Comments on: What is the best age for Disneyland?

By: Susie

Susie — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:21:02 +0000

We just went for the first time the first week of november while visiting my mom in OC. I grew up 15 minutes from there so not a visitor passed by our house that didn’t get a personal tour of Disneyland. My seven year old loved all the rides including space mountain which he went on twice. My daughter (4.5) freaked out on space mountain. oops. But she loved Matterhorn. She liked the toon town roller coaster (go gadget). Just rights for 3-5 year olds. The thing that saved us was the free Disney line wait iphone app. Awesome. Plus going on a Wednesday in early November means short lines all around. The poor baby was shlepped around all day and I was glad we had grandma babysitting. I think the best part was the Music parade (it’s probably the christmas parade by now). We all LOVED that. great way to end a long day.

By: Kerily

Kerily — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:36:32 +0000

My parents took me when I was 5 (a special day off school, away from little sister) and that’s what we are doing too. 5 is old enough to remember and appreciate it. Plus the undivided attention of your parents is special any time when you have 2 little sisters. We had a blast AND we recreated my iconic Disneyland photo from my photo album.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:20:00 +0000

We just took our kids for the first time. My daughter (age 5) was scared of the Pinocchio ride because it was dark and had scary sounds but she loved the roller coasters. My son (age 3) was fine in the dark if mommy was there but freaked out all through the Matterhorn because it went too fast. After we figured out their preferences the rest of the trip was magical. There are plenty of rides to choose from and kids don’t mind going on their favorites multiple times.

My only advice would be to plan for rest time and keep the kids fed and hydrated.

By: Brandi

Brandi — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:05:05 +0000

I am a HUGE Disney fan, although I’ve never been to Disney Land, we are only a few hours from Disney World and my boys, 3 1/2 and 23 months are already veterans at the Disney thing, so I agree that any age is a good age! It is also about the disposition of the child though, my oldest is a bit more anxious about certain things and the poor child is traumatized by the Buzz Lightyear ride because he got really scared of the part at the end with tunnel where it looks like the stars are zipping past you, he was afraid it was taking us far away from the rest of the rides

By: Rolene

Rolene — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:12:51 +0000

I’m a huge Disneyland fan and honestly, we took my first child when he was 1 month old and I don’t regret it! He could go on all the Fantasyland rides, as well as Pirates & Haunted Mansion. Plus, Disneyland has a “mother’s lounge” with private places to breastfeed and even pump if you need to. They even have special potty training potties for kids there. I love that place, its like they thought of everything!

By: Whitney

Whitney — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:41:47 +0000

@Sam, that is a brilliant idea. We did look at some things ahead of time on YouTube, but I didn’t think to focus on the inside dark rides.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:31:41 +0000

Glad you had a good time! I am a HUGE Disneyland fan and my husband and I first started taking the kids when my oldest was 10 months old. She’s now 2 1/2 and has been four times. Her 6 month old brother went for the first time at 3 months. Once my daughter was old enough to start fearing the dark rides we started watching them on YouTube. It helped so much. She knew what to expect and was still overjoyed to ride them in person even though she’d seen them countless times on the computer.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:31:03 +0000

My husband works for Disney (not the park though, ha) and we live about an hour from Disneyland so we go fairly regularly since it’s free. My kids are 3.5 & 2 and it’s still pretty rough. Because it’s free we always go when it opens and stay until it isn’t fun anymore. We also go when it’s not crowded and bring at least one extra adult with us if we can.
We’ve had successful days and not so successful days and I completely agree that it’s about disposition, not age. Though I’m looking forward to going when the littler one is 3, just seeing how much more my older one enjoys it at this age I think it will be really fun then.

By: berto

berto — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:15:12 +0000

When I was 20 my mom and I took my 7 year old brother. I think it was the prefect age for him. He was still full of awe and wonder when Sleeping Beauty came by our table at breakfast but also old enough to really enjoy the rides. I think we would have spent the whole day on Tom Sawyer’s Island if we hadn’t been able to promise him pirates. So, I think the prefect age is around 7.