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38. One Day Park Strategies - Disneyland & DCA · Mom Street USA

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  Welcome everybody to Mom St. USA.
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  My name is Jackie aka Wishes Mama and joining me is my
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  wonderful cohost Kate aka the Disney Cicerone.
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  And this evening we are starting the first of a three-part
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  episode series where we will be highlighting one day park
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  strategies. So think about if you've only
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  got one day and you want to get the most out of your day, what
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  is a good strategy for that? So that's our hope is to give
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  you that information so you can be be more successful on your
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  trips and we're excited to share it with you tonight.
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  Yeah, And this is we're we decided to break this up so that
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  we do 2 parks per episode, just because that makes a nice even
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  number for between Disney World and Disneyland.
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  And Jackie was so kind as to say, hey Kate, maybe you should
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  do Disneyland first since you're going to be headed to Europe
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  soon and you probably need time to plan for that.
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  And she's right. So.
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  So tonight we're going to talk about Disneyland and Disney's
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  California Adventure. And specifically, this is a
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  little tough because. Monday strategy for California
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  Adventure isn't actually not that hard, but Disneyland it's
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  it's virtually impossible to see everything in Disneyland in a
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  day, especially with kids. Like you're just not going to
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  get to everything. So the way that I broke it up
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  and everything is kind of like, here's some things you should
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  probably do in the morning, afternoon and evening.
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  So depending on your budget, if you are.
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  Trying to save some money and you've had to scrimp and save to
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  go on that trip and you just really can't do Genie Plus.
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  We've got some options for you so that you're not waiting in
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  line every day. And also maybe if you're like, I
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  just want to save as much time as possible and I've got the
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  funds for it. We've got some things for Genie
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  Plus as well. Do you want to mention our Genie
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  Plus episode that we recently did?
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  Yeah, So just a few episodes ago we did a whole indepth dive on
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  Genie Plus and how it works and what it is.
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  But just a quick recap, Genie Plus is the system that you can
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  purchase at Disneyland and Disney World that allows you to
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  make your lines quite a bit shorter.
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  So it is something that you do have to have a good strategy to
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  utilize to be able to make the most out of everything that you
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  would like to do. But we talked about the ins and
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  outs, about how to book and when to book and modifying and all of
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  that type of stuff a few episodes ago.
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  So if you want that deep dive information when it comes to
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  park strategy, check out that episode first and then come back
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  to us. If you're someone who's watching
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  this or listening to this later on after we're, you know, done
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  being live, that will give you your basis of what you need to
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  know. And then being able to piggyback
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  onto that will be what Kate has for us tonight about the West
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  Coast parks. That way we can utilize those
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  that information to the best of your ability.
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  Yeah, I think it was episode 35 in our Mom St.
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  USA podcast. It's also on our YouTube for Mom
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  St. USA.
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  So either way you would like to view or listen to that podcast.
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  And we have that for you. So it really is a very detailed
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  episode of all the things of Genie Plus and Jackie.
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  I'm gonna say it Jackie is an expert at Genie Plus.
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  She's used it so many times, not just when she's gone herself,
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  but also for other people. She knows exactly how to use it
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  and use it well, but I actually helped our good friend tour
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  guide Barbie a little bit when she was just out in Disneyland.
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  Just kind of playing around, so to speak, in the app to just see
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  kind of how it compares to what we, you know, she and I are
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  very, very familiar with the Disney World version of that.
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  And we found them to be very, very similar as far as once
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  you're in it and you're booking and if you want to modify or
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  adjust things, things seem to be fairly easy as far as that's
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  concerned. As far as there's not a lot that
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  you have to learn new if you're someone who's used to the Disney
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  World system using the Disneyland system.
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  Right, exactly right. So and yes, that is episode 35,
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  by the way. I just wanted to double check
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  and make sure that we had that right in case.
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  So that way people aren't searching for it.
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  I knew it wasn't too far back there, but Yep.
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  Episode 35. I will say before I get started,
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  I have some just general Disneyland notes.
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  So I'm gonna start in Disneyland and then we'll go to DCA after
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  this. I'm gonna use that for Disney's.
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  Disney California venture. It used to be Disney's
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  California Adventure. They dropped the S and it just.
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  I'm just gonna say DCA because it's just easier for my brain.
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  I had no idea they dropped the S in the name.
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  Yeah, like officially. I'm trying to remember when I
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  want to say 2008, 2018. I feel like there was an 8 in
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  there. Anyway, they did officially drop
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  the S from the name, so now it's Disney California Adventure
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  because they just some people didn't.
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  I don't, I don't know why. It didn't really matter either
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  way. People still call it DCA, so
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  it's fine. Anyway, so.
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  Some general Disneyland notes as we jump into this.
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  I will say that Disneyland gets progressively more busy as the
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  day goes on. So it's different in Disney
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  World in that way because Disneyland is a locals park.
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  So the locals when they get off of work they come to Disneyland,
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  which is also why it's tends to be open to like 11 or midnight.
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  It's open way later than the Disney World parks.
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  Although I have to say Disney World used to be open later in
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  the summer. Yeah, not anymore.
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  Post closure. Yeah, they've they're they, they
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  shortened it a lot and then they've been slowly expanding it
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  back out. And occasionally in the summer
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  you will get some of those like 11:00 PM or midnight nights.
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  But they also did away with those extra magic hours that
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  were in the evening, which was what a lot of us remember being
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  in the parks until one or two AM.
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  Yeah, with that. So it feels a lot shorter now
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  because we lost some of that extra time as well.
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  Yeah, it's just so interesting cuz I'm so used to having all
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  those. Like you go and take an extended
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  break in the room and you come back and you have like the whole
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  night. It's like a whole night park
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  day. And that's not necessarily true
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  anymore. So it's kind of a bummer, but
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  anyway. Back to Disneyland.
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  So because Disneyland gets progressively more busy as the
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  day goes on, those morning hours are absolutely golden.
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  You do not want to miss rope drop if you are visiting
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  Disneyland. Obviously if you're a local and
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  you're just going after work, you're not going to go in the
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  morning. But this is for people who are
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  visiting Disneyland. Do not miss the morning hours
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  and. I will say, I know there's a lot
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  of like Starbucks lovers out there, but please, please, I beg
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  of you, do not waste your morning in the Starbucks line.
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  Just don't do it, friends like. And I have to, you know, it's
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  always like one of my biggest pet peeves.
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  And of course, as soon as I go to Disney World with my husband
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  Elliot, and like we're rolling up to Magic Kingdom, he's like
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  the only thing. I was like, I just want to get a
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  Nitro cold brew at Starbucks and walked on Main Street.
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  I was like, we are not doing that first thing.
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  I'm sorry. Like we will find.
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  You're gonna have to wait. It's.
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  Like, we will do that eventually, but we are not doing
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  that right now. And I was like, that is like the
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  biggest rookie mistake ever. And so yeah, come on.
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  It's like, what are we doing? I'm like, no.
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  Well, cuz you weren't, you didn't have kids with you, so he
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  was like, we don't have to rush around as much.
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  Yeah, conductor, Jackson says. Just mobile order it.
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  That's wasn't an option when we were in Disney World for mobile
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  order for Starbucks that we saw. So it could be in Disneyland.
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  I haven't tried it at World. Just side note, you can only
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  mobile order at the Disney. Springs location, yeah, that's
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  what I think. I don't think any of the other
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  locations in the parks allow you to mobile order.
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  Yeah, yeah. And Lem says, to be fair, you
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  could get Starby's before even early park entry.
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  That's true. So Disneyland.
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  Yes, you could get a mobile order in Disneyland if you
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  arrive there super early and you have time.
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  But. If you have access to any part
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  of the park, don't waste your time at Starbucks.
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  That's all I'm saying. Just I'm off my soapbox now,
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  especially if you've only got one day.
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  Because remember, we are we are on a time crunch here.
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  We've only got one day to get it all in.
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  Just get your coffee before you go.
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  That's all. Exactly.
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  You know, that's all I'm saying. Don't get coffee, just or just
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  do it mid morning when it starts to get busy in the parks because
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  it does usually around. 10/30/11 it gets it does start to pick up
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  in the parks because those people who didn't want to get up
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  early are now finally rolling into the gates.
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  And that is true Disneyland Disney World.
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  It's a little bit more true in Disney World than in Disneyland
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  because Disneyland stays a little bit less crowds longer in
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  the day. So virtually all of it's
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  virtually impossible to do all of Disneyland in a day.
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  I would say like if you didn't have kids.
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  And you paid for all the Genie plus things and all the
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  individual lightning lanes and you just wanted to go for it.
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  Yeah, sure, you could do that. But we are talking about doing
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  the parks with kids and that would be really tough.
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  Yeah. So I will say, so also we're
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  talking about mobile order, I'd also say.
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  Take advantage of using mobile order for quick service.
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  I think people are starting to do it now for Disneyland more.
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  When it first came to Disneyland, people were not
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  using it at all because the locals were just used to
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  standing in line, which was so funny to me.
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  So I was like, I'll just bypass them and go pick up my phone.
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  But yeah, so make sure you use mobile order just as a general
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  note, and also something that's different at Disneyland.
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  Large portion of Fancy Land and also Toon Town closes in the
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  evenings when they do fireworks, so they physically block it off
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  like everything from the carousel over to the castle.
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  So you can think of Mr. Toad, Peter Pan, Snow White, Pinocchio
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  and the carousel itself are all completely blocked off from
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  about 8:00 to 10:00 fifteen, 10:30 every night.
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  So you won't have access to those rides then.
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  And the same thing with Toon Town, they also close Toon Town
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  around 8:00 and then open it back up around that same time.
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  So take that into account as you plan.
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  Don't plan to go on those attractions during that time.
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  So that being said, those are my general Disneyland notes for
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  strategy. And then with Genie Plus, these
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  are my Genie Plus notes as we dig into a Genie Plus strategy.
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  Like we said, the system works. Pretty similarly to the way it
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  does at Disney World. So if you're familiar with the
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  way Genie Plus works in Disney World, you're going to be like
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  this is pretty much the same thing and be happy.
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  But the difference is you can't book, you can't buy or book
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  Genie Plus until you enter through the turnstiles.
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  So you have to have to physically be in the park before
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  you can book anything. Another reason you should
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  probably get in the parks early because that helps with that as
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  well. Absolutely, you should be able
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  to do. All 12 Genie Plus rides in a
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  day, except when crowds are maybe like 9:00 to 10:00, then
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  you might get like 8 to 10 Genie Plus rides instead.
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  So it is possible to use pretty much all of them unless they go
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  down, which like Indiana Jones goes down and things like that.
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  You know you might that's the thing.
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  And that doesn't include the individual Lightning Lane rides,
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  which in Disneyland are Rise of the Resistance and Mickey and
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  Minnie's Runaway Railway. So that being said, my with my
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  my recommendation is to arrive at least 40 minutes before the
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  official park opening time because they don't have those
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  scanners you just walk through. They physically inspect every
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  single bag. So wow.
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  Keep that in mind. It takes a little extra time to
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  get through security sometimes, depending on the crowd levels.
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  If it's not that crowded that day, it won't be that bad, but
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  those morning lines can take a long time and I will mention
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  really quick before we hop into like do this first, do the 2nd,
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  that type of thing. Do keep in mind that although we
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  mentioned that Genie Plus is almost identical in system when
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  it comes to cross the parks, there are a more significant
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  amount of rides at Disneyland that are not included in Genie
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  Plus. And I know Kate, you'll probably
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  talk about which one of those don't have a Genie Plus option
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  and those types of things. But do keep in mind that where
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  you see at Disney World, it's like 95 to 98% of your
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  attractions. It's not quite that high at
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  Disneyland. So there are some rides that
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  you're going to really want to pay attention to that you just
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  you don't have the option to do use Genie Plus with.
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  So keep that in mind as we work towards our day.
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  And a lot of that is because Disneyland is an older park.
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  You remember a lot of these rides.
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  If they're not all the way back from 1955, they're at least back
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  from like the Fantasyland rides are back from the 1980s and
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  there just isn't physical room for them to put in.
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  I mean, I'm sure they would put in one if they could, but there
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  just isn't space to put one. So they do have an option for
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  like das returns and stuff. Usually they go in the exit of
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  those those rides that are in Fantasyland, but yeah, that's
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  why a lot of them just don't don't have that option, so.
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  I'm trying to remember this is my fault because I did not look
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  this up. I don't usually buy individual
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  lightning lanes because they're very expensive.
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  It is, isn't it just one individual lightning lane per
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  day? Is that or is it?
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  So at Disney World, you can do 2 per day, but let's see.
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  I'll let you look that up while I chat.
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  I've never tried to buy them there because it's like I'm just
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  not going to spend the money for something I go to often, but so.
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  1st I'm going to say arrive at least 40 minutes before park
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  opening time and then after you enter the park.
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  The first. I hate saying this because like
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  you should be taking in the ambience at the park, but after
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  you kind of breathe and say hey I'm here, I'm on Main Street and
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  I'm doing find bench, there's lots of them there.
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  Sit down by your genie Plus and then you can book your first.
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  If you're going to use an individual lighting lane, which
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  is in like a la carte option, I probably would book it for Rise
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  of the Resistance first. And did you find an answer for
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  that? Yes.
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  So it does say guest may purchase and select the next
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  available arrival window for up to two attractions per day with
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  the individual lightning lanes. So.
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  You said, wait a minute, you say we can have up to two up to two
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  per day. Lens said something.
