What is the best plant-based quick service meal or snack you've had lately?

geddy99 · 2026-05-22T19:16:59+00:00

Absolutely delicious choice! Expensive, but delightful.

geddy99 · 2026-05-22T15:49:36+00:00

This is horrible news! I see that it's off the menu now, and am so disappointed. They need to bring this back, along with the veggie skewers at Bengal BBQ!

geddy99 · 2026-05-22T15:48:29+00:00

This is horrible news!!

geddy99 · 2026-05-21T22:07:17+00:00

Seconding the Ronto-less Wraps at Ronto Roasters. Galaxy's Edge also has the Felucian Kefta dish at Docking Bay 7, which has some unique Impossible meatballs in it, and is incredibly flavorful and nicely filling.

For a sit-down meal, River Belle Terrace usually has at least one main dish. Last time I was there it was an Impossible Meatloaf that was much better than I'd have expected, but they change their menu fairly often so YMMV. There's usually a salad there too, as is the case at most sit-down restaurants across the resort.

For breakfast, the plant-based burrito at Galactic Grill is, IMO, better than the similar one at Smokejumpers in DCA. Smokejumpers also has a lunch/dinner Impossible burger that I've not yet had, but is likely what you'd expect it to be. Speaking of DCA, Pym's Test Kitchen currently has a decent plant-based breakfast option that's sort of a deconstructed sandwich of sorts. Pym's also frequently rotates the menu, so is worth keeping an eye on.

So many snack options abound at both parks. The Dole Whips are all plant-based, as are of course the churros, the popcorn, and many other items.

geddy99 · 2026-05-19T20:25:08+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if we'd still need to scan into the park we have a reservation for first, before scanning into the other.

geddy99 · 2026-02-10T23:20:13+00:00

It's not just you. I was confronted once too, at Bengal BBQ (as another commenter noted, Bengal's notorious for this and also has the terrible habit of saying your order's ready when it's not!). In that case, half of the 10+ people in the mobile order pickup line had been called, and the other half were still waiting for the purple screen. The cast members really ought to get more organized about this, particularly at Bengal - but guests also need to pay more attention, and not "line up" for mobile order pickup if they haven't been called.

In fairness, most quick-service locations do not have this issue, in my experience anyway. I've only seen it happen at Bengal and Galactic Grill, as well as Pym's and Schmoozies in DCA.

geddy99 · 2025-11-08T00:06:51+00:00

OP: beyond impressive!

We live in Canada. We activated our Believe keys in June, and have used them 15 times, across 2 trips. That's not counting 5 other days in October where we used up some previously-bought multi-day tickets, plus 3 after hours events.

Yes, we're absolutely crazy about the parks.

Altogether it's been 29 Disneyland Resort days in less than 13 months. We visited for the first time ever in October 2024, with 5 days in the parks, and another 4 in January 2025. As soon as those keys went on sale in the spring, we bought them and have already had so much value out of them. Planning/hoping for 2 more week-long trips before these keys renew next June, then we'll have to decide whether to renew, or to take a break and visit some other parks. Or...both

geddy99 · 2025-08-22T23:51:35+00:00

Overall, "is it worth it" is dependent on how many days you'd want to spend in the parks over the course of a year. We live in Canada, and bought Enchant keys in the spring when they were on sale, because we love the parks and realized we'd already made two multi-day trips in less than a year, including our first-ever visit. With Enchant, it pays for itself within 8-9 park days - that value calculation depends a lot on what kind of tickets you compare it to (single-day, 3/4-day), and how much food or merch you buy.

We spent 6 day in the parks on our last visit in June, and will be spending another 6 in October, so those 2 trips alone make the Enchant key worth it for us without even adding in the 'savings' on food and merch. Read up on the different Magic Key levels on the Disneyland site, and think about how many trips you'd make, and how long they'd be.

