structure and onto a series of ramps to the designated level (there are six in all), and then to the designated aisle and then to the designated space (there are 10,225 of them). If the park is crowded, this syn-
chronized caravan can drag along for 15 minutes. On a slow day, you’re out of your car and strolling toward the tramin 10minutes. If you end up park-
the park having experiencedmore than three rides and the parade, you can call that an excellent day at Disneyland. In 2007, more than 14.8 million
people visited Disneyland. I was one of
them.And the road to happy Mick- ey memories is a long one with many stops and bumps. Maybe my descrip- tion was too complicated to seemposi- tive, but I don’t see how they could do
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Parking guides point, wave, gesture and grin each car toward the path of least resistance.
ing on the roof, which is said to be the size of 14 NFL football fields, you know the place is going to be mobbed. Here’s where it gets a little tricky.
The place is so big that parking your car doesn’t mean you know where you are supposed to go next. But the park- ing spaces all point toward the pedes- trian trail, which leads to the elevators and three of the longest escalators you will ever see. Get yourselves and your followers
to the tram level, and the parking part is over.You also can note that the tram is my 5-year-old daughter’s favorite ride at Disneyland, a detail that causes me some irritation. The tram will take you directly to
an unnamed part of the park, where your bags will be inspected, you will wait in line to buy tickets, and then you will stand in another line to enter the Magic Kingdom. Once inside, you might stand in several other lines for most of the rest of the day. If you leave
it any other
way.And every time I visit the park, I am impressed with the way the parking structure works. They sayWalt Disney was a fas-
tidious and imaginative man. He was dead a long time before his park’s con- crete moon was put in place, but I think he’d be proud of it.What I can’t figure out is how a corporation that can produce and maintain a parking facility of such magnitude and operate an entertaiment venue that is always perfectly clean, well-staffed and entirely unique, can’t manage to serve a decent bean burrito. You’ll figure out the parking with
or without my input, so if I tell you anything about Disneyland, it’s don’t eat the beans.
Melissa Bean Sterzick is PT’s amateur parker and proofreader. She can be reached at
Melissa@parkingtoday.com.
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