For WDW Vets questioning the how walkable DL/DCA is ...

[ktlm]

reading on here I imagined such horrible walking distances. When I actually googled the walk from DLH ("the super far away hotel"), I giggled myself silly

I know. People were warning us that the DLH was far. Being a WDW vet, the first time we walked from DLH to the parks, I was really surprised at how short a walk and how close it is. It is such a pleasant walk right through DTD- we love it! I remember one time I wanted to ride the monorail from DL back down by DLH since we had not ridden it yet that trip and DH got so mad at me because there was about a 15-20 minute line for the monorail when we got there. He kept saying "We would already have been back to the resort right now, if you would have just let us walk".

We have been from the back corner of DL to the back corner of CA in 10 minutes. I'm actually surprised by the fact it is a shorter walk from the ferry to the Barnstormer at MK than from Toon Town to RSR. DLR seems much more compact. Even if the CA entry lines are long, it has never taken us more than 10 minutes to be out of one park and into the other. The plaza between them is shorter than walking from where the buses let you off to the gate at WDW, in some cases much shorter!

You will still get your walking in at DLR though. We found that because everything was so close together, we went back and forth a lot. It is very easy just to hop if the lines in one place show up shorter on the wait times app, or if DD suddenly just had to go single rider RSR and we were at DL. Criss-crossing or running to the hotel and back doesn't take up a lot of time like it does at WDW, so we do it a lot more at DLR.

 

[TehGhostHost]

This was a very helpful thread! And it really puts into perspective how close everything in Disneyland actually is.

I do think it's interesting that the queue for Indiana Jones and The Temple of the Forbidden Eye is half a mile and comparing that line alone to the size of the park!