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  It distracted me and I'm like, wait a minute, yes, what I would
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  say so same that we have it at Disney World.
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  You can purchase up to two individual lightning lanes per
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  person per day. So then then that's all of there
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  is, there is then for the sealand so you could you could
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  get both of your individual lightning lanes if you're going
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  to do that. The price for those though is
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  depends on the day and how much crowds there are.
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  And it's 15 to $25 per person per ride, so you get one ride.
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  And you have to pay per person, which is why I don't buy them,
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  because they're very expensive. But if your time is extremely
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  valuable and you want to ride them without any weight, well,
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  with a little bit of a weight that would be the best option
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  for you. And for some people that's not a
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  big deal. And some of us are like, I can't
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  ever do that, so, so. By your individual lightning
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  lane for whatever you would like.
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  And then just know that those will just be worked into your
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  days with whatever return time you get.
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  Plus at that time for your first ride, which is I would recommend
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  either Space Mountain or Indiana Jones first with a leaning more
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  towards space. If you have a lot of littles
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  that are with you that you're like, we're not going to ride
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  Space Mountain, they're not into it or whatever, then you know,
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  or Indiana Jones for that matter, like you might not want
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  to do both so. I have an order for which you
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  should book the attractions for Genie Plus based on how fast
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  their return time goes in the day.
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  This is where Disneyland differentiates significantly
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  from Disney World in that they just don't run out that fast,
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  right? You can probably still get space
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  until early evening most days, unless it's super, super
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  crowded. But because it could run out,
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  those you should These are the this is the order that it runs
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  out the fastest. Usually this is all
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  statistically based, so the order that you should book is
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  Space Mountain, Indiana Jones, Matterhorn Bobsleds, Millennium
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  Falcons, Smugglers Run, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Roger
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  Rabbits, Cartoon Spin, Haunted Mansion, Buzz Lightyear,
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  Astroblasters, Star Tours. It's a small world.
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  And then Octopia and usually those last couple ones you're
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  probably not gonna need because you're probably are gonna get on
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  them. But and again, you can get to
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  all these in a day if you remember to book on time.
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  I usually set an alarm in my phone that will go off when it's
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  time to book another one, because otherwise I forget.
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  Who's paying attention to that? And keep in mind some of these
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  you may or may not need, but those that is your extensive
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  list of what is included correct on your Genie Plus for
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  Disneyland. Yes, Yep, that's all.
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  Those are all the. GD plus attractions and then
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  individual light ones are individual lightning lanes are
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  rising. The Resistance and Mickey and
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  Minnie's Runaway Railway I think depends on what you count as an
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  attraction. There's 29 attractions at
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  Disneyland. It's a lot and so I'm like, so
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  as we go through the rest of this list, I I'm recommending
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  things for morning, afternoon and evening based on.
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  And I'm not including any of these things on this list that
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  are on the Genie Plus one because this is assuming you're
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  going to book Genie Plus as they come and they'll give you a
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  return time and then you'll go to them.
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  So I'm not including them as when to recommend on this list.
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  We'll get to that in our next section.
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  So that being said, I think I'm going to pause here really quick
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  and say. If it's overwhelming to keep all
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  of that organized because it can be I I'm not, this is not a paid
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  promotion at all. But for years I have used
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  touring plans and I think that they are pretty spectacular for
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  keeping track of all of this. If you're not used to it at all,
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  if you're kind of a veteran, like sometimes you just know
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  what to do and you you roll with it.
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  But they I think Touring Plans is great because you can plug in
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  your return times and you can. Create an itinerary you can put
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  in your meal times if you have any reservations or where you
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  want to eat. You can even put in break times
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  and then it will optimize your day based on current wait times,
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  which is pretty fabulous. Yeah, that's awesome to have.
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  It would be nice if the Disney app actually functioned that
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  way. Wouldn't it?
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  It would be, yeah. So Touring Plans is an app, but
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  it's also on a website, and they're the ones that do the
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  unofficial guides to Disney, like the books if you've ever
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  seen them. And I think if you get the book,
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  you actually do get a little discount on their subscription.
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  It's a subscription service, but it's yearly and I think the
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  Disney World one is like 18 and change and the Disneyland one's
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  like 15 and change. It's not that much for an entire
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  year. If you're going to go, it's
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  worth it for your vacation to plan.
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  So I I would recommend touring plans if you're just kind of a
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  newbie and you're trying to figure it out.
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  Because if you're stuck on your computer, on a laptop or
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  whatever, and then you can pull up the it's a DLR lines I think
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  is what it's called in as an app.
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  And and Disney World has its own Disney World is better than the
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  Disneyland One, if I'm honest. They have two different ones
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  there. This is nicer, but they still
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  function the same. And it's really helpful to plan
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  and to put your day together if you want to be super organized
• 19:33
  and also optimize it so you're waiting in line the least amount
• 19:35
  of time. So keep that in mind, yeah.
• 19:38
  And it's always helpful to know, Okay, if you've got these
• 19:42
  Lightning lane time set or this one set like, OK, what makes
• 19:46
  sense for me to like fill in the gaps?
• 19:48
  Basically, yeah. Is the trickiest part of when it
• 19:50
  comes to these itineraries. You know, you can hope to get
• 19:52
  these certain times with Genie Plus, but a lot of times you've
• 19:55
  got to be flexible. You're either going to be
• 19:56
  flexible. You're going to be on your phone
• 19:58
  trying to modify while you're walking around the park.
• 20:01
  So it just really depends on which way you want to try to
• 20:04
  swing it. But having that list in order
• 20:07
  and also based on location is super helpful to have.
• 20:10
  Yeah. And they also have it where you
• 20:11
  can change if you want to do less walking or less waiting or
• 20:15
  like a balance of both, which I think is or end the pace that
• 20:18
  you're going to go. If you want to go really fast
• 20:20
  and you know your family can move quickly, you can sleep the
• 20:23
  little slider and put it that way.
• 20:24
  If you know you're going to need more time, if you just like to
• 20:27
  go slower or if you have somebody in your party that that
• 20:30
  is maybe having a harder time walking or whatever, You know,
• 20:33
  it's nice that there's that you can make those accommodations
• 20:35
  for your family and it adjusts it accordingly and it will give
• 20:38
  you all the times that are wait times in between times, ride
• 20:42
  times. It's very detailed.
• 20:44
  So all of you Type A personalities for this is what
• 20:48
  you want to get. So yeah, yeah.
• 20:52
  So anyway, let's jump into it knowing that you've possibly
• 20:56
  booked all your individual lightning lanes for the day.
• 20:59
  If you do not want to book an individual lightning lane for
• 21:05
  Rise of the Resistance, I would recommend going.
• 21:09
  Not be final in the day because they do close that queue earlier
• 21:14
  than the rest of the park in Disneyland.
• 21:16
  So it's not like most of the rest of the rides where it stays
• 21:19
  open till closed and you have the last second to jump in line.
• 21:21
  They don't do that there. So I believe sometimes the line
• 21:25
  can close as early as 8:00 PM. So you just want to get over
• 21:27
  there in the evening hours when everybody's starting to
• 21:31
  congregate for like shows and stuff is a good time to go over
• 21:34
  to rise because that back end of the park gets a little bit less
• 21:37
  busy during that time. So that's why I'd recommend, if
• 21:40
  you don't want to buy an individual individual lighting
• 21:42
  lane for that and pretty much a similar thing to Mickey and
• 21:46
  Minnie's Runaway Railway, although they do keep the queue
• 21:48
  open later for that. All right, so you're you've,
• 21:52
  you've got in your individual lightning lanes.
• 21:54
  If you or not you've booked your DD plus ride for the day, I
• 21:59
  would always, always, always recommend you start in
• 22:02
  Fantasyland full stop. Don't need to consider anything
• 22:06
  else, especially if you have kids.
• 22:08
  If you've got older kids that are like over the dark rides or
• 22:10
  whatever, which makes me sad. If that's true then then you
• 22:15
  want to go to the left side of the park and do things like
• 22:20
  Indiana Jones and stuff like that.
• 22:21
  Go left instead of right, like left is always right at Disney
• 22:25
  remember. But I would always recommend you
• 22:27
  start in Fantasyland because these are all slow loading rides
• 22:32
  and they will have lines virtually all day in the parks.
• 22:36
  So the morning is your best time to get on them with some lower
• 22:41
  wait times essentially. And you can really knock out
• 22:43
  like a whole bunch of them. They're right next to each
• 22:45
  other. It doesn't take very much time
• 22:47
  and they're very short rides as well.
• 22:48
  So I've done like almost all of them in an hour and a half, I
• 22:53
  think was it. So it's it's great and there's a
• 22:56
  ton there. So this is Alice in Wonderland
• 22:59
  is usually where I head first because that line does get long
• 23:01
  pretty quickly. Dumbo Snow Whites.
• 23:05
  Enchanted Wish, King Arthur Carousel.
• 23:08
  I think you could probably put that one at the end of the list.
• 23:11
  Mr. Joe's Well ride and then Casey Junior Circus Train and
• 23:14
  Storybook Land Canal Boats which I'd say if you're short on time
• 23:19
  maybe pick one between Casey Junior and Storybook Land Canal
• 23:23
  boats and all you Fantasyland Paris out there.
• 23:25
  It can be mad at me but they're they're not the same ride but
• 23:29
  they're similar because they wind around each other.
• 23:32
  So you're going to see kind of the same thing.
• 23:34
  So it depends if you want to have a little bit more of an
• 23:36
  exciting little train ride or you want to have a slow moving
• 23:39
  boat ride with storytelling that's your your that's that's
• 23:43
  your choice. But I would say if you were
• 23:45
  short on time, baby, pick one or the other and then come back to
• 23:49
  the other one if you have time later in the evening but.
• 23:52
  That makes sense, yeah. So when I I don't usually
• 23:56
  recommend starting at the Fantasyland is everybody goes to
• 23:59
  Peter Pan first thing and you can you can do that.
• 24:04
  I've done that. But usually even first thing
• 24:06
  because so many people rope drop it.
• 24:08
  It ends up being like an instant like 3045 minute wait and you're
• 24:12
  just and you lose all that time to do all those other rides
• 24:15
  without a wait. So if you do Peter Pan maybe do
• 24:18
  it at the end of that list of those but it's still probably
• 24:20
  going to be pretty high up there.
• 24:22
  Usually touring plans recommends me do it like more towards like
• 24:27
  the dinner hour into the like but before they close it for you
• 24:31
  know fireworks or after. When they reopen it after
• 24:35
  fireworks is usually when I'm recommended to do that.
• 24:38
  So yeah, so Morning and Fantasyland do all those slow
• 24:43
  moving low capacity rides is what we call them because they
• 24:47
  don't have any sort of Omni mover system.
• 24:49
  It's like they stop and they load like 2 people and then they
• 24:52
  go and it's not. It just takes forever.
• 24:54
  So a lot of people that asked me what are the recommendations for
• 24:57
  lunch so I thought I'd just throw in.
• 24:59
  This is not a food episode, but I'll just throw in good places
• 25:03
  for families to have lunch. Jolly Holiday Bakery is always
• 25:08
  my favorite and it's so easily accessed because it's in the
• 25:13
  Hub, so it doesn't matter where it land you're in, it's pretty
• 25:15
  easy to get to. Otherwise I'd also recommend for
• 25:18
  kids. I don't love the food at the
• 25:20
  Hungry Bear 100%. Like I I will say I have loved
• 25:25
  it in the past. Last time I had it something
• 25:27
  there I was I did not like it. But they have some things that
• 25:31
  are okay and they have some good food for kids.
• 25:34
  So. But the seating is exceptional
• 25:37
  because you can there's a lot of it, there's a lot of it in the
• 25:40
  shade and one side the Disneyland Railroad goes by and
• 25:45
  the other side the Columbia Sailing Ship and the Mark Twain
• 25:47
  go by. So no matter where you're
• 25:49
  seated, you know your kids get to watch these boats go by,
• 25:52
  which is really fun. So I recommend it for kids for
• 25:56
  that reason. Just be aware if you have
• 25:59
  somebody with some sensory needs that if the Columbia sailing
• 26:03
  ship is running, sometimes they will shoot the cannon over in
• 26:07
  that area and it can be a little bit startling.
• 26:11
  So just just to keep that in mind, So those are my
• 26:14
  recommendations for lunch in Disneyland proper.
• 26:16
  There's lots of other great places to eat in Disneyland and
• 26:18
  Tiana's will be open soon. Hopefully they'll have some
• 26:20
  really great food for that as well, but for now that's what I
• 26:25
  would recommend. And if you're looking for
• 26:27
  snacks, we've done several episodes that included food and
• 26:30
  snacks in all of the parks. So just scroll back in our
• 26:33
  episode list and find all of our snack suggestions.
• 26:36
  If you're looking for just to kind of snack along the way.
• 26:39
  If you're on the run off to the next ride.
• 26:43
  Yeah, we have some really great snacks in Disneyland too.
• 26:46
  And I did mention if you just want to grab a quick bite but
• 26:50
  you don't want to do a sit down, I would say Tropical Hideaway or
• 26:53
  Bangle BBQ are your best bets for that.
• 26:55
  And they're both in Adventureland I.
• 26:57
  My kind of favorite hack is to get my food at Bangle Barbecue
• 27:00
  and then carry it over to Tropical Hideaways.
• 27:04
  They basically stuff a like place to eat inside an old store
• 27:08
  in the like Bazaar area in in adventure land.
