Hotels Guide
Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa
It is a hotel that is situated in Anaheim in California at the Disneyland Resort. He was added in 2001as part of an expansion of the Disneyland Resort, it holds the distinction of being just the only hotel to have been originally operated and built from the very beginning by The Walt Disney Company. The hotel will also feature a Disney Vacation Club that is going to be opened in 2009.
This hotel has the entrance to Disney's Adventure park in California, situated at the Golden State area. This entry is officially open only to guests of the Resort hotels.
It was designed by Peter Dominick - the famous architect of Urban Design Group Inc.,
and it was based on the Crafts and Arts movement of the early 1900s. So despite the large
scale of this hotel, the architecture still captures all its key elements of the Craftsman
style: colors that blend with nature, projecting beams, wide sweeping roofs, exaggerated braces
and so on.
The exterior evokes the feel of beautiful National Park Service that lodges of the
Western United States, and particularly the Ahwahnee Hotel in National Park of Yosemite, and also
the Old Faithful Inn in nice Yellowstone National Park.
Its interior design also features the famous Craftsman motif, albeit on a bigger scale.
Most of Craftsman homes had a garden theme. For the Grand Californian, such theme was taken
right from a garden idea and it was scaled up so that the little garden became a forest.
The Disneyland Hotel
It is a hotel in Anaheim in California, it is the first hotel that officially bears the
Disney name. The hotel has been in operation since 1955, though it was not owned that time
by The Walt Disney Company right until 1988. When in 1955 Walt Disney constructed Disneyland,
all the costs that were necessary to build the park exceeded $17 million, but Disney did not
have the money for a hotel. Disney negotiated a deal with Wrather Jack to build and operate the
hotel. This contract gave Wrather all rights to use the name of Disneyland Hotel on any hotel in
California until 2054.
This hotel was designed by the firm “Pereira & Luckman”, and featured a then-futuristic
marketplace that was known as Monorail Plaza, that in the late 1990s was demolished to make
way for the famous Downtown Disney.
And when Michael Eisner in 1984 became Chairman of Walt Disney Productions, he wanted to get
out of the agreement between Disney and the Wrather Corporation and also bring the Hotel of
Disneyland under the umbrella of Walt Disney Company.
Though, every time Wrather was approaching
by Disney the latter said that he was happy with that contract. And when Jack Wrather died in
1984, The Walt Disney Company bought the whole Wrather Corporation. So as a result, Walt Disney
owned the Disneyland Hotel, and also The Lone Ranger, RMS Queen Mary, and the TV series Lassie.
Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel
Formerly the Disneyland Pacific Hotel. It is a resort hotel in Anaheim at the California
Disneyland Resort. It can offer the ambiance of beach resort and many of the rooms overlook
Paradise Pier, the beautiful waterfront land in Disney's Adventure Park in California.
This hotel contains 489 rooms, 30 of them suites, more than 30,000 square feet for meeting space
and a 7,300-square-foot ballroom.
And hotel guests used to have their entrance to Disney's Adventure Park in California, situated
between Souvenir 66 and the Corn Dog Castle in the “Paradise” part of the park, and it was closed
due to low use.
Its pool was recently renovated and now it includes a waterslide themed to the California Screamin' roller coaster, that is known as California Streamin'.
Paradise Pier Hotel is just one of the few buildings in the Western Hemisphere which have a 13th floor. There is common superstition of the number 13, so most buildings in America try to skip that number — there is 12 and 14, then 15 and so on. And this is a result of the original owners from Japan, where as we know 13 is not considered bad luck. So Disney has not since changed this.