pdarrah
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I am planning a trip to DL for June 3-7 (we fly in 2 days before and leave the morning after - so 5 full days
. We are 5 adults - myself, DH, DS18 and my parents. Basics are booked: Hotel (Candy Cane Inn), Flights, Rental Car (to/from airport + extra day visit to Huntington Library&Garden), park tickets.
It has been a long time since any of us have been to Disneyland. My mother is a complete newbie - she has been to WDW a few times, but has never been to DL. My father actually visited DL in 1955
but has never been back since then. DS18's only DL trip was 2 days (sort of) at DL in 2008 before a DCL cruise out of LA. (Most memorable moment of that trip is when I tripped and we got to ride the ambulance ride to the Emergency room! ) However, DS18 has been to WDW around 25 times. DH & I were last at DL in 2010 for 1 day - we were supposed to be having a grownups only trip to Southern CA, but we couldn't resist the lure of DL - we didn't tell DS we had been there without him for several years!
I have been to WDW over 50 times (totally lost count) and DH is probably around 40+ times.
So that very TLDR description is basically explaining why I feel like a total newbie trying to plan a DL vacation for us.
DH, DS & I will be at DLR for the entire 5 days. My parents will only be there for June 3-4.
As a long time DISBoards user, I have been browsing around this DLR area for a week or so and trying to get my bearings. I was hoping that the sticky "DLR Info/Links - Maps, Hotels, DISer Reviews, Hydroguy's tips, NEWBIE INFO here!" would be a great resource, but I am getting a little worried that it is going to just confuse me more! The 1st two threads I clicked on there have out of date info and now I am worried that if I try and use those links to get up to speed on planning a DL trip I am going to just get confused on what is actually true NOW vs what was true in the past. For example, the Photopass thread first page is all old info. There has been added some big, bold text that says it is old info which is really nice, but the current info is actually burried near the end of the very long thread and the only way to know that is to dig through that whole thread. The DL info for WDW vets was looking really promising, but again the 1st page info is 3 years old and even I know that there are things there that have changed. My fear is that there will be stuff there that has changed that I DON'T already know and I am going to believe the old info...
So any input from other recent DLR newbies? Are there threads that were current and helped you figure it all out? Is it still worth it to read the out of date threads and hope you come across corrected info as you continue to read here? Any suggestions for threads you found particularly helpful?
THanks for any help
pdarrah

It has been a long time since any of us have been to Disneyland. My mother is a complete newbie - she has been to WDW a few times, but has never been to DL. My father actually visited DL in 1955


So that very TLDR description is basically explaining why I feel like a total newbie trying to plan a DL vacation for us.
DH, DS & I will be at DLR for the entire 5 days. My parents will only be there for June 3-4.
As a long time DISBoards user, I have been browsing around this DLR area for a week or so and trying to get my bearings. I was hoping that the sticky "DLR Info/Links - Maps, Hotels, DISer Reviews, Hydroguy's tips, NEWBIE INFO here!" would be a great resource, but I am getting a little worried that it is going to just confuse me more! The 1st two threads I clicked on there have out of date info and now I am worried that if I try and use those links to get up to speed on planning a DL trip I am going to just get confused on what is actually true NOW vs what was true in the past. For example, the Photopass thread first page is all old info. There has been added some big, bold text that says it is old info which is really nice, but the current info is actually burried near the end of the very long thread and the only way to know that is to dig through that whole thread. The DL info for WDW vets was looking really promising, but again the 1st page info is 3 years old and even I know that there are things there that have changed. My fear is that there will be stuff there that has changed that I DON'T already know and I am going to believe the old info...
So any input from other recent DLR newbies? Are there threads that were current and helped you figure it all out? Is it still worth it to read the out of date threads and hope you come across corrected info as you continue to read here? Any suggestions for threads you found particularly helpful?
THanks for any help

pdarrah