Can I complete WDL in 6 hours?

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BAD311

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I fly into LAX on January 11th (Friday) for a event in Anaheim and I get into Anaheim around 4pm... Is there enough time for me to make at least one stop on almost every ride by the time the park closes @ 10pm that evening? What can I expect to accomplish in a 6 hour time frame? I'll only have 6 hours the entire weekend to allocate, sadly. Work comes first! lol

Also will it be busy that weekend in January? I hear Orlando is usually slow in January, but is Anaheim?
 
Californian Elitist

Californian Elitist

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Firstly, what does WDL stand for?

Secondly, there's NO WAY you're getting through every single ride in either Disneyland, nor California Adventure in six hours! Forget both. I'm sorry if I offend you but I literally laughed when I read this post.

You'll be able to do a few rides. January is going to be crowded, since a lot of the annual passes aren't blacked out. And you're going on a weekend? Yeah, there's no way you're doing everything in six hours. Unless you do the unpopular attractions. Even then.

I suggest you make the best of the time you have! Is this your first time at Disneyland?
 
cheezbat

cheezbat

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Yeah good luck with that one. If you can't do the MK in 6 hours there's no way you'll be able to do DL in 6 hours.

There's way too much to see and do
 
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Ryan120420

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^^Not a chance.

Around 4pm on a Friday is when Disneyland will start getting very crowded as many of the local AP holders are getting off of work and school and will flood the park to have dinner, ride some rides and see the Fireworks.


With 6 hours in the park you could do some of the big E-tickets, but you will be in a rush.
My suggestion is to go strait to Space Mountain and get a fastpass (if there are any left). Then hit the following attractions in this order using the single rider lines:


Matterhorn (both sides)
Indiana Jones
Splash Mountain.


By this time, the Fireworks should be showing or getting close to, and that usually means Pirates is a walk on.

By the time you are done with all that your Space Mountain FP window should be valid (Disneyland dose not enforce the end time on fast passes) so head there and either use your fastpass or get in standby if you were unable to get a FP.

And if you have any time left, you might be able to get a ride on the Subs before they close the queue lines at park closing.



Good luck, you will need it.
 
Mickey_777

Mickey_777

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Pretty much was everyone said. You're arriving on a friday in the late afternoon so unless something happens with the weather and everybody chooses to stay home, it probably won't happen. But hey, 6 hours at Disneyland is better than 6 hours almost anywhere else. Find out ahead of time which attraction you "must" see and avoid Frontierland, New Orleans Square, and Critter Country during Fantasmic and Fantasyland during the Fireworks. You'll be frustrated if you don't.
 
dweezil78

dweezil78

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6 hours beginning at rope drop on a weekday other than Friday in January would be possible to tackle just about everything in one park or the other if you stick to a strict gameplan. 6 hours starting at 4pm on Friday is another story. You'll still have a great time though.

Sadly, Big Thunder will be closed for the long refurb as will Haunted Mansion while they remove the holiday overlay, so that's two big E-tickets you can take off your list of things to do and hopefully a little less pressure to get 'em in since you can't anyways. :)

Definitely make use of the single rider lines as mentioned above. Ryan's strategy is exactly what I'd recommend, he knows what's up!
 
TP2000

TP2000

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I'm thinking "WDL" may stand for Walt Disney Land? If so, there are worse things you could call the place. But it's actually just called Disneyland. It's kind of famous.

And six hours is not enough to see all of it, on any day, much less a Friday evening. Do some research on the official Disneyland website and figure out which rides you really want to see. You should focus on the rides that don't exist at WDW, and that never will. Rides like Alice In Wonderland, Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin, Pinnochio's Daring Journey, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Storybookland Canal Boats, Casey Jr. Circus Train, Sleeping Beauty Castle Tour, Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, Matterhorn Bobsleds, Indiana Jones Adventure, Davy Crockett Explorer Canoes, Sailing Ship Columbia, Main Street Cinema, Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln, Snow White's Scary Adventures, Meet Mickey's House, and/or Gadget's Go Coaster.

Of course, if you tried to do all of those you would barely make it within six hours assuming you had really good luck and attendance was very low. You'd still miss out on the rides that share a name with a WDW version but are dramatically different and mostly superior at Disneyland, rides like... Pirates of the Caribbean, Space Mountain, Jungle Cruise, Winnie The Pooh, Peter Pan's Flight, Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters, It's A Small World, Mark Twain Riverboat, Autopia, Tarzan's Treehouse, or Disneyland Railroad through Grand Canyon Diorama and Primeval World.

