HalloweenTime at DLR Superthread- 9/14-10/31; Mickey's Halloween Party starts 9/28!

[DisneyFairytale]

Yea it sounds a bit dodgey. I would just buy tickets if you are looking into it.

 

[iKristin]

Can you use an unactivated AP to get the discount? I have one but we won't activate it until October. I also have a Disney Visa but I don't want to have shipping cost cut into our discount.

BTW, how much is the shipping cost?

I bought my tickets last year with the discount and my AP wasn't active yet. I purchased mine offline on the AP site.

 

[Belle Ella]

I don't know if the Villains stay there at night - I've only taken daytime Villain photos unless I was at the Halloween party. It may just be a daytime photo thing, but hopefully someone else can confirm or deny that! I don't think I've seen any nighttime Villains pictures from anyone at the IASW spot so far, unless it was at the actual party.

I believe the Villains photo spot closed at either 5p or 6p but it did have dedicated hours. Also, I don't think it 'opened' last year until about 11a but I can't remember 100% for sure.

 

[sassy*girl]

I went ahead and ordered my tickets just to be on the safe side. That would be a major bummer if I waited and month and they sold out. Figured if for some reason something comes up and we can't make it I could just ebay them for what I paid and get my money back.

 

[aribelle]

I bought my tickets last year with the discount and my AP wasn't active yet. I purchased mine offline on the AP site.

How were you able to access the AP site? I have to log in to access it....when my AP is active it will open, but the day after it expires, I can still log in at Disney's site the same way, but the AP site won't open for me.

 

[Curiouser&Curiouser]

Bought our tickets just right now online. Unfortunately I am going on a non discount day... figured I might as well be safe and get them early.

I am enjoying the warm weather and all, but OCTOBER HURRY UP!!

 

[Sherry E]

Bought our tickets just right now online. Unfortunately I am going on a non discount day... figured I might as well be safe and get them early.

I am enjoying the warm weather and all, but OCTOBER HURRY UP!!

I agree with the "October hurry up" sentiment! This July is turning out to be warmer than last year's July so far, so I can only imagine August and September will be worse. I hate heat. I love Fall and Winter - and I love the holidays associated with Fall and Winter - because the daytime temperatures drop to a reasonable number and I don't feel like I'm burning to death!

Last year, some DIS'ers happened to be at DLR either on or pretty close to the opening weekend of HalloweenTime and the temperature was a record-breaking 113+ degrees or some crazy business. That is NOT my idea of Fall or HalloweenTime at all.

 

[iKristin]

When it asked me for the barcode number for my AP, it's the barcode number on the paper at the top of your eTicket. It let me on the AP site the day I bought my AP even though it wasn't active.

 

[PixiDustDears]

So excited! Our party tickets arrived today!!! Is it October yet? lol

 

[Curiouser&Curiouser]

I agree with the "October hurry up" sentiment! This July is turning out to be warmer than last year's July so far, so I can only imagine August and September will be worse. I hate heat. I love Fall and Winter - and I love the holidays associated with Fall and Winter - because the daytime temperatures drop to a reasonable number and I don't feel like I'm burning to death!

Last year, some DIS'ers happened to be at DLR either on or pretty close to the opening weekend of HalloweenTime and the temperature was a record-breaking 113+ degrees or some crazy business. That is NOT my idea of Fall or HalloweenTime at all.

I dislike the heat too!! Fall is my favorite season... it's cool, I can wear my cute sweaters, pumpkins and spice. But it's been such a cold and rainy fall, winter and spring up here that some warmth is nice. However, it's been extremely warm (90's) lately and I'm over it. hehehe

We went to Disneyland one year for my birthday in June and I couldn't take it. We just rushed around to all the AC attractions without lines. And actually, when we went to the Halloween party last year, I think it may have been the first or second night, it was warm as well. I remember sweating in my Tiger Lilly costume and it was a skirt! We're going on the 21st, so hopefully it will be late enough in Oct. to get fall like temps.

 

[Curiouser&Curiouser]

So excited! Our party tickets arrived today!!! Is it October yet? lol

ALMOST OCTOBER!! ONLY 85 DAYS!!!

