Value Resort or Downtown Disney Hotel?

[daystar91]

If you had to choose between a All Star Value Resort or Downtown Disney Hotel, which would you choose? and why?

 

[HopperFan]

Well, it would depend -
- Which Downtown Disney hotel?
- Is price about the same?
- Do you need Magical Express?
- Will you have a car?
- Are Extra Magic Hours important?
- Is FP+ at 60 days important?

 

[Grumpy92]

I agree. The DTD hotels charge for parking and some have a resort fee. We just returned from staying at the Hilton. Location cant be beat! We did not have to deal with the DTD parking mayhem. Hotel rooms were fine, clean. They do have a shuttle to the parks and EMH, only 30days in advance for FP+. So many of the values now have the teenage groups staying there and I find them annoying, so for me that is a downside.
It really depends on what you are looking for or value with regards to benefits.

 

[Kae]

We have stay at a few of the DTD resorts Best Western huge rooms, great Balconies, Nice Staff. Resturant yucky. Royal Plaza(now something else) gets a lot of love as far as reviews go-we found it just ok. DoubleTree Great for Families. BV Palace we liked it a lot great staff, best DTD Location really close to DTD bus stop we eat at the WDW resorts for a lot of our meals of we use that bus stop to get to the resorts. The Marriott which is now Holiday Inn was also very nice.

We have stayed at the DTD resorts mainly using Priceline. So the rates were very good. More for Short trips 2 nights type. Longer Stays I would choice a WDW Resort.

Kae

 

[Ksquared]

If I was going to stay in a regular hotel room (and that's what you get with allot of the DTD hotels, then I'd just assume to stay onsite at a value resort. If you were going to stay at a place that has suites, possibly to gain more room, etc. then I'd stay offsite. I think allot of things go into planning the vacation that will best suite your family's needs. One big thing being if you have a car or not. If you don't have a car, then staying onsite is a no brainer. If you have a car, then you have more options available to you.

Personally, we are not a value room type of family, but we are also not DTD hotel family either. We have stayed in the Disney vacation club rooms, Wyndham Bonnet Creek and even rented a pool house. For us, it's not just the value, but the space that offsite accommodations can give us.

 

[powellrj]

I know it wasn't on your list, but I would go with Bonnet Creek over any of your listed choices.