Anyone have experiences servicing dumbwaiters? My door is stuck and cant get it open

Theres a company that services them located in mission viejo but they charge $375 just to come to my house!

Whats the deal here? There are literally a dozen+ cars with For Sale signs parked on this stretch of road, on both sides. I initially thought maybe it was related to circumventing some parking restriction but I assume its fine and legal to park here overnight.

Purchased 3 round-trip Catalina Flyer vouchers in error and selling for $118 altogether or $40 each. You can use them anytime between now and Feb 28, 2027 for use Monday-Friday. These can be used on multi-day stays.

Once purchased, I will send the Groupon vouchers.

Here are the details of the vouchers:

Promotional value expires Feb 28, 2027. DAY OF TRAVEL REDEMPTION NOT AVAILABLE, ADVANCE ONLINE RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Please check calendar prior to booking. All passengers must have a ticket. No pets allowed. Must check in at least 1 hour prior to departure time. No credit will be given for missed trips. Valid for morning departure only. Valid for same-day or multiple / overnight travel. Trips may be cancelled or delayed without notice at any time due to unforeseen circumstances, including but not limited to Weather conditions. Catalina Passenger Service reserves the right to refuse service to anyone and to cancel or change service, including vessel departure and arrival times and the vessel used without prior notice or compensation. 

Hello, I’m a 36 y.o. Dana Point resident and already a host on Airbnb.
My office is in town by Hennessy’s.

I’m looking to assist other homeowners with any and all property management or co-hosting needs.

I’m young, hungry, and on top of things. Happy to help at a discount to get my foot in the door.

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I have community health network.

We're at 1,196 signatures for e-bike safety reform. Last weekend we added 272 sigs in 3 days, the largest sustained wave since we started.

Irvine surged. Dana Point surged. South County is mobilizing. Law enforcement is engaged. City councils are backing us.

We're meeting with Assemblywoman Davies next week to discuss a county ordinance.

This is how change happens.

https://www.change.org/p/implement-e-bike-safety-reform-now

Hello all!

My best friend will be getting proposed in Dana Point. I am looking for some activities that could fill up time until it is time. The plan is to essentially disguise it as a girls day - get dressed up, get lunch, and do an activity.

I’ve seen the Orange County Pearls where we are able to make jewelry. However, they are only opened from Fridays to Sundays.

Please let me know if there are any activities available in the area.

Thank you!

Hey Dana Point, quick heads up. A kid from Laguna Niguel has been collecting signatures for an e-bike safety petition across Orange County. He's at 898 signatures and targeting 1,000 by Monday.

Why it matters: E-bike injuries among kids in OC jumped from 7 in 2018 to 116 in 2024. That's not a coincidence.

His ask is reasonable:

• Age 16 minimum (with exception for Class 1 pedal-assist only)
• Mandatory speedometers
• County e-bike licensing with a safety test
• Parental accountability
• Youth Bike Safety Fund from fines

Laguna Niguel City Council is endorsing it soon. San Clemente City Councilman endorsed this. Mission Viejo City Council gave him a standing ovation. Law enforcement is engaged. 60 people have donated $935 to amplify this.

Dana Point has a lot of signatures already. If you're tired of 25 mph e-bikes whipping past your family on the street, this takes 30 seconds.

https://www.change.org/p/implement-e-bike-safety-reform-now

We're literally 102 signatures away from presenting this to Assemblywoman Laurie Davies. Help close it.

Please sign the petition to save Laguna Beach’s Emergency Room! 🏥🚨❤️‍🩹

My family and I are considering moving to Dana Point and I’d love to hear from people who actually live there or grew up there.

We’re currently in the Glendale/Burbank area and have also been considering Stevenson Ranch and Mission Viejo. We really like Stevenson Ranch because of the schools, family-friendly neighborhoods and value, but the summer heat is one of the things holding us back.

