Hi Paula!
Welcome to planDisney! Thank you so much for asking this great Disneyland Resort vacation planning question to us hEAR. I'm happy to be your planEAR today! You ask a really great question, Paula. Granted I'm looking at the
Disneyland Resort Hotels on the Disneyland website the same as you see them, it seems that most of the options are already booked for most of your time frame. Not to worry, though, as I have a lot of ideas:
~ The first is how many people are in your party. Most Disney Resort Hotel Rooms sleep a max of four or five people, depending on the exact resort. If you have more than five, the system will auto-magically sEARch for more rooms for your party, and with your travel dates being so close to spring break you might be hitting more snags than most. If this is the case, try looking and booking for the individual rooms based on how your group will be sleeping in them. It could be that you and your kids end up in one hotel and grandma and grandpa another, but it might be all the difference you need. And as a plus, the three Disneyland Resort Hotels are all within walking distance of each other; they're all basically on different corners of the same intersection, so it's not like you'd be too far from each other.
~ One thing in your favor is that even though right now we're not seeing, well, much of anything, Guests who book a
Disneyland Theme Park Ticket + Disney Resort Hotel vacation package directly from Disney have up until 30 days before check-in to cancel their entire booking and get their money back; non-package Guests can cancel up to five days before check-in. The good news from that information is that you, Paula, might be able to find some surprise multi-night openings if you start searching this week. (You could even book a backup hotel that you cancel if you find a room at a Disney hotel.)
~ If you don't want to wait any longer and you'd like to book something right now, Anaheim has an entire city filled with Mickey vetted and approved '
Good Neighbor Hotels'; some of these are even closer to Disneyland Resort than the parking lot where local Passholders park! Some of these hotels are even national chains where you can earn and burn loyalty points. But my favorite perk is some of these hotels offer other great bonus amenities like a shuttle to the parks or a complimentary breakfast. Most of these hotels even offer
Good Neighbor Hotel + Ticket Packages just like Disney's own hotels!
Hopefully one of these suggestions will have helped to find the perfect beds for your heads for your upcoming Disney Days, Paula. Other aspects of your trip that you can start planning now are figuring out any
Dining Reservations you might like. Also, the
Disney California Adventure Food & Wine Festival will have just kicked off right before your arrival - be sure to follow the
Disney Parks Blog as well as the
official planDisney Instagram account as both will be sharing all kinds of tips and tricks, for both the festival but also Disneyland in general. Thank you again for stopping by, Paula. And let us know if you have any more Disneyland Resort vacation planning questions - We're All Ears!
~Kristen N.