Sarah's holiday Disneyland trip - PREP 495

WDW Prep To Go - a Disney World planning podcast

Shannon Albert from WDWPrepSchool.com, a Disney World planning site

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Sarah shares a detailed recap of her family's holiday trip to Disneyland, covering planning, park experiences, rides, dining, and festive highlights like the holiday parade and Mickey's Clubhouse. She reflects on crowd strategies, Lightning Lanes, trip costs, and why traveling just before Christmas offered a more relaxed and magical experience than post-Christmas visits.

Post trip begins: 25 minutes

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0:00.0	Today we're going to have Sarah's holiday Disneyland trip.
0:03.0	That's coming up on this episode 495 of WW Prep to go. Hello and welcome to WDWP to Go,
0:27.2	We talk strategy and ideas and have lots and lots of trip reports.
0:30.6	I'm Rheh Shannon Albert from WDW Prep School.com.
0:33.1	Thank you for being here for episode 495.
0:35.4	Today is another trip report this time with Sarah and much to my delight
0:39.7	she was going to Disneyland for the holidays. And if I can't be there in person, then I'm excited to talk to
0:44.6	somebody else who gets to. It's one of my favorite place in the world. So you'll hear from Sarah in just a
0:50.1	minute. I did want to mention on last episode, we got lots and lots of DMs, emails, etc.
0:55.0	About the audio on the post trip being quiet. And as I mentioned last time, I'm using a new
1:02.2	recording platform and editing workflow and everything. And it was part of that learning curve
1:07.7	where I had a setting and the recording platform that I think affected my
1:11.8	audio, but this time it should be better. So I appreciate you letting me know, but I think we got
1:16.6	it fixed, hopefully, in this episode. I think that's it set for the intro. Let's jump into my chat
1:22.1	with Sarah. Welcome to a podcast Sarah. Hello. You and I are talking on Wednesday, December 17th, and I understand you're headed to the
1:31.0	West Coast.
1:32.2	Yes, we are headed out tomorrow, Wednesday, or Thursday, December 18th, to December 24th.
1:40.7	Okay.
1:41.8	Magical time of year to be there.
1:43.7	Yes.
1:47.5	Have you ever been to Disneyland this time of year?
2:02.8	Yes. We actually went last year, but after the holidays. So we were there the 27th, 28th, 29th. So we're excited to go this year the days before Christmas. So we're going to go the night. We'll be in the park the 19th, 20th, and 21st.
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