Two Grand Californian questions

[cnj]

Is the child slide at GC the same size as the kiddie small slide at DLH? Also, after our recent stay at DLH, they had these air conditioning monitors in the room that were just awful. Would likely not stay there again because of them. Does GC have these as well?

Thank you,

Jennifer

 

[DisneylandGal]

From what I've seen the child size slides at the Disneyland Hotel and Grand California are the same size. The air conditioning monitors I'm not sure about.

 

[victorandbellasmom]

The child slides are similar to one another. We stayed at DLH for the 1st time last week and the kids loved the pool. We stayed at GCH last Oct and asked the kids which hotel they preferred, both said DLH (bexcause of the themed pool). Dh and I prefer GCH over DLH (main difference we found was level of service). I don't remember what the air conditioning monitor was like at GCH, but what didn't you like about the ones at DLH. Weren't they just typical hotel room temperature controls? I'm not sure if I'd ever pay rack rates again for DLH, (definitely would for GCH), but I would stay at DLH again if i got those special AP night rates.

 

[cnj]

Thank you for your responses. There are motion detectors near the air conditioner control. If you don't move during a certain period of time (if you are out of the room or sleeping), then the temperature automatically goes back to 72 degrees. I like to sleep in a cooler room than that. Our room was pretty much always 72 degrees, sometimes even a little higher. For the amount we pay disney, I don't want to be monitored at night.

Jen

 

[mareed]

Thank you for your responses. There are motion detectors near the air conditioner control. If you don't move during a certain period of time (if you are out of the room or sleeping), then the temperature automatically goes back to 72 degrees. I like to sleep in a cooler room than that. Our room was pretty much always 72 degrees, sometimes even a little higher. For the amount we pay disney, I don't want to be monitored at night.

Jen

We were at DLH in Jan, and ours would re-set to 72 during the day while we were out, but it cooled off very quickly when we returned, and it stayed where we had it set at night. I can't imagine that it's designed to reset at night - that's just crazy! I'd have called the front desk to ask about it if it had reset at night.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

Oooooo, DH would not like the room at 72 overnight! Heck, I wouldn't either. Will have to pay attention to that when we're there in a few weeks.

 

[cnj]

Maybe it was just our room, because maintenance had to come to fix it the first night. No cool air was blowing at all. I hope that is what it was, because we love the DLH and would love to come back. Please let me know if when you stay, your room gets to the temperature you set it to when you go to sleep at night. It would make me feel better about spending the money and going there again.

 

[Amy&Dan]

These sound like the same kind of monitors/motion detectors they use at some of the WDW resorts. If they are, maintainence can override the motion detectors to keep the room cool all day/night. I hope they can because when we stay there in June I will be very irritated if the room is stuffy at night!

 

[grimley1968]

If they are like the WDW resort motion detectors on the AC units, I have a potential solution:

Every day, just before you get ready for bed, press a simultaneous combination of temperature up or temperature down and the power button on the AC unit. I can't remember the exact combination, but there's only 6 or so different combinations of simulatenous buttons to press. In our case, I thought it was temp. down and power.

Anyway, when the right combination of buttons is pressed, you should see "bp" on the display, meaning "bypass", and you can raise or lower the temp. as well. At WDW resorts, it seemed like this allowed the AC units to bypass the motion sensors for about 24 hours. So I just did this process once each night right before bed. We never had the heat buildups overnight after that.

Hope this helps.