Logistics Question - Car Rental/Uber/Other

[mmbrad02]

I've never visited the west coast so keep that in mind (as in, this may sound silly and not be a good plan at all). We are flying in on a Sunday afternoon and should land about 2:30pm. Originally I thought we would Uber to the Disneyland Good Neighbor Motel area (TBD). We are there till Thursday afternoon.

Being that close, I really want to add a Pacific Ocean visit in. It doesn't have to be lengthy or too exciting but really want to dip my toes in the ocean, take some photos, etc.

That said I had thought we would uber from airport to hotel, from hotel to beach, and then back. But then I got this crazy idea that maybe we should do a 1 day car rental instead. In my perfect world we would pick it up at the airport, visit the beach, maybe get dinner "off site" (Looking at you, In and Out Burger, as a potential anyway), maybe pick up some snacks/see off site souvenirs at Target/Walmart, and call it a night.

But I'm finding a lot of car rental places are not open on Sundays and don't have key drops. Does anyone know of any in the DL area that offers you to drop the key after hours? The alternative is to do an overnight rental but then we tack on hotel parking as well and have to leave the park the next day to return it. All doable, just not desirable.

Also with a car rental adds parking costs at the beach and so forth. Should we just do ubers instead?

Anyone have any opinions or info to share? Thanks!

 

[LKing]

Before I got to the end of your post, I was thinking, "Parking at the beach isn't easy and isn't free." Are you from an urban area where you are used to driving in traffic? I think ride-share might be your best bet.

Did you look at the set up that Enterprise has in the Pixar Place hotel?

 

[mmbrad02]

We are not from an Urban area but for what it's worth we have navigated larger cities like Atlanta, Orlando, Indianapolis, St Louis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Baltimore, etc. The most driving we have done in the west though was Las Vegas to Hoover Dam.

If we opt to rent a car, after looking at a map, I was wondering if our best bet might be a one day car rental from the airport and return it to the airport. Go from the airport to the beach, explore, and then return the car to the airport and uber to our hotel at the end. This is a June trip so I suppose I have a lot of time to mule it over

I can rent a car for $50-54 either for just that day (airport return) or for overnight. I know the beach parking is at least $15. But Ubering seems like it would add up to more than that, I know part of that though is just ease and convenience.

I have not looked into the Pixar option but I i will check on that now.