disney at christmas

[billwendy]

I am trying to plan the kids outfits now.. and just made an order from etsy for some cute embroidered shirts!!!

OOOh, what are you having put on your shirts? I have to make some for DH and I - wasnt sure about custom shirts for adults at DL - do people wear them there????

 

[Sherry E]

I just wanted to say welcome back to Emmers!! Where have you been? Haven't seen you around here lately! Your last Disneyland holiday trip was in 2008, right, when you won the night in the Dream Suite? Well, there's no better time to make a return to DLR than during the holiday season!!



Also, welcome, Tablefor5!! Actually, I think you have posted in this thread before, but at that point there was no holiday trip planned (only Halloween). Well, as you can imagine, now that Halloween Time is in full swing, it's time to start getting some info on Christmastime. There have been no blogs or press releases or any bits of news on the holiday season other than the dates it begins and ends. So this means a dance is in order to coax the powers that be to give us info, since the season starts next month!!

I'm not sure if works over on this thread?

Anyway, I'm glad to see several of my Halloween thread peeps making the trip over to Christmastown now!! Time to deck the halls!!

 

[Tablefor5]

I just wanted to say welcome back to Emmers!! Where have you been? Haven't seen you around here lately! Your last Disneyland holiday trip was in 2008, right, when you won the night in the Dream Suite? Well, there's no better time to make a return to DLR than during the holiday season!!



Also, welcome, Tablefor5!! Actually, I think you have posted in this thread before, but at that point there was no holiday trip planned (only Halloween). Well, as you can imagine, now that Halloween Time is in full swing, it's time to start getting some info on Christmastime. There have been no blogs or press releases or any bits of news on the holiday season other than the dates it begins and ends. So this means a dance is in order to coax the powers that be to give us info, since the season starts next month!!

I'm not sure if works over on this thread?

Anyway, I'm glad to see several of my Halloween thread peeps making the trip over to Christmastown now!! Time to deck the halls!!

Thanks Sherry! Yes, it is time to deck the halls (well planning to deck the halls anyway)

 

[Sherry E]

Thanks Sherry! Yes, it is time to deck the halls (well planning to deck the halls anyway)

How did you like that scorching hot weather last week? I know you love heat - well, you got your wish!! It was HOTTTTTTTTTTTT!

 

[Tablefor5]

How did you like that scorching hot weather last week? I know you love heat - well, you got your wish!! It was HOTTTTTTTTTTTT!

Funny that you remember that!
Yes! It was HOT, but I do enjoy heat rather than cold!
Well, nothing but a few dips in the splash areas and ice water to drink, and I was all good!

 

[smiley_face2]

I know how you feel! We were at DL a week before you (in September) and decided we wanted to return for the Christmas season. I dreaded the thought of asking for more time off since my recent vacation was just a few weeks ago and I took a week and a half off for it. I don't know why I worry so much, I get three weeks of vacation a year and on top of it, am sitting on 4 weeks that I've accrued. I probably should take more time off but I'm a workaholic and feel guilty about asking for any time off...

I actually booked our room and airfare before asking for the time off. This weekend, in a quick email, I asked for the time off and got it approved! Wahoooooooo, we're going to DL 12/8 to 12/12!

We all work too much!! We've reached the point in life where what we are doing to make us happy, who we are with, where we are, are much more important than what we own! not to say you don't want to be prepared for old age...but you have only one trip through life and we want it to be a good one!! I'm sure absolutely no one has ever been on their death bed thinking they should have spent more time at work! more like the complete opposite!

 

[Mickeybell]

Hey everyone! I have a couple questions about the CP. We were planning on going to Disneyland the first week of the Christmas time during November but had to change our dates to Dec 5 to Dec 10th because of job stuff. Our first day will be the Sunday of the CP and I am not really familiar with the CP or how it effects getting into the park.