• 27:12
  So it's just like not, it's not. It's insideish, but it's not
• 27:17
  like the best one. So what you're saying is it's
• 27:20
  fine, but fine. But if I wanted like a really
• 27:24
  nice experience of where to eat, I would go and take it over to
• 27:27
  Tropical Hideaway because you have Rosita there, the bird that
• 27:30
  talks to you and tells jokes and the the music is top notch and
• 27:34
  they've got tiki torches and it's just really lovely.
• 27:36
  So but we'll see once Tiana opens that might be another
• 27:41
  place to recommend. I did like the food they used to
• 27:43
  have there at the French market. So I'm hopeful, hopeful we'll
• 27:46
  have some good food there. OK, so morning we're in
• 27:50
  Fantasyland and we have some lunch in the afternoon you're
• 27:55
  going to do non genie plus rides that don't have super long
• 27:58
  waits. And this is hard to predict
• 28:01
  because it depends on the crowd level in the park.
• 28:04
  Sometimes if the crowds are low, Jungle Cruise doesn't
• 28:08
  necessarily have a super line long line all day.
• 28:11
  If it does have a long line, sometimes if you wait a little
• 28:13
  while and come back, it'll be short.
• 28:15
  It's just kind of this weird thing where it kind of
• 28:17
  fluctuates during the day. Winnie the Pooh also usually
• 28:20
  doesn't have tremendously long lines unless it's a really busy
• 28:24
  day. Toon Town, with a caveat that
• 28:28
  not going on any of the rides, is a good place to bum around.
• 28:31
  Especially with Littles, it's a good place to explore their new
• 28:35
  play area that they have there, which is fantastic.
• 28:37
  They've got really great, really big slide.
• 28:40
  They've got this little bridge that makes sounds when you run
• 28:42
  over it. They have a bunch of little
• 28:43
  things on the ground for them to like follow.
• 28:46
  And then they have inside Goofy's house, there's like this
• 28:49
  whole, like, I want to say, this bubble gum machine, it's like
• 28:52
  has a little balls that go all over the place.
• 28:54
  It's fun. So yeah, so I would say headed
• 29:00
  to in town to just, you know, get some energy out is a good
• 29:04
  good, but in town notoriously doesn't have very much shade.
• 29:09
  So keep that in mind. There's also Mickey and Minnie's
• 29:11
  house. You can walk through Mickey's
• 29:12
  house without meeting Mickey. If it's a huge weight, you don't
• 29:15
  have to meet Mickey, You can just walk through the house and
• 29:17
  see all of this stuff. Or you can go and meet the
• 29:19
  characters as well, if that's something your kids really want
• 29:21
  to do. So Tune Town's a good place to
• 29:24
  go. Also, I would say Tom Sawyer
• 29:25
  Island is a wonderful place to escape to in the afternoons when
• 29:29
  the crowds get a little overwhelming because the kids
• 29:32
  can really run around and play a whole lot there.
• 29:34
  There's caves to explore, there's pirate ship theme, it's
• 29:38
  pirate Slayer themed and so and it's it's just kind of a nice
• 29:42
  getaway from the the hustle bustle of the parks.
• 29:44
  So I definitely recommend that. So that's kind of like afternoon
• 29:50
  time. And remember, your other return
• 29:52
  times for Genie Plus will be sprinkled in amongst these
• 29:55
  things. So that wouldn't be all you'd do
• 29:57
  in the afternoon. I'd also put in there.
• 29:59
  I forgot to add that Enchanted Tiki room would be perfect for
• 30:03
  the afternoon. So that never has a wait.
• 30:06
  I mean, you have to wait till the next show and that's pretty
• 30:08
  much it. So that's an adventure land and
• 30:10
  that's a great place to go and cool off to if it's hot outside.
• 30:15
  Or Lincoln. Yes.
• 30:16
  Thank you, Conductor Jackson. Appreciate that.
• 30:19
  Yeah, Lincoln, great moments with Mr. Lincoln.
• 30:21
  That's on Main Street. And I'd also say Main Street
• 30:24
  vehicles are a great one. They run most of the day in
• 30:26
  Disneyland, unlike Disney World, they kind of shut those down for
• 30:29
  the afternoon. But yeah, anything that's on
• 30:34
  Main Street, there's a little theater there as well where you
• 30:37
  can go in and see classic Nikki cartoons.
• 30:39
  So that's a great place to go and not have a wait or ride.
• 30:43
  The Disneyland Railroad just also usually has a little bit of
• 30:48
  a weight by the afternoon because everybody's tired.
• 30:50
  But it's a great one with kids to get off your feet.
• 30:54
  And my kids have often taken naps on there.
• 30:56
  We'll just, you know, all those, hold them and we'll ride around.
• 30:59
  And it's, you know, we stop every so often, but the swaying
• 31:02
  helps put them to sleep. So, and I will say something
• 31:04
  like the train is also helpful if you're trying to manipulate
• 31:08
  sometimes and and move some stuff around doing something
• 31:11
  like the train in the meantime. Can be helpful if so.
• 31:15
  That way you're not just like standing around waiting, so hop
• 31:18
  on the train. You can do whatever you need
• 31:20
  while your kiddos are enjoying the ride and looking around.
• 31:24
  So something like that. I would not suggest doing that
• 31:26
  in a show, just cuz you know screen in the dark room.
• 31:28
  But something like the train would be perfect for that.
• 31:31
  Yeah absolutely. So then into the evening I would
• 31:36
  recommend for the rides that we have left.
• 31:39
  This is when you would do Pirates of the Caribbean is not
• 31:42
  a Genie Plus attraction. So I would I'd never recommend
• 31:45
  this in the middle of the day because that line can get so
• 31:48
  long it in Disneyland it goes out out of the queue and then up
• 31:53
  the ramp and like over it. So if the line goes up on the
• 31:55
  ramp over it just wait. It will get shorter eventually
• 32:00
  unless the crowds are really, really bad that just don't don't
• 32:04
  do that because in the evening it will, it will go down and
• 32:07
  this is all. Also, I should mention this is
• 32:10
  implying in this itinerary that you're not going to go see
• 32:13
  fireworks. So taking advantage of those
• 32:15
  Evening Times when people are going to go see the night shows,
• 32:18
  both the Fireworks show and World of color, some people will
• 32:22
  hop and go see World of Color into DCA.
• 32:26
  So this plan does not. Neither of these plans includes
• 32:28
  that. So just FYI, so you might have
• 32:33
  to pick and choose is all I'm saying.
• 32:34
  So in the evening I'd recommend pirates.
• 32:37
  This is when you can come back and do Peter Pan's flight, but
• 32:40
  only after they've reopened it after fireworks or before they
• 32:43
  close it. And also ending your day with
• 32:46
  Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway if you did not get an
• 32:48
  individual lightning lane. So I'm going to breathe for a
• 32:52
  second. A lot of information.
• 32:54
  Yeah, because. I had a couple of questions that
• 32:56
  I was hanging on to that people were asking about.
• 32:59
  The first question we had over here was wondering about if the
• 33:03
  Disney World and Disneyland app are the same.
• 33:07
  Are two separate function the same way?
• 33:11
  There's little tiny differences between the two and like where
• 33:14
  you might find something between the two, but both are going to
• 33:17
  give you wait times. Both are going to be how you do
• 33:19
  all of your Genie, plus you'll be able to mobile order.
• 33:23
  All of that is available on both, so if you're familiar with
• 33:28
  the Disney World app, the Disneyland app is super easy to
• 33:30
  use as far as that's concerned. Hopes asking which two apps So
• 33:35
  we have. Walt Disney World Resort has an
• 33:37
  app, and then Disneyland Resort has its its own app.
• 33:41
  So they're two different apps. They look similar, though when
• 33:44
  you open them up they have similar features to them, so if
• 33:47
  you're familiar with one, you'll probably understand the other
• 33:51
  one fairly easily. Yeah, and keep in mind, the
• 33:53
  Disney World app is going to show up as My Disney Experience,
• 33:58
  which is unfortunate because the word world doesn't exist in that
• 34:02
  title, which is why a lot of people get confused because they
• 34:06
  just assume it's all Disney. Yeah, it's not.
• 34:09
  So My Disney Experience is your Disney World app for everything
• 34:13
  you need to Disney World. And then the Disneyland app is
• 34:15
  just called the Disneyland app, which is very helpful, yeah.
• 34:20
  That's true. Those are going to be the ones
• 34:21
  that we're talking about now. Kate also did mention earlier
• 34:24
  the Touring Plants app, which is a separate third party.
• 34:27
  More apps. All the apps.
• 34:30
  And that one is the one that Kate was talking about that you
• 34:34
  can utilize the computer and the app to kind of help with your
• 34:37
  itinerary. So those are the apps that we've
• 34:39
  been mentioning. And the other question that I
• 34:42
  had and Kate, I'm not 100% sure, but someone was asking if the
• 34:45
  Peter Pan ride is identical in Disneyland and Disney World.
• 34:50
  That's a great question. It is not identical.
• 34:52
  It's a little bit longer in Disney World and has a longer
• 34:55
  Neverland scene that you actually fly over Neverland in
• 34:59
  like more close up. I would say Disneyland flies
• 35:01
  over Neverland from like, you're up in the sky and there's all
• 35:05
  these stars around, which makes it actually really magical.
• 35:08
  They did import the same scene with the boat the Jolly Roger,
• 35:13
  the boat the pirate ship Jolly Roger.
• 35:16
  At the end they put that scene originally was in Disney World
• 35:21
  and then they when they did the 1983 remodel, they added it to
• 35:24
  Disneyland. So it'll look really similar.
• 35:26
  But Disneyland's had some additional updates where there's
• 35:28
  extra Pixie dust through things, so they're not identical.
• 35:32
  Disney World's a little bit longer.
• 35:34
  If you haven't been on the Disneyland version, I'd
• 35:36
  recommend you do it because it's different, mainly for that
• 35:41
  flying over flying over the Neverland scene with all the
• 35:47
  stars is actually pretty magical, so.
• 35:49
  And it will say, I know if you're not that anyone asked
• 35:52
  about the queue, but the queues are also vastly different.
• 35:55
  So if that's something that, like if you're someone who loves
• 35:58
  the Disney World queue with all the little like lights and
• 36:01
  Tinkerbell flying around and all that, that is not what they have
• 36:03
  at Disneyland. It's very different.
• 36:05
  They do have a little scavenger hunt.
• 36:07
  So if you use the Disney Play app with your kids, they have
• 36:10
  these little things that are in the wood everywhere.
• 36:12
  Yeah, Another app, they have all these different little things
• 36:17
  that are hidden throughout the queues that the kids can look
• 36:19
  for in the app. So and you can even do it
• 36:22
  without the app just seeing how many items you can find cuz they
• 36:25
  had to do something for kids in that line cuz it's just really
• 36:27
  boring. But there's if you use your
• 36:29
  Disney play app that's also how you can get the Lantern with
• 36:32
  Tinker Bell to light up that's in the queue.
• 36:34
  A lot of people don't realize what that is and I see people
• 36:36
  trying to like push buttons and stuff on it.
• 36:38
  I was like you have to use your Disney play app to make it.
• 36:41
  So I have a couple of questions over here is rise identical in
• 36:48
  both and the answer is pretty much yes.
• 36:51
  Like the the ride experience is identical.
• 36:54
  It will. You'll sometimes when I go to
• 36:56
  get Guardians of the Galaxy, so that's when I go to Galaxy's
• 37:01
  Edge in Disneyland. I literally think I'm in Florida
• 37:03
  because it's so similar. So our Magic Bands needed in
• 37:07
  land, they're not needed. A lot of people do not use them.
• 37:11
  They have special readers on their Magic Band.
• 37:14
  They're they're where you scan your Magic Band.
• 37:17
  They have a little slot in it that you can actually stick your
• 37:20
  phone in and it will scan your park ticket in your app to get
• 37:24
  you and use you, not get you. Wow, I can't talk.
• 37:27
  I've been talking a lot. It will allow you access to that
• 37:31
  area as if you had a Magic band. However, you can use Magic Band
• 37:37
  Plus the ones that light up. You can use those at Disneyland
• 37:40
  and you can use the same one at Disney World.
• 37:43
  You just have to make sure they're registered in your app.
• 37:45
  So you can't use the older versions that don't light up.
• 37:48
  They don't work at Disneyland, that if you register the ones
• 37:51
  that light up, you can actually use those ones at Disneyland.
• 37:53
  And I I have enjoyed using mine there when I use Genie Plus
• 37:57
  because it's convenient so you don't have to, yeah.
• 37:59
  I would say if you're using Genie Plus, you definitely want
• 38:02
  to either have a Magic Band Plus or have your phone set up to be
• 38:07
  ready to go. Don't try to mess with the card
• 38:09
  or anything like that because it's just too much in and out.
• 38:12
  Especially if you're doing just one day and you're hustling
• 38:15
  between these rides, you want to make sure that whatever you have
• 38:19
  is easily accessible. I will also mention that I know
• 38:22
  several of us have used like Apple Watches for Magic bands
• 38:26
  before. That is not an option at
• 38:28
  Disneyland currently. Hopefully it will be at some
• 38:32
  point but so for those of you that maybe have used your Apple
• 38:36
  Watch or Smart Watch as your park ticket at World, that's not
• 38:40
  something you can do at Land. And I do have a question from
• 38:44
  Tracy saying the third what is the best hotel?
• 38:47
  We did a whole series on the best hotels in the Disney Parks
• 38:51
  and we included Disneyland in that.