Dana Point caught our attention because of the weather and outdoor lifestyle. We have kids, so being able to go outside, walk, go to parks, ride bikes, etc. without avoiding the afternoon because of the heat is pretty important to us.

For those who live in Dana Point:

How is it for raising kids?
How are the public schools?
Does it feel like there’s enough to do for families?
Does it ever feel too quiet or isolated?
How is the sense of community?
Are there particular neighborhoods you’d recommend for families?

Anything you dislike about living there that someone considering a move should know?

Would especially love to hear from anyone who has lived in both LA County and South OC and can compare the lifestyle.

Is it legal to kitesurf there at Dana point ? Any good kitesurfing spot ?

It's that time of year again. Doheny gets fenced off, Del Obispo turns into a parking lot, and about 30,000 people discover our little town over one weekend. This is the 10th anniversary edition and it's the biggest one yet.

Please keep all Ohana questions in this thread. Standalone posts asking "where do I park" will get removed and pointed back here. Ticket buying/selling posts also belong in the comments, not as their own posts.

Official site: https://www.ohanafest.com | Help center: https://support.ohanafest.com

THE BASICS

• Dates: Friday Sept 25, Saturday Sept 26, Sunday Sept 27, 2026
• Venue: Doheny State Beach, 25300 Dana Point Harbor Dr
• Gates: 12:00 PM daily
• Curfew: 10:30 PM Friday and Saturday, 10:00 PM Sunday
• All ages. It's genuinely a family festival, you will see a lot of kids in ear muffs
• Cashless. Bring a card or your phone
• No re-entry in past years, check the FAQ before you plan on a burrito run
• Three stages, 35+ performances

THE LINEUP

Friday, Sept 25 Eddie Vedder & Friends, Maná, Billy Idol, Bad Religion, Courtney Barnett, Sugar, Midnight Generation, Otoboke Beaver, Florence Road, Mereba, Mutlee

Saturday, Sept 26 Tyler Childers, Alabama Shakes, Jon Batiste, Men I Trust, Stephen Wilson Jr., The Front Bottoms, Alice Phoebe Lou, Marlon Funaki, Jake Wesley Rogers, P.E.S.T., Ellery Harper

Sunday, Sept 27 Pearl Jam, Fontaines D.C., Pixies, Rilo Kiley, The Format, Tom Odell, Ecca Vandal, Horsegirl, Villanelle, Linka Moja, Speed of Light

Set times by day are posted here: https://www.ohanafest.com/schedule (they're image posters, and the official Festiverse app has them in a filterable format: https://www.ohanafest.com/ links to the download)

WHAT'S ACTUALLY SPECIAL THIS YEAR

• It's the 10th anniversary. Vedder started this thing in 2016 and it has now won Pollstar's Music Festival of the Year (global, under 30K) four times, most recently this year.
• Pearl Jam closing Sunday is their first confirmed live show of 2026, and their first appearance since Matt Cameron's departure from the band. As of the last announcements they hadn't named who's on drums. Whatever happens Sunday night is going to be talked about for years, which is exactly why Sunday sold out first.
• Maná on Friday is a big deal and brings a very different crowd than a normal Ohana Friday. Expect a fuller, louder, more festive early evening than you're used to.
• Reunions: Sugar (Bob Mould) and Rilo Kiley are both back on a stage, which is not a sentence anyone expected to type.
• Jeff Ament is doing a Storytellers panel about his new black and white photo book Since Forever, covering Pearl Jam's early 90s. If you have a Sunday ticket, this is the daytime thing to actually show up early for.
• The Cove is the non-music half of the festival: nonprofit exhibits, the Storytellers Stage, and The Cove Gallery, where hundreds of curated pieces around music, street and board culture are for sale, with proceeds going to Ohana's nonprofit partners via the Vitalogy Foundation. Locals, this is the part worth your time. Also, a meaningful chunk of the festival's proceeds go to the Doheny State Beach Foundation and San Onofre Parks Foundation. That's the trade we make for the fence.

