The Official VILLAS at DISNEYLAND HOTEL (Discovery Tower) Owners and Fans Info Thread

[Wedgeout]

Fun living within 60 miles of this resort. We decided to get one more holiday day in before our Magic Keys freeze up for the winter. Grabbed park reservations, and noticed a Standard Duo/hearing available. (pulling in 14 OKW points) for this Sunday!! Trying first time spontaneous stay test, like Florida locals get to do. We online check in (today), self park 6:30am range, leave bags in car, say hello to front desk, head off to early entry, and wait for room notification to get car items. Nice on check out day, can do early entry and still park there up to midnight.

 

[nlenguyen]

We stayed in room 627 Deluxe Studio. Not sure it has been posted on but it had a tub

 

[Wedgeout]

We stayed in room 627 Deluxe Studio. Not sure it has been posted on but it had a tub

Seems the *27’s have that tub. Thanks for the update. Also this thread indicates 627 as hearing accessible. Are there noticeable features for it?
https://www.disboards.com/threads/v...-hotel-dvc-view-from-the-room-thread.3931280/

 

[Brian rhymes with dyin]

My wife and our three small kids are planning on staying at a Garden Deluxe Studio in August (9 months, 2,5 by then). Does anyone have any opinion or has anyone seen a review of these somewhat standalone units (in a separate building anyway). I'm glad that there a chance we may not need to use the elevator at all.

Any general DLR DVC studio advice is appropriate too! This will be our first foray with a California DVC room. We rented a 1BR suite at DLH this year and it was great, space wise, but kinda lacked some nicer amenities that the DVC studio will offer. We have stayed at a DVC studio and 1BR at WDW with a lesser number of kids. And yes we are pretty ok with sharing a hotel room with our three small kids. My sister thinks I'm suicidal.

 

[Canchaser143]

My wife and our three small kids are planning on staying at a Garden Deluxe Studio in August (9 months, 2,5 by then). Does anyone have any opinion or has anyone seen a review of these somewhat standalone units (in a separate building anyway). I'm glad that there a chance we may not need to use the elevator at all.

Any general DLR DVC studio advice is appropriate too! This will be our first foray with a California DVC room. We rented a 1BR suite at DLH this year and it was great, space wise, but kinda lacked some nicer amenities that the DVC studio will offer. We have stayed at a DVC studio and 1BR at WDW with a lesser number of kids. And yes we are pretty ok with sharing a hotel room with our three small kids. My sister thinks I'm suicidal.

We finished our stay last week in a Garden Deluxe Studio (0255) I absolutely loved it. The decent sized patio was perfect for my little one to play outside. Being on the second floor was slightly less convenient than I think the first floor since you have to take the elevator or the outside stairs. The location of the rooms are PERFECT for time spent at the palette pool or splash pad. We also loved that we could just go down the stairs and cut across the pool and out the gates to get food. There is also a water bottle fill station right by the pool bathrooms which were perfect for keeping our water bottles filled, yay for less money spent on water I found the room easily accommodated the travel crib with Slumberpod. Really my only complaint about the room is the dang curtain situation. You have a sheet curtain and then the black out, which is great HOWEVER , they are both just one long curtain! Which makes going out the patio slider difficult if you want to keep the curtains closed (like at night or during nap time). It’s a first world problem I know but it’s was annoying trying to get in and out without dragging the curtain with me and making noise lol
Overall I wouldn’t hesitate to book again, especially in the summer!

 

[Brian rhymes with dyin]

We finished our stay last week in a Garden Deluxe Studio (0255) I absolutely loved it. The decent sized patio was perfect for my little one to play outside. Being on the second floor was slightly less convenient than I think the first floor since you have to take the elevator or the outside stairs. The location of the rooms are PERFECT for time spent at the palette pool or splash pad. We also loved that we could just go down the stairs and cut across the pool and out the gates to get food. There is also a water bottle fill station right by the pool bathrooms which were perfect for keeping our water bottles filled, yay for less money spent on water I found the room easily accommodated the travel crib with Slumberpod. Really my only complaint about the room is the dang curtain situation. You have a sheet curtain and then the black out, which is great HOWEVER , they are both just one long curtain! Which makes going out the patio slider difficult if you want to keep the curtains closed (like at night or during nap time). It’s a first world problem I know but it’s was annoying trying to get in and out without dragging the curtain with me and making noise lol
Overall I wouldn’t hesitate to book again, especially in the summer!

