First Time Travelers Guide to Disneyland Resort | Transportation Airports | First Time Tips | Part 1
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- First Time Travelers to Disneyland Resort | Transportation | What Airports To Use | Trip Planning| We share what airports to fly into for Disneyland and transportations options to the Disneyland Resort
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IATA Codes: Los Angeles LAX, John Wayne SNA, Long Beach LGB, Ontario ONT, and Burbank BUR
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00:40 What Airports can I fly into for Disneyland Vacation?
01:45 Transportation from the airport to Disneyland
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A great form transportation to look into Is Johnny’s California shuttle service. I like them because my girls still need car seats and they supply them. There is an additional fee but it’s not bad. I booked a trip in May of last year (Long Beach Airport) and it was $60 each way but i did not use car seats.
Thank you for this comment! We were not aware of this service. Do you mind if we mention this in our next video? Traveling with little ones that requires a car seat is a lot more difficult. Especially if you have to bring a car seat.
When we went to Sweden, our boys were in booster seats. We purchased a travel booster seat that is called Bubble Bum, approved for us in the EU and USA. If folds and stores in a back pack when not in use. When our friends picked us up at the airport, we pulled out the booster seats, spent a few seconds blowing up, and we were good to go. So much nicer than brining a full on booster seat.
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@@AnaheimParkTourist Of course!
Thank you!
I am traveling solo to Disneyland for the first time and your videos have helped so, so much. Thank you!
How exciting!! So happy we can help. Please reach out if you have any questions and we will do our best to answer them. Have a wonderful trip and thank you for watching! ☺️
Hi! solo disney travel here i would like to know your experience, how was it? in the end what transportation do you get?
Thanks for all your videos and tips! I just found your channel and it's helping me plan my first DL trip in August!
You are welcome and we are so happy that our videos are helping out. First trips are always overwhelming and we are here to help out if you have any questions about things we have or haven't covered. You can ask here or DM us on our social media accounts. Thank you so much for watching.
Thankyou for for sharing your tips they are very useful
You are welcome and we are happy you found these tips useful. Thank you for watching and leaving a comment!
We like going through Long Beach, I can’t get lost there 😂! There are so many transportation options, thanks for the info!
Lol those airports are tiny compared with LAX or some of the bigger airports around the country. We wish there was something like Magical Express in the area.
Fun video. I love seeing travel type videos. They are fun. LIKE 28. 👍👍👍
Thank you! We are hoping these help people out when trip planning.
Great information and video as always! Off to watch a few more of your videos … we have a trip coming over Thanksgiving Break and possibly a short trip in March!
Thank you and happy you found the information useful. Both dates are great times of the year to visit the parks. We usually go the weekend before Thanksgiving or the weekend after. Just a heads up, there is a convention coming into town the week of March 6 and hotel prices are fairly high.
We usually fly into John Wayne airport and it is very conveniently located. We did hate driving in the area but were able to do so safely - if also a bit stressfully. So much more traffic than we were used to. This is a great idea for a series!
Thanks! I know I used to have a job where I traveled all of the United States, before GPS was common. In one week I was in L.A., Phoenix, and Detroit. Driving from the airport to the office was always super stressful since I wasn't familiar with the area and had to use paper maps from the rental car lol. I am dating myself now!
Hi Crystal and Jim. This was fabulous information. Good call on creating the video. I remember back in the day, the local hotels there offered a free shuttle bus to the park, if you were staying at the hotel. Later, they had the shuttles, but you had to pay a small fee (couple dollars each) to ride them. Those days are long gone 😁🤣. So having this type of information and options is critical. 😀~Ali 🎀🏰💖
Thank you! We have been wanting to make this video for a while. If I am not mistaken we have about 6-8 more parts to this series and it will take a while to get all of those parts out. We will be mixing this series in between our normal hotel tours and the occasional vlog.
Very few hotels offer shuttles to the park now. Offhand, Anaheim Majestic and Candy Cane still offer shuttles from the Hotel to Disneyland. Candy Cane is still closed due to a major renovation.
@@AnaheimParkTourist oh good to know. Will look forward to your upcoming videos 😀.
