Day 276: Los Angeles
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Wednesday May 11th
No run to start this morning off – I was off to Disneyland! After another free breakfast, supplemented by a `Red Velvet` yoghurt I`d purchased the previous day – I was picked up at 9:25 for the close to one hour ride to Disneyland. Los Angeles is known as a car place, and for good reason – everything is so far away!
I wasn`t going to the normal Disneyland today – rather, I was heading to `California Disney`, located right next door. I figured I`d already been to Disneyland in France and Japan, so I might as well check out a different Disney world instead (unfortunately, backpacker budgets don’t allow for many expensive outings like theme parks).
California Disney consists of four different lands, each modelled after a different area of California. It lacks the bigger rides of Disneyland but there was one in particular I enjoyed, based on `The Twilight Zone`. Strapped into a giant drop-esque cart, the ride was continually taken up (providing views of the surrounding park), and then suddenly dropped into the abyss. I lost my stomach on many occasions!
A great feature of Disneyland, as at Universal Studios, is the `single rider line`. Take this as an example: a log ride consists of two rows of four seats. If there is a family of four and a family of three, then one seat will remain vacant on the ride, as most likely the next group in the queue will consist or two or more people. The single rider, who is based in a separate queue, can therefore fill that spot, without any impact to the queued guests. For the single rider, this generally means no queues at any rides!
As we`d been dropped at the park at approximately 10:50, and pick-up was at 8pm, I had 9 hours in which to explore the park. I`d well and truly had my fill of the park before 8pm, so I started doing laps of the surrounding `Downtown Disney`. By 6:45pm, I was already at the pick-up point, waiting for the bus to arrive. Lucky for me, it turned up at 7:15pm – and the other three guests were also at the pick-up point, so we were able to head home early.
No run to start this morning off – I was off to Disneyland! After another free breakfast, supplemented by a `Red Velvet` yoghurt I`d purchased the previous day – I was picked up at 9:25 for the close to one hour ride to Disneyland. Los Angeles is known as a car place, and for good reason – everything is so far away!
I wasn`t going to the normal Disneyland today – rather, I was heading to `California Disney`, located right next door. I figured I`d already been to Disneyland in France and Japan, so I might as well check out a different Disney world instead (unfortunately, backpacker budgets don’t allow for many expensive outings like theme parks).
California Disney consists of four different lands, each modelled after a different area of California. It lacks the bigger rides of Disneyland but there was one in particular I enjoyed, based on `The Twilight Zone`. Strapped into a giant drop-esque cart, the ride was continually taken up (providing views of the surrounding park), and then suddenly dropped into the abyss. I lost my stomach on many occasions!
A great feature of Disneyland, as at Universal Studios, is the `single rider line`. Take this as an example: a log ride consists of two rows of four seats. If there is a family of four and a family of three, then one seat will remain vacant on the ride, as most likely the next group in the queue will consist or two or more people. The single rider, who is based in a separate queue, can therefore fill that spot, without any impact to the queued guests. For the single rider, this generally means no queues at any rides!
As we`d been dropped at the park at approximately 10:50, and pick-up was at 8pm, I had 9 hours in which to explore the park. I`d well and truly had my fill of the park before 8pm, so I started doing laps of the surrounding `Downtown Disney`. By 6:45pm, I was already at the pick-up point, waiting for the bus to arrive. Lucky for me, it turned up at 7:15pm – and the other three guests were also at the pick-up point, so we were able to head home early.
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