I have heard other hotels along Harbor Boulevard offer nicer rooms and amenities, notably the Anaheim Howard Johnson, which has quite a following among some Disneyland Guests.īelow you’ll find a video of a Desert Inn and Suites room, along with several photos. For the reasons of price and convenience alone, I would recommend Desert Inn. The 3-5 minute proximity to the Esplanade also allows us to make stops at our room during the course of the day to pick up and drop off various items (tripod, coat, etc.) that we don’t want to carry for the entire day. By staying at hotels this close, we’re able to avoid renting a car, instead taking the Super Shuttle from the airport to our hotel. The per-night prices of Desert Inn, and similar “budget” Good Neightbor hotels on Harbor Boulevard are typically very good at less than $100/night, especially considering their location. If you plan on spending much time at your hotel beyond sleeping and getting ready in the morning, you might want to look elsewhere. I ventured to the free continental breakfast one morning but didn’t eat anything after seeing the location where it was served, and the indoor pool didn’t seem nice, either. The amenities beyond the room were questionable. The room was clean overall, and was perfect for our purpose on that trip–it was simply a place to sleep. Our bed was reasonably comfortable, and it was nice having a king size bed, plus a couch and coffee table, as well as a mini-fridge in our room. The room was large and passable, albeit very dated in appearance with the exception of the flat screen television. That said, Desert Inn was not a bad hotel by any means. I suppose they meet the requirement if a suite is merely a “large room,” but I think suite connotes a certain level of quality and/or elegance. The Anaheim Desert Inn and Suites certainly wasn’t downright disgusting (the same cannot be said for the Anaheim Plaza Hotel & Suites), but it certainly was playing fast and loose with the term “suites” in its name. Heck, we’d even stay at Paradise Pier Hotel for the right price! Even though the rooms in off-property Disneyland-area hotels at which we’ve stayed have been mediocre at best, the price and location have always been right. Now, this isn’t to say we wouldn’t stay at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel or Disneyland Hotel if given the chance. Second, because the three official Disneyland Resort hotels can be quite expensive. First, because proximity isn’t an issue at Disneyland we could see both Space Mountain and the Tower of Terror, attractions in two different Disneyland parks, from our hotel’s front entrance. However, at Disneyland we stay exclusively off-property. At Walt Disney World, we would never even entertain the idea of staying off-property. On a trip to Disneyland this spring, my wife and I stayed at the Anaheim Desert Inn and Suites.
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