Originally Posted By DyGDisney I know my problem is one many people would love to have, but I don't know what to do. My kids have off the month of November (year round school), and the last 3 years we have gone to Disneyland in early Nov. We miss the Christmas time activities, but we also miss the crowds. This year, with the week between Veteran's day and Thanksgiving, and the first day of Christmas season being that Friday, we would have a great opportunity to be there for a day of the Christmas activities, but without the week having a holiday. We have planned a trip to DL for that week, and the kids seem excited about going. The problem is, my dd10 and I don't want to go to Disneyland again, dh and dd7 do. We just went for a couple days in June, plus we were there last November. I want to do something different. We can't afford to fly anywhere, and we live in CA, which is why Disneyland is usually our destination. We've done Tahoe in the summer and winter, Gold Country in the spring, the coast and Hearst Castle. But in late November, what else could we do, where we wouldn't want to fly?? I don't know what to do. I'm very stressed about this decision, and money worries are an added stress. I'm thinking maybe a couple day trips, or an overnight trip or two would be better. I'm hoping someone can make me feel better about going? Or any ideas for alternative plans would be helpful too.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Monterey is nice in the late fall... And this place looks nice and has discounts during that time <a href="http://www.lhls.com/specials.htm" target="_blank">http://www.lhls.com/specials.htm</a>
Originally Posted By DyGDisney Wow gottaluv, thanks. I hope you didn't do that research just for me!!! I hope I don't come off as complainy, the thing is, I am very sad that I don't want to do DL. I thought I'd never tire of it, and I've very sad my dd seems already to have tired of it (temporarily for both of us of course). I think I just want to take a break, but my dh really wants to go, and he works so hard. Ugh, I need a compromise, an affordable one!!
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Hey my DH never goes and some of my boys don't like to go as much.. So I get your DD not wanting to go... But YOU - I think BoyStory should rush over and take you to the local mental health clinic for an evaluation... I had that place marked as a place we were interested in trying out ourselves - It looks nice.. And the Aquarium just got a new great white shark -- We rented a house last thanksgiving in Tahoe - it was really nice in the fall too - not hot but no snow either.. What about a few days in San Jose... Yes San Jose... Tech Museum, Childrens Museum, Christmas in the Park... Sharks game...
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I love to go to SF after Thanksgiving for Christmas shopping in Union Square (we don't really buy much, just window shop, look at decorations, etc.).
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Ohh San Diego - again we just rented a house down there last month -- we had a blast... This is a good deal if you decide on San Diego.. <a href="http://www.costco.com/Browse/Productgroup.aspx?Prodid=11273147&whse=BC&Ne=4000000&eCat=BC" target="_blank">http://www.costco.com/Browse/P...&eCat=BC</a>|21124|29676|4933&N=4012518&Mo=3&pos=8&No=1&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&cat=4933&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-US&Sp=C&ec=BC-EC18537-Cat29676&topnav= With this other one you would have even more different things to do including legoland, knotts, and universal (you can get more than the 3 day one too... <a href="http://www.costco.com/Browse/Productgroup.aspx?Prodid=11297086&search=san%20diego&Mo=3&cm_re=1_en-_-Top_Left_Nav-_-Top_search&lang=en-US&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&Sp=S&N=5000043&whse=BC&Dx=mode+matchallpartial&Ntk=Text_Search&Dr=P_CatalogName:BC&Ne=4000000&D=san%20diego&Ntt=san%20diego&No=3&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nty=1&topnav=&s=1" target="_blank">http://www.costco.com/Browse/P...nav=&s=1</a>
Originally Posted By DyGDisney Did you drive to SAn Diego? I've wanted to go there for a long time, but it seems like a really long drive!! If we drove to San Diego, we could through in a day to Disneyland for dh.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Yes we drove - it took about 7.5 hours... It really wasn't too bad... If it's off season I would look at this place - its nice - well located and has breakfast... <a href="http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ex/1/en/hotel/sands?&cm_mmc=mdpr-_-yellowpages-_-ex-_-sands" target="_blank">http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h...-_-sands</a>
Originally Posted By DyGDisney 7.5 hrs!?? That's how long it takes us to get to DL, and we only live a little over an hour from you. We drive pretty close to the speed limit, and usually make a 5 minute stop or two, plus a good 20 minutes in Buttonwillow (gas+Starbucks+fast food sometimes). Last trip we made it there and back in 7 hours, but that's about our quickest.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney That hotel does look nice. I like the beds because I hate looking at hotels where the beds have ugly comforters and curtains.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Our room was HUGE... we had two king size beds.. It was nice! Okay so how about stopping in Santa Barbara on for a night - or the Pismo Beach... You could do a week if you stop a night each way around there - or Solvang...
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I told dh we could stop at Disneyland for day (and night) like for the 21st, but he's balking at the idea of paying for things in San Diego when we can enter Disneyland for free.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney Thinking of doing a few day trips through the fall and christmas season, maybe even spend the night in Tahoe or SF.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney gottaluv, have you been to Apple Hill? We went last year for the day, and the kids loved it. We picked apples, hiked, had some apple pie, went to the craft fair....
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains We haven't done Apple Hill - my sister is in Sebastopol and we keep trying to find time to do the Apple Festival up there... I can see his point - what if you stay by DL and do the other stuff with the SanDiego 3 for 1 thing... SeaWorld and the zoo were fun...
Originally Posted By DyGDisney We used to live in Sonoma County and did the Sepastopol apple festival once, I didn't enjoy it as much as Apple Hill.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney We've talked about it, and I think we'll skip DL this year. We can think of several other things we'd like to do, so we'll save DL for when we need a fix! DD7 is upset though.....
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I think I would go for San Diego, there is so much to see and do there, the weather is great. The Mission, the Zoo, Sea World, Wild Animal Park, Gaslamp District, could pop into Mexico, Del Coronado for great ice cream, and you could pop into Disneyland enroute.
