COrunner
Well-Known Member
Okay hear me out,
My whole family usually plans a 'big' trip together every few years and over the holidays my sister had mentioned Tokyo. We have all agreed more of less for budgeting and planning that we would look at a 6-7 day trip around Tokyo including Tokyo Disney and Disney Sea in the Summer of 2021. So I have some time on my hands. I was putting together my plan as they are in CO and I'm in OH so just looking at getting myself, DD, DW(3 total). When I was initially looking over the travel it wasn't very good (most Air Canada layovers and about $1700/flight/person). I ran the idea by a friend who pointed out I should just focus on getting out west a day before the flight to Japan and sure enough, I can go Southwest to LAX on points and flights to/from LAX-Narita brought the cost down to $650. I thought about it might be fun instead of flying to LAX and staying at a hotel overnight before that flight, to instead fly to Santa Ana, do a Disney day. The points flight out didn't change much and would be a fun story of 'Disneyland then Tokyo Disney then Disney Sea'. WELL, that has since morphed into this idea:
WHAT IF
(There are no hard dates set so for ease I'll use generic summer days)
Instead of flying to Santa Ana on June 3, Disneyland June 4, Then potentially meeting up with family to fly outta LAX on June 5.
I do another points flight to MCO?
So it would be fly OH to Orlando on June 1, Disney World June 2, fly Orlando to Santa Ana June 3, Disneyland June 4, then potentially meet up with family at LAX to fly June 5.
We usually do a Disney Halloween trip so doing this would be in place of that, also just the single(or maybe 2 days) at either location is fine as we wouldn't be attempting to see everything, just hit some of our highlights, kind of doing it for the story/photos. All seasoned travelers so the to/from/flying wouldn't be a huge bother.
I know there are potential drawbacks (delays/cancelations) but have kind of thought through that we do have park days which if lost would suck but ultimately wouldn't ruin the big trip.
I'm open to thoughts and ideas (outside of going full off the deep end and 'what if you went to Paris first...') Has anyone done something similar? Any ideas on helping pull it off (Can I still buy non-expiring park passes/or do 7 day passes work at any Disney Park?!)
My whole family usually plans a 'big' trip together every few years and over the holidays my sister had mentioned Tokyo. We have all agreed more of less for budgeting and planning that we would look at a 6-7 day trip around Tokyo including Tokyo Disney and Disney Sea in the Summer of 2021. So I have some time on my hands. I was putting together my plan as they are in CO and I'm in OH so just looking at getting myself, DD, DW(3 total). When I was initially looking over the travel it wasn't very good (most Air Canada layovers and about $1700/flight/person). I ran the idea by a friend who pointed out I should just focus on getting out west a day before the flight to Japan and sure enough, I can go Southwest to LAX on points and flights to/from LAX-Narita brought the cost down to $650. I thought about it might be fun instead of flying to LAX and staying at a hotel overnight before that flight, to instead fly to Santa Ana, do a Disney day. The points flight out didn't change much and would be a fun story of 'Disneyland then Tokyo Disney then Disney Sea'. WELL, that has since morphed into this idea:
WHAT IF
(There are no hard dates set so for ease I'll use generic summer days)
Instead of flying to Santa Ana on June 3, Disneyland June 4, Then potentially meeting up with family to fly outta LAX on June 5.
I do another points flight to MCO?
So it would be fly OH to Orlando on June 1, Disney World June 2, fly Orlando to Santa Ana June 3, Disneyland June 4, then potentially meet up with family at LAX to fly June 5.
We usually do a Disney Halloween trip so doing this would be in place of that, also just the single(or maybe 2 days) at either location is fine as we wouldn't be attempting to see everything, just hit some of our highlights, kind of doing it for the story/photos. All seasoned travelers so the to/from/flying wouldn't be a huge bother.
I know there are potential drawbacks (delays/cancelations) but have kind of thought through that we do have park days which if lost would suck but ultimately wouldn't ruin the big trip.
I'm open to thoughts and ideas (outside of going full off the deep end and 'what if you went to Paris first...') Has anyone done something similar? Any ideas on helping pull it off (Can I still buy non-expiring park passes/or do 7 day passes work at any Disney Park?!)
