An iPhone makes Disneyland an even happier place

I haven't been there, but @revaliente has. There are more than these two below, so be sure to read the whole story.

A post from iPhone Central by Dan Frakes has the whole story. Here is a part:

Navigating the park

Disneyland Maps’ map is more useful for actually navigating the park, and the wait times proved to be quite accurate.

A better park-navigation option is the $2 Disneyland Maps (also available in a free-with-ads version). This app provides a detailed, accurate map of the park; zoom in, and you see every attraction (in red), restaurant (in green), and restroom. But unlike Walkee, Disneyland Maps displays the name of each attraction and restaurant. Tapping an item displays a photo of it, and a More Info button gives you a quick description, although you won’t find nearly as much info in this app as you will in Walkee.

The best feature in Disneyland Maps is that its excellent map also displays nearly-live wait times for every applicable ride without having to go to a different screen. As with every other wait-time app, the times in Disneyland Maps aren’t sanctioned by Disney, but I found them to be accurate within five or ten minutes, which made the wait-times feature indispensable during our visit. A casual glance at my iPhone’s screen showed us which nearby rides had the shortest waits, and let us avoid the most-popular rides until their lines got shorter. (If an estimate is dramatically off, you can submit your actual wait time to improve the app’s accuracy.) Thanks to the app, we never waited more than 15 minutes for a ride, and we made it onto many rides in under five minutes.

Granted, February may be a relatively uncrowded time at Disneyland, but many rides still had long waits at various times. For example, on the second day of our trip, we ended up waiting only 10 minutes to ride Indiana Jones, despite hour-long waits most of the day, and we jumped right on the temporarily-closed Jungle Cruise when it re-opened. Because we often took detours to catch short lines, our route through the park wasn’t a smooth loop, but we ended up doing less walking than if we’d blindly cycled through the park looking for short waits. (What would make Disneyland Maps even more efficient would be a notification option that let you know when a particular ride’s wait drops below a duration you choose—for example, when the Space Mountain line drops below 20 minutes.)

Both Walkee and Disneyland Maps are GPS-enabled, so you can quickly see exactly where you are in the park. We never had to wonder where, exactly, we were or how to get to a particular attraction.