At the end of December we flew into John Wayne Airport and used Uber/Lyft to-from our hotel. It was about $25/trip before tip and super easy! You are right that LA traffic is no joke and it was a relief to have the driver know exactly how to get there. They even dropped us right at our terminal entrance back at the airport. This was our first time using this service so we were nervous but it was a piece of cake. P.S. It rained both days we were there so I think we're planning a do-over sometime this spring :-)
John Wayne is such an easy airport to use to get to Disneyland. We do use Uber and Lyft quite a bit around our town and when on vacation and it is super convenient. Neither of us enjoy driving in new cities, especially if we have never been there before. We went to Sweden to visit our friends a few years ago and spent a few days in London. While in London we used a similar service called Addison Lee, it was such a lifesaver.
You are right about LA traffic. We have waited many hours in traffic when driving to Disneyland.
We love rainy days but since the park tends to be less crowded. However, we completely understand wanting to redo the trip. Nothing beats a warm Southern California day. Keep on eye out for conventions this spring, they are back. I believe the week of March 6 there is a convention coming to town and hotel prices are astronomically high. Thank you for watching!
Love this cause I’m planing my first Adult trip to Disneyland. Hope
To be there in sept !!!
We are happy videos like help out! There will be more and we hope they are just as helpful. We usually get one adult trip every year and it is nice to do different things and a slower pace. Your trip should be a lot of fun. Thank you so much for watching and leaving a comment, we appreciate it.
excellent tips! we’ve never used uber or lyft before so we are shocked at your personal story of the price “surging” about 5x 😱 that is terrible for visitors trying to plan ahead! looking forward to more from this series, thanks for sharing ✨
Thank you so much! We use Uber or Lyft quite a bit, especially if we are planning on having an adult beverage. There is a major shortage of drivers in our area and it has been a bit more difficult getting rides during busy periods. Thank you for watching!
I'm an avid solo Disneyland goer and for transportation from the LAX airport to Disneyland and back I use Prime time Shuttle. For a round trip using their Express service it costs me $176 including tip (tipping varies between each person). Important note, going to LAX from Disneyland takes approximately 45 minutes in the morning time from my experiences, so for domestic flights start heading out at least 3 hours from your flight departure time.
Thank you for that shuttle tip, we might give it a try for our next trip. The cost seems very reasonable. We used to drive all the time but since we moved, this was our first trip flying in a long time. Is that a group shuttle or is that private with just you?
We always plan on a ton of traffic when we go to the area. On this particular trip, it only took us about 45 minutes since we arrived in the evening. I believe we boarded the shuttle around 10pm.
This trip we we left after I got off of work. Typically if we want to fly down on Friday, we have to wait until the kids are out of school. For our next trip family trip, we are planning on leaving on a Saturday morning.
Thanks -Jim
@@AnaheimParkTourist Prime Time Shuttle use to do shared rides before the pandemic that were much cheaper, but post pandemic they have no more shared rides. The price I mentioned is for my own non-stop ride service. I'm pretty sure party size could be a limiting factor, but since I'm a solo traveler I've never had to deal with that.
Important note: Just like Uber and Lyft, Prime Time Drivers use their own personal vehicles.
Thank you for the info!
Awesome info guys! We’ve found some great airfares into both John Wayne and Long Beach, and they are so much easier to deal with than LAX. Great info on shuttle service too! Bob refuses to drive in LA lol!
Thanks! I don't blame anyone for not wanting to drive here. It can be very stressful, especially if you aren't familiar with the area. I used to have a travel job (pre GPS days) where I was in a different city every week. It was always difficult finding the local office we were going to work at.
That is great you can get some good deals. I think you need to plan ahead and take advantage of sales. We visited our friends in Idaho last month (the Uber ride Crystal was talking about in the video) and the two of us flew direct and roundtrip for $153.
Great info guys! You are so rt, it's expensive to park a car! We live so far away, saved so much money by flying there and NOT renting a car! Yes, when getting an Uber to the airport give yourself plenty of time!
Thank you! We aren't sure if anyone has put this info out and our mission is to help people plan their Disneyland trips. Those Uber trips are taking so much time now. On that $80 ride we caught, I believe it was a 20-30 minute wait. It was only 9pm.
