We were hosted at the Grand Californian for two nights courtesy of GetAwayToday and Disneyland, where we were given the opportunity to take advantage of Magic Morning. Disneyland’s early entry. 30 minutes before the park opens. We’ll be doing both parks and provide our strategy and tips for how best to take advantage of the extra time.
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Sucks that they don’t make an announcement when something is closed at rope drop 🙁 they run over so happy just to get disappointed
nice to see the Family at Disneyland. your daughter Sofia is having so much fun.
when I went to Disneyland years before all this rope drop and other early things I arrived at the park and first thing I went on was the Pirate's ride fallowed by Haunted mansion before the crowd got there.
Picture perfect video!! The family makes a great team!! Thanks for bringing us along!!!
Would the app have shown that Space Mountain was down at the 8 am rope drop? Just curious because then those people could have avoided the mistake of running over there.
Sofi has wonderful parents. This is how memories are created. You hear about the problems at Knotts Berry Farm so I hope nothing like that happens at Disneyland. Sorry but this proves teenagers still need adult supervision. I trust Disneyland will be proactive and not reactive.
I enjoyed this video so much. My favorite content of yours has always been your in-park videos. Your joy and excitement about the park make me smile, and I love seeing the park through your eyes. Vids like this helped me get through the pandemic. Thanks for making this.
That is very different. You used to not be able to enter the park for magic morning unless you were qualified. So they would have special Gates that said magic morning above them and everyone else would cue in the regular Gates
If I went now during magic morning since it is so so so much less crowded than it used to be. I would just ride Peter over and over. Cuz all of the other rides don't have a line until 8:30. Maybe I would do Alice at 7:50 and Space right before rope drop like David tried to do.
Excellent video!!!! Thank you for sharing!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰
I love watching your videos in the park as you do such a great job of bringing us along with you. It really feels almost like we’re there. Thank you so much!
I’d like your opinion on strategy if you don’t mind. We’re staying at the Grand California for two nights the first week in December and we’ll have one day to do magic morning in Disneyland. I think we want to start in Fantasyland like you guys did and knock all the dark rides out. My question has to do with the best way to ride Rise of the resistance once the whole park opens. I don’t think we want to mad rush with all the rope droppers but getting to ride Rise at some point is important because it’s the only ride we have never gotten to ride and we only have the one day at Disneyland. I’m perfectly willing to purchase an individual lightning lane but do you know if those run out early in the day. Do you know the earliest I can purchase a lightning lane for Rise? Can you purchase it during the early morning half hour? I’ve heard that it sells out at DisneyWorld in minutes, do you know if it does at Disneyland too?
I would so appreciate your thought. Thank you again for the wonderful videos!
For Magic Mornings. You entered through the main gate of DCA? You can’t enter from the Hotel?
What should be the new rope drop strategy?
Absolutely amazing! Those people at GetAwayToday really hooked you up! They are great! You deserve it. Top notch family and Disney enthusiast. 👍👍👍
I just don't get Peter Pan fascination. I think it's a horrible ride and the flying perspective doesn't work for me. Awesome video though, David
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I love this!!! this is exactly what I needed to watch to know the great stuff we’re going to be doing we have lamplighter‘s for brunch we also have Plaza Inn for breakfast Yep we’re gonna be doing exactly as you just suggested thank you so much to get away today and thank you so much to Fresh Baked we love you King, Queen and especially The Princess!! 💓
Great video David. Nice to see u having fun with ur family.
WHAT I don't understand is early access and no early access people both have to stay in line to get threw the first gate and what if that takes along time then buy the time you get to the early access gate time will have already expired???.please explain this thanks .
I had the most magical time hanging out with you Liz and Sophie and I was so happy you were able to get away from home and enjoy a wonderful getaway thanks to Getaway today also it was interesting to see the only rides that are open at that early hour also I must thank you David for explaining the best way to navigate the park and what rides to go on at early morning hour it will be a big help also I noticed as I always do is when Liz is in the park with you you are that much happier and I can’t blame you Liz is such a beautiful woman and you guys work so good together now thanks David for allowing me to hang out with you Liz and Sophie on your special day in both parks now with that being said peace ☮️ love ❤️ and happiness to you David, Liz and Sophie and I’ll see you on the next Fresh Baked Adventure wherever it takes you peace ☮️ out ✌️
Curious why you didn’t use the park entrance from the Grand for your DCA Magic Morning?
