Holiday Inn - Downtown Disney

perrinej

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Thinking of planning a trip to WDW next summer. Last two years have been to Disneyland. In the past we have always stayed in the Downtown Disney area. Nice for shopping and convenient to travel to all the parks. Can anyone give me info on the Holiday Inn? On our last trip 3 years ago it wasn't opened yet. Would you recommend it? Any info would be great. Food, rooms, pool - Thanks in advance!
 
We stayed here in June with my DD's dance team. The property itself is nice and the rooms are OK, too. There are two towers - one of them was a bit of a walk from the front desk area since it is a separate building. For our group, since we were travelling together, it was a bit of a hassle being placed in both buildings. If you get a pool view, ask for an upper floor because of the pool noise. It was open until 10pm and quite busy in the evenings.

The restaurant onsite was sit down and the prices weren't too bad, considering you are in a hotel restaurant. They had a kids eat free with adult promotion for kids up to 12, which they gave to us even though some of our girls were 13 and 14 (we didn't lie, they didn't ask and the bill reflected the discount). That made it a deal. There is a hot breakfast option with made to order waffles and omelettes. Otherwise, you can order off the menu or just get a continental option.

Walking time to DTD is about 8 minutes and very doable. Shuttle buses to the parks and DTD were reliable and on-time. They run every 1/2 hour and are shared with other hotels on that side of the street. Once or twice we needed to wait for the next bus as the one scheduled at that time was full. The buses do not run as continuously as Disney Transportation, but we were able to work with that.

If you have a car, there is a daily parking fee ($10?) that is charged to your room. They give you a code for the gate that is good for the length of your stay. They also have valet parking for an additional charge, but we didn't use it.

For the price we paid, I would stay here again.
 
We've stayed at this hotel twice and loved it. It's super clean, reasonably quiet, the shuttles are great and the pool is nice and warm . Their beds are the best, hands down and the toiletries smell great, lol.
I upgraded to the Downtown Disney view once but wouldn't do it again. The second time we got a regular view and it was fine for the amount of time we spent on the balcony.
The shuttles ran on time every half hour and were pretty efficient, not making too many stops. We like to stay here when we stay off property.
 

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