We drive (from AZ) so we usually get to Disneyland around lunch time, play a little in the park then head back to our hotel to get settled in for check in around 4pm. After we get settled in we head back to Disneyland. This is where I am a little concerned. That would be around 6ish. I know that the CP starts around 5:30. So my question is, will we be able to get back into the park? Will it be closed for capacity? If we can get in will we be able to get past the CP to the rest of the Park?

I really want to spend our first evening in DL and not DCA because I know the next two nights are the cast parties and DL will be closing early.

Am I stressing for no reason or do I need to make a game plan?

 

[princess lovers mom]

OOOh, what are you having put on your shirts? I have to make some for DH and I - wasnt sure about custom shirts for adults at DL - do people wear them there????

I found some cute embroidered iron-on patches that a vendor sells on etsy...a black mickey head with a santa cap on...ordered 4 for family sweatshirts! where else can you get away with matching family sweatshirts other than Disney - do it while you can !!!

 

[PHXscuba]

Bibbity bobbity bump!

PHXscuba,
waiting not-so-patiently for December hours to be posted

 

[jemilah]

me too! and really , they already know!

 

[NewbieMouse]

waiting not-so-patiently for December hours to be posted

I know... I'm also waiting for info on special meals for Christmas. I wonder when that will come out

 

[billwendy]

I found some cute embroidered iron-on patches that a vendor sells on etsy...a black mickey head with a santa cap on...ordered 4 for family sweatshirts! where else can you get away with matching family sweatshirts other than Disney - do it while you can !!!

I wonder if thats the same design I have to embroider!!! I'll get my DH to wear it - lol!!!!

 

[Rachael Q]

Bibbity bobbity bump!

PHXscuba,
waiting not-so-patiently for December hours to be posted

I am so not waiting patiently, I check the website every morning and again every evening. And when the hours for December still aren't up I get very annoyed. If they can put out hours for WDW in advance, why not DL?

 

[disneylovingfamily:4]

OOOh, what are you having put on your shirts? I have to make some for DH and I - wasnt sure about custom shirts for adults at DL - do people wear them there????

I had some with Mickey dressed as santa with pluto dressed as a reindeer and I am having the kids wear "matching" jack skellington outfits! Except ds's is jeans and dd is a jean skirt with the matching shirts!!

 

[MattsPrincess]

Ooooo!!! The November hours are all posted now! I can officially start planning our trip!

 

[smiley_face2]

I am so not waiting patiently, I check the website every morning and again every evening. And when the hours for December still aren't up I get very annoyed. If they can put out hours for WDW in advance, why not DL?

I know...the calender kept updating exactly 2 months out...now it's October 5 and there are still no December days up! they should have the days right up to December 6 on there by now....

 

[Sherry E]

Yesterday I received a Backstage Pass magazine (which only for AP Holders, even though I haven't been an AP holder in a year - They are trying to lure me back into becoming an AP holder). Anyway, on the inside flap of the magazine it referred to the holiday season being from 11/12/10 to 1/2/11. Again, the end date is showing as "1/2/11." So that's now 3 times I have seen 1/2/11 mentioned - and PHXScuba also saw 1/2/11 as being the end date.

I still have no clue where "1/3/11" ever originally came from in the first place and how it ended up on MouseSavers or Mouseinfo or wherever (and even MouseSavers didn't know where that date came from), but all indicators are that the season ends on 1/2/11, as originally thought.

The holiday end dates seemingly wouldn't make much difference to most people, but, as I mentioned a while back, it just so happens that some friends of mine are going to be in town at that exact time - over the period of 1/2/11, 1/3/11, 1/4/11, etc. Their initial plan was to go to DLR on 1/2/11 (for the first day) - and any holiday-specific activities were going to be squeezed into that day because it would be the last day of the season.

Well, now my friend - who has been looking forward to riding Haunted Mansion Holiday, getting photos with Pooh in his Santa hat and with the Winter Sweater Army, and getting a seasonal gingerbread beignet at Cafe Orleans - says that they may not be able to make it to DLR until 1/3/11!! I told her that she was more than likely going to miss out on HMH and the beignets and the Winter Sweater Army - not to mention the Reindeer Round-Up, possibly IASW Holiday (if they close it down early and don't leave it up until mid-January again), all the little holiday decorations on the Storybook Land Canal ride, etc. But Her husband wants to do something else on 1/2/11.

