Differences between DLHotel and DParaPier

[GoofyDisney]

Hello! Making our first-ever trip to Disneyland. Need some pointers about where to stay. Looking for tips because there are several branches of family tree going, including a cancer patient and new baby.

Trying to decide between the two...Disneyland Hotel or Disneyland Paradise Pier. Any tips or pointers? Anyone stayed at both? Is one closer to parks than the other? One have larger rooms than the other? Read that rooms hold five....comfortably? Any areas of each hotel better than any other areas?


Anything anyone wants to mention would be great!

 

[TrlyScrumptious]

The Disneyland Hotel will have no trouble accomodating five comfortably. I've mentioned this before, but the beds are quite high off the ground, and you can stash the stuff that would normally clutter a hotel room, under the bed. That helps a lot, but if anyone has mobility trouble, those high beds might be a problem.

There are double sinks in the bathroom, and it's a nice size.

The Disneyland Hotel is probably half the distance to the park of the Paradise Pier Hotel. It's very close to the monorail station, too.

The pool at the DLH is out of this world.

Someone else will have to tell you about the Paradise Pier Hotel.

 

[teri]

You can also fit 5 into the rooms at Paradise Pier. They have a fold-out chair-and-a-half that accomodates a child or small adult quite adequately. Each room has a fridge. The rooms at DLH are bigger... the buildings are older but the environs are a big step up from Paradise Pier which is really just a hotel close by, and the buildings have been refurbished. Unless price is a huge issue for you, I would choose DLH over Paradise Pier for ambience. I have stayed in both multiple times. Paradise Pier view rooms are not quiet - you do hear the music from DCA from early morning until late at might, so I would not choose to stay there with a baby. My bigger kids were perfectly happy there. The pool at DLH is the best around. DLH is closer to the monorail and Downtown Disney, as well.

 

[GoofyDisney]

Thanks...these are some *really* helpful tips!!!

Anyone else think of anything I need to know?

 

[jlima]

The Paradise Pier hotel has its own entrance into DCA; just cross the street at the crosswalk; a few steps away there's a door that you open with your room key, and you walk down a path called "Paradise Walk" and there's a park entrance just for PP hotel guests. You are right next to Mulholland Madness when you enter the park. We were there yesterday. My husband ran for Soarin' fast passes, and I took our 7-yr old on MM 2x, and the Jumping Jellyfish 1x, and when he got back there was time to play on the boat there AND ride the Sun Wheel before our Fast Pass time of 9:45am for Soarin'. It was a perfect morning.

Our room was on the side of the hotel that faced the parking lot. We never heard any music from the park. There was a window near the elevator lobby that had a view of DCA.

Also, if you exit the rear of the hotel on the lobby level, you are a 3-minute walk to the monorail station in Downtown Disney.

We got a $120 rate from Travelocity. I would definately stay there again. Hope this helps.