Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-79556.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Cars Land to Open on June 15th. DCA to Be Closed on June 14th.</b></a> <p>Disney has announced via the Disney Parks Blog that Disney California Adventure's Cars Land will be officially opening on June 15th. To accomodate a media preview and make final preparations for the opening, DCA will be closed for one day on June 14th.</p>
Originally Posted By DyGDisney Any guesses on how this well affect Disneyland attendence on the 14th? I mean, many people may book their trips unaware of this and end up spending the day in Disneyland when they may have been at DCA. On the otherhand, maybe people will wait the extra day and go on the day of DCA's grand opening. Just wondering because I have a relative who has been planning to go to DL on the 14th and somewhere else the 15th, and maybe she and her family should switch their plans.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I would guess that the 15th will be much busier than the 14th. In addition to all of the people who are coming for the grand opening, there will also be additional crowds because it's a Friday. Thursday will likely just have the vacationers (though both parks' worth in one park), but Friday will have all of them, plus a huge swarm of people coming for the grand opening, plus the weekly surge that comes in after work on Friday. Yes, DL will likely be crowded on Thursday, but I really can't see it being worse than Friday.
Originally Posted By SuperDry Also, DL will not be without new stuff on Friday: The Matterhorn will re-open with its new ride vehicle configuration. That alone will likely draw a few thousand APers.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Im scared to think how many people will be waiting to get into DCA. >>> "It might be so full, that they have to close the gates and redirect disappointed guests over to DL." If that happens, it will only be 11 years and a billion dollars behind schedule.
Originally Posted By crapshoot <<If that happens, it will only be 11 years and a billion dollars behind schedule.>> BAZINGA!
Originally Posted By tashajilek "It might be so full, that they have to close the gates and redirect disappointed guests over to DL" Who would have ever thought! It will be interesting to see in the coming months is DL with have slightly larger crowds or if everywhere will just be busier.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 With the ease of park-hopping, I'm going to guess everything just gets busier.
Originally Posted By crapshoot <<With the ease of park-hopping, I'm going to guess everything just gets busier.>> Yup. I just wonder if any restrictions will be put on parkhopping. Experiencing the ebb & flow of the "tidal" guest flow between the two gates is a crazy phenom already. By Summer, yikes!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I wonder if they'll start charging more for a two-park AP, or if they'll keep all AP's as 2-park, but raise the price by a decent amount. I can see the pro and con to both approaches from Disney's standpoint.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< I wonder if they'll start charging more for a two-park AP, or if they'll keep all AP's as 2-park, but raise the price by a decent amount. >>> I wonder that as well. More to the point, I wonder if they'll ever be able to get to what they clearly intended to be the case 11 years ago: have DCA be considered a full-day experience worthy of the same admission price as DL, without having to do 2fers, add-on-DCA-for-$20-more, Adults-for-kids-price, and all that stuff that they've ended up doing over the years for DCA. Getting it to the point where DCA has similar operating hours as DL will be a big help.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney >>Getting it to the point where DCA has similar operating hours as DL will be a big help.<< I believe this will be necessary and hopefully they will do this.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I'm going to guess they stagger the closing, though, if only to keep to shuttles back to the parking lots manageable. Probably DCA at 11, DL at 12M.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I'm probably going to be booking my DLR trip soon for this summer (*shudder*). I'm not even going to think about the long lines, sweaty mobs, crying babies in strollers, and the hot blazing sun while I'm doing it otherwise I won't go.
