VandVsmama
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2011
PTR time! For late May-early June 2017! Woot! Woot!
I've got 2 reservations at the moment:
I've gone back & forth a bit on the pro's/cons of BWPPI vs Hojo's. For our last 2 family trips to DL, we've stayed at BW Stovall's and BW Pavilions a couple of doors down from Stovall's. We enjoyed our stays at both of those places, but preferred Stovall's to Pavilions because of the free breakfast and slightly shorter walk.
Pro's & Con's of BWPPI:
I've got 2 reservations at the moment:
- 6 nights @ BWPPI for ~$940 incl. tax & parking, Mon 5/29 - Sun 6/4
- 2 nights @ Hojo's for $316 incl. tax & free parking, Tues 5/30 - Thurs 6/1
- Fri 5/26 or Sat 5/27 - drive to DH's aunt & uncle's cabin at Big Bear, CA (~6.5 hr drive from our house)
- Sat 5/27 - Sun 5/28 - weekend relaxing w/extended family up in Big Bear
- Mon 5/29 - go to California Science Center museum in downtown LA. We want to show our kids the space shuttle that's parked there. Overnight in Riverside or Fontana w/friends. We have invitations from 2 sets of good friends to stay with them and they are both about an hour's drive from the parks. Costs ~$12 cash to park. Free admission if you don't do the IMAX movie or see any special exhibits (like the Pixar one that's showing right now) and you just see the regular exhibits. Hours are 10am-5pm.
- Tues 5/30 - drive an hour from Riverside/Fontana to DL. Check in @ Hojo's. Hit the parks! We'd probably leave Riverside/Fontana about 9am, get to Anaheim ~ 10am. Probably would get to the parks by 10:30 am
- Wed 5/31 - spend the day @ DL/DCA.
- Thurs 6/1 - spend the day @ DL/DCA. Check out of Hojo's in a.m. @ end of day, drive to Fallbrook to spend the night w/family (~2 hr drive from Anaheim, kids will sleep in the car).
- Fri 6/2 - do something special w/extended family to celebrate YDD's birthday. Overnight either in Fallbrook or La Mesa (we have other extended family in La Mesa).
- Sat 6/3 - beach day in San Diego
- Sun 6/4 - drive home & go back to reality
I've gone back & forth a bit on the pro's/cons of BWPPI vs Hojo's. For our last 2 family trips to DL, we've stayed at BW Stovall's and BW Pavilions a couple of doors down from Stovall's. We enjoyed our stays at both of those places, but preferred Stovall's to Pavilions because of the free breakfast and slightly shorter walk.
Pro's & Con's of BWPPI:
- it's SUPER CLOSE to the park entrance!
- it includes free breakfast! YAY!
- you can't check in and park until 3-4pm-ish. Boo.
- on check out day, you have to remove your car from their parking lot by 11am. Boo.
- Because of the above 2 bullet points, for 2 out of our 3 days at DL, we'd have to park in Toy Story or Mickey & Friends lot...pay $18 each day for DL parking, and then pay the $10-$12/day on top of that to park in the BWPPI motel parking lot and you can't even park in that lot the whole day on check out day.
- it's SUPER CLOSE!
- free parking. Compared to BWPPI, this saves us ~$70 in parking fees. That'll pay for 1 adult's dinner package at Blue Bayou or Carthay Circle. Or 2 kids' dinner packages at Blue Bayou or Carthay Circle. Or part of a character breakfast for the 4 of us at the Plaza Inn!
- you can check in at any time. They'll store our bags behind the front desk.
- we can park in their parking lot on check out day through the time that DL closes for the day.
- only fridge in the room. Meh.
- no free breakfast - but I think I can live with this. I can bring chocolate donuts from the grocery store, chocolate milks & juices, fruit. DH & I can have instant oatmeal using hot water from the in-room coffee maker.