Do your homework and pick a dozen of those rides you really want to do on one Friday evening. And with luck you'll get through all of them, and perhaps have time to see the vastly superior version of Fantasmic! that performs twice per night on the Rivers of America.

But you'll still miss Disney California Adventure next door, and Cars Land and Buena Vista Street and dinner at Carthay Cirlce and Paradise Pier and World of Color and Aladdin and Mad T Party and Monsters Inc. and a bunch of other rides that only exist at DCA. ;)
 
Cosmic Commando

Cosmic Commando

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TP2000 said:
I'm thinking "WDL" may stand for Walt Disney Land? If so, there are worse things you could call the place. But it's actually just called Disneyland. It's kind of famous.

And six hours is not enough to see all of it, on any day, much less a Friday evening. Do some research on the official Disneyland website and figure out which rides you really want to see. You should focus on the rides that don't exist at WDW, and that never will. Rides like Alice In Wonderland, Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin, Pinnochio's Daring Journey, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Storybookland Canal Boats, Casey Jr. Circus Train, Sleeping Beauty Castle Tour, Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, Matterhorn Bobsleds, Indiana Jones Adventure, Davy Crockett Explorer Canoes, Sailing Ship Columbia, Main Street Cinema, Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln, Snow White's Scary Adventures, Meet Mickey's House, and/or Gadget's Go Coaster.

Of course, if you tried to do all of those you would barely make it within six hours assuming you had really good luck and attendance was very low. You'd still miss out on the rides that share a name with a WDW version but are dramatically different and mostly superior at Disneyland, rides like... Pirates of the Caribbean, Space Mountain, Jungle Cruise, Winnie The Pooh, Peter Pan's Flight, Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters, It's A Small World, Mark Twain Riverboat, Autopia, Tarzan's Treehouse, or Disneyland Railroad through Grand Canyon Diorama and Primeval World.

Do your homework and pick a dozen of those rides you really want to do on one Friday evening. And with luck you'll get through all of them, and perhaps have time to see the vastly superior version of Fantasmic! that performs twice per night on the Rivers of America.

But you'll still miss Disney California Adventure next door, and Cars Land and Buena Vista Street and dinner at Carthay Cirlce and Paradise Pier and World of Color and Aladdin and Mad T Party and Monsters Inc. and a bunch of other rides that only exist at DCA. ;)
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LULZ BUT DISNEYLAND IS SO SMALL N THERE'S NOTHIN TO DO!!!!1!!

No, but seriously, I agree with pretty much everything TP2000 said.

Don't waste your time on Pooh in DL, though. The MK one is equal or better in every way.
 
Hakunamatata

Hakunamatata

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If you are planning on arriving in Anaheim at 4pm, then you will likely arrive at 5-5:30ish. LAX one of the busiest airports in the country on a Friday afternoon, then rush hour traffic outbound to Anaheim......I would not waste the ticket price. I would however, take some time to stroll through DTD if you wanted to.
 
TP2000

TP2000

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Cosmic Commando said:
Don't waste your time on Pooh in DL, though. The MK one is equal or better in every way.
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Yes, it is. I see I lumped it in there with a bunch of other rides. Pooh at Disneyland is only notable because it's different than WDW's version, but it's not at all better. I would also put Splash Mountain in that category, because the pacing of the indoor scenes at Disneyland is very frenetic and jumbled and it doesn't make a lot of sense on the Disneyland version. The WDW version of Splash tells its story better and is more entertaining for that.

But the drop and thrill factor of Splash Mt. is the same with both. Back to back rides on WDW and Disneyland Splash show the animatronics and effects are better maintained at Disneyland, however.

If I only had one day at Disneyland and wanted to see rides that were better than their WDW versions, I would definitely hit Pirates and Space Mountain. And I wouldn't miss Indiana Jones or Matterhorn (for Disney fan street cred).
 
Matt7187

Matt7187

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It took my family 4 days to do everything this summer! You won't get through everything for sure, but try to do Indiana jones, Matterhorn, and their some other exclusives to DL, and if you go to dca, definantly do California screamin, monsters inc, and you probably wouldn't have time to wait 3 hours for rsr, but have fun!
 

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