Goofster57
What if the “Hokey Pokey” really is what it’s all
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- Sep 9, 1999
So we get up Sunday morning and we have a dilemma…do we want to go to breakfast and then a movie or to a movie and then lunch…..so we decided that we will go to breakfast then to Disneyland.
So we head out about 9:00 and decided that we would have breakfast in the Downtown Disney area, I was leaning towards Rainforest Café and Sorceress was thinking La Brea Bakery and as always in our give and take relationship (I give/She takes) after we park were headed towards La Brea Bakery.
As we approach ESPN
at about 9:15 we see that they appear to be open and we discuss seeing if they their breakfast menu, so enter approach the podium and in deed we are informed that they are serving breakfast. Now I remember their breakfast menu have a number of really good items on like Cinnamon Rolls in a cast iron skillet, Killer French Toast, so I am looking forward to it.
To save you having to read a long story this was a big mistake, bad service, bad food and raw bacon twice.
So now on with the good stuff, we decided that we would just walk around the Disneyland Hotel and take some pictures to share with you all.
Here is a file picture of how the hotel looked in years past
There are three towers that make up the Disneyland hotel now, they recently went through a name change and are now named after the Disney Cruise line ships.
There is the Magic that used to be the Marina, this is were the main check in lobby is located
There is the Dreams formerly the Sierra, this is were the Concierge lounge is located, this is the tower closest to Downtown Disney
This is the elevator that goes to the CL from the outside of the building
The third and final tower is the Wonder which used to be the Bonita
This is the only tower we have stayed in, due to an error on the front desks part we were moved to this tower to a corner suite, it was very nice.
The buildings themselves have not really changed over the years, however the grounds have I will try and post comparison pictures of old and new when I can.
In the center of the towers is where the Neverland pool is now located
Not the best picture to show the pool I will have some better ones later
This is how it used to look
There was an Arcade that was below the water level, you could rent paddle boats and cruise around the marina and in winter they would bring in a floating ice rink for skating.
When you first dive up to the Magic tower to check in you’re greeted by Mickey himself
You then head in to the lobby to check in
So other things to check out in the lobby area
There is also a gift shop
(Continued next post)
So we head out about 9:00 and decided that we would have breakfast in the Downtown Disney area, I was leaning towards Rainforest Café and Sorceress was thinking La Brea Bakery and as always in our give and take relationship (I give/She takes) after we park were headed towards La Brea Bakery.
As we approach ESPN
at about 9:15 we see that they appear to be open and we discuss seeing if they their breakfast menu, so enter approach the podium and in deed we are informed that they are serving breakfast. Now I remember their breakfast menu have a number of really good items on like Cinnamon Rolls in a cast iron skillet, Killer French Toast, so I am looking forward to it.
To save you having to read a long story this was a big mistake, bad service, bad food and raw bacon twice.
So now on with the good stuff, we decided that we would just walk around the Disneyland Hotel and take some pictures to share with you all.
Here is a file picture of how the hotel looked in years past
There are three towers that make up the Disneyland hotel now, they recently went through a name change and are now named after the Disney Cruise line ships.
There is the Magic that used to be the Marina, this is were the main check in lobby is located
There is the Dreams formerly the Sierra, this is were the Concierge lounge is located, this is the tower closest to Downtown Disney
This is the elevator that goes to the CL from the outside of the building
The third and final tower is the Wonder which used to be the Bonita
This is the only tower we have stayed in, due to an error on the front desks part we were moved to this tower to a corner suite, it was very nice.
The buildings themselves have not really changed over the years, however the grounds have I will try and post comparison pictures of old and new when I can.
In the center of the towers is where the Neverland pool is now located
Not the best picture to show the pool I will have some better ones later
This is how it used to look
There was an Arcade that was below the water level, you could rent paddle boats and cruise around the marina and in winter they would bring in a floating ice rink for skating.
When you first dive up to the Magic tower to check in you’re greeted by Mickey himself
You then head in to the lobby to check in
So other things to check out in the lobby area
There is also a gift shop
(Continued next post)
I'm hoping to send him off tomorrow.
