jrkcr
01-15-2008, 12:39 PM
I had several people tell me that if I had been to WDW I would not be too impressed with DL....
THEY WERE WRONG!! We had a WONDERFUL week at DL/Ca adventure!!
The Hotel:
We stayed at Paradise Pier, a disney hotel-13th floor. My DH picked this hotel cause I am a "beachy" kind of person. I wanted to bring home the cute lamps in the room! One was Mickey sitting in a tall lifeguard chair(like they have on the beach) and the other was a big lighthouse. The beds had comforters with palm trees, and the bathroom wall paper had beach chairs. Our room held 5 of us just fine- nice big closet,a small frig, a safe big enough to hold a laptop, iron and ironing board, and a bathroom big enough to get dressed in. DD16 slept on the flip-over sofa and said it was very comfortable.
We tried out the pool, hot tub, and big water slide, even though the weather was a little cool. I wasn't impressed with the hot tub-too shallow and not hot enough. But the water slide was very fun! It doesn't dump you into the pool at the bottom-it just stops the water jets and you end up in about 1-2 feet of water in the base of the slide. It looked weird to see a water slide that doesn't connect to a pool-but DD8 loved it! :thumbsup:
We walked to DL and Ca adventure. Even at the end of the day, it still felt like a short walk. Even when dripping wet from riding Grizzly River Rapids, it still was a short walk! ;) And our DD16 and DD14 were allowed to walk back to our hotel together when they needed a nap.
I do wish we had made time to walk through the DisneyLand Hotel-just to see it. We have already said next trip we are staying in the Grand Californian-it is more DH style.
YES, it seems there may be another trip to DL for us!! :yay:
More about the parks later....
THEY WERE WRONG!! We had a WONDERFUL week at DL/Ca adventure!!
The Hotel:
We stayed at Paradise Pier, a disney hotel-13th floor. My DH picked this hotel cause I am a "beachy" kind of person. I wanted to bring home the cute lamps in the room! One was Mickey sitting in a tall lifeguard chair(like they have on the beach) and the other was a big lighthouse. The beds had comforters with palm trees, and the bathroom wall paper had beach chairs. Our room held 5 of us just fine- nice big closet,a small frig, a safe big enough to hold a laptop, iron and ironing board, and a bathroom big enough to get dressed in. DD16 slept on the flip-over sofa and said it was very comfortable.
We tried out the pool, hot tub, and big water slide, even though the weather was a little cool. I wasn't impressed with the hot tub-too shallow and not hot enough. But the water slide was very fun! It doesn't dump you into the pool at the bottom-it just stops the water jets and you end up in about 1-2 feet of water in the base of the slide. It looked weird to see a water slide that doesn't connect to a pool-but DD8 loved it! :thumbsup:
We walked to DL and Ca adventure. Even at the end of the day, it still felt like a short walk. Even when dripping wet from riding Grizzly River Rapids, it still was a short walk! ;) And our DD16 and DD14 were allowed to walk back to our hotel together when they needed a nap.
I do wish we had made time to walk through the DisneyLand Hotel-just to see it. We have already said next trip we are staying in the Grand Californian-it is more DH style.
YES, it seems there may be another trip to DL for us!! :yay:
More about the parks later....