Mateo's note:

DCA gets treated like the second park and that's a mistake once you've actually spent a day here. Once you're inside the park, buy your Radiator Springs Racers Single Pass early — in my experience it can sell out before 9am on busy days, much like Rise of the Resistance across at Disneyland Park. Then go find the Animation Academy in Hollywood Land, which nobody talks about and which I still consider the single best air-conditioned break in either park. If you're a teenager or an adult who cares about thrills and food over meeting Mickey, DCA is genuinely the stronger of the two parks for your day — Guardians, Incredicoaster, Grizzly River Run, and, in my opinion, a food scene that beats Disneyland's.