Disneyland in California was the only park to be built under the supervision of Walt disney himself opening on July 17, 1955 and my personal favourite.
My first ever visit to the disneyland park was in October 2013, just two months after having traveled to japan to visit my first disney park in Tokyo and by that experience I was hooked. I booked myself on the next plane to the USA to check out the original Disneyland!
LETS TALK ACCOMMODATION
This time I decided it was a must that we stay on disney property, so we choose to stay one week at the Disneyland hotel. After the long 16hr flight from Australia to LAX we boarded the disneyland express shuttle bus to our disney hotel. And wow I was impressed with this resort hotel. All the staff were so friendly and helpful from as soon as we stepped out of the bus, they took our bags for us and showed us into guest services to check in. We got given a great room on level 5 in the fantasy tower. (There are three towers at disneyland hotel- fantasy tower, adventure tower and frontier tower) our room was fantastic! The view was great and the beds were so comfortable, it was gorges. The hotel is a short walk from downtown disney district and the parks so your could defiantly just stay in your disney bubble.
I loved staying here, the pools are great, the gift shops are great and there is also charter dinning at goofus kitchen just down stairs! What's not to love!
I should mention there are also two other disney resort hotel- Disney's grand Californian hotel and spa and Disney's paradise pier hotel. All hotels are in walking distance of the parks and the grand Californian even has it's own private entrance into Disney's California adventure park!
DOWNTOWN DISNEY DISTRICT
I am in love with the downtown disney district CA. For those who don't know downtown disney is what you could call a shopping village full of great disney shops and restaurants and home to my favourite store 'World of Disney' which is a massive store selling, you guested it- disney merchandise galore! There is also a sevora (which I love because we don't have sevora is Australia) and even a two story build a bear store. I could spend hours in downtown disney alone.
RESTAURANTS:
Mmmmm I do love food and downtown disney has that covered. There are a great number of restaurants located in downtown disney. Some which include
naples ristorante pizzeria, House of blues, Rainforest cafe, Ralph brennan's jazz kitchen and so on. There are also a number of quick service restaurants included earl of sandwich, Starbucks and my favourite haagen dazs!
Next up Disneyland park!
