I love the Desert Inn and Suites. For me, the most important thing, is having a suite (ie a living room with pull out couch separated by a wall and door from the bedroom space) because my parents snore *loudly* it's like a symphony of snoring... I can't sleep with hearing that. So I like to have my own sleeping space. I hate that the
Disneyland Hotels, even the expensive ones (like the Grand Californian) do not have the option of suites. If I'm gonna shell out that much for a hotel, I would think that there should be suites as well. So we usually look off site for hotels (which are also cheaper, which means more spending money for buying souvenirs!). I did have to use ear plugs because the room we were in, the wall had a fan to help circulate the A/C or Heater, so sound could travel thru that, but with my ear plugs in and the wall and door separating, I could sleep like a baby and the pull out couch is surprisingly comfortable. Also, because my dad has joint problems and my mom has bad knees and I have a bad knee (I fell down a set of stairs in my college theatre, off an 8 ft. platform face first... lol) so we all rented
ECV Scooters from Alan's Wheelchairs and Medical Products.
That was by far the most enjoyable way to experience Disneyland. Because it was an off-site scooter rental, we could keep (and plug in to charge over night) the scooters in the hotel lobby (they were totally okay with it, I think we even moved some chairs around to fit them in and they were fine with it). Then in the morning, we'd walk down to the lobby, hop on our scooters, then drive them across the street and straight into the park! Also because it was an off site company, we didn't have to turn them in at night, and if we went from DL to DCA we just kept our scooters and rode them around. If you rent a scooter from DL there is a deposit required each day, and if you want to go from DL to DCA or vica versa, you have to turn in the DL scooter and rent one from DCA or vica versa.
We did the math, and at $35/day + deposit with DL scooter rental vs renting off site at Alan's for the entire week, plus the benefit of keeping them at the hotel and being able to ride them to DL and back to the hotel at night, and not having the hassle of changing from park to park... it was cheaper to rent from Alan's. (Also if you have a scooter, you get to go in the rides via the 'wheelchair' entrance which is usually the exit... except for the Indiana Jones Ride... you go in normal and then the line divides and a CM guides you to a set of elevators... which is super fun!)
What I meant to say was thank you more for leading me to the post b/c I saw the hotel map you had there as well. I was looking for something like this and it was a huuugggee help. 
