Go Los Angeles Card

[Disbabe]

I've started on the planning even though I have 10 months to go!!
I've been looking at the Go Los Angeles Card and reading the free Guidebook that you can download for Free. Having read through I have come up with a plan!!

Sunday 31st July - Seaworld
Monday 1st August - Los Angeles City Tour & Movie Stars Homes (9.15am) & Santa Monica ($54)
Tuesday 2nd August - Paramount Studios Tour (10am) & Warner Bros. Studio Tours (2pm) ($88 for both)
Wed’day 3rd August - Starline Tours (1hr @ 9.30am), Kodak Theatre Tour (1/2hr @ 11am), Red Lines Tour (2hrs @ 2pm) ($59.95 for the 3)
Thursday 4th August - Madame Tussauds AM, Hollywood Museum PM. ($39.95 for both)
Friday 5th August - Universal Studios ($74)
Saturday 6th August - Six Flags Magic Mountain ($59.95)
Sunday 7th August - Knotts Berry Farm ($54.99)
Monday 8th August - Disneyland
Tuesday 9th August - Disneyland
Wed’day 10th August - Disneyland
Thursday 11th August - California Adventure
Friday 12th August - California Adventure

So from the 1st (Monday) until the 7th (Sunday) - we'll need the 7 day card. If we pay for each place seperately it would amount to $430.84 each. The website currently has a 10% discount charging $229.49 - that would be a saving of $201.35!!

What do people think of my plan? I have printed off all the direction maps to the various places which gives directions and driving times and they don't appear too bad as we'd be setting off early each day. We're staying at HoJo Plaza Hotel, Anaheim.

 

[wendypooh22]

Your plan sounds good.. We used the Go Oahu card when we went to Hawaii and it was well worth it. Everything we wanted to do was included on the card and we saved lots of $$$!

 

[MAH4546]

You don't need 5 days at Disneyland/California Adventure, even during the summer. Three days will cover it, but then again if you love Disney, there's nothing wrong with five days.

And HoJo is an absolutely terrible place to base yourself for Augsut 1st through August 6th. Get a hotel in Hollywood and save yourself time and trouble. There will be traffic, even if you "set off early." Expect it to take 1.5 to 2.5 hours to get to Los Angeles; 3 hours to get to Magic Mountain. Morning rush hour traffic in LA is from roughly 630AM to 9AM; afternoon is 330PM to 730PM. Going from Anaheim to Los Angeles is going with the flow of traffic. You will hit major congestion three times: on the I-5, through the downtown circulators and on the 101. And to make things worse, only the early (and least congestion) segment of I-5 has carpool lanes. There is no reason to put yourself through that hell. Put Sea World at the end of your trip, since that is best reached from Anaheim, and split your stay between the HoJo and a hotel either in Hollywood or downtown Los Angeles.

 

[DahliaRW]

I'm going to disagree, we did 5 days last time and wished we'd had more. We're planning 6 for our next trip!