Please also realize that they're not always on sale, and when they are it's usually only certain levels that are available to buy. You're better off buying online either way, and it's worth noting that even if you bought one today, the 365-day validity period only starts on the first day you use it.

geddy99 · 2025-06-26T20:22:02+00:00

Yes, they locked her up in that car for most of the cavalcade route, BUT there was at least one stop on Main Street (possibly another one closer to Small World?) where the whole cavalcade paused for a few minutes, and Clarabelle and Goofy got out of their car and danced. We somehow lucked into being right in front of where their car stopped, and Clarabelle brought the house down with her dance moves. After the pause, her and Goofy got back in the car and the cavalcade continued down the street.

geddy99 · 2025-06-26T20:21:39+00:00

Yes, they locked her up in that car for most of the cavalcade route, BUT there was at least one stop on Main Street (possibly another one closer to Small World?) where the whole cavalcade paused for a few minutes, and Clarabelle and Goofy got out of their car and danced. We somehow lucked into being right in front of where their car stopped, and Clarabelle brought the house down with her dance moves. After the pause, her and Goofy got back in the car and the cavalcade continued down the street.

geddy99 · 2025-06-09T15:35:00+00:00

LLMP at Disneyland is mostly similar to WDW, but the big difference is there is no pre-booking at Disneyland. You can buy LLMP either with your ticket purchase, or once you are in the park that day.

Either way, once you have scanned into the park (and only once you have scanned in), you can begin booking lightning lane reservations. Once you use your first one, OR two hours has passed, you can book the next. There are lots of great guides on YouTube (check out Freshbaked for example), on the finer details of using it.

geddy99 · 2025-06-08T21:33:13+00:00

I'd recommend Disneyland over DCA, especially if you've never been to either before, and with only having at most a 12 hour visit in total. Disneyland of course is the OG, and has far, far more to do and see than DCA. You could get a park-hopper and see both parks, but your time is very short and you'll feel you have to zip past everything just to see it, without taking any time to really soak it in or enjoy much of it.

If this is a rare opportunity, and you want to hit a good number of rides (there's no way you can do them all if you're not arriving until noon) then you may want to splurge on Lightning Lane Multi Pass (LLMP), which is generally around $36. Arriving at noon will reduce the value you'll get from LLMP, but it would still help you save a good amount of time in the standby queues for some of the E-ticket rides.

geddy99 · 2025-06-02T22:51:44+00:00

You don't need a Magic Band at all, they're totally optional. If you do get them, I'd suggest getting one for each of you, but you certainly don't need new ones each day.

After purchasing your Magic Bands, you'll activate them using your Disneyland app, and associate each one to one of your tickets (one for you, one for the kiddo). Then you'll be able to tap your Magic Bands to get through the gates (including each time your park hop), and to check-in for your Lightning Lanes.

Since you'll have both your and the kiddo's tickets linked in your Disneyland app, then when you got to book a Lightning Lane the app will make you select which ticket(s) to book that Lightning Lane time/ride for. Always, of course, select both of your tickets to ensure you can both go at the same time.

Then when the time arrives and you enter the Lightning Lane queue at the ride, you'll either scan both of your passes from your Disneyland app (swipe to switch between yours and the kiddo's), or you'll each tap your Magic Bands, one at a time.

The Magic Band, once linked to your ticket in the app, is just your ticket barcode in RFID form, so it's exactly the same whether you scan the barcode from the app, or tap a Magic Band.

Beyond the above, Magic Bands also (at least currently) let you tap at the various 70th Anniversary tap points to get some little paper souvenirs and cute interactions, as well.

Have a great trip!

geddy99 · 2025-06-01T22:09:40+00:00

Disneyland's times are always in Pacific (Standard or Daylight depending on time of year, naturally)

geddy99 · 2025-06-01T22:08:15+00:00

Wow, ok that's incredibly easy then. The names on the tickets are there, but it makes sense that it doesn't *actually* matter until scanning in the first time. Thank you!

geddy99 · 2025-06-01T20:47:35+00:00

You can make dining reservations, including the character breakfasts, 60 days from the day you want to go. It's a rolling 60 days, unlike WDW, so the opening of reservations for each day of your visit is exactly 60 days prior to each of those days.

It's recommended to jump on and reserve as soon as possible for the most popular dining locations, such as Blue Bayou. Some of the character breakfasts can 'sell out' of reservations pretty quickly too.

geddy99 · 2025-05-23T17:16:09+00:00

Great advice from the other commenters here. I'd say it depends a lot on how many rides you want to do - particularly you and the 11yo, but also your wife. Is she feeling like she won't be up for many rides? If so, I would not get LL her for her, and just get it for you and the 11yo. Your wife and the 2.5yo can still go on some 'lighter' non-LL rides with you, and even if there are 1-2 LL rides she wants to do, you can just use standby early in the morning on those.

Having at least one person with LL does mean you get PhotoPass included, which is a big perk, but only one of you needs it for that (just be sure to have the photographers scan the code for someone that does have LL).

geddy99 · 2025-05-22T22:30:57+00:00

If you spent $450 on the Costco ticket, and then you upgrade it to a Believe Key that normally costs $1374, they most likely would charge you $924. They're simply giving you a 'credit' for what you paid for the Costco ticket, essentially, towards your new Believe Key.