Do you know if you are staying at grand cal can you go through the grand cal entrance for early entry still?
The plan would’ve worked if space mountain were open so. Still a good plan
I remember when the parks were closed, I was taking photos through that gate to DCA, because it wasn't roped off like Disneyland & security told me to back away from the gate. Oops! 😬
Does anyone know if the stroller rental at guest services opens prior to 7:30? I want to take advantage of Magic Morning but also need to get a stroller before entering the park.
My family and I just stayed at the Disneyland Hotel Thursday-Sunday (8/11-14) and did Early Entry at Disneyland on Thursday and at DCA on Saturday. On Thursday we got to the security check-in at about 6:55 and they were open and checking room keys and only allowing people through with a key. There was a line of non-hotel guests waiting for security to open at 7. We were able to get to the esplanade gate for DL just before the trams dropped off the first guests at 7:15. The line was fairly long already and the cast members didn’t open the gate until 7:30 on the dot. It was about 7:40 when we got to the checkpoint in the hub. We were able to ride Peter Pan and Alice before rope drop and were heading to Space Mountain before rope drop but it was down and so lost some EE time because of that which was very disappointing.
On Saturday, the day we were going to do EE at DCA, we got down to the security checkpoint by the Disneyland Hotel at 6:50 thinking the security would be the same as on Thursday. It was not. Security was closed (it didn’t open until its usual 7am time) and there was a line that extended almost the entire length of the DLH property. And of course, when security opened there were plenty of guests who hadn’t gotten in the line that just started to pour through, ignoring the huge queue of people going in. It was a mess. Security lines were long and by the time we were able to get all the way to the Esplanade to line up for DCA, it was about 7:20 maybe later, so the trams had already let people off. Now luckily because we were going into DCA, there were less people queued up but the DL side was a disaster and anyone trying to do EE from the Disneyland hotel or Paradise Pier would have been out of luck. Again, guests weren’t scanned in until 7:30 on the dot. We were able to get to Web Slingers and were going to queue up outside Radiator Springs Racers but were told it wouldn’t open at 8 that morning so we headed to Incredicoaster which was down.
So all told, EE wasn’t a great experience for us. I heard other guests complaining about security not opening up soon enough (at least down by Disneyland Hotel) and also about EE rides being down. Disney needs to step things up in regards to Early Entry, in our opinion as it’s kind of a “sham” right now, at least if you stay at Disneyland Hotel. Hopefully they will fix the security gate time issue because if they don’t, I wouldn’t recommend staying at DLH if you want to take advantage of EE.
Thanks for the video!
Who are all those people in blue shirts?
Peter Pan is awesome
Sophia looks beautiful 😍
Ilove me some fresh baked
Sophia is like “nope”
Any reports of successfully spring boarding early entry into beating rope drop for Rise?
Thank you so much for this! We're staying and Grand Californian next month and I'm with some first-timers so this was invaluable info as I plan our days.
So my question for you David, is why you and Liz didn’t use the Grand’s own entrance to DCA the day that you had early entry or any other day you were staying there? I understand how it is for Magic Morning at DL but I would hope you could use that exclusive entrance instead of having to walk to the main entrance of DCA.
Thanks for sharing, helps understanding how to navigate early entry.
I can’t stand people who run to the rides
I would love watching the landscapers….hahaha What rides? 😉
How sweet to be accompanying you guys on your family visit. So he’s gonna have the best memory the kid could have! And I love those thank you cast member T-shirts! So cool. And I love the music they’re playing it’s like music from my childhood at my grandma’s house I hope it never changes.✌️❤️
I have reservations for the Princess Breakfast at Napa Rose at 8:20am. Would I be able to (7:30am hotel guest-Paradise Pier) rope drop, hit two rides (Peter and Toad) and make it to Napa Rose with some time to spare? This will be my family's first (maybe only?) trip to Disneyland and would love to be able to experience a DL actual Rope Drop.
When my son and I went in May, we rope dropped Space Mountain and (like this) it was not open. So we rode Buzz Lightyear a couple of times and my son made it on the top 10 board. By that time, Space was open and we only waited about 15 minutes. It was worth hanging out Tomorrowland for a little bit until it opened. We had Genie +, but it was Hyperspace Mountain and we wanted to ride more than once per day. It worked out in the end.
Sophia is so precious
“give me some sugar baby” 🤮🤮🤮
Any FreshBaked trip through the park with Sophie is just a pure joy!!!