Drive in from Phoenix on Thursday Jan 5 with wife, 18 y/o daughter and her boyfriend (who has never been to Disney park or other real theme park). Wife and I have Signature AP, but the kids will have 2-day, 1 park per day.
Staying 4 miles west down Katella.
Fri Jan 6, DCA
* Opens at 9am.
* Early entry day for hotel guests, so it won't be empty when we get in the park.
* ToT will be closed.
* Too cold for GRR.
* Local kids are out of school, and soCal APs are NOT blocked, so I expect huge crowds at Disneyland, which is a big part of the reason we are doing DCA on Friday.
Plan:
Up by 6am, breakfast in hotel by 7, in line for Mickey and Friends parking garage before it opens at 8.
1) Grab FPs to RSR. (hopefully early), grab FPs to WoC.
2) Screamin'
3) Fun Wheel, swinging car
4) Sky School
5) As soon as we can, get FPs to Soarin'
6) cars land: Mater's Lougi's, use RSR FP
From there it will depend on the Saorin' FP time.
One trick we like to do is Screamin' FPs are frequently 45-60 min out, and Toy Story stanby is about the same. So, grab FP to Screamin' ride TSMM, then use Screamin' FP.
Later in the day, when lines are all stupid long: challenge trail, little mermaid, tough to be a bug, carousel, swings, Monsters Inc.
May try to get back to hotel for afternoon nap, especially if the park is busy. We will finish the night with the first WoC at 9. Hopefully back in hotel and asleep near 11pm.
Sat Jan 7, DL
* Magic Morning so will not be empty at opening.
* Too cold for Splash
Up by 5am. Breakfast in hotel room. At Mickey and Friends when it opens at 6:30am.
8am rope drop, grab FPs to Space Mt,
After that, it depends on the wait time for space, star tours.
Maybe Space, Matterhorn, Star Tours, indy.
If tomorrowland has long lines at opening because of MM and EMH, then Matterhorn, Indy, Mansion, get FP for Star Tours on way to use Space FP.
We have to do the holiday parade and Paint the Night and holiday fireworks, and probably try to stay until midnight. So I will push for the afternoon nap this day.
29 days to go!
