Originally Posted By tokyoseeker Good to see everyone and I am planning a trip to the Tokyo parks in a few months so I have 2 big questions: Since we can not afford to stay at the MC, DL Hotel or Ambassador, do guests at the 5 non Disney hotels on Disney property like the Hilton Tokyo Bay, Sunroute and Sheraton enjoy early entry priviliges to the parks? I know crowds are big all year but I'd like to go in either April or June. Are those two general times usually very crowded or are they more tame and easier to work with than other times? Thank you for listening
Originally Posted By TokyoSea As far as I know only Miracosta guests have early access to Disney Sea. Disney Hotel guests enter through a different gate into Disneyland, but at the same time as all other guests. Don' know of any special entry for Ambassador guests; I have never stayed there. I go to both parks year round, but Disney Sea most of the time. Golden Week (fist week of May) is hell on Earth so you don't want to go then. April and June should be fine but I think there is Spring Break near the end of April. There are posters on this site that can give you better, more accurate advice than me. I usually go to Disney Sea after 6PM on an evening ticket and hit all the rides while the crowds are watching the shows. Busiest times will be opening till around 3PM when some people will go home and then a another increase in crowds after 6PM. ENJOY!
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 Hi tokyoseeker - when I was at TDL a few weeks back I noticed guests from the official TDL Hotel entering before us standard park guests. I stayed at the Hilton Tokyo Bay and there were definitely no early entry privileges. That being said, the official hotel guests only got in about twenty minutes earlier, which, for the price they are paying I thought was kinda pathetic for them! Still, I would never pay $500 a night for ANY hotel room and the Hilton was FANTASTIC value at $190! Enjoy your time and check back here for any more information you need. A lot of the old timers have either left or been driven away but there are still some knowledgeable people left.
Originally Posted By dagobert I'm sorry for hijacking this thread, but I didn't want to open a a new topic about Tokyo Disney Resort Hotels. Did anyone of you already stay in that hotel: <a href="http://www.palmandfountainterracehotel.com/index_e.html" target="_blank">http://www.palmandfountainterr...x_e.html</a> It seems to be a hotel owned by OLC. A friend of mine is planning to visit Tokyo next year and wants to visit TDR.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 dago - I just checked out where that is. For the three night stay price(I priced some time in May next year as a hypothetical), it works out roughly $AUS190.00 per night, THE SAME EXACT PRICE I was paying for the Hilton which is ACROSS THE ROAD and booked through hotels.com. This OLC hotel, however, looks to be quite a distance from the TDR. I would suggest your friend just goes to hotels.com and look for one of the partner hotels(Hilton Tokyo Bay or Sheraton or another)and get them, with castle and Mt. Prom views, as I did, for next to NOTHING!
Originally Posted By tokyoseeker Bob, that was helpful also. Many thanks. By the way I visitied the TDR web page and I did the conversion. Many of those MC and Disneyland Hotel prices are more than $500. I think 550 and even six depending on time of year and weekend prices. 500 for 1 night is way out of my league. So $600 is a NO WAY JOSE for us. For 600 there had better be a 2 hour room massages for out party, behind the scenes tour of the parks, unlimited Fast Passes and a bottle of fine wine.
Originally Posted By dagobert Bob Paris, thanks for the answer. The Hilton seems to be the best choice.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones When we stayed at the Tokyo Bay Hotel Tokyu in May 2007 we got early entry into DisneySea an hour before it opened. We had no idea it was offered and they explained it when we bought our tickets at the hotel. I'm glad we did it that way because had we gone straight to the ticket booths, we wouldn't have had early entry. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8579276@N05/523048073/in/set-72157612417622187" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/8...17622187</a>
Originally Posted By SuperDry I've had early entry at the Sheraton once as well. It seems to happen in the April - June time period, but doesn't seem very well publicized.
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 Good to know! Maybe you should just ask anyway and see what happens. Either way, by getting to the gates at least forty five minutes early and having a bit of a plan, I managed to cross MI off my list twice with a FP and ten minute standby queue and then raced off for other attractions with a very minimal wait. And that at the very busy Halloween celebration time. As we all know, you'd have to be nuts to rock up to TDL a couple of hours after opening and expect a leisurely, relaxed day of park touring, seeing all the big attractions with no stress.
Originally Posted By The Goddess Mara I've never had early entry at the Hilton, but have from every one of the three Disney hotels into both parks.
