The Disneyland Hotel Superthread

[Congo Queen]

Hi Tanner208 - I think you have done everything right that can be done in advance. You'll just need to see what happens when you check in. Explain to the CM at the DLH front desk what your needs are. Say that the most important thing is that you all have enough room and ask if the room they have assigned for you is spacious. They will do their best to get you the room you need (that has been my experience any way) unless there is some major reason the hotel is booked solid. But you are going in Sept so should be fine. DLH is awesome. Your kids are going to love the pools, and all the CMs there really do try to make sure guests are happy if you ask them nicely for help. Have fun!

 

[LisaT91403]

Hello,

I had some questions about the DLH as it will be my 1st time staying there. We will be staying at the DLH from Sept. 9-13 with 6 people (2 adults and 4 children). I understand the national fire code only allows 5 people per room but the 6th person is our daughter who is only 13months. Unfortunately, we can't afford a suite so I did the best i could and ordered a premium view (upper level) room at the DLH through Expedia. I recently found out after the fact, that the size of the rooms can vary despite what "view" you reserve. correct? After booking the reservation through Expedia, I called their hotel dept. to add a comment on the reservation that we would request a room in the adventure tower, with 2 queens and a daybed, with a park view. I then called the DLH directly to verify they received the reservation from Expedia and also mentioned the requests to be noted.

I just want to make sure I'm doing everything the right way to ensure I find a room that will fit all of us (comfortably). Is there any additional advice or tips that can give us a better chance of getting a sizable room? My son will be turning 4 years old a week prior to our check-in (so its like a birthday present) for him. I would hate to arrive to the hotel only to be given a small room even though it provides the "premium view". Would I be better off Looking for a different hotel?

I appreciate your time and feedback in advance.

When we booked a room for 5 (2 adults, 3 kids), we were told by DLH that we'd have a room with 2 double beds and a daybed. They said we wouldn't end up with a different room configuration (e.g. one king bed and a daybed) because there would need to be a place for each person to sleep.

Have you confirmed with the hotel directly that having 6 people is okay? I would check so as to make sure you don't have a problem when you check in.

 

[Tanner208]

When we booked a room for 5 (2 adults, 3 kids), we were told by DLH that we'd have a room with 2 double beds and a daybed. They said we wouldn't end up with a different room configuration (e.g. one king bed and a daybed) because there would need to be a place for each person to sleep.

Have you confirmed with the hotel directly that having 6 people is okay? I would check so as to make sure you don't have a problem when you check in.

Yes I did confirm with the hotel that the 6th person is ok, but they just warn us because it may be uncomfortable since the rooms are designed for no more than 5. However, in my case it should be fine since our 6th is under 2 yrs old.

 

[Brunolvr]

Got back a week ago...finally getting around to posting this video of a 1-Bedroom Suite in the Frontier Tower. It's room 2898, and it was AMAZING. Great view of the pool, balcony, and you can see the fireworks from the room at night!!

Thank you for taking the time to post your video of the 1-bedroom suite. I was surprised to see that it had 2 bathrooms. Are they both "full" bathrooms? including bathtub and shower? Do all the 1-bedroom suites have 2 bathrooms?

Thanks for your help!

 

[abminer]

I'm sure this is somewhere earlier in the thread so sorry for the repeat, but we booked standard and would like to avoid a parking lot view if possible (if that's what we end up with we can handle it). Which tower is best to request?

Does anyone know if requests are less likely to be honored if you booked with a group rate (gay days)?

 

[Renae De Liz]

Hey all you DLH experts! Could I pretty please have some help with a question?

I've only ever stayed at GCH, and haven't stayed at DLH since I was 11 years old or so (around 1993!) and am really wanting to try it out. The problem is, my husband is addicted to GCH's balconeys. He LOVES them. Does DLH have some room with balconies still? If so, how would I go about getting one?

Thank you!

