no_vaseline_IHB
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The Anaheim Garden Walk is open. Sort of. They are still under construction.
It is a very small retail property, which is a plus. You can walk the whole second level in like two minutes. If you park on L4 of the parking garage, you'll be the only one there and be a few scant steps to the entrance to the IMAX Theater. Which is almost empty. And that's a plus, because the parking situation absolutely ****s. There are two entries (one off of Katella, one that is accessed via Disney Drive) and both of them funnel into a single lane one way inside the structure. The Katella exit is downright disturbing, as it is loaded with inattentive and discourteous pedestrians. Somebody's going to get hurt there sooner rather than later.
There's nobody there now, and at 9pm on Friday the line to leave was 25 cars long. I mean there's nobody parked on L3 or 4 and 95% of the spots open on L2. You have to get your parking validated, which isn't a big deal. They want you to prepay using your CC so the automatic ticket reader will speed you out. The prepay machines aren't working correctly.
The IMAX Theater is awesome. It's not as big as some of them I've been to, (or at least it doesn't seem as big). The audio is standard IMAX awesome. We sat in the less prime top row, lower level and I never felt "smothered" by the screen like I did at the IMAX Universal City Walk.
I heard that this is focused on tourists and not locals. Somebody should tell the ladies' clothing retailers, because that cute little stuff they have won't fly in Nebraska unless they've got it in size 14-20. My wife noticed that a lot of the architectural treatments are the same as in Downtown Disney, so the sticky fingers of the Mouse are all over this one, but it sure is a long way from the front gates. Almost too far to walk unless you're staying next door. It'll be interesting to see if they make it going into what I think will be the biggest retail slowdown since 1981. This was an expensive property to develop.
Tech tip: Take everything out of your front pockets at the stadium seating IMAX theater. I lost my phone and keys in the cantilever mechanism, and mistakenly thought I?d got them back. I got lucky the next day when I insisted they let me look inside the theater (even though they insisted that they weren?t there) and I remembered where I sat. Sure enough, there they were ? hung up on the channel that holds the cantilever.
It is a very small retail property, which is a plus. You can walk the whole second level in like two minutes. If you park on L4 of the parking garage, you'll be the only one there and be a few scant steps to the entrance to the IMAX Theater. Which is almost empty. And that's a plus, because the parking situation absolutely ****s. There are two entries (one off of Katella, one that is accessed via Disney Drive) and both of them funnel into a single lane one way inside the structure. The Katella exit is downright disturbing, as it is loaded with inattentive and discourteous pedestrians. Somebody's going to get hurt there sooner rather than later.
There's nobody there now, and at 9pm on Friday the line to leave was 25 cars long. I mean there's nobody parked on L3 or 4 and 95% of the spots open on L2. You have to get your parking validated, which isn't a big deal. They want you to prepay using your CC so the automatic ticket reader will speed you out. The prepay machines aren't working correctly.
The IMAX Theater is awesome. It's not as big as some of them I've been to, (or at least it doesn't seem as big). The audio is standard IMAX awesome. We sat in the less prime top row, lower level and I never felt "smothered" by the screen like I did at the IMAX Universal City Walk.
I heard that this is focused on tourists and not locals. Somebody should tell the ladies' clothing retailers, because that cute little stuff they have won't fly in Nebraska unless they've got it in size 14-20. My wife noticed that a lot of the architectural treatments are the same as in Downtown Disney, so the sticky fingers of the Mouse are all over this one, but it sure is a long way from the front gates. Almost too far to walk unless you're staying next door. It'll be interesting to see if they make it going into what I think will be the biggest retail slowdown since 1981. This was an expensive property to develop.
Tech tip: Take everything out of your front pockets at the stadium seating IMAX theater. I lost my phone and keys in the cantilever mechanism, and mistakenly thought I?d got them back. I got lucky the next day when I insisted they let me look inside the theater (even though they insisted that they weren?t there) and I remembered where I sat. Sure enough, there they were ? hung up on the channel that holds the cantilever.
It will be very convenient to live within walking distance from that wine bar or the club. I may have to add some new stops to my annual Anaheim Resort Pub Crawl.