Kids eat free Anaheim California

I know I'm not the only one who thinks we need to save money on the food we are eating while we are on vacation.  We tried to find some of the less expensive areas to eat and this is what we found. If you have kids under 12 (usually that's the age) then there are tons of places where they eat free on different nights of the week.  IHOP is a great place to eat for that reason.  The one across from Disneyland was good when we ate there in 2008.

Ihop

1560 S. Harbor Blvd., Anaheim, CA, 92802

(714) 635-0933 - Venue Website

Kids Eat Free specials offered daily from 4 p.m. to midnight. One kids entree with the purchase of an adult entree.

http://www.kidseatfreeplaces.com/california.htm 

http://www.just-spotted.com/  is another good website to look at for things to do. 

Things we found to do in LA

Hubby and I found this wonderful card when we went to LA on our own in 2009.  We will be using it again when we go with the 2 kids in 2011. LA GO Card  this card was a money saver for us and we didn't have to worry about making sure we had called ahead to different venues for most of them.  Some of the places we visited were....

Universal Studios, we went there twice!! It has changed I noticed that you can go up to 3 now!! Whoohooo!!  They also have an all you can eat deal that we went with. It was nice not having to take money everywhere for food. Just showed them the wristband and went through the turnstile.

We went on a cruise with Spirit cruises That was fun. We saw some amazing things including sea lion sitting on a buoy! There were about 10 of them on there! I will be adding pictures as I can.

aquarium of pacific  was fun. We petted (is that the right word??) a manta ray, some other sea creatures, hubby went in with the birds, I couldn't talk myself into it! lol

cabrillo marine aquarium was really cool.  You can pet the sea urchins, cucumbers, anemones, barnacles, etc Then we went to Cabrillo beach which is right in the same parking lot. There were two sides to the beach. The less wavy section is where we went because of Joey's muscle issues. We were afraid he'd slip. They also have sand wheelchairs available should you need it!

Los Angeles on a Budget....

We have been to LA area twice now and I am working on our next trip, for daughter Meghan's grad present in 2011. We have been able to go with a budget and mostly stayed within it, except when hubby and I went by ourselves and I found the LA Fashion District (swoon)

I am hoping to show you how we were able to save money and find free or next to free things to do while we were there. Over the next couple weeks, I will be showing you the things I find for our next trip, many of them are things we found on the first two trips. I'm hoping to show you how you can save money so you'll have more to spend on shopping, food or whatever else you want to spend it on.