 

[planningjollyholiday]

Thank you for taking the time to post your video of the 1-bedroom suite. I was surprised to see that it had 2 bathrooms. Are they both "full" bathrooms? including bathtub and shower? Do all the 1-bedroom suites have 2 bathrooms?

Thanks for your help!

The 1 bedroom suites all have 1 full bath and 1 half bath (just a toilet and sink)

 

[planningjollyholiday]

Hey all you DLH experts! Could I pretty please have some help with a question?

I've only ever stayed at GCH, and haven't stayed at DLH since I was 11 years old or so (around 1993!) and am really wanting to try it out. The problem is, my husband is addicted to GCH's balconeys. He LOVES them. Does DLH have some room with balconies still? If so, how would I go about getting one?

Thank you!

The only rooms with balconies are in the frontier tower, and I am fairly certain that they are all suites, not normal rooms.

 

[sgtdisney]

I was at the Disneyland Hotel last week. It looks like all the rooms on the 14th floor of the Frontier tower have balconies. Also, all the corner rooms on every floor of the Frontier tower have balconies on the sides of the building. From what I understood many of the rooms on the 14th floor are suites. However when I was checking in, someone next to me was asking for a regular room with a balcony and the cast member said they have a few standard rooms on the top floor of the frontier tower. They said the room was a standard view (not pool view). Hope this helps.

We had a room on the 11th floor overlooking the pool and could also see parts of Downtown Disney, the Matterhorn, etc from our room. We also watched a few weddings in the Rose Garden from the room. Loved our room and our view.

 

[JadeRom123]

Really a nice post can anyone tell me the accommodation Price for stay there?

 

[pepe3penelope]

Hello, all! We originally had a PPH standard view room booked but then I got a great rate for a DLH standard view room. This is our 1st time staying at DLH.

I'm going to call & make a room request. We'd like to stay at either the Adventure Tower or Fantasy Tower. Since our very short trip will only include relaxing onsite in the room, pools, restaurants, DTD, we prefer either of these towers.

Would it be a reasonable request to ask, "high floor, fantasy or adventure tower, view of DTD or DLP"?

We will already be getting a room with 2 queens since we are a family of 4 and I already requested a daubed (both kids move around like crazy when they sleep & may potentially whack each other in their sleep!

TIA!!!

 

[sgtdisney]

Hello, all! We originally had a PPH standard view room booked but then I got a great rate for a DLH standard view room. This is our 1st time staying at DLH.

I'm going to call & make a room request. We'd like to stay at either the Adventure Tower or Fantasy Tower. Since our very short trip will only include relaxing onsite in the room, pools, restaurants, DTD, we prefer either of these towers.

Would it be a reasonable request to ask, "high floor, fantasy or adventure tower, view of DTD or DLP"?

We will already be getting a room with 2 queens since we are a family of 4 and I already requested a daubed (both kids move around like crazy when they sleep & may potentially whack each other in their sleep!

TIA!!!

Others here on the board may know more than I about this, but I will let you know my experiences. Standard view rooms will typically get you a view of trees or a parking lot, these rooms can be on high or low floors depending on the building and which side of the building. Deluxe view rooms most often have a view of the pool and are on the middle floors of the three buildings. Premium view rooms can have a view of the pool or DTD and will be on the higher floors. You can request things, but since view rooms are typically charged more than a standard room, and are a booking category, it will probably take some Disney magic to get one of those if you booked a Standard view. Also some rooms do not have a day bed. I am guessing some of the two queen rooms in the Fantasy tower do not have day beds because I am pretty sure those rooms appear to be slightly smaller (not as wide) than rooms in Adventure or Frontier Towers.

We were at DLH earlier this month with room booked with a Premium view. I had requested a room with a view of DTD with a daybed. When I checked in we wrere assigned to a room with neither of those. When I saw the room number I could tell it was in the fantasy tower which I confirmed with the CM, so I asked if the room had a daybed. It didn't. The cast member told me I had to pick what was more important to me, either DTD view or daybed, so we picked daybed. Our experience with this CM was less than "magical" but that's another story. Anyway she called the room assigner and they re-assigned us to an awesome room on the 11th floor in the Frontier tower with a view of parts of DTD, Disneyland, and the Pool as well. We found we loved that tower, personally, and lucked out to get one of the limited parking spaces next to Frontier so we had a very short walk from car to hotel elevators.

