Help Me Choose A Hotel Please

[AllisonsMunecas]

Hello all,

My husband and I officially booked our airline tickets to LA last night, so we are finally going to Disneyland!!!!!! We are trying to make this trip as budget friendly as possible (we booked the tickets using rewards points). If something changes and we get some kind of windfall, we will stay onsite, but right now, I am very doubtful that will happen. I have read several reviews but nothing that really seems to compare and contrast the hotels (if there is a link to that somewhere here, please point me in the right direction). I have 3 requirements:

1. Free breakfast
2. Free parking
3. Walking distance to park.

I would also *like* to go to a hotel that has a rewards program I can sign up for, because I've been looking at getting one of the rewards credit cards anyway, so that might at least give me enough bonus points for a couple of nights. I had been looking at the Quality Inns but haven't really found any reviews. The free parking is important because we will be renting a car, as my husband is a huge surf fan, and we will be there during the ASP World Tour (Sept 12-19), so we will be going to check that out as well.

I appreciate any advice anyone is willing to give! Thanks in advance!

 

[Butterfly123]

We like Best Western Park Place Inn and Mini Suites right across from the park. They have a rewards program you can check out. Parking does cost $10.00, but most close places on Harbor charge for parking. I would just add the parking to the cost of the nightly rate when comparing where to stay, rather than worrying too much about free parking.
I think you'll also hear a lot of good things about Candy Cane Inn on these boards. I don't know if they have free parking or a rewards program.

 

[kirstie101]

Off the top of my head I can't think of any that meet all 3 of your requirements. Most walking distance hotels do charge parking now. I know that Hojo's does have free parking, but they don't have a free breakfast. BWPPI is super close, has a free breakfast but they charge for parking. Both of those chains have a rewards card. I agree with PP that you should just factor the parking cost into the nightly rate when comparing the hotels.

 

[Laurieloo1414]

We always stay at the Best Western Anaheim Inn. They have free parking, free breakfast, the walk is very short to the parks and Best Western has a rewards program.

 

[corinne76]

Park Vue Inn has free hot breakfast (waffles, bacon, sausage, eggs, as well as cold stuff), free parking and is right across the crosswalk to the DL entrance. No rewards program though.

 

[Geemo]

Hello all,

My husband and I officially booked our airline tickets to LA last night, so we are finally going to Disneyland!!!!!! We are trying to make this trip as budget friendly as possible (we booked the tickets using rewards points). If something changes and we get some kind of windfall, we will stay onsite, but right now, I am very doubtful that will happen. I have read several reviews but nothing that really seems to compare and contrast the hotels (if there is a link to that somewhere here, please point me in the right direction). I have 3 requirements:

1. Free breakfast
2. Free parking
3. Walking distance to park.

I would also *like* to go to a hotel that has a rewards program I can sign up for, because I've been looking at getting one of the rewards credit cards anyway, so that might at least give me enough bonus points for a couple of nights. I had been looking at the Quality Inns but haven't really found any reviews. The free parking is important because we will be renting a car, as my husband is a huge surf fan, and we will be there during the ASP World Tour (Sept 12-19), so we will be going to check that out as well.

I appreciate any advice anyone is willing to give! Thanks in advance!

Since you'll be there on Sept 18th, you'd be able to stay on-site with Dapper Days.
http://dapperday.com/fall-2015-disneyland-ca
They have special room rates and special ticket discounts.

Geemo

 

[Plutos Mommy]

Hello all,

My husband and I officially booked our airline tickets to LA last night, so we are finally going to Disneyland!!!!!! We are trying to make this trip as budget friendly as possible (we booked the tickets using rewards points). If something changes and we get some kind of windfall, we will stay onsite, but right now, I am very doubtful that will happen. I have read several reviews but nothing that really seems to compare and contrast the hotels (if there is a link to that somewhere here, please point me in the right direction). I have 3 requirements:

1. Free breakfast
2. Free parking
3. Walking distance to park.

I would also *like* to go to a hotel that has a rewards program I can sign up for, because I've been looking at getting one of the rewards credit cards anyway, so that might at least give me enough bonus points for a couple of nights. I had been looking at the Quality Inns but haven't really found any reviews. The free parking is important because we will be renting a car, as my husband is a huge surf fan, and we will be there during the ASP World Tour (Sept 12-19), so we will be going to check that out as well.

I appreciate any advice anyone is willing to give! Thanks in advance!

Candy Cane Inn meets your three requirements of free breakfast, free parking and walking distance to the park (its on the same side of the street as the park entrance so it takes approx 8-12 min to walk depending on how fast you walk), they do have their own dedicated shuttle which in all the years I have been staying there has been consistently on time.

As it is not a chain hotel they don't offer a rewards credit card. If you are a AAA member you can get $10 a night discount, and after your first stay you will get a voucher for $10 night discount on your next stay.

I have a Marriott rewards visa card that I earn points on and used to use them at the Fairfield Inn until they started charging for parking (I now use my rewards points on a Marriott hotel about an hour north of the park to break up our drive down to the parks when we leave late after work) . They are opening a new Courtyard in July 2015 right across from the park which looks to meet the free parking and walking distance to the park http://www.marriott.com/hotels/fact-sheet/travel/snadt-courtyard-anaheim-downtown/ just no free breakfast. I would also do the My Points surveys and cash those points in for $25 - $100 Marriott gift cards to help pay for the room.

 

[keneka]

We stayed at the Sheraton Park Hotel Anaheim last - they do free parking & free shuttles to park (less than 5 minutes away)

 

[xXtowerOFterrorXx]

We usually use the following site, www.getawaytoday.com and they usually give the best deals for hotel that will include your tickets into the park. Weve stayed at the Portofino and the Courtyard by Marriot both very nice hotels, If I remember correctly the Portofino offers a shuttle to the park. No free breakfast and paid parking.

 

[AllisonsMunecas]

Thanks for the tips everyone. I guess with the parking not being as expensive as I expected, I do not have to have free parking as a requirement. I really do want the free breakfast though, as that's how I'm justifying in my mind staying offsite after traveling all that way to go to Disneyland for the first time (I know, the budget should be enough but it just isn't LOL). I'm going to look into Park Vue, Best Western, and the Candy Cane Inn.

I am also going to check on the Dapper Days rates. I had never heard of this event before and need to read up on it. Thanks everyone!

 

[chinablessings]

If you sign up for Ebates, you can get 2.5% cash back at Best Western.