JSKoehler
02-04-2005, 05:35 AM
First let me say I am pleased to find this Forum is so active. As an Eastcaoster, my Disney knowledge is mostly about WDW and the forums I have participated in in the past tend to focus on it.
We will be visiting family on the West Coast during the Easter Holiday and will be spending three days/four nights (3/29-4/1) at Disneyland at the end of the trip. This will be our first visit to Disneyland in about ten years and the first with our sons, ages 7 and 5. Our older son, who is autistic, will celebrate his 8th birthday while we are in Anaheim. We have previously visted WDW with them (Thanksgiving of 2004). I have already purchased 3-day park hoppers online (was that wise?) and have a tentative reservation at the Holiday Inn at the Park, though I continue to look for "closer or better" accomodations. The wisdom I seek from the sages of many visits consists of more questions than I can fairly ask in one post, so I will start with the biggies:
What, if anything, can we do to celebrate our son's birthday in DL?
Is California Adventure suffciently "kid friendly" that we are going to want to devote a whole day to it, or can its highlights be done in an extended morning with a return to DL after an afternmoon break? (We found both Animal Kingdom and Disney/MGM at WDW to be a bit of a waste on a young 4 and 6, though Epcot was a surprising big hit).
I've just learned from my wife that my kids will be "surprising me" with a DL guidebook for Valentine's Day, so probably most of my logistical questions (like "how can every hotel in Anaheim be 'one block from Disneyland'?") will be answered therein, but I would really appreciate some real world advice.
Thanks.
We will be visiting family on the West Coast during the Easter Holiday and will be spending three days/four nights (3/29-4/1) at Disneyland at the end of the trip. This will be our first visit to Disneyland in about ten years and the first with our sons, ages 7 and 5. Our older son, who is autistic, will celebrate his 8th birthday while we are in Anaheim. We have previously visted WDW with them (Thanksgiving of 2004). I have already purchased 3-day park hoppers online (was that wise?) and have a tentative reservation at the Holiday Inn at the Park, though I continue to look for "closer or better" accomodations. The wisdom I seek from the sages of many visits consists of more questions than I can fairly ask in one post, so I will start with the biggies:
What, if anything, can we do to celebrate our son's birthday in DL?
Is California Adventure suffciently "kid friendly" that we are going to want to devote a whole day to it, or can its highlights be done in an extended morning with a return to DL after an afternmoon break? (We found both Animal Kingdom and Disney/MGM at WDW to be a bit of a waste on a young 4 and 6, though Epcot was a surprising big hit).
I've just learned from my wife that my kids will be "surprising me" with a DL guidebook for Valentine's Day, so probably most of my logistical questions (like "how can every hotel in Anaheim be 'one block from Disneyland'?") will be answered therein, but I would really appreciate some real world advice.
Thanks.