Let me start off by saying I'm a huge Disneyland fan, Ive been going for over 50 years. I get excited every time I get to take my grandchildren, and I was excited taking my children, and I was excited when I was a kid.
Ok so first don't go if you don't pay for the Genie plus service, it will be a very frustrating day. Second be aware there will be extra charges for some of the premium rides, SOOO you will be out an extra 67 dollars per person if you want to ride everything and not be in line all day and that amount is on top of very high-ticket cost. By the way that is 20 per day for genie per person, 20 dollars to ride new Star Wars ride, !5 dollars for Spiderman per person, and 12 dollars for Cars ride per person. I elected to stand in the normal line for the cars ride and they literally let 4 people go for every forty people that paid the 12 bucks, so it was a long wait and kind of frustrating. It seems like Disney is kind of separating people by their social standing, if you cant afford it, you are second class. The cast was great as usual, but the first 3 rides we got on broke down, one for over a half hour, several were closed, and over all we were effected by 6 rides broken down over the day, while we were on them. I still had a decent time, but I think Walt would be sad to see that people with less money do not get the same experience as people who can afford to pay more. Long story short Disney is now mostly magic if you have deep pockets, if not you wont get the same experience as someone that does. That makes me kind of sad. Last but not least the food was mostly terrible, I spent 120 dollars on lunch and it sucked, even the french fries sucked. I still loved taking the grandkids, but much of the magic is gone.