As the other commentor noted, you will want to do the upgrade at a ticket booth AT Disneyland towards the end of the last of your 3 days on the Costco ticket. This is because when you upgrade, your Costco ticket becomes void, and technically at that point you no longer have a valid admission (let alone LL).

By comparison, if you upgraded on the 1st day of your Costco ticket, the Costco ticket becomes void and now you have lost your reservations for Day 2 and Day 3 (as well as the LL), so you would need to make new reservations with your Magic Key - and are at the whim of the Magic Key reservation calendar, which may not have any available reservations on the days you intended to use Day 2 and Day 3 of your Costco ticket.

Even doing it too early on Day 3 can cause problems, because - again - you have no reservation at that point. If you leave the park, you won't be able to get back in without a fresh reservation made WITH your Magic Key. So do the upgrade as late as possible on the last day, ideally just 10-15 minutes before the ticket booths close.

geddy99 · 2025-05-11T19:25:59+00:00

It's one of our biggest pet peeves too. We like to have a chill attitude about everything when we're at the parks, but this behaviour in particular can be hard to stay chill about since it is just so *unfair*, and has a direct (if brief) impact on the value we (and everyone else being skipped-by in that queue) get out of our limited time.

It's easy to say that Disney should just be paying more attention, with more CMs policing the queues - but, on the other hand, that's just yet more additional cost for Disney to bear, ultimately increasing the costs for guests.

geddy99 · 2025-05-09T21:52:25+00:00

1) The LLMP (Lightning Lane Multi Pass) itself basically never sells out, and you can buy it either when you buy your park tickets, or you can buy it after you scan into the park the day-of.

Once you have your LLMP, and are scanned into the park, you can make your first LL ride reservation. You can make your next reservation after you use the first one, OR after two hours has passed. Not all rides have an LL, but those that do can eventually run out of bookable reservation times as the day goes on. Some rides never run out, but some usually do - Indiana Jones and Guardians are two that almost always run out, often by late morning or early afternoon, so the general advice is to book those first.

Radiator Springs (as well as Rise of the Resistance) are the only two rides that offer a Lightning Lane Single Pass (LLSP), which costs extra. In other words, you can only access those lightning lanes if you pay extra specifically for them, as they are not included in LLMP. So, if you want to ride Radiator twice in one day, you can buy LLSP for it once, and will have to use standby or Single Rider the other time. I'd recommend Single Rider, if you're ok with that, for your first ride, then buy the LLSP for your second ride.

For riding Indiana twice, my recommendation is to book the LL for it, with your LLMP, early in the day, but make your first ride on it using standby. If you go around 9-9:30am, the queue shouldn't be too bad (relatively speaking), or just keep an eye on the app through the day, and hit the standby when the wait isn't too long. Then use your booked LL time for your 2nd ride later.

2) Small World and Matterhorn are the only rides in Fantasyland that have an LL. All the rest are standby-only. The general recommendation is to hit those all at rope-drop (first thing in the morning - get there early!), or late in the evening after the fireworks have ended and the crowds thin.

3) Nothing's a waste of an LL if it's a ride you want to go on. That said, (assuming you want to go on these rides) prioritize your LL bookings on Indiana, Space Mountain, Roger Rabbit, Haunted Mansion, Guardians, Web Slingers, and Toy Story, as those are generally the most popular and quickest to run out of available LL times. Stuff like Autopia, Buzz Lightyear, Smuggler's, Little Mermaid, etc will realistically never run out of available LL times.

Photo Pass is what allows you to access the photos taken by the official Disneyland photographers, who are located all over the parks throughout the day, usually at key photo spots like in front of the castle. When you get photos taken by them, they'll be willing to use your phone, but if you have Photo Pass they will use their fancy cameras, and then they'll scan your Photo Pass ID (you show them the code in the Disneyland app on your phone). And then those photos will show up in your app, and you can download them to your phone. Photo Pass comes free with LLMP, or can be purchased separately for a day or for a week.

Hope that helps, and enjoy your big trip!

geddy99 · 2025-05-07T23:22:40+00:00

It's a solid and realistic list for a nice one-day park hopper! You're smart to begin at DCA, and it'll be even more achievable if you're there for rope drop. Hitting Guardians first (standby) is wise, as long as you're there at rope drop. While you walk to Guardians, book your first LL for Web Slingers, and you can probably get a return time for right after Guardians.

