WHS Music 2025 Southern California Trip: Friday May 16th -- Sunday May 18th 2025
​The final payment of $175.00 is due by May 09, 2025 and is required to secure your student’s participation. Students must be paid in full before departing on the bus on Friday May 16th (unless prior arrangements have been made with and approved by Mr. Gaydos).
Our preferred methods of payment avoid bank processing fees:
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Cash - hand delivered to Mr. Gaydos
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Check - Payable to "Woodside High School Music Booster Organization,” and hand delivered to Mr. Gaydos
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Zelle - 650-643-9942 or whsmbo@gmail.com
Required note (memo line or similar) for each payment: student’s FULL name & payment for 2025 Southern California trip.
Credit card payments can be accepted through PayPal, but must include an additional $6.10 to cover processing fees.
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Hotel accommodations
Best Western Plus Meridian Inn & Suites Anaheim-Orange
720 The City Drive South
Orange, CA 92868
Hotel Telephone: (714) 740-2700
Reservations: (800) 780-7234
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Additional rooms are available to families at the following discounted rates:
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One king-size bed rooms for $144 per night plus 10.2% tax
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Two queen-size bed rooms for $154 per night plus 10.2% tax
Specify that you’d like the Parents Room Block for the Woodside High School Music Program to obtain these rates.
Thank you all for your generous donations and support! As a result, total trip cost per student has decreased from the expected $645 amount to the significantly reduced amount of $475. This consists of your prior $300 deposit and the $175 deposit now being requested.
Trip Description
This is a bus trip from Woodside High School (WHS) to the LA/Orange County area for ALL WHS music ensemble students (Marching/Concert Band, Jazz Band + Vocals, Orchestra). Buses will depart school on Friday, May 16th (early afternoon) and return on Sunday, May 18th (late).
The trip includes transportation, accommodation, entrance to Disneyland Theme Parks, and some meals (Friday’s dinner, Saturday’s breakfast, Sunday’s breakfast and return meal, and bus snacks). Students will be responsible to pay for their own lunch and dinner on Saturday and any incidentals (for example, snacks and souvenirs at Disneyland).
Students, staff, and chaperones will spend Friday and Saturday night at a Best Western hotel near Disneyland. Students will be lodged in either 3-person or 4-person same-gender hotel rooms. A block of rooms for families at a discounted rate are available at this same hotel. Please see the preceding details.
All music ensembles will participate in the "Soundtrack Sessions" workshop, part of the Disney Imagination Campus educational program. Students will learn a repertoire of Disney music and record their own performance piece. They will work with Disney teaching artists to hone fundamental skills including intonation, musical balance, and tone quality. In addition to sight-reading practice and ensemble training, students will learn how phrasing, dynamics, and articulation can add emotion to music. The workshop will culminate with a screening of the students' recorded work set to Disney film footage. Students will experience the excitement, focus, and fast-paced energy of a professional recording studio environment and will gain insight into careers in the recording and film industries.
After completion of the Disney Imagination Campus educational program on Saturday, May 17th, students will have time to visit the Disneyland Theme Parks with chaperones and WHS staff.
All music ensembles will also participate in a performance exchange with a Southern California high school on Sunday, May 18th before returning home.
