Has anyone stayed in any of the Downtown Disney Area Resorts before?

[Grumpy's Gal]

we stayed in the CourtYard (now Holdiay Inn) in 2003 Sun thru Thur for $20 a night. (no kidding) An internet special. It was fine. Noise was fine. Busses were fine. Great deal!!!!! Then we left on Fri morning and stayed at AKL and our one night there was more than our whole week at Courtyard!

 

[pooh4evr]

We are staying at the Best Western Lake Buena Visat May 3- 10 I have stayed there before and really liked it, but that was 6 yrs ago. I am hoping things will still be great but will let you know when we return!
10 days to go!

 

[kylara]

The Grosvenor I really just didn't like. Small room. Outside entry. CM's that were just barely friendly.

Keep in mind that we stayed at the Hilton last in March 2002, and the Grosvenor in November 2002, so things may be different now.

Aimee K

Just to let you know, I just stayed at the Grosvenor and Aimee's description still fits! But the room was clean and it was very convenient to DD.

 

[pammy1027]

Loved the Grosvenor, but we stayed in the tower, not the courtyard (outside entry rooms). Great view of the fireworks from Epcot and Pleasure Island, large rooms, refrigerator, extra bed besides the 2 fulls, clean, etc. The staff were all very friendly and we loved having the little store/cafe type place just before the bus picked us up for the parks.

Also, couldn't beat the 5-7 minute walk to DTD- it's the closest. I didn't see many kids at this hotel, but we were there in January 2004. That was fine with me though

 

[becobscot]

I've stayed at the Hilton. The hotel is very nice. I don't recall any noise. There were a few negatives though. There were time share vendors in the lobby. Our flight was delayed and we arrived late( I had noted on my rez we would be arriving late) so two mishaps occurred. The hotel had us as "no shows" so Ticket mania did not deliver our tickets to our hotel and I was billed for an additional night! It took several calls to get it resolved. I'd look elsewhere! Sorry this post is so long!

 

[Alicnwondrln]

i have stayed at teh double tree guest suites and it was great
we got a great rate from mousesavers.com
the only thing that was bad were the buses
we used our car instead

 

[golfgal]

Do any of the DTD hotels have a shuttle from the airport to the hotel?

 

[we3disneygo]

we too stayed at the courtyard for the 20.03 deal, we didn't hear any noise. we didn't take the buses....ate in the resturant every am very good.we had a very nice stay.

 

[jjsmom]

This one isn't on your list, but we stayed at the Embassy Suites LBV (the pink building you see from I4) in June '96. We had 4 adults and 1 child in a suite. It was great. The full breakfast in the am was a huge savings; we loaded up on food then usually could go til dinner with only a snack.

Good points-beautifully maintained & decorated hotel, good breakfast, good value, good service (the kitchen stayed open late on our arrival night; flight was 4 hrs late and we hadn't had anything to eat)
Bad points-no Disney magic, inefficient transportation (we used our rental car the entire time and had to pay parking).