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Talk to me about LA & Seattle please

JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
edited May 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I'm planning my trip and I need any little tidbit you might be able to impart.

Travellers and locals please apply here! :D

I'm definitely needing some help in the LA department, Seattle is coming along nicely but every little bit helps.

Anybody know any good hostels/hotels? Anywhere I should avoid?

HOW does one get to Disneyland? :p

What's a must see and a must avoid at all costs? :)

Any help is much appreciated thanks. :)
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  • EvilMerlinEvilMerlin Posts: 1,865
    You wanna go to Disneyland? I'll get you to Disneyland as I live about 10 minutes from there. Although it's freakin packed during the summer and you can't get a whole lot done in one day anymore. Oh, and Senrock is out here, so it officially makes us the kick ass place to be.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    well let's start with when and for how long will you be here? :)
  • EvilMerlinEvilMerlin Posts: 1,865
    I suggest you stay away from Chapman University, I mean Chapman High School, that's where all the....oops, oh hey CB! :p

    Yeah, timing info would help, then we can get the ball rolling.
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    EvilMerlin wrote:
    You wanna go to Disneyland? I'll get you to Disneyland as I live about 10 minutes from there. Although it's freakin packed during the summer and you can't get a whole lot done in one day anymore. Oh, and Senrock is out here, so it officially makes us the kick ass place to be.

    Well I'm not sure, I mean I'm just trying to find out how hard it is to get there and yeah, packed doesn't sound good, BUT it's DISNEYLAND!! :D

    So I'm thinking if I can squeeze a day in there I should. And the studios. I always wanted to go there. Corny I know but that's me. :)
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    EvilMerlin wrote:
    I suggest you stay away from Chapman University, I mean Chapman High School, that's where all the....oops, oh hey CB! :p

    Yeah, timing info would help, then we can get the ball rolling.



    hahahahaha......ya know when i decided to go there my friends asked me where i was going and i said chapman and i got blank faces....so i said it's near disneyland......from there on everyone including myself said i was going to college at disneyland....:D
  • EvilMerlinEvilMerlin Posts: 1,865
    It's not that hard at all to get there. If you're actually staying in Los Angeles it's about 30 miles down the freeway, which depending on traffic will take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour+ to get there. However the good thing is that there's always a lot of shuttles that will drop people off and pick you up from disneyland. Before you book a place you can call around hotels and see who offers shuttle service to Disneyland.

    If you're staying in Anaheim or a surrounding area, then Disneyland is a very easy trip.
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    cutback wrote:
    well let's start with when and for how long will you be here? :)

    Well I think, and it's not confirmed yet, but I think I can get a 17.5 hour sardine flight via Auckland ( :rolleyes: Don't you just love Frequent Flyer points :D ) on the 4th September that will get me there on the 4th of September. Love that skipping a day bizo!

    Then fly to Seattle on the 7th. Then back to LA on the 21st for a couple of days. :)
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  • EvilMerlinEvilMerlin Posts: 1,865
    cutback wrote:
    hahahahaha......ya know when i decided to go there my friends asked me where i was going and i said chapman and i got blank faces....so i said it's near disneyland......from there on everyone including myself said i was going to college at disneyland....:D

    LOL, well that sounds about right. I was recruited to play basketball for them, and granted I lived about 15 minutes away at the time, and when people found out that was one of the schools recruiting me I got a "I had no idea they even had sports there."
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    EvilMerlin wrote:
    It's not that hard at all to get there. If you're actually staying in Los Angeles it's about 30 miles down the freeway, which depending on traffic will take anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour+ to get there. However the good thing is that there's always a lot of shuttles that will drop people off and pick you up from disneyland. Before you book a place you can call around hotels and see who offers shuttle service to Disneyland.

    If you're staying in Anaheim or a surrounding area, then Disneyland is a very easy trip.

    Cool!! That's the word I wanted to hear shuttle!!! :D

    So it's only 1/2 to an hour to Anaheim? Excellent!! :)

    I won't have a car and I know that LA is a car kinda city. :)
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  • patrickredeyespatrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    LA was nice but dam what a dirty city it is.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Jeanie wrote:
    Well I think, and it's not confirmed yet, but I think I can get a 17.5 hour sardine flight via Auckland ( :rolleyes: Don't you just love Frequent Flyer points :D ) on the 4th September that will get me there on the 4th of September. Love that skipping a day bizo!

