Wow, they started booking it a day early? I thought this morning was 30 out.. oh well, no issues booking it this morning anyway even if I'm frustrated on principle!
I don't mind doing that.
Sorry to hear that- hugs! At least you are still there for the holidays thoughI have to cancel a BB Fantasmic! dinner reservation that is for this Sunday, 12/6 @ 5:50PM. If you are in need of this reservation, I hope you can pick it up. It should be there in few minutes. Our December trip has to be postponed until Jan 4 - 8.
Forgot to mention it's for a party of 3 and that seems to be the only way it's showing up in the search right now.
There is no one behind the second row so it would be no problem at all to stand up. They're just folding chairs so you could maybe even adjust your chair a little, especially if you were on the end. Not sure if all groups rush to the seats or if ours was just extra anxious. Note that there are different sections for the two different tour groups so you're only "competing" for seats in your own group.We have our Holiday Tour scheduled for Dec 11th and I was worried about the parade seating. There are six of us, and I assumed we would be three in the front row and three in the back row. Sounds like it will not be organized seating. Oh boy. Hate fighting for a seat, that is the sole reason I booked the tour. I sure don't haul around a giant camera to take photos of the back of someone's head. Is there anyone behind the seating? If you were in the second row could you stand without blocking anyone?
The Christmas parade seating faces the IASW facade so would be a great spot if that's the view you want. However, as soon as the parade was over, our sweet little tour guide smiled and said thanks for coming and started folding up the chairs we were sitting in which pretty much translated to move along now, so we were kicked out of the area in a hurry.
to Sherry and everyone else who helped us plan our Disneyland Christmas trip! We were there Nov. 17-22, and while it wasn't quite the 'quiet' week we had hoped (thank you, Season of the Force!), we had a fabulous time. Also, a gigantic to Sherry for the Disney gift card we won!! We thoroughly enjoyed our extra Christmas treats!!! We hit the ground running as soon as we got home (at 1 a.m. on Monday morning due to a flight delay, that hurt!) and I am still trying to catch up. I did get through all 857 of my pics and over 200 photopass+ pics, which was quite the job. 
We've only been to WDW and it was in Dec. mid Nov. a number of times and then once in Jan., Oct. and Sept. each. All other visits have been w/ holiday theming because we just love it best then. I just have no expectations for DisneyLAND yet. But I'm suspecting I'm going to not be able to tear ourselves away from Dec.. I know the crowds have been ever increasing at WDW in Dec.., so it's not as pleasant there as it use dto be at that time of year, but given DL is always crowded in a much smaller space, I'm pretty much making that a moot point.
We were there for the official start of the holiday season in November, and thought it was a great time to go. The crowds weren't bad.. 8s on the weekend because of the avengers marathon, but even still wait times weren't crazy the way I've seen them be at WDW. It didn't even feel overly crowded just in the walkways. The Wednesday and Thursday we were in the parks were, IIRC, observed to be 3s by Touring Plans. Hyperspace Mtn. and Star Tours had longer lines because they'd just opened the Monday before, but everything else was very reasonable/manageable. We had a photo shoot inside Disneyland Wednesday morning, and there are so many pictures where it looks like we're alone in the park (but aren't). Even pictures with the castle in the background weren't very crowded.
