disney at christmas

[Goofy_Mom]

Yay Sherry! So glad you booked your trip (and four days - woo hoo!), although I am sorry it didn't work out for Halloween. Have you ever gone to DL on a week day before or always weekends? We've only ever been on week days - so much more enjoyable! I've got my fingers and toes crossed for you that every piece of the trip works out exactly like you want.

Ok, favorite Christmas song ever: Mary, Did You Know? It makes me cry every time I hear it.

We also have a Brian Setzer (used to be in Stray Cats, if I may date myself) Christmas album - love, love it!!! He puts his own little groovy spin to all the classics.

And movie: White Christmas ("Sister, sister...la la la la..")

Brian Setzer? also of Brian Setzer orchistra/ Zoot Suit Roit? I have that song in my itunes library.

 

[Goofy_Mom]

ya on christmas day my tv stays on TBS ( the channel that has the marathon0 all day long. i have like 8 christmas story shirt i wear even when its not christmas time and i actually just got a christmas story snuggie. like i said OBSESSED

even though it saddens me your not going for halloween time, i'm super excited for you for booking your christmas trip!!! i would love to stay at a onsit hotel, its weird i've gone to disney well over 100 times in my life and have NEVER stayed at one their hotels i really really want to though!

In all my adventures to disneyland, I've stayed at the disneyland hotel only twice, all other times were off site. The first time i was 5 and the monorail was attached to the hote. The other time was in 1995, I was with my high school band

 

[amamax2]

Brian Setzer? also of Brian Setzer orchistra/ Zoot Suit Roit? I have that song in my itunes library.

Yup! Love him!!! Check out his Christmas album....

 

[Sherry E]

ya on christmas day my tv stays on TBS ( the channel that has the marathon0 all day long. i have like 8 christmas story shirt i wear even when its not christmas time and i actually just got a christmas story snuggie. like i said OBSESSED

even though it saddens me your not going for halloween time, i'm super excited for you for booking your christmas trip!!! i would love to stay at a onsit hotel, its weird i've gone to disney well over 100 times in my life and have NEVER stayed at one their hotels i really really want to though!

Snuggies! I love snuggies! More importantly, I love the commercials for Snuggies - where the goofy, dorky people put on the Snuggie and then start dancing awkwardly!! Have you seen those? Something about that Snuggie gives them all Boogie Fever!!

Thank you! I'm really sad about missing Halloween Time this year. It doesn't feel right after being there the last few years. But I will see it next year again. I need a good holiday DLR trip!!

Staying onsite is hard to not do after you've become used to it. I think that every trip I've made to DLR since the late '80s (except for last year) has involved an onsite stay, at one of the 3 hotels. While I know that I will eventually stay offsite (I'll try HoJos sooner or later - I'm sure of this), I can't explain it but my overall trip is enhanced somehow by staying onsite, especially during the holiday season. It sounds corny, but it really does add to the magic somehow. I like to wake up on Disney soil and look for hidden Mickeys in the shower curtain. I like the Mickey ears bath products in the bathroom. I like it all.

I think, if I had been accustomed to staying offsite and then switched to a Disney hotel, I probably would not be that impressed with the onsite option - not impressed enough to want to stay onsite every time. I could deal with offsite. But, as I said, once you are used to staying onsite, you feel like you're 'missing' something in any other lodging scenario!! It's not cheap by any means, and it's a struggle to pay for it, but it's worth it to me when I get there.

You should definitely try staying onsite if you get the chance to - of course, once you become a CM (soon!!), you will get the nifty CM discount at the hotels (something like 35% off year-round, I think)!! That may be a huge incentive!!

 

[SKShields]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me if Main Street is super crowded during the Candlelight Processional, or if the whole park is wall to wall people? I have my first holiday trip to Disneyland planned for December 2 - 5 (leaving the evening of the 5th) with my husband. I would like to see the CP, but honestly don't want to deal with my hubby whining about waiting around for that long. My mom wants to go next year during the holidays so I plan on seeing it then . So.... to make a long question short, should we be able to make our way around DL on the 4th and 5th, or should we just head over to DCA on the night of the CP? Thanks for your help! I love these boards

 

[JustAKid]

Brian Setzer? also of Brian Setzer orchistra/ Zoot Suit Roit? I have that song in my itunes library.

