tink89
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Westin
We stayed for 2 nights at the Westin this past weekend in a standard 2 queen room no view. Our room was clean, it had a Keurig with complimentary coffee and tea. You are able to connect your account for streaming to the tv( Netflix, prime, Hulu) we did not. It does have free showtime. Beds and pillows were amazing. I do like that they have a few restaurants on site, but they are a bit on the more expensive side and with a picky teen it just isn't worth it to eat at any. We did grab a few items( coffee, pastries) from the cafe they have. I believe it is called Blossom market. It has a small pool and hot tub. DD was not a fan. They have a fitness center which you have to reserve your time since they have a limit of how many inside.
We did walk to DTD to grab something to eat and just to see how far the walk is. It is probably a 10 min walk. It takes longer due to the traffic lights when crossing. Overall a very nice hotel. ProbI would only stay there again in a park view room and with just DH or adults. DD was not a fan. When we do stay offsite it is normal at the Hilton or something like it.
DLH
We have stayed here many times before. DD loves the pool and just the hotel overall. We had a deluxe pool view room in adventure tower. 2 queen beds and a day bed. Also came with Keurig. We have stayed in frontier and Fantasy tower all other times and have not had a Keurig before. Elevators in this tower take forever. Ordered ahead from coffee house a few times and it did take over 15 min for it to be ready. Hotel says they have delivery from some restaurants in DT. I believe it was Jazz kitchen, Uva Bar, Tortilla joes and one other I can't remember. The one time I did try to order only Uva bar was available. Given my picky eater we just walked over to grab something else. Room service was still not available I think.
The hotel does have a new gate all around which I do not think was there last time we were there in Jan 2020.
There was a dance thing going on in the hotel so the pool was packed and probably the reason the coffee house was packed every morning too. We have stayed on site during the holidays and I have never seen it this busy. Even though we miss having EMH we will probably stay there again. It does make us feel in the bubble. I didn't like having to walk back to the Westin and not just not being able to quickly go to DTD and to the parks. We will wait for the monorail to be back on.
DL/DCA
It was great to be back in the parks after 2 years, but I did feel like a bit of a newbie.
We did not get LL the first day as we were able to to MH, BTMR, IJ, PotC, HM and have breakfast all before 10 am. The next day at DCA we were just so used to always having either FP or MP and going for 3+days that we got LL and it helped us do all the other attractions on our list. I did see how the standby lane just sits there while they wait for people to get up to the LL entrance. They really need to do better at managing that. We did not have issues ordering quick service but differently no reservations for any sit down restaurants. I did feel like the CM were maybe not as friendly as they normally are. Overall a good trip we dd have to learn to manage with out EMH. Learned a lot of what has changed.
ETA: Westin hallway noise was pretty loud. I could hear very clearly everyone who would walk by and the doors would slam shut. I thought maybe since we had not traveled in 2 years I forgot how loud a hotel is, but at DLH we barely heard people by and there were people right across from us which we saw as we exited at the same time sometimes. Doors at DLH did not slam shut.
We stayed for 2 nights at the Westin this past weekend in a standard 2 queen room no view. Our room was clean, it had a Keurig with complimentary coffee and tea. You are able to connect your account for streaming to the tv( Netflix, prime, Hulu) we did not. It does have free showtime. Beds and pillows were amazing. I do like that they have a few restaurants on site, but they are a bit on the more expensive side and with a picky teen it just isn't worth it to eat at any. We did grab a few items( coffee, pastries) from the cafe they have. I believe it is called Blossom market. It has a small pool and hot tub. DD was not a fan. They have a fitness center which you have to reserve your time since they have a limit of how many inside.
We did walk to DTD to grab something to eat and just to see how far the walk is. It is probably a 10 min walk. It takes longer due to the traffic lights when crossing. Overall a very nice hotel. ProbI would only stay there again in a park view room and with just DH or adults. DD was not a fan. When we do stay offsite it is normal at the Hilton or something like it.
DLH
We have stayed here many times before. DD loves the pool and just the hotel overall. We had a deluxe pool view room in adventure tower. 2 queen beds and a day bed. Also came with Keurig. We have stayed in frontier and Fantasy tower all other times and have not had a Keurig before. Elevators in this tower take forever. Ordered ahead from coffee house a few times and it did take over 15 min for it to be ready. Hotel says they have delivery from some restaurants in DT. I believe it was Jazz kitchen, Uva Bar, Tortilla joes and one other I can't remember. The one time I did try to order only Uva bar was available. Given my picky eater we just walked over to grab something else. Room service was still not available I think.
The hotel does have a new gate all around which I do not think was there last time we were there in Jan 2020.
There was a dance thing going on in the hotel so the pool was packed and probably the reason the coffee house was packed every morning too. We have stayed on site during the holidays and I have never seen it this busy. Even though we miss having EMH we will probably stay there again. It does make us feel in the bubble. I didn't like having to walk back to the Westin and not just not being able to quickly go to DTD and to the parks. We will wait for the monorail to be back on.
DL/DCA
It was great to be back in the parks after 2 years, but I did feel like a bit of a newbie.
We did not get LL the first day as we were able to to MH, BTMR, IJ, PotC, HM and have breakfast all before 10 am. The next day at DCA we were just so used to always having either FP or MP and going for 3+days that we got LL and it helped us do all the other attractions on our list. I did see how the standby lane just sits there while they wait for people to get up to the LL entrance. They really need to do better at managing that. We did not have issues ordering quick service but differently no reservations for any sit down restaurants. I did feel like the CM were maybe not as friendly as they normally are. Overall a good trip we dd have to learn to manage with out EMH. Learned a lot of what has changed.
ETA: Westin hallway noise was pretty loud. I could hear very clearly everyone who would walk by and the doors would slam shut. I thought maybe since we had not traveled in 2 years I forgot how loud a hotel is, but at DLH we barely heard people by and there were people right across from us which we saw as we exited at the same time sometimes. Doors at DLH did not slam shut.
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