San Diego to Disneyland drive

[lafoster]

We our planning a West Coast vacation next summer. Reading through these threads have been so helpful in planning our itinerary. question....Would it be better to drive from San Diego to Disneyland on a Sunday after spending the day at Sea World, or wait until Monday?

 

[usnuzuloose]

It's about a two hour drive. If you wait till monday , just factor in the morning traffic.

 

[dshimel]

We our planning a West Coast vacation next summer. Reading through these threads have been so helpful in planning our itinerary. question....Would it be better to drive from San Diego to Disneyland on a Sunday after spending the day at Sea World, or wait until Monday?

If, and I'm guessing here, the plan is to do Seaworld Sunday and Disneyland on Monday then I would SOOOOOOO drive up to Disneyland on Sunday night after Seaworld.

Traffic on I5 into Orange County can be truly UGLY.

A 2 hour drive on Sunday night after a day at Seaworld may suck. Getting up at 4AM to do a 4 hour drive to be at DL and still miss opening would suck WAY more.

 

[lafoster]

I was worried about traffic on a Monday morning. Two hours definitely sounds better than 4. Monday is going to be a rest day, and possibly hit Disneyland that night, so may even help if we don't have a drive that day either. Thanks for the responses!

 

[KCmike]

Sunday night for sure.

 

[dshimel]

I was worried about traffic on a Monday morning. Two hours definitely sounds better than 4. Monday is going to be a rest day, and possibly hit Disneyland that night, so may even help if we don't have a drive that day either. Thanks for the responses!

If Monday is a rest day, then you would not have to do rush hours... starts about 4AM goes until 9-10AM. You could do something like leave San Diego at 10AM, stop at the beach in Oceanside for 2 hours, then go to your Disneyland area hotel by about 2PM-3PM. That would not be too bad.

Break the drive up into 2, 1 hour segments, get some beach time, miss rush by doing the drive mid-day.

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

Another thing to do, and I'd recommend, is stop at the San Juan Capistrano Mission and tour around there for a little bit of California history. There is a nice restaurant across the street with indoor or patio dining that has pretty good food and nice atmosphere.