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After hours of pouring over websites and books galore it is finally done!!! I booked a Disneyland package. I am so scared!! I already had plane tickets so I knew the dates but choosing a hotel and deciding what to spend on them and what necessities I really wanted them to have I finally made a decision. It is just about as bad as picking out a childs name. ( ok maybe a little melodramatic (sp) )
I booked the Candy Cane Inn for our trip through Disney so I could get all the special extras that come along with that. Anyone had any experience with this hotel and any advice. Dates are April 1 - 4 at Disney and then on to the 9th at relatives house in Valencia going siteseeing and doing Universal Studios. My husband wants to go to the desert and see Red Rock Canyon? Any other ideas?
I have 2 children 15 y/o son and 12 y/o daughter and maybe 9 y/o neice.
Thanks,
Mary Ann
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Congrats on the trip!! We haven't made it out to DL yet, but I've heard only good things about the CCI (have considered staying there ourselves when we do finally make it out there)!
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My husband wants to go to the desert and see Red Rock Canyon? Any other ideas?
It's a long drive if you aren't staying in the area. It's basically in Las Vegas (10 minutes from my house), so it's anywhere from 3.5 to 4.5 hours depending on your stops. You might want to consider seeing if any of your Valencia relatives want to come with you and just do a whirlwind single night trip to Vegas. That way, you can drive out, see Red Rock and other areas, do a little nighttime sight seeing and head back home the next day. Red Rock has a beautiful scenic drive (pay to enter) with a Visitors Center and plenty of areas to pull off and hike, climb or walk (the entrance can give you a map of the area). It might not be a bad idea to take a lunch and, depending on timing, eat and then hike or hike and then eat when you get to the end of whatever trail before turning around (choice 2 would require a backpack).
If you tried it in one day, you'd drive for 4 hours, hike and drive some more (it's a one way drive, so you're committed to at least 1/2 hour) and then drive back home for 4 hours. It's doable, but I don't know that Red Rock is that great of a payoff (it's no Grand Canyon, though it is breathtaking in its own right) as the only stop. Let me know if you have other questions about Vegas, either in the Globetrotting section (so we don't highjack a Disneyland thread) or via PM.
It's a long drive if you aren't staying in the area. It's basically in Las Vegas (10 minutes from my house), so it's anywhere from 3.5 to 4.5 hours depending on your stops. You might want to consider seeing if any of your Valencia relatives want to come with you and just do a whirlwind single night trip to Vegas. That way, you can drive out, see Red Rock and other areas, do a little nighttime sight seeing and head back home the next day. Red Rock has a beautiful scenic drive (pay to enter) with a Visitors Center and plenty of areas to pull off and hike, climb or walk (the entrance can give you a map of the area). It might not be a bad idea to take a lunch and, depending on timing, eat and then hike or hike and then eat when you get to the end of whatever trail before turning around (choice 2 would require a backpack).
If you tried it in one day, you'd drive for 4 hours, hike and drive some more (it's a one way drive, so you're committed to at least 1/2 hour) and then drive back home for 4 hours. It's doable, but I don't know that Red Rock is that great of a payoff (it's no Grand Canyon, though it is breathtaking in its own right) as the only stop. Let me know if you have other questions about Vegas, either in the Globetrotting section (so we don't highjack a Disneyland thread) or via PM.
That's what I was thinking as well.
Congrats on booking your Disneyland package - it's a great place to visit.
I actually bought a book on Las Vegas. I was worried that we wouldn't have time. I really wanted to go. There is just so much to do I dont' know where to stop. I would love to see the Hoover Dam and then on to the Grand Canyon........I wasnt sure where I could stop. I will talk to my family and see waht they what they want to do and I might PM you and get some more info.
Thanks,
Mary Ann
Just Ok'd trip to vegas with my husband and finished reading the vegas section of the trip report "North,South,East,West" and I am pumped!!!! Starting the Disneyland section now! If I only do one day and pretty much just want to sightsee the strip and do one of the buffets that was mentioned in the trip what do you suggest I do? You can PM me or we can start a thread on globetrotting section.. I don't know how to put up a link to another board!!!
Thanks in advance,
Mary Ann
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