    Then fly to Seattle on the 7th. Then back to LA on the 21st for a couple of days. :)


    m'kay......end of the first week in sept.....well hopefully most schools will be in session but disneyland might be a zoo...


    since so cal is so vast, do you have any other ideas as to what you want to see cuz then we can give you a central place to stay :)
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    cutback wrote:
    m'kay......end of the first week in sept.....well hopefully most schools will be in session but disneyland might be a zoo...


    since so cal is so vast, do you have any other ideas as to what you want to see cuz then we can give you a central place to stay :)

    Ok, so I need to think long and hard about Disneyland then? Be stuffed I'm torturing myself with the screaming hoards during school holidays!! :eek:


    Well apart from having a meet up and catching up with you folk (and that means you too t. Don't be trying to weedle out of it, I will hunt you down if I have to! :D don't be scared! :p ) I really don't know what I want to do aside from maybe seeing a studio. I don't have a lot of time, so is there MUST SEE things? I just figured if I found something central that I could walk to most things, that wasn't too expensive, I could just wander about and poke around and see what I could see. :)
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  • brainofPJbrainofPJ Posts: 2,361
    as for Seattle...

    please save some money and skip the underground tour.

    read a book about it...it is much more interesting.


    Esther's here and she's sick?

    hi Esther, now we are all going to be sick, thanks
  • prismprism Posts: 2,440
    Jeanie wrote:
    Well I think, and it's not confirmed yet, but I think I can get a 17.5 hour sardine flight via Auckland ( :rolleyes: Don't you just love Frequent Flyer points :D ) on the 4th September that will get me there on the 4th of September. Love that skipping a day bizo!

    Then fly to Seattle on the 7th. Then back to LA on the 21st for a couple of days. :)

    ooh yaay....now i can make plans to give you those hugs :)
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Jeanie wrote:
    Ok, so I need to think long and hard about Disneyland then? Be stuffed I'm torturing myself with the screaming hoards during school holidays!! :eek:


    Well apart from having a meet up and catching up with you folk (and that means you too t. Don't be trying to weedle out of it, I will hunt you down if I have to! :D don't be scared! :p ) I really don't know what I want to do aside from maybe seeing a studio. I don't have a lot of time, so is there MUST SEE things? I just figured if I found something central that I could walk to most things, that wasn't too expensive, I could just wander about and poke around and see what I could see. :)


    well if you do it on say thursday or friday you may be ok at disney


    studio tour.....well universal has their tour...

    walking in la??? yeah i know my next youtube dedication ;)
  • ZanneZanne Posts: 899
    Seattle is my favorite place on earth. Check out Ballard while you are there, on Ballard Ave itself for tons of live music in the pubs/taverns. West Seattle has Alki Beach.. a kick ass breakfast or lunch can be had at Alki Cafe. Anywhere along the west side of West Seattle is fun, too.. you can get down to the beach at many places. Lincoln Park is a nice walk and has a staircase that goes down to the beach, if you don't mind the hike back up!

    I'm just a frequent visitor to Seattle, so these are the things I've found enjoyment in while out there.. Not a local, though I'd love to think of myself as a seachild!

    Peace and have a blast!

    Sue
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  • patrickredeyespatrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    Zanne wrote:
    Seattle is my favorite place on earth. Check out Ballard while you are there, on Ballard Ave itself for tons of live music in the pubs/taverns. West Seattle has Alki Beach.. a kick ass breakfast or lunch can be had at Alki Cafe. Anywhere along the west side of West Seattle is fun, too.. you can get down to the beach at many places. Lincoln Park is a nice walk and has a staircase that goes down to the beach, if you don't mind the hike back up!

    I'm just a frequent visitor to Seattle, so these are the things I've found enjoyment in while out there.. Not a local, though I'd love to think of myself as a seachild!

    Peace and have a blast!

    Sue


    That's your second home last few weeks. :D
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    prism wrote:
    ooh yaay....now i can make plans to give you those hugs :)

    :D Suits me!!
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    cutback wrote:
    well if you do it on say thursday or friday you may be ok at disney


    studio tour.....well universal has their tour...

    walking in la??? yeah i know my next youtube dedication ;)

    Maybe Friday then? But I'll see. Tis most important that I catch up with as many of you lot as I can and anything else I manage in that time is a bonus. :)

    People don't walk in LA????? :confused:
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    brainofPJ wrote:
    as for Seattle...

    please save some money and skip the underground tour.

    read a book about it...it is much more interesting.

