Disney-Junkie
2ZNuf
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- Oct 2, 2000
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We have been to WDW 9 times. So this year we decided to go west and see some of the attractions along the way (Hoover Dam, Grand Canyon, Royal Gorge, etc). The biggest question we get is what is the difference in the two. Well, here it goes.
As you know Orlando is soooo spread out. A lot of room down there. Anaheim is much more confined and close together. Which made for shorter walking I guess. The CM's in Anaheim seem to NOT have a clue as compared to the CM's in Orlando. There were a handful of instances when the CM's in Anaheim led us astray or had no idea of what was going on. In Orlando I can't ever remember having this problem.
Another example is we had 4 day Hopper passes. NOBODY told us you could only have 1 early entry day per Hopper pass. What?! One day? We are spending thousands and thousands of dollars here and you can't let us in the park early except for one time. And we had "used" (*unknowingly) our EE day for 9:30 PS at the Plaza Inn in DL. We had talked to a CM a at our hotel about this on our 3rd day and she said "I will put your names on the list so you can get in early tomorrow". Guess what? The next day we get up to the gate and when we say "our name is on the list", the CM looks at us like we are crazy and says, "list...what list?" Great.
DL is kind of strange compared to WDW. Not strange in a bad way just different. For example, WDW is actually 1 story UP. DL is all one level. The castle is MUCH smaller that Cindy's castle in WDW.
Also, it seemed that the beverage kiosks needed a lot of work. There were several times where we wanted a bottled water and had to walk a looong way to find any. We passed at least 7 or 8 stands that were closed down. When waiting for the fireworks we looked for a place to get something to drink and maybe some ice cream. Nothing was open. The 2 or 3 shops that were open on Main Street had lines 40 people deep. Disappointing.
Maybe I titled this thing wrong. Disappointed is a strong word. Both my wife and I had been to DL when we were kids and it still had that Disney magic. We would like to think that DL is not "worse" that WDW just WDW is the new and improved DL.
As you know Orlando is soooo spread out. A lot of room down there. Anaheim is much more confined and close together. Which made for shorter walking I guess. The CM's in Anaheim seem to NOT have a clue as compared to the CM's in Orlando. There were a handful of instances when the CM's in Anaheim led us astray or had no idea of what was going on. In Orlando I can't ever remember having this problem.
Another example is we had 4 day Hopper passes. NOBODY told us you could only have 1 early entry day per Hopper pass. What?! One day? We are spending thousands and thousands of dollars here and you can't let us in the park early except for one time. And we had "used" (*unknowingly) our EE day for 9:30 PS at the Plaza Inn in DL. We had talked to a CM a at our hotel about this on our 3rd day and she said "I will put your names on the list so you can get in early tomorrow". Guess what? The next day we get up to the gate and when we say "our name is on the list", the CM looks at us like we are crazy and says, "list...what list?" Great.
DL is kind of strange compared to WDW. Not strange in a bad way just different. For example, WDW is actually 1 story UP. DL is all one level. The castle is MUCH smaller that Cindy's castle in WDW.
Also, it seemed that the beverage kiosks needed a lot of work. There were several times where we wanted a bottled water and had to walk a looong way to find any. We passed at least 7 or 8 stands that were closed down. When waiting for the fireworks we looked for a place to get something to drink and maybe some ice cream. Nothing was open. The 2 or 3 shops that were open on Main Street had lines 40 people deep. Disappointing.
Maybe I titled this thing wrong. Disappointed is a strong word. Both my wife and I had been to DL when we were kids and it still had that Disney magic. We would like to think that DL is not "worse" that WDW just WDW is the new and improved DL.