I would request what is most important to you. You can get Standard rooms in the Adventure Tower, but they will probably be on the floors 2-4 with a view of trees and landscaping. There are Standard view rooms in Fantasy tower on the parking lot side of building which do have a side view of Disneyland and can see the fireworks. Standard view rooms in Fantasy can be low or high. Make sure when you check in to ask again for your preferences. They should at least be able to get you a Daybed room and maybe you are lucky they will get the view you're asking for too, if they can.

 

[pepe3penelope]

Others here on the board may know more than I about this, but I will let you know my experiences. Standard view rooms will typically get you a view of trees or a parking lot, these rooms can be on high or low floors depending on the building and which side of the building. Deluxe view rooms most often have a view of the pool and are on the middle floors of the three buildings. Premium view rooms can have a view of the pool or DTD and will be on the higher floors. You can request things, but since view rooms are typically charged more than a standard room, and are a booking category, it will probably take some Disney magic to get one of those if you booked a Standard view. Also some rooms do not have a day bed. I am guessing some of the two queen rooms in the Fantasy tower do not have day beds because I am pretty sure those rooms appear to be slightly smaller (not as wide) than rooms in Adventure or Frontier Towers.

We were at DLH earlier this month with room booked with a Premium view. I had requested a room with a view of DTD with a daybed. When I checked in we wrere assigned to a room with neither of those. When I saw the room number I could tell it was in the fantasy tower which I confirmed with the CM, so I asked if the room had a daybed. It didn't. The cast member told me I had to pick what was more important to me, either DTD view or daybed, so we picked daybed. Our experience with this CM was less than "magical" but that's another story. Anyway she called the room assigner and they re-assigned us to an awesome room on the 11th floor in the Frontier tower with a view of parts of DTD, Disneyland, and the Pool as well. We found we loved that tower, personally, and lucked out to get one of the limited parking spaces next to Frontier so we had a very short walk from car to hotel elevators.

I would request what is most important to you. You can get Standard rooms in the Adventure Tower, but they will probably be on the floors 2-4 with a view of trees and landscaping. There are Standard view rooms in Fantasy tower on the parking lot side of building which do have a side view of Disneyland and can see the fireworks. Standard view rooms in Fantasy can be low or high. Make sure when you check in to ask again for your preferences. They should at least be able to get you a Daybed room and maybe you are lucky they will get the view you're asking for too, if they can.

Thank you so much for your thoughtful and detailed response! So helpful. After reading it, I discussed your comments & recommendations to DH. We decided that the view is more important and we can live without the daybed. I'll call later with my preferences and hope when we check in that we get pixie dust!

Thank you again!

 

[pepe3penelope]

So I got off the phone with DLH & we requested the Fantasy tower in order to get the better view & better chance of a view. Decided we would love a view of DLP & some fireworks.

 

[Kilale]

I have never stayed at DLH and find the different towers confusing.. for the dates we are there Premium view was the only rate available so that is what we went with. What tower would you request to be in to get the best possible view of DTD/DL?

Which number did you call? I am a little worried as our plane doesn't get in till 8 so I don't imagine we will check in before 10 or so, late check in time (I did ask them to make a note of that) generally means you get the picked over rooms.. Columbus Day weekend as well so I imagine the hotel is going to be packed, at least for the first few nights.

Also, it is our Honeymoon and I was thinking of ordering a gift basket through the hotel to be waiting for us as a surprise for her, anyone have experience/tips for dealing with this at DLH?

