LLM

Macken7, lounge is on the executive floor. Golds get access via their keys. Continental breakfast, evening snacks, cookies other times, water, coffee, tea and sodas all day. As noted above, great view of the fireworks. Restaurant charges etc do earn points.

Hilton unfortunately no longer runs their own free, comfy shuttles. You need to buy a ticket (machine in lobby) for the (uncomfy) Anaheim ART shuttles which pick up in front of the Hilton and also the Marriott across the street. I've stayed there many times and I'm not familiar with any shuttle out the back door; it is, however, only about a 10-12 minute walk to the parks.

skydve1

The lanai deck is the 5th floor, with pool & hot tub. The exec lounge with the snacks,etc is (I'm pretty sure!) on the 11th floor.

There are several restaraunts, clubs, bars,etc in the hilton, and you can charge everything to your room.

The walk to disney is about 10mins or so. A few of us walked to the Hard Rock one eve, since the traffic was just crazy.

Have fun!

19103_aa

Has anyone had success either calling/emailing in advance to increase the chances of either Lanai or Executive Floor room? Email addresses or telephone numbers may be private messaged to me if preferred. thanks in advance.

LLM

Lanai level is automatic for golds; you don't have to ask. Hotel is huge and there is room for all. Despite asking I have never gotten on to the executive floor (14?) which they say is diamonds only.

patricia

The breakfast was fruit, juice , coffee, bread, bagels and rolls.

skydve1

You're right with exec being 14th floor.

The Lanai deck is nice, but it gets quite noisey at night when people are hanging outside on the deck and drinking,etc.

I was able to book 6 rooms for my next years tradshow (Jan 05) on the excec floor for $130/night - which is a killer deal. Pays to book waaaay in advance - those rooms are now listing at $300+/night!

LLM

I've noticed the exec floor is usually $40-$60 more and I only stay there myself for Disney if the lowest rate is $80 or below. Low rates are usually a "clue" there is not a convention going on. This is not infallible, however, and I was once on a very full fifth floor with part of a large group of college kids who filled the hotel, smoking in non-smoking rooms and making the above-mentioned noise outside at the pool. Normally I wouldn't call security but had to to get some sleep. Is the executive floor any different besides the quiet and the bathrobes?

SEA_Tigger

Only been on the EL during Anime Expo, so it's loaded with people.

That being said, it's still pretty quiet though the lounge can be a zoo at times. It is a nice lounge, though, with a decent selection of goodies. I usually just did room service (since it was so fast).

Had a nice welcome letter. They did turndown service every evening. Extra complimentary goodies were left in the room for me. All in all, it was a wonderful stay and both the hotel and corporate received a strong letter of compliments from me, as well as a solid survey score.

Zip

Breakfest was basic, but quite good (muffins, rolls, bagels, fruit, juice, auto-make coffee machines to your specs).
As Diamond, I only got the famed 5th Floor Lanai room. Told Exec Level was full. First room was poolside, but there was a convention of pre-teen cheerleaders, so that was incredably noisy! Asked to change rooms, and I guess because I "complained" (I simply requested another room), the front desk put me into a tiny interior 5th floor room (though still with Lounge access). Little later, saw someone was at the executive desk on the ground floor; talking with the agent, she was very apologetic, got me a 5th floor room with outdoor private deck (well away from the pool), and it was nice and quiet. She did repeat that exec floor was totally full, though I could transfer my last night (of 5 nights) - I choose not to bother.
The lounge has snacks throughout the day, cookies and chocolate-covered strawberries when I was there, plus ample soda and water. Looking at the people there, I think many were supervisors for the cheerleading group, who were given comp rooms to the exec floor (as I said, there were MANY of the recent-rugrat category -- many surrounding hotels were also full of them).

bdeanwi

I will be staying in January??? I will be goig for a conference and was wondering how the place is.

patricia

across the street from convention center: Marriott also directly across street
with starbucks if you have a jones to manage

basic rooms a little small as older hotel but clean

easy access to exec. lounge very helpful

good food options

concierge services and extra services ie packages etc very good

large hotel

flyinbob

Being right next to the convention center means parking is a bit tricky to figure out. Post-holiday January should be ok. Disney crowd scales way back after Jan 3, though always rug rats around. Older hotel, true, but well maintained given its location. Lots to walk to or ride shuttles. Actually best in the area for that time of year.

Jeeves

I believe self parking is about $12/day. Their garage is large and it can get confusing remembering where you parked. The garage is chopped up into sections with intereior walls all over the place.

Overall, it's a decent property.

ironmanjay

The doubletree is a much better option. I got upgraded to a suite once that pretty much occupied the entire top floor of the hotel

skydve1

The NAMM convention will be in town 1/20-1/23... the place will be overrun by music industry folks from about 1/13 - 1/25. It's a madhouse, during that timeframe, needless to say.

Nice hotel overall. Super convenient access to the convention center. Gold's get Lanai deck, which is nice.