Booking resorts at DL

[RweTHEREyet]

Here's the deal, first time to DL, main reason is to see where DS is going to be living and working, and a little bit of Disney thrown in on top of things.

Here is what we have so far:

Thursday night arrival and stay at VGC

Friday night, stay at VGC

Saturday, stay with son and see where he is living

Sunday, can get either DL standard view, premium view or Paradise pier standard view, California Adventure view or Concierge City of pool view, no VGC available

Monday, can get VGC and all of the above available for Sunday.

Tuesday, depart

We will be flying in and out of LAX, using some sort of shuttle transportation to and from the airport. We have not stayed in any of these resorts.

If I book the VGC that is available right now for Monday and if Sunday doesn't come thru, which I really don't think will happen, then we have to change resorts for one night, kind of a pain, in my opinion.

If I book one of the hotels now and then VGC does become available, I cannot just switch the points because they have become "resort points".

Not sure what Paradise Pier concierge level gets me.

Any thoughts on this will be more than welcome and appreciated.

 

[TLinden16]

I'd book DLH for those two nights. The rooms there are really nice, very Disney.

I haven't stayed at the VGC yet, but I have stayed in the hotel there, and it is one of the nicest resorts I've ever stayed in. But the DLH is very nice as well.

 

[SSRJen]

Can you pay cash for the rooms and cancel if the waitlist comes through? I have had a ton of success being on the waitlist for VCG including booking in early November for the first weekend in December. I am not sure how far out your trip is, but all 5 single weekend nights I have booked came through on the waitlist.

 

[bumbershoot]

PPH concierge is actually quite nice, from what people have reported on the DLR forum. We stayed DLH Concierge, and it was good, but people have said it's the least of the 3 concierges. Free water/coffee/soda/juice all day...breakfast things out, fruit all day, granola bars out all day...lunchtime stuff, 5pm they put out beer and wine, later they have desserts... Also, concierge lets you check out 2 DVDs at a time for a 24 hour period, to watch in your room (I'm 99% sure this is available at PPH).

I personally would just come back from son's place and do PPH concierge and stay there. To get to the parks you'll just go out the front door, cross the street and go through the Grand anyway, not much different than the first part of the stay.

 

[RweTHEREyet]

I ended up calling MS again tonight and the helpful CM suggested going ahead and booking the Monday night stay at VCG and if Sunday doesn't become available, cancel it and then use those holding points to book Saturday and Sunday at one of the hotels. I went ahead and did this as we would prefer to stay at VGC if possible (just love my DVC), but it will be interesting to see if my studio becomes available with less than a month to go to check-in.