Hotel Booked for First Trip!

[mrsbicewdw]

Just booked our hotel for our first family trip to Disneyland!

We will be at the Anaheim Plaza Hotel & Suites. The room rate was in our sweet spot, and the majority of the reviews looked positive on every site I checked. I put a note for a ground floor and renovated room, but I will call at some point (soon-ish) to make sure the note got passed on to the actual reservation, since we booked from a third party site.

We found some good deals on plane tickets, at least good for our area - the catch being we have to drive 8 hours to the airport. But it saves us about $800 so I think it's worth it!

I'm hoping that the airfare and hotel will be the only major expenses since I am working on Swagbucks to try and get a majority of the tickets and food paid for. I can't wait to see Disneyland for the first time...and almost a whole year to wait! Anyone else looking at the beginning of December for a trip?

 

[freckles04]

Our trip is in July (it's our first to DL too) but just wanted to say I can share in your excitement! I was so thrilled when I booked our hotel recently! Have a great trip! Hope we don't go too nuts waiting on our trips to get here!

 

[mrsbicewdw]

Our trip is in July (it's our first to DL too) but just wanted to say I can share in your excitement! I was so thrilled when I booked our hotel recently! Have a great trip! Hope we don't go too nuts waiting on our trips to get here!

I figure it gives me plenty of time to make shirts and buy little things for the boys (on sale!). Maybe that will keep me from going crazy waiting.

 

[Canuck16]

An 8 hour drive plus a flight isn't that bad. On our first trip to DL we drove from Kelowna British Columbia....we are going in March and are flying from Seattle which is much nicer than driving

Hope that you have fun planning your trip and have a wonderful time!!!

 

[mrsbicewdw]

Yeah to drive the whole thing is 24 hours, which with two little kids would turn into like 3 days! So 8 hours to the larger airport isn't bad. We have made the trip before (and will in the spring to visit the city) and it wasn't horrible. Our youngest being a little older will make it easier I hope, last time was a bit hard on him.

When the kids are older we want to make it a huge road trip - drive to DLR, hitting national parks and things on the way, camping as we go, then DLR for a couple days, then head back and hit more stuff. But we have a number of years before that's possible. Until then, lots of training trips camping and driving.