• 38:54
  But I would, I always recommend if you're staying on property, I
• 38:59
  recommend California. Grand Californian is my favorite
• 39:02
  to stay on property and off property.
• 39:05
  I recommend almost anything on Harbor.
• 39:07
  Blvd. is usually pretty good, which is the road that runs like
• 39:11
  parallel to Disneyland Resort. Most of them have been renovated
• 39:16
  motels, so they're not like super fancy necessarily, but
• 39:20
  they're they're quality clean stays, which is what you need.
• 39:23
  And the Howard Johnson's always a really popular one with kids
• 39:25
  too, because they have a little water park that's attached to
• 39:28
  it, so. Yeah.
• 39:29
  And if you're looking for more about that, we did several
• 39:31
  episodes based on budget. So we did kind of like value
• 39:35
  prices, moderate prices and deluxe prices.
• 39:38
  So those are episodes 6/7. Wait, no, 689 and 10:00.
• 39:43
  I was like, wait, that wasn't right.
• 39:45
  So 689 and 10 are the ones that you're looking for if you want
• 39:48
  more information about hotels based on your budget.
• 39:52
  And like Kate said, it's Disney World and land in the same
• 39:55
  episode, so you can Fast forward and rewind as needed.
• 39:58
  Yeah. Well, I think my biggest advice
• 40:00
  with that is if you're staying with kids, try to stay closer to
• 40:04
  the Harbor Blvd. Entrance to the park because
• 40:07
  you'll walk less. At the end of the day, walking
• 40:10
  less is great for everybody. So just saying, so are we, do
• 40:15
  you have any more questions or should we move?
• 40:17
  On think I'm good on my end. Okay, so let's do a Disneyland
• 40:23
  day if you're not going to buy Genie Plus.
• 40:26
  I will say that if you're not going to buy Genie Plus, you're
• 40:29
  going to get less done in your day.
• 40:30
  Just full stop. Unless the parks are virtually
• 40:33
  empty, which just like never is anymore.
• 40:35
  So right again, I'm going to recommend you get there.
• 40:39
  First thing in the morning, arrive at least 40 minutes
• 40:41
  before park opening so that you can rope drop, which if you're
• 40:45
  not familiar with that term, means they kind of have a rope.
• 40:47
  You know they have a section where you're standing behind
• 40:50
  waiting for them to open that section.
• 40:52
  That's why we call it rope drop. I would recommend you head for
• 40:55
  Rise of Resistance first, If that's something that you're is
• 40:59
  a huge priority for you, but only if it's a huge priority for
• 41:03
  you, don't do it. If you're like I could take or
• 41:06
  leave it, I don't. I'm not into Star Wars or
• 41:08
  whatever. Just don't, because.
• 41:09
  It will take a significant amount of your time and it's
• 41:12
  going to look like the line is ridiculously long when you get
• 41:17
  there. Like I think we had to go in
• 41:18
  like the third entrance is where the line stretched to.
• 41:21
  So it was basically the length of of the galaxy's edge.
• 41:26
  And you know, it's going to seem like this is crazy.
• 41:30
  It's going to take forever, but in the morning it actually moves
• 41:32
  as long as it's running. It will move pretty quickly.
• 41:36
  I know it takes a while to warm up and sometimes it doesn't
• 41:38
  always work right. It's just complicated, right?
• 41:40
  But and that's the same on both coasts.
• 41:45
  But if it is, if it is up and running and working and getting
• 41:48
  that line, it will probably be, depending on the day, fiftyish
• 41:52
  minutes, maybe less than an hour, and then you're going to
• 41:57
  do. After that you can then go do
• 41:59
  those Fantasyland slow loading rides, because even if it takes
• 42:03
  you an hour. But you got there right when the
• 42:05
  park opened. You can still hit a lot of those
• 42:08
  fantasy land rides while the wait times are low.
• 42:11
  So I would again do the same same thing.
• 42:14
  Alice and the Elephant Ride and Snow White's Enchanted Wish and
• 42:19
  Matterhorn. I'm going to throw that in
• 42:21
  because that was one that was a Genie Plus attraction.
• 42:24
  You can ride the Matterhorn with Rider Switch if you have Littles
• 42:29
  that don't measure up or not. Or too Scared to ride because
• 42:32
  it's it's a roller coaster. Rider switch we've talked about
• 42:36
  before but essentially you can have, you can go approach the
• 42:40
  cast member who's at the front and they and say we want to do
• 42:44
  rider Switch and usually they'll in a coat.
• 42:45
  They each ride I feel like has a different way of doing it but
• 42:48
  sometimes they'll give you like a physical pass and then when
• 42:51
  that person is through then you can switch your child.
• 42:55
  The other person stays with the child and this person usually
• 42:57
  can have at least one other person come with them.
• 43:00
  Sometimes it's been up to three in the past it.
• 43:03
  Sometimes it changes it. Sometimes it says on your past
• 43:05
  how many people it will admit. So, you know, I hate to be so
• 43:09
  vague about it, but it, it just really depends on the the
• 43:11
  attraction, the park. Yeah.
• 43:13
  So just ask the cast member if you don't know how to do it or
• 43:17
  don't don't know, just go to the front of the attraction and say
• 43:20
  we would like to do rider switch.
• 43:22
  Is that possible? And then they'll help walk you
• 43:24
  through it. So yeah, yeah, easy peasy.
• 43:28
  And just a quick note about rider Switch.
• 43:30
  I know we're talking non Genie Plus, but if you are using rider
• 43:32
  switch with Genie Plus, I would suggest talking to the cast
• 43:37
  Member about. Especially on a day where you
• 43:39
  only have one day in the park, about making sure that everybody
• 43:43
  taps in before you get your rider swap.
• 43:46
  Which sounds a little crazy, but everyone on your party is going
• 43:49
  to have to tap in or, you know, use your phone or however you're
• 43:52
  doing it to the ride before you're going to be eligible to
• 43:54
  book your next one. So make sure that you talk to
• 43:57
  the Cast Member if you're using Genie Plus and Rider Switch,
• 44:00
  because you want to make sure that you're not stuck waiting on
• 44:03
  2 cycles of that cue before you can book your next ride.
• 44:08
  So let's keep that in mind, they.
• 44:11
  Didn't even think about that because I haven't had this rider
• 44:13
  switch in a long time so and I haven't either.
• 44:16
  But it someone asked me that question and like Bart, our
• 44:20
  friend tour guide Barbie and I were like discussing it the
• 44:22
  other day about, but it's because I was wondering whether
• 44:25
  or not Rider Switch had anything to do with it.
• 44:26
  But they're completely separate systems.
• 44:28
  So you want to make sure that even if you're you, even if
• 44:31
  you're using Genie Plus, I would still do the Rider Switch
• 44:33
  because it's going to let you book your next lightning lane
• 44:36
  faster. Yeah, I hope that makes great.
• 44:40
  Made sense to me. I know it's a lot.
• 44:43
  And you know, I'm thinking back in our Genie Plus episode, there
• 44:46
  were too many other things to talk to, talk about when it
• 44:49
  comes to Genie Plus. So just keep that in mind.
• 44:53
  Yeah, OK, so you're doing your Fantasyland rides.
• 44:57
  We got to the Matterhorn, and I'll put in this caveat that,
• 45:01
  like, if nobody wants to do these big rides, just don't just
• 45:04
  skip them, You know, go to the next thing.
• 45:07
  If you're not interested in any of these rides, you're probably
• 45:09
  going to have to pick and choose which one of these you want to
• 45:11
  do anyway, because you will not get to everything in the park.
• 45:14
  So. As always, we recommend
• 45:16
  everybody says what is it you want to do the most and make
• 45:19
  your list of like your priorities and then take those
• 45:21
  out of each of these sections of the day.
• 45:23
  Be like we're going to try to get to these ones and then
• 45:25
  anything else is just bonus beyond that.
• 45:27
  So all right, the Carousel, Mr. Toad, Casey Juniors or Storybook
• 45:33
  Land Canal Boats. Again pick one because of pretty
• 45:35
  much very similar attractions because of what you see.
• 45:40
  And then Small World is another one I'm going to recommend for
• 45:43
  the morning. Before those lines do tend to
• 45:46
  get long in the afternoon, they do go down again in the evening,
• 45:51
  but there's a whole bunch of other rides I recommend for the
• 45:53
  evening. So I'm kind of putting it in the
• 45:54
  morning side for that reason. This was, of course, that we
• 45:59
  started in Fantasyland. This was after Rise.
• 46:02
  I kind of put Indiana Jones here, but I'm going to tell you,
• 46:05
  if you don't do Indiana Jones like first thing in the day or
• 46:09
  kind of last thing at night, it's just going to have a long
• 46:11
  wait. It just will so.
• 46:14
  Just accept it. If use the touring plans up to
• 46:17
  see when they recommend you should ride because some days it
• 46:19
  makes sense to do it at different times.
• 46:21
  So I will just say that because even doing in the afternoon,
• 46:25
  it's going to have a really long wait.
• 46:26
  I just was like, I don't even know where to put this because
• 46:28
  if you're going to Fantasyland in the morning, I tried to do
• 46:31
  it. That was more family friendly.
• 46:32
  And not all kids want to go in Indiana Jones.
• 46:35
  My kids are still a little bit terrified of it.
• 46:37
  So that's why I put in the afternoon in case you wanted to
• 46:40
  do that. And same with jungle crews like
• 46:42
  we talked about before it can kind of its weights can kind of
• 46:45
  go up and down and depending on the day, so it I put it in the
• 46:47
  afternoon, but that one might also be when you need to come
• 46:49
  back to later. I'd also put Big Thunder
• 46:52
  Mountain Railroad in the afternoon and Smugglers Run as
• 46:56
  well. These you're just going to have
• 46:59
  to probably pick pick your favorite out of some of these
• 47:01
  because the weights will be a little bit longer then the same
• 47:04
  ones I recommended before Winnie the Pooh.
• 47:07
  Soon town. This is where I would do Mad Tea
• 47:09
  Party because it doesn't have a long wait most of the day.
• 47:13
  Sometimes it can get a little longer in the afternoons, but I
• 47:15
  think you can still probably do it.
• 47:16
  Then Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer Island Enchanted Tiki Room, The
• 47:23
  Mark Twain and Columbia Sailing Columbia Sailing Ship.
• 47:26
  So those are great afternoon activities that don't have
• 47:29
  weights except for waiting for the boat to come around.
• 47:32
  Great moments with Mr. Lincoln Main Street vehicles and also if
• 47:36
  they're running the Davy Crockett Explorer canoes, which
• 47:39
  is a little controversial because some people refuse to go
• 47:41
  in them. But they're so unique because
• 47:44
  you get right down on the water and you see it's some the Rivers
• 47:48
  of America from a really different point of view and it
• 47:50
  doesn't run on a track. It's a little terrifying, the
• 47:55
  thought of being in a canoe and being kind of at the mercy of
• 47:59
  the other people in the canoe with you.
• 48:02
  Even if nobody goes in the canoe and those two cast members they
• 48:05
  have there are so strong they'll literally pull you through the
• 48:08
  water if nobody else paddles and everybody does because they feel
• 48:11
  bad. So yeah, what's wrong with the
• 48:15
  canoes is a lot of people just refuse to go on them because you
• 48:17
  have to work. It actually is a canoe.
• 48:19
  It's free floating. It's a self powered ride so you
• 48:23
  have to canoe and paddle your way.
• 48:25
  Through the Rivers of America, it's actually quite fun to do.
• 48:28
  And they tell hilarious jokes. It's like the Jungle Cruise but
• 48:31
  with canoes. So it's very funny.
• 48:35
  But if you get somebody in front of you, especially like
• 48:37
  sometimes a little kid, you'll get a little bit wet cuz they'll
• 48:40
  splash you with the water from the Rivers of America.
• 48:42
  So it's not everybody's favorite ride for that reason.
• 48:44
  But I like the canoes. I will stand it every time, so
• 48:48
  all the stand on the shore and enjoy everyone else enjoying the
• 48:53
  canoes. It is fun to watch them struggle
• 48:56
  though, as they come around, because everybody's tired at
• 48:59
  like halfway through and nobody wants to go any further, right?
• 49:02
  Especially like in the middle of the afternoon or towards the
• 49:04
  evening, which is where you have them right before dinner.
• 49:06
  On our plan here I'm I'm not canoeing it right before dinner.
• 49:11
  I am. I am ready for a break.
• 49:14
  Well, I have it like when the sun is starting to wane, so
• 49:17
  you're not in the bright sun, you don't want to do it like
• 49:20
  high noon. So I didn't put it like right
• 49:22
  after lunch, cuz nobody wants to do it right after lunch.
• 49:24
  So you do it when you Yeah, it's a workout.
• 49:28
  I have several people on my side of the chat that are like, Nope,
• 49:30
  no thanks. But it was in, it was there from
• 49:36
  1955 I believe. Have to go back and double
• 49:39
  check, but it's been there for a long time.
• 49:41
  It was originally had a different name before it became
• 49:43
  Davy Crockett Explorer Canoes, and it used to have like a whole
• 49:45
  section that had Rapids in it that you would go through, which
• 49:48
  was kind of cool. And I know like fake Rapids,
• 49:51
  like not real ones. They don't have it anymore.
• 49:56
  It's fine. My gosh.
• 49:58
  Anyway that it is time for dinner, I can't recommend the
• 50:02
  same places I do. Also, there's.
• 50:04
  A couple places with reservations.
