Nice RV Park on the Ocean Close to Disneyland?

[Elias]

We're thinking about doing a Spring Break trip in April to Disneyland in the Motorhome. I've been looking at the RV asphalt jungles around the park but they don't do much for me.
We will probably only go to the park one day so I'd rather drive an hour to get there and have home base somewhere nice on the beach where the kids can play.

Any suggestions?
TIA

[tsetsaf]

Golden Shore in Long Beach is the nicest for the money. The problem with any beach location is distance from the park and dealing with traffic. You can see all the mentioned parks Here

[RedRocket204]

Elias wrote:
After more research and my wife saying "We're going to Disneyland more than one day" I think we'll stay close and then spend a couple of days at the ocean.

You really do need more than 1 day at Dizzyland to see the whole park and ride the rides.

Also, having been born and raised on the beach spending a lot of time surfing in SoCal, I always found that the nicer beaches were south in Orange County into San Diego County or north of Los Angeles.

Laguna Beach has some very interesting beaches to visit...look online for Thousand Steps. This beach was one of my favorites for just hanging out at the beach wandering around, beach combing.

At Thousand Steps, make sure it is low tide and that there are not big waves breaking...but go down the 10 or so flights of stairs, turn left and keep going past the 3 or so different coves. You will come upon a cave in the rock structure. Go into the cave and there will be an exit on the ocean side a little ways in. When you come out, look south and back towards the beach sandy area and there will be some houses down lower to the ocean and areas where multiple sea pools were built. You can't access this area from the road, private roads, so it can only be accessed via the cave...or at least access used to be available via the cave but I would see no reason for it being blocked via the cave...it's public.

Very cool area and not something many tourists are aware of. I spent a lot of time there in my youth.

[Marv_Hoag]

I stayed at Anaheim RV park this past March. Spring break is all over the place down there. Disney attractions were very busy. I spent a week in a back-in site with the interior road on my passenger side. Better than being sandwiched in between rigs. We were at California Adventure from 9am to 11pm first day. Disneyland on another day, same hours. My son lives in Santa Ana and has season passes. Even with his expertise at getting fast passes we barely hit everything we wanted in two days. Stay close to Disney. If you get tired, come home for a nap, then return for the evening.

[Elias]

smkettner wrote:
I would tend to stay close to Disneyland if that is the reason for the trip. You will be tired every long day and the closer the better. Close by should have a shuttle. Go ahead and take a day trip to Huntington Beach or South Coast Plaza for shopping.

There are no RV resort type RV parks anywhere in LA/OC that I know of. At least not close to Disney. Even Newport Dunes you are very wedged in and I believe it is close to $200 per night.

Beach may seem close but if you want an early start it is easily a one hour commute in traffic to Disney. Same for getting back unless you stay until Disney closes.

You said one day but two to four days is more realistic IMO. Then move and have a few days at the beach.

This is very good advise.
After more research and my wife saying "We're going to Disneyland more than one day" I think we'll stay close and then spend a couple of days at the ocean.

[tpi]

Elias wrote:

tpi wrote:

Elias wrote:

azdryheat wrote:
IF you don't mind driving a few miles, San Clemente State Beach has a beautiful RV park on a bluff overlooking the ocean. Great sunsets and lots of room between campers. Check it out HERE

Thanks. Looks really nice but I should have mentioned our Motorhome is 40 ft
Looks like they have a 30 ft limit,

I think the back in dry sites are smaller but the full hookup pull throughs certainly had big RVs in them when I've been there.

I also recommend.

Great, thanks.
Their website says 30 ft max. Looks like they need an update.

Yes if you click on the sites in the full hookup section on Reserve America, you'll see 42 on lot of them.

[time2roll]

I would tend to stay close to Disneyland if that is the reason for the trip. You will be tired every long day and the closer the better. Close by should have a shuttle. Go ahead and take a day trip to Huntington Beach or South Coast Plaza for shopping.

There are no RV resort type RV parks anywhere in LA/OC that I know of. At least not close to Disney. Even Newport Dunes you are very wedged in and I believe it is close to $200 per night.

Beach may seem close but if you want an early start it is easily a one hour commute in traffic to Disney. Same for getting back unless you stay until Disney closes.

You said one day but two to four days is more realistic IMO. Then move and have a few days at the beach.

[Elias]

tpi wrote:

Elias wrote:

azdryheat wrote:
IF you don't mind driving a few miles, San Clemente State Beach has a beautiful RV park on a bluff overlooking the ocean. Great sunsets and lots of room between campers. Check it out HERE

Thanks. Looks really nice but I should have mentioned our Motorhome is 40 ft
Looks like they have a 30 ft limit,

I think the back in dry sites are smaller but the full hookup pull throughs certainly had big RVs in them when I've been there.

I also recommend.

Great, thanks.
Their website says 30 ft max. Looks like they need an update.

[tpi]

Elias wrote:

azdryheat wrote:
IF you don't mind driving a few miles, San Clemente State Beach has a beautiful RV park on a bluff overlooking the ocean. Great sunsets and lots of room between campers. Check it out HERE

Thanks. Looks really nice but I should have mentioned our Motorhome is 40 ft
Looks like they have a 30 ft limit,

I think the back in dry sites are smaller but the full hookup pull throughs certainly had big RVs in them when I've been there.

I also recommend.

[WyoTraveler]

New Port Beach has a park. The nearer the beach the higher the price.

[IAMICHABOD]

Bolsa Chica would be the best choice. They have 40 ft spots

It is very hard to get into, reservations thru Reserve America have to be made 6 months in advance, so if you want any chance to get a spot there in April you must be on line on the First of October at 8am PDT

I did it last year and got a spot but within 3 minutes it was full it is sometimes hit and miss and of course there are some that play a game of booking early then canceling.

Another alternative for on the beach is Dockweiler near LAX also 40 ft spots and a 90 day reservation window. you can almost always get a nice spot with that short window. A bit of a drive to Disneyland but it is at the beach.

Then there is Golden Shores in Long Beach, not on the beach but on the water.

[azdryheat]

No, they have very long spaces. Most are 42'. We were just there in May with a 37 foot 5er. Also, see my update on previous post.

[Elias]

azdryheat wrote:
IF you don't mind driving a few miles, San Clemente State Beach has a beautiful RV park on a bluff overlooking the ocean. Great sunsets and lots of room between campers. Check it out HERE

Thanks. Looks really nice but I should have mentioned our Motorhome is 40 ft
Looks like they have a 30 ft limit,

[azdryheat]

IF you don't mind driving a few miles, San Clemente State Beach has a beautiful RV park on a bluff overlooking the ocean. Great sunsets and lots of room between campers. Check it out HERE

UPDATE: I just checked the website and they aren't taking online reservations for April until Oct 1.