Please critique my itinerary for SoCal

[jupers]

Hi all! We are headed to SoCal in April. Arriving on a night flight. This is our plan...

Fly into Long Beach, pick up rental drive to Irvine Marriott for 1 night. (We picked Irvine because it's not too far bout 20 miles and not too expensive.)
Day 1: am drive Pacific Coast head to SD Zoo
Check into Hyatt Mission Bay
Day 2: Sea World and resort
Day 3: check out, head up to Legoland
Evening check in at VGC
Day 4: DL and DCA
Day 5: Hollywood Stuff
Day 6: Universal
DAYS 7-9 DL and DCA and whatever else
Day 9 red eye home

I know we have a lot packed in but that's usually what we do...gonna get the SoCal city pass with zoo and Legoland

Any thoughts or suggestions...?

 

[valiamo]

Wow that is a lot packed into 8 days. Watch which days you are in DL, try to do a week day vs a weekend day. 2 days between the Disney parks is never enough ....oops edit. 4 days in Disney.... Good!

 

[SMD]

Are you going to drive from GCH to Hollywood/Universal 2 days in a row? I'd plug that trip into a map app with traffic during the times you want to do it so you can get an idea of what traffic and travel times will be.