VGC for LA visit

[Cyberc1978]

So my family and I are planing a trip to LA next year, I was wondering if it was "worth it" to stay at VGC in anaheim and use that as a base for sightseeing? Or are we better off with just booking a regular hotel closer to LA?

We will not be going the DLR while staying there.

I could also try and get a reservation at one of the other timeshare hotels in anaheim, that might be less expensive.

regards

 

[_auroraborealis_]

You are better off staying closer to LA IMO. Traffic is nuts in SoCal. Do some random Google Map checks of drive time between VGC/Anaheim and some target destinations. Not pretty.

 

[BadPinkTink]

So my family and I are planing a trip to LA next year, I was wondering if it was "worth it" to stay at VGC in anaheim and use that as a base for sightseeing? Or are we better off with just booking a regular hotel closer to LA?

We will not be going the DLR while staying there.

I could also try and get a reservation at one of the other timeshare hotels in anaheim, that might be less expensive.

regards

Im not DVC but for the last 9 years I have been visiting the LA area every June. In the first few years my base was in the LA area and we did a one day visit to Disney, with my friend driving.

We were staying in the Santa Monica area and it was around a 70 minute drive from the time we got into the car at the hotel and locked the car in the Mickey and Friends carpark. Then at the end of a long park day, my friend had another 70 minute drive to get us back to the hotel.

In the last 5 years I switched it up. I now stay in Anaheim for Disney, offsite at either Dessert Inn and Suites or Motel 6. I then switch to LA area. In the LA area I have stayed in hotels in Downtown and Santa Monica, in 2017 I stayed in an AirBnB in South Pasadena and this year in June 2018 I am staying in an AirBnB just off Hollywood Boulevard.

You really need to check out everything on Google Maps. Anaheim is a big distance from the major tourist sights, Hollywood sign, Hollywood Walk of Fame, the beach towns of Santa Monica and Venice Beach, Beverley Hills, Rodero Drive, Universal Studios, the famous restaurants, Griffith Observatory, La Brea Tar Pits, museums, Dodgers Stadium, Staples Centre and LA Live, etc etc etc.

It would be a huge amount of driving each day and you would really be limiting what you could achieve in a day if you stayed in Anaheim.

 

[Cyberc1978]

Thanks for you insight.

I’ll look for a hotel within LA or find something on AirBnB

Regards

 

[carlbarry]

I stayed at VGC when it was fairly new, January 2010.
I drove into LA a couple of times. As a life long NYC resident, I am accustomed to bad traffic. But the drive from VGC to LA took quite a while--and that was not during high volume hours.
That being said, I want to stay there this year--but I checked availability, and it is quite difficult to get into, so you might want to take that into consideration, too.

 

[deedubb]

I definitely would not stay at VGC if you're not going to DLR. The last time we were in CA, we did the usual LA/Hollywood tourist stuff, then Legoland, then DLR. We stayed in 3 different hotels. The traffic in LA is just brutal. I would pick a hotel that is close to the majority of places you want to go, or even stay in a few hotels like we did.