Wait, did Brian Seltzer do it too? I'd love to hear that! I'm more familiar with Cherry Poppin' Daddies' version off their 2001 album titled, appropriately, "Zoot Suit Riot".

 

[Rachael Q]

Now I'm excited. Disney has finally released the parade/show/fireworks times for our dates. I can start planning in earnest.

My favourite Christmas Carols are Silent Night and Away in a Manger. I'm not religious but I love those songs.

Also in last couple of years I have become rather partial to 6 White Boomers.

Movies we watch every December:
Elf, A Christmas Story, Love Actually, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Miracle on 34th Street, White Christmas and Sound of Music. I know Sound of Music is not really a Christmas movie, but we watch it on Christmas Eve.

 

[where's_my_prince]

Snuggies! I love snuggies! More importantly, I love the commercials for Snuggies - where the goofy, dorky people put on the Snuggie and then start dancing awkwardly!! Have you seen those? Something about that Snuggie gives them all Boogie Fever!!

Thank you! I'm really sad about missing Halloween Time this year. It doesn't feel right after being there the last few years. But I will see it next year again. I need a good holiday DLR trip!!

Staying onsite is hard to not do after you've become used to it. I think that every trip I've made to DLR since the late '80s (except for last year) has involved an onsite stay, at one of the 3 hotels. While I know that I will eventually stay offsite (I'll try HoJos sooner or later - I'm sure of this), I can't explain it but my overall trip is enhanced somehow by staying onsite, especially during the holiday season. It sounds corny, but it really does add to the magic somehow. I like to wake up on Disney soil and look for hidden Mickeys in the shower curtain. I like the Mickey ears bath products in the bathroom. I like it all.

I think, if I had been accustomed to staying offsite and then switched to a Disney hotel, I probably would not be that impressed with the onsite option - not impressed enough to want to stay onsite every time. I could deal with offsite. But, as I said, once you are used to staying onsite, you feel like you're 'missing' something in any other lodging scenario!! It's not cheap by any means, and it's a struggle to pay for it, but it's worth it to me when I get there.

You should definitely try staying onsite if you get the chance to - of course, once you become a CM (soon!!), you will get the nifty CM discount at the hotels (something like 35% off year-round, I think)!! That may be a huge incentive!!

LOL i love those commericals those people are so corny!! do like dances in the snuggies!!

ya i'm really hoping now i have my CM discount ill finally be able to stay at a on****e hotel, probably during the off season though when i get the most discount

 

[Sherry E]

Now I'm excited. Disney has finally released the parade/show/fireworks times for our dates. I can start planning in earnest.

My favourite Christmas Carols are Silent Night and Away in a Manger. I'm not religious but I love those songs.

Also in last couple of years I have become rather partial to 6 White Boomers.

Movies we watch every December:
Elf, A Christmas Story, Love Actually, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Miracle on 34th Street, White Christmas and Sound of Music. I know Sound of Music is not really a Christmas movie, but we watch it on Christmas Eve.

Woo hoo, Rachael Q!! Another person who loves "Love Actually"! It's a great film, isn't it?

LOL i love those commericals those people are so corny!! do like dances in the snuggies!!

ya i'm really hoping now i have my CM discount ill finally be able to stay at a on****e hotel, probably during the off season though when i get the most discount

I can't help but laugh out loud every time I see a Snuggie commercial. Those goofballs sitting on the couch start dancing (badly) in their Snuggies. The people at the campfire start busting a move in their Snuggie. Everywhere there is a Snuggie, you can bet someone is gettin' down somewhere!!

I wonder if your CM discount will be different from the 'corporate/business' Disney employees. I thought all the CM's had a 30 or 35% discount off of merchandise and hotels, etc., but then I think someone who used to work for Disney told me once that the discounts they get on the business/administrative side of things (like at the offices in Burbank or Glendale, for example) are different than what the CM's on the Entertainment side (in the parks) get. I actually thought that the Entertainment CM's got a better discount but I could be wrong. I'll be curious to hear what you end up with.

