Best Room In DL Hotel????

[javamoma]

We will be staying in the DL hotel mext March for the first time. I would like to make a room request for a park view (I love the idea of watching the fireworks from my room!). Any suggestions beyond that?

We will be a family of 4 by then including myself, DH, DD4 and 10 week old baby. Do you think we need a suite? Are standard rooms sufficient? We will spend a bit more time in the room since we will have a newborn. But not a whole lot. Babies are so portable at that stage!

I would love to hear about which rooms you liked the best.
Thanks!

 

[Leshaface]

As far as needing a suite, I wouldn't fork out the money for that...

A few months ago DH, me, my brother, his fiance, AND my mom all shared a standard room at the DLH.

It really wasn't bad!

The Magic Tower (the lobby building) had MUCH bigger and nicer rooms, then compared to the Dreams Tower (closest to DTD), but we had somewhat of a park view from the Dreams.

Haven't stayed at the Wonder yet, but i'm pretty sure you may not have a view.

 

[javamoma]

As far as needing a suite, I wouldn't fork out the money for that...

A few months ago DH, me, my brother, his fiance, AND my mom all shared a standard room at the DLH.

It really wasn't bad!

The Magic Tower (the lobby building) had MUCH bigger and nicer rooms, then compared to the Dreams Tower (closest to DTD), but we had somewhat of a park view from the Dreams.

Haven't stayed at the Wonder yet, but i'm pretty sure you may not have a view.

So the Magic Tower has bigger rooms but does it have a park view?

 

[DaddyDeuce]

I don't know if this is true, but I read once that it is extremely difficult for a CM to upgrade you to a different class of room than you booked. I don't think they can do it at all without a good reason and management approval.

But within a given class, there is a wide variety of rooms available. Moving you to another room in your booked class could very well be seen as an upgrade.

An example I heard: There are some rooms that have partially obstructed views of the pool or the park. Because the views aren't perfect, they are considered "standard view" rooms. A CM could put a guest booked in standard view in one of those rooms, the guest would consider it an upgrade, but the booking system wouldn't.

 

[joseph821]

We will be staying in the DL hotel mext March for the first time. I would like to make a room request for a park view (I love the idea of watching the fireworks from my room!). Any suggestions beyond that?

We will be a family of 4 by then including myself, DH, DD4 and 10 week old baby. Do you think we need a suite? Are standard rooms sufficient? We will spend a bit more time in the room since we will have a newborn. But not a whole lot. Babies are so portable at that stage!

I would love to hear about which rooms you liked the best.
Thanks!

You should book a room in the Dreams Tower with a DownTown Disney view...4th floor and above is great. You should book a room with a view/DTD view. YOu can pay extra to be sure you get it. How are you booking your vacation?
Upgrades for free happen but it depends on availability and when you are going.

 

[javamoma]

I am not looking for a free upgrade. I am willing to pay for the view that I want. That's why I want to know ahead of time exactly what to request.

 

[joseph821]

I am not looking for a free upgrade. I am willing to pay for the view that I want. That's why I want to know ahead of time exactly what to request.

OK. Sorry about that. When you book, request Dreams Tower, Downtown Disney View 4th floor and higher. If you book through Walt Disney Travel Company, you pay extra for the view room but I suggest you also tell them to put your request in the reservation notes. I also would call the Disneyland Hotel and tell them as well once you get a WDTC reservation number.

 

[javamoma]

OK. Sorry about that. When you book, request Dreams Tower, Downtown Disney View 4th floor and higher. If you book through Walt Disney Travel Company, you pay extra for the view room but I suggest you also tell them to put your request in the reservation notes. I also would call the Disneyland Hotel and tell them as well once you get a WDTC reservation number.

Oh, ok thanks. So with a DTD view (above 4th floor) I will be able to see the fireworks from my room? It's not called a "park view?"

 

[joseph821]

Oh, ok thanks. So with a DTD view (above 4th floor) I will be able to see the fireworks from my room? It's not called a "park view?"

I think it is called "Downtown Disney view/Park View" in the Dreams Tower.
Be sure to request that. 4th floor and higher works for fireworks in the Dreams Tower. You can call the Walt Disney Travel Company at
714-520-5050 and they can help you book your room and package.

 

[javamoma]

Anybody know if DLH's pools are heated? We will be there the end of March and DD4 will be begging to swim!

 

[mhconley]

I think it is called "Downtown Disney view/Park View" in the Dreams Tower.
Be sure to request that. 4th floor and higher works for fireworks in the Dreams Tower. You can call the Walt Disney Travel Company at
714-520-5050 and they can help you book your room and package.

According to the CM I spoke with there are no "Park View" rooms at DL - only "DTD View" which gives you the best view of the fireworks.

Anybody know if DLH's pools are heated? We will be there the end of March and DD4 will be begging to swim!

Yes, they are heated.

Martin

 

[javamoma]

That's wonderful! Both replies were helpful.

Thank you!

 

[annacali]

I would say that the Cove pool is heated...this is the smaller, shallower pool that is in the very back behind Goofy's Kitchen. The Neverland Pool, which is 4 ft depth throughout certainly did not seem heated when we were there last month -and it was upper 80's air temp and that water was chilly enough that my DD7 would do the slide only 2 or 3 times before going back to the warmer pool in the back!

 

[MagicalMomAZ]

I would say a suite depends on the family. There's NO way my kids could sleep if we were still moving about the room -getting them to settle down after all that excitement is hard enough. We have a routine:

Little brother goes to bed, once he's konked out big sister goes to her bed. Tmen Mom & Dad have time to be alone, watch tv, unwind & bathe...

I worship the suite. It secures my sanity.

 

[DizMe]

Suites are very cool, but extremely expensive!!! It's much cheaper to book 2 connecting rooms if you feel you need it. We always have all 5 of us in one room and it isn't an issue, but each family is different.

As far as which tower has larger rooms, it really varies. Some of the rooms in the Magic (lobby) tower are tiny, some regular, some large. Most of the rooms we've gotten in all 3 towers were more or less the same size. We had a small room and a largish room in Wonder, regular ones in Dreams (those have all been the same size for us), and regular in Magic except for one really tiny one we did not accept.

I personally would go for Dreams. It's my favorite, but Magic is a close second. Dreams should be renovated, or at least half of it should, by the time you go in March so you could get the new rooms. I like both the pool and DTD view rooms. My kids love the pool view and don't care about the fireworks. I enjoyed the DTD and fireworks view from the room, but it was the Christmas holidays so we looked down on the big Christmas tree and all of the decorations and music for that season made it special.

Some love the Wonder tower but it's not a favorite of mine. It seems kind of off by itself whereas the other two towers are right in the action. It's farther from the main part of the hotel--pool, lobby, restaurants, shops, etc, as well as DTD. When I stayed there, the elevators were slow and the service was not as good. On the plus side, it has the waterfalls and koi ponds right in front.