The Disneyland Hotel Superthread

[twodogs]

Can anyone check your reservation "code" and share it along with what room configuration you requested for a suite? Thanks!

 

[5forMickey]

The codes don't indicate that. There really is no way to know. They will look at the number of guest on the reservations and you will be assigned a room that will be a minimum fit for all of you. Now that doesn't mean that they don't try and honor your request, but they will fill the rooms first on needed space and then requests if that helps? For example, if you are a party of 8 you could end up with a room that has one king(2), one room with two queens (4) and two people on the queen sleeper (2).

It's actually very frustrating when you are paying that amount of money that you can't confirm a specific layout, location or view but they take into consideration all of the suites they have rented. I wished they would go to staggered pricing like the do for the regular rooms and then you could at least decide if you were willing to pay extra for certain configurations or views. As it is now, you are completely at the mercy of the room assigners.

I don't have my reservation with me but I'm thinking it is something like 2H/something and all that designates is a 2 room suite.

 

[cinder-ellah]

Yes, I agree with @5forMickey .... very frustrating when you can't be given the option to pay for a type of view / location with the suites.
On our invoice for a family group of 10 for a 3 bedroom suite it stated : Accommodations/ Number of Rooms DH3M/3.

Upon arrival we were told we were placed in the Adventure Tower. A CM escorted us to the E Ticket Lounge and again stated our suite was in the Adventure Tower. When our suite was ready .... our suite was in the Frontier Tower, 3rd floor, tree foliage and parking lot were our view.

We had "requested" Adventure Tower and were so happy on arrival & check in that our "request" was granted. I never could get a real answer as to why the change in placement. It was frustrating.

 

[twodogs]

Thanks all. I agree it is crazy to pay these rates and be unable to even confirm view or bedding. Some would pay more for views etc. Come on Disney, take some more money! Haha! We will just hope for the best. We are a party of 6 (4 adults, 2 kids). I guess the "smallest" configuration is 2 kings but I think those are rare at DLH??

 

[5forMickey]

Thanks all. I agree it is crazy to pay these rates and be unable to even confirm view or bedding. Some would pay more for views etc. Come on Disney, take some more money! Haha! We will just hope for the best. We are a party of 6 (4 adults, 2 kids). I guess the "smallest" configuration is 2 kings but I think those are rare at DLH??

Honestly, even if you were given a king/king, which I agree is rare, you would have plenty of room. The couch in the king rooms double as a bed so you still would not need to use the living room for sleeping. Hope you have a great trip!

 

[twodogs]

Thank you! I agree that we are fine with king/king or king/2 queens. I just don't want 4 queens. But as OP said, bigger parties probably need 4 queens and the sofa bed to all fit, so those rooms would be propioritized to larger parties (hopefully!).

 

[Jane VanTassel]

Thanks all. I agree it is crazy to pay these rates and be unable to even confirm view or bedding. Some would pay more for views etc. Come on Disney, take some more money! Haha! We will just hope for the best. We are a party of 6 (4 adults, 2 kids). I guess the "smallest" configuration is 2 kings but I think those are rare at DLH??

Hello: I have the same "people" configuration. I called 3+ times and each time they stated they hold the 2 queen bed per room configurations for larger parties. They also stated repeatedly each time that there is a sofa sleeper in the "living room" area. I don't want this as a make shift bedroom. I booked the 2 bedroom suite to have a "living" area. They just stated each time upon check in is when we would know.
The only documented/phrasing on my reservations states: 2 Bedroom Suite.

 

[cinder-ellah]

Hello: I have the same "people" configuration. I called 3+ times and each time they stated they hold the 2 queen bed per room configurations for larger parties. They also stated repeatedly each time that there is a sofa sleeper in the "living room" area. I don't want this as a make shift bedroom. I booked the 2 bedroom suite to have a "living" area. They just stated each time upon check in is when we would know.
The only documented/phrasing on my reservations states: 2 Bedroom Suite.

I agree, very frustrating.

 

[5forMickey]

Hello: I have the same "people" configuration. I called 3+ times and each time they stated they hold the 2 queen bed per room configurations for larger parties. They also stated repeatedly each time that there is a sofa sleeper in the "living room" area. I don't want this as a make shift bedroom. I booked the 2 bedroom suite to have a "living" area. They just stated each time upon check in is when we would know.
The only documented/phrasing on my reservations states: 2 Bedroom Suite.

A King/Queen would sleep 5 adults fine without having to use the living room (unless you are trying to separate people). The King room will also have a couch (at least ours have) that can be used in that room as a bed so that would give you "4" sleeping locations without having to use the living room.

ETA: It will also depend a great deal on if you are going during a busy time. They are limited on how many suites they have so during a busy time the odds will be reduced.

 

[twodogs]

We are planning for mid October next year. I think that can be a busy time with parties going on, but hopefully still less crowded than summer, holidays, spring break. For us, the reason for the suite is that each pair of adults has a bedroom and bath (DH and I, and my parents), and the kids have a separate sleeping area in the living room. This way everyone has some space, my husband can work later into the night while the kids sleep, etc. So I want to use the living room pull out couch for the kids, but not have to put anyone in either bedroom other than adults. I'm fine with king/2queens or king/king, as adults can sleep either way. But my parents prefer 2 queens, and I prefer a king. Fingers crossed that lots of big parties book suites at the same time as we do and get all the 2 queen/2 queens suites! Then everyone is happy!

