Originally Posted By dsnyblst I was wondering if the Dreams Tower is open during construction. I booked an upper resort view for April 6-10, and from previous experience, thats always in the dreams tower. Thanks!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 As I understand it, half of any given tower is planned to be open while they work on the other half.
Originally Posted By PastKnight 50% of the resort view rooms are in the Dreams tower. Dabob? is of course correct half of each tower remains open during that towers construction
Originally Posted By oredisneyfan We booked a resort view and got 10th floor in the wonder tower. more of a pool view but you could see the fireworks, way off in the distance.
Originally Posted By dsnyblst Thanks for the info! Who do I call to put in a preference? Seems like every number takes me to Disney Travel Co. Btw, oredisneyfan, did your room have a sofa bed? We have three adults and a 13 year old. Thats part of the reason I book a resort view. The dream Tower rooms seem bigger. Thanks again!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Two things: 1). Call the DLH directly, not the travel service. Put in your request for the Dreams tower (I assume you want facing DTD and the parks). They will tell you "okay, we have your request but we can't guarantee that's what you'll get." Trust me, that's what they will say. They only guarantee the type of view, not a specific tower or wing or anything else. 2). Check in early! The earlier you get there, the better chance you have of getting the room you want. It may not be ready yet (and probably won't be if you check in in the morning), but no biggie - you can leave your bags with the bellmen, go to the parks, and come back after 3:00. The earlier you check in, the less chance they will have assigned one of the rooms you want to someone else. Mention at the desk that you reserved with a request for the Dreams tower, and they will place you there unless they're all gone; unlikely (though still not impossible) if you check in in the morning.
Originally Posted By dsnyblst Thanks so much for the info! Ive always been assigned the Dreams Tower before, and really only pay the higher resort view fee for the bigger rooms... This time with three adults going, my son would be stuck on the floor w/o the sofa bed. I tried calling directly to the DL Hotel to make reservations...but it seems that all ressies are now pushed over to the travel Co. Kind of a bummer. I really liked being able to make ressies directly thru the hotel....
Originally Posted By trekkeruss You should still request the tower or room you prefer by calling the hotel directly after you've made the reservation.
Originally Posted By PastKnight Actually not to contradict Dabob this time but the "Travel Co" is also central reservations for the hotel and that is where they will request a particulat tower and bedding, neither are garaunted but can be requested. "Resort view" can either be DTD or the pool area, so half of the Magic and Wonder towers are also resort view.
Originally Posted By dsnyblst I called the Travel Co. to put a payment on my room and decided to also put in a request with them....what the heck, right? She was very nice,and actually asked if there is anything we are celebrating...so I told her that week is my...uh hum....36th bday. So she noted my request and my bday. One thing I noticed when I made my room only ressies on the disny site, was there were two options. One for an upper pool view...one for a upper resort view. I assumed the resort view would be the dtd view. We shall see, i guess.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I guess I knew that; once upon a time you could call either Walt Disney Travel or the DLH itself, but it occurs to me now that since building the DGC and acquiring what is now the PPH, that when you call for reservations they always ask "which hotel" first, so what PastKnight says makes sense. I do think there's a difference in the number you call if you want a package deal (room plus tickets etc.) vs. just a room, though I could be wrong about that.
Originally Posted By oredisneyfan yes it did have a sofa bed. We have only stayed at the DLH that one time so I dont know if it was bigger or not. One thing though, in doing some research online and looking at pictures the room seemed bigger than the standard ones I saw. I think ours was half of a suite, dont know if they do that but there was an adjoinging door in the area with the closet/work desk and this area was also really large. we saw most of the rooms around us were suites also. FYI when I booked the room through WDT they took our room preference then but said that we should call the hotel directly to request specific room tower. when I called the hotel they said I would have to call one or two days before arival? and I forgot, at check in they were going to put us in a room on the 4th or 5th floor of Wonder and I told the cm that I paid for the premium view room so they moved me up to the 10th floor.....they were very nice. I was really hoping for Dreams tower but they said because of the construction the rooms there were limited and I think concierge may have first choice there all though they can not guarantee that either.
Originally Posted By nemopoppins I think Disney charges only per room fees, not for number of people in the room. So, if you tell them you have 5 people instead of 3 adults and a kid, you would be almost guaranteed a room with a day bed. Does anyone else have thoughts/confirmation on this?
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance They charge for anything over 2 adults. So if you tell them you have 5 people they will ask how many adults and the age of the children.
Originally Posted By oredisneyfan I thought it was on a per room basis also, We have always had the day bed at pph and the one stay at dlh, I think if you have a party of 5 you will get the day bed
Originally Posted By dsnyblst When I made ressies on the Dl site, the quote was the same no matter how many people i put in....so I dont think the number of people affect the price.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance It's $15 a night for anymore than two adults per room. I'm tellin ya!
Originally Posted By 8 ilovemickey 8 dsnyblst when we stayed at the DLH a couple of years ago during Christmas time I called multiple times to request a DTD view with a sofa bed on the highest floor possible and it turned out to be a great, large room. I also suggest you call multiple times. I called the DLH hotel directily about 3 times to make the request: once right after I had made the reservation, once about a month before, and once about a week before. When I called a month before they had no record of my previous request so I was happy I had called again and strongly suggest you do the same and the persistance was well worth it!
