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Not really. The LL's go in order. For you to try to set a first time LL in the evening means you'd likely miss out on a ton of LLs earlier in the day. You make LLs throughout the day into the evening, but Disney gives you the time of arrival. So you want to assume you will get a LL as soon...

Thank you. My kids are tween/teens and we're going into the winter. Do you think we'd still want/need to do as much?

Thinking of doing one full day at Legoland but main stay in Orlando (Universal) Is it worth staying overnight at Legoland and doing 1 - 1.5 days there and using their hotel or is it better to just stay at our main hotel plans at Universal and do a day trip? Not concerned about hotel price...

agreed. So basically 40% increase at Hyatt types. (I like Hyatt also). It's crazy, but it's happening everywhere. Hard to avoid, but thankfully for work, zoom has helped change a lot of travel needs. I used to travel 2-3x what I do now, so even with 40% increase, it's roughly less overall...

That's an interesting point about shopping convenience. Definitely a big money saver to be able to run to a grocery store. For example, one beer at Disney is $12 v. an entire 6-pack at a grocery store is probably less than $12. Chips, Guac, salsa, sandwich stuff, maybe $100 for a family of...

I travel for work a fair amount and I'm pretty shocked by the hotel price increases across the board. My normal hotels of where I stay are now never under $200 a night. It's pretty common I pay $275-$325 for Marriott/Starwood properties. Sometimes I find something like the Element for $200 or...

Re LA Traffic. It is sometimes difficult to drive in because it's so crowded, but the phone apps like Google Maps and Waze have dramatically improved ones ability to navigate it. There's also times where it's just a breeze. We never really had any major traffic issues that weren't expected...

two Saturdays ago, the 19th. That day was significantly busier than the Wed, Thursday or Friday when we went. Hard to know for sure, but wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't at least 30%-50% busier.

Totally this. Beyond lack of availability, you can easily rent a car for less than one round trip uber in LA area, especially if it's over 15 miles. Orlando we'll Uber, sure. But LA...no way.

We were just there and the weekends were way more crowded than during the week. Anecdotal, but the weekend was at least twice as crowded.

Interesting. We just got back and paid $425/night for two nights at DL Hotel and then $500 for one night (last minute extension) and I thought that was kind of crazy expensive but because we booked it last minute, accepted we had little choice. The hotel was great, but I would not pay $600+ for...

Rent a car. Do not try to Uber LA. I travel to CA for work a lot and would never NOT have a car there.

We just got back. We were first timers too and loved it. Way more than WDW. We gave up going to WDW years ago. 1. DL Hotel was nostalgic and awesome. We walked through Californian and it was gorgeous but nothing Disney about it. Definitely would stay at Disneyland hotel again. 2. Yes...

They wanted us to use the app for teh hotel room, but I would strongly recommend getting a key. The key has nothing fun on it, but if your phone batter drains out during the day because the App eats up phone life easily, then you'll have no key to the room.

we were able to bounce park to park after 11:00. Meaning we could cancel a DL LL ride for say Space Mountain because we saw that Incredicoaster was faster to get on. So we were able to do that a couple times. We didn't do it often because it's kind of a long walk, but by our third day we just...

Quick report. My daughter and I went to DL for the first time last week. I had a work trip in California and so that's why we went. I'll maybe post a trip report, but I very much like DL over WDW. I had given up on WDW years ago, but I would definitely go back to DL. We used Genie+ and found...

V first ; H second. Velocicoaster is simply a better ride than hagrids if you're a coaster junkie. Hagrid's is super fun, but Velocicoaster is next level awesome. Hagrids was temporarily down every day we were there. We got to ride it, but waits would say 45 which then turns into 75 minutes...

If I had to guess, It will either be Nintendo/Zelda or more Harry Potter. The Epic park is going to be big Nintendo anyway and we're two years away from that opening v. 2 years to refurb Poseidon. They could go either way with this.

backpack, frameless, 20l or less. We use Ospreys, but if you have a patagonia black hole or a ski backpack under 20, those will work well too because they can easily slide in and out of the lockers.

You're not missing anything. The tips provided cover it all. We stopped doing Disney years ago and after doing our first trip to Universal last December, it really is that easy. It's so amazing we plan on returning to Universal annually or every other year. I posted a first trip report and...