Disney has introduced that the Villas at Disneyland Hotel will open in September 2023, with bookings for DVC Members, Magic Key Annual Passholders, and most of the people beginning subsequent month. This submit covers the entire particulars about this new resort tower, with new pictures of the rooms and what you could know earlier than making lodge reservations.
Let’s begin with the press launch particulars. According to Disney, the Villas at Disneyland Hotel will mix Walt Disney Animation Studios classics with up to date designs, providing a celebration of Disney historical past within the place the place it began. This would be the fourth tower on the Disneyland Hotel, situated simply steps from the Downtown Disney District.
Every house within the 12-story tower at Disneyland Hotel will immerse you within the storytelling course of, bringing a few of your favourite Disney tales to life in a wide range of themed lodging. To that finish, let’s take a sneak peek inside the varied room sorts on the Villas at Disneyland Hotel, from the 2-person Duo Studios to the Grand Villas…
You can uncover the “bare necessities” alongside Baloo and Mowgli within the Duo Studio, which options design impressed by “The Jungle Book.” (Pictured on the prime of the submit.)
The Villas at Disneyland Hotel will supply 38 of those two-person studios which can be just like these launched at Disney’s Riviera Resort, which we reviewed right here. (Apparently, “Duo Studio” would be the title for these at Disneyland Hotel.)
The Villas at Disneyland Hotel’s Deluxe Studios sleep as much as 4 friends and are themed to the tales of “Sleeping Beauty” or “The Princess and the Frog.”
Of the 350 rooms on the Villas at Disneyland Hotel, 253 are Deluxe Studios. (Assuming the paperwork Disney filed with the City of Anaheim are appropriate and nothing has modified since then, which might be a secure wager.)
If you’re on the lookout for extra space, you and your loved ones can unfold out in a one- and two-bedroom villa, sleeping as much as 5 and 9 friends, respectively. These rooms are impressed by the colourful colours of “Fantasia” or “The Princess and the Frog.”
The Villas at Disneyland Hotel ought to characteristic 20 two-bedroom villas and 19 one-bedroom villas. These villas embrace a washer and dryer, snug dwelling space, plus a full-size kitchen outfitted with all of the cookware you could put together meals.
Finally, the Villas at Disneyland Hotel will supply a handful of multilevel three-bedroom Grand Villas that sleep as much as 12 friends.
The first ground incorporates a full-size kitchen, massive eating space, and a double-sided fire connecting the dwelling space to a personal outside balcony. The first ground can be residence to the first suite, impressed by “Bambi.”
The Grand Villa additionally incorporates a spiral staircase resulting in the second ground, which options two bedrooms with en-suite bogs impressed by “Frozen” and “Moana,” in addition to a full washer and dryer.
Reservations for The Villas at Disneyland Hotel might be made starting on March 15, 2023 for Disney Vacation Club Members by contacting Member Services at (800) 800-9800 and on March 16, 2023 for Disneyland Resort Magic Key holders by contacting (714) 956-6425.
Bookings will open to the general public on March 17, 2023, topic to availability. You could make your reservation on-line or by contacting (714) 956-6425.
Accommodations on the Villas at Disneyland Hotel are restricted in availability, and restrictions apply. Subject to alter or cancellation with out discover.
Although Disneyland’s announcement doesn’t state as a lot, it’s secure to imagine that these can be money bookings for the Villas at Disneyland Hotel. Disney Vacation Club contracts for the Villas at Disneyland Hotel haven’t gone on sale but, and level charts haven’t but even been launched.
For what it’s price, Disney’s Riviera Resort began (contract) pre-sales to current DVC Members on March 27, 2019 with the purpose chart launched a pair days earlier than that. General public gross sales began on April 15, and that resort opened on December 16, 2019. So if the Villas at Disneyland Hotel had been following an analogous sample however with a September 2023 opening date, contracts would go on sale…a pair months in the past.
The delay may replicate a few various things. It may very well be that the September 2023 opening goal will not be but a agency date, and is an aggressive timeline. Although this challenge has been full steam forward (primarily based on the progress we’ve noticed) and hasn’t actually suffered any delays, opening in September 2023 nonetheless surprises us.
We figured November was absolutely the best-case situation, with a repeat of Riviera Resort’s opening proper earlier than Christmas the most certainly final result, and an outdoor chance that the Villas at Disneyland Hotel slipped into early 2024. Given that, September 2023 is a (very) nice shock. (Construction photos above and under are from earlier this month.)
Another chance is that Disney doesn’t want to hurry gross sales. We’ve been skeptical about different Disney Vacation Club developments, however not this one. Another DVC addition at Disneyland Resort is a no brainer, slam-dunk idea. There is a ton of unhappy demand for one more Disney Vacation Club Resort in California; the Grand Californian Villas are probably the most troublesome to ebook resort, and likewise the costliest through the resale market.
This will enhance Disneyland Resort’s accessible DVC room stock six-fold, and that nonetheless most likely gained’t be sufficient. No matter what the broader market and financial system does, this can promote nicely. If something, delaying it may very well be strategic–permitting the present properties on the market in Florida and Hawaii extra time to promote earlier than the Villas at Disneyland Hotel beginning consuming into these numbers.
In the meantime, Disney can ebook money reservations within the room stock that has but to be declared. With Disneyland Resort additionally having inadequate stock on the lodge facet of the ledger, that additionally is sensible. These rooms will immediately turn out to be the highest-priced lodging at Disneyland Resort, surpassing each the Grand Californian, Disneyland Hotel’s present towers, and regardless of the heck is occurring with the Pixaradise challenge subsequent door.
As for a way a lot they’ll value–that’s exhausting to say. My guess is that rack charges for the Deluxe Studios will are available above the Grand Californian, however with the chance for deep reductions in the course of the low season fill the inflow of latest room stock. (That’s precisely what occurred with Riviera Resort between December 2019 and March 2020.) So if you wish to keep right here on the least expensive doable worth, your greatest wager is reserving shortly after it opens for a September 2023 low season keep.
Ultimately, I don’t have way more to say about this new tower that I didn’t already deal with in our most important submit in regards to the Villas at Disneyland Hotel. The brief model of that’s this jogs my memory a whole lot of Disney’s Riviera Resort–a bland property that fails on the thematic entrance, however supplies highly-functional lodging with the suitable quantity of “Disney” touches, whereas delivering precisely what precise friends need.
It’s disappointing to me that Imagineering doesn’t get an opportunity to be extra formidable with the general design and caliber of immersion, however Disneyland Hotel might be the final place to complain about that. Its theme is actually “Disneyland,” and that is in line with how the present lodge is a self-referential love letter to Walt Disney and his unique magic kingdom in a fairly unusual package deal. A tower lavishly-themed to Catalan Modernism or no matter subsequent door to Disneyland Hotel could be much more misplaced.
The sensible actuality is that almost all current and future Disney Vacation Club members are going to utterly love this. It checks the packing containers for what trendy followers need from lodging and is a stark distinction to the present DVC room stock on the Grand Californian. Even if the large field doesn’t do a ton for me, the rooms look very nice. (Beyond that, not the whole lot must enchantment to me, personally!) I can nonetheless admire the useful enhancements to the rooms…whereas additionally hoping that this makes it barely simpler to ebook the Villas at Grand Californian!
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