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Disneyland Touring Plans
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Good morning!

It’s been more than five years of planning, cancelling and rescheduling my “Once in a Lifetime” trip to Disneyland!

Here’s the itinerary:

Monday - Arrive around Noon and DL all day
Tuesday - DCA
Wednesday - DL
Thursday - Hopping
Friday - Knott’s Berry Farm and Trader Sam’s
Sat. - Universal Hollywood and Fan Fest Nights

I saved up about $1500 in Disney Visa points and have cashed in every penny!

Furthermore, a lot of you know that I have been hanging around these forums for a ar least a decade. I was once one of the biggest “fanatics” of all things Disney.

After the pandemic I stepped out of the bubble and found a whole world of great theme parks (and even a Universe! :laughing:)

A lot of my Disney fandom got spread out to Universal. However, as much as I complained about all the operational changes WDW made over the last five years I couldn’t stay away.

I’ve been to multiple after hours events and was even gifted with visiting all four Club 33 locations at WDW. However, I still haven’t had to deal with actually using LLMP. (I have bought a couple LLSP)

So, since this isn’t an after hours event and I don’t have VIP access this trip it will be my first “real” time having to use LLMP at Disney.

I try to make my TRs more about doing research for others. I don’t know how much I can add to any Disneyland knowledge, but maybe I will see something from a first time visitors POV. I do plan on make “travel guides” for Knott’s and USH as there’s so little on TP about them.

Some personal “goals” are to compare WDW vs. DLR. (Do “east coasters” really need to go west?)

Where is the best churro in California?

How does a Universal after hours event compare to WDW / DLR. I’ve been to multiple WDW “parties/event nights” (I haven’t got a SW night ticket, but may go last minute!)

I’m sure I have more things I want to “research”. I just don’t want my TR to just be a, “I ate this. I rode that.” FOMO style journey.

If anyone wants to know anything for an upcoming trip to any of these three parks just ask! I love doing"on the ground" research!

I’m at the airport and my flight leave in about 45 minutes.

I did TSA Precheck for the first time. It only took 6 minutes. It’s so worth it to not have to yake off your shoes, belt and etc…

I did encounter a horribly rude TSA agent. I bit my tongue and just kept moving! Not going to miss my flight just to tell off a a TSA agent!! :rofl::innocent:

Oh! For those that don’t know I got injured last year and have had issues with mobility. I got better recently, but “tweaked” it about 10 days ago. I have been nursing it and taking so many medications! I didn’t have any issues for the last two days. Hopefully, it’s ready for the 15 - 20 miles I am about to walk for the next 6 days!! :crazy_face::crossed_fingers::crossed_fingers:

I leave in about 30 minutes!

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Have an amazing trip @darkmite2! Looking forward to following allowing and quietly reliving the memories our first DLR trip last summer :slight_smile:

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Yay! Made my morning to see the start of this TR!!

DL all day sounds FANTASTIC! What airport are you arriving at?

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So excited for you!! :blush:

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SNA…I just landed in Denver for my connection to Anaheim! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Getting hungry, but trying to hold out for all the DLR goodies!

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Have a great trip!

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I’m so happy for you.
This is going to be so great.
I love that you are getting to go to the Best Coast!

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I feel like it’s Christmas for me getting to watch you be on your way after so much planning, re-planning, and planning again.

Safest of travels to you & I can’t believe you’re

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We’ve landed! Still gotta get my bags. Then I have a couple things to do before I can get to the park. I’m hoping to be inside in about 2 hours.

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I’m here! I got a very awesome Lyft driver and he took me everywhere I needed to go FAST!

My bags are stored and I am walking to DL!! Plus, this puts me way ahead in my TP too!

Once I get in I need to eat!

I walked in the wrong direction on Harbor! :rofl:

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WOW! I always knew the castle was smaller, but it’s so TINY!!:sweat_smile:

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All the years of waiting rewarded with you the best possible start!

Ohp! oopsie daisy! Now you know :laughing:

Where ya headed??

:roll_eyes: :roll_eyes:

JK!

My DH had the same reaction the first time we came together to DL after the having done MK together for 1 day of a UOR-based trip the year before. I’m pretty sure everyone around us on Main St. USA heard him telling me how surprised he was about just how small it is. Yea, it’s very much smaller. But so pretty! And without her there wouldn’t have been as awesome of a castle anywhere else! :heartpulse: :blue_heart:

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I’m already upset with TP… It told me I could get an Indy LLMP with ease. I got one, but for 8:30pm!!

Looks like I will be stacking them afterall! I an already modifying my mobile order time. I was 90 minutes out, but was able to refresh it to 45 minutes

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All the predicted waits are so wrong it’s egregious! I am flexible and reworking everything, but I doubt I will be able to follow my plan for today if this keeps up!

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You still got this! TP is much more (and ever since I’ve been using it in 2014) a checklist in DL. And all the work you put in to build it, gives you a lot of information that you can use to pivot.

For Indy, you can try to modify at a drop time to see an earlier time. Here’s the thread for drop times if you want to spend any time going over it.

But from the below, you should be able to somewhat reliably find drops for Indy from 10:57am to 8:27pm at every XX:57 and XX:27.

Also, most of the time, though of course not a guarantee, you can get done all or more of what the TP says in the same amount of time.

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Thanks!

I’m trying to modify the Indy, but it’s too popular.

I’ll be Ok! Just disappointed :grin:

I’ll make sure to look at those times!

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It’s worth checking at the drop times specifically because if there’s inventory to release and you being a single LL, your chances are very high you get a better time. But I get it if you don’t want to be tied to those times checking.

Indy is one they often need parties of 1 or 2 to fill rows anyway, so as you get to the top of the stairs right before the loading, keep your ears tuned to them checking for parties of 1 or 2.

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Indy was down and came back online right as I was next to it!!!

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