 

[candygirlIRE]

Last year, some DIS'ers happened to be at DLR either on or pretty close to the opening weekend of HalloweenTime and the temperature was a record-breaking 113+ degrees or some crazy business. That is NOT my idea of Fall or HalloweenTime at all.

Wait?!?! Are you saying it was 113+ at the START of October!?!?!?!? Yowza!!! I guess we will re-think the packing we will do

We are at the party on the 3rd!!!

 

[Belle Ella]

Last year, some DIS'ers happened to be at DLR either on or pretty close to the opening weekend of HalloweenTime and the temperature was a record-breaking 113+ degrees or some crazy business. That is NOT my idea of Fall or HalloweenTime at all.

Like me!! Haha, it was what 114 on the last day of my trip last year so about September 27th or something like that. It was intense!! I think it was already in the 100's before Disneyland even opened. It felt like it though, that's for sure.

So ... it looks like I might be able to make it down for one Halloween Party! But shhhhhh, I don't want to jinx anything.

 

[Sherry E]

Wait?!?! Are you saying it was 113+ at the START of October!?!?!?!? Yowza!!! I guess we will re-think the packing we will do

We are at the party on the 3rd!!!

candygirlIRE -

No, it wasn't quite that crazy of a temperature last October, but in September last year, not too long after the Halloween season began at DLR (it started on 9/17 last year), it was that hot. It was apparently the hottest day ever recorded in Los Angeles (which is where I live) - since weather recording began - on one of those days! And the heat carried right over to Anaheim and DLR. At least it wasn't the hottest day ever recorded anywhere on earth - only in Los Angeles!

I can imagine that walking around in Disneyland, with all that hot pavement everywhere, it was probably a nightmare for a lot of people during that extreme heatwave. If I'd had my DLR trip planned for that specific time and it got that hot, I don't know what I would have done. Heat is not my friend at all! I might have had to stay inside the Animation Building in DCA for the entire trip.

September of last year was hotter than June or July had been.

But October can definitely get interesting in terms of weather. A very sneaky, unpredictable month, October is. It rained on at least one (maybe 2) of the Halloween party nights last year. Other years in October it could be 90 degrees. Or it could be dry, hot and very windy. Or it could be pleasant and in the low 70's. Or it could be cool and blustery. I never know what I'm going to get with October! It's always a surprise.

Like me!! Haha, it was what 114 on the last day of my trip last year so about September 27th or something like that. It was intense!! I think it was already in the 100's before Disneyland even opened. It felt like it though, that's for sure.

So ... it looks like I might be able to make it down for one Halloween Party! But shhhhhh, I don't want to jinx anything.

Jessica -

I vividly remembered that fellow DIS'er AmyPond was, unfortunately, one of the ones with a trip that coincided with that horrible September heatwave last year. I remembered that you were there at least close to it because I remember you commenting somewhere about how you liked heat but that was even a bit too much for you. For some reason my old, tired brain didn't connect the dots and remember that you were actually there right smack dab during the heatwave too! But now that you've reminded me, it's all coming back - you were sure there right in the middle of it too!!

June and July were so mild in SoCal last year that I had a feeling September would be brutal - it was like Summer was playing catch-up because it under-performed in June and July! Summer was going to catch us no matter what we did, so it made up for lost time in September and some of October!

So far June and July have been warmer in SoCal this year than they were last year, so I am hoping that this means September and October will be more of what we expect - warm, but not inferno-hell-I'm burning alive and my skin is melting off-type of heat. 'Cause that's just not good for anyone!

Not to contribute to jinxing you.....which date were you considering as a party date?

I'm still on the fence about my party date, though I pretty much have it narrowed down to 2 or 3 choices. I would want to use the PIN code for the hotel and that only leaves me with the second half of October.




In any case, HalloweenTime at DLR begins in just a little over 2 months!!

 

[Belle Ella]

Yeah, that day in September was killer. Even if I could forget the ehat itself very vividly remember the aftermath on my drive home. The heat had me feeling so sick I couldn't finish the drive. I don't normally hate 114 degree days since it wasn't my first tangle with that kind of heat, but running nonstop around Disneyland in heat like that was brutal.