    The catacombes???? I'd forgotten about them!

    Seriously it's not a good tour?
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  • Urban HikerUrban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    Jeanie wrote:
    People don't walk in LA????? :confused:

    People walk in Seattle!!!! Or at least I do - everywhere. :rolleyes:

    Hope I get to meet you while you're here! :D

    Hey Seattle Folks - I think we can manage a Fado's trivia night if Jeanie is up to it.
    Walking can be a real trip
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Zanne wrote:
    Seattle is my favorite place on earth. Check out Ballard while you are there, on Ballard Ave itself for tons of live music in the pubs/taverns. West Seattle has Alki Beach.. a kick ass breakfast or lunch can be had at Alki Cafe. Anywhere along the west side of West Seattle is fun, too.. you can get down to the beach at many places. Lincoln Park is a nice walk and has a staircase that goes down to the beach, if you don't mind the hike back up!

    I'm just a frequent visitor to Seattle, so these are the things I've found enjoyment in while out there.. Not a local, though I'd love to think of myself as a seachild!

    Peace and have a blast!

    Sue

    Thanks sue, that all sounds excellent! :)
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  • brainofPJbrainofPJ Posts: 2,361
    Jeanie wrote:
    The catacombes???? I'd forgotten about them!

    Seriously it's not a good tour?


    the history is really cool.

    but it was almost like i had heard the tour guides words word for word on a history channel special once. and being down there really didn't inhance anything.

    i believe my wife is ordering some books on seattle history...looking forward to them.


    Esther's here and she's sick?

    hi Esther, now we are all going to be sick, thanks
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    People walk in Seattle!!!! Or at least I do - everywhere. :rolleyes:

    Hope I get to meet you while you're here! :D

    Hey Seattle Folks - I think we can manage a Fado's trivia night if Jeanie is up to it.


    Excellent!! :) You see more walking anyway, well I reckon. :)

    Fado's Trivia night? Dare I ask??? :D
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    brainofPJ wrote:
    the history is really cool.

    but it was almost like i had heard the tour guides words word for word on a history channel special once. and being down there really didn't inhance anything.

    i believe my wife is ordering some books on seattle history...looking forward to them.


    :) Yeah, a bad tour guide can suck. But you know I still have to do it anyway right? :D

    I'm just so glad you reminded me!! Thanks!! :)
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  • brainofPJbrainofPJ Posts: 2,361
    Jeanie wrote:
    :) Yeah, a bad tour guide can suck. But you know I still have to do it anyway right? :D

    I'm just so glad you reminded me!! Thanks!! :)


    haha, no problem.

    hey, it's only about $15 a person...so that's not bad.


    Esther's here and she's sick?

    hi Esther, now we are all going to be sick, thanks
  • TrailerTrailer Posts: 1,431
    Jeanie wrote:
    Maybe Friday then? But I'll see. Tis most important that I catch up with as many of you lot as I can and anything else I manage in that time is a bonus. :)

    People don't walk in LA????? :confused:

    Walking is lame;)

    You can come party with me in Santa Monica if you want!!:D
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    brainofPJ wrote:
    haha, no problem.

    hey, it's only about $15 a person...so that's not bad.

    Excellent!! Sounds like my kind of thing. I remember a girlfriend telling me about it years ago. That she'd done the tour when she was over there. I'd completely forgotten about it till you mentioned it. Bad tour guide aside, I think I have to do that and for $15 bucks I can put up with a crappy commentary. :)
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    Trailer wrote:
    Walking is lame;)

    You can come party with me in Santa Monica if you want!!:D

    You'll never convince me that walking is lame Trails! :p

    Party in Santa Monica??? hehe!! :D My party animal days are pretty much over!! :D
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  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    I am not a fare judge or a fare jury on the L.A. bit.
    Basiclly all I know about L.A. is shitty stuff.
    That doesn't mean it is written in stone to be shitty.
    It means that driving a 53 foot trailer through L.A.
    flippin blows quite a bit, exciting, nerve-racking, thrilling, tiring.
    Confusing shit trying to find an address in that shit hole.

    Jeanie, in the smaller hours of the early morning you may find yourself in the worst parts of the city, which can be a good time when watching all the stupid shit that's going on.
    Just becareful and don't go lookin for trouble and you'll be fine.
    I just don't see Jeanie @ 3am lookin for trouble in some darkened alley-way of L.A.

    good luck my friend,
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