So, needless to say, whether the holiday season ends on 1/2/11 or 1/3/11, it will make a big difference to the kind of trip my friends have. The agenda will change if there are certain holiday things to cross off the list!

 

[EmmersIsTheMommy]

Hey Sherry!

My what a good memory you have!!! Yep, December 2008! It has been SO LONG. We lost our job since then and got another one, then got the original one back! AND had a baby! lol So I'm not sure I can actually pull this trip out, but I'd really REALLY like to. Even if it's shoulder to shoulder busy. What better place to be shoulder to shoulder

Coming here with no trip prospect was making me sad so I ran away until I knew I might be able to do a trip

 

[smiley_face2]

Yesterday I received a Backstage Pass magazine (which only for AP Holders, even though I haven't been an AP holder in a year - They are trying to lure me back into becoming an AP holder).

But Her husband wants to do something else on 1/2/11.

2 things Sherry.... do they only mail them out to the Premium pass holders? I know we used to get them, but have not in the past few years. Maybe because we only have the deluxe passes now?
Her husband should just do his something on the 3rd instead and let her have her special Christmas day in DL!

 

[Sherry E]

2 things Sherry.... do they only mail them out to the Premium pass holders? I know we used to get them, but have not in the past few years. Maybe because we only have the deluxe passes now?
Her husband should just do his something on the 3rd instead and let her have her special Christmas day in DL!

smiley_face2 - You know, as far as I know, the Backstage Pass magazine was originally going out to the Premium AP holders only. And then, when the new Premier AP was created, the magazine was included with that AP too. I don't think the Deluxe AP holders ever got the magazine, although I can't say for 100% sure.

The wacky thing is that many of the Premium AP holders have said that they never received the Backstage Pass magazine at all, or if they did they only got one or two copies and not the 4 copies they should have received for they year-long membership. When I had my AP, if I remember correctly, I only got 3 out of the 4 magazines I should have gotten. It seems to be kind of a poorly managed system of distributing those magazines to people that DLR has in place.

And now they sent me a free one to try to trap me into buying another AP! Meanwhile there are probably AP holders out there who have not gotten the magazine at all!

As far as my friend and her husband and their DLR dates - I totally agree with you. They have not been to DLR since 2001, and this is a rare chance for their young son to see some of the Christmas stuff. I was saying somewhere on this board a while back that sometimes I think people don't want to adjust their patterns at all when they take trips, or they don't want to have to juggle plans or make adjustments. My friend and her husband will have exactly 7 days in town (they are driving in from out of state) and only 2 of those days can be allotted to a DLR trip. They have a 3-year-old son. They want to stay onsite at DLH or PPH. My friend wants me to be the one to help them plan and set everything up (like dining reservations) for them. If i do that, I need some cooperation!

I said, "Great! You will have a Magic Morning if you stay onsite - that will come in handy for the rides in Fantasyland." They want to introduce their son to DLR and so the FL rides will be very important in that experience, I would imagine. Therefore, the MM will be key. But, alas, no... My friend doesn't want to wake up that early. At the rate they get going, they probably won't get into DLR until 1:00 p.m. I can't plan for people who aren't willing to bend a little bit!! They have to be able to work with me if I am going to plan things out for them!

So I said (when I thought they would be going to DLR on 1/2/11), "Great! That's the last day of the holiday season. You have to see the Reindeer Round-Up and IASW Holiday and all the other fun holiday stuff before it gets taken down!"

And now my friend says that her husband may be busy on 1/2/11 and if so, they won't be able to go to DLR until 1/3/11.

I don't understand what her husband could have to do out here that's so important that he can't be free on 1/2/11! At the very least, he could drop my friend and their son off at DLR on 1/2/11 and then meet up with them on 1/3/11.