I'm not sure if I've read anything that indicates either way but it's a question worth asking: Does DL get the influx of the (South American) tour groups the way WDW does? If so, does DL handle them any differently? Curious. TIA
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Tour Groups.
- Thread starter sweetpee_1993
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Having been to DL about 100 times in the last 2 years, I don't recall ever seeing an outside tour group. Maybe I'm just lucky.
The thing with DL is the place is almost always mobbed, but most of the guests aren't idiots. Most have been there a million times, have already seen and done everything, and they are just there to meander around and maybe ride a couple things. There's no pushing and shoving for fireworks and parades (I always say you can do a cartwheel down main street during the fireworks half the time it's so spacious). If people have to wait in a 2 hour line for Space Mountain, they don't care. If that's the only ride they ride that day, no big deal. Very laid back compared to WDW. No worries about stupid guests.
The thing with DL is the place is almost always mobbed, but most of the guests aren't idiots. Most have been there a million times, have already seen and done everything, and they are just there to meander around and maybe ride a couple things. There's no pushing and shoving for fireworks and parades (I always say you can do a cartwheel down main street during the fireworks half the time it's so spacious). If people have to wait in a 2 hour line for Space Mountain, they don't care. If that's the only ride they ride that day, no big deal. Very laid back compared to WDW. No worries about stupid guests.
Thanks for the insight. Sounds wonderful!
TP2000
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The only large tour groups I've ever seen at Disneyland are Taiwanese or Chinese, being led by a tour leader holding a flag; they are always very happy looking and polite. Koreans and Japanese tend to travel in small groups of friends or family (often two or three or four young urban Japanese women in their 20's visit Disneyland together, exceedingly polite and well dressed), but they are without a tour leader and they are even more polite than the big Taiwanese groups. Australians and New Zealanders also travel on their own in family/friend groups, and obviously the language is the same as us and they are very polite, outgoing, and fun to chat with in queues.
Otherwise, Disneyland is made up of locals and tourists from mostly the western US states and western Canadian provinces.
I've never seen a big, obnoxious tour group of any kind at Disneyland from a country that may rhyme with Drazil. That unfortunate phenomenon is confined to WDW.
Otherwise, Disneyland is made up of locals and tourists from mostly the western US states and western Canadian provinces.
I've never seen a big, obnoxious tour group of any kind at Disneyland from a country that may rhyme with Drazil. That unfortunate phenomenon is confined to WDW.
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Thank you. I wondered. Yet more reason to go west. I think I love the thought that DL is laid back even when busy. We need laid back.