Not on site perks?

[JennyLynn21]

After looking into it I think we might stay at the Howard Johnson. Can anybody tell me if you get any 'Disney' perks there or no? toon town morning madness? EE? ANYTHING? ... lol

 

[skiingfast]

You will only get onsite perks if you book a Disney Hotel room or some other perks when you book (Disney travel company and some 3rd party) room and ticket packages.

 

[minniecarousel]

Buy your multi-day Parkhoppers on-line on the Disney website and you will receive an Early Entry day. (currently EE at Disneyland on Tues, Thurs, Sat & Sun)

 

[rune_74]

Buy your multi-day Parkhoppers on-line on the Disney website and you will receive an Early Entry day. (currently EE at Disneyland on Tues, Thurs, Sat & Sun)

It doesn't have to be the disney website....

 

[DisneySuiteFreak]

We stayed at Hojo one year and my mom wanted all the perks, so she booked through Walt Disney Travel Company. We got the lanyards, pins, and tix w/ 1 EE. It really isn't worth it. If you want perks, better to go through Costco Travel. Or do without the perks (other than one EE w/ your parkhopper) and book everything yourself.

 

[helenb]

If you book through AAA, you should get the preferred seating at DCA, the Toontown Morning celebration and lanyards/pins/luggage tags. I THINK they also do the Disney Visa promotion through AAA as well, which I THINK adds a backpack and one preferred parade viewing. However the Disney Visa package doesn't always mesh... I wasn't able to book it in conjunction with the 25% off package for summer. But I still got the other AAA perks mentioned.

 

[PinkBudgie]

Here is a blog from a few months ago about some of the on site "adventures" you can take advantage of.

http://www.disunplugged.com/2011/04/16/bonus-adventures-for-a-disneyland-resort-hotel-stay/

The power walk in DCA before opening sounds fun, but I bet that's on hold for the construction. Just guessing.

On site hotels also let you have a MM each day it is offered during your stay. People staying off site can get one MM with their 3 or more day parkhopper.

We have found better prices booking the hotel alone instead of as a package (back when we bought tickets as opposed to APs). Now that we have APs, a package isn't an option anyway.

 

[JimmyJam838]

The power walk in DCA before opening sounds fun, but I bet that's on hold for the construction. Just guessing.

They were still offering the power walk at the end of May.

 

[helenb]

Okay, I checked it out, and did a false booking for random September weekdays at the HoJo for a family of 2 adults, 2 kids with 4 day parkhoppers.

It looks like you get ART passes and Toontown Madness, but no other perks... although I'm GUESSING that by booking through AAA you'd still get the lanyard/pin/luggage tags too.

Out of curiosity, I looked up this same package on the Disney website, and it offered the exact same package (including 'perks'!) for $30 more.

 

[gokdog]

Okay, I checked it out, and did a false booking for random September weekdays at the HoJo for a family of 2 adults, 2 kids with 4 day parkhoppers.

It looks like you get ART passes and Toontown Madness, but no other perks... although I'm GUESSING that by booking through AAA you'd still get the lanyard/pin/luggage tags too.

Out of curiosity, I looked up this same package on the Disney website, and it offered the exact same package (including 'perks'!) for $30 more.

I booked a very similar package through Costco, , but Friday through Tuesday morning, 5day hoppers, came with lanyards, 1 day of magic morning, prefeered seating and a high end character meal with tip and taxes included aka standard Costco package. We are staying at the Hilton and the whole package was $1300, with Art for four included. I would recommend at least checking Costco, as the price seemed exactly the same as through Disney, but with the extra perks.