 

[twodogs]

Hello: I have the same "people" configuration. I called 3+ times and each time they stated they hold the 2 queen bed per room configurations for larger parties. They also stated repeatedly each time that there is a sofa sleeper in the "living room" area. I don't want this as a make shift bedroom. I booked the 2 bedroom suite to have a "living" area. They just stated each time upon check in is when we would know.
The only documented/phrasing on my reservations states: 2 Bedroom Suite.

Thanks for sharing, and I hope you get your desired configuration too!!

 

[stazmatic]

Would someone mind sharing the nightly rate on these suites? I am looking for something that sleeps 8 and the suites I saw on their website say they sleep up to 6. This seems incorrect as it states it could have up to 4 queen beds which would sleep more than 6. Anyway, Im just trying to figure out if this is even in my budget. Thanks!

 

[cinder-ellah]

Would someone mind sharing the nightly rate on these suites? I am looking for something that sleeps 8 and the suites I saw on their website say they sleep up to 6. This seems incorrect as it states it could have up to 4 queen beds which would sleep more than 6. Anyway, Im just trying to figure out if this is even in my budget. Thanks!

The 3 BR suite at DLH that we had in Aug actually stated on their site that it slept 6, but when I clicked on it and did the reservation it then had me enter everyone's names, ages etc. And it slept 10. You might want to call just to double check on the room occupancy.

Beds : we had 2 King, 2 Queens and 1 fold out couch (queen size ?) in the living room.

 

[5forMickey]

Would someone mind sharing the nightly rate on these suites? I am looking for something that sleeps 8 and the suites I saw on their website say they sleep up to 6. This seems incorrect as it states it could have up to 4 queen beds which would sleep more than 6. Anyway, Im just trying to figure out if this is even in my budget. Thanks!

If you deal directly with the hotel you will fit fine in a two room. The WDT company made us get a three room suite once and it was bigger than we needed. This last trip, I talked with one of the room assigners and he had me just reserve as 6 on the reservation and then we added the other 3 when we checked in. We had a two room suite, we had two queens in one room that slept me, DH, DD and the other room had a king that slept my parents. The four kids slept in the living room. The married couple slept on the pull out sofa and my DS brought the couch out of the grandparents room and his DGF slept on a roll away. It worked great.

We paid between $850.00 and $1100.00 a night during that stay (room rates change frequently).

 

[blue888]

Just booked a 3 bedroom suite for next Christmas!
Trying to determine what to request. I think our top priority is Adventure tower (as we are hoping for concierge) and we want a downtown Disney view. Any recommendations on what to request?

I think we can make any room configuration work for our party of 10.

 

[Nonsuch]

Just booked a 3 bedroom suite for next Christmas!
Trying to determine what to request. I think our top priority is Adventure tower (as we are hoping for concierge) and we want a downtown Disney view. Any recommendations on what to request?

Several Signature Suites are in the Adventure tower, so there might be few 3 bedroom suites.

You might also consider renting points for a Grand Villa at the Grand Californian

 

[blue888]

We prefer Disneyland hotel for the awesome pool and the big rooms.

Several Signature Suites are in the Adventure tower, so there might be few 3 bedroom suites.

You might also consider renting points for a Grand Villa at the Grand Californian

 

[Nonsuch]

We prefer Disneyland hotel for the awesome pool and the big rooms.

DLH certainly has awesome pools, and I'm hoping GCH upgrades their pools during the renovation (pools are closed for at least the first 3 months of 2017).

While regular rooms at DLH are larger than GCH, the Grand Villa is likely the largest room in DLR

 

[blue888]

Yes of course. I'm sure once my kids are older we may move to the GCH. But for now they love the slides and water features.

DLH certainly has awesome pools, and I'm hoping GCH upgrades their pools during the renovation (pools are closed for at least the first 3 months of 2017).

While regular rooms at DLH are larger than GCH, the Grand Villa is likely the largest room in DLR
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[5forMickey]

Your odds of getting a 3 room suite in Adventure tower are low, especially during Christmas. My understanding is that most of the 3 rooms suites are in Frontier Tower. You can call and put in the request for that tower and if you are adding "club" services it may give you a slight advantage but even that won't guarantee you will be in Adventure.

Our last trip we had to downsize to a 2 room suite for better odds (per the room schedulers advice) of being in that tower because I did want to be close to the lounge. We were lucky enough to have our request met, but they had to pull a few strings for it to work. I think the fact that we are frequent flyers (2 times a year for the past several years) helped a little.

If it's a top priority to be in Adventure Tower, I'm with Nonsuch you might want to reconsider the Villas at the Grand. You are probably not going to have your request met.

My suggestion to them last time we traveled was that maybe they should consider putting a second club in either of the other two towers to make it more accessible for guest when they are not staying in Adventure tower. Maybe when the new hotel is opened it will be a little easier to have your requests met.