The last time we were at Trader Sams at The Disneyland hotel we heard people comment about how nice it was to get alcohol at Disneyland. So I don't know maybe some people get Disneyland Hotel and Disneyland confused??
Well, you have the entire Disneyland Resort which Disney likes to market as one big group. Then you have the "Disney Parks" at Disneyland, which are the two theme parks.
So while people who know the area call out the separate areas, such as "Disneyland Park", Disney California Adventure and the Disneyland Hotel.
So it is semantics, and Disney likes the more broad terms.
But then some folks like to call the Entire Anaheim Resort District as the "Disneyland area". And the Resort area does now include parts of the city of Garden Grove as a marketing entity.
But then you have folks say that Disneyland is in LA.
And what is that, the entire Southern California area? The "Southland" basically most of SoCal that includes Los Angeles County, Orange County and three others. (also know as the greater Los Angeles Area), where the entire area shares the main TV stations and other media. Heck, we have the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the LA KISS sports teams playing in Anaheim. Then we can go to the Los Angeles Metro area, which is just LA and Orange Counties.
Then you have the confusion of transit. Many folks fly into LAX to get to Disneyland, some opt for John Wayne (which has a lot of different names), and some opt for Long Beach. Interesting to note, LGB is just 14 miles away from Disneyland, just as close as John Wayne (SNA). But Long Beach is a city in the County of Los Angeles.
Then you have the locals and weird terms. Many folks don't like to add Long Beach as being in the heart of LA, though they will count the city of Santa Monica as being in "LA". Hollywood is part of the city of LA, though "West Hollywood" is a separate city. Universal City Hollywood actually has much of its property in "Universal City" an unincorporated area part of Los Angeles County, so not even in Hollywood.
Heck, driving on freeways most folks don't know when they entered one county from another, we (aka locals) treat the entire area as one place to live at. We share things like Metrolink Trains, the TV stations, the Newspapers, the radio stations. It is nothing to say let's go to Long Beach for the day (love the Aquarium of the Pacific, the Queen Mary and its Tourist areas), a day in Hollywood, driving to the Cleveland National Forest (another confusing area, with different segments in two different counties), Heading to Temecula Valley for wine, gambling, and outlet shopping in Riverside County.
And then San Diego is another can of worms with different areas and names.
Heck, the Disneyland Park Liquor license is under the "Magical Catering Company" (Still Disney owned).
http://www.abc.ca.gov/datport/LQSData.asp?ID=19442323
DCA has its own, and Disney uses "Disneys California Adventure" as the license holder, not a pseudonym.
http://www.abc.ca.gov/datport/LQSData.asp?ID=19401545
So it truly is an issue of what the term means....
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