EE and onsite hotels!

[bumbershoot]

I've read, repeatedly, complaints that DLR hotels don't have extra EE as a written policy, and have read repeatedly that it isn't written policy.

Either something changed, or people aren't reading the info that, at least Paradise Pier, gives you.

They gave me a packet last night including the News Breakers, with info on Disney Dining, the Pool, and all sorts of things like that.

Right there, above the info for Guests with Disabilities, towards the bottom is:

Early Entry -
As a Guest of the Disneyland Resort, you have access to Disneyland Park one hour before scheduled Theme Park opening on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Please remember to bring your Hotel ID/In-House Charge Card and your Theme Park tickets to ensure admittance. During the time you will have access to Fantasyland attractions as well as select attractions in Tomorrowland. All times and attractions are subject to change without notice.



Nice, huh?


Also, she specifically TOLD me that info, and told me (without my asking) exactly which days we would have EE available to us on our stay.


Might have been different before yesterday, and maybe they don't give you that at DLH and GC...but they sure do have it written at PP!!!

 

[HydroGuy]

I've read, repeatedly, complaints that DLR hotels don't have extra EE as a written policy, and have read repeatedly that it isn't written policy.

Either something changed, or people aren't reading the info that, at least Paradise Pier, gives you.

They gave me a packet last night including the News Breakers, with info on Disney Dining, the Pool, and all sorts of things like that.

Right there, above the info for Guests with Disabilities, towards the bottom is:

Early Entry -
As a Guest of the Disneyland Resort, you have access to Disneyland Park one hour before scheduled Theme Park opening on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Please remember to bring your Hotel ID/In-House Charge Card and your Theme Park tickets to ensure admittance. During the time you will have access to Fantasyland attractions as well as select attractions in Tomorrowland. All times and attractions are subject to change without notice.



Nice, huh?


Also, she specifically TOLD me that info, and told me (without my asking) exactly which days we would have EE available to us on our stay.


Might have been different before yesterday, and maybe they don't give you that at DLH and GC...but they sure do have it written at PP!!!

Well, yes. But this is the only time you will find it in writing. If it is so official, why don't they splash it across their website like WDW? After more than two years now, it remains an unofficial perk.

 

[DangerMouse]

Exactly! It's an unadvertised perk. You only hear about it once you check into the hotel. This is why MOST of the general public do not know about it. You won't hear about it from CM's or travel agents when you are making your reservations. Maybe Disney likes the idea of surprise? I honestly don't understand their policy (or lack thereof) on this one.

 

[disneyfansmandl]

While I agree it is kind of funny they won't tell you, I am kind of glad. Thanks to HydroGuy and DangerMouse I now know and thats all that is important to me. Keep up the good work guys.

M and L in Boise (Missing AP's since moving from San Diego)

 

[abby]

Off topic, how do you like PP? We have ressies in Dec for concierge but we have never stayed there. Any info would be great.

 

[bumbershoot]

I had some issues last night with *something* in the hotel, either old cigarette smoke, or naughty guests currently smoking, or some weird chemical reaction...and we had some housekeeping weirdness, with a used washcloth in the laundry basket in the bathroom, and NO soaps or shampoos at all, AND no coffeemaker carafe (still have to figure that one out)...

BUT other than that, I'm really enjoying it. Loved the pool last night, had a good sleep on the bed, there's a fridge, there's a nice little safe. It's pretty, the CMs at the front desk were SUPER nice and gave us balloons and Happy Anniversary buttons (so we didn't have to go to City Hall today), and we were upgraded to a DCA view room (which we did NOT expect).

We're going to eat dinner at PCH grill tonight and have the Stitch b'fast tomorrow, so there will likely be some dining reviews in my ongoing trip report.


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I dunno, I guess I really find the official piece of paper given, along with a comprehensive and personalized explanation upon checkin, to be quite written and quite official! There are always perks that you don't know about at various hotels, so that doesn't bug me.

And with WDW, as far as I have interpreted from what I read, has a vast and varied schedule of extra hours, unlike the fairly simple and unchanging-since-I-have-read-here/elsewhere EE that DL has. Doesn't feel the same in any way, shape, or form, to me (other than it's *extra hour(s) at a park), so I don't feel that it needs to be treated in the same way.

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

Many of the CMs at the Walt Disney Travel Company, and some of them at Central Room Operations do not know about the perks at the hotels. I have talked to the front desks at the hotels and was told that they do not want to advertise the perks because they want to surprise the guests when they check in.

It doesn't mean that this is unofficial, just that it is unadvertised.