katyringo
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- Sep 21, 2017
Here is my trip report from this past week. I will just hit the big things. This is our 3rd trip in 3 years.
We are maxpass fans and will never do a trip without it. We did 5 day hoppers with maxpass.
And we were soo tired. Lol. We stayed at the hojo in building 1, a bunk bed room. A couple things we would do differently
-not go to the parks the day we fly in and add a rest day if we are doing 5 days. When it was just us we were fine with 5 days in a row but with the kids it was ALOT.
- we really liked the hojo room and their pool
Area, but man that walk after a long day feels like a thousand miles. I know it’s only a block or so, but man. We both agreed we would like to try park vue or Beat western park place next time.
-we accomplished a lot in the mornings. My son rode incredicoaster 9 times in 5 days. It was his favorite.
-we used Mobil ordering for all our QS meals. Highly recommend. For example award wieners’ line was completely full 15 minutes before opening one of our park days. I Mobil ordered for pick up at opening and was the first to have my food.
Speaking of QS, we did a lot this trip and less table service. We tried award wieners, jolly holiday, horseshoe, flo’s, hungry bear, tropical hideaway and bangle BBQ, cozy come, ronto roasters, and guess we aren’t hard to please because we enjoyed them all. The pot pie at flo’s really stood out to me. In fact I think flo’s was everyone’s favorite. The only gripe I have is I feel all these places have limited kid options. We ended up ordering 1 adult meal for my kids to share many times.
Our ADR places were blue bayou fantasmic, plaza inn character breakfast, lamplight, and donals seaside breakfast. We had great character interactions at both character meals. Donalds is always our favorite because of stitch and at Minnie’s we saw a TON of characters. We were a bit bummed at blue bayou in their lunch fantasmic menu change. No more pork loin or gumbo. Our waitress was very nice. The pork loin is no longer available at BB period. But the gumbo is so she did make us that. We ordered the steak and the lamb and both were very good. Again I guess we aren’t hard to please. Our favorite, however continues to be lamplight. The lobster nachos, the piggy wings and the potato cakes really hit the spot after a long day.
We also did the WOC dessert party. We had a 2 year old with us. Previous reports said they gave a plate to the 2 year old. This did not happen for us. Which was fine. There was plenty to share. One very weird thing was that my raspberry filled cookie had no filling. It’s good though because between all of us we just swapped around desserts so everyone had something they really liked. The bread was so hard though. The view can’t be beat tho and I’ll do it again.
Snacks: new snacks I tried was the corn on a stick thing with spicy mayo from cozy cone. It was good! We tried the dole whip donout at jolly holiday. My son enjoyed it! Matterhorn macaroon. I didn’t know it was coconut. So I wasn’t a fan. We tried the sorcerer Mickey shake from smoothies place. It was a good cookies and cream shake. Lol. We weren’t a fan of the big sorcerer donut from the same place.
We mostly encountered great CM’s. In fact I need to email about one, Isabella, at the luigi’s Tires ride who was amazing with my kids.
I had one run in with what I thought was a very rude and sarcastic CM at minnie’s House. It was about 5-10 minutes until her meet at greet and people were starting to show up. I asked nicely where we should stand as we’ve never done this before. The CM was like “there is no line so whenever or you can look inside her house until she gets here” okay no problem. So I stand around, but of course a line is starting to form. So I jump in the non exsisant line. Before you know it, we’ve formed a nice and organized line. Well then the CM comes out and says “well since we don’t pre form lines here at Disneyland we are staring the line over here” she was very sarcastic and loud. The tone was not friendly at all. And her actions just confused everybody and then there was a rush to the “new line” and families being split up. It would have been so much friendlier and nicer for he to just lead the self formed line to the correct place. Everyone there was upset with the CM and irritated at her tone. A couple of families left the area angry.
My husband thought the SWGE CM was rude.
Spewing of SWGE- we went separately on 2 different nights. You can go to the thread to see our very different opinions. I loved it. We however failed to get on the ride. Single rider was a long wait and the rides wait time never really hit under an hour. For us with Littles it just wasn’t happening this trip. It also felt like quite a trek back there and back. I used the train to get closer and get back to Main Street.
4th of July in Disneyland was really fun. We did the WOC dessert party that night for the 4th of July show. We were not disappointed. It was really cool. Then enjoyed WOC. Then we walked back to the exit of DCA, where we could see the Disneyland fireworks! It was like a 3 for 1! However after they were done it was like a mob of people exiting all at once and they had 1 single exit open. So it felt a bit crunched.
We rode soarin over CA, which don’t hate me, but it felt a lot less smoother then soaring over the world. I did however enjoy it and the orange smell!!
We also rode hyperspace mountain! Boy was that fun!!!
We really enjoyed our trip. Not sure when we will get back
we are working on buying a house now and I think hubby wants to do something different “Disney” like world or a cruise. Idk.. I’m perfectly content with my Disneyland 
.
