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Visit Date: 2/24/06
Steps: 20,706
Parks Miles: 15.84
Time in Parks: 7:57

 
Trip Log:

Started off heading for DCA. Walked through Condor Flats, around GRR, and out to the Bay Area. Looked at the new paint job on the buildings then around the area before heading to the Wharf and into the Farm on my way to Bugsland. Did the circle and then back toward the park entrance and walked down the Backlot. Around the Monsters area and Tower before heading back to the entrance and over to Disneyland. Wandered down Main Street and around the hub. Went into Tomorrowland and grabbed a Fastpass for Buzz. Circled around the area and went up to the Monorail station for some Sub Lagoon shots. Skipped the one way trip. Had to cut around the oncoming parade and circled through Tomorrowland and the castle on my way to Fantasyland and out to Toontown. Waded through the post parade traffic jam and cut through Fantasyland and the Big Thunder trail on my way out to Frontierland and Billy Hill at the Golden Horsehoe. After the show walked along the Rivers of America and out to Critter Country. Back through NOS and into Adventureland. walked over to Tomorrowland and grabbed another Buzz Fastpass and then headed down to watch the Flag Retreat. Afterwards walked across the Esplanade and into DCA. Forgot about the Block Party Bash and had to push through the Aladdin exit crowd and Block Party Bash crowd to make my way into the backlot. Checked the Monsters line and then back through the masses on my way to Condor Flats and out to the Grand Californian. Walked through the Hotel and out to Downtown Disney. Headed down to the Rain Forest Cafe to use a gift certificate then to ESPN Zone to see what was going on. Walked through the parking lot and back to the garage to grab a heavier jacket for the evening. Took the tram back to Downtown Disney and headed to White Water snacks for dinner. After eating headed for DcA. Circled through GRR and the Bay area. Around the Wharf and headed for the Backlot to check out the Monsters line. Still too long so out of the park and over to Disneyland we went. Walked down Main Street and out to Tomorrowland, again hitting the tail end of the parade crowd and being jammed in. Used our Buzz Fastpasses. Wandered through Tomorrowland and Frontierland and into NOS. Took a ride on Pirates. After our cruise headed for Adventureland and the Tiki Room to dry out (we were in the first row on Pirates and got quite wet). After the Tiki Room still had some time before Remember so road the Jungle Cruise then headed for Main Street. Went up on the Train Station to watch the show. Afterwards back to the trams, cars, and headed home.


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Note: These totals may be skewed because the pedometer is zero'd when we start and then left alone and read when we leave. So attractions, and other things may cause extra "steps" to be counted. The pedometer that we use basically measures up/down motion as a step, so if your standing in line and moving up and down it may be counting steps, etc.. so the total distances traveled and steps may be off.. so use these as rough distance comparisons between trips and they may not be accurate in terms of actual distance traveled.
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Hello all,

We were expecting Friday to be a typically slow off season day.. Presidents Day was last weekend so this should have been a good day crowd wise.. boy were we wrong. Seems there were several conventions in town, most notably a Cheerleading competition at the Resort all weekend. So Friday seemed like a very crowded day at the Disneyland Resort. Both parks had a fair number of guests roaming around and attraction wait times hovered near summer levels, check out our crowd shots section later this week for a flavor of the wait times and crowds. Overall most E-tickets were over an hour with Indy, Space, and Splash Mountain over 75 minutes for much of the afternoon.. Over at DCA Monsters continues to pull in a healthy crowd with the shortest wait we saw posted at 45 minutes. Tower of Terror even had a wait over 20 minutes a couple of times by. I talked to some people who were at the Park on Saturday and they all said the same thing.. the day started off fine, but as it progressed the crowds showed up.

Jason

 

Trip logs and mileage reports are in the Park Miles section.

DCA & Disneyland Notes:

  • Not much new to report from Disneyland this week. As you saw in the pictorial update the Sub Lagoon work has kicked into gear and now visible progress is being made.

  • As we waited to send our Buzz Lightyear picture/email we were again reminded as to how rude some guests are. First off as many of you know these lines tend to move rather slow as people search for their pictures and some choose to send them to everyone they know. Anyways.. we were a couple groups back and the next person was going up to the screen, a young girl, probably middle school aged, approached the screen and then some random guest and her daughter push there way in from the gift shop and push this kid out of the way. We watched as this other guest (who was in front of us and behind the young girl) intervened and finally convinced (well really annoyed) the line jumper into leaving. We were pleased to see this other stranger come to the aid of a child but could not believe the nerve of the line jumping guest pushing a kid out of the way to send an email...

  • As we sat there in line something hit us.. wouldn't it be great if you could just swipe your Annual Pass or some other pass (maybe something like Photopass at WDW) and your Buzz score would be saved and available online. It would be impressive if they were able to push this to the next level and let you see the webcam footage and/or history of scores. Also by swiping a card it would be much faster (it would be really great if you could do it on your ride vehicle and not even have to wait in line afterwards but that is really pushing it).. oh well just a random thought..

  • Over at DCA there were quite a few guests roaming around too. I still would like to know the thought process behind having the Aladdin show empty out right at parade time and creating gridlock in the Gateway Plaza as guests try to cram in for the parade and others are just trying to get out of the backlot area. Seems to me you could either reverse the parade route or move Aladdin earlier or later to avoid this bottleneck.

  • As you saw in the pictorial update most of the tarps are down on the row houses in the Bay Area and they look better then ever (better than when they were new actual). You can see a lot more detail with the new paint scheme. If anyone wants to see pictures of how it originally looked let me know and I will dig some out of the archive..

Be sure to check out the picture update that goes with this Geekspeak column, it can be found in our Disneyland Resort Pictorial Update section

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