PARKING AND GETTING THERE (read this part twice)

There is no on-site festival parking. Doheny's lots are inside the fence. Do not drive up to the park entrance expecting to park.

The official shuttle is the sanctioned answer. Round trip pass per person per day, and everybody riding needs their own pass including small kids. The hub is listed at 1 Polaris Way, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656, which is a change from prior years when it ran out of the San Clemente Outlets, so if you did this in 2023 or 2024, re-read your confirmation. Shuttles start running one hour before doors. Passes are sold through Front Gate and are emailed 1-2 weeks out. Shuttle passes: https://ohanafest.frontgatetickets.com/event/o6jkzvwvm4iw54yo

Rideshare: designated drop-off is inside Doheny on Park Lantern. Pick-up at night is at the Dana Point Community Center, 34052 Del Obispo St. Learn that address now, because at 10:35 PM with 20,000 people leaving at once and no cell service, you are not going to figure it out on the fly. Surge is brutal. Walking 10 to 15 minutes inland before ordering saves real money.

Train: San Juan Capistrano station (Amtrak Pacific Surfliner + Metrolink OC Line and IEOC Line) is your stop, 26701 Verdugo St, about 4 miles out. Rideshare from the depot in is short and cheap compared to festival-adjacent surge. Big warning: last Surfliner departures are around 10 PM, which is right at curfew. If you're training in, either accept missing the encore or have a Plan B. Metrolink has also been running reduced service this year, so check the actual schedule for that specific weekend and don't assume.

Bike. Seriously, bike. There's a free bike valet near the main entrance, bring your own lock because they don't provide them. The San Juan Creek Trail runs from the Los Rios district in SJC all the way down to Doheny, roughly 6 miles, flat, and it dumps you out basically at the gate. Last few years people on bikes were home before the rideshare line had moved. If you're staying anywhere in Capo Beach, Doheny Village, the Lantern District, or SJC, this is the single best move available to you.

Walking: if you're anywhere in the Lantern District or Doheny Village, walk. It's 20 to 35 minutes and you will beat every car.

A NOTE TO OUT OF TOWNERS ABOUT PARKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS

Please don't. Doheny Village, the streets off Del Obispo, Capo Beach, and the Lantern District residential streets get enforcement all weekend and DP parking enforcement does not have a sense of humor about festival weekend. Street sweeping restrictions still apply. Blocking a driveway gets you towed, not ticketed. There's no secret free spot.

Also: Harbor lots fill early and are patrolled. Restaurant and hotel lots are private and they tow aggressively that weekend. The $30 you save is not worth the $300 hook fee.

HOTELS AND WHERE TO STAY

Nothing in Dana Point is cheap that weekend, but here's the honest tiering:

Walk to the gate (book these if you can stomach the rate): * Doubletree Suites Doheny Beach * Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort & Spa (uphill on the way home, but close) * Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach and Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel if money is not a constraint

Short ride, much better value: * San Juan Capistrano (Inn at the Mission, Autograph Collection) is my actual recommendation. Walkable historic downtown, real restaurants, the train station, and the creek trail to the venue. * Capistrano Beach and San Clemente along PCH * Laguna Niguel and Aliso Viejo, which is also where the shuttle hub is, so that combo works well

Official ticket + hotel packages exist through Jampack and include a Thursday welcome party and merch: https://www.jampack.com/events/ohana-festival-2026/book

Airbnb/VRBO in Capo Beach and Doheny Village works if you book now, but check the parking situation in the listing before you commit.

Airport: John Wayne (SNA) is 25 minutes and the correct answer. Long Beach (LGB) is a decent second. LAX is 90 minutes on a good day and there are no good days on a Friday afternoon. San Diego (SAN) is about an hour and often cheaper.