This is really useful information, thank you! Interesting note about the curtains... It's nice to have any additional area you can send your kids but it's not so nice if the transaction cost of getting there means potentially waking up baby due to drowning in curtains and screaming for help.

It sounds like the proximity to the pool and splash pad is perfect. When we went this past August the kids are area at DLH was closed due to villas construction and we had to go to Paradise Pier Hotel's pool

We also have traveled with a slumberpod since 2019 with great success, Do you think there was enough space in front of the Murphy bed to put a crib with a slumberpod?

 

[Canchaser143]

This is really useful information, thank you! Interesting note about the curtains... It's nice to have any additional area you can send your kids but it's not so nice if the transaction cost of getting there means potentially waking up baby due to drowning in curtains and screaming for help.

It sounds like the proximity to the pool and splash pad is perfect. When we went this past August the kids are area at DLH was closed due to villas construction and we had to go to Paradise Pier Hotel's pool

We also have traveled with a slumberpod since 2019 with great success, Do you think there was enough space in front of the Murphy bed to put a crib with a slumberpod?

Hmmmm it might be a bit of a tight squeeze walkway wise when the bed it down. We setup ours up in the little entryway next to the dresser and it worked nicely!

 

[Brian rhymes with dyin]

Hmmmm it might be a bit of a tight squeeze walkway wise when the bed it down. We setup ours up in the little entryway next to the dresser and it worked nicely!

Even better, thank you so much.

 

[Duckbug.Ducktales]

Do we yet have a way to figure out room placement? I'm looking for a floor map with room numbers but am not seeing it

 

[Wedgeout]

Do we yet have a way to figure out room placement? I'm looking for a floor map with room numbers but am not seeing it

Back at post #1,171 of this thread. (Room 1217 is 1221).

 

[Sunnyore]

We had the Disney Wish all along! View attachment 816651View attachment 816650

I literally did this today. My friend pointed out the star and I checked my 9/28 pictures of the mural.

 

[Wedgeout]

0146 Standard Duo is a hearing accessible. Won’t really notice other than the light lens in sleep area & bathroom. Very convenient room on that first floor, rear area. Low enough not to see over wall. Good for booking last minute or checking when others are full. No balcony. Close to bbq area.

 

[Wedgeout]

Current look at bbq area. Tables, chairs, umbrella. Looked under lids & appears been used now, operational.

 

[Wedgeout]

Some villa lobby lighting change. Visit Dec 9 (before) and Dec 17 (after). Too bad two segments were not lit.

 

[UrsulaWantsYourSoul]

Thanks to MiceChat for the coverage of the DLH Lounge refurb/retheme. Here are some pics from their article:

 

[kes601]

Thanks to MiceChat for the coverage of the DLH Lounge refurb/retheme. Here are some pics from their article:

Does this still have the food it had when they opened it a couple months ago? It doesn't even exist on the Disneyland website, which I find so odd:
https://disneyland.disney.go.com/hotels/disneyland-hotel/dining/

 

[Wedgeout]

We there last night in the lounge. Live music. Drinks & food menu. Nice redesign. Open daily 5-close (close time has been about 10:30-11:30) based on activity to last call. We liked it better than the Palm Breeze. One item did liked about the Palm Breeze, when has a performer. They play it though the speakers out near the pool lounge chairs too.

 

[Chili327]

Was just informed the price is going up from $230 to $239 end of Jan.? (for VDH)

I really thought the $217 resorts were going to come up to $230 before VDH ($230) went up.

 

[UrsulaWantsYourSoul]

Was just informed the price is going up from $230 to $239 end of Jan.? (for VDH)

I really thought the $217 resorts were going to come up to $230 before VDH ($230) went up.

I did too. That said, Riviera and Aulani are going from $217 up to $225.
Will be very interesting to see what Poly 2 and Cabins are priced at. It used to be all actively selling resorts were the same but apparently who knows nowadays!

 

[Duckbug.Ducktales]

Thanks to MiceChat for the coverage of the DLH Lounge refurb/retheme. Here are some pics from their article:

Not seeing "Art Deco," and never thought of Sleeping Beauty that way, but I like what I see regardless!