for a young child's first moments in the parks. Everything is outdoors (assuming you avoid "tough to be a bug", you can see everything. There are no dark spooky rides with witches or being turned into donkeys or sent to hell or having your head lopped off by a queen. Nor do you go through the mouth of a whale. bug's land proper (again, just avoid "it's tough") is a wonderful, colorful, terrific area.


Then again, I love Dinoland.


Once you leave the parks, there's traffic. Of course, once you leave WDW's parks, there's traffic. Going much faster than traffic along Harbor or Katella!

 

[gmi3804]

I'm always amazed that people don't "get" Dinoland. It's supposed to recall the tacky tourist mom-and-pop (or, Chester & Hester, if you will) places so prevalent in FL before Disney arrived (not like there's no more tacky tourist stuff there anymore!) I love people who think they just decided to plop Dinoland in the middle of a parking lot, not realizing that a lot of imagination and creativity went into making the area look like that; there wasn't just a random parking lot in the middle of Florida swampland that just happened to be in the exact spot where AK needed a themed land. I think Dinoland is one of the the most bizarre/beautiful/evocative areas of any Disney park.

 

[GatorChris]

I can't hear any traffic inside the parks. From my room at HoJo, yes. But not from the parks.

 

[Geemo]

I have never heard any outside park noise. I'm usually so tired at night, I don't even hear road traffic in the place we stay on Harbor.

Once when we stayed at PPH, our room was on the very end. You could see the fireworks from the window at the end of the hallway.
At 5:30am the first morning, the blasts of "BEEP....BEEEP.... BEEP" from all the delivery trucks backing in to the loading dock wasn't appreciated at all.
Especially since we were there off-season and the parks didn't open until 10am.

Don't know if trucks deliver every morning because we moved over to GCH for the rest of the stay. Never heard a squeak there.

Geemo

 

[JandD75]

Have never heard any 'outside' noises. Disneyland has themed background music. Once inside the parks, you leave the world behind.

 

[DharmaLou]

I suppose Paradise Pier could be considered a carnival type area - because, you know, it's supposed to be one!

 

[mystic_path]

No you cant hear any traffic or outside noise at all. Vice versa when you are on the opposite side of the fence outside Disneyland on Harbor Blvd or elsewhere at the resort/Downtown Disney. You can't hear music or land sounds from inside. Actually Disneyland is surrounded in hedges. One who's never been to Disneyland and doesnt know where its located could easily drive right past it and not even know it.

 

[gmi3804]

The sounds of the rides and riders at DCA from the PP view rooms at VGC is horrible. Horrible, I tell you.

Seriously, the only rooms I wouldn't want to have are the DTD rooms at GCH. The music from DTD is quite loud and would drive me crazy. Or crazier.

 

[SnowBelleAlice]

What!? I can't come up with anything at DLR to compare to Dinoland.
As you can see I've visited both sets of parks often, the only thing DLR lacks IMO is Epcot's World Showcase; you want animals? - go to San Diego for a day or two, although Expedition Everest is awesome!
DLR, no busses, walk everywhere - these are benefits! You can stay on site, and be completely immersed, I usually prefer to save a lot of cash and stay off site, we did enjoy our stay at Stovall's this year, a fairly quiet, lovely walk behind the parks, through the Grand, and DtD to the parks.
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Yes it does feel odd. While I don't recall being able to hear traffic inside Disneyland but I do recall the noise and cars and traffic two feet outside the main gate. Disneyland is very small in comparison and some areas feel more carnival like than Disney like. For example, the Dino area in AK that makes me feel like I'm at a traveling carnival and I just want to leave as quickly as I can.
Well Disneyland has a very large area that is traveling carnival like. It just doesn't feel like Disney.
Just my two cents.