Sorry to say disneydenise! We called the hotel and the new policy is that hotel guests pay $15 a day now to park. And Valet is up to $22.
That being said, we called MS and they confirmed that DVC Members staying on points do get free parking. Yeah DVC!
Then when staying on points and you want to valet park, how much is it then?
When we stayed last year at Paradise Pier on points, we did not pay for parking.
Did you self park or valet? The rules are the same at all 3 resorts. Self parking is FREE BUT VALET IS $22.00. I stayed @ PPH in June 2010 and will be staying @ GCH for 1 night BOTH on POINTS but I'm sure it will not change if I choose to self park! I live 20 minutes away & choose to go back n' forth for various reasons so sometimes I valet but when my husband & I take separate cars he chooses self parking THUS HIS CAR IS FREE while I have to pay $22.00! SELF PARKING IS FREE FOR DVC but not if you choose to use valet either overnight or for a week!
This irks me too. I would think if you get credited $15 for self parking then valet should only be another $7, but no. I would prefer to just valet (I'm handicapped) and not have to deal with whether there are any handicapped spaces available (there are only about 8--if they are all taken they will valet for free--BUT they want you to then come back and check the next day to move your car to handicapped. Really!) Disney wouldn't you be better off getting the $7 a day for my car and then neither one of us has to move it during my stay?
By the way, the $15 self parking for those DVC members with more than 2 cars would cover 2 cars.
As explained by the CM at the Grand gate was "In Self Parking - car #1 = FREE car #2 = FREE
car #3 = $15.00 Process starts over again - car #4 = FREE car #5 = FREE & car #6 = $15.00"
That is just plain weird. I know that it's not reasonable for them to say something like "for every 50 points you are using for this stay, you get to park one car for free." I mean, I'm glad they don't do that, it would be chaos, even if it is a better representation of the fact that the dues for the points we're staying on pay for parking. But I just don't see how the system above has any relationship to the real situation. (Sorry, mathematician in me coming out.)
I think I read that self-parking is free and valet parking is $15/day. So I think that any guest at the Grand Californian or VGC (DVC or not) has the choice of free versus valet parking. I could be wrong. I was planning to self-park, so I know that is free!
I believe you are correct. We self parked as DVC members and and did not pay anything. It was quite easy and painless.