You guys are so awesome! You said everything I was thinking as well. I can easily fly into John Wayne and an Uber for up to 3 costs me $35-40 each way. I walk from my hotel and avoid all parking fees. I will never fly into LAX again. If you have to use LAX, I would recommend not trying to go to the parks on travel day. There’s enough to do at Downtown Disney and the Disney hotels to familiarize yourself before park days. It’s more fun to rest and be excited for the parks than to feel rushed (while moving so slowly 😂)!
LAX is a tough to get to the parks, the traffic makes it rough. I was visiting a friend in Newport Beach and got stuck in LA traffic during commute hours. I don't remember the exact time but it took me 3-4 hours to get from the north side of LA down to Newport Beach. I was so ready to be out of my car at that point.
Uber and Lyft are usually our go to service when we fly into an airport. It is super convenient and easy to use. When we go on vacation, we prefer not to drive, we just want to relax and have a good time. Thank you for watching!
I've flown into LAX multiple times when I visit Disneyland and it is definitely a busy airport with lots of traffic. I always choose early morning flights and the drive from LAX to Anaheim, from my experiences, takes approximately 45 minutes (it's the same amount of time from Anaheim to LAX in the morning). I have a Magic Key so I also go to the parks on the day I arrive to get more bang for my buck.
@@negative7proxy Magic Key definitely changes things! I forgot about that! I’m coming from the perspective of a 3 day pass. Sometimes I will get a 4th day to get in on travel day 😊
Our next trip we are flying in on a Saturday morning and plan on spending the evening in the park. If we were purchasing tickets, we would wait for the first full day.
Fantastic idea & really good topic to discuss, too. Its pretty shocking to me that Disney doesn't more widely available transpo from the airport, even for a fee
100% agree with you on this. We did a bit of research a while back and we were shocked that there isn't a more organized effort like there was for Magical Express (or its replacement). However, this is a much smaller resort and until we get a third gate, I don't think we will see a more organized effort.
@@AnaheimParkTourist fair. Such a bummer tho.
Wow those are crazy prices when you spot checked the rideshares! I had heard stories like that, but we were able to get XLs for ~$80 after tip one way for both segments of our trip. I guess we got lucky!
I did look at public transit for the first leg of the trip to make the uber cheaper, but with the prices how they were at the airport I didn't see the point lol
That is great you saved a few dollars on the rideshare costs. When we made this video, getting a rideshare in our area and in Southern California was sort of difficult and I think the prices were quite a bit higher. We are taking a trip this summer and will be taking a rideshare to public transit and we are hoping it isn't as hard as December experience.
@@AnaheimParkTourist Also, I think we got super lucky, cause there was a home Chargers playoff game on one of our. So maybe an hour later and prices/traffic would've been a real issue. But yes here's to hoping it works out well for y'all!!
Thank you for the suggested shuttle service! Our hotel doesn't offer a free airport shuttle. We're trying to go without a rental since we'll only be there 4 nights.
You are so welcome! Happy to help. We had a wonderful experience with Midwilshuttle. We do see they are recommended quite a bit on Disney forums and on Disneyland travel Facebook groups as well. Hopefully you will have a fantastic experience like we did.
We don’t blame you for not wanting a rental car. Parking prices can get very expensive and add up fast at the surrounding hotels.
Please reach out if you have any questions and we will do our best to help!
Many thanks for these transportation tips, you’re right about LAX. It took us 2 hours to get to Disneyland.
I’d like to hire a car but all the associated Hotel fees and parking at Disneyland means I’ll have to consider carefully how I do this.
When we travel to other cities we rarely rent a car. We mostly hire private car services or pay for shuttle buses. I like to relax when on vacation and let someone else do the driving. When we were in London, we used Addison Lee quite a bit. So nice since I am afraid to drive right hand drive cars on the other side of the road.
@@AnaheimParkTourist What are you on about? It’s the correct side to drive on 😜
Haha if driving a horse drawn carriage :P I am just too afraid to cause an accident. My friend from the UK and I always had a rule. I drive in countries that have left hand drive cars and he drives in the right hand drive countries! The only thing that ever threw me for a loop was the Melbourne hook turns I believe. I had to watch a video on how to make those turns correctly.