• 50:05
  I also recommend if you can get a reservation, sometimes you can
• 50:08
  do a day of walk up. I like Cafe Orleans, it's a
• 50:11
  great one. Even my kids found stuff that
• 50:13
  they like to eat there. And then gosh, there's a couple
• 50:17
  other places. I'd say Carnation Cafe over on
• 50:21
  Main Street is a classic. That was one that Walt really
• 50:23
  enjoyed. So they have some of his
• 50:25
  favorite dishes there. That's a great place to eat.
• 50:27
  And Plaza In is always kind of a winner too.
• 50:29
  They've got really great fried chicken and stuff.
• 50:31
  So but. And I always go back to, you
• 50:35
  know, kind of the same old places because that's when I'm
• 50:37
  used to, I don't recommend the Red Rose Tavern.
• 50:41
  I wanted to say Pinocchio Village House.
• 50:42
  That's what it used to be. Red Rose Tavern I it is family
• 50:46
  friendly. So if you like flatbread and
• 50:48
  things like that, it's like Pinocchio Village House.
• 50:50
  It's got a similar menu, except it has the Gray stuff and stuff
• 50:53
  like that. But it's probably not one of my
• 50:56
  favorite places to eat as an adult.
• 50:57
  I've eaten there several times and I'm always kind of sad when
• 51:00
  I eat there, so. But it's air conditioned and
• 51:02
  indoors, so you know. But I feel like you've got so
• 51:05
  many better options. Like, don't settle for it, No.
• 51:09
  Not a Disneyland? Don't settle friends.
• 51:12
  And then it's also blue by you. If you really want to splurge
• 51:15
  and you can get into it. Usually if you haven't don't
• 51:18
  have a reservation, go to Blue by you first thing in the
• 51:20
  morning and try to see if you can get a walk up.
• 51:23
  For that day, that's your best bet for trying to get a
• 51:26
  reservation at Blue Bayou, and that is the restaurant that is
• 51:29
  inside Pirates of the Caribbean. So you're floating by in a boat
• 51:33
  and you're seeing all the people eating next to you.
• 51:35
  It's like perpetual twilight and it's actually quite wonderful
• 51:39
  place to eat. The food is not as good as it
• 51:41
  used to be, but the atmosphere is tough notch, So finishing up
• 51:47
  things to do in the evening I will say.
• 51:51
  I don't know. I put Indiana Jones here too,
• 51:53
  because I was like, I don't know where to stick Indiana Jones, so
• 51:56
  but definitely once everybody starts going over for fireworks,
• 52:01
  usually drop pretty practically during that time.
• 52:03
  So that is the time they're not that far from each other.
• 52:06
  You can knock out both of those. It's also a good time in the
• 52:09
  evening to do Utopia, if your kids really want to do that or
• 52:13
  you really want to do that because there's a lot less
• 52:16
  waiting and a lot less standing in the sun because that a lot of
• 52:18
  that, it's just hot to stand in line for that.
• 52:22
  Another good time to do Star Tours.
• 52:25
  Space Mountain is still pretty long at this time of day, but
• 52:28
  sometimes it gets a little lower when everybody goes to the shows
• 52:32
  and there's Buzz Lightyear Astroblasters that has a pretty
• 52:36
  long line in the afternoon. But once everybody starts
• 52:38
  heading into firework land, those wait times can drop really
• 52:42
  low. So, and this is also when you
• 52:45
  can do Peter Pan's flight again. Be mindful that it closes for
• 52:49
  fireworks and same with Roger Rabbit's cartoon spin, because
• 52:54
  it's in Toontown and then Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway.
• 52:57
  I kind of like close out the day with that, if that, if I was
• 53:00
  doing it. It's a great ride to close out
• 53:03
  the day with, you know, to be so I know he's the last little
• 53:07
  character you see as you exit my little buddy.
• 53:10
  I know that was a lot of information for Disneyland, so
• 53:13
  if my best advice for a Disneyland strategy.
• 53:16
  Is do the do Fantasyland first, do rides that don't have much of
• 53:22
  A wait in the afternoon, do everything else kind of at the
• 53:25
  end of the day. That's kind of like Fantasyland,
• 53:29
  no waits. Everything else at the end of it
• 53:31
  and that that that's it and it's a long day.
• 53:34
  So again, choose what you like to do for that.
• 53:39
  And yeah, there are some single rider attractions at Disneyland.
• 53:46
  I feel like the space one went away, someone saying single
• 53:48
  rider for space. I don't remember the Space
• 53:51
  Mountain one being open because I feel like that one
• 53:52
  disappeared. But if you are, we used to have
• 53:55
  one for splash as well. Just always remember if you go
• 53:59
  in the single rider line, they're going to split up your
• 54:01
  party. Yes, because I also Matterhorn
• 54:04
  is a great one for single rider like I do that Smugglers Run.
• 54:08
  Matterhorn and Space Mountain are the three for Disneyland
• 54:11
  that have single rider options. Thank you, Jackie.
• 54:14
  So yeah, I would say last time I was on Matterhorn, like the
• 54:19
  people that were in the Single Rider Line, they're just like,
• 54:21
  but we want to stay together. He's my son and they're just
• 54:24
  like the cast members. Like you could tell it was like
• 54:26
  barely contained rage. And I'm like, he's like, I'm
• 54:30
  sorry, it's the single rider, single rider line.
• 54:33
  It's. Like an hour and a half wait if
• 54:35
  you want to ride together, and like, you're welcome.
• 54:38
  You can wait in line with them, but when you get to the front
• 54:42
  you may get lucky one in 25 chances that you end up in the
• 54:46
  same car but. Yeah, it's not.
• 54:49
  Not usually. The chances are not not that
• 54:52
  great. So if you need to ride with your
• 54:54
  kiddo, don't go in the single rider line.
• 54:56
  That's all get off my yeah. And also keep in mind that they
• 54:59
  have age restrictions for some of that stuff too.
• 55:03
  So single riders, I think it's like 12 or 13, but I could be
• 55:08
  wrong. I would have to.
• 55:10
  Yeah, I don't know offhand because I've never tried it.
• 55:13
  And so yeah, that's my that's my main strategy for Disneyland and
• 55:19
  Disneyland again, you're just pick and choose what it is you
• 55:22
  want to do the most and don't try to do it all because
• 55:25
  especially with kids, it's just it's too much.
• 55:28
  I don't even, I try to do as many rides as I could in a day
• 55:31
  just to get footage the other day and I was worn out and I
• 55:34
  still didn't get to everything. I got to most of it, but not all
• 55:37
  of it. This is a lot.
• 55:39
  The Internet is saying guests under the age of seven may not
• 55:42
  ride alone and should be accompanied by a person age 14
• 55:46
  or older. Oh, that's not for sure, but I
• 55:49
  would say 14 and up then for like single rider if you're
• 55:52
  worried about. Yeah, I think.
• 55:55
  I think they do like I think. 18 like 8 year olds can ride by
• 56:00
  themselves from what I know. I always thought it was really
• 56:03
  low, so 14 sounds great to me. But yeah, while you look that
• 56:11
  up, I'm going to hop on over to DCA.
• 56:14
  That is Disney California Adventure, no S and we're going
• 56:19
  to have a few general park notes for DCAOK Wait.
• 56:23
  Conductor Jackson says if the child is at least seven years
• 56:25
  old, they can write on their own.
• 56:27
  That's what I thought. So they have to be like if
• 56:29
  they're under seven, they can't write on their own.
• 56:32
  That's what I'm thinking too. So yeah, so I guess if they're 8
• 56:37
  and older, they would be able to.
• 56:40
  I know. For as a mom, I'm like, I don't
• 56:43
  think so. I guess it depends on your
• 56:45
  child. There's some really mature 8
• 56:46
  year olds out there. Yeah, well and not only that,
• 56:49
  but like those rides that have single rider are not tame rides.
• 56:55
  Smugglers run the Matterhorn and Space Mountain.
• 56:58
  So like if your 8 year old can handle being on that attraction,
• 57:03
  let alone being alone without a family member on that
• 57:06
  attraction, that's a big if I. Know for me it's like a.
• 57:13
  For me personally, as a mom, I just don't feel comfortable
• 57:16
  having my child around like riding with potential strangers
• 57:20
  next to them. On some of these attractions
• 57:22
  especially like Space Mountain, you're next physically next to
• 57:25
  somebody and I just you just don't know who that person is.
• 57:29
  And they're especially they're in, they're in the dark, they're
• 57:31
  like they're I'm like, I just can't.
• 57:33
  I would not know, not for me, but some.
• 57:36
  Every parent is different and no judgment.
• 57:39
  But that being said, no, no your kiddo.
• 57:42
  Yeah, I know judgment. Every kid is different.
• 57:44
  Every family is different. Every parenting situation is
• 57:46
  different. So yeah, definitely.
• 57:48
  Yeah, it does. It does depend like Kathy saying
• 57:51
  you know her as an 8 year old. Yes, her daughter's 8 year old.
• 57:54
  No, times are different. Yeah, yeah, I would agree to
• 57:56
  that too. And Ali Beth said over here,
• 57:59
  better safe than sorry. And that's exactly it.
• 58:00
  Like as a parent taking your kid, you know, you you really
• 58:04
  have to decide you're in a very busy public place.
• 58:08
  Is it something that you're okay with or not?
• 58:11
  Well, and then I also think about my 8 year old getting off
• 58:13
  the ride potentially. Like I would probably have to go
• 58:16
  first and then they would have to go behind me because I'd want
• 58:18
  to be there to kind of like catch them afterwards.
• 58:20
  Otherwise they're waiting for me alone in the park, right.
• 58:24
  But like, oh that I don't feel comfortable with that.
• 58:26
  I mean when it comes to like my 1213 year old, like that's a
• 58:29
  different story. Eight I think is still pretty
• 58:32
  young. So anyway, real mom talk there
• 58:37
  for a minute. Sorry.
• 58:39
  You can what you can do. It's all your personal that
• 58:42
  those are the official park rules you do, you and your
• 58:44
  family and what works for you. So we'll say that Disney
• 58:48
  California Adventure, let's head over there.
• 58:49
  This park is so much easier to do in a day and it used to be
• 58:53
  like 1/2 day park, but they've added so many things to it that
• 58:56
  now it really is a full day adventure.
• 58:58
  If you want to get to most of the things that are in it again
• 59:02
  the same. Rules applies.
• 59:04
  Disneyland get there early because it gets progressively
• 59:06
  busy as the day, busier as the day goes on.
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  And I'd say sometimes this park is even a little bit more busy
• 59:13
  because a lot of the locals go there to eating and atmosphere
• 59:16
  and things like that in the evenings for dinner.
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  If you want to watch World of Color, which is the big old
• 59:22
  water show that they have, which I recommend if you've never seen
• 59:26
  it before. Be sure you see World of Color
• 59:29
  and I really love it as Nick, but World of Color is really
• 59:31
  spectacular. So go see that you can get a
• 59:34
  free virtual queue for World of Color at noon, so that that is
• 59:40
  in your app if you're familiar with virtual queues.
• 59:43
  So basically what the virtual queue does is exactly what it
• 59:46
  sounds like. It virtually holds your place in
• 59:48
  line and it helps you be able to guarantee an entry to whatever
• 59:55
  it is that you're looking for most of the time.
• 59:59
  I shouldn't say most of the times, a lot of the time virtual
• 1:00:02
  queue rides do not have standby. But like World of Color is a
• 1:00:06
  little bit of a different beast just because it's a show versus
• 1:00:08
  like a specific attraction. But basically you're going to go
• 1:00:12
  on your app a couple different ways you can find it.
• 1:00:14
  You can find it just on the homepage of your app.
• 1:00:16
  If you Scroll down, it'll give you that option.
• 1:00:17
  You can also find it on your tip board if you're using Genie
• 1:00:20
  Plus. But basically you just go in,
• 1:00:22
  get your party all situated in the app, make sure everybody's
• 1:00:25
  included. And then Kate and I have talked
• 1:00:27
  about kind of the tip and trick of doing this.
• 1:00:30
  Check your Internet speed. Make sure you've got good
• 1:00:32
  Internet speed and then basically using like a world
• 1:00:36
  clock, double check your timing and then for the you know 15 to
• 1:00:41
  2030 seconds before it hits, just start tapping the refresh
• 1:00:44
  button. It'll automatically turn into
• 1:00:47
  the join queue button and you just keep tapping and tapping
• 1:00:49
  and tapping and don't stop. And then it'll eventually kick
• 1:00:52
  you a somewhat randomized somewhat.
• 1:00:56
  The sooner you're in the lower number you get for your group
• 1:00:59
  number. And then in the app they will
• 1:01:02
  call your group number when it is your turn to enter either the
• 1:01:06
  queue if it were to be a ride or the seating area that they have
• 1:01:10
  blocked or standing area that they have blocked off for World
• 1:01:13
  of. Color.
• 1:01:13
  It's like color-coded. So they'll give you a show and
• 1:01:17
  they'll give you like a color, and then you go to that section
• 1:01:20
  for world of color. You don't have to use the
• 1:01:22
  virtual queue. It's not something where like if
• 1:01:25
  you don't use a virtual queue, you're not going to get in like
• 1:01:28
  if you think of virtual queues for like Cosmic Rewind or Tron
• 1:01:31
  at Disney World. So it's not the same as that,
• 1:01:33
  but it just gives you like early entry and specific areas that
• 1:01:38
  you're going to be allowed to stand in.
• 1:01:39
  Yeah, it gives you a better view of the show, you know, from more
• 1:01:43
  of a front facing area, So I would definitely recommend
• 1:01:47
  having it if you've never seen World of Color.