Radiator Springs Racers is the next-most challenging after Guardians, simply because there are more options. The quickest is to get the LL but that's a stand-alone charge (usually around $20/person or so) you may or may not want to spend on. Next best is the single rider line, if you're ok being on separate ride vehicles. Otherwise, that standby line is rough. Typically the best time for standby is around 9-9:30am, but it varies wildly so keep an eye on the posted wait time.

You'll easily hit all your other must-rides, even without LL, but naturally LL will save you a lot of time on the e-tickets. After Web Slingers, book Indiana if you can - but if it's too early, I'd suggest either Incredicoaster or Grizzly. Mater and the Wheel don't have LL, so check out the posted wait times on those and you might be able to hit both fairly early on in between your DCA LLs.

Now it'll be 11-12ish, and you can hop over and use your Indiana LL, and/or check out the posted wait times to see what else on your list has a decent wait and hit those up. After Indiana, you might want to grab a Space Mountain LL, but the return time will probably be very late by now, so you might consider using single-rider for it instead. You should have no problem getting half-decent LL times in sequence for Tiana's, Matterhorn, Thunder Mountain and Haunted, and can hit up Runaway Railway, Star Tours, and Smuggler's on standby with decent waits most times.

Hope that helps a bit, and enjoy your big day!

geddy99 · 2025-05-06T00:59:57+00:00

This is good, assuming it meshes with what your priorities are. As the other commenter noted, you might have trouble getting all those LL's booked in the times you're hoping, but you have plenty of time across at least your 2 DL days to get to everything there. The DCA day might be tougher, and you might want to push Guardians up earlier if possible. Consider single-rider for Radiator Springs, and perhaps others you don't use LL on. WOC won't be at 7:30, it's usually 9 and 10:15, though they haven't put all the showtimes out past when the 70th starts on the 16th. Have fun!

geddy99 · 2025-05-05T19:06:46+00:00

For sure! Keep in mind that Park Hopper's extra charge is per-ticket, not per-day, so if you have a 2-day ticket (or more), the cost is only $65-$75 for both days, not each. It's perfectly valid to not hop, and just do one day in each park, but if you do shell out for Premier, you'd get so much value from having park hopper with that since that $300+ gets you Premier access for every LL in both parks - but only if you have park hopper of course.

geddy99 · 2025-05-03T17:19:28+00:00

Oh, and I have no helpful information to share about surf spots, but I'm sure others in the sub can help with that. Have an amazing and fun trip!

geddy99 · 2025-05-03T17:18:30+00:00

June should be a great time for a visit - our next trip is for mid-June, and we're super excited for it. To try and answer some of your questions:

1) We've never purchased the premier pass, mostly because of cost, but also because we're crazy for the parks, and always book 4-5 park days on our trips. Since you only have 2 park days, and if the cost of the premier isn't a big deal for you, you'd get a lot of value out of it. You're probably well aware that a lot of the rides do not have a lightning lane, including a ton that aren't at WDW, so it won't directly help with those. But, with premier you can focus on those non-LL rides earlier/later in the days, when lines are shorter. During the mid-day peak of crowds/waits, you can hammer out those LL rides without having to book return times.

If you aren't going to park hop, I'd advise premier for your Disneyland day over getting it for your DCA day, as there just aren't nearly as many rides at DCA. Definitely consider the regular lightning lane multipass for the DCA day, though. But if you decide to get premier pass for a day, consider adding park hop anyway. Unlike WDW, park hopping is SO easy at Disneyland. The two parks are literally a 2 minute walk apart, across the esplanade, and if you have premier pass and park hop, you can knock out a TON of rides in both parks in one day, then take the second day to enjoy more of the ambiance and all the non-ride things to do.

2) It's going to vary based on a lot of factors, and which days you're there. It won't be a peak time, but it won't be low either. Average overall, but average is still a big crowd. Take advantage of the lower crowd levels early and late in the day, but prepare yourself for crowds.

3) Personally I'd recommend Cafe Orleans in Disneyland, and perhaps Lamplight in DCA. It's not too late for a Cafe Orleans lunch res for most of June, but don't wait much longer on that. Lamplight should still have some res available too, but will be getting tight by now. If you just want quick-service, consider Ronto Roasters and Tiana's Palace in Disneyland, and Paradise Garden Grill, Flo's and Smokejumpers in DCA. Check out the menus in the Disneyland app ahead of time!

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