Having now had my fill of the many, many lands of Disneyland, I decided to escape Disneyland Park (more specifically its crowds) by hopping on to the Disneyland Monorail and catching a ride over to the Downtown Disney District, an outdoor shopping center and promenade that lies nestled between Disneyland Resort’s two theme parks and all its hotels.
With no admission ticket required to access the area, Downtown Disney was apparently designed to attract local residents and to encourage extended stays in the resort district, so despite carrying one or two Disney dedicated stores and a bit of branding here and there, the promenade is refreshingly home to a lot of businesses not featuring a princess or mouse ears in their logo!
Hungry and with feet reasonably tired following such a long day of walking about, I ambled down the promenade, browsed through a couple of the retails stores (the art in the WonderGround Gallery was amazing, the World of Disney pretty cool, and the Lego Store of course interesting as always), and grabbed what turned out to be a particularly tasty sandwich from the Earl of Sandwich – right next to the AMC movie theaters and across the street from the ESPN Zone sports bar.
(Bad choice, I know, but I really liked the idea of sitting outside and watching people go by).
Anyway, bottomless sodas are so much fun when you’re not used to having them around back in SA.
Refreshed and refueled, I hopped back on the monorail and headed back to Disneyland, eager to catch the late afternoon and evening parades!
Related Link: Downtown Disney | Wikipedia | #USA2016