The happiest hotel for Disney fan kids, great location if your visiting Disneyland they have shuttle bus and entrance for Disney hotel guests. They have cute gifts for birthday celebrants. They don’t give bottled water they have water dispenser in the room. Lots of activities for kids.During our visit the pool was freezing cold but the kids got to enjoy the meet and greet next to the pool.The cast are friendly,helpful and approachable. The room are huge and descent they provide baby bed .

PROS:

1. Love the theming! Luggage tag room numbers, binocular wall sconces, portmanteaus in the lobby and a lot more if you look closely!

2. Spacious rooms (good for 4 adults) with wonderful views of the sea!

3. Nice breakfast sets

4. Wonderful staff

5. Luggage storage outside the hotel near the shuttle bus stop.

6. Character meet and greet at the lobby

First time to stay in a Disney Hotel and my kids’ first time to visit a Disney Park. We’re very excited with high expectations. Explorer’s Lodge did not disappoint. The hotel’s facade and the lobby looks great with the adventure theme. We also met Donald Duck on our checkin day. The staff are very cheery and welcoming. We were allowed early checkin so we can already rest and late checkout to have more time swimming. There’s a gift shop in the hotel. We enjoyed our stay in the room. Comfy beds, Disney movies. Only negative feedback is, we didn’t have toiletries. We didn’t know and we weren’t informed (possible I just didn’t understand the front desk) about the plastic policy. Love that there is water dispenser. Used it for drinking and for coffee/tea. Location and shuttle buses made it very convenient for going to/from Disney Park. Still far though if we want to take a short rest. Disney is far from the city if we wanted to buy more affordable meals outside. It would be nice if there are bidets in the toilets. Since there are notes in the room about the towels, they can inform us about the missing toiletries and about the water dispenser (I learned about it in FB group about HKDL). Also would be convenient if there’s direct connection from airport to Disney train. Need to take the train and pass by Disney station and go back.