@@AnaheimParkTourist Ha ha, to be fair I wouldn’t recommend anyone driving in London. I rarely do it myself these days.
I'm actually curious at what time of day you traveled from LAX to Disneyland. I've traveled multiple times from LAX to Disneyland and back in the morning and it takes me approximately 45 minutes.
I never considered flying into anything other than LAX. Thanks for the tip.
You are welcome! Our friends are flying into Ontario in a few weeks. They are renting a car and driving to Disneyland. There are options out there and it is always the price vs. convenience factor. We are hoping to get part 5 of this series up soon but our schedules have been busy.
@@AnaheimParkTourist We are flying from Orlando to LA next Spring. I will look at cost vs convenience and see if John Wayne is better for us to fly into. Thanks to your vlogs I have narrowed down our hotel choices to Tropicana, HoJo, Best Western Park Place and Hyatt House.
That is great to hear! The drive from Long Beach or John Wayne is super easy and is the most convenient. We are most likely going to release our Home 2 Suites video on Monday and you might want to consider that hotel as well. It is slightly further than HoJo, about the same as Hyatt House. They have a decent breakfast and the rooms are nice. HoJo has the most comfortable beds in Anaheim and they won awards for their comfort.
Forgot to mention, you can watch the walking video from Hilton Garden Inn to give you an idea on how far Home 2 Suites is, both hotels share the same lobby.
@@AnaheimParkTourist Thanks, I’ll check it out later on. I have done more homework and research on this upcoming vacation than I ever did for anything in college, lol.
Thank you so much for your useful videos!
I’m going to disneyland next month (Feb!) for a spontaneous trip but me and my family have been stuck on which hotel to pick for weeks. PLEASE help us out. We are looking for a hotel that is not too far from the parks (we will have kids with us) but also affordable. Please recommend us something. We are going soon and need to book ASAP. Thank you so much!
Hi there! I am more than happy to help out. Give me about an hour to respond, I am handling an issue at work. Did you have a budget in mind? I will try to give you a number of different choices.
There are a few unknowns at the time I am writing this and those are budgets and number of people in your party.
Closest to the park these will probably be around $200-250 a night, in that ballpark.
We really like:
Park Vue: Decent rooms and probably the closest motel to Disneyland. It is probably a 5 minute walk to the turnstiles. *Free parking when we stayed there. Double check if that is the case today. When we stayed the front desk was not staffed 24 hours a day (*double check that as well). The check in process is a bit different if coming in late.
The next two are owned by the same owner. Both are similar on the inside and we would pick the one that is offering cheaper rates. Right now these two are probably the nicest motels across from the harbor entrance, as far as overall room conditions. Both are reasonably close. Camelot is valet only and I believe Tropicana might be as well.
Tropicana
Camelot
Best Western Park Place Inn (we recently stayed at mini suites and we had a number of noise issues there)
This is probably an older remodel, very similar to Park Vue. The rooms are nice and comfortable. Double check parking fees and parking policy. We heard that this hotel is valet only and are parking cars off property.
Little Further Away
The next two are hotels:
We love Howard Johnson but the prices can be expensive and they now charge for parking. Buildings 1 and 2 are nicely renovated.
Wyndham - Offers free parking and great customer service. Their rooms are spacious and we enjoyed our stay here. This hotel is on the corner of Harbor and Katella
Alpine Inn prices were fair, we booked a 1 bedroom suite, it was a comfortable room and the price was $180 a night. It is about the same walk as Wyndham. Free parking and a small resort fee
Castle Inn - This is an older remodel. The walls are thin and you can hear people walking around outside the room and above you. Overall it isn't a bad place to stay but we probably wouldn't stay more than 2 nights. Free Parking, but the lot is very tight. Rooms seem to be running around 190 a night.
We have stayed at Desert Inn quite a bit and this place is typically your bargain motel that is directly across the street. Typically Castle Inn and Desert Inn have the best prices for hotels that are close to the Harbor entrance. However, our last stay at Desert didn't go too well. The room was really dirty and the beds were really worn out.
Are you looking at specific hotels? Do you have questions about any of the above that I listed?
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Yes it’s b-roll. At this point and time we were not regularly flying into the area.