I will gladly take a 100 degree day though!

Um, let's see. Right now the date that is being tossed around is October 3, the first Monday of October.

 

[Sherry E]

Yeah, that day in September was killer. Even if I could forget the ehat itself very vividly remember the aftermath on my drive home. The heat had me feeling so sick I couldn't finish the drive. I don't normally hate 114 degree days since it wasn't my first tangle with that kind of heat, but running nonstop around Disneyland in heat like that was brutal.

I will gladly take a 100 degree day though!

Um, let's see. Right now the date that is being tossed around is October 3, the first Monday of October.

Yes! Now that you mention it, I remember you talking about the drive home in your TR. You had to stop somewhere and spend the night unexpectedly on the way home becase you were feeling so awful, right? That heat caught up with you - and you have age and health on your side. I shudder to think what that heat could have been like in DLR for elderly folks or people with certain health disadvantages! Yikes! That could have been one very, very crowded Animation Building in DCA or one very, very crowded GCH lobby as everyone sought refuge from burning to death!

Well, if your party night plan changes and you decide to go to one of the ones in the second half of October (like 10/21, 10/25 or 10/28), let me know! Hopefully 10/3 will work out for you (no jinxing allowed!).

 

[DisneyFairytale]

Oh I will take whatever weather they have. Here in Calgary it snows on halloween night-definitely tshirt weather for us either way when we are in anaheim-cannot wait!

 

[Janell]

As a local So Cal it can be very warm in Sept and Oct. We have even had high 80's on Chirstmas Day before, due to what they call Santa Ana Winds, winds known in from the East, our cool winds come off the Ocean from the West.

Anyhow Pack layers and you will be fine. Weather here can change in min during Santa Ana Wind season usually fall into early winter. One year at DL on New Years Eve we were waiting for the count down it was about 10:30 pm, we were cold snuggled together. The winds kicked up and suddley we were hot took off our jackets. Santa Ana winds had kicked up and the forecast said nothing about the possibility of winds. You just never know so layering is what we do year round.

 

[StyledSugar]

We were there for the opening day of the Halloween events last year (it was our last day there) and it was hot even then! Heard it hit record temps a day or two after we left. Beautiful weather our whole trip though!

We are heading back this year and will end up in Disneyland for the Halloween festivities! We go to Vegas first and then off to California on the 31st. Already have our tickets for the Halloween event that day and we can't wait!! Should be a great trip and much better than the weather we get here in Calgary like another poster said. lol

 

[Sherry E]

We were there for the opening day of the Halloween events last year (it was our last day there) and it was hot even then! Heard it hit record temps a day or two after we left. Beautiful weather our whole trip though!

We are heading back this year and will end up in Disneyland for the Halloween festivities! We go to Vegas first and then off to California on the 31st. Already have our tickets for the Halloween event that day and we can't wait!! Should be a great trip and much better than the weather we get here in Calgary like another poster said. lol

So you'll be at the Halloween party on Halloween? That should be so much fun!

Actually, I think I would love the Calgary weather!

Yes, there were record-breaking temps shortly after that time you mentioned in September last year - the hottest day ever in recorded history for Los Angeles. (Not fun for me at all!)

In fact, it was in the 80's on November 13th last year (first day of the holiday season at DLR) and it was in the 80's and 90's on some of my December DLR trip days (between 12/12 - 12/15). It's not always that hot in November and December, but last year was weird.

I am one of those people who likes to take my DLR trips in the Fall and Winter specifically, purposely for the cooler temperatures. Bring on the 60-degree days and the 50-degree evenings and I am a happy camper! I'm not a Summer trip DLR person anymore. So you can imagine my annoyance at being in DLR in December last year and it was 90 degrees on one day and in the 80's on another day. But, the real, genuine SoCal Summer weather was delayed last year - it didn't kick in when it normally would kick in - so it seemed like all the heat was unleashed in late Summer and Fall.

But, as I mentioned earlier today, October is a very sneaky, tricky month that could go in many directions, weather-wise - it's always a surprise and you never know what you'll get, which I guess makes it fun!