Well, we made it down yesterday afternoon and got checked into the Peacock Suites. The hotels is decent. We're staying with Shell Vacations timeshare points and have 2- 2 bedrooms and 1-1 bedroom for all our family. It was easy to check in and even though they are undergoing maintenance right now I haven't heard anything yet. THe room is not super big for a 2- bedroom but it's fine for us and our 2 little ones (almost 2 and almost 6). Hubby just went down to check out the breakfast,s o I'll post more on that later.
After we checked in we hopped on the Anaheim transit right out front of the hotel. Super easy, and convenient. It was a short drive to downtown Disney. We had dinner reservations at Rainforest Cafe for 10 of us, and they had everything already setup and took us upstairs. The kids liked it, although the second thunder storm scared my very tired 2 year old a bit. She got over it by the next one. I didn't remember the food being anything to write home about last time we were here in 2008, but my meal last night was delicious. I had a chicken wrap and the BBQ sauce was so good. It seemed the general consensus was the food was good. We had 3 free kids' meal coupon and they accomodated us using all of them. Service was also impeccable. We then walked around DTD a bit but the little ones (add another 1 and 3 year old to my two) were already tired and fussy.
We hopped on Anaheim transit again and were the first stop home. I was worried about staying a bit further away, but so far it hasn't been an issue. It's 7am and we're having breakfast and getting ready for our first day in parks. We're doing Disneyland today!!! The kids' are excited and so am I. Today's weather says 57 and rainy with wind. It looks cloudy out and a bit breezy but nothing too bad yet. We're going to chance it anyway!
Any Disneyland in the rain tips?
I'll post more later!
After we checked in we hopped on the Anaheim transit right out front of the hotel. Super easy, and convenient. It was a short drive to downtown Disney. We had dinner reservations at Rainforest Cafe for 10 of us, and they had everything already setup and took us upstairs. The kids liked it, although the second thunder storm scared my very tired 2 year old a bit. She got over it by the next one. I didn't remember the food being anything to write home about last time we were here in 2008, but my meal last night was delicious. I had a chicken wrap and the BBQ sauce was so good. It seemed the general consensus was the food was good. We had 3 free kids' meal coupon and they accomodated us using all of them. Service was also impeccable. We then walked around DTD a bit but the little ones (add another 1 and 3 year old to my two) were already tired and fussy.
We hopped on Anaheim transit again and were the first stop home. I was worried about staying a bit further away, but so far it hasn't been an issue. It's 7am and we're having breakfast and getting ready for our first day in parks. We're doing Disneyland today!!! The kids' are excited and so am I. Today's weather says 57 and rainy with wind. It looks cloudy out and a bit breezy but nothing too bad yet. We're going to chance it anyway!
Any Disneyland in the rain tips?
I'll post more later!
ART isn't terrible but there are some downsides to it. We have AP's with free parking so we just drive and park. Ponchos are great for the rain, we also like to take sham-wow's with us to wipe down the seats as we board, we just take ziploc bags to store them in when they aren't being used, works great for us. 
