I had NO idea all the stuff available in the Animation Building when we were there! We walked in to get into some AC, happened to see that A&E were in there, did Turtle Talk with Crush then left. I only realized after we got home how much that place offers.
We were going into SF during rush hour... for a quick one hour stop there. It was madness.
As a HUGE Full House fan, I wanted to visit Alamo square, see the painted ladies and then go see the actual house that acts as the outside of the house in the filming of the show. And we wanted to cross the Golden Gate bridge. So we fought traffic for an hour, found Alamo square, drove the few blocks to the Full House house, and left via the GG bridge. It was all worth it.
We just went for it and hoped for the best. We've never really been about road trips, as I have bad anxiety, but the end result was worth it for me so I fought the anxiety. I also hate flying.
We feel that we spend so little time in the hotel, the space isn't worth it but we love food, and are huge eaters, so the breakfast was a win for us over space.
Going with all cash and using the credit card as little as possible (thank you, Canadian currency!), we had to stick to a budget. Of course, we did go over. We had no idea that our Canadian debit cards wouldn't work most of the places we went, and we also had no idea how many gas stations didn't take cash during certain hours, so where we had to use debit/cc (overnight gas stops etc) we ended up using the card... freeing up some of the cash we'd earmarked for gas. So, naturally we spent that. The food was also more expensive than I'd anticipated so we ended up spending more there. This time, we know what to expect and are planning for it.
Umm... to be honest, I have no idea. My DH does that part. I'm 99% sure he downloads movies in mp3 format and it saves to the tablet as a media file. I can ask him and find out!
Also, when you purchase Disney movies, a lot of them come with Digital Download codes that you can use. I'm not sure about US Netflix, but we now have some Netflix shows that can be downloaded to be watched later, when there's no internet. So we plan on taking advantage of that too.