We are maxpass fans and will never do a trip without it. We did 5 day hoppers with maxpass.
And we were soo tired. Lol. We stayed at the hojo in building 1, a bunk bed room. A couple things we would do differently
-not go to the parks the day we fly in and add a rest day if we are doing 5 days. When it was just us we were fine with 5 days in a row but with the kids it was ALOT.
- we really liked the hojo room and their pool
Area, but man that walk after a long day feels like a thousand miles. I know it’s only a block or so, but man. We both agreed we would like to try park vue or Beat western park place next time.
-we accomplished a lot in the mornings. My son rode incredicoaster 9 times in 5 days. It was his favorite.
-we used Mobil ordering for all our QS meals. Highly recommend. For example award wieners’ line was completely full 15 minutes before opening one of our park days. I Mobil ordered for pick up at opening and was the first to have my food.
Speaking of QS, we did a lot this trip and less table service. We tried award wieners, jolly holiday, horseshoe, flo’s, hungry bear, tropical hideaway and bangle BBQ, cozy come, ronto roasters, and guess we aren’t hard to please because we enjoyed them all. The pot pie at flo’s really stood out to me. In fact I think flo’s was everyone’s favorite. The only gripe I have is I feel all these places have limited kid options. We ended up ordering 1 adult meal for my kids to share many times.
Our ADR places were blue bayou fantasmic, plaza inn character breakfast, lamplight, and donals seaside breakfast. We had great character interactions at both character meals. Donalds is always our favorite because of stitch and at Minnie’s we saw a TON of characters. We were a bit bummed at blue bayou in their lunch fantasmic menu change. No more pork loin or gumbo. Our waitress was very nice. The pork loin is no longer available at BB period. But the gumbo is so she did make us that. We ordered the steak and the lamb and both were very good. Again I guess we aren’t hard to please. Our favorite, however continues to be lamplight. The lobster nachos, the piggy wings and the potato cakes really hit the spot after a long day.
We also did the WOC dessert party. We had a 2 year old with us. Previous reports said they gave a plate to the 2 year old. This did not happen for us. Which was fine. There was plenty to share. One very weird thing was that my raspberry filled cookie had no filling. It’s good though because between all of us we just swapped around desserts so everyone had something they really liked. The bread was so hard though. The view can’t be beat tho and I’ll do it again.
Snacks: new snacks I tried was the corn on a stick thing with spicy mayo from cozy cone. It was good! We tried the dole whip donout at jolly holiday. My son enjoyed it! Matterhorn macaroon. I didn’t know it was coconut. So I wasn’t a fan. We tried the sorcerer Mickey shake from smoothies place. It was a good cookies and cream shake. Lol. We weren’t a fan of the big sorcerer donut from the same place.
We mostly encountered great CM’s. In fact I need to email about one, Isabella, at the luigi’s Tires ride who was amazing with my kids.
I had one run in with what I thought was a very rude and sarcastic CM at minnie’s House. It was about 5-10 minutes until her meet at greet and people were starting to show up. I asked nicely where we should stand as we’ve never done this before. The CM was like “there is no line so whenever or you can look inside her house until she gets here” okay no problem. So I stand around, but of course a line is starting to form. So I jump in the non exsisant line. Before you know it, we’ve formed a nice and organized line. Well then the CM comes out and says “well since we don’t pre form lines here at Disneyland we are staring the line over here” she was very sarcastic and loud. The tone was not friendly at all. And her actions just confused everybody and then there was a rush to the “new line” and families being split up. It would have been so much friendlier and nicer for he to just lead the self formed line to the correct place. Everyone there was upset with the CM and irritated at her tone. A couple of families left the area angry.
My husband thought the SWGE CM was rude.
Spewing of SWGE- we went separately on 2 different nights. You can go to the thread to see our very different opinions. I loved it. We however failed to get on the ride. Single rider was a long wait and the rides wait time never really hit under an hour. For us with Littles it just wasn’t happening this trip. It also felt like quite a trek back there and back. I used the train to get closer and get back to Main Street.
4th of July in Disneyland was really fun. We did the WOC dessert party that night for the 4th of July show. We were not disappointed. It was really cool. Then enjoyed WOC. Then we walked back to the exit of DCA, where we could see the Disneyland fireworks! It was like a 3 for 1! However after they were done it was like a mob of people exiting all at once and they had 1 single exit open. So it felt a bit crunched.
We rode soarin over CA, which don’t hate me, but it felt a lot less smoother then soaring over the world. I did however enjoy it and the orange smell!!
We also rode hyperspace mountain! Boy was that fun!!!
We really enjoyed our trip. Not sure when we will get back
we are working on buying a house now and I think hubby wants to do something different “Disney” like world or a cruise. Idk.. I’m perfectly content with my Disneyland .
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