All good points, and reasons you might be better off going to Disneyland in California, which is 500 acres including California Adventure. So you can “do Disney” in one long day, especially if you have little kids who don’t like the really scary rides, or you’re all too old for Small World. Then you have all the other Southern California stuff left, including several other theme parks.
Edit to add: at Disneyland, there’s an official colony of cats!
The best reason to do Disneyland over Disney world is Disneyland is in the LA area, so it’s 70 and sunny for most of the year, and the winds off the Pacific plus the fact that it’s a desert make it very comfortable 350 days out of the year, and most of the walkways are brick or pavement. Disney world is in Orlando where the air is often as thick as soup and temperatures are much higher. Everything’s much more spread out and the walkways are hot blacktop that absorb the tropical sunlight.
Also unlike Orlando where almost everything is touristy overpriced chains copy/pasted from elsewhere, there’s plenty of unique experiences in LA to do as other features of your trip (like the super under-marketed nature preserve and attractions on Catalina Island. It’s a 1 hour catamaran ride from the Port of Los Angeles and absolutely a wonderful place with hiking, glass bottom boat tours, cool architecture and neat museums and a brilliant day trip)
Yeah, I agree with this but I think the person above had no clear idea why it makes sense you’d spend a week or more at Disney World and why it would cost so much. Lots of people especially outside of the US think it’s just a regular sized park
All good points, and reasons you might be better off going to Disneyland in California, which is 500 acres including California Adventure. So you can “do Disney” in one long day, especially if you have little kids who don’t like the really scary rides, or you’re all too old for Small World. Then you have all the other Southern California stuff left, including several other theme parks.
Edit to add: at Disneyland, there’s an official colony of cats!
The best reason to do Disneyland over Disney world is Disneyland is in the LA area, so it’s 70 and sunny for most of the year, and the winds off the Pacific plus the fact that it’s a desert make it very comfortable 350 days out of the year, and most of the walkways are brick or pavement. Disney world is in Orlando where the air is often as thick as soup and temperatures are much higher. Everything’s much more spread out and the walkways are hot blacktop that absorb the tropical sunlight.
Also unlike Orlando where almost everything is touristy overpriced chains copy/pasted from elsewhere, there’s plenty of unique experiences in LA to do as other features of your trip (like the super under-marketed nature preserve and attractions on Catalina Island. It’s a 1 hour catamaran ride from the Port of Los Angeles and absolutely a wonderful place with hiking, glass bottom boat tours, cool architecture and neat museums and a brilliant day trip)
Yeah, I agree with this but I think the person above had no clear idea why it makes sense you’d spend a week or more at Disney World and why it would cost so much. Lots of people especially outside of the US think it’s just a regular sized park