I've stayed at the Red Lion three times as a chaperone for my ODD's school band trips. It's a nice enough hotel with clean and comfortable rooms, but it's far enough away that it's not a hotel high on my list of where to stay when I'm organizing the trip myself. The walk back takes about 15 minutes, so not bad, but you pass several other motels/hotels along the way and when your feet are tired at the end of the day, it really makes you wish you were staying closer. If you take the Toy Story shuttle, it does save you some walking, but you need to stand and wait for the shuttle, then the
shuttle takes a circuitous route to the back of the Toy Story Lot, you get off in the middle of the lot and then walk to the entrance on Harbor Blvd and up the street to the front of the hotel. It was nice to sit on an air conditioned bus, but all in all I didn't feel like it saved any time and it only shaved off part of the walk.