Is the Malibu Suite the two bedroom suite? OR is the two bedroom suite different? We have never stayed at PPH and are trying to decide if it would be nice for our next trip out there. Does anyone know the layout of the two bedroom suite? Also I read that the PPH hotel is closer to the parks than the
Disneyland Hotel. Can someone explain that to me? Isn't it across the street from the Disneyland Hotel? Is there a short cut to the parks somewhere that I am missing? Because to me it looks like I still have to go through DTD, but I must be wrong. THanks.
Go out the FRONT door of PPH. Go to the crosswalk. Cross to the Grand. Enter the Grand. Either go right across the lobby and outside to enter DCA right near Grizzly, or go to the left after you enter and follow the signs and path out to the last bit of DTD. Turn right, go to bag check, go into the esplanade, and choose Disneyland or the front entrance of DCA!
I had used mapmyrun a couple years ago and got these results:
Just outside PPH to the center of the esplanade using the Grand's path: .45 mile
From approximately the elevator inside PPH to the center of the esplanade following the signs "helpfully" put up by Disney which take you all the way around past DLH and all the way through DTD: .63 miles
With DLH you go through ALL of DTD, not just the last bit. And you generally have some grounds to walk through before getting to DTD. When we were last at DLH we were in Frontier Tower, and found that it actually the SAME distance (.55 mile) to go out the "back" of our tower, go over towards PPH and the Grand, and follow the path I just mentioned, rather than going out the front of the tower, through the grounds, and through DTD.
But because I dislike malls (aka DTD) that walk was far more pleasant for me than going all the way through DTD.
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If you go to the link given back in April (
https://disneyland.disney.go.com/paradise-pier-hotel/gallery/#/rooms,signature-suites), be sure you're reading the captions under the pictures. The BIG suite, with what appears to be a kitchen, is Malibu. The smaller one is Paradise.
We've been upgraded two lovely times to what I assume is a Paradise suite. 2 queen beds in the bedroom along with the normal pull-over sofabed, then a big pullout couch in the living room.