@HopperFan, the Buena Vista Palace is $78 for our dates later this month though Hilton with their HHonors special. My DH is Diamond so we would get free breakfast. Is there a resort fee or charge for parking? I'm currently at the Red Lion (IIRC you stayed there) for $58 with tax plus the $9 resort fee ... $336 all in. The BVP is $438 but it includes breakfast for 2 people for 5 days. I'm also thinking about booking a 1BR at Silver Lake for $350. It's just my DH and I and we have APs so the shuttle isn't a plus.
What do you think? Is the BVP worth an extra $100?
Glad you were able to book that rate, I tried for days and it kept kicking me over to a smoking room. I know the hotel is non-smoking now, but I didn't want to chance if it mean the room hadn't been rehabbed so I took next best rate. We too are Diamond and we were not given free breakfast
like we usually are but our schedule was so crazy (out to wee hours for after hours events) that we wouldn't have used anyway.
If you had any intention of using the pool, it does not exist yet. Major construction. For a room only, it's nice because they are well done. The rest of the hotel is a construction zone or very outdated. We saw a corner of what looked like a quick mart by elevators but never saw any restaurants or anything else, guess they were on another wing. No resort fee and no parking fee so that was great. I fully expect that to change once the hotel is done, already built for gates and the new pool area will probably dictate fees sadly.
Location is good, we drove everywhere, did not use buses. AND I love walking to DS so we can have drinks and just walk back. If you are planning anytime down there that is a plus. They have done a great job, I see more meals there now than in the parks/hotels.
Room was very big (plus of old hotels) and a balcony.
For the location and the big well done room, I was happy with the rate, would have been happier with yours but it was still one of the best rates I found for our weekend.