Honestly, I wish they'd hurry and get you to work at DLR already - you need to be able to attend one of those famous CM parties for Christmas (this year, they are on 12/13 and 12/14) that they close the parks early for and then report back to us about what they're like!!

 

[Sherry E]

By the way - I used to love the Stray Cats in the old days, In fact. almost any guy I dated was a Stray Cats or Brian Setzer fan, which was not planned!! One guy gave me a Stray Cats picture disc for a birthday gift once - way back in like 1983 or so. It was for "Stray Cat Strut."

 

[Belle Ella]

You know, I need to find some Christmas-y movies that I can fall in love with. I heven't enjoyed too many in the past.

 

[MattsPrincess]

My gosh, I don't think I could pick a favorite Christmas song or movie...probably not even a top 5, lol. It's hands down my favorite time of year, fave holiday, fave music, fave foods, everything. You should see me the first time I walk into a store and see anything even remotely Christmas-y...I literally squeal and giggle like a little girl. It can turn my whole mood around, no matter how bad a day I may be having.

Some of my most played Christmas songs (according to the year-round xmas playlist I have on my iTunes, lol) are Baby It's Cold Outside by Etta James, White Christmas by The Drifters, The Christmas Song by Bing Crosby, Home for the Holidays, Sleigh Ride, O Holy Night, Jingle Bell Rock, and Winter Wonderland. Also, pretty much anything instrumental, especially if it has a jazzy sound.

Movies I have to watch every year include: Elf, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, Christmas Story, Rudolph, The Santa Clause, Jingle All The Way, A Muppet Christmas Carol, It's Christmas Charlie Brown, and The Year Without a Santa Claus.

 

[Sherry E]

Assuming you haven't seen it, Jazz - I think you'd like "Love, Actually." Aside from Rachael Q's endorsement of it, and mine, I know of two other DIS'ers - bumbershoot and WazowskiLOVER (Jasmine) - who love it too!

 

[Belle Ella]

Assuming you haven't seen it, Jazz - I think you'd like "Love, Actually." Aside from Rachael Q's endorsement of it, and mine, I know of two other DIS'ers - bumbershoot and WazowskiLOVER (Jasmine) - who love it too!

You know, I've 'seen' it, but I just don't remember it. Maybe I'll add it to Netflix when I catch up on the remaining seasons of The Closer

As for Christmas music, my favorites depend on who sings them rather than the songs themselves. My favorite Christmas songs all according to my iPod are sung by Martina McBride, I believe. But I remember as a kid all we listened to, I think, was Bing Crosby. There's another album we listened too and I adored it, but I cannot remember what it was. I'll have to sift through our 400-cd change.

 

[Sherry E]

My gosh, I don't think I could pick a favorite Christmas song or movie...probably not even a top 5, lol. It's hands down my favorite time of year, fave holiday, fave music, fave foods, everything. You should see me the first time I walk into a store and see anything even remotely Christmas-y...I literally squeal and giggle like a little girl. It can turn my whole mood around, no matter how bad a day I may be having.

Some of my most played Christmas songs (according to the year-round xmas playlist I have on my iTunes, lol) are Baby It's Cold Outside by Etta James, White Christmas by The Drifters, The Christmas Song by Bing Crosby, Home for the Holidays, Sleigh Ride, O Holy Night, Jingle Bell Rock, and Winter Wonderland. Also, pretty much anything instrumental, especially if it has a jazzy sound.

Movies I have to watch every year include: Elf, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, Christmas Story, Rudolph, The Santa Clause, Jingle All The Way, A Muppet Christmas Carol, It's Christmas Charlie Brown, and The Year Without a Santa Claus.

I loooooove "Year Without a Santa Claus"!! That's one of my favorite Rankin-Bass clay puppet movies! I love Mr. Heat Miser and Mr. Snow Miser, constantly trying to annoy each other with their weather conditions!!