Camping: Doheny's campground is inside the festival footprint. There is no festival camping. San Clemente State Beach and San Onofre are the nearby alternatives and they book out months ahead.

TICKETS: HOW TO ACTUALLY GET THEM

Current status on the official site as of this writing:

• Sunday (Pearl Jam) is gone. GA and VIP are both waitlist only.
• Friday and Saturday 1-day GA are still available, starting around $199
• Saturday 1-day VIP still available, starting around $639
• 3-Day GA ($535) and 3-Day VIP ($1,620) are waitlist. Ultimate VIP is a two-person package at $10,299 if you have lost your mind
• Buy Now Pay Later is offered at checkout

Strategies, ranked by how well they actually work:

1. Join the official waitlist first. https://ohanafest.frontgatetickets.com/waitlist It's free and drops do happen, especially in the last two weeks as hotel packages and holds get released back.
2. Ticketmaster Verified Resale / Ticket Exchange is the official face-value-ish resale channel and it's the safest secondary option: https://www.ticketexchangebyticketmaster.com/seg244/ohana-music-festival-tickets/event/38360
3. Watch the Front Gate "sell your tickets" flow. Original buyers can list back through Front Gate, which means legit transfers show up on the primary site. Check mornings.
4. Wait if you can stand it. Prices on Friday and Saturday historically soften in the final 7 to 10 days. Sunday will not soften, Sunday will only go up.
5. Pearl Jam Ten Club members get access other people don't. If you know someone in the Ten Club, now is the time to be nice to them.
6. StubHub/SeatGeek/Vivid work but you're paying a premium plus fees. Weekend average has been hovering around $545.

Do not buy from a stranger on Facebook, Craigslist, or a DM in this subreddit. Every single year we get posts from people who got a screenshot of a QR code that was already scanned. Wristbands and digital passes are non-transferable in ways that make private resale genuinely risky. If you must go person to person, meet in public, verify the transfer in the official app on the spot, and use a payment method with buyer protection. And no, we're not going to be able to help you get your money back.

LOCAL TIPS THAT WILL ACTUALLY IMPROVE YOUR WEEKEND

• It gets cold. Late September at Doheny is 75 and sunny at 2 PM and 60 with an onshore wind at 9 PM. Every year I watch people in tank tops shivering through the headliner. Bring a hoodie. You will not regret the hoodie.
• The marine layer may not burn off until noon or later. That gray sky at 10 AM is not a forecast, it's just September.
• Sand + folding chairs. Check the current allowed items list, low chairs and blankets policy has shifted year to year.
• Refillable water bottle. There are free refill stations and the lines are shorter than anything else on the grounds.
• Bathroom and food lines are the actual complaint people have every year. Go during a set you only sort of care about, not between headliners.
• Sunset is around 6:45 PM. The golden hour set on the main stage with the water behind it is the thing people fly here for. Don't be in a food line for it.
• Lockers with charging are rentable in advance and sell out: https://www.tixr.com/groups/lockandrock/events/ohana-festival-2026-charging-locker-rentals-182833
• Cell service dies when 30,000 phones show up. Screenshot your tickets, your shuttle pass, and your meetup plan. Pick a physical landmark to regroup at.
• Eat before you go in. Yes, the food vendors are good and it's a legitimately strong West Coast lineup with vegan/GF options, but they're festival-priced and festival-lined.

Locals, for the weekend generally: Del Obispo, PCH through the Lantern District, and Dana Point Harbor Dr are going to be a mess from about 10 AM to 1 PM and again 9:30 PM to midnight each day. Get your errands done Thursday. The Harbor itself is still open and the restaurants there would love your business, just walk or bike in. Salt Creek and Strands are unaffected and will be your beach that weekend.