• 1:01:49
  If World of Color is not a priority, often times you can
• 1:01:52
  watch from some areas around the lagoon anyway and still see a
• 1:01:56
  big portion of it. So don't stress if you forgot
• 1:02:00
  and it's closed or whatever, but it is a nice thing to have if
• 1:02:03
  you've never seen it before. So noon World of Color I
• 1:02:07
  believe. I think if you have a park
• 1:02:11
  hopper, I think you can still book that from Disneyland, yes.
• 1:02:15
  When? Yes, when we looked up virtual
• 1:02:16
  queues, yes, you are able to book from either park as long as
• 1:02:20
  you have. If you're in Disneyland, as long
• 1:02:22
  as you have a park hopper it will be, you'll be eligible to
• 1:02:25
  book it on the app, yeah. So you don't have to physically
• 1:02:28
  walk over to California Adventure, you just have to be
• 1:02:32
  checked into one of the parks. Yes, by noon if you have to be
• 1:02:36
  in the parks to book that 1. So it's not something you can
• 1:02:38
  book from your resort or from standing outside the gates.
• 1:02:41
  You have to be physically tapped into the parks.
• 1:02:45
  Yes, and also a note, just like Disneyland has the areas that
• 1:02:50
  close for fireworks, the same is true for Disney.
• 1:02:53
  How to say Disney World for California Adventure California
• 1:02:58
  venture, the Pixar Pier area. Not all of the attractions
• 1:03:01
  closed, but a majority of them closed one hour before the 1st
• 1:03:06
  world of color. So don't wait till the end of
• 1:03:08
  the day to ride the Ingredi coaster.
• 1:03:10
  You're going to be very sad because it's close.
• 1:03:15
  And also they the silly swings, the Golden Zephyr, which like, I
• 1:03:18
  don't know who's riding that anyway.
• 1:03:20
  And the the big star pal around, which is the big Ferris wheel.
• 1:03:24
  And I got some like, mixed reviews because I was trying to
• 1:03:27
  figure out if I like, just never go in there that time of night
• 1:03:29
  because I'm like, everything's probably close anyway.
• 1:03:32
  But Midway Mania may or may not be opened.
• 1:03:34
  Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.
• 1:03:36
  If anybody is a California. Person and they know it's for
• 1:03:40
  sure open during that time, cuz I always thought all of that
• 1:03:43
  stuff closed. But what is the Golden Zephyr
• 1:03:46
  Okay. So those of you who are not
• 1:03:49
  familiar, I'm gonna say this quickly.
• 1:03:51
  So the California Adventure was like Michael Eisner Park, right?
• 1:03:56
  And they did it on a severe budget.
• 1:03:59
  It's like ridiculous budget when it first opened.
• 1:04:03
  Compared to what they were building overseas with like
• 1:04:06
  Tokyo Disney and whatnot, the Imagineering team that had to
• 1:04:08
  work for California Adventure really didn't have any money to
• 1:04:12
  work with and they were encouraged to basically save as
• 1:04:15
  much as possible. So they bought a lot of kind of
• 1:04:17
  like off the shelf rides for this, which is so opposite of
• 1:04:21
  what Walt Disney wanted. So they made this like Midway
• 1:04:24
  area and they have the Silly Symphony Swing Swings, which was
• 1:04:28
  used to be like a giant orange and now it's more like the Silly
• 1:04:31
  Symphony swings with like. Mickey you know conducting a
• 1:04:34
  band but they they had one of the rides they got was called
• 1:04:41
  the Golden Zephyr and so it's like these almost like spaceship
• 1:04:45
  looking things that are on wires and then when it spins around
• 1:04:49
  they like lift up. Jackie's going to give us some
• 1:04:52
  visual aids they they lift off the ground and they swing around
• 1:04:55
  okay. So this is not and.
• 1:04:58
  If there's the lightest breeze, like a tiny breeze, they will
• 1:05:02
  not operate like at all. Literally just swinging around.
• 1:05:06
  It's not, it's not anything so it's not anything to spend your
• 1:05:12
  time on unless there's literally nothing else to do.
• 1:05:15
  I've done, I've gone in it once and I was like once was enough
• 1:05:18
  for me for my lifetime. So it's up to you if you want to
• 1:05:22
  experience the Golden Zephyr, but it does close during World
• 1:05:25
  of Color. Thanks Jackie.
• 1:05:27
  You're the better visual because I was even like I don't know
• 1:05:30
  that I know what that is even. It's like it's like Astro
• 1:05:33
  Orbiter, but slow and with a giant boload of people.
• 1:05:36
  So it's not exciting, it's just and apparently it's very
• 1:05:41
  expensive to maintain because like the cables and stuff that
• 1:05:44
  are on it like are only from one company or something.
• 1:05:46
  That's what I've heard. It's all.
• 1:05:48
  I don't know if it's 100%, but that's what I've heard, so Becca
• 1:05:53
  Bella wrote over here. Golden Zephyr is.
• 1:05:54
  Thumbs down. And they also have like the
• 1:06:00
  Jelly, jumping jellyfish and stuff over there, which like I
• 1:06:03
  think Jackie and I were talking about this the other day is
• 1:06:05
  similar to an attraction they have in Disneyland Paris.
• 1:06:08
  And I was like, Nope, I've been on that.
• 1:06:09
  I'm good. I don't need to go on that
• 1:06:11
  again. So Yep, that's about right.
• 1:06:16
  So Conductor Jackson says some of the attractions on certain
• 1:06:19
  days will stay open during World of Color to his knowledge.
• 1:06:21
  And that's what I've heard too. That's what I've researched.
• 1:06:23
  Like I'm pretty sure the credit coaster.
• 1:06:26
  There's a couple times I've seen that they have tried running it
• 1:06:29
  during World of Color, but it's almost always closed.
• 1:06:31
  So just don't depend on it being open.
• 1:06:33
  The other thing is under my general park notes for this one
• 1:06:38
  is Radiator Springs Racers is a nightmare now for standby with.
• 1:06:45
  The whole Lightning lane Genie plus situation, it just is
• 1:06:48
  awful. So my personal story, my tale of
• 1:06:52
  woe if you will, is me with my little 6 year old at the time
• 1:06:57
  and she really wanted to ride it and we wanted to ride it
• 1:06:59
  together, but so I was like okay, we're going to tough it
• 1:07:02
  out and do standby. We got in, it was 45 minutes and
• 1:07:06
  I was like I could do 45 minutes.
• 1:07:08
  I can tough it out, it's fine. And then?
• 1:07:11
  As we stood in line, they said your wait is now you know is now
• 1:07:16
  an hour because of our prioritizing lightning lanes.
• 1:07:19
  It's now an hour and a half. It's not.
• 1:07:20
  It went up to 225 minute wait while and our line literally
• 1:07:26
  stopped moving for like 1/2 hour and my daughter started to cry.
• 1:07:31
  She was like, I'm tired, I don't want to stand anymore.
• 1:07:33
  And I was like, I can't do this anymore.
• 1:07:36
  And it was so sad. It was the saddest moment for
• 1:07:39
  her. And of course we didn't.
• 1:07:41
  We went and did something else that was fun.
• 1:07:42
  She never got to go on it that trip because that that's what
• 1:07:45
  happens with that ride is that if they prioritize individual
• 1:07:49
  lightning lanes, and they will, they will, they will always do
• 1:07:52
  that because they need to. So if you don't want to pay to
• 1:07:57
  go on that and you don't want your sad children like mine
• 1:08:01
  sometimes you can eat at the right time of day and you'll be
• 1:08:03
  fine. But I that that was my story and
• 1:08:05
  I don't ever want to relive it. I don't want you guys to relive
• 1:08:08
  it so. My recommendation is wait until
• 1:08:11
  the end of the night right before the park closes.
• 1:08:14
  Get in the line then because no other individual lightning lanes
• 1:08:18
  can. Then enter the queue after that
• 1:08:20
  and it will move very quickly. And the cast members want to go
• 1:08:23
  home, so they want to get you through the line so everything
• 1:08:26
  moves really fast at the end of the night.
• 1:08:28
  And yeah, this was Radiator Springs Racers, for those of you
• 1:08:32
  who are asking. So Radiator Springs Racers is
• 1:08:34
  the big eticket attraction that's in Radiator Springs
• 1:08:38
  where. And it's amazing.
• 1:08:39
  You don't want to miss it. It's a, it's one of my favorite
• 1:08:42
  Disney rides and it tells the whole story of cars and and you.
• 1:08:47
  It has a dark element to it and that has a race at the end
• 1:08:49
  that's kind of like test track. It's amazing.
• 1:08:52
  So you definitely don't want to miss that, but ride at park
• 1:08:55
  close. All right.
• 1:08:56
  So. Another one of my park notes
• 1:08:59
  before I jump into our with Genie Plus itinerary.
• 1:09:03
  I would say one of my favorite traditions that most people
• 1:09:06
  don't know about if they're not Disneyland people, is the
• 1:09:09
  Radiator Springs lighting ceremony that happens at sunset.
• 1:09:12
  So head on over to Radiator Springs we can look up.
• 1:09:15
  Just Google what time sunset is and it happens within a couple
• 1:09:18
  of minutes of sunset and they play Shaboom.
• 1:09:21
  Life could be a dream, and the cast members dance with little
• 1:09:25
  flags and they have bubbles. And all the lights will
• 1:09:29
  progressively come on, starting at the end of the street and
• 1:09:31
  moving down. All the neon lights come on.
• 1:09:33
  And sometimes you see couples dancing together and kids are
• 1:09:36
  dancing and it's just it's just like little Disney magic that
• 1:09:40
  doesn't cost anything extra and everybody's in it together.
• 1:09:44
  And to me that's so special and just kind of disappearing in the
• 1:09:48
  parks a little bit. So I love that it's still there.
• 1:09:56
  That's all I got. I don't know the.
• 1:09:58
  Words for that song. Thanks Jackie for that, but it's
• 1:10:03
  a wonderful time to You can grab a little snack at the Cozy Cone
• 1:10:05
  if you want, and just chill out and wait for the lights to come
• 1:10:08
  on. And to our family, it's always
• 1:10:10
  been a tradition and it's really special, so I'd recommend that,
• 1:10:15
  Rick says they do. They theme it for the holidays
• 1:10:17
  too. I haven't been at that ceremony
• 1:10:21
  in the holidays, but they could. The whole land is themed for the
• 1:10:23
  holidays. Where they theme it for the
• 1:10:25
  holidays. The holidays, it's fabulous.
• 1:10:29
  The decor there is amazing. It's all cars themed and it's
• 1:10:32
  it's fantastic both for spooky season and for Christmas.
• 1:10:36
  So you know, it depends on where you go.
• 1:10:38
  Okay, that's enough of my general park notes moving on.
• 1:10:43
  So with Genie Plus, let's do GD Plus.
• 1:10:46
  However, a lot of these rides are for not all of them, but a
• 1:10:50
  lot of them are for older kids. So keep that in mind as you're
• 1:10:54
  booking that wait to book your first lightning lane until the
• 1:10:59
  return. Windows are about 30 minutes
• 1:11:01
  after park opening, so that gives you the ability to do some
• 1:11:04
  attractions that are exclusively via standby lines for the 1st 90
• 1:11:08
  minutes or so that California Adventures open, so you don't
• 1:11:11
  immediately have to use your. Lightning lane you can kind of
• 1:11:15
  just like wait a little bit. You can hit some rides while the
• 1:11:18
  wait times are low and regular standby lines and then start
• 1:11:22
  booking your lightning lanes. So I recommend that I will say
• 1:11:25
  though book and modify. Book and modify.
• 1:11:29
  Because again, if you're trying to get as much in as you
• 1:11:33
  possibly can in a day, book it as soon as you can and then just
• 1:11:37
  modify it out. That's smart.
• 1:11:39
  You know, maybe 10 minutes later look and modify it out a little
• 1:11:42
  bit because again, it could, it could possibly affect when
• 1:11:46
  you're booking your next on that early in the morning.
• 1:11:48
  It may or may not if you're getting a time that's within
• 1:11:51
  that two hour window, which we talked all about in our Genie
• 1:11:53
  Plus episode. But just my two cents, I always
• 1:11:56
  say book and then modify rather than waiting.
• 1:12:00
  That is smart. Thank you, Jackie.
• 1:12:01
  I'm going to do that next time. I'm also this is when you could
• 1:12:07
  get an individual Lightning lane is only available for Radiator
• 1:12:12
  Springs Racers. So if you don't want to deal
• 1:12:14
  with the nightmare that is Radiator Springs and you don't
• 1:12:16
  want to wait till the end of the day, then you can, you know, buy
• 1:12:20
  that first thing in the morning and and get that one.
• 1:12:23
  Then you should again. You should be able to get all
• 1:12:25
  the Genie Plus rides pretty easily.
• 1:12:28
  So right when you get into the park, if you're going to buy
• 1:12:31
  Radio Springs racers, do that first, then book your first
• 1:12:34
  Lightning Lane. And here is the order, which you
• 1:12:37
  should book based on how fast they disappear during the day.
• 1:12:42
  Guardians of the Get W Slingers, A Spiderman Adventure, Toy
• 1:12:47
  Story, Midway, Mania, Soaring Around the World, Monsters Inc,
• 1:12:53
  Grizzly River Run, Goofy Sky School, and then Incredi
• 1:12:56
  Coaster. So that's the order.
