Disney Loving Peas / Universal Loving Peas

There is no way I could fit enough Disney photos in a mini album like that!

Maybe if you go for just one or two days?

It is cute. I've only been to WDW so I'm not sure but I don't think that royal blue would work for my Disney pics. I feel like the colors are more of a retro vibe than primary colors.

And you all know my beef with the yellow, red, and black color scheme of 95% of the Disney collections out there.

But I might be taking a short trip in March. If I buy bigger rings, this might be fun. I know I complain endlessly about ring albums but the cover is too cute.

We just got back last night from our partial family reunion trip to Disneyland and California Adventure. We had a great time. We were there for Monday through Friday last week. The Halloween decorations were delightful in Disneyland, and the crowds weren’t bad till Friday. Most fans of Nightmare Before Christmas will probably love the overlay of Haunted Mansion. World of Color is gorgeous. We loved Rigers the Musical, and we had a great time overall! DH and I hadn’t been back to Disney since we went there on our honeymoon nearly 50 years ago. Things were obviously a bit different from our honeymoon visit.

Among other things, DH and I both took our personally owned (medically necessary) mobility scooters.

For anyone with a family member who may need a mobility scooter to survive such a trip, Disney does have scooters to rent, although at Christmas, they can run out.

We noticed many different types of rental scooters from different companies. The ones Disney has to rent are bigger and not as nice as some of the smaller ones (similar in size to ours) from other local companies.

For those who own their own mobility scooters, if you are flying, most (possibly all) airlines will let you take them with you for free. You can take them right to the gate and check the mobility scooters there, then pick them up at the gate on the other end. Make sure you check with the agent at the gate for the proper tags. When you check your luggage, you do not need to check your scooter there, but you will need to let them know the weight of your scooter.

Warning: If you own or rent a scooter, and are attending California parks, the hotels may not allow you to keep them in your room due to fire codes. However, scooters need to be charged up every night, and the rental agreements, even if you rent from the hotel, say that the hotel staff are not responsible for making sure they are charged up at night, which is stupid and can leave you in the lurch. The hotel neglected to charge ours one night. DH has heart failure, so walking was absolutely not an option for him, and the hotel manager (a different one from when we checked in) refused to take responsiblity or pay us back for the scooter we had to rent for him, even though our scooters are medically necessary and personally owned, not rentals, and the first manager at check in had promised to make sure they would be charged up each night.

Other than the scooter issue the one day, we had a great experience at our hotel and at the Disney California parks. We had a fabulous time on the rides, had fun pin trading, spent too much but came back with fun souvenirs, and came home exhausted. We just got back late last night.

Thank you, blemon .

Our favorite ride in Disneyland is Rise of the Resistance, but we’re Star Wars geeks. However, that ride is just so much fun, even if you aren’t big on Star Wars. DH can’t go on certain rides due to his pacemaker, but he was able to go on Guardians of the Galaxy (California Adventure) and loved it. I got to cuddle our youngest grandbaby while her parents rode it with DH. In California Adventure, I loved the Radiator Springs Racetrack. I don’t do roller coasters, but our sons loved the Incredicoaster.

My favorite places to eat in Disneyland were Cafe Orleans (expensive, but fabulous food, and I loved their mint julep with lighted souvenir “ice cube”,which I brought home), Bengal Barbecue, and Wine Country Trattoria in California Adventure. Most of us built droids. I wanted to have a droid party in the lounge at our hotel, but we never really had time. The fireworks show the first half of the week was fabulous! It changed to a Halloween theme our last night, but DH and I were exhausted and didn’t stay to watch it. We went back to our hotel to get some much needed sleep, but right before we left, we bought a few 2023 Christmas ornaments. They went in our carry on bags and made it home just fine. Oh, and they have some really fun souvenir popcorn buckets. I got the Mickey train conductor popcorn bucket. 

We thought it was an unreasonable policy. DH is going to respond to the survey the hotel chain sent. We felt that WDW did a better job on meeting DH’s dietary and egress needs than DL did, although one DL restaurant did a good job. It was the restaurant that Pirates of the Carribean goes around. It also was rather expensive, but the food was fabulous!

Glad at least they could help. Blue Bayou is cool (and pricey). 

We find the food options are much, much better and more plentiful for us in WDW. That said, there are certain things we LOVE in DL. The food just isn't one of them. 


That is messed up on the hotel. what they do with someone who is completely mobility device dependent? Some of the electric scooter, depending on their needs can be a decent size. Do they not let them take it to their room?  I really, REALLY, would contact someone with the hotel chain. I understand historic hotels/buildings can't accommodate mobility devices without severe changes or even destruction of the building, but I'm going to guess you weren't staying at historic property which leaves them little to no justification.



(I have problem with seeing those with a legitimate disability being taken advantage of , mistreated, or being discriminated against for what amounts to no good reason. - You can only imagine the number of times Airlines have "forgotten" my husband, left us, lost his scooter, damaged his scooter, and one time even once COMPLETELY destroyed it.)

But the most important thing is, you had a good time, a good trip and got do do what you wanted. 

I hadn’t heard of them before, either. They have some very nice Disney themed pages. I did see some that were rides and not necessarily just Disneyland.

I also love the Disney themed titles from Paper Wizard.

That’s what everyone says and I can see how they’d think that. But, we haven’t been to AK before, and HS has our must do rides. What’s funny is that we aren’t likely to do the safari (zoos make us sad), but we are really into shows and AK has some must see shows, plus Pandora. (Is that what it’s called?). And the biggest reason is that MK is the most young children centric and that’s hard for us. We don’t want to go to the happiest place on earth to be depressed! 

No, and it kills me! But it’s a huge family vacation so I didn’t get to pick the dates, otherwise that’s exactly when we would have gone. I think EPCOT is what most of them will skip, and I don’t understand. Our resort is right by the international entrance to EPCOT and I’m super excited about that!

I’m not sure, I think those tickets are already purchased. So I’ll have to see if they can be exchanged. 

Yeah, the crowd wouldn’t be worth it if it’s an event you’re not particularly excited about!

Awesome, will definitely have to consider it!

That's like the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me on these boards!

Yeah, I love Flower and Garden. And all the topiaries will be up. And we don't eat all the foods. I'm going to do some reading about it. It might not even be open while we're there since they haven't released dates yet. I'm just going off what I read.

I think it is always good to do the math with those sorts of things (dining and flying). It just feels better knowing you made the right decision because you did the research.

I'm driving down. I'll have to stay in a hotel alone once on the way there and once on the way to my work event.
I can't afford two flights and my car gets great gas mileage.

I'm not going to do the math because the hassle of all the travel and layovers and flights will just be too much. So I'm driving.
The kid will fly to Orlando on her own. She's 15 so no biggie. I'll pick her up at the airport and take her back there so she will only miss two days of school. And since they have odd/even schedule, she'll only miss one day of each class.

And heck, in March, there might even be a snow day so who knows.

Please tell us all about this when you return. It looks pretty amazing.

mehardy, I’m glad they at least replaced your ECV! I also hope that you have a great Jollywood experience!