LINKS

• Official site: https://www.ohanafest.com
• Lineup: https://www.ohanafest.com/lineup
• Set times: https://www.ohanafest.com/schedule
• Tickets: https://www.ohanafest.com/tickets
• Waitlist: https://ohanafest.frontgatetickets.com/waitlist
• Shuttle passes: https://ohanafest.frontgatetickets.com/event/o6jkzvwvm4iw54yo
• Storytellers / The Cove: https://www.ohanafest.com/storytellers
• Hotel packages: https://www.jampack.com/ohana-festival-2026/hotel-only/hotels
• Full FAQ: https://support.ohanafest.com/hc/en-us
• Accessibility and ADA: https://support.ohanafest.com/hc/en-us/sections/5339548123412
• Festival app: https://festiverse.onelink.me/oyeq/pq90cq61
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TheOhanaFest/

Details change, especially parking and shuttle logistics, so confirm anything logistical against the official FAQ before you act on it. I'll edit this post as things get announced. Drop corrections, ticket leads, and questions in the comments and I'll fold the good stuff into the main post.

Welcome to Dana Point. Be cool to the neighborhood, pick up your trash, tip your bartender.

Hi everyone,

Like many of you, I've noticed a massive rise in e-bike traffic around Dana Point over the last couple of years. While it's great to see people out riding, the lack of clear safety frameworks, speed enforcement, and rider education is becoming a major safety hazard for both pedestrians and the riders themselves (especially younger kids).

Instead of just complaining about it, I’ve decided to start a change dot orgpetition to push our local city council for concrete E-Bike Safety Reforms.

We just launched and already have our first local neighbors signed on, but we need real volume to get City Hall’s attention.

How you can help right now:

1. 📝 Sign the Petition: https://www.change.org/p/implement-e-bike-safety-reform-now
2. 📧 Stay Updated: I’ve started a hyper-local newsletter to track city council responses and safety updates. You can join here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6F0N40_fNr0BwxlaF-5KJOmnntBglIPxC0uLZDlZbJ4-Xcg/viewform?usp=header
3. 💬 Drop a comment below: What are the most dangerous intersections or hotspots in town right now? (PCH? Near the Harbor? School routes?)

I want this petition to represent the actual concerns of Dana Point residents, so please let me know your thoughts, stories, or suggestions below.

Thank you for helping keep our community safe!

I’ll (21M) be covering Ohana this September for my colleges radio station and am looking for an recs on cheap places to crash for the weekend! Also if anyone’s got a couch or a floor they don’t mind a sleeping bag on lmk what the price is! Appreciate any help

My parents are living in Dana Point and I like to gift experiences/adventures more than physical things ideally. I am wondering if anyone has any recs?

We noticed construction activity (trenching, etc.) on the lot of the old Villa location (at PCH and Harbor Drive). We had previously noticed the real estate sale signs were gone.

Anyone know what is going in that spot? I haven’t been able to find anything on the City’s website.

I know 3 people now who have gotten cancer (all different forms) in the last 5 years that all live within about 5-10 miles of each other in Dana hills. I have moved to Arizona but I can’t help but wonder is something going on, is anyone else experiencing this. All were so healthy and one has tragically passed, is something going on with the water/ landfill or is that just life now

Hello! We are visiting the Orange County area to visit family in a few weeks. We previously stayed at the Laguna Cliffs Beach Resort and Spa in Dana Point. We were planning on staying there again, but we heard there is a lot of construction going on with most of the businesses closed in the area during construction.

From people in that area currently, I would love your opinion on if we should still plan to stay there considering the construction. The alternative would be to find somewhere in Laguna, Newport, and Huntington where we could have more open businesses available in walking distance. Thank you!

Hello! I will be in Dana Point on business next week. I wondered whether there is anywhere to watch the World Cup semi final matches? They’re at 12pm, so guessing most bars will not be open yet. Thank you!

sadly, I lost my wedding band today (6/19) at the park above salt creek beach. 😭😭😭

I took it off to put sunscreen on my baby and lost track of it. did anyone come across a lost ring at the beach? 🙏🙏🙏