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Where exactly is it? It's 3 hour parking right?
Yes, most all of the reports indicate that you can only get validation at the table service restaurants or if you see a movie.Do you need to eat at one of the DTD restaurants to have your parking ticket validated, or how does that work?
I wonder if Trader Sam's is considered a table service restaurant? I have a friend driving in to meet me at the park next weekend. We'll go to the park for a few hours and probably eat in DTD. I wasn't sure where to tell him to park, so this sounds like a option rather than paying for parking for a few hours.
Over on the WDW boards, there's often chatter discouraging people from parking at places like the Boardwalk, or the Monorail resorts to avoid paying for parking when they are going to the parks for "a few hours". I think the same thing applies here to DTD at Disneyland. DTD parking is intended for DTD. If you are going to spend more time in the park than at DTD, you should either pay to park at one of the main lots, or pay the hourly parking rate at DTD after the free period has expired. Having a validation for dining at a TS restaurant is a valid exception. Buying a soda at AMC without seeing a movie and then heading into the park for 5- hours is not.
I wonder if Trader Sam's is considered a table service restaurant? I have a friend driving in to meet me at the park next weekend. We'll go to the park for a few hours and probably eat in DTD. I wasn't sure where to tell him to park, so this sounds like a option rather than paying for parking for a few hours.
I assume Trader Sam's doesn't validate because it is at the DLH and not a DTD restaurant... If you want to park at one of the hotels, its pretty pricey "Self-parking: $17 for the first hour plus $9 per hour per vehicle, with a maximum rate of $53"
I would wholeheartedly disagree with you. Using DTD parking for a few hours of DL is fine, and if you asked any CM, they wouldn't argue with you
The answer we were given is that Trader Sam's does not validate for DtD parking because it is not considered a Table Service restaurant. The other TS hotel restaurants do validate (see my response above: e.g. Steakhouse 55, Napa Rose, Storyteller's Cafe, etc.) because they are "table service." We've validated from S55 and NR many times, so we know the hotel restaurant validations can be used for DtD parking. (If you forget your validation, but have a receipt from a TS restaurant, DtD or hotel, from your meal, you can show that to the parking booth CM and it will count as a validation.)