DL, Southern CA newbie, need advise please

[SHB]

I am a WDW pro, but not so much with DL. This is our first trip to CA. We would like to go to DL, Six Flags Magic Mt and Sandiego Zoo. I know San dieago is a good drive, but I need help with lodging. I would like to stay somewhere centrally located between six flags and DL. Is that possible. I know nothing about the southern ca area. We did not need a luxury hotel, just somewhere clean and in a safe area. We are going to be there June 22-28, 2006. Are the crowds high during this time of year, I would assume so.

Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

[eduk8r26]

Personally,I would skip Six Flags and do Knott's instead. It's nothing but traffic to go back and forth from Six Flags to Disneyland and I don't care much for it anyway. I always thought it was dirtier than the other parks and more of a rougher element. Unless you're a roller coaster junkie, there's lots more to do closer to Disneyland.

 

[almostGoofy]

If you want to do DL and Magic Mountain, I would not suggest trying to stay in one central location due to the drive and the traffic. Los Angeles would probably be the most central that I would stay at and that's a 45 mins. to a 1 hour drive to DL without traffic (there's nothing between L.A. and DL that a visitor would want to stay at. It's all residential or industry except for a modest outlet mall and a casino in the City of Commerce). Driving to Valencia where Magic Mountain is from L.A. is probably a 45 mins. drive with normal traffic.

Personally, I would just stay in Anaheim and either do a one day, long drive to and from Magic Mouintain or move to a hotel nearby for a night or two. Dealing with the traffic is not worth it.