This weekend, I did a thing that's been on my bucket list since I was a wee-Disneyland fan - I spent the weekend at the Disneyland Hotel with my amazing boyfriend!!
Like the rest of Disneyland, the hotel is meticulously detailed and themed. Even the lobby is beautiful. Check out these amazing teacups chairs!
The lobby also had gorgeous purple chairs to sit in while you watch some Disney cartoons.
The entire hotel had tons of Disney artwork literally everywhere. I wish they sold prints of some of these.
Our room was SO SO COOL!! Everything was Disney themed! I love the pillows on each bed that say "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes... When You're Fast Asleep."
Look at this amazing headboard! There's a button on the lamp on the nightstand that triggers an instrumental 'A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes' song, and causes little stars and fireworks on the headboard to light up. This is known, as I learned from the A Walk in Walt's Footsteps tour, as a Goodnight Kiss.
This picture is up on the wall next to the bed, as well as in the Main Street Opera House, right above the actual bench Walt Disney sat on when he thought up the concept of Disneyland.
There's a cute desk area with a lovely mirror above it, plus...
...when you look into the mirror from the other bed, the portrait is in the center of it! I know this can't be a coincidence.
Even the bathroom is themed! Check out Mickey's gloved hands holding the lights!
There's a Dumbo portrait hanging in the toilet room (what do you even call a room off the rest of the bathroom where the toilet resides?).
The sheets have almost hidden Mickey's on them! And they were sooo soft, probably some of the best sheets I've slept on.
It turns out there are a couple tours we actually haven't taken yet! The Happiest Hotel on Earth tour is available exclusively to people staying at the Disneyland Resort. The small tour group met by the giant map of Disneyland by the front doors. It had little light up animations popping up all over the map, pretty awesome.
The tour started out with a video on the history of the hotel, and all it's incarnations. The hotel once included a marina and a golf course! Those are long gone, but there are remnants that remain, if you know where to look. The hotel consists of 3 towers, Fantasy, Adventure, and Frontier, and each tower has similar theming to the corresponding lands in Disneyland, down to the trees and landscaping. The Fantasy Tower, where we stayed, is the main one, which has the lobby and Small World theming throughout.
I love that picture of the opening to Adventureland. It looks like it was taken in the early days of the park.
Next up, Frontier Tower! The walkway entrance to this tower is in the shape of a giant horseshoe!
The lobby in this tower has an incredibly detailed scale model of the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad ride. It was a lot of fun to look around at every single part of it and see all the small details!
It even had the goat! Ever tried the Goat Trick? It's never worked for me...
I don't think I would have even seen this beautiful waterfall area if we hadn't taken the tour. Apparently there's a geyser there, but we never saw it go off.
Our room had a great view of the fireworks show at night. There was even a channel on the TV that played the accompanying soundtrack, so it was like you were right there! Speaking of the TV, it had every Disney-owned channel possible, as well as channels dedicated to Radio Disney, Star Wars commercials, and the soundtrack to the park itself!
Next up, all the restaurants we dined out during our Disneyland weekend!
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