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A Disney Adventure…

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Welcome to our page and thank you for joining us! Why are we doing this? As a family that loves travel and, especially, travel to Disneyland and California Adventure, we’ve started collecting little tricks, hacks, and hints to help make our trips the best they can be. It has gotten around that we spend quite a few vacations there, and everyone assumes we know all the tricks.   It’s not uncommon for a friend to come up to us and ask us the general question of what they should do when they go.  While it is always fun to have the … Continue reading A Disney Adventure…

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Disney Mom and Dad’s DVC 101 Part 1

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Our purpose from day one with DisneyMomandDad.com has been to help people better enjoy their Disneyland vacations and to share with our readers some of the lessons we have learned along the way. One topic that fits squarely in that realm of advice is the experience and understanding we have developed in connection with the Disney Vacation Club. And its not the purchase of the membership in DVC that we wish we would have known before our first trip, but rather it is the understanding of the DVC generally, and how we could have taken advantage of the system to “rent” DVC points and save thousands of dollars for better rooms during our early vacations. Continue reading Disney Mom and Dad’s DVC 101 Part 1

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Dressing For Disneyland

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Before our first trip to Disneyland, I did a lot of googling about what to wear. I wanted to make sure that I was packing the right things and knew what to expect. What bothered me was that most of what I found was very fashion focused and not really targeted toward a mom going with young kids. Accordingly, I thought it would be helpful to share what I’ve learned and done over our many Disneyland trips so that perhaps your packing will be a bit easier. Continue reading Dressing For Disneyland

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Your family’s first trip to Disneyland 

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Our first trip as a family was three years ago.  Our son was four and our (now middle) daughter had just turned two (our youngest wasn’t yet part of the picture).  Both of us had been to Disneyland as kids, but this was our first trip with our family, and we weren’t quite sure what to expect.  Also, California Adventure didn’t exist when we’d gone as children.  We engaged a travel agent for advice (more on that later) and planned our first five day trip to Disneyland and Disneyland’s California Adventure (throughout this blog we’ll refer to them as DL … Continue reading Your family’s first trip to Disneyland 

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Top Seven Reasons to consider the MaxPass at Disneyland and California Adventure

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For those of you who haven’t been to Disneyland since before early 2017, your experience with FastPasses included the following: you’d rush to the FastPass kiosks for the ride you wanted a FastPass for, check the FastPass return time to see if it works for you (or if there are any FastPasses left for the day), wait in line for a FastPass, insert each park ticket (meaning you had to have physical possession of each person’s park ticket), and then hold on to a paper FastPass for each person to scan at your return time. For those of you who … Continue reading Top Seven Reasons to consider the MaxPass at Disneyland and California Adventure