• 1:12:59
  That's fascinating to me. Being someone who doesn't know a
• 1:13:03
  ton about Disneyland and DCA and all of that, it's interesting to
• 1:13:08
  me the order of that. Yeah.
• 1:13:11
  A lot of it has to do with capacity.
• 1:13:12
  So, yeah, yeah, right. And sometime and all that good
• 1:13:16
  stuff. And a lot of people don't.
• 1:13:18
  I mean, well, that's not true. Midway Mania is all the way in
• 1:13:22
  the back of the park too, so it's kind of like it, but it
• 1:13:25
  goes really fast. I was going to say in Credit
• 1:13:27
  Coaster is all the way in the back of the park, but because it
• 1:13:30
  has such high capacity, it doesn't run out nearly as fast
• 1:13:33
  as the other ones. So that's why it's right the
• 1:13:35
  end. The Guardians goes pretty
• 1:13:38
  quickly, especially when it's themed for holidays, so keep
• 1:13:42
  that in mind. And web slingers used to be an
• 1:13:45
  individual lightning lane, and they changed it to just a
• 1:13:47
  lightning lane, so it's kind of a popular one.
• 1:13:52
  If you choose to not purchase your individual Lightning lane
• 1:13:56
  for radio space racers, you could go there first or
• 1:14:00
  otherwise start at Guardians of the Galaxy Mission Breakout if
• 1:14:03
  you've got small kids and they're not going to like a
• 1:14:07
  Tower of Terror esque ride where there's drops in it.
• 1:14:11
  Then go for Radiator Springs Racers first.
• 1:14:14
  If you're just like, I just don't want to do that and risk
• 1:14:17
  like having a lot of lines again, you can do that at the
• 1:14:19
  end of the day. So I kind of like waffle back
• 1:14:22
  and forth about what I recommend for Radiator Springs Racers cuz
• 1:14:24
  I'm a little bit bitter about it now.
• 1:14:27
  I love that, but I'm it makes me sad.
• 1:14:30
  So it is what it is. So then I would do the.
• 1:14:35
  After that I would do the non Genie plus attractions in this
• 1:14:39
  order. Interspersed of course with your
• 1:14:41
  Genie plus attraction Jamboree which is Brolican Roadsters the
• 1:14:47
  Pixar pal around. Especially if you're doing the
• 1:14:49
  non swinging because that line does get long.
• 1:14:52
  They have swinging cars that are terrifying and then they have
• 1:14:56
  non swinging which are great. Just personal preference.
• 1:15:00
  Some people really love the swinging ones, but they make me
• 1:15:02
  sick. But.
• 1:15:04
  Then The Little Mermaid, Ariel's Undersea Adventure Redwood Creek
• 1:15:08
  Challenge Trail, Mickey's Philhart Magic World of Color
• 1:15:13
  with a virtual queue and then Radio Springs racers at the end.
• 1:15:16
  So if you have not got an individual lighting lane at that
• 1:15:19
  point, so those of you who are not familiar with California
• 1:15:24
  Adventure, Redwood Creek Challenge Trail, you literally
• 1:15:27
  could do any time of the day because it is.
• 1:15:29
  Basically like a playground for kids to run around and enjoy and
• 1:15:33
  a lot of parents will run around with them.
• 1:15:35
  My kids are finally old enough that I'm kind of like just stay
• 1:15:38
  in this general area. I'll be right here on this bench
• 1:15:41
  and it's great. So it's good times with that,
• 1:15:44
  but we've chased our kids for many years around probably Jones
• 1:15:48
  Trail. I'm sure and I will mention too
• 1:15:50
  and I should have maybe mentioned this in the beginning
• 1:15:52
  when we started talking about this.
• 1:15:53
  Anytime you're utilizing Genie Plus these lists are a great
• 1:15:58
  starting point by number means are they an end all be all
• 1:16:01
  starting point. And here's the thing that I I
• 1:16:04
  like to kind of stress to people do not go cross park to back,
• 1:16:09
  cross park to back just just to follow this order.
• 1:16:13
  There's there's something to be said about being aware of your
• 1:16:16
  surroundings and what's closest to you and kind of tweaking and
• 1:16:21
  manipulating it to that extent. Especially when if you're, you
• 1:16:25
  know let's say you booked Guardians of the Galaxy is your
• 1:16:29
  first ride but you're going to mater's first to rope drop.
• 1:16:33
  You know like it's just it's a lot of back and forth.
• 1:16:35
  So just kind of look locationally where everything is
• 1:16:38
  that that can be said at Disneyland as well with what we
• 1:16:41
  talked about earlier. Look to see where things are
• 1:16:45
  before you get set on your plan. Yeah, it's not as critical.
• 1:16:51
  At Disneyland, because everything's so close together,
• 1:16:54
  it like it really is not as not as important, but I would agree
• 1:16:58
  there are some that are like this is all the way on the other
• 1:17:00
  side of the park and this is over here and you don't want to
• 1:17:02
  be running back and forth because they'll just get
• 1:17:04
  exhausted. So, but I do recommend touring
• 1:17:06
  plans for that because they'll take an account like walking
• 1:17:09
  distance and like things that are near each other and try to
• 1:17:13
  group them together while trying to minimize your weight as well,
• 1:17:16
  which I think is important so. Yes, absolutely.
• 1:17:18
  And May's asking what Goofy Sky School is.
• 1:17:21
  That is a Mad Mouse type roller coaster that's outdoors, that is
• 1:17:25
  themed like Goofy doesn't know how he's like teaching you how
• 1:17:29
  to fly I think, but it's like Goofy teaching you how to fly
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  and so he like runs into stuff. It's really, if you have a fear
• 1:17:35
  of heights, it's not one I'd recommend.
• 1:17:37
  There's very small you would get in this little thing.
• 1:17:40
  And there's like a safety bar, but it feels like you're going
• 1:17:43
  to fly off the edge of things when you go around and you're
• 1:17:46
  really high up in the air. Yeah, a wild mouse coaster is
• 1:17:49
  kind of like where you would think, like a mouse goes here
• 1:17:52
  and then he turns around really quick and then goes over here.
• 1:17:54
  And then like, it's like, it kind of goes back and forth in
• 1:17:56
  like a you and it's in a really compact space.
• 1:17:58
  So those were around really popular in amusement parks for
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  many, many, many years. So it's an old style kind of
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  coaster and. I would say Space Mountain is
• 1:18:08
  like a modified mad mouse coaster.
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  It's just like it's a little bit different of a design but it's
• 1:18:13
  the same kind of concept, it's like out and back.
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  So that's what I would recommend for doing those non Genie plus
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  attractions. So like I said that's that's
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  pretty much all there is there. So you're going to do the Genie
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  plus ones interspersed with the other ones and that's that's
• 1:18:29
  your day and it really you can get.
• 1:18:31
  Pretty much all that done in a day.
• 1:18:32
  It's not that big of a park, but if you're booking without GD
• 1:18:36
  plus I would recommend book ending your day with web
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  slingers on one side and radio springs racers at the end.
• 1:18:44
  So those are like the big ones. Then I would do probably with
• 1:18:50
  web slingers. First this is the morning web
• 1:18:53
  slingers, then potentially Soren, then Mater's Junker
• 1:18:58
  Jamboree. Luigi's Rollican Roadsters, the
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  Pixar Pal around Toy Story, Midway Mania, and then the
• 1:19:04
  Incredi coaster for your morning.
• 1:19:08
  If you're going to eat lunch in the park, I'd recommend Pimstas.
• 1:19:11
  Kitchen is probably my favorite restaurant there, but with kids.
• 1:19:15
  I love to sit at Flo's V8 Cafe, but go sit as long as it's not
• 1:19:19
  too hot. Go sit in the back of the of it.
• 1:19:22
  Most people don't even know they're seating back there.
• 1:19:24
  In the very back of the cafe you can exit, there's a door you can
• 1:19:28
  go out. Sit in the back because you can
• 1:19:30
  watch all the cars from radio springs, racers roll by and it's
• 1:19:33
  just really fun to watch the cars go by and it's beautiful
• 1:19:37
  out there. So I love sitting there
• 1:19:39
  personally. Is it loud?
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  Like I think of like if I were to sit outside of like outside
• 1:19:44
  of test track is really loud. Is that one OK?
• 1:19:48
  No, I know. It's curious.
• 1:19:49
  For my own very loud, yeah. Because like, again, you talk
• 1:19:52
  about sensory needs, like, like loud sounds is or are my kiddos
• 1:19:57
  biggest sensory issues when we're in the parks?
• 1:20:00
  So it's like, oh, I would love to do that.
• 1:20:01
  But wait, I need to make sure. You know, it's not like Test
• 1:20:04
  track. Test Track is super loud.
• 1:20:06
  It's and also there's like a road in between you and the
• 1:20:09
  track. So you're actually pretty far
• 1:20:11
  from it. It's not that loud.
• 1:20:12
  It's kind of like a car driving fast two blocks away.
• 1:20:17
  I think what I would say, it was what you hear literally.
• 1:20:19
  My kids have stood outside of test track, heard it and then
• 1:20:22
  said I don't want to go on that. I don't blame them, it's loud,
• 1:20:26
  but the the the only thing that's loud there is the they
• 1:20:30
  have metal chairs and sometimes people scrape them on the
• 1:20:32
  ground. So I would say like that's the
• 1:20:34
  worst part sensory wise of that and if you're at the wrong time
• 1:20:38
  of the year, the trees do drop stuff on you, but they have an
• 1:20:40
  overhang part where you're not under the trees.
• 1:20:42
  So it just choose choose. You're proceeding wisely based
• 1:20:46
  on what the trees are doing. Some extra greenery in your
• 1:20:49
  food, you know, it literally went in my milkshake this last
• 1:20:53
  time. I was like, okay, maybe not
• 1:20:55
  right there. So that day, the food at Flo's
• 1:21:00
  VA Cafe used to be a whole lot better than it is.
• 1:21:02
  They change their menu and it's not as good, but it's still like
• 1:21:05
  good family food where most people will find something they
• 1:21:08
  like to eat. So I recommend it for families
• 1:21:11
  for that. After lunch, I would recommend
• 1:21:15
  the things again that like just don't have much of A weight,
• 1:21:18
  right. So we're going to do Little
• 1:21:20
  Mermaid, Ariel's Undersea Adventure, Redwood Creek
• 1:21:22
  Challenge Trail, Mickey's Philhar Magic, which is a lot of
• 1:21:26
  people don't even know it's there, but it's there.
• 1:21:28
  I promise Monsters Inc can still have a weight.
• 1:21:32
  I will say this with like an asterisk that one can get really
• 1:21:35
  long if there's a lot of Lightning main people cutting in
• 1:21:38
  front of you. So that's another one where your
• 1:21:40
  weight can go way up. If you feel like the line is
• 1:21:43
  really long for that, come back later in the evening because
• 1:21:46
  it's just not worth it to wait and or that one for a really
• 1:21:49
  long time. You can also do the animation
• 1:21:52
  Academy is available and then that.
• 1:21:56
  So that's a great place to go and then the sorcerer's workshop
• 1:21:59
  is in there as well and turtle talk with crush.
• 1:22:02
  So there's a couple of activities that are low weight
• 1:22:05
  and also indoors if you need to get out of heat.
• 1:22:07
  So after dinner good times do Guardians, the healthy and
• 1:22:13
  Radiator Springs Racers as your last thing to do.
• 1:22:17
  So that's my advice for California Adventure.
• 1:22:22
  Be like I have talked for a long.
• 1:22:25
  Time. You know, as we were prepping
• 1:22:27
  this episode, I told Kate, I said I'm really sorry.
• 1:22:29
  Like, I'm, I'm here with whatever you need.
• 1:22:32
  But I am not a Disneyland person.
• 1:22:34
  I'm slowly learning because eventually we'll get there, but
• 1:22:37
  I'm slowly learning. I mean, I did see, I think Ali,
• 1:22:39
  Beth was talking about taking notes.
• 1:22:41
  I think maybe we'll come up with some sort of graphic.
• 1:22:43
  Way to get this to you guys like that one to do in what order?
• 1:22:47
  Might help be helpful, Yeah. So we'll come up with a couple
• 1:22:49
  lists here. We may throw some stuff in our
• 1:22:51
  Discord and then probably post some stuff on like our Instagram
• 1:22:55
  Stories, like we've done with some of the other things that
• 1:22:57
  we've had. So we'll get that out to you
• 1:22:59
  guys here in the next, hopefully by next episode.
• 1:23:02
  Let's put it that way. There's Connector Jackson's also
• 1:23:07
  mentioning the Rogers musical, which is happening through the
• 1:23:10
  rest of the summer, but only till October 31st I think.
• 1:23:13
  And that does have a virtual queue right now.
• 1:23:15
  So if you're going soon, make sure you look for that virtual
• 1:23:18
  queue as well in your app. It'll tell you when you can
• 1:23:21
  join. There's a it's a couple times a
• 1:23:23
  day. I think you can join the virtual
• 1:23:24
  queue for that. Two or three.
