We stayed at the Disneyland Hotel in April. We had a TPV Castle Club room reserved but...
...they upgraded us to the Beauty and the Beast themed Princely suite. I have never been so pixie dusted before. Seriously ruined for Disney hotels for life now
. I'll have to see if I can figure out how to share photos.
I've stayed at the Sequoia before and enjoyed my time there very much, but the advantage to the Disneyland Hotel is the location. You can't beat walking out the door and into Disneyland, with the Studios/Adventure park not far away. While there is an elevator for Castle Club guests, we found the entrance for general hotel guests was much faster, especially at rope drope.
The hotel is very pretty; we didn't spend as much time exploring as we should have, perhaps, because we wanted to spend what time we had at the hotel enjoying that once in a lifetime room. The pool looked very popular and we were tempted by the spa and its services.
We didn't eat at the hotel's buffet but we had an amazing time at the Table de Lumiere restaurant; the characters at our dinner were Belle and Prince Adam, Cinderella and Prince Charming, and Aurora and Prince Philip. The character interactions were some of the best I've had at a Disney theme park. They were all so incredibly charming and fun to talk to. So access to the restaurant is also a perk I recommend, depending on how much you like fancy sit down dining.
We took advantage of the Castle Club perks such as breakfast with princesses and a full (and delicious) spread at tea time, but didn't use any other perks.
One thing to keep in mind if you want to use Uber is that they don't allow Uber to pick up at the hotel; they told us to walk to the train station to get our car. We were going back to Paris so we just ended up taking the RER, which was very easy.
Our package was for three days, two nights. We wanted to take advantage of a full day in the parks, so we spent the night before at Hotel l'Elysee Val d'Europe which we found very comfortable; there's a free shuttle bus that stops at three hotels in the areas that takes you to the parks and we used it to go to Disney Village for dinner. We took a taxi service arranged by the hotel the next morning as we wanted to arrive to drop luggage off at the Disneyland Hotel before the shuttle service started; that maximized our time and saved us spending a pricey third night.