 

[pepe3penelope]

I have never stayed at DLH and find the different towers confusing.. for the dates we are there Premium view was the only rate available so that is what we went with. What tower would you request to be in to get the best possible view of DTD/DL? Which number did you call? I am a little worried as our plane doesn't get in till 8 so I don't imagine we will check in before 10 or so, late check in time (I did ask them to make a note of that) generally means you get the picked over rooms.. Columbus Day weekend as well so I imagine the hotel is going to be packed, at least for the first few nights. Also, it is our Honeymoon and I was thinking of ordering a gift basket through the hotel to be waiting for us as a surprise for her, anyone have experience/tips for dealing with this at DLH?

I just called DLH directly & asked to make my requests. Your best bet for DTD view may be Adventure Tower & DLP view may be Fantasy tower. Just tell the CM your desires. She was very helpful explaining the differences.

Hope you have a great honeymoon!!!

 

[pepe3penelope]

I have never stayed at DLH and find the different towers confusing.. for the dates we are there Premium view was the only rate available so that is what we went with. What tower would you request to be in to get the best possible view of DTD/DL? Which number did you call? I am a little worried as our plane doesn't get in till 8 so I don't imagine we will check in before 10 or so, late check in time (I did ask them to make a note of that) generally means you get the picked over rooms.. Columbus Day weekend as well so I imagine the hotel is going to be packed, at least for the first few nights. Also, it is our Honeymoon and I was thinking of ordering a gift basket through the hotel to be waiting for us as a surprise for her, anyone have experience/tips for dealing with this at DLH?

Forgot to give u their number: DLH 714-778-6600, listen to the prompts.

 

[Kilale]

Thank you very kindly

 

[abminer]

I would request what is most important to you. You can get Standard rooms in the Adventure Tower, but they will probably be on the floors 2-4 with a view of trees and landscaping. There are Standard view rooms in Fantasy tower on the parking lot side of building which do have a side view of Disneyland and can see the fireworks. Standard view rooms in Fantasy can be low or high. Make sure when you check in to ask again for your preferences. They should at least be able to get you a Daybed room and maybe you are lucky they will get the view you're asking for too, if they can.

We also booked a standard room, we don't need a daybed, it's just the two of us. A king bed is preferred, but even that isn't that big a deal. What we would prefer avoiding is a view of a parking lot and nothing more and I'm a bit worried about the location of the Frontier tower. What would be the best request? Has anyone ever requested to NOT be in the frontier tower and let chance take over beyond that? Maybe request fantasy tower upper floor?

 

[sgtdisney]

We also booked a standard room, we don't need a daybed, it's just the two of us. A king bed is preferred, but even that isn't that big a deal. What we would prefer avoiding is a view of a parking lot and nothing more and I'm a bit worried about the location of the Frontier tower. What would be the best request? Has anyone ever requested to NOT be in the frontier tower and let chance take over beyond that? Maybe request fantasy tower upper floor?

Honestly I think the hardest tower to get into, in the standard category could possibly be the Adventure tower since pretty much any room on either side of the building above the 5th floor is going to be deluxe or premium level. That said, it's not impossible. I would guess the only way to get a standard view that is not over looking the parking lot would be one on the lowest floors of either side of Adventure or the internal facing rooms of Fantasy or Frontier on the lowest floors. One plus of the parking lot side of the building of the Fantasy tower is a side view of Disneyland and Fireworks at night.

We personally loved the Frontier tower as there is the Minnie Hot Tub close to the tower as well as the fire pit area and Trader Sams is closer to Frontier than to Fantasy. The Monorail slides are close too. Not to mention there is a nice waterfall and geyser right outside the tower. However I can understand some guests may prefer to be closer to the lobby/giftshops, etc. If you really prefer to not be in Frontier, just let them know. One thing to keep in mind too, if you're up on a higher floor in the standard rooms, you're really not looking into or at a parking lot, but over them. Above the 6th or 7th floor you really have some nice vistas out into the Orange county area and towards the mountains in the distance. From our room in Frontier on the 11th floor we could see Knots Berry Farm in the distance.