Disneyland Hotel's DVC Villa Review

We were so excited to get to stay at the new Villas at the Disneyland Hotel. We stayed at the "Deluxe Studio with Preferred View" and thought the accessible room would be beneficial. As you will see we had some issues with the property and Anaheim's imposed "Transient Occupancy Tax". For more info on that: disneyvacationclub.disney.go....
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[@WDWCentral]

Thanks for you brutally honest review

[@LenBanks]

:) Glad you watched and commented. Much appreciated.

[@disneymike3311]

Thanks for this enlightening video! Very shocked at these revelations.
The rooms look like a value resort.

[@LenBanks]

I think a bit nicer, but yeah. The overall hotel is far swankier than a value, but all the DVC rooms are being developed more generically which is a complaint of a lot of us long time Disney fans.

[@julieuhey2501]

I love a good rant! 😂 Seriously, you were honest, but still kind. California is crazy in so many ways, for sure.

[@LenBanks]

Thanks for watching Julie!

[@sheilaa1333]

Totally agree with you on the quality of the furniture and the views - the standard view is even worse. They really need a third view category so you can choose the interior pool view.

[@marce2919]

Great video of the new property- one minor point of correction though as a Grand Cal DVC owner. Grand Cal villas (VGC) do have the Anaheim transient tax, but it’s less than Disneyland Hotel villas (around 50-ish cents for VGC vs around $2.80-ish per point for DL villas). Also, the tax for VGC is wrapped into owner’s annual dues. So unlike Disneyland Hotel Villas, no taxes are paid by the occupant at the at the time of use. Hope you’ll reconsider being ‘done’ with DVC in CA and come back to VGC knowing taxes have already been prepaid for you- especially after Grand Cal villas finally receives its upcoming overdue hard goods refurbishment (hopefully pottery barn standards!). Cheers!

[@LenBanks]

Hey. Thanks for commenting! As I understand from my discussions with the manager about all our various complaints while there, the TOT began with the opening of the Villas but is coming to VGC in January. I hope I was misinformed. If I was we definitely will stay there. Being a native Cal and one who loves Disneyland we always want to visit.

[@patriciadurham815]

Hi
Have a great weekend ❤

[@LenBanks]

You too!!

[@briansieve]

That's not a preferred view. Sorry they did that

[@briansieve]

Thanks for the review.

[@LenBanks]

Of course! Thanks for watching and commenting! I suspect they placed us there for the accessible room request value being stronger. But then they should have comped us points. For my wife, the view was the higher value. So we were glad we did get moved.

[@lindaosuna7259]

That view is nice if you're on the 4th floor or below. I was disappointed as well when they gave us the 9th floor!