• 1:23:26
  I think whenever we looked up I'd have to look at them, but
• 1:23:30
  yes, but it's only through the summer and then it's sadly gone
• 1:23:33
  because I I'm hoping to see it this August because I want to
• 1:23:36
  see it before this abuse. Yeah, and I will mention just
• 1:23:39
  because we talked about single rider lines at Disneyland at
• 1:23:42
  DCA, your single rider options are Goofy, Sky School and Credit
• 1:23:46
  Coaster. Radiator Springs Racers does
• 1:23:49
  have a single rider option, Grizzly River Run Web Slingers
• 1:23:54
  and Soren, which is fascinating to me that Soren over there has
• 1:23:58
  a single rider option. I don't even think I've used the
• 1:24:01
  single rider option there, so. Well, and go investigate that
• 1:24:04
  one. They messed around with that at
• 1:24:06
  Disney World for like a week. Yeah, like 3 months ago all this
• 1:24:12
  appeared. I don't know where Soren has the
• 1:24:15
  single rider line and everyone was like, well it does in
• 1:24:17
  Disneyland and it's like, well it hasn't come back since, so it
• 1:24:21
  must not have worked as well in Disney World.
• 1:24:24
  But so several more options for single rider.
• 1:24:26
  So if you're doing a solo trip. Or if you're you know if it's
• 1:24:31
  something that maybe you debated about using rider swap, maybe
• 1:24:36
  doing a single rider line instead and just doing your own
• 1:24:39
  type of rider swap might be a faster option for some of those.
• 1:24:44
  Rather than waiting in a 60 minute queue and then doing the
• 1:24:47
  shorter line. It may be quicker to just do
• 1:24:49
  single rider lines if you are able to finagle that with
• 1:24:52
  younger kiddos or kiddos who don't want to ride.
• 1:24:54
  Yeah. And Christine is asking like how
• 1:24:58
  single rider affects wait times. And I I I mean, I think it
• 1:25:02
  affects it probably positively because those people don't have
• 1:25:05
  to wait in a regular line and it's just spare seats they have
• 1:25:08
  to fill anyway. So that's why it's a bonus for
• 1:25:10
  everybody. Yeah, I don't know that it
• 1:25:12
  affects it terribly because it's literally just there.
• 1:25:16
  It's it's something that they would have just sent with an
• 1:25:18
  empty seat anyway. So because I know when I've done
• 1:25:23
  single rider lines at like Disney World.
• 1:25:26
  It's like okay, single rider here.
• 1:25:27
  Like go get in there. Yeah, I keep up with the people.
• 1:25:31
  You gotta go. We got seats to fill.
• 1:25:33
  Come on. Yeah.
• 1:25:35
  And I've done single rider lines.
• 1:25:36
  I haven't tried one in Soren, so I don't even know they had one.
• 1:25:40
  That's news to me, honestly. So I was like, okay, great.
• 1:25:42
  Straight from the Disneyland website.
• 1:25:44
  So okay, great. But I have done often the the
• 1:25:49
  Incredi Coaster one, so you line up for that.
• 1:25:53
  The entrance for that is if you are coming around over the
• 1:25:57
  bridge down heading towards in the Incredi Coaster, it's kind
• 1:26:01
  of like there's a fence and you'll kind of see everybody
• 1:26:03
  line up along the fence and it's it's it's not like the exit of
• 1:26:07
  the ride. It's actually like just a long
• 1:26:09
  list fence and you'll see a cast member with an umbrella and you
• 1:26:12
  end up going in one elevator and then you go over and you go down
• 1:26:15
  another elevator and then there's a.
• 1:26:18
  It's the line. Fascinating.
• 1:26:20
  Yeah, it's a very strange, it's like the the most awkward
• 1:26:22
  elevator ride ever, but that's a single rider light.
• 1:26:28
  And then I will say in Radiator Springs Racers, I usually don't.
• 1:26:32
  If I go in the the single rider line and it is like past the
• 1:26:36
  bridge because there's a bridge you go under.
• 1:26:38
  If it's past the bridge, I usually come back later because
• 1:26:42
  I know that's going to take a pretty long time to go through.
• 1:26:44
  It's hard to predict the single rider lines, but right in
• 1:26:47
  general that one will probably take a little bit too long for
• 1:26:50
  me. So if it's past the bridge,
• 1:26:52
  maybe consider coming back later for that.
• 1:26:54
  And those single rider lines can really be hit or miss at any
• 1:26:58
  park, no matter what you're going to.
• 1:27:00
  You know, I think about the ones that we have in Disney World and
• 1:27:03
  it's like. If you look at 2 roller coasters
• 1:27:05
  that we have them for, we have them for rock and roller coaster
• 1:27:07
  in Hollywood studios and we have them for exhibition, Everest and
• 1:27:10
  Animal Kingdom, drastically different single rider lines.
• 1:27:13
  So it just really depends, you may get super lucky, you may get
• 1:27:17
  stuck. So it's just it's hard to know
• 1:27:20
  especially with rides that are two seaters.
• 1:27:25
  You know if you get more odd seats in in things like
• 1:27:28
  something like Soren is probably moves quicker because there's
• 1:27:31
  more seats that you can fill. So it's a higher likelihood that
• 1:27:35
  they have single individual seats in that particular
• 1:27:38
  attraction. So it really just depends and it
• 1:27:41
  can be kind of hard to predict, but most of the time you're
• 1:27:45
  going to get a shorter wait, yeah.
• 1:27:47
  And I would say like smugglers run, I have waited in that for
• 1:27:52
  single rider for like an hour before because.
• 1:27:54
  It just didn't need it, yeah. And sometimes it goes really
• 1:27:57
  fast and sometimes it's really long.
• 1:27:59
  So it's luck of the draw. It's like rolling that, rolling
• 1:28:01
  the dice when you get the. Single rider line Yeah, yeah.
• 1:28:04
  But then something like I said Expedition Everest, you can
• 1:28:07
  pretty much almost walk on. Single.
• 1:28:08
  Yeah, like it's always the way to go super fast.
• 1:28:11
  It's like we don't even bother if there's two of us for like,
• 1:28:13
  Oh yeah, we're doing single rider.
• 1:28:16
  Yeah, and then like at. I think of like Smugglers run at
• 1:28:19
  Disney World's version. I feel like that line is never
• 1:28:22
  longer than like maybe 20 minutes tops for a single rider.
• 1:28:26
  That was the one I waited in for a long.
• 1:28:28
  Time did you? Yeah, Okay.
• 1:28:29
  But you know, I think when it was like that might have been
• 1:28:32
  closer to when it opened ish and it.
• 1:28:34
  So it was a little bit more popular, but right.
• 1:28:37
  And generally speaking, those single rider lines do ebb and
• 1:28:40
  flow. Reflective of the standby lines.
• 1:28:43
  So if you're getting in a single rider line and the standby is
• 1:28:46
  only 15 minutes, it's going to be a drastically different
• 1:28:49
  single rider line than something that's 150 minutes.
• 1:28:51
  You know, like drastically different.
• 1:28:54
  And then just use your gut. If you get in line of that
• 1:28:56
  single Rider line and you don't move for 15 minutes, that's
• 1:29:00
  probably bad news and you shouldn't.
• 1:29:02
  Pivot. Abandon ship.
• 1:29:03
  Go somewhere else and circle back around.
• 1:29:06
  Yeah, yeah, for sure. And that's for any line,
• 1:29:10
  honestly, not just single Rider lines.
• 1:29:11
  But if you get if there's no forward motion, maybe just come
• 1:29:16
  back, cuz they'll almost guarantee there'll be another
• 1:29:18
  time of day. Then it gets better.
• 1:29:20
  Except for maybe Rise the Resistance or something like
• 1:29:23
  that. And I think that Radio Springs
• 1:29:26
  racers, they've been really good, those cast members kind of
• 1:29:28
  like letting you know kind of how long the wait is for a
• 1:29:32
  single rider because you can't see how long it is from the
• 1:29:36
  entrance, which is true of most single riders anyway.
• 1:29:39
  But some of them, like in Credit Coaster, you can see how many
• 1:29:42
  people are standing in line, which helps a lot for like the
• 1:29:46
  single Rider line. But you can't see Radiator
• 1:29:48
  Springs Racers until you physically get in the line.
• 1:29:50
  And I've ditched that so many times.
• 1:29:52
  So like, I'm just not. It's fast.
• 1:29:54
  The bridge, I'm done, I'm out, I'll come back.
• 1:29:58
  Well, I think that I think we've covered it.
• 1:30:00
  Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, those are kind of my
• 1:30:04
  best, my best tips for how to tour it Well again, if you're
• 1:30:09
  feeling super overwhelmed by trying to figure all that out,
• 1:30:12
  I'm going to recommend Again, I'm not paid by them, I just
• 1:30:14
  used them for years. Touring plans is a really great
• 1:30:16
  option for pre planning out what you're going to do and then also
• 1:30:21
  being able to optimize it on the fly based on current wait times
• 1:30:25
  and rides that are down and that kind of thing.
• 1:30:26
  So definitely recommend that, yeah, and like we mentioned,
• 1:30:29
  we'll come up with some sort of a graphic for you guys to have.
• 1:30:31
  That kind of puts these lists in front of you, so you can pick
• 1:30:35
  and choose and kind of put your puzzle pieces together, so to
• 1:30:37
  speak, from your Genie Plus list and your non Genie Plus list,
• 1:30:41
  especially in Disneyland. But kind of get that guy that.
• 1:30:46
  Get that out to you. There we go.
• 1:30:48
  That was a struggle, but we'll get that out to you.
• 1:30:51
  So that way you guys have access to that so it's a little clearer
• 1:30:55
  for you. And then next week we will hop
• 1:30:59
  over to Florida and we will be covering Magic Kingdom and Epcot
• 1:31:04
  is the plan for next week. So if you want more info about
• 1:31:09
  doing a single day and those parks.
• 1:31:12
  Come on back next week, so that way we can come back next week
• 1:31:15
  so Jackie can talk the whole time.
• 1:31:18
  Hey, not the whole time. You had it.
• 1:31:20
  You have more input, yes. It won't be.
• 1:31:23
  It won't be The Entirely Kate Show because.
• 1:31:26
  We both have knowledge when it comes to Disney World, but.
• 1:31:31
  Some of the Genie plus stuff, I feel like I've got a little bit
• 1:31:34
  of an edge on, so we can you didn't have collaborate.
• 1:31:36
  It's true of that. I will give you that.
• 1:31:38
  I will grant you that it's like help.
• 1:31:42
  I don't know what I'm doing. Please send us a message.
• 1:31:44
  Reach out to us. You can find us on all of the
• 1:31:46
  socials you can. E-mail us if that's your jam at
• 1:31:50
  momstusa@gmail.com. You can find us on our Discord.
• 1:31:53
  If you're not familiar with the Walrus Carp Pocket Fam Discord,
• 1:31:57
  we are a part of that and have our own Mom St.
• 1:31:59
  USA channel on there so you can reach out to us on there as
• 1:32:02
  well. And links to all of that can be
• 1:32:04
  found in this general vicinity. So Yep, next week we're headed
• 1:32:08
  to Magic Kingdom at Epcot. And then after that, I'm headed
• 1:32:11
  to Disneyland, I think. So we'll do a chat.
• 1:32:13
  A little chat together, yes. Yeah.
• 1:32:16
  So we'll have just a brief intermission episode, but before
• 1:32:19
  we finish. Out our three-part series on
• 1:32:22
  these park strategies, but we just really feel like something
• 1:32:25
  like this can be super helpful. I know a lot of people that like
• 1:32:28
  to do day trips or like to do solo trips, or are maybe only
• 1:32:34
  going to be able to get to the parks once every. 234 years.
• 1:32:38
  So something like this can be super, super helpful.
• 1:32:42
  Not only that, but if you're someone that gets really
• 1:32:45
  overwhelmed with it, like I said, reach out for help.
• 1:32:48
  I do help people with itineraries when it comes to
• 1:32:50
  that and Genie Plus and all of that like this.
• 1:32:52
  I look at rides and I make lists and I figure out what you know,
• 1:32:56
  strategy makes the most sense. So if you need help with that,
• 1:32:59
  like I said, please reach out so that way we can help you make
• 1:33:02
  the most of your singular park day if that's your your case.
• 1:33:07
  Indeed. And Jackie's amazing at it.
• 1:33:09
  She is. She's helping me for Disneyland
• 1:33:11
  Paris because I only have time to plan the rest of my European
• 1:33:15
  adventure. So it's like Jackie helped me
• 1:33:16
  cuz I haven't been there for a long time.
• 1:33:18
  So, and it's been fun, and I think we're planning on maybe
• 1:33:21
  doing at least one. Episode on some Disneyland Paris
• 1:33:24
  stuff, kind of after Kate comes back from from overseas, so we
• 1:33:27
  can give you guys all some insight on.
• 1:33:31
  Whether or not what we found was accurate, I guess I know what it
• 1:33:34
  will end up being like. Nope, that didn't work.
• 1:33:36
  Or yeah, it worked really well. I know we'll have to do like a
• 1:33:39
  one day itinerary for both of those parks over there, cuz I
• 1:33:42
  think that would, but based on your research and my personal
• 1:33:46
  experience going there, we'll know it really well by that
• 1:33:48
  point. So it'll be great.
• 1:33:50
  Absolutely. Absolutely.
• 1:33:51
  All righty. Well, I think that's it.
• 1:33:54
  So thank you everybody for joining us for this episode of
• 1:33:58
  Mom St. USA.
• 1:33:58
  Thank you to our chat for being extra super helpful with all of
• 1:34:01
  the little details as we try to conquer Disneyland and DCA in a
• 1:34:06
  day each, which is really hard to do, but that we gave our best
• 1:34:10
  advice for how to do that. And next week we'll head to
• 1:34:14
  Magic Kingdom and Epcot. And beyond that, thank you for
• 1:34:17
  joining us and we will see you soon.
• 1:34:19
  Thank you guys. Have a great night.
• 1:34:22
  Bye everybody. Bye.