Help me choose a place to stay...

[Jajone]

Cast is me, DH, DD16, DS14 and DS10. Choices we are considering are Desert Inn, Candy Cane Inn and HoJo. We stayed at the RI a couple summers ago and that walk was manageable, but I was hoping for something closer this time. Kids are not huge breakfast eaters, so breakfast options are not important to us. HoJo would be a standard room. All places are within $100 of each other. What would you choose? Am I missing any other good options. BWPPI and Park Vue Inn are not avail for our dates.

 

[Angrose]

I guess I would consider if you will be using the pool or not. I've heard that pool at Desert Inn is not very good and I would agree judging by the pictures. Hojo has a nice pool separate from the little water park. Hojo's rooms also seem pretty spacious to me and I've heard that the ones at Candy Cane are rather cramped. I am partial to Hojo so that's what I would pick. Good luck!

 

[avalon451]

I have stayed at HoJo and Desert Inn. HoJo's nicer, esp. the pool areas, but that walk, while quite doable, still seems like miles at the end of the day. I liked Desert Inn because it was right at the crosswalk. Simple but clean and comfy, pleasant service at the desk. Our last room there was a parlor suite, 2 queen beds and a sleeper sofa in the small outer "Parlor" room, which might be attractive for your older kiddo to have their own space. They had a simple continental breakfast, but like you, that's not a big deal for us.

 

[BadPinkTink]

I stay at Motel 6 Main Gate. Stayed there June 2014, 2015 and have booked again for June 2016. Its basic, no breakfast but they have microwaves, vending machines and tea / coffee facilities in the lobby.

The rooms are huge, fit 2 king beds and there is a pool, which I have never used but is always full of families.

Its on the ART route but is the first drop off from Disney and the last pick up to Disney so about 10 minutes journey.

 

[kathy884]

I see that there are five you. Are you just looking at one standard motel room? Or are you looking at two rooms or a larger room with more beds, etc? // We have a party of three, but each wanted our own bed (me, my sister-in-law, and my son who is 20), so picked the Camelot Inn and Suites room configuration that has one king and two queens. With a configuration like this if available, you and DH could have the king, your daughter could have the one queen bed, and your two sons could have the other queen. There is a pull out couch too, but I don't know about comfort.

http://www.camelotinn-anaheim.com/deluxe-one-bedroom-family-suite/

The Desert Inn has lots of multi bed options too (actually even a four queen bed options with two sofa sleepers). The only reason that I picked the above Camelot Inn over this is that I'm really big on soft comfortable beds, and while the Desert Inn gets very good reviews, reviews on beds are that they are a bit firm. That's just me and my own personal preferences.

Please note I have not stayed at any Anaheim properties before. I've just read lots of reviews, looked at a lot of maps, read lots of posts, etc. to help me pick a place for our little mini trip.

Someone else has a better map, but if they don't post with that link, here at least is one that I found that gives you a good ideas of what the closest options are that perhaps you have not considered. https://disneyland.disney.go.com/media/dlr_nextgen/SiteCatalog/PDF/GoodNeighborHotelsMap.pdf

 

[goofy4tink]

We needed four beds. Decided on Desert Inn because it had connecting rooms, each with two queen beds. Which meant we got two full bathrooms!! My dh and I are traveling with dd and her boyfriend. So, we'll have a 'girls' room and a 'boys' room!!! It would have been nice to have a decent pool, but we aren't there to swim. Just there for 4 nights, so will spend the time in the parks.

 

[IDigDug]

We've stayed at all three. I've always liked Hojo's rooms and beds the best, but we haven't stayed there in the last 3 years because the prices went up a lot. We've stayed at Candy Cane Inn once, also about three years ago. I like the grounds/landscaping the best. The rooms are smaller than Hojo's and Desert Inn, but it fit our family of five. The option of taking the shuttle was nice, but we walked most of the time. We've stayed at the Desert Inn at least twice, the most recent stay was Aug. 2015. We liked it because it's usually cheaper and has larger rooms. That being said, we're probably done staying there. During our last trip, they did repairs in our room while we were out, without notifying us. We came back with our stuff moved around. Also, one of my son's stuffed animals was somehow removed from the room. The staff wasn't very helpful about this. And our van got a really nice scratch along the door while in the parking lot. I realize that could happen anywhere and it was not a fault of the hotel, it was just icing on the cake for that trip. Also, the walls are very thin, so if you have noisy people next door, you will hear everything and the pool/hot tub are gross.

Edited to add: our new "go to" place is the Grand Legacy (formerly the Ramada Maingate). We can usually get a good price on the room. The rooms are big enough for the 5 of us, nothing fancy, but clean. We've never used the pool there, but it looks ok. They offer the usual free breakfast fare (nothing great) and it's closer than Hojo's and Candy Cane.