WDW Tickets at DLR

Can this be true? I just read this on MouseSavers - thanks to a fellow Passporter:

Using Walt Disney World Tickets at Disneyland

Interesting, unpublished fact: you can use any unexpired, leftover days on a Walt Disney World ticket at Disneyland or DCA! Present the Disney World ticket at the gate on arrival — they will take it somewhere, deduct a day from it, and give you a one-day Disneyland Park Hopper ticket. You can repeat this day by day until the Disney World ticket is used up. They will not give you a multi-day ticket all at once, even if you have multiple days left on your Disney World ticket. Also, MouseSavers.com reader Danny P notes that any Disneyland ticket obtained from exchanging a Walt Disney World ticket must be used on the same day it was exchanged.

This policy has been in effect for at least 5 years, and the information was last reconfirmed by a MouseSavers.com reader as of February 2008.

Disneyland tickets are NOT accepted at Walt Disney World, and Annual Passes are only good at the park where they were purchased (WDW Annual Passes are NOT good at Disneyland, and vice versa).

IF ONLY it were true for Annual Passes. How many of us would go to both WDW and DLR if we could use our AP? Would WDW lose too much money or would they make up for that loss with money guests would spend on accommodations, souvenirs, food, etc. Many of us would more likely make both trips if we could use the same pass.

Our Fall Disneyland Trip

We just booked a stay at the Disneyland Hotel, along with tickets to the Angels game. Woo hoo! We’re hoping to catch up on a few of the rides/attractions we missed on our earlier trip. I haven’t stayed at the Disneyland Hotel in years and Rich never has so this will be a great next step before our stay at the Grand Californian. For this trip, we’ll be enjoying the Neverland pool.

And it’s really convenient that Angel Stadium is close enough to Disneyland to easily combine both on the same trip. Of course, we love the Angels and the Dodgers – the Dodgers more for me for nostalgia – and the history of the team. My mother and father grew up in L.A. and we’ve all been to Dodger Stadium to see the Dodgers play. So, it’s a family team. But I grew up in Orange County and went to Angels games as a teen-ager with my friends.

Anyway, we’ll start a pre-trip report on Passporter probably sometime in August. See you ’round.

Golden Dreams

Listening to Park Hopper (my new favorite Disney radio station on Live365), I heard the soundtrack to the Golden Dreams attraction in Disney’s California Adventure. Now how did I miss this attraction on my first visit to DCA last month? Well, we were trying to make up for 8 years and there was so much to see and do, we overlooked it. I’ve got to go right back and do that. If anybody has read me for any length of time or poked around this blog, you know I’m proud to be a native Californian. And it’s the history that I love the most, especially since I’m a history buff.

Golden Dreams is a fabulous history lesson in entertainment form, from the early Spanish explorers to modern-day to everything in-between. it captures my history and my family’s history from the Grapes of Wrath to the building of airplanes to the opening of Disneyland and my recent visit to DCA for the first time after moving back from living near Walt Disney World. I had too much history here to stay away forever.

Whoopi Goldberg’s character Califia says, “People keep coming because they dream of a good life and California embodies that dream.” Unfortunately, it’s too crowded and expensive to live there now, so like many other Californians I’m doing the next best thing – living just thirty miles from the border and 4 hours to Disneyland.

Disney Weddings

I love weddings. And what could be better than a Disney wedding? I’m on a freelance writing assignment and one of the articles I’m writing is about wedding destinations. So I took a look at the Disney web site and oh, my goodness, I wish I had a daughter other than my cat.

Maybe it’s time for a vow renewal. We had a fabulous Orthodox wedding (as in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” but neither of us are Greek), and I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way, but maybe I can still have that Disney wedding.

Disneyland and Disney World both have such spectacular wedding events. Take a look at Disney Weddings. Choose Disneyland or Disney World. I clicked on both. But so many choices: the Wedding Pavilion, the Castle, the Grand Californian, to name a few – how do you choose? Anybody want to invite me to their Disney wedding?

Google Earth WDW in 3D

Oh my goodness – I just discovered Google Earth WDW 3D after reading the Passporter boards yesterday. I’m a big fan of Google Earth and it’s only gotten better – download the latest version and you can google WDW in 3D. We downloaded it last night and I hope to have more fun with it today. There are real scenes from some of the attractions like Soarin Over California. I can get a better look at some of my favorite parts of the film.

So check it out at Walt Disney World in 3D.