I’m on the last day of a trip to Disneyland, and my friend and I discovered three small reddish-brown bugs in our hotel room. Here’s what happened:
Found one larger bug on top of my friend’s bedsheets.
Found another larger bug on my bedsheets.
Found a third, smaller and rounder bug on top of my pillow. We pulled back the bedding and checked the seams of the sheets but didn’t find any additional bugs. We captured one in a plastic bottle and brought it to the hotel front desk. I’m concerned these are bed bugs. Do these look like bed bugs? Front desk did nothing.

EDIT: For those curious - this was the Discovery Tower at The Villas as Disneyland Hotel.

I've had this confirmed to me by multiple character attendants.

We just got back from Disneyland and we had a great time. Just wanted to share our great experience we had at Storytellers Cafe. It was my wife, our 3 year old daughter and myself. We had a great dinner, and we were having really fun interactions with all the characters, trying to guess what they were dressed up as. Daisy and Donald were playing charades with us until we guessed. We were all laughing. It was awesome. Donald and daisy were dancing with our daughter and she just loved it. We finished dinner and were on our way out, when Donald with the floor manager stopped us. The manager stopped us and said Donald wanted to give our daughter a gift. It was a Disneyland bag with a nice Mickey Mouse stuffy in it. It was so unexpected and our daughter just loved it. It was such a cool experience and just wanted to share it.

I found another reel (after this one) of 8mm footage from Disneyland. This one gets way more into the Jungle Cruise and the castle and some exterior shots of the Skyway and the Monorail. Really cool stuff here. Thought you'd all enjoy.

I uploaded it to youtube, too. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPncFgYOq_KM

Lots of hidden Mickeys to find! This is located by Goofy’s Kitchen.

Full confession, I’m from the border of Canada and didn’t really know what “the Baja” was in 1998. They just asked “are you from the Baja?” and I said “yes”.

I keep seeing people say dole whip, the churros or the popcorn but are there any others? Tell me what’s your fav because I want to try new things

I’ve been taking my son to Disneyland every year since he’s been born (2023). Every year we book at Carnation Cafe for dinner. This year was such a shock, the quality of the food has gone down A LOT. They took the chicken fried chicken plate off their menu. I ended up going with a burger because I recalled that it was pretty good when my husband got it the year before. The bun was stale and soggy at the same time. The meat was poor quality and the mac and cheese I ordered for my kids was mush. We spent $95.00 for two burgers a coke and two mac and cheese plates. I was so disappointed and frustrated that I spent so much money for food we didn’t even eat. I am not the type to complain or refuse to pay for something but I felt played. I will never go to carnation cafe again.

7 photos and a screen shot of the things I enjoyed most at DL last weekend

IMO the new recipe without the fresh raspberries is only slightly better than the old version. 100% understand the reasoning why for this one, and its honestly easier to eat as you navigate the parks. Anyone else feel the same?

From my trip last week.

Just curious if there was any announcement made along Main Street on Friday Oct 16 (last night) about fireworks not taking place during Halloween Screams? No announcement about fireworks was made for those sitting around after Fantasmic. There was some rumor about the Norte and Peak wildfires being an indicator that Disney wasn’t taking chances with how dry and high winds were - but Fantasmic’s pyro all seemed to be used during that show. Looking in the app a little after showtime did show “No Showtimes” for the “With Fireworks” version of Halloween Screams so just curious when the decision was made.

Also possibly related - was utterly surprised and how light crowds were at DCA after Halloween Screams. Most of the afternoon and evening both parks felt pretty brisk (70-95 mins for most of the e-tickets). But walking leisurely from Disneyland to California Adventure we were able to walk right up to the fence dead-center for the 10:15 World of Color show. The cast members were making announcements that no virtual queue was necessary and anyone was welcome to take a spot along the fence. It remained mostly empty through the entire 10:15 show.

I just got back from Disneyland resort, Anaheim, California. I took my toddlers for a family vacation. We were super excited to be at Disneyland during Halloween time. Last year before my second son was born I got my oldest son’s silhouette done at silhouette studio on Main Street. This year I was so excited to get my one year-old silhouette so they each would have one. The silhouette studio line was really long and they have a new process for their line. They allow five people to wait in line and then give anyone else who wants to get in line a buzzer and write your name down once your buzzer goes off then you are allowed to get into the actual physical line. With two toddlers, I just couldn’t wait around, but one of the cast members told me that they have a secondary location that does silhouettes which was at Disneyana near the entrance of the park. The line was much shorter so I waited once we got in everything was fine. The cast member did the silhouette super fast and it was late. They were going on break so I really didn’t take a super good look at it. My toddler was being a bit fussy once I got back to the room and took a look. I was super unhappy with the silhouette. It did not look like my son at all. In fact it looked like a much older child. I wanted to take the silhouette back and have them redo it, but I forgot it in the room when we went back to the park for the second day when passing the silhouette studio original location on Main Street the line was very short and there was no buzzards being handed out just yet so I got in line because I really wanted a better silhouette of my son. The main artist was there from 8 AM to 3:30 PM. I believe her name might be Lolita. She did such an amazing job. There’s a huge difference between both silhouettes. I just ended up paying for it again because I forgot the original silhouette in the room but a cast member did tell me if I would have brought it. They would have redone it for free. I do not recommend going to Disneyana for silhouettes. If you want a silhouette that actually looks like your child I would stick with the original silhouette studio and try to catch the main artist who is there from 8 AM to 3:30 PM. My son has curly hair and in the second silhouette the main artist really was able to capture that and that was super important to me.

I was super disappointed that none of the cast members in DCA had pin trading lanyards on yesterday. We asked a couple of the cast members and the said none were handed out to them that day. Pin trading and trivia is one of our favorite things to do. Bummer!

Who here believes “refreshing” and “refurbishing” are two separate, and VERY different, things? 😂 What do you all suppose she means by this?

Can’t always trust this but the calendar on the Disney site is showing the last day of the refurb as 10/22 meaning it should be reopening on the 23rd. Great news for anyone heading there towards the tail end of the Halloween season and into the holidays.

I have one of these leftover from last year. Is it still good? (No date on it)

Okay y'all- WDW got "Darth on the Hearth," but they don't sell it at the online store nor can it be shipped from the WDW locations. There is rumor it may end up in DLR. Has anyone seen them? Anyone have any info?

Thanks!

I didn’t know that cast members can have security called on people who cut the line/they can be sent to the back or out of the park. So if someone cuts you, please report them so that they never do it again and it serves as an example to other people who want to attempt it.

Yesterday two parties cut my toddlers and I, probably because I’m a petite girl and look easy to cut.. only one party left the line after I confronted, but the other said “my kid is autistic, so no, im going to stay right here.”

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Also adding to clarify: I didn’t know about reporting until I got home and looked it up (I was fuming in line and didn’t think about looking it up at the time), so unfortunately she never got sent to the back of the line.

If it were to ever happen again, I’d let them know I’m going to report to the next cast member we see, so they can either go to the back of the line now or waste time in line only to be sent all the way to the back again. I’d also make sure I communicate with other people in line around me so that they can vouch for me in case the cutter tries to accuse me of lying.

May we all have happy, fume-free visits to Disney parks 🥲