I'm so glad you get to go to DLR for the holidays, MattsPrincess! I remember when it was going to be a Halloween Time trip for you, but I think you will be very pleased that you went back to the holiday plan. I think you'll be thrilled to pieces when you get to DLR and see how wonderful it is in person. I would recommend Christmas time over Halloween Time anyway, but reading about how much you love Christmas in general, I am positive you made the right choice of when to go to DLR!!

 

[Sherry E]

You know, I've 'seen' it, but I just don't remember it. Maybe I'll add it to Netflix when I catch up on the remaining seasons of The Closer

As for Christmas music, my favorites depend on who sings them rather than the songs themselves. My favorite Christmas songs all according to my iPod are sung by Martina McBride, I believe. But I remember as a kid all we listened to, I think, was Bing Crosby. There's another album we listened too and I adored it, but I cannot remember what it was. I'll have to sift through our 400-cd change.

And the wrong singer can ruin a good holiday song. You can take a perfectly lovely Christmas tune and throw some horrid vocals in the mix, and it all falls apart. Even good singers can sometimes ruin holiday songs if their voices just don't mesh with the song. They don't have to be classically trained opera singers - Bono did just fine on his "(Christmas) Baby Please Come Home" song - but it just has to 'work' in the finished product.

 

[tdashgirl]

I just sealed my fate and gave up my Halloween Time plans. Instead, I took advantage of the nifty 35% off discount PIN offer that I got from DLR and booked the PPH for 12/12 - 12/15.

so excited for you!

 

[Goofy_Mom]

Wait, did Brian Seltzer do it too? I'd love to hear that! I'm more familiar with Cherry Poppin' Daddies' version off their 2001 album titled, appropriately, "Zoot Suit Riot".

Opps, I get them confused Brian Setzer did Jump, Jive, and Wail

I can't find the post, someone here like the Hippo for Christmas song. I found at my local Rite Aid a dances hippo dress in a scarf singing that song. Her little cheaks light up and when she dances she scoots across the surface of what ever it is she is dancing on.

 

[areweindisneyyet]

I just sealed my fate and gave up my Halloween Time plans. Instead, I took advantage of the nifty 35% off discount PIN offer that I got from DLR and booked the PPH for 12/12 - 12/15. As much as I wanted to go for Halloween Time (as I do every year), Christmas time is more special and important to me, and I really, really enjoy staying onsite. Last year, I only went for one day for the holidays, and it was way too crowded to get much done in such a short period of time.

This time I chose Sunday - Wednesday instead of a full weekend stay like I would normally do - I am praying this means lighter crowds. There will be a private party on 12/13 and 12/14, so I will have to work around DL closing at 6 p.m. I can find other things to do at night without having to be in DL, though.

I think I made the right choice. Hopefully, nothing will happen to cause me to cancel! I think it was meant to be. It seemed like the 'right' thing to do - I found out that very few people, if anyone, have received the PIN offer that I got - so far. I'm sure more people will get this offer (or a similar one) in the next month, but the offer that I got was something the CM I spoke to hadn't even heard of yet. She had to pull up my specific contact information on the computer to see that I had been offered this PIN, and she said that no one she, personally, has booked has used this offer yet. It's a really good rate ($163 per night), given that it's not an AP rate - it's on par with what some AP rates would be.

However, I'm planning on getting a new AP in December, so if a better rate comes out than the offer I've gotten - like an AP rate that's lower than $163 per night - I will switch my reservation to that!!

Yeah.. I am so glad to hear that you are making it DL for Christmas. I haven't read past this point and someone may have already suggested it.. but a great way to fill in your time after 6pm would be to visit the hotels and DTD to take photos of the 700 Christmas trees

 

[areweindisneyyet]

Assuming you haven't seen it, Jazz - I think you'd like "Love, Actually." Aside from Rachael Q's endorsement of it, and mine, I know of two other DIS'ers - bumbershoot and WazowskiLOVER (Jasmine) - who love it too!

Add me too... Love Actually is one of my all time favourites.